Adil Mansoor
MFA DIRECTING, 2020
Adil Mansoor has had an extensive career as a theater director, centering new play development with queer, trans, and BIPOC writers, and working with notable theater companies across the United States. Adil has developed new work with Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Theatre Workshop, Baltimore Center Stage, Pittsburgh Public Theater, BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, NYU Tisch, and others. Artistic residencies include The Mercury Store, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Tofte Lake Center. He is a founding member of Pittsburgh’s Hatch Arts Collective and the former Artistic Director of Dreams of Hope, an LGBTQA+ youth arts organization.
He has been an NYTW 2050 Directing Fellow, a Gerri Kay New Voices Fellow with Quantum Theater, an Art of Practice Fellow and Community Leader with Sundance, and received the 2024 Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Award for Emerging Artist. He was part of the inaugural Artist Caucus gathered by Baltimore Center Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, and Woolly Mammoth.
Some of Adil’s most recent work includes his solo performance “Amm(i)gone”, an adaptation of Sophocles’ “Antigone” and National Performance Network (NPN) Creative and Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Kelly Strayhorn Theater and The Theater Offensive. “Amm(i)gone” was presented at Woolly Mammoth and Long Wharf in 2024 and is heading to PlayCo in NYC and Theater Mu in Minneapolis in 2025.
Recent directing projects include “Daddies” by Paul Kruse (Audible), “Gloria” by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Hatch Arts Collective), “Kentucky” by Leah Nanako Winkler (Pittsburgh Playhouse), and “Plano” by Will Arbery (Quantum).
“I am especially grateful to CMU’s directing program for encouraging me to be a generative artist. My time as a John Well Graduate Directing fellow was instrumental in shaping my artistic practice.”
-Adil Mansoor