{"title":"Jack O'Brien","role":"Director","image":"","lede":null,"content":"\r\n

JACK O'BRIEN<\/strong> (Director) is a three-time Tony & Drama Desk Award winning director, member of the Theatre Hall of Fame, and author of Jack Be Nimble<\/em>, a memoir published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2013. Jack won the Tony for Best Direction of a Musical and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical for his 2003 Broadway production of HAIRSPRAY<\/em>. He received the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play for Henry IV <\/em>and The Coast of Utopia I, II, & III<\/em>. Most recently, Jack directed the Spring 2018 Broadway revival of Rogers & Hammerstein\u2019s Carousel<\/em>, and the Fall 2018 production of Tom Stoppard\u2019s new play The Hard Problem <\/em>at Lincoln Center. Additional Broadway credits include Porgy & Bess <\/em>(Tony & Drama Desk Nom.), Damn Yankees<\/em>, Lillian Hellman\u2019s The Little Foxes<\/em>, The Full Monty <\/em>(Tony Nom. & Drama Desk Winner), Tom Stoppard\u2019s Invention of Love <\/em>(Drama Desk Winner), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels <\/em>(Tony Nom.), Catch Me If You Can<\/em>, Dead Accounts<\/em>, Macbeth<\/em>, It\u2019s Only a Play, The Front Page<\/em>, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory<\/em>. Off-Broadway, Jack directed Two Shakespearean Actors <\/em>(Tony Nom.), Hapgood <\/em>(Lucille Lortel Award Winner), and Pride\u2019s Crossing <\/em>\u2013 all at Lincoln Center \u2013 as well as More to Love <\/em>at the O\u2019Neill, Manhattan Theater Club's Labor Day<\/em>, and City Centre Encores! production of St. Louis Woman<\/em>. He has also directed various operas, such as Il Trittico <\/em>(Metropolitan Opera), Mozart's The Magic Flute <\/em>(San Francisco Opera), Puccini\u2019s Tosca <\/em>(Santa Fe Opera), Aida <\/em>and Cosi Fan Tutti <\/em>(Houston Grand Opera).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Jack\u2019s work as Artistic Director of San Diego\u2019s Old Globe Theatre includes Love & Hours<\/em>, Nora Ephron\u2019s Imaginary Friends<\/em>, Twelfth Night<\/em>, Tom Stoppard\u2019s The Seagull <\/em>(original by Chekov), The Magic Fire<\/em>, The Hostage<\/em>, The Doctor is Out<\/em>, Hamlet<\/em>, Uncle Vanya<\/em>, The Cocktail Hour<\/em>, and he is responsible for creating the Globe\u2019s annual musical How the Grinch Stole Christmas!<\/em>, which boasts a wildly successful transfer to Broadway and beyond. For PBS\u2019s \u201cAmerican Playhouse\u201d television series, Jack directed An Enemy of the People<\/em>, I Never Sang for My Father<\/em>, All My Sons<\/em>, Painting Churches<\/em>, and Thornton Wilder\u2019s The Skin of Our Teeth<\/em>, which aired live from the stage of the Old Globe. His production of The Good Doctor <\/em>and Broadway revival of Most Happy Fella <\/em>were also produced for PBS, and Jack\u2019s Street Scene <\/em>was televised on \u201cLive from Lincoln Center.\u201d<\/p>\r\n","website":"","alt":""}