West Hyler (He/Him) is the Executive Director of the South Carolina New Play Festival and international freelance director with several shows currently running in Europe. Prior to this, he was the Producing Artistic Director of the Obie-winning New York Musical Festival and the co-Artistic Director of the Drama League Nominated theater company Artistic Stamp.

During West’s 20-year career as freelance director his work includes Cirque Du Soleil's Paramour (Broadway), Saint Ex and the Little Prince (Katowice, Poland), The Sound of Music (National Opera House of Bulgaria), The SpongeBob Musical (Sofia Puppet Theatre, Bulgaria), Shrek! The Musical (National Opera House of Bulgaria), Piff the Magic Dragon (Flamingo Casino Showroom, Las Vegas), Air Play (New Victory and International Tour), Djembe! (Apollo Theater, Chicago), Avenue Q (Sofia Puppet Theatre, IKAR award, Bulgaria), Wingman (Ars Nova), Kid who would be Pope (Ars Nova), Sister Act (Cape Fear Regional Theatre. NC), Fun Home (LEAN Ensemble Theatre, SC), Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road (York Theater Company), H2O (59E59), The Tempest (Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, IN), Panda! (Beijing State Theater, China, Palazzo Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas), Love's Labours Lost (Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, IN), Merry Wives of Windsor (Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, IN), Georama (St Louis Rep, MO, and NYMF, St Louis Critics Circle Award and award for Outstanding Direction), The Disappearing Man (MTF and St Louis Rep, MO), Legendarium (Big Apple Circus, Lincoln Center), Metamorphosis (Big Apple Circus, Lincoln Center), and No Way to Treat a Lady (The Colony Theater, CA), amongst others. He founded Mythmakers, his first theater company, at 23 years old and toured classics including A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Bacchae, Tartuffe, and House of Atreus across the southeast with performances at Actors Theater of Louisville, Actors Guild of Lexington, and the Warehouse Theatre amongst others. West was global associate director of Jersey Boys on Broadway and in venues around the world, supervising seven international productions, and associate director on How the Grinch Stole Christmas on Broadway. He directed Vanessa Carlton into Beautiful, the Carole King Musical on Broadway.

His writing credits include the musicals Cirque Du Soliel's Paramour (Broadway), Georama (St Louis Rep, Great River Shakespeare Festival), Listen; A Choose Your Own Adventure Mystery Play (South Carolina Children’s Theatre),  Inspector Shell and the Eggcellent Mystery (Artistic Stamp), Electra's Diary (Artistic Stamp), and Acorn-ucopia Mystery (Artistic Stamp), the short film A Jake and A Tom (Hollywood International Film Festival, Charleston International Film Festival), and the novel “Circus of the Gods”.

He received his MFA in Directing from University of California at San Diego where he studied with Darko Tresnjak, Anne Bogart, Des McAnuff, Ivo Van Hove, and Tina Landau and directed Measure for Measure and A Dream Play. He worked as a dialogue coach on the ABC Sitcom “Rodney” and directing shadow on “Gilmore Girls”. He has been a Drama League Fall Directing Fellow as well as a Drama League Resident Artist, a recipient of two South Carolina Arts Commission Grants, and is married to the stage director, Shelley Butler.