Coordinates | 41°52′55″N87°37′40″N |
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name | Desmond McAnuff |
birth date | June 19, 1952 |
birth place | Princeton, Illinois, USA |
spouse | Susan Berman (1984-2009) |
laurenceolivierawards | Best Director 1997 The Who's Tommy |
tonyawards | Best Direction of a Musical 1985 Big River1993 The Who's Tommy }} |
Desmond McAnuff (born 19 June 1952) is the Canadian-American artistic director of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and director of musical theatre of such Broadway productions as Big River, The Who's Tommy and Jersey Boys.
McAnuff received training from Toronto's foremost drama coach Basya Hunter, to whom he has announced his indebtedness. He worked with the Toronto Free Theatre as a director, and after several plays that had limited success, he left the Canadian scene for New York City.
There, McAnuff co-founded the Dodger Theatre Company in 1978, where he also directed the first production, entitled Gimme Shelter. He has directed for the American Repertory Theater at Harvard, also Yale Rep, and is a former faculty member of the Juilliard School.
McAnuff was Artistic Director of the La Jolla Playhouse, which he revived in 1983, during which time the theatre won more than 200 awards. For the Playhouse, he directed Romeo and Juliet, A Mad World, My Masters, Big River, As You Like It, The Sea Gull, The Matchmaker, A Walk in the Woods, Two Rooms, 80 Days, Macbeth, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Twelfth Night, Three Sisters, Elmer Gantry, Much Ado About Nothing, The Who's Tommy and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. McAnuff turned over his leadership of the playhouse in April 2007 to Christopher Ashley in order to take a position of leadership at Canada's Stratford Shakespeare Festival. In 2008, after a year sharing power with Don Shipley and Marti Maraden, McAnuff became the sole artistic director at Stratford.
McAnuff has directed two motion pictures, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000) and Cousin Bette (1998), both of which failed critically and at the box-office. However, the animated version of The Iron Giant, which he served as producer, earned several awards.
McAnuff married actress Susan Berman in 1984 and the ceremony took place on the La Jolla Playhouse stage. The couple's divorce was finalized in 2009. They are the parents of Julia Violet McAnuff, born in 1990.
In 2010 McAnuff is the subject of a documentary special entitled Des McAnuff: A Life In Stages which is scheduled to be broadcast on Bravo! in Canada on February 7, 2010.
During the 2011-2012 Season at the Metropolitan Opera he will direct a new production of Charles Gounod's Faust starring soprano Marina Poplavskaya and tenor Jonas Kaufmann. This is a production originally premiered in 2010 at the English National Opera.
He was nominated again in 2006 for Best Direction of a Musical, for Jersey Boys, based on the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Though he did not win, the production went on to win Best Musical that year.
Additionally, McAnuff was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Director of 1996 for The Who's Tommy at the Shaftesbury Theatre.
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