DES MCANUFF (Director) is a two-time Tony® Award-winning director and former artistic director of Canada’s Stratford Festival. He is also director emeritus of La Jolla Playhouse where, as artistic director, he staged over 30 productions of classics, new plays, and musicals. He’s co-founder of Broadway’s Dodgers. Broadway: The Who’s Tommy (2024), Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, Doctor Zhivago, Jesus Christ Superstar, Guys and Dolls, Aaron Sorkin’s The Farnsworth Invention, Jersey Boys (Tony® and Olivier awards: Best Musical), Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays (Tony® Award: Best Special Theatrical Event), Dracula the Musical, How to Succeed…, The Who’s Tommy (1993, Tony® and Olivier awards: Best Director), A Walk in the Woods, Big River (Tony® Awards: Best Director, Best Musical). Selected New York: Fetch Clay, Make Man (NYTW); multiple productions at The Public and BAM. Stratford highlights: A Word or Two, Caesar and Cleopatra, The Tempest (all with Christopher Plummer); Twelfth Night (with Brian Dennehy). Opera: Faust (The Met, ENO). TV: 700 Sundays (HBO). Film: Cousin Bette (with Jessica Lange, director), The Iron Giant (producer, BAFTA Award) and Quills (executive producer). In 2011, he was honored with a doctorate from Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University), where he attended theater school. In 2012, he was awarded Canada’s Governor General’s National Arts Center Award and the Order of Canada.