Michael Wilson (director)

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Michael Wilson (b. 1964), currently serving as artistic director at Hartford Stage, is an American stage director working extensively in regional theatre and Off-Broadway. He is devoted to American artists and is completing a ten-year retrospective of the known and neglected works of Tennessee Williams. Mr. Wilson has also furthered new play development by nurturing and commissioning works by both renowned and emerging artists as a director and through Hartford Stage's Brand:NEW Festival of New Works. Under Mr. Wilson's leadership, Hartford Stage is also home to American Voices, a reading series spotlighting American artists of color.

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As Artistic Director since 1999, Mr. Wilson has overseen forty-five new productions for the theatre, as well as seven SummerStage programs. He has directed seventeen productions for Hartford Stage, including the premiere of Enchanted April (which subsequently transferred to Broadway, garnering a 2003 Best Play Tony nomination, and 9 Outer Critics Circle nominations, including Best Director); and the premieres of Horton Foote’s The Carpetbagger’s Children (2002 Best Play, American Theater Critics Award) and Eve Ensler’s Necessary Targets; Williams’s The Glass Menagerie (which subsequently toured to Houston and Boston where it won the 2002 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Visiting Production); O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night; and Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

Under his leadership, in addition to the Tennessee Williams Marathon -- the first national, multi-year retrospective of the great American playwright -- Hartford Stage has focused on the development of new work, with ten world premieres, six Broadway or Off-Broadway transfers, and six Brand:NEW festivals.

Wilson has also forged new collaborations with Houston’s Alley Theatre, Harvard’s American Repertory Theatre, the Dallas Theater Center, the Guthrie Theater, The Shakespeare Theatre, and Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre.