Gabriel Barre is both a Tony nominated actor and successful stage director. As a director Gabriel has off-Broadway credits which include the Manhattan Theatre Club’s production of The Wild Party by Andrew Lippa (nominated for 13 Drama Desk Awards and 5 Outer Critics Circle awards, both including Best Director and for which he won the Calloway Award), Summer of ’42, Stars in Your Eyes, Honky-Tonk Highway, john & jen and Almost, Maine.  He directed the recent national tour of Pippin, which started at the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut, as well as the national tour of Rodger and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, starring Eartha Kitt, which was on the road over a three year period including stops at Madison Square Garden and a production at the Papermill Playhouse in New Jersey.   His regional theatre credits include, Private Lives atSeattle Repertory Theatre, Tom Jones and Memphis, at the North Shore Music Theatre in Boston (the later, also at Theatreworks), Sweeney Todd, Finian’s Rainbow, Houdini and many other new musicals at Goodspeed; Stand By Your Man at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville; and Hay Fever and Pericles at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; American Musical Theatre of San Jose’s productions of Little Shop of Horrors and Flower Drum Song, as well as Hair and Love’s Labours Lost at the Connecticut Repertory Theatre.  Last year he directed the world premiere of the new Frank Wildhorn musical, Carmen at the Karlin Theatre in Prague, Czech Republic where he will be returning next year to direct Aida.