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BARTLETT SHER
Original Director

is a Resident Director at Lincoln Center Theater, where he won a Tony Award for his production of South Pacific (which he also directed in London and Australia), and was nominated for Tony Awards for his LCT productions of My Fair Lady, Oslo (2017 Tony and Obie Awards for Best Play; also National Theatre, London), The King and I (also London), Golden Boy, Joe Turner’s Come and GoneAwake and Sing!, and The Light in the Piazza. His other LCT productions include Blood and Gifts and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (also London). Broadway: Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird (Tony nom.), Fiddler on the Roof (Drama Desk Award), The Bridges of Madison County. Off-Broadway: Waste (Best Play Obie Award), Cymbeline (Callaway Award; also Royal Shakespeare Company), Don Juan, Pericles (TFANA, BAM). He was the Artistic Director of Seattle’s Intiman Theatre (2000–2009) and was previously Company Director for the Guthrie Theater and Associate Artistic Director at Hartford Stage. Opera: Rigoletto (Staatsoper); Roméo et Juliette (Metropolitan Opera, Salzburg, Milan, Chicago); Faust (Baden Baden); Two Boys (ENO, Metropolitan Opera); Barbiere di Siviglia (Baden Baden, Metropolitan Opera); OtelloIl Les Contes d’HoffmannLe Comte OryL’Elisir d’Amore (Metropolitan Opera); Mourning Becomes Electra (Seattle Opera, New York City Opera). He serves on the board of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. Bart is currently directing a chamber opera production of Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel at Lincoln Center Theater, with a score by Ricky Ian Gordon. His film of Oslo premiered on HBO in May.