Lynne Meadow

Lynne Meadow

Lynne Meadow is an American theatre producer and director and a college professor.

A cum laude graduate of Bryn Mawr, Meadow attended the Yale School of Drama. In 1972 she joined the Manhattan Theatre Club as Artistic Director, and in that position she has directed and produced more than one hundred New York City and world premieres of plays by American and international playwrights, including Terrence McNally, Beth Henley, John Guare, Athol Fugard, Brian Friel, Harold Pinter, Alan Ayckbourn, John Patrick Shanley, and August Wilson.

Under Meadow's leadership, MTC has been honored with every prestigious theatre award, including fifteen Tony Awards, four Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, forty-five Obie Awards, twenty-five Drama Desk Awards, as well as New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards, Outer Critics Circle Awards, and Theatre World Awards.

Meadow's directing credits include "Sally and Marsha", "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife" and "Absent Friends".

Meadow has taught at the Circle in the Square Theatre School, Stony Brook University, Yale University, and NYU. She is married to attorney Ronald Shechtman.

elected producing credits

*1978: "Ain't Misbehavin'"
*1981: "Crimes of the Heart"
*1984: "The Miss Firecracker Contest"
*1986: "Loot"
*1987: "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune"
*1988: "Woman in Mind"
*1989: "The Lisbon Traviata"
*1990: "The Piano Lesson"
*1991: "Lips Together, Teeth Apart"
*1995: "Love! Valour! Compassion!"
*1999: "Putting It Together"
*2000: "Proof"; "Fuddy Meers"
*2001: "King Hedley II"; "A Class Act"
*2004: "Doubt"
*2006: "Rabbit Hole"; "Three Days of Rain"
*2007: "Translations"

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