Jack Serio

Jack Serio (born 1996) is an American director known for his work Off-Broadway on such productions as 2023's revival of Uncle Vanya, along with his collaboration with playwright Bubba Weiler on Well, I'll Let You Go and The Saviors, both in 2026. For his work, he has been nominated for two Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Director of a Play.

Early life

Serio was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and attended Boston College High School, crediting his arts teacher there for encouraging him to pursue a career in the arts. Serio went on to attend New York University's Tisch School for the Arts, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in directing in 2018.

Career

Serio first met his future collaborator, Bubba Weiler, while studying at New York University, where Weiler was a TA for Serio's freshman playwriting class. Serio's first Off-Broadway directing credit came in 2022 for This Beautiful Future which premiered at Cherry Lane Theatre. Weiler recalls seeing this production and wanting to work with him, leading to him reading Weiler's first plays, The Saviors and Well, I'll Let You Go, which he would later direct Off-Broadway as well. Serio also became a mentee of David Cromer and has developed a reputation for minimalistic productions.

Next, Serio would direct a new revival of Uncle Vanya at Loft in the Flatiron District in 2023, lit only by candlelight, and Samuel D. Hunter's Grangeville Off-Broadway at Signature Theatre Company in 2025. For the former, The New York Times praised Serio's direction as "stunning", calling the visuals a "hallmark of Serio’s work." For the latter, Vulture praised the show as "compact and effecting."

In 2025, he also served as associate director of the Off-Broadway play, Prince Faggot by Jordan Tannahill and director of Samuel D. Hunter's Clarkston at the Trafalgar Theatre on the West End, the latter starring Joe Locke. For the latter, The Guardian called his direction "necessarily perfunctory."

In 2026, Serio was named as director for two world premieres of Bubba Weiler's plays. The first, Well, I'll Let You Go premiered Off-Broadway at The Space at Irondale in Brooklyn, New York, starring Quincy Tyler Bernstine. The production received positive reviews, with The New York Times calling it "quietly absorbing." The show would transfer to Studio Seaview Off-Broadway for a reprise run later that year, receiving similar praise, specifically for Serio's restaging of the play on a thrust stage.

The second of 2026's collaboration between Serio and Weiler is the latter's play, The Saviors, which is set to premiere in July 2026 at the Atlantic Theatre Company, directed by Serio.

Stage credits

Awards and nominations