Bartlett Sher

Infobox actor
name = Bartlett Sher

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birthplace = San Francisco, California, USA
occupation = Theatre director
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tonyawards = Best Direction of a Musical
2008 "South Pacific"
awards = Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Director of a Musical
2008 "South Pacific"

Bartlett Sher is an American theatre director. He received the 2008 Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for hid direction of the Broadway revival of "South Pacific".

Biography

Sher was born in San Francisco, California where he attended St. Ignatius College Preparatory and later the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Career

Sher recently directed the world premiere of "The Singing Forest" and "Prayer for my Enemy" by "Craig Lucas" at Intiman Playhouse; "The Light in the Piazza" by Lucas and Adam Guettel at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, for which he has received a Joseph Jefferson Award nomination; and "Mourning Becomes Electra" for Seattle Opera and New York City Opera. He has received national and international recognition for his work as a classical director, and was honored with the 2002 Joe A. Callaway Award from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation for his production of "Cymbeline" in New York. That play marked his Intiman directing debut and, produced by Theatre for a New Audience, went on to become the first American Shakespeare production to be seen at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Intiman's artistic director since 2000, his productions here include "Nickel and Dimed", a world premiere by Joan Holden based on the book by Barbara Ehrenreich; Tony Kushner's "Homebody/Kabul"; Bergman's "Nora"; Shaw's "Arms and the Man"; Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" and "Titus Andronicus"; "The Dying Gaul" by Craig Lucas; and Goldoni's "The Servant of Two Masters". In New York, he has directed the TFANA productions of "Waste" (American premiere, 2000 OBIE for Best Play), Cymbeline, "Don Juan" and "Pericles" at Brooklyn Academy of Music. Sher previously served as associate artistic director at Hartford Stage and company director at The Guthrie Theater. He has directed, taught and led workshops across the country and internationally. In 2005 he was nominated for the Best Director Tony Award for his work on the Broadway production of "The Light in the Piazza". In 2006 Sher directed Gioachino Rossini's "Il barbiere di Siviglia" ("The Barber of Seville") at New York's Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center.

Personal life

Sher recently lived in New York with his wife Kristin and daughter Lucia.

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