Jack O’Brien (Artistic Director Emeritus) served as the Artistic Director of The Old Globe from 1982 through 2007. Recent Globe productions: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Imaginary Friends, Twelfth Night, The Full Monty, The Seagull, The Magic Fire, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! West End: Love Never Dies (sequel to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera), Hairspray (Olivier Award for Best Musical, Best Director nomination). Broadway: Catch Me If You Can (2011), Impressionism (Creator/ Supervisor), Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, The Coast of Utopia (2007 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play, which won a total of seven Tony Awards, including Best Play), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Tony nominations: Best Director and Musical), Henry IV (Tony Award), Hairspray (Tony Award), The Invention of Love (Tony nominations: Best Director and Play), The Full Monty (Tony nominations: Best Director and Musical), More to Love, Labor Day, St. Louis Woman, Pride’s Crossing, The Little Foxes, Hapgood (Lucille Lortel Award for Direction, 1995), Damn Yankees (Tony nomination Best Musical Revival), Two Shakespearean Actors (Tony nominations: Best Director and Play), Porgy and Bess for Houston Grand Opera and Broadway (Tony Award), as well as Radio City Music Hall and Il Trittico, Metropolitan Opera. Recent awards: 2008 Theatre Hall of Fame Inductee, 2004 Thomas Degaetani Award (USITT), 2002 “Mr. Abbott” Award (SDCF), 2001 Joan Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creativity, 2001 Joe A. Callaway Award (SDCF), the Drama League’s Julia Hansen Award for Excellence in Directing, 2001. Honorary Doctorate, University of Michigan. Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, University of San Diego. Recipient of ArtServe Michigan’s 2008 International Achievement Award. Mr. O’Brien is a member of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre.
