John Tiffany

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John Richard Tiffany OBE (* 1971 ) is a British theater director. He directed the plays Harry Potter and the Cursed Child , Black Watch and Once , among others . He won two Tony Awards , an Olivier Award , a Drama Desk Award, and an Obie Award .

life and career

Tiffany grew up in Marsden, West Yorkshire, near Huddersfield , the son of a nurse and revue dancer and an engineer who played in a brass band . In his youth he was a member of the Huddersfield Choral Society youth choir and worked at Boots UK and in a restaurant. He first studied biology at Glasgow University and later switched to classical and drama.

From 1997 to 2001 he worked at the Edinburgh Traverse Theater . He then worked with the artistic director Vicky Featherstone and was deputy director of the traveling theater Paines Plow ( Great Britain ) from 2001 to 2005 .

In late 2004, Tiffany became an assistant director at the National Theater of Scotland under the artistic direction of Vicky Featherstone . He had his first success in 2006 with the production of Black Watch by Gregory Burke. Tiffany's other productions were an adaptation of Peter Pan , performed in Glasgow in 2010, followed by a tour of London, Inverness, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. This was followed by a version of The Bacchae , Macbeth and, as the last production in 2013, Let the Right One In by John Lindqvist . Barbara Broccoli hired Tiffany for the theater production of Once . Tiffany took over the direction of the play in 2011 in the Off-Broadway and Broadway production and won the 2012 Drama Desk Award in the category "Musical Direction", the Tony Award in the category " Best Musical Direction" and an Obie Award (Special Mention). The piece was nominated for a total of 11 Tony Awards.

Tiffany led in 2013 directed the play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge (Massachusetts) , which was performed later on Broadway. His production of Enda Walsh's adaptation of The Twits was described by critic Dominic Cavendish ( The Daily Telegraph ) in April 2015 as "torture".

Tiffany directed the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child , which was staged in London's Palace Theater in 2016 and on Broadway in 2018. In 2018 he won a Tony Award for Best Director, a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award in the Drama Directing category.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New Year's Honors 2018 ( PDF ) In: Gov.uk . Government Digital Service . December 29, 2017. Accessed December 30, 2017.
  2. ^ A b Rhiannon Harries: How We Met: John Tiffany & Steven Hoggett . In: The Independent . April 5, 2010. Retrieved June 8, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b Charlotte Higgins: John Tiffany: from 'Black Watch' to 'Peter Pan' . In: The Guardian . April 5, 2010. Retrieved June 8, 2012.
  4. ↑ a b The joy of worrying over this crucible of creativity . Scotsman.com. January 27, 2005. Retrieved July 28, 2013.
  5. ↑ John Tiffany . Casarotto Ramsay. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
  6. ^ Rebecca Charlotte Robinson: From theory to practice . The National Theater of Scotland, 1999-2009. University of Glasgow, Glasgow 2009, glathesis: 2009-2915 (English, gla.ac.uk [PDF; 2.0 MB ; accessed on December 27, 2019] dissertation).
  7. ↑ More big names join star cast at National Theater . Scotsman.com. January 27, 2005. Retrieved July 28, 2013.
  8. ↑ Patrick Healy: For This Duo, the Mantra Is 'Action!' . In: The New York Times . February 22, 2012. Retrieved June 8, 2012.
  9. ↑ a b Lyn Gardner: 'I want to seduce the audience' . In: The Guardian . August 5, 2007. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
  10. ↑ Macbeth . National Theater of Scotland. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
  11. ↑ 2012 Drama Desk Award Winners Announced . TheaterMania.com, Inc. June 4, 2012. Retrieved June 8, 2012.
  12. ↑ a b Andrew Gans: Broadway's Big Night! Neil Patrick Harris Hosts 66th Annual Tony Awards June 10 . In: Playbill . June 10, 2012. Archived from the original on June 11, 2012. Retrieved on June 10, 2012.
  13. ↑ David Sheward: '4000 Miles', 'Milk Like Sugar', Linda Lavin Top Obie Winners . In: Back Stage . May 22, 2012. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
  14. ^ Adam Hetrick: Once Director John Tiffany to Helm Glass Menagerie at ART; Season announced . In: Playbill . April 27, 2012. Archived from the original on January 5, 2013. Retrieved on June 8, 2012.
  15. ^ The Twits, Royal Court Theater, review: 'torture' .
  16. ↑ Harry Potter and the Cursed Child play to open in West End in 2016 . In: theguardian.com , The Guardian , June 26, 2015. 
  17. ^ Mark Shenton: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Premieres Tonight in London. In: Playbill. June 7, 2016, accessed December 27, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Ryan McPhee: 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' Officially Opens on Broadway April 22. In: Playbill, April 22, 2018.
  19. ↑ Allison Crist: Tonys: Robert De Niro's Message to Trump and 9 More Memorable Moments . In: The Hollywood Reporter . June 10, 2018. Retrieved June 12, 2018.
  20. ↑ SpongeBob SquarePants Leads 2018 Drama Desk Awards . In: Playbill . June 3, 2018. Retrieved June 12, 2018.
  21. ↑ Ben Zauzmer: Tony Awards: Predicting the Play Winners Using Math . In: The Hollywood Reporter . June 7, 2018. Accessed June 12, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Tiffany, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tiffany, John Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British theater director
DATE OF BIRTH 1971