Roald Simonson has directed numerous theater production: classic, modern and original. In 1990 he won a National Endowment for the Arts Directing Fellowship, a year-long stipendium for work, travel and study awarded to a few promising young directors each year. In the past he's also worked in the world of international opera, particularly as an Associate Artistic Director with Peter Sellars on operas by John Adams, Mozart and Handel. Other artistic associations he's benefited from in particular have been with Robert Wilson, the theater artist, and Mark Morris, the choreographer. Mr. Simonson is a graduate of Harvard University.