Wilson Milam

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Nominated for a Tony Award for Best Director of a Play for Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Wilson Milam helmed the show from London, to Off-Broadway to Broadway. He also directed Patrick Marber’s Closer at the Berkeley Rep in San Francisco and The Wexford Trilogy at the Tricycle.

His production of David Rabe's Hurlyburly for the Peter Hall Company at the Old Vic and Queen's theatres, London, was nominated for two Olivier Awards including one for Best Play.

Chicago credits include Pot Mom at Steppenwolf; The Caine Mutiny Court Martial at A Red Orchid Theatre; Skeleton at Shattered Globe Theatre, and Killer Joe at the Next Lab Theatre, a production that moved to the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh where it won the Scotsman Fringe First Award.

In New York, he directed Killer Joe at the Soho Playhouse in 1998, and the staged reading of The Glory of Living for New Plays at the Public Theater. He is a founding member and Artistic Director of The Hired Gun Theatre Company.

In London, he has been well received in the west-end theatre and continues to have a good relationship with the Royal Court Theatre where he directed Ché Walker's Flesh Wound, Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder's Fresh Kills and in 2005, Richard Bean's Harvest. Other productions include; Sam Shepard's True West at Bristol Old Vic and A Lie of the Mind at Donmar Warehouse. Defender of the Faith at Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Mr. Placebo at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh and Bug at Gate Theatre, London.