Leigh Silverman

Leigh Silverman is a director for the stage, both Off-Broadway and on Broadway.

Biography

Early life

Silverman was born in Rockville, Maryland, went to High School in Washington, D.C., and attended Carnegie Mellon University, earning a BFA in Directing, and an MA in Playwriting.[1][2]

Career

Silverman directed the Lisa Kron play Well Off-Broadway at the Public Theater; the play ran from March 2004 to May 2004. She also directed Well on Broadway in 2006. Among other awards, the play was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Off-Broadway Play. She has directed many other plays Off-Broadway, including Blue Door by Tanya Barfield in 2006 at Playwrights Horizon, for which she was nominated for the Audelco Award, Best Director. She directed From Up Here, by Liz Flahive at The Manhattan Theatre Club's Off-Broadway City Center Stage I in 2008[3] and received a 2008 Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Director of a Play.[4] She directed Liza Kron's In the Wake at the Public Theater in 2010.[5] She directed David Greenspan's Go Back to Where You Are at the Off-Broadway Playwrights Horizons' Peter Jay Sharp Theater, opening in March 2011.[6] She received the 2011 Obie Award, as director, for Go Back to Where You Are and In the Wake.[7][8]

On Broadway, she was the Associate Director for the musical Never Gonna Dance in 2003. She directed Chinglish by David Henry Hwang at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago in June to July 2011[9] and on Broadway opening in October 2011.[10] She was nominated for the Joseph Jefferson Awards as Director of the Goodman Theatre production of Chinglish.[11]

She directed the revival of the musical Violet on Broadway for the Roundabout Theatre Company in 2013 and received a Tony Award nomination as Best Director.[12] The USAToday reviewer wrote that the musical was "quietly affecting and lovingly staged by director Leigh Silverman."[13]

References

  1. ↑ Tallmer, Jerry. "The personal, universal world of Leigh Silverman" The Villager, October 4–10, 2006 (Vol. 76, Number 20
  2. ↑ Interview with Director, Leigh Silverman" roundabouttheatre.org, March 26, 2014
  3. ↑ Jones, Kenneth. "Tony Winner Julie White Stars in Flahive's 'From Up Here' in NYC" playbill.com March 27, 2008
  4. ↑ Gans, Andrew. "Drama Desk Nominees Announced; 'Catered Affair' Garners 12 Noms" playbill.com, April 28, 2008
  5. ↑ Hetrick, Adam. "Thanksgiving Gets Political in Lisa Kron's 'In the Wake', Opening at the Public Nov. 1" playbill.com, November 1, 2010
  6. ↑ Jones, Kenneth. "David Greenspan Is Time-Traveling Actor in 'Go Back to Where You Are', Beginning March 24" playbill.com, March 24, 2011
  7. ↑ The 56th Obie Awards" nytheatre-wire.com, accessed April 29, 2015
  8. ↑ Grode, Eric. "56th Annuakl Obie" Village Voice, May 18, 2011
  9. ↑ "World premiere of David Henry Hwang's Sexy New Comedy, CHINGLISH (June 18 - July 24), Completes Goodman Theatre's 'Decade on Dearborn' Celebratory Season.". Broadway's Best Shows. May 31, 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-06.
  10. ↑ Jones, Kenneth. "West Meets East: David Henry Hwang's 'Chinglish' Opens on Broadway" playbill.com, October 27, 2011
  11. ↑ "Jeff 2011 Equity Awards Announced". Jeff Awards. August 31, 2011. Retrieved 2009-09-20.
  12. ↑ Gordon, David. "With 'Violet' on Broadway, Director Leigh Silverman Journeys to Her First Tony Nomination" theatermania.com, May 22, 2014
  13. ↑ Gardner, Elysa. "Sutton Foster shows different shades in 'Violet'" USAToday, April 21, 2014

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