Aileen Wen McGroddy is a Chinese- and Irish-American theatre director. Her work is boldly imaginative, playfully experimental, and utterly alive. Currently, she is a co-artistic director of TUTA Theatre Chicago and the Creative Producer for the Writing is Live Festival at Brown University. She has been in the Roundabout Directors Group, a 2050 Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop, and the BOLD Resident Director at Northern Stage. MFA Directing from Brown-Trinity. Her work includes: Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies And Yogurt (With Live and Active Cultures!) upcoming at Woolly Mammoth Theatre; Sisters and Sense and Sensibility (Northern Stage); Attempts on Her Life (TUTA); A Christmas Carol (Trinity Rep); The Chinese Lady (Kitchen Theatre and Geva Theatre Center); Airness (Breckenridge Backstage Theatre); The Late Wedding, The Dumb Waiter, Summer and Smoke, and The Tempest (Brown-Trinity); Cold War Choir Practice, Throwback Island, On The Y-Axis, Akira Kurosawa Explains… (Writing is Live); Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play (Adelphi); The Glass Menagerie, Or,, Dani Girl (Winnipesaukee Playhouse); Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical and The Snowy Day (Emerald City Theatre); Montauciel Takes Flight (Lifeline Theatre); Ulysses (The Plagiarists). She has directed readings for New York Theatre Workshop, The Bushwick Starr, Clubbed Thumb, NY Classical Theatre, The Yale Drama Prize, and Northern Stage.