Stefan Sittig

Stefan Sittig has a multi-disciplined theater background as a director, choreographer, fight director, movement coach, educator, and podcast host. He has worked on 100+ productions including in New York City (Off-Broadway), internationally in Brazil, Uruguay and Canada, at various regional theatres, and at most of the major theatres in the Washington, DC area including The Kennedy Center, Signature Theatre, Studio Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, MetroStage,1st Stage, The Washington Savoyards, Atlas Performing Arts Center, Open Circle Theatre, Adventure Theatre, The American Century Theater, NextStop Theatre Company and the Workhouse Arts Center, where he recently directed and choreographed Douglas Carter Beane’s Xanadu, receiving a Helen Hayes Award recommendation. 

Stefan is an Artistic Associate at MetroStage where he has directed/choreographed several productions including Volver/Return, Poetry & Tango (featuring 3x Helen Hayes award winner Natascia Diaz), Jason Odell Williams’ Church & State, Sheridan Morley’s musical Noel & Gertie and Terrence McNally’s Mothers & Sons and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune for which he received the Broadway World Award for Best Director. Additional director/choreographer credits include Trabajadores (the World Premiere of the Spanish version of Stephen Schwartz’s Working), Cole Porter’s Anything Goes and Red Hot & Cole, Jerry Herman’s Jerry’s Girls and the 60’s revue Beehive. 

Productions that Stefan has been involved with have garnered a total of 4 Helen Hayes Awards (DC’s equivalent of the Tony Award) and 19 Helen Hayes Award nominations. He has worked with several Broadway and Hollywood luminaries, including Angela Lansbury, George Hearn, Marvin Hamlisch, Tina Fey, Christina Hendricks, Savion Glover and Baayork Lee.

He has been teaching at the college level for nearly 30 years and has served on the faculty of University of Maryland Global Campus (2019, 2017 and 2016 Professional Achievement Award, 3x nominee for the Stanley J. Drazek Excellence in Teaching Award), The University of Virginia (SCPS), Virginia Commonwealth University, Messiah College, The National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts (NCDA) in Georgetown and the Escuela de Comedia Musical in Montevideo, Uruguay. He has led master classes, workshops, coached students, and created choreography for theatre productions at Georgetown University, George Washington University and James Madison University.

Stefan is a proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographer Society (SDC). He also produces and hosts the podcast American Theatre Artists Online, where he has interviewed many Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe award winners and nominees.

Stefan was raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is half-Uruguayan, a native Spanish and Portuguese speaker and fluent in French. His love of musical theatre, combined with his experiences growing up in Latin America, have often guided his artistic work. As a proud and out LGBTQI+ artist for over 30 years, he enjoys producing all-inclusive work that represents the full breadth of the human experience. 

At Mason, Stefan teaches THR 191 – Practical Theatre Seminar, THR 305 – Unarmed Stage Combat, THR 405 – Advanced Stage Combat, THR 306 – Movement in Musical Theatre, THR 406 – Advanced Movement in Musical Theatre. 

Degrees

• MFA, Theatre, Virginia Commonwealth University
• BA, Drama and English Literature, University of Virginia