Lynne Meadow

Lynne Meadow is an American theatre producer and director, and a college professor.

Lynne Meadow has been Artistic Director of Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC) since 1972, where she has been responsible for directing and/or producing over 450 New York and world premieres by American and international playwrights, including Terrence McNally, Beth Henley, John Guare, Athol Fugard, Brian Friel, Harold Pinter, Alan Ayckbourn, John Patrick Shanley, and August Wilson.

Under Meadow's artistic leadership, she has brought MTC to the forefront of the American stage and created one of the nations’s most acclaimed not-for-profit theatres. MTC productions have been honored with every prestigious theatre award, including sixteen Tony Awards, six Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, forty-seven Obie Awards, twenty-nine Drama Desk Awards, as well as New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards, Outer Critics Circle Awards, and Theatre World Awards.

Lynne’s directing credits include Amanda Peet’s The Commons of Pensacola (starring Blythe Danner and Sarah Jessica Parker); The Assembled Parties on Broadway; Collected Stories (with Linda Lavin and Sarah Paulson); 2001 Tony Award-nominated production of The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife on Broadway (starring Linda Lavin, Michele Lee, and Tony Roberts) and in the U.S. national tour (with Valerie Harper); the Broadway production of A Small Family Business (with Brian Murray); Donald Margulies’ The Loman Family Picnic; and the Obie Award-winning Ashes by David Rudkin; and NY premieres of plays by Marsha Norman, Simon Gray, Howard Brenton, Melanie Marnich, Lee Blessing, Sybille Pearson, etc. She has also directed productions for The New York Shakespeare Festival, the Spoleto Festival and the O’Neill Theatre Center.

Lynne is a cum laude graduate of Bryn Mawr College, where she served on the Board of Trustees. She attended the Yale School of Drama and was named a Herbert Brodkin Fellow. She has taught at Circle in the Square Theatre School, Stony Brook University, Yale University, Fordham University and New York University. She is married to attorney Ron Shechtman.

She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Lee Reynolds Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women, the Manhattan Award from Manhattan magazine, the Person of the Year from the National Theatre Conference and the Margo Jones Award. In 2003, Ms. Meadow received the Mr. Abbot award for Lifetime Achievement from the Stage Directors Foundation. She has twice been nominated for Best Director at the Drama Desk Awards: in 1996 for Leslie Ayvazian’s Nine Armenians and in 1988 for Alan Ayckbourn’s Woman in Mind with Stockard Channing.

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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