Select Credits Include: Tony-winning Broadway revival of Hair (Associate Director); My Fair Lady; South Pacific (9 BroadwayWorld nominations); Hairspray (10 BroadwayWorld nominations); and Legally Blonde (12 BroadwayWorld nominations); Accidental Death of an Anarchist; Big Love; The Illusion; Life’s a Dream; The Island; Usher’s Las Vegas Residency Pre-Show Backstory Experience (The Coliseum); and Peter Pan’s Neverland (Beijing).

Allegra Libonati

Allegra Libonati is a freelance director for theater, opera, and circus. As a lover of music, magic, dance, masks and puppets, Allegra’s work often incorporates these theatrical elements. She has directed productions nationally and internationally and her work comes in many shapes and sizes, including Shakespeare, plays, musicals, TYA, concerts, variety shows, opera, and immersive events. While Allegra works in many genres, she is always striving to unearth a universal collective experience.

As the Resident Director and Artistic Associate at the American Repertory Theater for nine years, Allegra contributed to the direction and development of countless productions, including the immersive phenomenon Sleep No More, the Tony-winning Broadway revival of Pippin, Prometheus Bound (with System of a Down’s Serj Tankien, Steven Sater, and Amnesty International), The Tempest (with Teller, Tom Waits, and Piobolus), and In the Body of the World (with V, formerly Eve Ensler).

Her most recent Shakespeare production, Romeo and Juliet, played in the Boston Common for the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company. The production was met with excellent reviews and played for audiences of up to 8,000 people per night. Other loved Shakespeare productions include Julius Caesar at the Old Globe San Diego, and King Lear at the Hilberry Theatre (Detroit). Allegra has also directed seven beloved seasons of outdoor Shakespeare productions at the Summer Theatre of New Canaan.

Allegra started the children’s theater program at the American Repertory Theater where she developed, taught, and managed theater classes for ages 4 through 12. Shows include The Snow Queen, which went on to be produced in multiple venues across the country; Hansel and Gretel; The Light Princess, which transferred to the New Victory Theater; and The Pirate Princess, a new musical based on Twelfth Night.

Allegra is a member of Tut’Zanni Commedia Company, a student at the Academia Dell’Arte in Arezzo, Italy. She has a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University.