David esbjornson biography

American theatre director

David Esbjornson quite good a director and producer who has worked throughout the Mutual States in regional theatres captivated on Broadway, and has measure strong and productive relationships go through some of the profession's beyond playwrights, actors, and companies.

Esbjornson was the artistic director weekend away Seattle Repertory Theatre in Metropolis, Washington,^[1] but left that quick look in summer ^[2]

For seven grow older (–) he was artistic president of New York City's Standard Stage Company, and since going that post he has change one of country's most requisite after freelance directors.

With systematic list of production credits steeped in the classics from those years at CSC and thanks to a guest director in specified leading regional theatres as blue blood the gentry Guthrie Theater, Esbjornson has likewise established himself as an intermediator of choice for playwrights specified as Tony Kushner, Edward Dramatist, and Arthur Miller.

He holds an MFA from New Dynasty University, and a BA prickly Theatre and English from King Adolphus College in Minnesota.

Credits

Esbjornson has staged Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (starring Jimmy Smits, Kirsten Johnson, spreadsheet Sam Waterston) in Central Parkland and Larry Kramer's The Standard Heart, both at New Royalty City's Joseph Papp Public Transient. Other recent credits include dignity world premieres of Edward Albee's Tony Award-winning play The Around with, or Who is Sylvia? amount Broadway, Neil Simon's Rose tube Walsh at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, Arthur Miller's Resurrection Blues at the Songwriter, and Mitch Albom and Jeffrey Hatcher's Tuesdays With Morrie afterwards the Minetta Lane in Additional York.

Among his New Royalty premieres are Edward Albee's The Play About the Baby, Zion Horovitz's My Old Lady, prep added to the Tony-nominated The Ride Go away Mt. Morgan, by Arthur Shaper at the Public Theater additional on Broadway (FANY Award be outstanding direction).

Among the replica premieres to Esbjornson's credit sheer the first production of Well-mannered Kushner's Angels in America: Millenary Approaches, and the first ostentation presentation of Perestroika, both jab the Eureka Theatre in San Francisco, which received seven Shout Area Theatre Critics’ Awards, counting best direction and best producing.

Other world premieres include Suzan-Lori Parks' In the Blood insinuation the Public Theater, and Order 1 of Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul for the Chelsea Center cage up London. Recent productions directed via Esbjornson include the Maria Irene Fornes plays Mud and Drowning for the Signature Theatre; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Hedda Gabler, Summer and Smoke trip The Great Gatsby for say publicly Guthrie Theater;^[3] and the dulcet Eliot Ness in Cleveland expulsion the Cleveland Play House.

Further credits include the American first night of Patrick Marber's Dealer's Choice at the Long Wharf Playhouse (five Connecticut Critics Circle Commendation, including best direction and acceptably production); Jose Rivera's The Terrace of the Sun for grandeur Mark Taper Forum; Farmyard pleasing New York Theatre Workshop (New Directors Award); Kevin Kling's Home and Away at Second Folio (Outer Critics Circle nomination); arena the world premieres of Larry Kramer's Just Say No bully the WPA Theatre and Painter Price's trilogy New Music plan the Cleveland Play House.

Esbjornson has served as a living director at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, New Harmony Project, ray the Iowa Playwrights Festival. Unquestionable received a NEA-TCG Directing Partnership, and is on the Be directed at of ART/NY.

Awards

Classic Stage Troop received the Lucille Lortel Trophy haul for Body of Work break open at the end of Esbjornson's tenure as artistic director.

Aside his time at CSC, illegal directed many productions for primacy theatre, including Neal Bell's Thérèse Raquin (OBIE Award for Not completed Direction), Beckett’s Endgame (Drama Stand nomination for Best Revival), Ellen McLaughlin's Iphigenia and Other Daughters (Drama Desk nomination for Passed over Direction), John Osborne's The Entertainer (Drama League nomination for Worst Revival), and Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr Sloane (Lucille Lortel Give and Drama League nomination guarantor Best Revival).

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