Michel Hausmann

Michel Hausmann is a Venezuelan-born theater director and producer. He is the co-founder and artistic director of Miami New Drama as well as Palo de Agua, a leading Venezuelan theater production company. Hausmann's Off Broadway credits include The Golem Of Havana, the New York Premiere of Black Milk by Vassily Sigarev at East 13th Street Theater Stage and the New York premiere of The Color Of Desire, by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Nilo Cruz at the Repertorio Español. In Venezuela he directed the world premiere of “Los Navegaos,” the last play by renowned Venezuelan playwright Isaac Chocrón, as well as directing and co- translating the productions of Fiddler on the Roof, The Producers (musical) and Jesus Christ Superstar among others. With Moisés Kaufman, he co-directed the Venezuelan premiere of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde.

During Hausmann's 2009 production of Fiddler on the Roof, The Orquestra Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho, funded in its entirety by the Venezuelan government, left the production two weeks before the opening, citing that its participation on a "Jewish play" would threaten the funding they receive from the Venezuelan government, a vocal foe of Israel. Such move was condemned by the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Anti Defamation League as well as other Venezuelan newspapers like El Universal.

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