Eustis has been the Artistic Director of the Public Theater since 2005. He was the artistic director at the
Trinity Repertory Company in
Providence, Rhode Island from 1994 to 2005. From 1989 to 1994 he was the associate artistic director for the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. He was the resident director and dramaturg for the Eureka Theatre Company in San Francisco, California from 1981 to 1986 and then artistic director from 1986 to 1989. At the Public, Eustis directed the New York premieres of
Rinne Groff's Compulsion and
The Ruby Sunrise,
Lawrence Wright's The Human Scale, and the 2008
Shakespeare in the Park production of
Hamlet. At Trinity Repertory Company he directed the world premiere of
Paula Vogel's The Long Christmas Ride Home in 2003 and
Tony Kushner’s
Homebody/Kabul in 2002, both recipients of the
Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Production. While at the Eureka Theatre, he commissioned Tony Kushner’s
Angels in America, and directed its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum. In 2019, he directed
Suzan-Lori Parks's play
White Noise. He was a professor of theatre, speech and dance at
Brown University, where he founded and chaired the
Trinity Rep/Brown University Consortium for professional theater training. He also served on the faculty of the
Bread Loaf School of English at
Middlebury College. Eustis is a professor of dramatic writing and arts and public policy at New York University, and has held professorships at
UCLA,
Middlebury College, and
Brown University. He also teaches a small seminar at
Saint Ann's School (Brooklyn). ==Filmography==