 Anne Kauffman
for her distinguished direction of Mary Jane (New York Theatre Workshop)
Recent credits include: New York: The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova); Hundred Days (NYTW, La Jolla
Playhouse, The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival, Z Space, The Know Theater); Mary Jane (Lortel for Direction, NYTW & Yale Rep); Marvin’s Room (Roundabout Theatre Company); Assassins (Encores! Off-Center); Sundown, Yellow Moon (Women’s Project/Ars Nova); A Life (Lortel Nomination, Drama League Nomination); Marjorie Prime (Lortel Nomination, Drama League Nomination); Detroit, Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra, and Maple and Vine (Playwrights Horizons); The Nether, Smokefall (MCC); Buzzer (The Public); Belleville (Lortel Nomination,
NYTW, Yale Rep, Steppenwolf); You Got Older (Drama Desk Nomination, P73 Productions); The Muscles in Our Toes (Labyrinth Theater Company); Somewhere Fun, God’s Ear (New Georges and Vineyard Theater); Stunning, Slowgirl (LCT3). Regional: The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, Smokefall (Goodman Theatre); And No More Shall We Part, You Better Sit Down: Tales from My Parents’ Divorce, Six Degrees of Separation (Williamstown Theater Festival). She is the Artistic Director of Encores! Off Center, Resident Director at Roundabout Theater, Artistic Associate and Founding Member of The Civilians, a Sundance Program Associate, Clubbed Thumb Associate Artist and co-creator of the CT Directing Fellowship, New Georges Associate Artist, Artistic Council of Soho Rep, and an SDC Executive Board Member. Kauffman’s awards include three Obie Awards including one for Sustained Excellence, the Joan and Joseph Cullman Award for Exceptional Creativity from Lincoln Center, the Alan Schneider Director Award, two Barrymore Awards, a Lucille Lortel Award, and a Lilly Award.
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Susan Stroman
for her distinguished choreography in The Beast in the Jungle (Vineyard Theatre)
A five-time Tony Award winning director and choreographer, Ms. Stroman’s work has been honored with Olivier, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel, and a record five Astaire Awards. The Beast in the Jungle marks her fourth show for the Vineyard Theatre – she directed the Colman Domingo play Dot, choreographed Flora the Red Menace, and directed and choreographed the Kander and Ebb musical The Scottsboro Boys, which went on to be nominated for 12 Tony Awards and win the London Evening Standard Award for Best Musical. She directed and choreographed The Producers, winner of a record-making 12 Tony Awards including Best Direction and Best Choreography. She cocreated, directed, and choreographed the Tony Award-winning musical Contact for Lincoln Center Theater, which was honored with a 2003 Emmy Award for “Live from Lincoln Center”. Other Broadway credits include Bullets Over Broadway, Big Fish, Crazy for You, Show Boat, Oklahoma!,
The Frogs, The Music Man, Thou Shalt Not, Steel Pier, Big, and Picnic. Off-Broadway credits include And the World Goes ’Round, Happiness,
A Christmas Carol at Madison Square Garden, The Last Two People on Earth: An Apocalyptic Vaudeville, Little Dancer for the Kennedy Center,
and The Merry Widow for the Metropolitan Opera. She has created ballets for New York City Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Martha
Graham. She directed and choreographed The Producers: The Movie Musical, nominated for four Golden Globes, and received the American
Choreography Award for her work in the feature film Center Stage. She is the recipient of the George Abbott Award for Lifetime Achievement in
the American Theater and a member of the Theater Hall of Fame.
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This season’s finalists for directing were Leigh Silveerman for Harry Clarke (Vineyard Theatre), and Taibi Magar for The Great Leap (Atlantic Theater Company). The finalist for choreography was Joshua Bergasse for Smokey Joe’s Cafe (The Baruch-Viertel-Routh-Frankel Group).
