Hartford Stage
As Artistic Director from 1998 to 2011, Mr. Wilson oversaw forty-five new productions for the theatre, as well as seven SummerStage programs. He directed seventeen productions for Hartford Stage, including the premiere of Enchanted April (which subsequently transferred to Broadway, garnering a 2003 Best Play Tony nomination, and 9 Outer Critics Circle nominations, including Best Director); and the premieres of Horton Foote’s The Carpetbagger’s Children (2002 Best Play, American Theater Critics Award) and Eve Ensler’s Necessary Targets; Williams’s The Glass Menagerie (which subsequently toured to Houston and Boston where it won the 2002 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Visiting Production); O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night; and Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
Under his leadership, in addition to the Tennessee Williams Marathon—the first national, multi-year retrospective of the great American playwright—Hartford Stage focused on the development of new work, with ten world premieres, six Broadway or Off-Broadway transfers, and six Brand:NEW festivals.
Wilson also forged new collaborations with Houston’s Alley Theatre, Harvard’s American Repertory Theater, the Dallas Theater Center, the Guthrie Theater, The Shakespeare Theatre, and Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre.
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