This fall, the Northeastern Department of Theatre will introduce a new series of seminars and master classes called “NU Broadway.” Focusing on actors, directors, designers, and other professional theatre artists, the series will begin October 19 with a campus visit by Tony nominee Moritz von Stuelpnagel.

Mr. von Stuelpnagel directed the Broadway production of Hand to God, which received five Tony Award nominations, including Best Director and Best Play, a London Olivier Award nomination, Lortel and SDC Callaway Award nominations for direction, and Drama League and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations for outstanding production. He will return to Broadway in February 2017 to direct a revival of Noel Coward’s Present Laughter starring Tony Award-winner and Academy Award-winner Kevin Kline.

“At Northeastern, we embrace diverse measures of success and ways of making theatre from fringe to Broadway,” says department chair Scott Edmiston. “This series will help our students learn more about the excitement and the realities of working in New York. We plan to give special attention to the new generation of Broadway and Off Broadway theatre artists who are reshaping New York theatre today. The focus will be on the artistic process as well as professional career preparation.”

All theatre majors and minors are welcome to attend the open class with Mr. von Stuelpnagel on October 19 at 12:45 in the Ryder Theatre Lab.

Moritz von Stuelpnagel directed the Broadway production of Hand to God, which received five Tony Award nominations, including Best Director and Best Play, a London Olivier Award nomination, Lortel and SDC Callaway Award nominations for direction, and Drama League and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations for outstanding production. Mr. von Stuelpnagel is a devoted advocate for new plays and is currently directing Tiger Style at the Huntington Theatre Company. His recent New York premieres include Nick Jones’ Important Hats of the Twentieth Century (Manhattan Theatre Club), Verite (Lincoln Center Theater/LCT3), and Trevor (Lesser America); Robert Askins’ Love Song of the Albanian Sous Chef (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Mike Lew’s Teenage Dick (The Public Theater/NYSF) and Bike America (Ma-Yi Theater Company); Mel & El (Ars Nova); and Michael Mitnick’s Spacebar and Adam Szymkowicz’s My Base and Scurvy Heart (Studio 42). Regionally, his work has been seen at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, and more. He is the former artistic director of Studio 42, New York City’s producer of “unproducible” plays. http://www.moritzvs.com/