Preisser is the founder and artistic director of APPI, a New York-based theatrical production company that creates dance, music and theater pieces with universal themes and aggressive interpretations of classics.
Preisser also worked as a guest director at SAR High School during the 2021-2022 academic year, where he directed productions of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Peter and the Starcatcher.
Other productions in New York include Macbeth, which toured Germany in 2004, Hamlet, Day of Absence, Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain,[6] and Romeo and Juliet.
Preisser and co-writer Randy Weiner's Caligula Maximus,[7] an outrageous theatrical extravaganza, combining elements of a circus, a play with music, and a nightclub installation, was helmed by Preisser in the Spring of 2010 at La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Theatre, had a twice extended run, and is in development for a commercial run this Fall.
[8][9] Preisser and Tracy Jack's annual Christmas dance-concert Black Nativity Now at Theatre at St. Clements, opens December 2010;[10] and in 2011, Preisser will present a multi-city tour of Ain´t Supposed To Die a Natural Death by Melvin Van Peebles, to mark the 40th Anniversary of that seminal American spoken word musical.