Stephen Sunderlin

Stephen Sunderlin has a wealth of experience running theaters within budget, supporting playwrights and bringing together gifted, like-minded artists. As Founding Artistic Director, he has planned the Vital Theatre Company’s seasons for the past twenty-two years and helmed the theatre to its current level of excellence. He has served as Artistic Director at the venerable summer-stock theatre, Millbrook Playhouse, and previously formed a theatrical production company to produce and direct evenings of one acts and other plays. He was previously a resident director with The Pioneer Playhouse. He holds a BA in Theatre from the Bloomberg University of Pennsylvania, trained in the Stanislavski technique with Sonia Moore, studied with Herbert Bergof and completed the two-year Meisner program with William Esper. Stephen has served as Press Associate with Jeffrey Richards Associates on numerous Broadway and Off-Broadway productions. He has also branched out into publicity, marketing and advertising representing many Off and Off Off-Broadway productions.