GUTHRIE Artistic Director since 2015; A Christmas Carol, Dickens’ Holiday Classic (film), The Glass Menagerie, Cyrano de Bergerac (Adapter/Director), West Side Story, Romeo and Juliet, Sunday in the Park With George, King Lear, South Pacific, Pericles. THEATER Folger Theatre: Hamlet (Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Production); Oregon Shakespeare Festival: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry V, Pericles; PlayMakers Repertory Company: The Tempest, Metamorphoses, Cabaret, Henry IV, Henry V, Nicholas Nickleby, The Illusion, Amadeus, Pericles, Big River, As You Like It, Cyrano de Bergerac (Adapter/Director), Into the Woods; PlayMakers Repertory Company Artistic Director, 2006–2015. As an actor, Haj has appeared at the Guthrie Theater, The Public Theater, Alley Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville and internationally in Salzburg, Edinburgh, Paris, Berlin, Venice and Japan. OTHER Directed projects in a maximum-security prison in Los Angeles; Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina; the West Bank and Gaza. AWARDS 2000 NEA Millennium Grant awarded to 50 of America’s finest artists; 2014 Zelda Fichandler Award for significant contribution to the community through extraordinary work in theater; 2017 Rosetta LeNoire Award from Actors’ Equity Association in recognition of artistic contribution to the universality of the human experience in the American theater