Meet Eddie

In addition to their work as a director, Eddie is an award-winning visual artist and scenic designer. They are the writer behind several of their original works, and love to adapt books and classic tales.

Eddie DeHais (they/them) is a Franco-American director-choreographer who creates explosive, fantastical, transformative work that connects across all boundaries. They are a worlds-creator and world-traveler, crafting plays, operas, and events in the US and internationally to catalyze conversation, connection, and curiosity. Their work is sensorial and deeply empathic.

Eddie received their MFA in Directing from Brown University in 2022.

Eddie makes art that is beautifully diverse and accessible to all, especially in collaboration with and for artists and audiences who have been historically marginalized. They believe their job as a leader in the arts is to listen and lead through action and advocacy, and help organizations bridge the gap towards art that reflects the whole spectrum of humanity.

As an educator, Eddie specializes in public speaking, and taught with Barbara Tannenbaum at Brown University. Eddie also teaches directing,, compositional, and movement techniques, and has taught classes and workshops at universities and theaters all over the US.

Representation:
GURMAN AGENCY LLC
Susan Gurman, Agent
susan@gurmangency.com
212-749-4618

Selected Theatre Directing Credits:
As You Like It (Emerson Stage, Boston, MA), Death and the Maiden (Pell Chafee Performance Center, Providence, RI), Breadcrumbs (Ars Nova, NY), Age of Bees (Theater at Monmouth, MA), Macbeth, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Import Speech-Memory, We Are Camera (Brown-Trinity Rep, Providence, RI), Into the Deeps, BIG BAD, Mad Scientist Cabaret, (DangerSwitch!, Seattle, WA), Sundown at the Devil’s House (Café Nordo), Scary Mary and the Nightmares Nine (Annex Theatre, Seattle, WA) Assistant: Macbeth (Robert O’Hara, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, CO), MARY (May Adrales, Goodman Theatre, Chicago, IL), Thyestes (JoAnne Akalaitis, Court Theatre, Chicago, IL), Hunchback (Leslie Danzig, Redmoon Theatre, Chicago, IL), Marisol (Brian Mertes, Trinity Rep, RI)

Selected Opera Directing Credits:
Silhouette (Annex Theatre, Seattle, WA). Assistant: War Requiem (d. Daniel Kramer, Gran Teatre del Licieu, Barcelona, Spain), Turandot (Daniel Kramer, Grand Théâtre du Genève, Switzerland)

Additional Credits
Artistic Director, DangerSwitch! (2015-2018, Seattle)
Director of New Works, Café Nordo (2016-2018, Seattle)