Logan Ellis is a director and producer of theater and film from Kent, Washington. Logan is a 2020 graduate of the MFA Directing program at the Yale School of Drama, where he was awarded the Julian Milton Kaufman Memorial Prize for Directing. He most recently directed the short films Face Me and Boat Day with Cusp of Rebirth Productions in Los Angeles, where he works as a creative partner with Ilia Isorelýs Paulino and Donato Fatuesi.

Logan is the Producing Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Theatre Battery in Kent, Washington. Theatre Battery produces plays for social justice and practices radical hospitality, offering free admissions for all programming. Directing credits at Theatre Battery include The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Deep Purple Wiggle by Milo Cramer, We Are Pussy Riot, or Everything Is P.R. by Barbara Hammond; Hooded or Being Black for Dummies by Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm; A Maze by Rob Handel; and Milk Like Sugar by Kirsten Greenidge. His producing work at the company includes the American premiere of Eiko Kadono’s Kiki’s Delivery Service, developmental readings of new work by local playwrights, 24-hour play festivals, an acting lab, and workshop productions of Benjamin Benne’s Alma (or #nowall) and Danielle Alexis Nicole Mitchell’s Shame. With the company in the pandemic, Logan directed and animated the webseries LEGO Harry Potter and the Transgender Witch.

At Yale, Logan directed the Tom Waits opera Alice, Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part 3 , and blues for miss lucille by Audley Puglisi. He also directed Walt McGough’s Non-Player Character at Yale Cabaret and assisted Kenny Leon on Good Faith at Yale Repertory Theatre. For the Carlotta Festival of New Plays, he directed a zoom presentation of The Shift by Margaret E. Douglas.

As a freelance director, Logan directed the European tour of Øyvind Torvund’s Forest Concerts, The Jungle Book, The Little Mermaid (Marin Theatre Company); The Firefly Project, IVANKA (Magic Theatre); Water by the Spoonful (Dirty Hands Ensemble); Year of the Rooster (Impact Theatre); dark play or stories for boys (Do It Live!), Nanay’s Lullaby (Bindlestiff Studio); and Homeless in the Afterlife (University of San Francisco). Logan formerly served as the Producer in Residence at Magic Theatre and the Literary Manager of Playwrights Foundation in San Francisco. Logan has assisted directors including Loretta Greco, Daniella Topol, Carey Perloff, Jon Tracy, Jasson Minadakis, and Jonathan Moscone. He shadowed showrunner Justin Noble for HBO’s The Sex Lives of College Girls. Logan played viola in the Bay Area Rainbow Symphony and currently plays with Orchestra Nova LA.

Logan received a B.A. in drama from Ithaca College, where he directed Fat Pig and Far Away. He is a graduate of Green River Community College and Kent-Meridian High School.

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