David Esbjornson is a director and producer who has worked throughout the United States in regional theatres and on Broadway, and has established strong and productive relationships with some of the profession's top playwrights, actors, and companies.
With a list of production credits steeped in the classics from those years at CSC and as a guest director in such leading regional theatres as the Guthrie Theater, Esbjornson has also established himself as an interpreter of choice for playwrights such as Tony Kushner, Edward Albee, and Arthur Miller.
Esbjornson has staged Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (starring Jimmy Smits, Kirsten Johnson, and Sam Waterston) in Central Park and Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, both at New York City's Joseph Papp Public Theater.
on Broadway, Neil Simon's Rose and Walsh at the Geffen Theatre in Los Angeles, Arthur Miller's Resurrection Blues at the Guthrie, and Mitch Albom and Jeffrey Hatcher's Tuesdays With Morrie at the Minetta Lane in New York.
Other world premieres include Suzan-Lori Parks' In the Blood for the Public Theater, and Part 1 of Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul for the Chelsea Center in London.