Laley Lippard (she/her) is a director, dramaturg, and producer dedicated to social justice through art making. Lippard has developed new work and directed across the country at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Alliance Theatre, Round House Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, American Theatre Company, Magic Theater Company, Theater J, Kitchen Dog Theater, Eaton Workshop, Dobama Theatre, foolsFURY Theater, Z Space, Solas Nua, and Virginia Stage Company. Recently, she directed the World Premiere of  All Things Equal: The Life and Trials of Ruth Bader Ginsburg  which is currently touring the U.S. Her site-specific work has been noted in  The New York Times  (The Smuggler, Solas Nua) and her first feature film recently premiered in NYC’s 1st Irish Festival (In the Middle of the Fields). Lippard was the co-founding executive producer of The Chicago Home Theater Festival, a five-year city-wide artistic network and annual event that organized artists and neighbors to celebrate local culture, share a communal meal, experience transformative art in alternative spaces, build intentional community across lines of difference, and inspire direct action. Other producing work includes Z/Magic Mondays at Magic Theater as Artistic Associate, with The Welders as Interim Creative Producer, and as the Cleveland Play House inaugural Artistic Directing Fellow. Lippard has collaborated with HowlRound and the American Voices New Play Institute at Arena Stage, Guthrie Theater, Intersection for the Arts, American Conservatory Theater, Court Theatre, TheatreWorks, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. Lippard has taught, workshopped, and directed at Universities including Stanford University, Northwestern University, Hampshire College, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Maryland, and Case Western Reserve MFA Acting program. Lippard is a member of the National Directors Fellowship, a partnership between the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, National New Plays Network, Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), and The Kennedy Center; a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab; an Associate Member of the SDC, and holds an MFA in Directing from Northwestern University.