Carl Wallnau

Carl Wallnau is the Artistic Director of the Centenary Stage Company, an equity theatre located on the campus of Centenary University in Hackettstown, NJ, where he is also a Professor of Theatre Arts and Chairman of the Fine Arts Department.
Recent acting credits include Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Van Helsing in Dracula, Serge in Art for Centenary Stage, and Willy Clark in The Sunshine Boys at the Bristol Riverside Theatre.
Wallnau has worked at numerous regional theatres including Paper Mill Playhouse, Second Stage in New York City, York Theatre in New York City, People’s Light, The Lark Theatre, The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Hartford Stage, Forum Theatre, Bristol Riverside, Premiere Stages, Orlando Shakespeare Company, Theatre 1812, Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, Foothills Playhouse, and 14 months on the road with the First National Tour of Titanic.
He has directed more than 60 sixty productions, including The English Bride, which had its New York premiere at 59e59; the world premieres of Poetry of Pizza, Inventing Montana and The Tillie Project; and the New Jersey premieres of Below The Belt, Square One, and Marvin’s Room. He has been cited for outstanding direction in productions of Springtime for Henry, Engaged, The Ladies Man, Deathtrap, and Pygmalion and has directed in numerous regional theatres including Hartford Theatre Works and Musical Theatre Works.
He received his MFA from Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts. Wallnau wrote the play Mary Todd – A Woman Apart for his wife, actress Colleen Smith Wallnau, which had a successful off-Broadway run in 2004.
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Carl Wallnau
carl.wallnau@centenaryuniversity.edu
(908) 852-1400 ext 2203
