Casey Stangl is an award-winning director based in Los Angeles. Recent projects include Dave Harris’ i got too high but i hope this is beautifulfor the 24 Hour Plays, a workshop of Weston Gaylord’s Word of Mouth for IAMA Theater’s New Works Festival, the West Coast premiere of Audrey Cefaly’s Alabaster at the Fountain Theater, the world premiere of John Ross Bowie’s Brushstroke at the Odyssey Theater (2024 Scenie Award for Best World Premiere), Gaslighting is my Love Language for the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe, and the world premiere of Lauren Weedman Blows, at Seattle’s Triple Door nightclub.

In 2019 Casey was named Director of the Year by StageScene Los Angeles. Casey’s work has been seen at theaters across the country including South Coast Repertory, Geffen Playhouse, American Conservatory Theater, Guthrie Theater, Everyman Theater, Arizona Theater Company, La Jolla Playhouse, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Denver Center, Portland Stage and Cleveland Playhouse. Casey has developed work with numerous emerging and established playwrights and directed at the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Humana Festival, Pacific Playwrights Festival, Playlabs, PlayPenn, In the Works-In the Woods Festival, and from 2105-22 was Associate Artistic Director for Ojai Playwrights Conference.

In addition to her work for the stage Casey directs and does script adaptation on foreign language dubbing projects for Netflix, HBO Max, Disney+ and Amazon. A proud member of SDC, the national labor union for stage directors and choreographers, Casey served three terms on SDC’s Executive Board.