Rives Collins is the Chair of the Department of Theatre at Northwestern University. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Colorado College, he received his MFA in Child Drama from Arizona State University. Recent directorial efforts include: The Secret Garden, How Can You Run With A Shell On Your Back?, The Orphan Train, Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse, Children of Eden, To Kill A Mockingbird, And Then They Came For Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank, Into the Woods, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, and Salt and Pepper.