Casey Childs

Casey Childs is the Founder of Primary Stages (www.primarystages.org)], a New York State non-profit, off-Broadway theater company in New York City. Since founding the company in 1984, he has produced over 130 productions of new plays, many of them world premieres and all of them New York City premieres, by such writers as David Ives, Horton Foote, Charlayne Woodard, Melissa Manchester, Jeffrey Sweet, Donald Margulies, Conor McPherson, Terrence McNally, A.R. Gurney, John Patrick Shanley, Tina Howe, Charles Busch, John Henry Redwood, Romulus Linney, Lee Blessing, Michael Cristofer, Mac Wellman, Lynne Alvarez, Willie Holtzman, Athol Fugard, Brooke Berman, Michael Hollinger and Julia Jordan. He produced the commercial moves of David Ives’ ALL IN THE TIMING and MERE MORTALS and oversaw the commercial moves of Charles Busch's YOU SHOULD BE SO LUCKY and Colin Martin's VIRGINS AND OTHER MYTHs. He also oversaw the transfer of Horton Foote's DIVIDING THE ESTATE, which moved to the Booth Theatre on Broadway in association with Lincoln Center Theater. In 2013 in partnership with the New York Yankees, he developed BRONX BOMBERS which played on Broadway at Circle in the Square. He was the first to produce Conon McPherson in the United States with ST. NICHOLAS starring Brian Cox. He conceived, commissioned and directed the commercial off-Broadway show WOMAN BEFORE A GLASS by Lanie Robertson about Peggy Guggenheim with Mercedes Reuhl which ran for seven months at the Promenade Theatre. Other plays he directed for Primary Stages include THE MORINI STRAD by Willie Holtzman, BAREFOOT BOY WITH SHOES ON by Edwin Sanchez, BARGAINS by Jack Heifner, BRUTALITY OF FACT by Keith Reddin, THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY by Wm. S. Leavengood, ELSA/EDGAR by Bob Kingdom, THE DOLPHIN POSITION by Percy Granger, LUSTING AFTER PIPINO’S WIFE by Sam Henry Kass, THE SECRET SITS IN THE MIDDLE by Lisa-Maria Radano, ALGERIAN ROMANCE by Kres Mersky, MADAM ZELENA FINALLY COMES CLEAN by Ron Carlsen, STOPPING THE DESE