New artistic director at Cape May Stage

Award-winning director, producer and actor Roy Steinberg has been named artistic director of Cape May Stage, Cape May’s premier professional Equity theatre company.
Steinberg, currently based in California, offered these comments in accepting the position: “I’m delighted and thankful to be joining and leading Cape May Stage in its third decade of enriching the cultural life of South Jersey.
“I envision Cape May Stage as the very center of the artistic community. In addition to mounting entertaining and compelling plays, I’d like to see children’s theatre, puppet shows, modern dance, and late-night cabarets on our stage and outside the beautifully restored theatre before our evening productions.”
With an MFA from Yale School of Drama, Steinberg began his career performing on Broadway and later moved into directing.
He appeared with Christopher Walken in Measure for Measure and with William Hurt in Lanford Wilson’s, The Rimers of Eldritch. He has been artistic director at the Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin and at Theatre Matrix in New York.
Steinberg has received four Emmy nominations and has been supervising producer and a member of the directing team at “Days of our Lives” for the past five years. He continued to teach acting at UCLA and TVI in Hollywood during this time.
With a background in Art History and a passion for music and style, Steinberg is a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. He is known for his work with actors as well as writers, and has coached some of the industry’s leading players.
Steinberg has directed over 60 theatrical productions including, The Madwoman of Chaillot with Ann Jackson, Kim Hunter, and Alvin Epstein at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York.
Tom Cutler, vice president of the board of trustees and chairman of the search committee, commented, “We are delighted that Roy, who was selected from over 90 candidates, will be joining Cape May Stage as our new artistic director. We are confident he will become a central figure in achieving Cape May Stage’s goal to build on the company’s past successes while guiding us to a new level of creativity and growth in the future.”
“We are thrilled with the depth and breadth of Roy’s leadership in arts management, directing, and teaching,” said Connie Felicetti, president of the board of trustees.
Steinberg will be the third artistic director of Cape May Stage following founding director Michael Laird (1988-2001) and Michael Carleton (2001-2008) who recently accepted a position to become the Producing Artistic Director of the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival.
Steinberg will begin his responsibilities this fall with the planning of the 2009 season.