Moritz von Stuelpnagel is an American theatre director. Newsday has described him as, "best known for having staged blasphemous hand puppets" in Hand to God,[1] for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2015.[2]

Life and career

Von Stuelpnagel's parents emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1975.[3] He attended Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Theatre before receiving a Masters in Fine Arts from Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts, Theatre Division.[4][5]

From 2009 to 2015, he served as the Artistic Director of Studio 42, an Off-Off-Broadway theater company whose mission was to produce plays they deemed "unproducible".[4]

Critic Terry Teachout of The Wall Street Journal wrote of Von Stuelpnagel's work, "[His] 2015 Broadway staging of Hand to God proved him to be a master of stage comedy, physical and otherwise."[6] Hand to God garnered five Tony Award nominations in 2015, including Best Direction of a Play.[2] Von Stuelpnagel directed the 2016 production of Hand to God in London's West End at the Vaudeville Theatre where it was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy.[7]

In 2017, he directed a Broadway revival of Noël Coward's Present Laughter starring Kevin Kline, which was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play.

In 2018, von Stuelpnagel directed the premiere on Broadway of Theresa Rebeck's Bernhardt/Hamlet starring Janet McTeer.

Notable works

Year Title Playwright Producer
2008 The Most Lamentable and Tragical Historie of the Barber-Surgeons [1] Timothy Charles Browne Studio 42
2015 Verité [2] Nick Jones Lincoln Center Theatre/LCT3
Hand to God Robert Askins Booth Theatre
Tiger Style! Mike Lew Alliance Theatre
Important Hats of the Twentieth Century [3] Nick Jones Manhattan Theatre Club
2016 Hand to God Robert Askins Vaudeville Theatre
Romance Novels for Dummies [4] Boo Killebrew Williamstown Theatre Festival
2017 Present Laughter Noël Coward St. James Theatre
2018 Seared Theresa Rebeck Williamstown Theatre Festival
Teenage Dick Mike Lew Public Theatre
Bernhardt/Hamlet Theresa Rebeck Roundabout Theatre Company
The Thanksgiving Play Larissa FastHorse Playwrights Horizons

References

  1. ^ Winer, Linda (5 April 2017). "'Present Laughter' review: Kevin Kline back on Broadway". Newsday.
  2. ^ a b "2015 Tony Award Nominations". The New York Times. June 12, 2017. Retrieved June 26, 2019.
  3. ^ Tran, Diep (1 September 2015). "The rattled hymn of a tiger cub". American Theatre. Vol. 32, no. 7. Archived from the original on 25 October 2019. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
  4. ^ a b Rothstein, Mervyn (June 26, 2018). "Stage Directions: Why Moritz von Stuelpnagel Says 'Certainty Is Dangerous'". Playbill. Retrieved June 26, 2019.
  5. ^ Appelo, Tim (May 29, 2015). "The 25 Best Drama Schools for a Master of Fine Arts". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved June 27, 2019.
  6. ^ Teachout, Terry (April 5, 2017). "'Present Laughter' Review: A Comedic Triumph for Coward and Kline". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved June 26, 2019.
  7. ^ "Olivier Winners 2016". OfficialLondonTheatre.com. Retrieved June 26, 2019.

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