Don Toner (Founder) founded Austin Playhouse in 2000.  Before that, he was Producing Artistic Director of the State Theatre Company/Live Oak Theatre for thirteen years. Prior to coming to Austin he was Associate Producer for the Los Angeles Theatre Center, Associate Producer/Director of the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park for three seasons, and he founded Theatre Center of Mississippi; the state’s first Equity theatre.  He has also produced and directed at New Stage Theatre, Bucks County Playhouse, Theatre Midland, and Theatre Four in New York City.  He was awarded the Lucy Jordan Humanitarian Award from Actors Equity Association recognizing his extraordinary and exemplary commitment to the theatre community. He was also nominated by Texas State Representative Donna Howard for the Texas Medal of the Arts. For Austin Playhouse he has produced and directed Satchel Paige and the Kansas City Swing, Disgraced, The Philadelphia Story, The Real Thing, I’m Not Rappaport, The Mountaintop, She Stoops to Conquer, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily, Time Stands Still, The Foreigner, The Liar, Man of La Mancha, Noises Off, Other Desert Cities, The Game’s Afoot, Born Yesterday, Boeing-Boeing, The Lion in Winter, Stop the World, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Trip to Bountiful, The 39 Steps, Jacques Brel, Misalliance, The Mousetrap, Frost/Nixon, The Fantasticks, A Flea in Her Ear, Dancing at Lughnasa, Amadeus, A Funny Thing…Forum, Blithe Spirit, Stones in His Pockets, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Don’t Dress for Dinner, Inherit the Wind, The Threepenny Opera, Steel Magnolias, An Ideal Husband, The Night Hank Williams Died, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The Odd Couple, House, A Man for All Seasons, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Rumors, Enchanted April, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Underpants, Kiss Me Kate, Private Lives, Travesties, The Dead Presidents’ Club, Damn Yankees, A Christmas Carol, Copenhagen, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Blues in the Night, The Seagull, Arcadia, Mahalia, and Light Up the Sky. He has appeared in Austin Playhouse productions of And Then There Were None, Heroes, Afterplay, and The Threepenny Opera.