Erik Pearson has directed in New York for The Playwrights Realm, American Opera Projects, HERE, terraNOVA, Studio 42, The New York Theater Experiment, The Lark, and NYU/Tisch, as well as regionally for Two River Theater, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Shakespeare Santa Cruz and BRAVA!.  He was the founding artistic director of The Quixote Project and co-artistic director of Rococo Risqué and Yale Cabaret.  Erik has assisted Michael Greif at the Public Theatre and Michael Kahn at The Shakespeare Theatre Company.  He has served on faculty at the University of California at Santa Cruz and as a guest lecturer at Columbia University.  Erik is a Bay-Area native currently based in New York, and holds an MFA in directing from Yale School of Drama.