Photo by Jordan GeigerGus Heagerty (b. 1988, California)
is a director, actor and producer of works for stage and film. His work is cerebral and "creates an atmosphere of indeterminacy and sudden apparition where unmatched possibilities can and do fit.” (Helen Shaw, TimeOut NY).He is the founding Artistic Director of i am a slow tide, a performance and media collective that activates alternative pathways of consideration. Under the banner of slow tide, Gus has produced and directed two critically acclaimed productions. His debut production of Agnes Borinsky's Brief Chronicle, Books 6-8(Critic's Pick,TimeOut New York) was lauded "a tasty mouthful of downtown theater." (Broadway World) His follow up production of Jacob Perkins' The Gold Room had a run at HERE Arts Center as part of their Sublet Series. The New Yorker called the play "exquisite, a play as fine as a Fabergé egg" and "under Gus Heagerty's careful direction, the performances are miracles of detail."
In the digital space, Gus creates satirical videos that center on the performance of identity. Gus is currently under commission from multiple companies to continue creating material.
Gus spent his formative years as an assistant director on staff at The Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington DC. He served as the resident directing fellow at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts where he curated and produced multiple new works festivals.
He holds BFA in Directing from North Carolina School of the Arts (2010).
Contact
Allison Kodroff: allison.kodroff@authenticm.com
Cory Wang: cory.wang@authenticm.com
The Gold Room
HERE Arts Center October 14, 2022-November 5, 2022
In The Gold Room, two middle-aged men meet for a chance sexual encounter, only to find themselves entangled in a haunting role-play. Perkins's play drives its audience through a wondrously dark and explosive minefield of scenes. The Gold Room is an acerbic, mind-bending fall into the genesis of queer identity.
Written by Jacob Perkins
Directed by Gus Heagerty
With Scott Parkinson, Robert Stanton and John William Watkins
Produced by Gus Heagerty, Sam Max, Anne Troup
Sets by Emona Stoykova
Lights by greer x
Sound by Taul Katz
Costumes by Caitlin Ward
Intimacy Direction by Sam Max
Photography by Maria Baranova
Directed by Gus Heagerty
With Scott Parkinson, Robert Stanton and John William Watkins
Produced by Gus Heagerty, Sam Max, Anne Troup
Sets by Emona Stoykova
Lights by greer x
Sound by Taul Katz
Costumes by Caitlin Ward
Intimacy Direction by Sam Max
Photography by Maria Baranova
Under the director Gus Heagerty’s careful eye, the performances are miracles of detail, with Stanton’s searching sincerity and Parkinson’s drawling, tamped intensity generating bursts of lightning throughout.” - Helen Shaw, The New Yorker
Director Gus Heagerty, the production has an elegant polish that suggests a more assured purpose than “The Gold Room” conveys over its hourlong running time. " Naveen Kumar, The New York Times
Director Gus Heagerty, the production has an elegant polish that suggests a more assured purpose than “The Gold Room” conveys over its hourlong running time. " Naveen Kumar, The New York Times
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Photos by Maria Baranova
Brief Chronicle, Books 6-8
Access Theater May 23, 2019-June 15, 2019
A queer ghost story about constructing identities out of the places, people, and objects we wish we could possess.
Written by Agnes Borinsky
Directed by Gus Heagerty
With: Janice Amaya, LA Head, Jacob Perkins, Nicole Spiezio, Susannah Stahlmann
Produced by i am a slow tide & Gus Heagerty
Lead Producer Emma Orme
Associate Producer Peter McNally
Sets by Sam Max
Lights by greer x
Sound by Peter Mills Weiss
Costumes by Ivy Karlsgod
Choreography by LA Head and Jesse Kovarsky
Directed by Gus Heagerty
With: Janice Amaya, LA Head, Jacob Perkins, Nicole Spiezio, Susannah Stahlmann
Produced by i am a slow tide & Gus Heagerty
Lead Producer Emma Orme
Associate Producer Peter McNally
Sets by Sam Max
Lights by greer x
Sound by Peter Mills Weiss
Costumes by Ivy Karlsgod
Choreography by LA Head and Jesse Kovarsky
“︎︎︎︎The production is simultaneously joyful and devastated…Chronicle creates an atmosphere of indeterminacy and sudden apparition where unmatched possibilities can and do fit.” -
Critic’s Pick, Helen Shaw, TimeOut NY
Critic’s Pick, Helen Shaw, TimeOut NY
All Photos by Maria Baranova
Faust 3...
Judson Memorial Church, June 11, 2017-June 26, 2017
A satire of the Trump fiasco performed by an ensemble of four clowns
Produced and Written by Paul David Young
With: Ayun Halliday, Aidan O'Shea, Regina Strayhorn and Ben Watts
Directed by Gus Heagerty
Sets and Props by Jarrod Beck
Lights by Kia Rodgers
Costumes by Scout Isensee
Video by Melissa Friedling
Photography by Paul David Young
With: Ayun Halliday, Aidan O'Shea, Regina Strayhorn and Ben Watts
Directed by Gus Heagerty
Sets and Props by Jarrod Beck
Lights by Kia Rodgers
Costumes by Scout Isensee
Video by Melissa Friedling
Photography by Paul David Young
“Between its uncompromising, blistering rage and its condemnatory rhetorical stance, the play has many echoes of Biblical prophecy.” - John Sherer, Hyperallergic
