Directing program. She is a professional director and the former Associate Artistic Director of Vitalist Theatre, with whom she directed Kobo Abe’s The Ghost Is Here, David Hare’s The Bay at Nice, Vitalist’s participation in the national Suzan-Lori Parks 365 Days/Plays Festival and Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children (as Associate Director), which won an After Dark Award for Best Direction. Jutting has worked as a freelance director in Chicago for over a decade.