Michael Wilson (director)

Michael Wilson
Born	1964 (age 46–47) United States
Occupation	Director

Michael Wilson (born 1964), currently serving as artistic director at Hartford Stage, is an American stage director working extensively in regional theatre, Broadway, and Off-Broadway.^[1]

He is devoted to American artists and is completing a ten-year retrospective of the known and neglected works of Tennessee Williams. Mr. Wilson has also furthered new play development by nurturing and commissioning works by both renowned and emerging artists as a director and through Hartford Stage's Brand:NEW Festival of New Works. Under Mr. Wilson's leadership, Hartford Stage is also home to American Voices, a reading series spotlighting American artists of color.

Hartford Stage

As Artistic Director since 1998,^[2] Mr. Wilson has overseen forty-five new productions for the theatre, as well as seven SummerStage programs. He has directed seventeen productions for Hartford Stage, including the premiere of Enchanted April (which subsequently transferred to Broadway, garnering a 2003 Best Play Tony nomination, and 9 Outer Critics Circle nominations, including Best Director); and the premieres of Horton Foote’s The Carpetbagger’s Children (2002 Best Play, American Theater Critics Award) and Eve Ensler’s Necessary Targets; Williams’s The Glass Menagerie (which subsequently toured to Houston and Boston where it won the 2002 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Visiting Production); O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night; and Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

Under his leadership, in addition to the Tennessee Williams Marathon—the first national, multi-year retrospective of the great American playwright—Hartford Stage has focused on the development of new work, with ten world premieres, six Broadway or Off-Broadway transfers, and six Brand:NEW festivals.

Wilson has also forged new collaborations with Houston’s Alley Theatre,^[3] Harvard’s American Repertory Theater, the Dallas Theater Center, the Guthrie Theater, The Shakespeare Theatre, and Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre.

Broadway

• Horton Foote's "Dividing the Estate" (Lincoln Center Theatre)
• John Van Druten's "Old Acquaintances" (Roundabout Theatre)
• Matthew Barber's "Enchanted April" (Belasco Theatre)

Off-Broadway

• Horton Foote’s The Carpetbagger’s Children (Lincoln Center Theater)
• The Day Emily Married (Primary Stages)
• Christopher Shinn’s What Didn’t Happen (Playwrights Horizons)
• Necessary Targets (Variety Arts)
• Tennessee Williams’s The Red Devil Battery Sign (WPA Theatre)
• Jane Anderson’s Defying Gravity (Laura Pels Theatre)

Resident

• The Alley Theatre (Associate Director, 1990–98)
• American Repertory Theatre
• Berkeley Repertory Theatre
• Goodman Theatre
• Guthrie Theatre
• Long Wharf Theatre
• New York Stage and Film
• Philadelphia Theatre Company

International

• Angels in America Parts I & II, 1995 Venice Biennale

Awards

• Daryl Roth 2002 Creative Spirit Award, Lincoln Center Theater
• Princess Grace Foundation, 2001 Statue Award and 1992 Theatre fellowship
• Edward Albee Foundation 1992 fellowship
• Connecticut Critics Circle (various), including the 2005 Tom Killen Award

Education

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Morehead scholar, 1987

Other

• Board, Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC)
• 2001-2003, Connecticut Commission on the Arts
• 2003 Citizen of the Year by the Greater Hartford Civitan Club

References

1. ^ New York Times
2. ^ Wilmeth, Don B; Leonard Jacobs (2007). The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre. Cambridge University Press. p. 317. ISBN 0521835380. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UYsXbFvjrXkC&pg=PA317&dq=%22Michael+Wilson%22+hartford+stage&as_brr=3&client=firefox-a. 
3. ^ Hooks, Johnny (2005-11-15). "An artistic homecoming at theatre". Houstonvoice.com. http://www.houstonvoice.com/2005/11-18/locallife/feature/alley.cfm. Retrieved 2009-04-02. 

External links

• Michael Wilson (director) at the Internet Movie Database

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Date of birth	1964
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