Mary Zimmerman

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Mary Zimmerman

Occupation Theatre director, playwright

Mary Zimmerman is an American award winning theatre director and playwright.

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Zimmerman is a member of the Lookingglass Theatre Company and is an Artistic Associate of the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. She received her BS, MA and PhD from Northwestern University, where she is currently a faculty member in the Performance Studies department. She has earned national and international recognition in the form of numerous awards, including the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship (1998). She has won more than 20 Joseph Jefferson Awards for her creative work and received a 2002 Tony Award for Best Direction for Metamorphoses. Other acclaimed works include Journey to the West, The Secret In The Wings, The Odyssey, The Arabian Nights, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci and Eleven Rooms of Proust. She is the director and co-librettist of the 2002 opera Galileo Galilei, music by Philip Glass, commissioned by the Goodman Theatre.

In 2004 she directed a production of Pericles, Prince of Tyre at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. Her production was re-staged in 2006 at the Shakespeare Theatre Company Free For All.

In 2006 she directed Argonautika at the Lookingglass Theater, which then toured at the Berkeley Repertory Theater and the National Shakespeare Theatre. Recently, Zimmerman directed Cymbeline at Northwestern University. She is directing a new production of Lucia Di Lammermoor at the Metropolitan Opera, premiering September, 2007.

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Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play

Daniel J. Sullivan (2001) · Mary Zimmerman (2002) · Joe Mantello (2003) · Jack O'Brien (2004) · Doug Hughes (2005) · Nicholas Hytner (2006) · Jack O'Brien (2007)