Awards and Nominations
- Awards
- 1990 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play – The Piano Lesson
- 2001 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play – The Invention of Love
- 2003 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical – Hairspray
- 2003 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical – Hairspray
- 2004 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play – Henry IV
- 2004 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play – Henry IV
- 2007 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play – The Coast of Utopia
- 2007 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play – The Coast of Utopia
- Nominations
- 1977 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical – Porgy and Bess
- 1977 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical – Porgy and Bess
- 1989 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play – The Cocktail Hour
- 1990 Tony Award for Best Play – The Piano Lesson
- 1992 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play – Two Shakespearean Actors
- 1992 Tony Award for Best Play – Two Trains Running
- 2001 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical – The Full Monty
- 2001 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical – The Full Monty
- 2001 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play – The Invention of Love
- 2005 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical – Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
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