Lynne Meadow

As Artistic Director of Manhattan Theatre Club for over three decades, Lynne has overseen hundreds of productions and accepted every major award on behalf of the company, including 16 Tony Awards, 47 Obies and 29 Drama Desk Awards, as well as numerous Drama Critics Circle, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Awards. Her most recent Broadway directing credits include the premiere of Margaret Edson’s Wit (Tony nomination); Donald Margulies’ Collected Stories (Tony nomination) and The Loman Family Picnic; Charles Busch’s The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife (Tony Nomination); Alan Ayckbourn’s Woman in Mind (Drama Desk nomination, Best Director) and A Small Family Business (Broadway); David Greig’s The American Pilot; Ron Hutchinson’s Moonlight and Magnolias (MTC, Alliance Theatre); Leslie Ayvazian’s Nine Armenians (Drama Desk nomination, Best Director); David Rudkin’s Ashes (The Public, Obie Award). American premieres by Marsha Norman, Simon Gray, Howard Brenton, etc. Graduate of Bryn Mawr College, attended Yale School of Drama. Other awards include the Mr. Abbott Award, Margo Jones Award, Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award, The 2011 Lilly Award for Lifetime Achievement etc. Taught at Yale, Fordham, NYU, Circle in the Square etc. 

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