David Esbjornson
DAVID ESBJORNSON (Director) Premieres include: Edward Albee's The Goat or Who is Sylvia? (Broadway) and The Play About the Baby (Century), Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and the first staged presentation of Perestroika (Eureka), Homebody/Kabul (London), The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (Broadway) and Resurrection Blues by Arthur Miller (Guthrie), Neal Bell's Therese Raquin (CSC), In The Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks (Public), Albom/Hatcher's Tuesdays with Morrie (Minetta Lane), Neil Simon's Rose & Walsh, Israel Horowitz' My Old Lady (Promenade), Kathleen Tolan's Memory House (Playwrights Horizons) and Ariel Dorfman's Purgatorio (SRT). Recent work: Moira Buffini's Gabriel and Peter Parnell's Trumpery (Atlantic), Allison and Margaret Engels' Molly Ivins (PTC), Kevin Kling's How? How? Why? Why? Why? (Cincinnati). Revivals include: Driving Miss Daisy (Broadway), Dead of a Salesman (Gate-Dublin), Hamlet (TFNY), A Few Good Men (West End), All My Sons (Huntington), Much Ado About Nothing (NYSF), Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart (Public), Mud and Drowning (Signature), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Summer and Smoke (Guthrie), Twelfth Night and Lady from Dubuque (SRT), Farmyard (NYTW). David has helmed three Fund for New American Plays world premieres: Another Part of the House after Lorca, by Migdalia Cruz, the trilogy New Music by novelist Reynolds Price at the Cleveland Play House, and Angels in America: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner. For seven years, Esbjornson was the artistic director of the Classic Stage Company (which received the Lucille Lortel Award for Body of Work). He directed many of the company's productions including Thérèse Raquin (Obie Award, best direction), The Entertainer with Brian Murray and Jean Stapleton (Drama League nomination Best revival), Iphigenia and Other Daughters by Ellen McLaughlin (Drama Desk nomination for direction), Endgame by Samuel Beckett (Drama Desk nomination best revival), and Entertaining Mr. Sloane by Joe Orton (Lucille Lortel Award, best revival). He has collaborated with many other writers including John Belluso, Anthony Clarvoe, Maria Irene Fornes, Beth Henley, Kevin Kling, Romulus Linney, Patrick Marber, and José Rivera. Esbjornson holds an MFA from NYU and has been in residence at the O'Neill Festival, Iowa Playwrights Festival, received a Quinn Martin Honorary Chair at University of California, San Diego, and a Distinguished Alumni Award from Gustavus Adolphus College. David has served as Artistic Director of NYC Classic Stage Company and Seattle Repertory Theatre. Bio as of December, 2010. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: Working in the Theatre (video) Playwright, Director and Choreographer - April, 2000 - Watch now. Downstage Center (audio) David Esbjornson - December, 2010 - Listen Now. Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)