Art Manke

Los Angeles, CA United States

Director

Photography / Arts

Over the course of a 30-plus-year career in the performing arts, award-winning director and choreographer Art Manke has overseen more than 200 productions of classics, musicals, and new plays. A leading figure in new play development, Mr. Manke has worked with a diverse array of playwrights including Lloyd Suh, Amy Freed, David Wiener, Beau Willamon, David Davalos, Itamar Moses and Liza Powel O'Brien. In 1991, he co-founded A Noise Within, a Los Angeles-based theater that he led for over a decade as artistic director.