Creative Team
JACK O'BRIEN
Director
B'way: The Full Monty (Tony nom.), The Invention of Love (Tony nom.), Pride's Crossing, The Little Foxes and Hapgood for LCT (Lucille Lortel Award for Direction, 1995); Labor Day (MTC); Getting Away With Murder by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth; Damn Yankees (Tony nom., Best Musical Revival); Two Shakespearean Actors (Tony noms., Best Director and Play); The Cocktail Hour, Porgy and Bess (Tony Award). Recent awards: 2001 Joan Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creativity; 2001 Joe A. Callaway Award (S.S.D.C.); Drama League's 2001 Julia Hansen Award for Excellence in Directing. Artistic Director: The Globe Theatres since 1981, where he's staged, among others, The Seagull, The Magic Fire, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Henry IV, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, Hamlet, and the world premieres of Terrence McNally's Up In Saratoga and A.R. Gurney's The Snow Ball. Opera credits: The Magic Flute, San Francisco Opera; Tosca, Santa Fe Opera; and Street Scene, NYC Opera. TV: "An Enemy of the People," "All My Sons," "Painting Churches," "The Skin of Our Teeth," among others, all for PBS' "American Playhouse."
