CAMERON WATSON has directed five productions for the Colony, The Savannah Disputation, On Golden Pond. He previously directed Grace & Glorie, which garnered four Ovation Award nominations including Best Production and won the Ovation Award for Best Actress (Beth Grant); Educating Rita; and Trying, which received eight Ovation Award nominations and won for Best Actor (Alan Mandell) along with the Garland Award for Best Director.

He most recently directed the critically-acclaimed revival of All My Sons at The Matrix Theatre Company for producer Joseph Stern (LA Drama Critics’Circle Award winner - AnneGee Byrd - Best Actress, LAWeekly Award nomination -Best Revival) and the critically lauded revival of I Never Sang for My Father starring Philip Baker Hall at The New American Theatre and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. Cameron directed the American premiere of I Capture the Castle at the El Portal (six Ovation Award nominations) and the east coast premiere at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey last winter.

Other directing credits include Horton Foote’s The Habitation of Dragons at the Actor’s Co-Op and the unique one-woman show Rolling with Laughter which played Los Angeles, the Edinburgh Festival, and Her Majesty’s Theatre in London’s West End.

Cameron wrote and directed the Miramax feature film Our Very Own, which stars Allison Janney in an Independent Spirit Award-nominated performance along with Jason Ritter, Keith Carradine, Cheryl Hines, Faith Prince, Beth Grant, and Mary Badham. His professional acting career began in New York when Horton Foote cast him in the original Off-Broadway production of The Widow Claire at Circle in the Square.

His lengthy acting credits include leading roles at the Pasadena Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Laguna Playhouse, and numerous film and television appearances.

June, 2012