Oskar Eustis (born July 31, 1958) has been the Artistic Director at the Public Theater in New York City since 2005.
His parents, Warren Eustis, a district attorney and an official of the Democratic Party in Minnesota, and Doris Marquit, a women's studies professor,[2] divorced when he was ten.
[4] At the Public, Eustis directed the New York premieres of Rinne Groff's Compulsion and The Ruby Sunrise, Lawrence Wright's The Human Scale, and the 2008 Shakespeare in the Park production of Hamlet.
At Trinity Repertory Company he directed the world premiere of Paula Vogel's The Long Christmas Ride Home in 2003[5] and Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul in 2002,[6] both recipients of the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Production.
While at the Eureka Theatre, he commissioned Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, and directed its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum.