Roundabout Theatre Company (RTC), one of the nonprofit organizations that produces on Broadway, has announced Tai Thompson as its new directing fellow. Also newly named is the 2025-2026 Leon Levy Foundation Roundabout Directors Group (RDG) cohort. Included in the RDG are Nick Browne, Chloe Chow, Ghina Fawaz / غنى فواز, Dante Green, Ares Harper, M Sloth Levine, Irvin Mason Jr., Charlique C. Rolle, Neeta Thadani, Bibiana Torres and Marc David Wright.
Launched in 2017, the directing fellowship aims to provide development opportunities, resources and career assistance to early-career directors. The fellowship was created specifically to foster new relationships with, and to create a launchpad for, artists who have traditionally been denied equitable opportunities in the theater industry.
Since its inception in 2019, RDG provides an artistic community, which meets monthly, for directors at similar stages of their careers, fostering camaraderie, lateral mentorship, access to expanded professional networks and insight into the workings of a large nonprofit institution.
Thompson’s directing credits include “Love’s Labour’s Lost” at Two River Theater in New Jersey, “Dark Star from Harlem” at La MaMa and Juggerknot Theatre Company’s immersive “Miami Motel Stories.” Thompson was a 2018 SDCF Observer, 2019 Drama League Classical Directing Fellow, 2022 Old Globe Classical Theatre Fellow and 2023 Fulbright Award Finalist for South Korea.
RTC is led by interim artistic director Scott Ellis. As previously announced, Christopher Ashley will take the reins in 2026.
