Wolfe Lanier (He/They) is a Queer, Jewish director and educator hailing from the mountains of North Carolina. 

Wolfe’s perspective is constructed through a dichotomy of religious, moral, and political idealizations. The juxtaposition of a Jewish and Queer person raised in the South East. A Georgia Bulldog diehard father and an Ohio-based Jewish adoring mother. 

Wolfe worked with UNC playwright students as a director, Adapting new works. 

Student Works: Body Language, Ice House, Trapped, Killer Bee, and Bones and Bricks (McCray Theatre) 

As Associate to Director to Rob Ruggiero, Wolfe worked on Theaterworks Hartford’s production of The Legend of Georgia McBride. 

Wolfe became faculty at the Asheville Performing Arts Academy. His directional works include Into The Woods, Annie, Moana, All Together Now, and Beauty and The Beast.

Wolfe is the proud recipient of the Michael Grey Scholarship and Summa Cum Laude, receiving his B.F.A. in Music Theatre from the Hartt School.