Nelson T. Eusebio III is a freelance director, producer and award-winning filmmaker. He is the Associate Artistic Director of Kansas City Repertory Theatre. Prior to that, he was the artistic director of Leviathan Lab. He co-founded Creative Destruction, a NYC-based theatre collective. He has directed and developed work at theaters throughout the country, including the Public Theater/NYSF, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, The Old Globe, Playmaker's Repertory, and Ma-Yi Theatre Company. He is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab and the Rhodopi International Theatre Collective, was a resident director at Ensemble Studio Theatre during the 2008-9 season and is a recipient of the 2009-11 NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors, and was the 2012 Phil Killian Directing Fellow at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He has a B.A. in Drama from UC Irvine and an M.F.A. in Directing from the Yale School of Drama.