Michael Maullana French

BdA Artistic Development Conductor

Originally from London, England, Mr. French is a writer, director and creator of theatre. As a boy he saw “Cathy Come Home” on the seminal British television series “Play for Today” and was transformed. He created the Glasshouse Theatre Company thirteen years later where he wrote and directed the Ovation award winning play “The Rainy Season.” Mr. French also co-wrote “The Buddha Prince,” a ‘walking’ play about the life of the Dalai Lama, which has toured the U.S. extensively and was performed in Central Park in New York City in 2005 and 2008. More recently he was selected as one of only twenty-five directors to the prestigious Lincoln Center’s Director’s Lab program, and one of only eight directors to the Great Plains Theatre Conference. Mr., French is an associate artist at the Oakland Theatre Project, Co-Creative director at Other Hand Studies, a resident artist at Playground, and currently adapting the Heinrich von Kleist novella, ‘The Betrothal of Santo Domingo” for production in 2021.