Director Cameron Watson, the newly named leader of Skylight Theatre Company, brings the human touch.
Cameron Watson is a multiple award-winning theatrical director and filmmaker who has carved a unique career that crosses over many genres and formats. Cameron is considered one of the most prolific and respected directors in the Los Angeles area and beyond. He is a recipient of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Distinguished Achievement in Directing. Having been heralded as “one of our finest contemporary directors” by the Los Angeles Times, Cameron is known for his much-celebrated work with Pasadena Playhouse, Antaeus Theatre Company, Rogue Machine Theatre, Road Theatre, Ensemble Theatre Company, Fountain Theatre, New American Theatre, and more. His productions have been seen across the nation, including The Kennedy Center, and the Wall Street Journal has declared his work as “the best in the country.” Cameron wrote, directed and produced the comedy series “Break a Hip,” which garnered Christina Pickles a Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actress. He wrote, directed and produced the Miramax feature film Our Very Own, starring Allison Janney in an Independent Spirit Award-nominated performance
CAMERON WATSON
“Stage director Cameron Watson has one of the best batting averages in town. His productions of The Sound Inside at Pasadena Playhouse, On the Other Hand, We’re Happy for Rogue Machine Theatre at the Matrix and Top Girls at Antaeus Theatre company were morale-boosting for a critic in the trenches, offering proof that serious, humane, highly intelligent and happily unorthodox drama was alive and well in Los Angeles.
Watson’s appointment as artistic director of Los Feliz’s Skylight Theatre Company is good news for the city’s theater ecology. Producing artistic director Gary Grossman, who led the company for 40 years with enormous integrity, built Skylight into an incubator of new work that embraces diversity and the local community.
Developing new plays is fraught with risk. Watson has the both the artistic acumen and audience sensitivity needed to usher Skylight through this perilous moment in the American theater when so many companies seem to be holding on by a thread.
Watson’s production of “Heisbenberg” at Skylight showcases one of the signal strengths as a director: his ability to balance complicated emotional material with playful dramatic form. The humanity of the play shines though like a light from a dwindling candle that refuses to give up its flame.
Watson, like Peter Brook before him, knows how to convert an empty space into a realm of magic and meaning. For Watson, the play’s the thing. But for the spark to happen, actors and audience members need a director as intuitively attuned to the uncertain human drama as Skylight Theatre Company’s new leader.”
- Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times
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The light is shining in.
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Cameron
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