Melvin Bernhardt

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Melvin Bernhardt (b. Buffalo, New York) is an American award winning stage and television director. Bernhardt won the 1978 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play and the 1977-1978 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director for his work on Hugh Leonard's Da. His other Broadway directing credits include The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Cop-Out, And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, Hide and Seek, Dancing in the End Zone, and Crimes of the Heart for which Bernhardt received a second Tony Award nomination and Drama Desk Award nomination.

Bernhardt has also directed episodes of the television shows Mister Roberts, Another World, and One Life to Live.

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Awards
Preceded by
Mike Nichols
for Comedians		 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play
1977-1978
for Da		 Succeeded by
Jack Hofsiss
for The Elephant Man
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Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play

Ellis Rabb (1976) · Gordon Davidson (1977) · Melvin Bernhardt (1978) · Jack Hofsiss (1979) · Vivian Matalon (1980) · Peter Hall (1981) · Trevor Nunn / John Caird (1982) · Gene Saks (1983) · Mike Nichols (1984) · Gene Saks (1985) · Jerry Zaks (1986) · Lloyd Richards (1987) · John Dexter (1988) · Jerry Zaks (1989) · Frank Galati (1990) · Jerry Zaks (1991) · Mike Nichols (1992) · George C. Wolfe (1993) · Stephen Daldry (1994) · Gerald Gutierrez (1995) · Gerald Gutierrez (1996) · Anthony Page (1997) · Garry Hynes (1998) · Robert Falls (1999) · Michael Blakemore (2000)