MICHAEL WILSON (Creative Consultant) collaborations with Richard Thomas span more than 20 years, from Danton’s Death which he produced for the Alley in 1992 with Thomas in the title role, to the 2015 Off-Broadway revival he directed Thomas in of Arthur Miller’s Incident at Vichy (available on Broadway HD). The two share Hartford Stage as an artistic home; there Wilson saw Thomas in his title role performances—Peer Gynt, Hamlet, and Richard III, directed by Mark Lamos—and later, as Artistic Director (1998-2011), he produced Thomas in Edward Albee’s Tiny Alice (1998) and as Tennessee Williams in A Distant Country Called Youth (2002). Wilson also produced the late Hal Holbrook at Hartford Stage in Our Town (2007) and Mark Twain Tonight! (2012). A Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards winning director, Wilson’s Broadway productions include Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, Old Acquaintance, Enchanted April, and Horton Foote’s Dividing the Estate and The Trip to Bountiful, which garnered a Tony® Award for star Cicely Tyson. Off-Broadway, Wilson has directed premieres by Eve Ensler, Marcus Gardley, Rebecca Gilman, David Grimm, John Guare, Beth Henley, and Christopher Shinn, as well as revivals by Tennessee Williams and Lanford Wilson. He commissioned, developed, and directed Horton Foote’s 3-part, 9-hour play The Orphans’ Home Cycle, winning Lortel and NY Drama and Outer Critics Circle Best Play awards. Wilson made his screen directing debut with the Lifetime-Ostar Productions television movie adaptation of The Trip to Bountiful, earning DGA and NAACP Image Award nominations for Outstanding Director. A Morehead-Scholar graduate in Dramatic Art from UNC-Chapel Hill, Wilson holds a Honorary Doctorate from the University of Hartford and is the recipient of the Princess Grace Statue, Daryl Roth Creative Spirit, SDC President’s, and National Association of Governor’s Awards for Distinguished Service to the Arts.