Madeline Puzo

Dean

Dean of the USC School of Theatre since 2002, Madeline Puzo was a creative producer for some of the country's leading regional theatres, including the Ahmanson Theatre and the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, for over 20 years. Dean Puzo has commissioned and/or produced work by such noted theatre artists as Bill T. Jones, JoAnne Akalaitis, Spalding Gray, Joe Chaikin, Philip Glass, Femi Osofisan, Girish Karnad, Bart Sher and Robert Woodruff.  She has produced such diverse plays as House Arrest: An Introgression, Acts I & II by Anna Deavere Smith; Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Sir Peter Hall; and David Henry Hwang's new version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song. Her adaptation of Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory was presented by the Mark Taper Forum for 10 consecutive years and toured Eastern Europe. While director of Taper, Too, the Mark Taper Forum's second theatre, she won nine Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards. Dean Puzo served as co-director for the theatre portion of the 1984 Olympic International Arts Festival and has been a consultant for the National Endowment of the Arts, the Pew Charitable Trust, Theatre Communications Group, the Rockefeller and Lila Wallace Readers Digest Foundations, and has written for American Theatre magazine.