Victoria Bussert balances the professional and academic worlds  dividing her time between an active career as an award-winning free-lance director while holding the position of Director of Music Theatre for Baldwin Wallace University. Nationally, her work has been seen at Manhattan Theatre Club, York Theatre, New World Stages, Goodspeed Opera, Playhouse Square, Portland Stage, Dallas Theatre Center, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and the Beck Center for the Arts among others. Her international credits include Friar Tuck in Russia, The Who’s Tommy in Brazil, the Danish Premiere of Avenue Q (2012 Reumert Award Nomination) and the European Premieres of LIZZIE and [title of show] for the Fredericia Teater in Denmark. Recent productions include the critically acclaimed production of Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 for the Idaho Shakespeare Festival/Great Lakes Theatre, the regional premiere of Ride the Cyclone for Beck Center for the Arts and Ordinary Days for Playhouse Square.