sound technician/operator on Richard Foreman’s productions The Mind King, and Samuel’s Major Problems. As a sound designer, Collins is best known for his work with The Wooster Group, contributing sound design and operator work on Frank Dell’s The Temptation of Saint Anthony, The Emperor Jones, Fish Story, The Hairy Ape, House/Lights, To You, The Birdie and Poor Theater. Between 1991 and 1995, Collins designed lighting for several small productions off-off-Broadway in New York. He has also designed lighting for ERS productions No Great Society and Room Tone. Origin of the Name Elevator Repair Service In 1981, while on a trip to Ottawa, Canada to visit relatives, Collins, 11 at the time, answered a computer-based vocational aptitude questionnaire. The questionnaire was designed to assist unemployed workers at Canadian employment centers in choosing appropriate jobs. Among the several jobs the program suggested for Collins was “elevator repair technician.” In 1991, Collins and James Hannaham discussed starting a theater company. They joked that, in order to make the old computer program's prediction come true, they’d have to name the company “Elevator Repair Service.” In October 1993, the company incorporated under the name Elevator Repair Service Theater, Inc. and have used it ever since. Personal Collins has lived in New York City since 1991. In 2002, he earned a private pilot's certificate and is rated to fly single-engine airplanes. In 2018, he married the journalist Lizzie O'Leary. They live in Brooklyn. Awards 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship 2014 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award 2011 United States Artists Donnelley Fellow 2010 Elliot Norton Award for Best Director 2009 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Director (Gatz, 2011) 2002 Bessie Award for Visual Design (Room Tone, 2002) Elevator Repair Service Works Directed by Collins Seagull (by Anton Chekhov, NYU/Skirball Center, 2022) Ulysses (by James Joyce, Symphony Space, 2022) Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge (premiered at Philadelphia Fringe Festival, 2021) Everyone’s Fine With Virginia Woolf (by Kate Scelsa, Abrons Arts Center, 2018) Measure for Measure (The Public Theater, 2017) Fondly, Collette Richland (by Sibyl Kempson, New York Theatre Workshop, 2015). Arguendo (The Public Theater, 2013) Shuffle (The New York Public Library, 2011). The Sun Also Rises (New York Theatre Workshop, 2011). Gatz (The Public Theater, 2010) The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928) (New York Theatre Workshop, 2008) No Great Society (P.S.122, 2006) Gatz (World Premiere, Brussels, 2006) Room Tone (P.S.122,