14 Facts About Travis Preston

Travis Preston was born on September 20,1959 and is an internationally celebrated director of theater and opera.

Travis Preston applied for Yale School of Drama while working on his Ph.

Travis Preston studied with Jerzy Grotowski at the Teatr Laboratorium in Wroclaw, where he worked with dramaturg Ludwig Flaszen and trained with Grotowski actors Ryszard Cieslak, Zygmunt Molik, and Rena Mirecka, studying the method of physical actions, plastiques and corporals.

Travis Preston spent time with Grotowski on the Mountain Project in the Polish forest.

At Yale, Travis Preston was the assistant of the celebrated Polish film and theater director Andrzej Wajda on a production of White Marriage by Tadeusz Rozewicz at the Yale Repertory Theatre.

Travis Preston joined Robert Brustein for the founding of the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard, where he served as Associate Artist until 1990.

In 2017, Travis Preston directed Fantomas: Revenge of the Image and staged it at the Wuzhen Theatre Festival in China.

Travis Preston directed and produced Sam Shepard's Buried Child for the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre.

Travis Preston was appointed as the Dean of the CalArts School of Theater in August 2010.

In 2005, Travis Preston directed Stephen Dillane in the popular Shakespeare tragedy Macbeth.

Travis Preston has been teaching faculty at universities and theater training programs including SUNY Purchase College, The Yale School of Drama, New York University, the National Theater School of Denmark, Indiana University, Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts, and ACT at Harvard University.

Travis Preston began applying his work on classic texts and text-based methods to devising projects derived from various sources in rehearsal.

Travis Preston directed the opening performance gala at Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum in Berlin.

In 2006, Travis Preston was awarded Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture.