Two of the media scripts he directed there, Jacob Aaron Estes' Mean Creek and Eric John Litra's The Nickel Children, were later produced as feature films.
Regionally, Childs has directed Sexual Perversity in Chicago at the Edinburgh International Festival in Scotland, The Magnificent Cuckold for the Metro Theater Company and the Pittsburgh Museum of Art, and Gym Rats, a staged reading co-produced by New Dramatists and the McDonald's corporation.
At Primary Stages, he launched the Marvin and Anne Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA), a training institution for playwrights, actors, and directors.
He made three trips to Russia as a guest of the Federation of Russian Theatre Workers and directed Will Dunn's Hotel Desperado in 1997 as part of an exchange between the O'Neill Theater Conference and the Shelakova Playwrights Festival.
He was a governor for two years for the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences New York Chapter, where he headed the Critical Viewing Committee.