was the first American to direct on the recently reconstructed London Globe stage, with a 1996 workshop production of Much Ado About Nothing. Director of the Shakespeare Globe Centre's Teaching Shakespeare Through Performance Institute in London and Education Director of the Globe USA's Western Region since 1989, Louis is in demand as a speaker, teacher and director. In addition to his work on Shakespeare (he directed the Globe's Shakespeare Today workshops for actors and directors from 1982 to 1991), he has conducted workshops throughout the United States (including the 1998 Brecht Centenary workshops for the Goethe Institute), England, Europe, and the Pacific Rim., including an intensive workshops on Chekov's The Cherry Orchard and Uncle Vanya in Tokyo. He has lectured at Brasenose College, Oxford; Sophia University, Japan; Rhodes University, South Africa, and at theatre conferences throughout the U.S.
				He has produced and directed more than a hundred plays world-wide, and his work has been seen at the Edinburgh, Moscow, and Grahamstown, South Africa International Festivals, as well as in theatres in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, France, Hungary and Bulgaria, where critics called his 1991 production of Twelfth Night "an historic evening in the Bulgarian theatre," and wrote, "...for the first time our actors breathe as free men and women on stage..." In 1993 The Los Angeles Reader called Fantasia "one of L.A.'s finest directors" for his English-language premiere of Felix Mitterer's play, Siberia (which he translated with Margit Kleinman). Other L.A. productions include his own performances in the English-language premiere of Peter Turrini's monodrama, Enough; and Patrick Suskind's one-man play, The Double Bass, which The Los Angeles Times described as "the memorable edge of a true character". In 1995 he appeared as part of the "Innovators Program" at the Second International Drama and Education Association (IDEA) conference in Brisbane, Australia, which focused on the work of theatre professionals who are "in the forefront of theory and practice...(and) whose work is new, experimental and pioneering".
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