About
Lee Sunday Evans is a two-time Obie Award-winning director and choreographer, and Artistic Director of Waterwell since 2018. Recent work includes directing Safety Not Guaranteed (BAM, 2024), Oratorio for Living Things (Signature Theatre, 2025), The Ford/Hill Project (BAM, 2026), and A Wrinkle in Time (Arena Stage, 2025). She received 2026 Drama League and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Outstanding Direction of a Musical. Other credits include Dance Nation, The Courtroom, and HOME. Her work has been seen at The Public Theater, Lincoln Center, Playwrights Horizons, Steppenwolf, and BAM.
At The Orchard Project
- 2024Performance Lab
Safety Not Guaranteed
Three disaffected magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview an unusual guy who placed a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel. Based on the hit 2012 film.
Recent news
- Sep 8, 2026The Ford/Hill Project at BAM, September 2026 TheaterMania
Evans directed and co-created The Ford/Hill Project with Elizabeth Marvel, a verbatim theater work using testimony from Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford, at BAM September 8-20, 2026.
- Oct 3, 2024Safety Not Guaranteed musical world premiere at BAM, Sept-Oct 2024 BAM
Lee Sunday Evans directed the world premiere of the musical Safety Not Guaranteed at BAM Harvey Theater, September 18-October 20, 2024. Based on the 2012 film, with music/lyrics by Ryan Miller and book by Nick Blaemire.