Mark Brokaw

Mark Brokaw is an American theatre director. He won the Drama Desk Award, Obie Award and Lucille Lortel Award as Outstanding Director of a Play for How I Learned to Drive.

Life and career

Brokaw was raised in Aledo, Illinois, and graduated from the Yale School of Drama. He received a Drama League fellowship and was initially given directing work through Carole Rothman and Robyn Goodman, artistic heads of the Second Stage Theatre.[1]

He has directed many off-Broadway productions, and his New York work includes premieres by Lynda Barry (The Good Times Are Killing Me), Douglas Carter Beane (As Bees in Honey Drown), Neal Bell, Eric Bogosian, Keith Bunin, Charles Busch, Kevin Elyot, Lisa Kron (2.5 Minute Ride), Lisa Loomer, Kenneth Lonergan (This Is Our Youth, Lobby Hero), Craig Lucas (Dying Gaul), Eduardo Machado, Patrick Marber (After Miss Julie), Robert Schenkkan, Nicky Silver, Paula Vogel (How I Learned to Drive, Long X-Mas Ride Home) and Wendy Wasserstein. He has directed in New York at Playwrights Horizons, Vineyard Theatre, The New Group, Second Stage Theatre, Lincoln Center, New York Shakespeare Festival/The Public Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club and the Roundabout Theatre. He spent five seasons with the Young Playwright's Festival (1989–1995). Brokaw was also a member of the Drama Dept. theatre company.

In regional theatre he has directed at the Guthrie (A Month in the Country, Racing Demon, 1997–1998),[2] Seattle Repertory Theatre (The Lisbon Traviata, 1991; The Good Times Are Killing Me, 1992)[3] Long Wharf, Yale Rep, Hartford Stage, South Coast Repertory, Huntington, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and the O'Neill Conference, Sundance Theatre Lab, Berekley Rep, Center Theatre Group, La Jolla Playhouse and New York Stage and Film. He directed A Little Night Music for the Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration in 2002.[4]

On Broadway he directed Reckless (2004), The Constant Wife (2005), the musical Cry-Baby (2007), After Miss Julie (2009), The Lyons (2012), the musical Cinderella (2013) and Heisenberg (2016).

His work has also been seen at London's Donmar Warehouse and the Menier Chocolate Factory, Dublin's Gate Theatre, and the Sydney Opera House.

He directed the film Spinning into Butter starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Beau Bridges and Miranda Richardson in 2006.

Brokaw served as vice president on the executive board of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. He is the Artistic Director of the Yale Institute for Music Theatre, 2009,[5] and is an associate artist of the Roundabout Theatre.

Works (selected)

  • The Rimers of Eldritch (Second Stage Theatre, 1988)
  • The Good Times Are Killing Me (Second Stage, 1991)
  • As Bees in Honey Drown (Drama Department, 1997)
  • How I Learned to Drive (Vineyard Theatre, 1997)
  • The Dying Gaul (Vineyard Theatre, 1998)
  • The Glass Menagerie (Steppenwolf Theatre Company, 1998)[6]
  • 2.5 Minute Ride (Public Theatre, 1999)
  • This is Our Youth (Second Stage Theatre, 1999)
  • Old Money (Lincoln Center Theater, 2000)
  • Lobby Hero (Donmar Warehouse, 2002)
  • The Long Christmas Ride Home" (Vineyard Theatre, 2003)
  • Reckless (Manhattan Theatre Club, 2004)
  • Constant Wife (Roundabout, 2006)
  • POP!" (Yale Rep, 2009)
  • The Language Archive (South Coast Rep, 2010)
  • The Lyons (Off-Broadway, 2011; Broadway, 2012)
  • Cinderella (Broadway Theatre, 2013)
  • Heisenberg (New York City Center, 2015; Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, 2016)

References

  1. ↑ Reprint of New York Times article, "Mark Brokaw: A Director Who Refuses to Fill In the Blanks", July 27, 1997 donshewey.com, accessed May 22, 2009
  2. ↑ Credits guthrietheater.org, accessed May 22, 2009
  3. ↑ Credit 1992, nwsource.com, accessed May 22, 2009
  4. ↑ Simonson, Robert. "Carrafa to Choreograph 'Little Night Music' at Kennedy Center", playbill.com, January 10, 2002
  5. ↑ Hetrick, Adam. "Newly Created Yale Institute for Music Theatre Accepting Submissions", playbill.com, November 19, 2008
  6. ↑ The Glass Menagerie, steppenwolf.org, accessed May 22, 2009
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