Davis is in his tenth season as HVSF’s Artistic Director, and is
honored to lead the company alongside Managing Director Kendra
Ekelund. Under McCallum’s leadership, HVSF established
HVStories, a multi-year exploration of the people, history, and
culture of the Hudson Valley, and Full Circle, a community
engagement program inspired by 2016’s citizen-driven production
of OUR TOWN. For HVSF, he has directed productions of Henry V,
Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play, Cymbeline, Richard II, The Winter’s
Tale, Measure for Measure, and the rolling world premiere of Lauren
Gunderson’s The Book of Will. Notable productions in New York
include Greater Clements (LCT) Lewiston/Clarkston (Rattlestick —
Drama Desk nomination for Best Play), The Harvest (LCT3); Stupid
Fucking Bird (Pearl), Fashions for Men and London Wall (Mint —
Drama Desk and Lortel nomination for Best Revival); The
Whale (Lortel Award for Best Play, and Calloway nomination for
Best Director) and Pocatello (Playwrights Horizons); Water by the
Spoonful (Second Stage — Pulitzer Prize for Drama); and February
House (The Public). Other NYC credits include Signature Theatre,
The Acting Company, 13P, Clubbed Thumb, Play Company, Page
73, and the New Victory. Regional credits include the Denver
Center, Dallas Theater Center, South Coast Rep, Old Globe, Guthrie,
Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the O’Neill, American Shakespeare
Center, Williamstown, Humana Festival, others. A graduate of
Princeton, he studied Shakespeare at Oxford University as a
Rhodes Scholar, and trained as a director at LAMDA. He has taught
acting and directing at Princeton and The New School for Drama.
He lives in Cold Spring, and is the father of two teenage sons,
Thomas and Angus.
