Hayley Finn is a director, producer, and advocate for new work. She is the Associate Producer at the Playwrights' Center. She has directed and developed new work at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Flea Theater, Women's Expressive Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre, The Kitchen, New Dramatists, New Georges, The New Group, O'Neill Theater Center, Minnesota Jewish Theatre, Playwrights' Horizons, Relentless Theatre, The Vineyard Theatre, Gotham Theatre Company, History Theatre, Pangea World Theatre, Workhaus Collective, and the Walker Art Center, and has worked with several lauded playwrights including Trista Bladwin, Sheila Callaghan, Randall David Cook, Christina Ham, Mona Mansour, Greg Moss, Med Miroshnik, Sybil Kempson, Adam Kraar, Kira Obolensky, Sarah Ruhl, Mac Well man, Gary Winter, and Rhiana Yazzie. She directed the premiere of Why We Laugh, adapted by Kira Obolensky, an original cabaret from Terezin which was performed in Terezin and at the Nine Gates Festival in Prague, co-created Jigsaw Nation which toured the country, and wrote Hysteria: Silence in Stills, which was presented at The Culture Project. She is an alumna of the Drama League Director's Program, recipient of the Ruth Easton Fellowship and TCG New Generations Future Leader grant, and has a BA and MA from Brown University