Jonathan Fox

Jonathan Fox is Executive Artistic Director of Ensemble Theatre Company in Santa Barbara. He is thrilled to return to Vienna’s English Theatre, having directed Crimes of the Heart last season. Productions at the English Theatre of Frankfurt include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Visiting Mr. Green. At Ensemble Theatre, he directed most recently Thérèse Raquin and This Is How It Goes.

Before joining ETC, Mr. Fox spent 12 years with Two River Theater Company in New Jersey, which he helped establish in 1994. At Two River, he directed over a dozen acclaimed productions, including Abigail’s Party, The Tragedy of Carmen, Machinal and La Bête. His production of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg was profiled in American Theatre Magazine, as was his festival of work by Samuel Beckett.

His directing work has been seen in New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Cologne and has received critical acclaim in The New York Times, Variety, the LA Times, and other publications. He received his MFA from Columbia University and is a recipient of the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship for German studies.