AC Horton is a New Jersey-based director, teaching artist, and arts administrator, originally from Memphis, Tennessee.
Directing credits include: Julius Caesar [Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey / Live!], Verily Madly Thine [Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey], Thom Pain (based on nothing) [The Know Theater of Cincinnati / #theatrecompany], Requiem for Millennials [Dixon Place], The Gospel of Fat Kathy [The Producer’s Club / #theatrecompany], Toxic [Wet Paint Festival / The New Ohio Theatre], A Murder is Announced [Professional Performing Arts School / Waterwell], and Middletown [Harlem YMCA / #theatrecompany].
AC has assistant-directed productions of Hamlet [Waterwell / The Sheen Center], Shakespeare in Love [The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey], and The Winter’s Tale [The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey].
AC has taught theatre for the Professional Performing Arts School, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Salk School of Science and Battery Park School. She is a former teaching artist with Manhattan Youth and a former Artistic Intern at Waterwell.
She is currently the Artistic Associate at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. She is a proud University of Cincinnati (CCM) graduate with a BFA in Acting.