Irwin Appel is a professional director, Equity actor and composer/sound designer, and has worked with Prague Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles (formerly Shakespeare Festival/LA), the New York, Oregon, Utah, New Jersey and Colorado Shakespeare Festivals, The Acting Company, Theatre For a New Audience, Hartford Stage, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, PCPA, both the National Theatre Conservatory and Colorado New Play Summit at the Denver Center of the Performing Arts, the Bread Load Acting Ensemble, and other prominent regional theaters.