Gene Lasko is a producer-director who has directed and associate produced over 150 daytime network television shows and the NBC Television Special No Direction Home starring Dina Merrill. He has also worked extensively in feature films as producer, co-producer or associate producer: Little Big Man with Dustin Hoffman, When the Legends Die with Richard Widmark, Night Moves with Gene Hackman; also with Hackman, Target and Missouri Breaks with Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson.

Mr. Lasko won an Emmy Award for the film he directed about the great American photographer – W. Eugene Smith – Photography Made Difficult for PBS. He was also nominated for a Directors Guild of America award.

Mr. Lasko was active in founding The National Theatre of the Deaf and has participated as a director at the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference. He has taught at NYU, the University of Rhode Island, and the Conservatory Program at the State University of New York. He conducts a private workshop for advanced actors in New York City, has been a long-time member of The Actors Studio, and served as Chair of the Directing Department at the Actors Studio Drama School at New School University.

Mr. Lasko recently presented a lecture and workshop at an international conference on “Stanislavsky and the Director” at the University of Toronto in January, 2006.