Vanessa Stalling is the director and adaptor of the Jeff Award winning play United Flight 232 and Head of Directing at UC San Diego's Department of Theatre & Dance. She was the Associate Artistic Director of Redmoon Theater in Chicago, a Michael Maggio Fellow at The Goodman Theatre, and has been recognized by Joseph Jefferson Awards and as one of The Fifty People Who Really Perform for Chicago. Recent productions include The Lehman Trilogy at Timeline Theatre, Fen at The Court Theatre, The Great Leap at Asolo Rep, and Roe, at The Goodman Theatre.