Bobby Weinapple - Director

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

Bobby's direction of the world premiere adaptation of Chekhov's short story The Duel for Central Works received critical acclaim, as did his Twelfth Night for the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, as well as A Perfect Ganesh for Free Range Theatre Company. His Tempest and Taming of the Shrew for the S.F. Shakespeare Festival played to over 50,000 students in more than 60 cities throughout California, followed by an expanded version with a live band and all original music at San Francisco's Gershwin Theatre. Other directing credits include Collected Stories with Essential Action Productions, Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight with Theatre Q, Falsettoland with Red Dragon productions, Quick-Change Room with TheatreFirst, Empty Places with Foothill Theatre Company, and 2x4 Play at The Marsh in San Francisco. He also worked as Assistant Director to Richard Seyd on The Twelve (an original musical in development with Peter Berg and Robert Schenkkan), Beauty Queen of Leenane at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and as Associate Director for the long running hit Noises Off at the Marines Memorial Theatre in San Francisco.