Maria Mileaf is based in NYC where she has directed the premieres of Alexandra Gersten-Vasillaros’ The Argument at The Vineyard, Lee Blessing’s A Body of Water at Primary Stages (Outer Critic Circle Award for Best New Play), Kira Obolensky’s Lobster Alice at Playwrights Horizons) and Vijay Tendulkar’s Sakharam Binder and Maria Milisavljevic’s Abyss for the Play Company. Favorite regional directing credits include Patricia Wettig’s F2M at New York Stage and Film; Lisa D’Amour’s Detroitand Neil LaBute’s reasons to be pretty at the Philadelphia Theatre Company where Mileaf won a Barrymore Award for Outstanding Direction of Tracey Scott Wilson’sThe Story; Lucy Prebble’s Sugar Syndrome, John Belluso’s A Nervous Smile and Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and Kwame Kwei-Armah’s Let There Be Love at ACT in San Francisco. On the West End, Maria directed Richard Schiff in Glen Berger’s Underneath the Lintel. In the Spring of 2018, Mileaf will direct Sharon Washington’s Feeding the Dragon for Hartford Stage and Primary Stages.