Background
Fields was born in New York City in 1956 to Sidney and Dorthy Fields.
Fields was born in New York City in 1956 to Sidney and Dorthy Fields.
He is currently the artistic director of the award-winning Echo Theater Company, a theatre he founded in 1997. Fields directed the premieres of Peter Sinn Nachtrieb"s "Bob", Gary Lennon"s "A Family Thing", Jessica Goldberg"s "Body Politic" (Ovation nominated), Kate Robin"s "What They Have" at South Coast Representative, Kate Robin"s "Anon" at The Echo, Sarah Ruhl"s "Melancholy Play", Paul Zimmerman"s "Pigs and Bugs", and "Eat Maine" by Jacqueline Wright, which was nominated for six Los Angeles Weekly Awards including Best Director and Ensemble. As a director, he"s worked with and staged plays by Adam Rapporteur, Christopher Durang, David Lindsay-Abaire, Ellen McLaughlin, Napoleon Ellsworth, Padraic Duffy, Bernardo Solano, Deborah Pryor, Neal Bell, Kira Obolensky, Herman Daniel Farrell III, Quincy Long, and Karl Gajdusek, among many others