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| Theater Arts Faculty Directory
Directing
Israel HicksChair and Artistic Director For the past 14 seasons, Mr. Hicks has been an Associate Artist of the Denver Center Theater Company where he has directed August Wilson's plays Jitney and King Hedley II. Other DCTC directing credits include the world premieres of Pork Pie: A Mythic Jazz Fable, Waiting to be Invited, Kingdom, Coming of the Hurricane, Evil Little Thoughts, and Home. In addition, he has directed at regional theaters throughout the country, including The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, Seattle Repertory Theatre and Milwaukee Repertory Theatre. He has directed films for the National Film Board of Canada, Universal Studios, and for the NBC and CBS television networks. Mr. Hicks is currently the Artistic Director and Chairman of the Theater Arts Program at Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts
Chris 0’ConnorUndergraduate Directing Chris 0’Connor is founder and artistic director of Mile Square Theatre in Hoboken, NJ. He conceived and produces the annual 10-minute play festival 7th Inning Stretch: 7 10-minute plays about baseball. His MST directing credits include St. Columba and the River, The Souls of Black Folk, John Redding Goes to the Sea, Striking Out the Babe, Warren Leight's The Love of the Game, Jenny Levison’s Homefield Advantage, Cyrano, The Scams of Scapin (with Jeff Steitzer) for which he played the title role, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Over a long acting career, Chris has been associated with such theatres as A Contemporary Theatre, The Culture Project, Soho Rep, the 78th Street Theatre Lab, 12 Miles West, New York Theatre Workshop, Target Margin, Gloucester Stage, Book-It Repertory, Intiman Theatre, City Theatre in Pittsburgh, The Ahmanson, Provisional Theatre of Los Angeles, The Bathhouse, Seattle Children's Theatre, and Theatre Express. His plays for young people have been produced at The Seattle Children's Theatre and in schools in the Puget Sound area. He has taught at Colgate University and Fairleigh Dickinson University. He holds a BFA in acting from Carnegie-Mellon University and an MFA in Directing from Mason Gross. He lives in Hoboken with his wife Annie McAdams and their daughter Willa Jean.
Amy SaltzHead of Directing Program Amy Saltz has directed extensively throughout the U.S. and Russia. New York City affiliations have included Playwrights' Horizons, The Second Stage, the Public Theater and the WPA. Major regional theaters include the Yale Rep, Long Wharf, Seattle Rep, Actors' Theater of Louisville and the Arena Stage. She won Chicago's Joseph Jefferson and Artisan Awards, the Handy Award in Florida and her productions have been nominated for the Outer Critics' Circle, Helen Hayes and Grammy awards. Ms. Saltz was invited to direct in Shelekhovo, Russia and has served on panels and committees for the NEA, NYSCA, Massachusetts Cultural Arts Council, Directing Fellows, TCG's Plays-in-Process, the O'Neill National Playwrights' Conference Selection Committee, the Tony Committee, and has served on panels and conducted workshops all over the country. For television she directed "Another World" and "Search For Tomorrow". She has served on the Advisory Board of the American Directors' Institute, has been listed in Who's Who of American Women, and for 8 years served on the Executive Board of the Society of Stage Directors' and Choreographers.
Harold Scott Please see the Emeritus Faculty page. 
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