James Petosa, narrator

James Petosa is the artistic and educational leader of the Boston University School of Theatre, as well as Artistic Director of the Olney Theatre Center for the Arts outside Washington, D.C.  Mr. Petosa has directed 35 plays in the past five years, including Democracy, Brooklyn Boy, Copenhagen, The Miracle Worker, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well..., winner of a Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Musical Production, and Look! We Have Come Through!, which received a nomination for the Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play.  Boston audiences are familiar with his work as director of the BU School of Theatre mainstage plays Red Noses, Scenes from an Execution, The Laramie Project, Romeo and Juliet, and Amadeus, and the BU Opera Institute productions of Postcard from Morocco, The Rape of Lucretia, Carmen, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Mr. Petosa was recently named Montgomery County’s Outstanding Artist/Scholar at the sixth annual Montgomery County Executive's Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Awards ceremony in Maryland.