Will Roberson, 36; Off-Broadway Director, Playwright

Will Roberson, 36, the peripatetic off-Broadway stage director and playwright who guided several well-known productions at the Old Globe Theatre, the San Diego Repertory and the Gaslamp Quarter Theater, all in San Diego. He both directed and co-produced the musical “Suds” in 1989 at the Old Globe and then took it on the road nationally. In 1984 he won the Princess Grace Foundation Fellowship for directing, and served his residency at the Old Globe, where he was an assistant to John Houseman, Daniel Sullivan and others. His writing credits include “Knock ‘em Dead” and “Dixie Highway.” His final show, “A Christmas Carol,” is currently playing at San Diego Repertory. In San Diego on Tuesday of the complications of AIDS.