Lynne Meadow

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

• 2012: David Auburn’s The Columnist
• 2010: Lee Hall’s The Pitmen Painters
• 2011: David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People
• 2010: Donald Margulies’ Time Stands Still
• 2009: George S. Kaufman’s and Edna Ferber’s The Royal Family
• 2009: Lynn Nottage’s Ruined (Pulitzer Prize)
• 2007: Alfred Uhry’s LoveMusik suggested by the letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya
• 2007: Brian Friel's Translations; David Harrower's Blackbird
• 2006: David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole (Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award nomination for Best Play); Richard Greenberg's Three Days of Rain
• 2004: John Patrick Shanley's Doubt
• 2001: August Wilson's King Hedley II; Edward Kleban, Linda Kline, & Lonny Price's A Class Act
• 2000: David Auburn’s Proof (Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play); David Lindsay-Abaire’s Fuddy Meers
• 1999: Stephen Sondheim's Putting It Together
• 1995: A.R.Gurney's Sylvia; Terrence McNally's Love! Valour! Compassion! (Tony Award for Best Play)
• 1993: Charlayne Woodard's Pretty Fire; Athol Fugard's Playland
• 1992: Donald Margulies's Sight Unseen (Pulitzer prize Finalist)
• 1991: Terrence McNally's Lips Together, Teeth Apart
• 1990: August Wilson's The Piano Lesson
• 1989: Terrence McNally's The Lisbon Traviata
• 1988: Richard Greenberg's Eastern Standard
• 1987: Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
• 1986: Joe Orton's Loot
• 1984: Beth Henley's The Miss Firecracker Contest
• 1981: Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart (Pulitzer Prize)
• 1978: The Fats Waller Musical, Ain't Misbehavin'

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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