Aili Huber has been directing for over 25 years, working primarily with very old and very new texts. She holds an MFA from Mary Baldwin College/American Shakespeare Center, and her work is heavily influenced by their focus on audience connection. She is the co-author, with Toby Malone, of Cutting Plays for Performance, from Routledge Press.
Aili created Take5, a framework for developing spaces of radical welcome in theater workplaces, and convened the first Radical Welcome symposium in the spring of 2025.
Favorite directing credits include Sperm Donor Wanted (2020) with Slow Your Role Theater Co., Romeo and Juliet (2012), The Duchess of Malfi (2016), Antony and Cleopatra (2018), and Richard III (2019) with Pigeon Creek Shakespeare, A Bold Stroke for a Wife (2023) at Bridgewater College, Merry Wives of Windsor (2022) at Richmond Shakespeare Festival, and the world premieres of Give Us Good (2022), Wonder of Our Stage (2023) and The Wanting Forest (2025) at Silk Moth Stage.
Aili is the founder and artistic director of Silk Moth Stage, a professional theater that produces “new classics” in an outdoor setting, on the back corner of a dairy farm in Rockingham County, Virginia.
Aili is an associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and the Shakespeare Theater Association, and a member of Directors Gathering. She is certified in Mental Health First Aid.