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Greg Carter is the founding Artistic Director of Strawberry Theatre Workshop, where he has directed Frost/Nixon, Proof, Take Me Out, 9 Circles, An Enemy of the People, and This Land | Woody Guthrie, among others.  He has twice been nominated for a TPS Gregory Award as Outstanding Director for The Laramie Project (2010) and Our Town (2015), and accepted the Stranger Genius Award on behalf of the organization in 2007.

Carter served as Technical Director at Cornish College of the Arts from 1998-2017, where he taught classes in stage management, scenic design, and scenic construction. He was previously Production Manager at Book-It Repertory Theatre, where he designed scenery for productions on the stages of Seattle Rep, ACT, Intiman, and On the Boards.  He has also designed for Portland Center Stage, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Public Theatre, and more than a dozen productions at Strawshop.

For five years before coming to Seattle, Carter was a resident artist at In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre (HOBT) in Minneapolis. He learned puppet theatre from Sandy Spieler and Jim Ouray, appeared in more than twenty HOBT productions, while also serving as the company Technical Director.  Carter studied drama at Duke University and earned a Master of Architecture at the University of Washington.