Department of Fine and Performing Arts

Faculty: Eric Krebs

Eric Krebs (MA, Rutgers University) is the founder and artistic director of the Off-Broadway John Houseman and Douglas Fairbanks theaters. His New York producing credits include It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues at Lincoln Center (which won four Tony Award nominations); BASH; the critically acclaimed production of Electra, starring Zoë Wanamaker; The Broadway Kids Sing Broadway; Capitol Steps; The Passion of Dracula; Fool for Love; and Paul Robeson. Krebs also produced Geoffrey Ewing’s Ali, the biography of Muhammad Ali, which was featured at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and at the Mermaid Theater in London. He founded and for 14 years was the producing director of the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, NJ.