Biography

Bartlett Sher, Lincoln Center Theater Resident Director: Blood and Gifts, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Tony nomination), South Pacific (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards/also directed current London and Australia productions), Awake and Sing! (Tony nomination), The Light in the Piazza (Tony nomination). New York: Prayer for My Enemy (Playwrights Horizons); Cymbeline (Callaway Award for best Director, first American Shakespeare at the Royal Shakespeare Company), Waste (Best Play Obie Award), Don Juan and Pericles (TFANA). Artistic Director of Seattle's Initiman Theater (2000 - 2009), credits include plays by Chekov, Wilder, Shakespeare, Goldoni, Tony Kushner, Ibsen, as well as world premieres by Craig Lucas, and an adaptation of Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich; formerly Resident Director of the Guthrie Theater where he directed the world premiere of Femi Osofisan's Many Colours Make the Thunder King and Associate Director of Hartford Stage Company. Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Le Conte Ory (Metropolitan Opera); Romeo et Juliette (Salzburg Festival and La Scala); Mourning Becomes Electra (Seattle Opera and New York City Opera); Two Boys (ENO and Metropolitan Opera). Upcoming: a new production of the Odets classic "Golden Boy" for Lincoln Center Theater on Broadway.
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He was nominated for a 2004 Joseph Jefferson Award for Director of a Musical for "The Light in the Piazza" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

He was awarded the 2011 Back Stage Garland Award for Direction for "South Pacific" in a Lincoln Center Theater production at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.