Victoria Townsend

Director

Victoria Townsend is a Boston-based director, teaching-artist and occasional performer who has been working with CSC since 2011. Directing Credits: For CSC: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2023), As You Like It (2022) and several Boston Theater Marathon pieces; Emerging Playwright’s Festival (Wheelock Family Theater), Cosi Fan Tutte (New England Conservatory’s UGOS Program), The Memorandum (Flat Earth Theater). Assistant Directing Credits: Fear and Misery in the Third Reich, Kiss me Kate, Romeo and Juliet and Shakespeare and Leadership (CSC) and L’Egisto (NEC/UGOS). She has also served as a teaching-artist for Watertown Children’s Theater and Live Arts Education. A Massachusetts native, Victoria currently resides in Woburn and is a graduate of Saint Michael’s College in Vermont with degrees in Theatre and English Literature and holds a certificate in Social Impact Management and Leadership from the Institute for Nonprofit Practice & Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University.

Productions at Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
Production Role
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Stage2 2024
Director
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Stage2 Student Matinees
Director
Apprentice Repertory Company Performances
Director- "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Apprentice Showcase 2022
Artistic Programs Manager/ Director of As You Like It
Stage2: Romeo & Juliet 2015
Assistant Director
Fear and Misery in the Third Reich
Assistant Director
The Boys From Syracuse
Artistic Programs Coordinator

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