Adil Mansoor
I am Special Visiting Faculty in the John Wells Directing Program. I will be teaching Think Tank for the the graduate students and Director IV for the senior undergraduates. As an alum of the same program, I am excited to continue being part of the John Wells family.
ADIL MANSOOR is a Pittsburgh-based director and educator centering queer folks and people of color. He has developed new work with The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Manhattan Theatre Club, Public Theater, Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, Mercury Store, Pittsburgh Public Theater, and others. Directing projects include DADDIES by Paul Kruse (Audible), GLORIA by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Hatch Arts Collective), and KENTUCKY by Leah Nanako Winkler (Pittsburgh Playhouse). For the 2025 – 2026 season, Adil will be directing the American premiere of FIRST LADY by Sedef Ecer at Pittsburgh International Theatre Company and EUREKA DAY by Jonathan Spector at City Theatre
Mansoor’s solo performance AMM(I)GONE was produced Off-Broadway in 2025 by PlayCo, The Flea, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, and Kelly Strayhorn Theater (KST) as part of an ongoing national tour. AMM(I)GONE is a National Performance Network Project co-commissioned by KST and The Theater Offensive.
Mansoor 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 was part of the inaugural Artist Caucus gathered by Baltimore Center Stage, Long Wharf, St. Louis Rep, and Woolly Mammoth. He was a Sundance Art of Practice Fellow, a Gerri Kay New Voices Fellow with Quantum Theater, and received the 2024 Emerging Artist Carol R. Brown Award. Mansoor holds an MFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University. https://www.adilmansoor.com/