MTC's Lynne Meadow Will Receive Lucille Lortel Lifetime Acheivement Award

By: Mar. 31, 2011
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It was announced today that Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director of Manhattan Theatre Club, will be honored with the Lucille Lortel Award for Lifetime Achievement. The award recognizes Meadow's extraordinary accomplishments and dedication to producing and directing new work Off-Broadway for over three decades. The Lucille Lortel Award ceremony will be held Sunday, May 1 at the Jack. H Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (566 Laguardia Place).

The body of work created Off-Broadway by Manhattan Theatre Club, under Meadow's artistic direction has garnered hundreds of awards and the artists nurtured by her and the company has made MTC a world class theatre. Guided by Meadow, MTC shows have received 16 Lortel Awards since the awards were created in 1985.

Meadow has been MTC's Artistic Director since 1972 and has accepted every major theatrical award on behalf of the company including Tonys, Obies, Lortels, Drama Desk Awards, etc. She has directed dozens of new plays both on and off Broadway. Her off-Broadway directing work includes David Rudkin's Ashes; Charles Busch's The Tale of the Allergist's Wife and Our Leading Lady; Leslie Ayvazian's Nine Armenians; and Alan Ayckbourn's Absent Friends and Woman in Mind.

Under her artistic leadership for the last three decades, MTC has produced five David Lindsay-Abaire plays including Rabbit Hole; six plays by Donald Margulies including Time Stands Still and Sight Unseen; Lynn Nottage's Ruined; nine plays by John Patrick Shanley including Doubt; David Auburn's Proof; nine plays by Terrence McNally including Love! Valour! Compassion! and Lisbon Traviata; five plays by Beth Henley including Crimes of the Heart; seven plays by Alan Ayckbourn including Woman in Mind and Absent Friends; Stephen Sondheim's Putting It Together; Ain't Misbehavin'; and Ashes by David Rudkin.

Currently she is producing the critically acclaimed New York premiere of Matthew Lopez's The Whipping Man Off-Broadway the world premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway. Later this season, she will produce the world premiere of Daniel Goldfarb's Cradle and All and a new Broadway production of Terrence McNally's Master Class featuring Sierra Boggess and Tyne Daly.

BIOGRAPHY

Lynne Meadow has been the visionary and artistic leader of Manhattan Theatre Club since 1972, creating work that has put the company at the forefront of the American theatre. Lynne has overseen hundreds of world ,US and New York premieres; directed dozens of new plays on and off Broadway by America's and England's finest playwrights; and accepted every major theatre award, (Tonys, Drama Desks, Obies, etc.) on behalf of the company.

Her shows as a director include: Donald Margulies' Collected Stories on Broadway; the 2001 Tony Award-nominated production of The Tale of the Allergist's Wife on Broadway, at MTC; the Broadway production of A Small Family Business; Donald Margulies' The Loman Family Picnic, Off-Broadway; Alan Ayckbourn's award-winning Woman in Mind and Absent Friends; the Obie Award-winning Ashes by David Rudkin; Charles Busch's Our Leading Lady; David Greig's The American Pilot; Ron Hutchinson's Moonlight and Magnolias; Marsha Norman's Last Dance; David Edgar's The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs; Principia Scriptoriae; Lee Blessing's Eleemosynary; Biography; Simon Gray's Close of Play and Sally and Marsha.
Some of the world and New York premieres produced under her artistic direction include, the Fats Waller musical, Ain't Misbehavin' ; Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart (Pulitzer Prize) and The Miss Firecracker Contest; Richard Greenberg's Eastern Standard; Stephen Sondheim's Putting It Together; Athol Fugard's Playland; Charlayne Woodard's Pretty Fire; Terrence McNally's Love! Valour! Compassion! (Tony Award for Best Play) and Lisbon Traviata; A.R. Gurney's Sylvia; David Lindsay-Abaire's Fuddy Meers, Rabbit Hole (Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award nomination for Best Play) and Good People; August Wilson's King Hedley II; David Auburn's Proof (Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play); Donald Margulies' Sight Unseen (Pulitzer Prize finalist) and Time Stands Still; John Patrick Shanley's Doubt (Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play); Alfred Uhry's LoveMusik suggested by the letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, Lynn Nottage's Ruined (Pulitzer Prize); George S. Kaufman's and Edna Ferber's The Royal Family; Lee Hall's The Pitmen Painters.

Lynne is a graduate of Bryn Mawr, and attended the Yale School of Drama. She has taught at Yale, Fordham, NYU, etc. 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 National Theatre Conference, the Margo Jones Award and the 2003 Mr. Abbott Award for lifetime achievement.

 



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