<p>Michael Gardner, Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of The Brick, has been directing and producing plays and theater festivals in New York since 1996. In his artistic work, he frequents in subverted visions of literary classics such as As I Lay Dying, Notes from Underground, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, King Lear, Vaclav Havel’s Mountain Hotel, Jason Craig’s The Baby Jesus Conversation, The Kung Fu Importance of Being Earnest and The Ninja Cherry Orchard. As Co-Artistic Director of The Brick, he was one of the recipients of The New York Innovative Theater Awards’ 2009 Caffe Cino Fellowship Award. In 2008, he was interviewed for a Gothamist profile. Upcoming projects include Brandywine Distillery Fire at Incubator Arts Project.</p>