Loretta Greco

Loretta Greco is a producer and director whose passion for championing groundbreaking artists and fostering nurturing, rigorous artistic homes for theatre-makers, has made a significant impact on the field. In her 12 years as artistic director at San Francisco’s Magic Theatre, she is proud to have developed and premiered some of the theatre’s most visionary writers including Taylor Mac, Mfoniso Udofia, Lloyd Suh, Barbara Hammond, Luis Alfaro, Octavio Solis, and Linda McLean. Under her leadership, 21 of the 26 world premieres produced went on to receive between two and 72 subsequent productions. In addition, she worked closely with Sam Shepard on a five-year Bay Area wide legacy series and directed the critically acclaimed revivals of Buried Child and Fool for Love. She has a longstanding relationship with Taylor Mac, producing the 5-hour The Lily’s Revenge, the world premiere of Hir, and associate producing the West Coast premiere of A 24-Decade History of Popular Music (with Curran, Pomegranate Arts, and Stanford Live), and will direct the upcoming premiere Joy and Pandemic at The Huntington in the spring. Her New York directing credits include the premieres of runboyrun and A Park in Our House at New York Theatre Workshop, and The Story, Lackawanna Blues, and Two Sisters and a Piano at The Public Theater. Her regional directing credits include Sweat, The Realistic Joneses, Speed-the-Plow, and Blackbird at American Conservatory Theater, and productions for California Shakespeare, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, McCarter Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Long Wharf, La Jolla Playhouse, and Williamstown, among others. Prior to Magic, she served as producing artistic director of New York’s WP Theater and associate director and staff producer of the McCarter Theatre. She is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect and the recipient of Bay Area Critic’s Association Awards, a Drama League fellowship, the Princess Grace Award, a Sundance/Luma Director’s fellowship, and the 2018 Zelda Fichandler Award.