Mark Wing-Davey first came to prominence in the U.S. with his acclaimed production of Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest at New York Theatre Workshop, which won him the 1992 Obie Award for Outstanding Director. In 1996, Wing-Davey directed the U.S. premiere of Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker at the Public Theater, which was nominated for six 1997 Drama Desk Awards including Best Director.

Other U.S. and U.K. credits include Owners by Caryl Churchill (New York Theatre Workshop); The Lights by Howard Korder (Lincoln Center Theater) which received seven Drama Desk nominations including Best Director; Angels In America by Tony Kushner (American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco), winner of the Bay Area Critics Circle Award as Best Director; Oleanna by David Mamet (Seattle Repertory Theatre); The Visit by Friedrich Durrenmatt (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre); Mongrel’s Heart by Mikhail Bulgakov (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); Star-Gazey Pie and Sauerkraut by James Stock (Royal Court Theatre, London); Silence, Cunning, Exile by Stuart Greenman (New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater); The Beaux’ Stratagem by George Farquhar (Berkeley Repertory Theatre) for which he received a Bay Area Critics Circle nomination for Best Director; Troilus & Cressida (New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theater in Central Park); the world premiere of Greensboro by Emily Mann (McCarter Theatre Company) and Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Nottingham Playhouse in England. He was nominated for a 2002 Lucille Lortel Award as Best Director for his production of 36 Views by Naomi Iizuka.

Wing-Davey is an Arts Professor for NYU's Grad Acting Program, where from 2008-2020 he was chair.

Michael Avedon