Frank Condon

Frank Condon, MA, MFA, (b. Derbyshire, England, 1943) is a playwright and theatrical production director, the founding Artistic Director of River Stage, in Sacramento, California, and a professor of theatre at Cosumnes River College. Condon is best known for bringing controversial plays to the theatre.

Condon immigrated to the United States from the United Kingdom with his family when he was eight. After graduating from high school, he joined the United States Army. "I went in as a ‘gung-ho’ young man, and I came out as a disenchanted, angry, more mature young man", he later said. He then went on to study theatre at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he earned bachelor's and master's degrees, after which he taught theater at Santa Barbara High School for four years. Condon then moved on to San Diego, where he earned a master of fine arts degree in directing at the University of California, San Diego.

Condon teamed up with writer and producer Ron Sossi in 1979 to create The Chicago Conspiracy Trial, which is based on testimony at the famous trial after the 1968 Democratic convention. It ran for fourteen months and won numerous awards.

He has worked with Garry Trudeau, of Doonesbury fame, on the highly successful runs of Trudeau’s Rap Master Ronnie, which he directed in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and Toronto. The play poked fun at then-President Ronald Reagan, in an attempt at capturing the essence of Reagan's Teflon presidency by means of a satirically portraying the television character Max Headroom.

As an artistic director for the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles, he directed several highly successful productions of new plays and helped create the Odyssey's international reputation for theatre. Condon directed the original production of McCarthy at the Odyssey Theatre and the original production of Mark Medoff’s The Majestic Kid at the Denver Center Theatre Company.

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