American theatre producer, director, and teacher
Lynne Meadow is an American theatre producer , director and a teacher. She has been the artistic director of the Manhattan Theatre Club since 1972.
A cum laude graduate of Bryn Mawr , Meadow attended the Yale School of Drama .[1]
In 1972, she joined the Manhattan Theatre Club as Artistic Director, and in that position, she has directed and produced more than 450[2] [3] [4] New York City and world premieres of plays by American and international playwrights , including Terrence McNally , Beth Henley , John Guare , Athol Fugard , Brian Friel , Harold Pinter , Alan Ayckbourn , and John Patrick Shanley .
Under Meadow's leadership, MTC has been honored with every prestigious theatre award, including nineteen Tony Awards , six Pulitzer Prizes for Drama , 48 Obie Awards , and 32 Drama Desk Awards , as well as New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards, Outer Critics Circle Awards , and Theatre World Awards .[5] In 2013, she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame .[6]
Meadow's directing credits include Sally and Marsha ,[7] The Tale of the Allergist's Wife ,[8] Absent Friends [9] and The Commons of Pensacola (2013).[10]
Meadow has taught at Yale University , Fordham University , NYU ,[11] Circle in the Square Theatre School, and Stony Brook University .
She is married to attorney Ronald Shechtman.[1] [12]
Bryn Mawr Board of Trustees[3]
Herbert Brodkin Fellow at Yale[13] Lucille Lortel Award for Lifetime Achievement [14] [15]
Lilly Award for Lifetime Achievement[16]
Museum of the City of New York ’s Auchincloss Prize[17]
Lee Reynolds Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women[18]
Manhattan Award from Manhattan magazine[19]
Person of the Year from the National Theatre Conference[20]
Margo Jones Award[20]
Mr. Abbot award for Lifetime Achievement from the Stage Directors Foundation[20]
She has twice been nominated for Best Director at the Drama Desk Awards: in 1996 for Leslie Ayvazian’s Nine Armenians and in 1988 for Alan Ayckbourn’s Woman in Mind with Stockard Channing.[21] Sources: Internet Off-Broadway Database;[22] Internet Broadway Database[23]
1974: Mark Medoff’s The Wager
1974: Corinne Jacker ’s Bits and Pieces
1975: Clifford Odets’ Golden Boy
1976: The Pokey
1977: David Rudkin's Ashes (Obie Award)
1978: Istvan Orkeny's Catsplay
1979: Joanna M. Glass’ Artichoke
1979: David Edgar's The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs
1980: S.N. Behrman's Biography
1980: Steve Metcalf's Vikings
1982: Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters
1984: Israel Horovitz's Park Your Car in Harvard Yard
1986: Richard Nelson's Principia Scriptoriae
1988: Alan Ayckbourn's Woman in Mind (Drama Desk nomination, Best Director)
1989: Lee Blessing's Eleemosynary
1992: Alan Ayckbourn's A Small Family Business
1996: Leslie Ayvazian's Nine Armenians (Drama Desk nomination)
1999: Frederick Freyer and Patrick Cook's Captains Courageous
2001: Melanie Marnich's Blur
2003: Neil Simon's Rose's Dilemma
2003: Marsha Norman's Last Dance
2005: Ron Hutchinson's Moonlight and Magnolias
2006: David Greig's The American Pilot
2007: Charles Busch's Our Leading Lady
2010: Donald Margulies’ Collected Stories
2011: Margaret Edson's Wit
2013: Richard Greenberg's The Assembled Parties Selected world/New York premieres produced under Meadows' artistic direction[ edit ] Sources: Internet Off-Broadway Database;[22] Internet Broadway database[23]
^ a b "Lynne Meadow Plans Wedding" The New York Times , September 4, 1983
^ "Legendary Director Lynne Meadow" . learni.st.
^ a b "Expert Interview: Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director, Manhattan Theatre NYC - director or producer of over 450 theatre premieres" . www.rubbingelbowswithexperts.org. Archived from the original on November 30, 2014. Retrieved November 25, 2014 .
^ "The 2nd Annual Lilly Awards to Be Handed Out On June 6 in NYC" . blogs.indiewire.com.
^ "Awards" manhattantheatreclub.com, accessed March 29, 2015
^ "Cherry Jones, Ellen Burstyn, Cameron Mackintosh, and More Inducted Into Broadway's Theater Hall of Fame" . www.theatermania.com.
^ Simon, John. "Theater. John Simon" New York Magazine , p. 82
^ "Review. Ben Brantley. New York Times " charlesbusch.com, (date not shown), accessed March 28, 2015
^ Simon, JOhn. "Review" New York Magazine , February 25, 1991, ISSN 0028-7369, p. 120
^ Purcell, Carey. " 'The Commons of Pensacola', Starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Blythe Danner, Extends Prior to Opening" playbill.com, October 3, 2013
^ "MTC's Lynne Meadow to Direct New York Debut of Melissa Ross's 'Of Good Stock' This Summer" broadwayworld.com, January 22, 2015
^ "Managing Partner Ronald Shechtman Profiled by BizNow" pryorcashman.com, November 16, 2010
^ "Annual Magazine of Yale School of Drama 2011–2012" (PDF) . www.yale.edu.
^ "26th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards Nominations & Co-Hosts Announced" (PDF) . www.lortelaward.com.
^ "2011 Lucille Lortel Awards Nominations & Recipients" . www.lortelaward.com. Archived from the original on January 14, 2019. Retrieved November 25, 2014 .
^ "MTC's Lynne Meadow Honored With Lilly Award for Lifetime Achievement" . www.playbill.com.
^ "MTC Artistic Director Lynne Meadow Receives 2012 Louis Auchincloss Prize Oct. 22" . www.playbill.com.
^ "Marlo Thomas Receives Lee Reynolds Award Dec. 8" . www.playbill.com.
^ "Lynne Meadow on CUNY TV" . www.cuny.tv.
^ a b c "Manhattan Theatre Club's Lynne Meadow to Receive Lilly Award for Lifetime Achievement" . theandygram.com.
^ "Drama Desk Awards" . awards.dramadesk.org. Archived from the original on May 17, 2014.
^ a b "Meadow Listing" lortel.org
^ a b "Meadow Listing" ibdb.com