Michael Mayer (director, 1960)

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Michael Mayer, 2018

Michael Mayer (born June 27, 1960 in Bethesda , Maryland ) is an American theater , musical and film director .

Life

Michael Mayer was born in Bethesda to Jerry and Louise Mayer. After graduating from Charles W. Woodward High School, he studied acting at the Tisch School of the Arts and received a Master of Fine Arts in Acting (MFA) in 1983 . He then taught at New York University , the Lincoln Center Theater Institute and the Juilliard School .

During this time he worked occasionally in the theater, but from 1990 he devoted himself intensively to theater work. His production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America at the Royal George Theater in Chicago toured the United States from 1994 to 1996. In 1997 he made his Broadway debut at the Royal Theater in New York with the musical Triumph of Love based on a play by Pierre Carlet de Marivaux . It was the beginning of a successful career as a musical director on Broadway and Off-Broadway . In 2014 he directed Hedwig and the Angry Inch at the Belasco Theater and received a fifth Tony nomination after View from the Bridge (1998), You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown (1999), Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002) and Spring Awakening ( 2007, nominated and won).

His first feature film was A Home at World's End (2004) with Colin Farrell in the lead role. In 2006 a remake of the children's film Flicka followed and in 2018 the film adaptation of the Chekhov play Die Möwe with Annette Bening in the leading role.

In 2012 he staged an opera for the first time at the Metropolitan Opera with Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto . He moved the action of the opera from Mantua in the 16th century to Las Vegas in the 1960s.

Theater (selection)

Broadway productions

  • 1997: Triumph of Love
  • 1998: Side Man
  • 1999: You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown - Tony Award, nomination
  • 2000: Uncle Vanja by Anton Chekhov , with Derek Jacobi in the lead role; Brooks Atkinson Theater
  • 2002: Thoroughly Modern Millie
  • 2002: An Almost Holy Picture
  • 2004: 'night, Mother
  • 2004: After the Fall
  • 2006: Spring Awakening - Tony Award
  • 2010: American Idiot
  • 2010: Everyday Rapture
  • 2011: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
  • 2014: Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Tony Award, nomination
  • 2017: The Terms of My Surrender
  • 2018: Head over Heels, Hudson Theater
Off-Broadway
  • 1994: America Dreaming, Vineyard Theater
  • 1995: Everyday Rapture, American Airlines Theater
  • 1996: Hundreds of Hats, WPA Theater, New York
  • 2015: Whorl Inside a Loop, (staged together with Dick Scanlan), Tony Kiser Theater at Second Stage Theater
  • 2015: Brooklynite, world premiere, Vineyard Theater
  • 2016: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, New York City center
  • 2016: Love, Love, Love, Laura Pels Theater at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theater
  • 2017: Warhol Capote. American Repertory Theater

Opera

  • 2012: Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi, Metropolitan Opera, New York
  • 2017: Marnie by Nico Muhly , English National Opera, London; Metropolitan Opera, New York

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Mayer, director Famous birthdays, accessed June 20, 2018
  2. ↑ Lewis Lazare: Angels in America Variety, October 17, 1994, accessed June 21, 2018
  3. ↑ IDBd
  4. ↑ Anthony Tommasini: Bringing the Sinatra Style Out in 'Rigoletto' The New York Times, January 29, 2013, accessed June 20, 2018
  5. ↑ Go-Go's Musical 'Head Over Heels' Books Broadway's Hudson Theater in: Variety, January 29, 2018, accessed June 23, 2018
  6. ^ Vineyard Theater , accessed June 24, 2018.
  7. ^ Curtain Up June 14, 1995, accessed June 24, 2018
  8. ↑ upnews.com, accessed June 24, 2018
  9. ↑ Playbill December 7, 2015, accessed June 24, 2018
  10. ^ Theatermania , accessed June 24, 2018.
  11. ^ Curtain Up , accessed June 24, 2018.
  12. ^ The New York Times October 20, 2016, accessed June 24, 2018
  13. ^ Theatermania May 1, 2017, accessed June 24, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theater, musical and film director
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Bethesda , Maryland , United States