About

MARIA MILEAF
Maria Mileaf is based in NYC where she has directed Sharon Washington’s Feeding the Dragon, Lee Blessings’ Body of Water and his Going to St. Ives at Primary Stages; Vijay Tendulkar’s Sakharam Binder and Maria Milisavljevic’s Abyss for the Play Company; Courtney Baron’s Here I Lie and Alan Zweibel’s Playing God for Summer Shorts @ 59E59; Alexandra Gersten-Vasillaros’ The Argument at The Vineyard; and Kira Obolensky’s Lobster Alice at Playwrights Horizons. Favorite regional directing credits include Patricia Wettig’s F2M and Joanna Murray-Smith’s Ninety at New York Stage and Film; Nash’s The Rainmaker at The Old Globe; Lisa D’Amour’s Detroit and Lynne Nottage’s Ruined at the Philadelphia Theatre Company where Mileaf won a Barrymore Award for Outstanding Direction of Tracey Scott Wilson’s The Story; Lucy Prebble’s Sugar Syndrome, John Belluso’s A Nervous Smile and Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit at the Williamstown Theatre Festival; Wendy Wasserstein’s Third at The Geffen; and Kwame Kwei-Armah’s Let There Be Love at ACT in San Francisco. On the West End, Maria directed Richard Schiff in Glen Berger’s Underneath the Lintel.