Moritz von Stuelpnagel
Moritz von Stuelpnagel is a theater director focused on new plays. His work has been seen on Broadway and London’s West End and he is the former artistic director of Studio 42, NYC’s producer of “unproducible” plays.
Biography
Von Stuelpnagel is a director and dramaturg based in New York City, who has spent a career focused on new plays. His production of Hand to God on Broadway received five Tony nominations including Best Play and Best Director. Other Broadway productions include Theresa Rebeck’s I Need That starring Danny Devito, Bernhardt/Hamlet starring Janet McTeer, and Noel Coward’s Present Laughter starring Kevin Kline (recipient of three Tony nominations including Best Revival). In London’s West End, he directed Theresa Rebeck’s Mad House starring David Harbour and Bill Pullman, and Hand to God which received an Olivier nomination for Best New Comedy. Off-Broadway credits include Ava: The Secret Conversations written by and starring Elizabeth McGovern; Theresa Rebeck’s Seared (MCC Theatre); Larissa Fasthorse’s The Thanksgiving Play (Playwrights Horizons); Mike Lew’s Teenage Dick (Ma-Yi/Public Theater) and Bike America (Ma-Yi); Nick Jones’ Important Hats of the Twentieth Century (MTC), Verité (LCT3), and Trevor (Lesser America). Regionally, von Stuelpnagel has worked at the Huntington Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Alliance Theatre, Denver Center, Chicago Shakespeare, South Coast Rep, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Olney Theatre Center, Woolly Mammoth, Barrington Stage, Chautauqua, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, and more. He has developed material with comedians such as Gary Gulman, Vir Das, and Alan Zweibel.
Von Stuelpnagel is the former artistic director of Studio 42, NYC’s producer of “unproducible” plays. As a teacher, he has taught at schools such as Juilliard, NYU, Fordham, Rutgers Mason Gross, University of Rochester, and more. Von Stuelpnagel is a visiting faculty member at Bennington for Fall 2026.