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Liesl Tommy is an award-winning stage director returning to the Huntington having previously directed Top Girls (2018), A Raisin in the Sun (2013), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2012), and Ruined (2011). Her credits include productions of Danai Gurira’s Eclipsed (Broadway and The Public Theater) starring Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o (Tony Award nomination for Best Director), Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Appropriate (Signature Theatre), Tracey Scott Wilson’s The Good Negro, UNIVERSES’ Party People, and A. Zell Williams’s Urban Retreat (The Public Theater), Les Misérables (Dallas Theater Center), Hamlet (California Shakespeare Theater), The Piano Lesson (Yale Repertory Theatre), and John Kander/Greg Pierce’s musical Kid Victory. Ms. Tommy is the recipient of an Obie Award, Lucille Lortel Award, Pioneer of the Arts Award, Lillian Hellman Award, Lee Reynolds Award, Alan Schneider Award, NEA/TCG Directors Grant, New York Theatre Workshop Casting/Directing Fellowship, and the inaugural Susan Stroman Award from the Vineyard Theatre. Ms. Tommy facilitated the inaugural Sundance East Africa Theatre Director’s Lab and is a member of the board of the Sundance Institute. Ms. Tommy serves as a program associate at Sundance Institute Theatre Program.

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Liesl Tommy STAGE CREDITS

[Washington, DC (Regional)]
Shakespeare Theatre Company Production, 2018
Vagonava

Liesl Tommy Productions

 
[Off-Broadway, 2019]
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[Off-Broadway, 2018]
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[Williamstown, MA (Regional), 2017]
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[Off-Broadway, 2017]
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[Broadway, 2016]
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[Off-Broadway, 2015]
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[Off-Broadway, 2015] [Replacement]
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[Off-Broadway, 2014]
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[Off-Broadway, 2009]
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[Off-Broadway, 2004]
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Liesl Tommy Awards and Nominations

Obie Awards - 2014 - Direction

Liesl Tommy, Appropriate

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Liesl Tommy FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Liesl Tommy has been nominated for several awards throughout her career. She was nominated for Outstanding Director at The Lortels for her work on the play "Eclipsed." She also received a nomination for Best Direction of a Play at the Tony Awards for "Eclipsed." Additionally, she was nominated for Direction at the Obie Awards for the play "Appropriate."

Liesl Tommy has won the Outstanding Director award at The Lortels for the play Eclipsed. She has also won the Direction award at the Obie Awards for the play Appropriate.

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