Lynne Meadow
Lynne Meadow is an American theatre producer, director and a teacher. She has been the artistic director of the Manhattan Theatre Club since 1972.
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Career
A cum laude graduate of Bryn Mawr, Meadow attended the Yale School of Drama.[1]
In 1972 she joined the Manhattan Theatre Club as Artistic Director, and in that position she has directed and produced more than 450[2][3][4] 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, and John Patrick Shanley.
Under Meadow's leadership, MTC has been honored with every prestigious theatre award, including nineteen Tony Awards, six Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, forty-eight Obie Awards, thirty-two Drama Desk Awards, as well as New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards, Outer Critics Circle Awards, and Theatre World Awards.[5] In 2013, she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.[6]
Meadow's directing credits include Sally and Marsha,[7]The Tale of the Allergist's Wife,[8] Absent Friends[9] and The Commons of Pensacola (2013).[10]
Meadow has taught at Yale University, Fordham University, NYU,[11]Circle in the Square Theatre School, and Stony Brook University.
Personal
She is married to attorney Ronald Shechtman.[1][12]
Education
- Bryn Mawr Board of Trustees[3]
- Herbert Brodkin Fellow at Yale[13]
Awards
- Lucille Lortel Award for Lifetime Achievement[14][15]
- Lilly Award for Lifetime Achievement[16]
- Museum of the City of New York’s Auchincloss Prize[17]
- Lee Reynolds Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women[18]
- Manhattan Award from Manhattan magazine[19]
- Person of the Year from the National Theatre Conference[20]
- Margo Jones Award[20]
- Mr. Abbot award for Lifetime Achievement from the Stage Directors Foundation[20]
- She has twice been nominated for Best Director at the Drama Desk Awards: in 1996 for Leslie Ayvazian’s Nine Armenians and in 1988 for Alan Ayckbourn’s Woman in Mind with Stockard Channing.[21]
Directing credits
Sources: Internet Off-Broadway Database;[22] Internet Broadway Database[23]
- 2013: Richard Greenberg’s The Assembled Parties
- 2011: Margaret Edson’s Wit
- 2010: Donald Margulies’ Collected Stories
- 2007: Charles Busch’s Our Leading Lady
- 2006: David Greig’s The American Pilot
- 2005: Ron Hutchinson’s Moonlight and Magnolias
- 2003: Neil Simon’s Rose's Dilemma
- 2003: Marsha Norman’s Last Dance
- 2001: Melanie Marnich’s Blur
- 1999: Patrick Cook’s Captain Courageous
- 1996: Leslie Ayvazian’s Nine Armenians (Drama Desk nomination)
- 1992: Alan Ayckbourn’s A Small Family Business
- 1989: Lee Blessing’s Eleemosynar
- 1988: Alan Ayckbourn’s Woman in Mind (Drama Desk nomination, Best Director)
- 1986: Richard Nelson’s Principia Scriptoriae
- 1984: Israel Horovitz’s Park Your Car in Harvard Yard
- 1982: Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters
- 1980: S.N. Behrman’s Biography
- 1980: Steve Metcalf’s Vikings
- 1979: Joanna M. Glass’ Artichoke
- 1979: David Edgar’s The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs
- 1978: Istvan Orkeny’s Catsplay
- 1977: David Rudkin’s Ashes (Obie Award)
- 1975: Clifford Odets’ Golden Boy
- 1976: The Pokey
- 1974: Mark Medoff’s The Wager
- 1974: Corinne Jacker’s Bits and Pieces
Selected World/NY Premieres Produced Under Meadows' Artistic Direction
Sources: Internet Off-Broadway Database;[22] Internet Broadway database[23]
- 2012: David Auburn’s The Columnist
- 2011: David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People
- 2010: Lee Hall’s The Pitmen Painters
- 2009: George S. Kaufman’s and Edna Ferber’s The Royal Family
- 2009: Lynn Nottage’s Ruined (Pulitzer Prize)
- 2009: Donald Margulies’ Time Stands Still (play)
- 2007: Alfred Uhry’s LoveMusik suggested by the letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya
- 2007: David Harrower’s Blackbird
- 2006: Conor McPherson’s Shining City
- 2004: Donald Margulies’ Sight Unseen (Pulitzer Prize finalist)
- 1995: A.R. Gurney’s Sylvia
- 1993: Charlayne Woodard’s Pretty Fire
- 1993: Athol Fugard’s Playland
- 1988: Richard Greenberg’s Eastern Standard
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Lynne Meadow Plans Wedding" The New York Times, September 4, 1983
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- ↑ "Awards" manhattantheatreclub.com, accessed March 29, 2015
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- ↑ Simon, John. "Theater. John Simon" New York Magazine, p.82
- ↑ "Review. Ben Brantley. New York Times" charlesbusch.com, (date not shown), accessed March 28, 2015
- ↑ Simon, JOhn. Review" New York Magazine, February 25, 1991, ISSN 0028-7369, p. 120
- ↑ Purcell, Carey. " 'The Commons of Pensacola', Starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Blythe Danner, Extends Prior to Opening" playbill.com, October 3, 2013
- ↑ "MTC's Lynne Meadow to Direct New York Debut of Melissa Ross's 'OF GOOD STOCK' This Summer" broadwayworld.com, January 22, 2015
- ↑ "Managing Partner Ronald Shechtman Profiled by BizNow" pryorcashman.com, November 16, 2010
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- ↑ 22.0 22.1 "Meadow Listing" lortel.org
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 "Meadow Listing" ibdb.com
External links
- Lynne Meadow at the Internet Broadway DatabaseLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
