Wilson Milam
Wilson Milam is an American theatre director from Bellevue, Washington. He is a founding member and Artistic Director of The Hired Gun Theatre Company.
Nominated for a Tony Award for Best Director of a Play for Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Milam helmed the show's UK premiere, as well as the Off-Broadway production which transferred to Broadway. He also directed Patrick Marber's Closer at the Berkeley Rep in San Francisco and The Wexford Trilogy at the Tricycle Theatre.
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.
Milam studied history at the University of Washington and began his career as an actor.[1]
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 29th Street Rep in 1994 and Soho Playhouse in 1998, and the staged reading of The Glory of Living for New Plays at the Public Theater.
He moved to the UK in the 90s[1] and has directed at a number of British theatres. In London, he has been well received in the west-end 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 international productions include; Sam Shepard's True West at Bristol Old Vic and A Lie of the Mind at the Donmar Warehouse, Defender of the Faith at Abbey Theatre in Dublin, Mr Placebo at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, and Bug at Gate Theatre, London.
In 2008 he directed for the first time at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art-a student production, of Much Ado About Nothing.[2]
His production of The Seafarer opened at Seattle Repertory Theatre in February 2009.
In 2011, Milam directed the world premiere of David Hay's A Perfect Future Off Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre.
