Season 25 marks his third season as Artistic Director of American Theater Company. His ATC credits include Distracted, Yeast Nation (the triumph of life),Hedwig and the Angry Inch (highest grossing show in ATC history) with About Face; True West (African American and Caucasian casts) with Congo Square; and the regional premiere of Speech & Debate (Jeff Nomination; TimeOut Chicago & New City Stage’s top 10 productions of 2007). He made New City’s “Top 50 Most Influential Theatre Players in Chicago of 2008.” This season he has been commissioned to develop a documentary-style theatre piece on Chicago’s Public Housing with Congo Square and the National Public Housing Museum. From 2004-2008, he was the Artistic Director of Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Alaska. During his tenure, Perseverance expanded its staff, completed a $1.1M facility expansion/renovation and $1M Endowment campaign and sent projects Off-Broadway, Washington, DC, and around the country. His directing credits include the World Premiere of Yeast Nation, Equus, The Who’s Tommy, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, a new version of Hair, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Voyage, and columbinus. PJ conceived and co-adapted Raven Odyssey, a theatrical journey of Alaska Native Raven stories, gathered through interviews with Elders across the state. In 2002, PJ founded the United States Theatre Project, where he conceived, co-wrote, and directed columbinus, which premiered at Round House Theatre and Perseverance, and ran Off-Broadway at NY Theatre Workshop. columbinus was nominated for 2 Lucille Lortel Awards, 5 Helen Hayes Awards, is published by Dramatic Publishing, and has seen over 20 productions around the world. From 1998-2004, he served as the Associate Director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC, where his directing credits include Much Ado, Hamlet, Love Letters (with Dixie Carter and Hal Holbrook), All’s Well That Ends Well (Classical Acting Conservatory), Two Gentlemen of Verona, Merchant of Venice and many plays in the ReDiscovery Series. The Washington Post called PJ, “One of the most exciting talents working in Washington.” His DC productions include Romeo and Juliet (The Folger), a collaboration with Terrence McNally on a new version of Corpus Christi at Source Theatre (2003 GLAAD Media Award), The Diaries (Signature) and Love’s Labour’s Lost (Washington Shakespeare). Other directing credits include Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare Fest/St. Louis), Twelfth Night at Shakespeare Santa Cruz (2005 Newsweek’s Top 5 summer productions), Merchant of Venice (American Shakespeare Center), Action (Circle Rep) and True West in Russian at the Moscow Art Theatre School. He has worked in education/administration at The Public Theatre, Pittsburgh Public, and Circle Rep, and has directed and/or taught Shakespeare at Juilliard, Bread Loaf School of English, NC School of the Arts, UAlaska-SE, UNC (Chapel Hill), Catholic U, UPenn, and Johns Hopkins. He holds a BFA in directing from Carnegie Mellon and graduate studies in acting at the Moscow Art Theatre School. He is a member of the SDC and is represented by Creative Artists Agency.