Rick Lombardo (producing artistic director) is now in his twelfth season as New Rep’s Producing Artistic Director.  He is honored to be a two-time recipient of the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Director.  This season, he has directed A Streetcar Named Desire.  Last season, he directed New Rep’s critically-acclaimed production of The Pillowman, along with Silence and The Wild Party. Recent season's productions include: Ragtime (IRNE Awards-Best Director of a Musical and Best Musical); Bill W. and Dr. Bob (which he also directed Off-Broadway last spring in NY); Romeo and Juliet; the multiple IRNE Award-winning Into the Woods; Quills; and the world premiere of Approaching Moomtaj by Michael Weller.  Locally, he also directed Hamlet for Actors’ Shakespeare Project, La Vie Parisienne for Opera Boston, and Ashes to Ashes and The Lover for Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre.  Other  memorable New Rep productions include: The Threepenny Opera; the world premiere of A Girl’s War; his new musical adaptation of Moliére’s Scapin; Waiting for Godot (IRNE Award, Best Drama); the acclaimed production of Sweeney Todd (2004 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Director, IRNE Award for Best Director, and Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Musical Production); The Weir (IRNE Award, Best Drama); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Elliot Norton Award, Outstanding Director); The Scarlet Letter; American Buffalo; A Moon for the Misbegotten; Twelfth Night; Beast on the Moon; Das Barbecü; Tartuffe; The Real Thing; and Moby Dick-An American Opera, among others.  Rick was previously the Artistic Director of the Players Guild in Ohio, as well as the Founding Artistic Director of the Stillwaters Theatre Company in New York City.  He has taught at several universities, including Fordham University’s College at Lincoln Center, where he was also Co-Director of the theatre program.  Rick is currently President of NEAT, the Association of New England Area Theatres, and serves as a member of the Board of Directors of both Arts Boston and StageSource.  He is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.