George Ferencz has been active in New York theatre as a director, producer and teacher for over three decades. Currently, he is a resident director of La MaMa E.T.C. where he has directed 25 productions during the last 25 years. Ferencz also continues as the Literary Curator of the La MaMa Experiments Reading Series for a tenth season. Recently he re-mounted his award-winning 1983 production of Sam Shepard's THE TOOTH OF CRIME for La MaMa's 45th Anniversary.

Ferencz has directed the premieres of over 30 writers including Juan Samsul Allam, Amiri Baraka, Jimmy Breslin, Migdalia Cruz, Roslyn Drexler, Estaban Fernandez, Hanay Geigomah, Brian Golabuff, Josh Greenfeld, Stan Kaplan, Aisha Rachman, Caradet Svich, Dan Thierreault,Jean Claude van Itallie, Mac Wellman, Edgar Nkosi White and Mike Zettler. He has also directed American productions of Franz Kroetz and Pieter Dirk Uys.

In addition, Ferencz has directed classics from Shakespeare to O’Casey at regional theatres including Berkely Rep, Cleveland Playhouse, Pittsburgh Public, San Diego Rep and Syracuse Stage. European productions include Mishima’s LADY AOI in Munich before a tour of Eastern Europe, Shepard and Smith’s COWBOY MOUTH in Berlin before a German tour and several jazz concerts in Italy for Max Roach Productions, including PERCUSSION SUMMIT with Roach, Tony Williams, Ginger Baker and a percussion orchestra M’BOOM. Notable New York productions as a director include the La MaMa productions of SHEPARD SETS, an Obie-award winning festival of Shepard plays with music by Roach, GHOSTS: LIVE FROM GALILEE, the Scottsboro Boys Blue Opera, and MONEY a jazz opera; the Lincoln Center Serious Fun production of JUJU; and the Impossible Ragtime Theatre productions of  O’Neill’s DYNAMO and THE HAIRY APE.

As the Founding Director of three New York non-profit theatres - The Impossible Ragtime Theatre, the New Living Newspaper and CEMENT inc - Ferencz produced over 30 shows.

Ferencz has taught directing at Yale School of Drama, Brooklyn College, N.Y.U., Columbia and Marymount as well as the Michael Howard Studio, the Lee Strasberg Studio and Playwrights Horizons Directing Lab. He conducted a Director-Writer Workshop at Columbia University for 15 years and served as a guest resident director at New Dramatists and Program Director for Intar’s Music-Theatre Lab. Ferencz has lectured on directing at Cornell, Ohio University, Kent State University, Syracuse University, a TCG Conference and an international directors symposium at La MaMa Umbria in Italy.
George Ferencz currently lives in Brooklyn with designer Sally Lesser and their son Jack.