Ian Gallanar

At NTC, Gallanar wrote and directed productions that reached well over 3 million students across the country.

The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company is the largest classical theater in Maryland with annual operating budgets of $3M.

He has directed a number of productions with the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company including Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Coriolanus, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Lysistrata, The Front Page, As You Like It, Cyrano de Bergerac, Twelfth Night and many others.

In 2017, CSC expanded its operations ever further with the opening of The Studio at the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, located next door to the existing theater.

Ian is a Past-President of the international Shakespeare Theatre Association and was a recipient of their 2023 Sandra and Sidney Berger Award given in recognition of lifetime achievements as an Artistic Director.