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Lynne Meadow is an American theatre producer and director and is the Artistic Director of Manhattan Theatre Club in New York City. She has been the artistic visionary and leader of Manhattan Theatre Club since 1972, creating work that has put the company at the forefront of the American theatre.

In addition to MTC, she has directed at the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Phoenix Theatre, the Spoleto Festival and the O’Neill Theatre Center.

She has won awards both for her individual productions as well as for her lifetime achievement in the theatre. She graduated cum laude from Bryn Mawr and attended Yale School of Drama. She has taught at Yale, Fordham, and NYU, among others.

Lynne has overseen hundreds of productions and accepted every major award on behalf of the company, including 16 Tony Awards, 47 Obies and 29 Drama Desk Awards, as well as numerous Drama Critics Circle, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Awards.

Selected Directing Credits

2013: Amanda Peet’s The Commons of Pensacola
2013: Richard Greenberg’s The Assembled Parties
2011: Margaret Edson’s Wit
2010: Donald Margulies’ Collected Stories
2007: Charles Busch’s Our Leading Lady
2006: David Greig’s The American Pilot
2005: Ron Hutchinson’s Moonlight and Magnolias
2004: Neil Simon’s Rose’s Dilemma
2003: Marsha Norman’s Last Dance
2001: Melanie Marnich’s Blur
2000: Charles Busch’s The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife
1999: Patrick Cook’s Captain Courageous
1996: Leslie Ayvazian’s Nine Armenians (Drama Desk nomination)
1992: Alan Ayckbourn’s A Small Family Business
1991: Alan Ayckbourn’s Absent Friends
1989: Lee Blessing’s Eleemosynar
1988: Alan Ayckbourn’s Woman in Mind (Drama Desk nomination)
1986: Richard Nelson’s Principia Scriptoriae
1984: Israel Horovitz’s Park Your Car in Harvard Yard
1982: Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters
1982: Sybille Pearson’s Sally and Marsha
1980: S.N. Behrman’s Biography
1980: Steve Metcalf’s Vikings
1979: Joanna M. Glass’ Artichoke
1979: David Edgar’s The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs
1978: Istvan Orkeny’s Catsplay
1977: David Rudkin’s Ashes (Obie Award)
1975: Clifford Odets’ Golden Boy
1976: The Pokey
1974: Mark Medoff’s The Wager
1974: Corinne Jacker’s Bits and Pieces

Selected Producing Credits

1978: Ain't Misbehavin'
1981: Crimes of the Heart
1984: The Miss Firecracker Contest
1986: Loot
1987: Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
1988: Woman in Mind
1989: The Lisbon Traviata
1990: The Piano Lesson
1991: Lips Together, Teeth Apart
1995: Love! Valour! Compassion!
1999: Putting It Together
2000: Proof; Fuddy Meers
2001: King Hedley II; A Class Act
2004: Doubt
2006: Rabbit Hole; Three Days of Rain
2007: Translations

Awards

Lee Reynolds Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women
Manhattan Award from Manhattan Magazine
Person of the Year Award from the National Theatre Conference
Margo Jones Award
2003 Mr. Abbott Award
2011 Lucille Lortel Award for Lifetime Achievement
2011 Lilly Award for Lifetime Achievement
2012 Museum of the City of New York’s Louis Auchincloss Prize
2013 Theatre Hall of Fame Inductee

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 Lynne has overseen hundreds of productions and accepted every major award on behalf of the company, including 16 [[Tony Awards]], 47 [[Obies]] and 29 [[Drama Desk Awards]], as well as numerous [[Drama Critics Circle]], [[Outer Critics Circle]] and [[Theatre World Awards]].
+===Selected Directing Credits===
+* 2013: [[Amanda Peet]]’s ''[[The Commons of Pensacola]]''
+* 2013: [[Richard Greenberg]]’s ''[[The Assembled Parties]]''
+* 2011: Margaret Edson’s ''[[Wit]]''
+* 2010: [[Donald Margulies]]’ ''[[Collected Stories]]''
+* 2007: Charles Busch’s ''[[Our Leading Lady]]''
+* 2006: David Greig’s ''[[The American Pilot]]''
+* 2005: Ron Hutchinson’s ''[[Moonlight and Magnolias]]''
+* 2004: [[Neil Simon]]’s ''[[Rose’s Dilemma]]''
+* 2003: [[Marsha Norman]]’s ''[[Last Dance]]''
+* 2001: Melanie Marnich’s ''Blur''
+* 2000: Charles Busch’s ''The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife''
+* 1999: Patrick Cook’s ''Captain Courageous''
+* 1996: Leslie Ayvazian’s ''Nine Armenians'' ([[Drama Desk Awards|Drama Desk]] nomination)
+* 1992: [[Alan Ayckbourn]]’s ''A Small Family Business''
+* 1991: Alan Ayckbourn’s ''Absent Friends''
+* 1989: Lee Blessing’s ''Eleemosynar''
+* 1988: Alan Ayckbourn’s ''Woman in Mind'' (Drama Desk nomination)
+* 1986: [[Richard Nelson]]’s ''Principia Scriptoriae''
+* 1984: Israel Horovitz’s ''Park Your Car in Harvard Yard''
+* 1982: [[Anton Chekhov]]’s ''[[Three Sisters]]''
+* 1982: Sybille Pearson’s ''Sally and Marsha''
+* 1980: S.N. Behrman’s ''Biography''
+* 1980: Steve Metcalf’s ''Vikings''
+* 1979: Joanna M. Glass’ ''Artichoke''
+* 1979: David Edgar’s ''The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs''
+* 1978: Istvan Orkeny’s ''Catsplay''
+* 1977: David Rudkin’s ''[[Ashes]]'' ([[Obie]] Award)
+* 1975: [[Clifford Odets]]’ ''[[Golden Boy]]''
+* 1976: ''The Pokey''
+* 1974: Mark Medoff’s ''The Wager''
+* 1974: Corinne Jacker’s ''Bits and Pieces''