is a graduate of The Boston Conservatory and an alumnus of Webster University Theater Arts Conservatory.  He is an emerging, East Coast director of New Works.  Gerald has a long and storied, career of experience in the NYC, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway theater community, working with new plays and creative, musical theater endeavors as Artistic Director of Plays (MITF), Producer/Director (vMHF Theatricals) and Conceptualist/Director (SDC).  As Artistic Director of Plays for the Midtown International Theatre Festival, Mr. vanHeerden, helmed Break A Leg’s award winning production of Farm Hall in July 2014, where he is Resident Director and in February 2015 Dangerous Walk by Mathew Ethan Davis as Producer/Director at the Venus Theatre Festival.  Stage Directors and Choreographers national and Broadway union (SDC) member. 2016: Caldwell’s Bomb (Producer/Director) by William Rogers at the Venus Theatre Festival, February 2016, Encore as Finalist and Nominated as Best Director. Your Name on My Lips, a new musical, (Director) Theater For The New City, March-2017: The Imperfect Hour A new musical (Fall 2017) and a solo play and reminiscence, based on the poetry of Tennessee William’s with Miller Lide, (Fall 2017). Website:  www.geraldvanheerden.com