Catherine Taylor-Williams (Producing Artistic Director) The Wharton Salon: Director Xingu, Summer, and Autres Temps. Catherine founded The Wharton Salon in 2009 with the help of Managing Director Lauryn Franzoni,  Creative Director of Studio Two Kevin Sprague, playwright and Shakespeare & Company’s Director of Training Dennis Krausnick, and Executive Director of The Mount, Susan Wissler. Catherine was an actor, director and Communications Associate at Shakespeare & Company from 2001-2007. S&Co: Directing: Shakespeare & the Language that Shaped a World, Love’s Labor’s Lost. S&Co: Acting: Vita & Virginia, My Own Stranger, Henry & June, The Servant of Two Masters, The Tamer Tamed and Wharton’s novel The Valley of Decision, also adapted by Krausnick. Catherine is an alumna of the two-year Producers’ Lab at The Women’s Project in New York, and of The John F. Kennedy Center’s 2008 DeVos Institute of Arts Management.  Catherine is grateful to Shakespeare & Company, Tina Packer, Dennis Krausnick, and theatre director Normi Noël for pioneering adaptations of the stories of Edith Wharton for the stage at The Mount. She is delighted to welcome Normi to the Salon this year and to see Tod Randolph bring Mrs. Wharton to life on stage this summer.