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Casey Childs, Andrew Leynse Erin Daley

Teaches at Primary Stages ESPA

Casey Childs
Primary Stages Executive Producer Casey Childs founded Primary Stages in 1984 and has directed many productions for the company, including works by Jack Heifner, Bob Kingdom, Bill Leavengood, Lee MacDougall, Keith Reddin, and Edwin Sanchez. He served as the Artistic Program Director for the New Dramatists from 1981 until 1985 and has directed other new plays off-Broadway, including Lanie Robertson’s Woman Before a Glass with Mercedes Ruehl at the Promenade Theatre (OBIE Awards for Performance and Design). Casey is the recipient of the Carnegie-Mellon Commitment to New Playwrights’ Award, as well as two Emmy Awards and many nominations for his extensive work in television. 

He is a past Vice President of the Directors’ Guild of America and a past trustee of The National Association of Television Arts and Sciences. He has taught at many universities, including Columbia’s School of Film, New York University, and Duke, and is currently an associate fellow at Calhoun College at Yale University. Casey has a BFA in acting and an MFA in directing from Carnegie-Mellon University.


Andrew Leynse
Andrew is the Artistic Director at Primary Stages. He has produced, managed, and directed in the New York Theatre community for more than twenty years. Andrew began his career at Primary Stages after graduating from Carnegie Mellon's Directing Program. At Castle Hill Productions, he produced over twenty productions on and off-Broadway. Upon returning to Primary Stages as Artistic Director, he oversaw their move to 59E59 Theaters and more recently to their new home at The Duke on 42nd Street. Primary Stages productions have received considerable critical acclaim, including Tony, Obie, AUDELCO, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, and Drama Desk (among others) awards and nominations. Primary Stages received the Lucille Lortel Outstanding Body of Work Award in 2008. 

Andrew is also the Artistic Director of Perry-Mansfield's New Works Festival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, where he directed The Cherry Sisters Revisited by Dan O'Brien, The Receptionist by Adam Bock, Spiced Vodka by Rinne Groff, and Mama Hated Diesels by Randall Myler and Dan Wheetman. Andrew has taught for Carnegie Mellon University, The Tepper Semester Syracuse University, and continues to teach at Primary Stages ESPA.


Erin Daley
Erin is the Primary Stages Artistic Associate, working closely on the mainstage season as well as heading up The Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group and Primary’s developmental workshop series. She comes to Primary after spending four years at The Flea in TriBeCa, where she managed a robust resident company of artists and worked on developing new plays such as The Mysteries (featuring the work of over 50 playwrights), Wolf in the River by Adam Rapp, Smoke by Kim Davies, and many, many others. 

Prior to New York, she produced the Eugene O'Neill Festival at Arena Stage in Washington D.C. and cut her teeth in film/commercial production at La Banda Films in Los Angeles. She is a proud graduate of Skidmore College and a Massachusetts native.

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