Jack O'Brien

LCT: Tom Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia (Tony Award), The Invention of Love (Drama Desk Award; Tony nomination) and Hapgood (Lucille Lortel Award); Macbeth; The Nance; Henry IV (Tony Award); Pride’s Crossing; The Little Foxes; Two Shakespearean Actors (Tony nom.). Broadway: Carousel; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; The Front Page; It’s Only a Play; Dead Accounts; Catch Me If You Can; Impressionism; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Full Monty, Porgy and Bess (Tony noms.); Hairspray (Tony Award); Imaginary Friends; Getting Away With Murder; Damn Yankees. National tour: The Sound of Music. Opera: Il Trittico (Met). Other theater includes Guys and Dolls (Carnegie Hall), Much Ado About Nothing (The Public) and His Girl Friday (National Theatre, London). Artistic Director of The Old Globe Theatre (1981–2007). TV: HBO’s “Becoming Mike Nichols” (Emmy nom.). Memoir: Jack Be Nimble (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Theater Hall of Fame inductee.

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