CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

2025 White Rabbit Red Rabbit (Co-Artistic Director)
2025 Tom & Eliza (Director/Co-Artistic Director)
2025 The Long Christmas Dinner (Co-Artistic Director)
2024 Attempts on Her Life (Director/Co-Artistic Director)
2018 The Edge of Our Bodies (Choreographer)
2017 TUTALab: The Man Who Turned into a Stick (Director)
2017 Gentle (Assistant Director, Movement Director)
2016 TUTALab: Have a Seat (Director)
2016 The Edge of Our Bodies (Choreographer)
2015 Music Hall (Movement Director)
2014 The Anyway Cabaret (an animal cabaret) (Movement Director)
2014 The Jewels (Movement Director)
2013 The Silent Language (Choreographer)

Aileen Wen McGroddy is a co-artistic director of TUTA Theatre Chicago, where she has directed Tom & Eliza by Celine Song and Attempts On Her Life by Martin Crimp. She is also a freelance director and on faculty at Brown University. Upcoming: The world premiere of Wonder! A Woman Keeps A Secret by Talene Monahon at Northern Stage. Past work outside of TUTA includes: Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies… (Woolly Mammoth), Cold War Choir Practice and A Christmas Carol (Trinity Rep); The Chinese Lady (Kitchen Theatre and Geva Theatre Center); Sisters and Sense and Sensibility (Northern Stage); Airness (Breckenridge Backstage Theatre); The Glass Menagerie, Or,, Dani Girl (Winnipesaukee Playhouse); Knuffle Bunny and The Snowy Day (Emerald City Theatre); Montauciel Takes Flight (Lifeline Theatre); Ulysses (The Plagiarists); A Hero’s Journey, The Hunting of the Snark, Robin Hood, and The Pied Piper (The Forks & Hope Ensemble); The Whiskey Radio Hour, Wake: A Folk Opera, Kodachrome Telephone and Sign of Rain (The Whiskey Rebellion). She has developed new work at New York Theatre Workshop, The Bushwick Starr, Clubbed Thumb, The Playwright’s Realm, Ars Nova, NY Classical Theatre, The Yale Drama Prize, and Northern Stage.. Fellowships: Roundabout Directors Group, 2050 at NYTW, Beatrice Terry Fellow at the Drama League, and BOLD Resident Director at Northern Stage. MFA in Directing from Brown-Trinity.