SHIRLEY SEROTSKY, Producing Artistic Director, originally from Rochester, NY, Serotsky participated as an actor in the Hangar Theatre Lab Company during college. After that, she spent almost 20 years in the Washington, DC area, where she worked as a director, dramaturg, artistic leader, educator, and arts programmer then moved to Ithaca in 2019 to join the staff of the Hangar.

Selected directing credits include: Ride the Cyclone, What the Constitution Means to Me, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, Red Riding Hood, Snow White, and Once: The Musical at the Hangar Theatre; A Few Good Men and Bright Star (RhinoLeap Productions); The How and the Why, Another Way Home, The Call, Yentl, The Argument, The Hampton Years, The History of Invulnerability, The Moscows of Nantucket, Mikveh, and The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall (which received a 2009 Helen Hayes Nomination for Best New Play) (Theater J); Rapture, Blister, Burn (Round House Theatre); The Jungle Book and Winnie the Pooh (Adventure Theatre); God of Carnage, Other Life Forms, and Working: The Musical (Keegan Theatre); Blood Wedding (Constellation Theatre); A Man, His Wife, and His Hat and Birds of a Feather (which won the 2012 Charles MacArthur Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play) (The Hub Theatre); Juno and the Paycock (Washington Shakespeare Company); Reals, Five Flights and Two Rooms (Theater Alliance); Crumble and We Are Not These Hands (Catalyst Theater); References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (Rorschach Theater, for which she received a 2007 Helen Hayes nomination for outstanding direction); Sovereignty (The Humana Festival of New Plays). Training: BFA, University of North Carolina School of the Arts; MFA, Catholic University.