Lynne Meadow is an American

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and a teacher. She has been the artistic director of the

Manhattan Theatre Club Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC) is a theatre company located in New York City, affiliated with the League of Resident Theatres. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Producer Barry Grove, Manhattan Theatre Club has g ...

since 1972.

Career

A cum laude graduate of Bryn Mawr, Meadow attended the

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."Lynne Meadow Plans Wedding"
''The New York Times'', September 4, 1983 In 1972 she joined the Manhattan Theatre Club as Artistic Director, and in that position she has directed and produced more than 450

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and world premieres of plays by American and international playwrights, including

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, Beth Henley,

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, Athol Fugard,

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, Harold Pinter, Alan Ayckbourn, and

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. Under Meadow's leadership, MTC has been honored with every prestigious theatre award, including nineteen

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s, six Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, 48 Obie Awards, and 32 Drama Desk Awards, as well as

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Awards, Outer Critics Circle Awards, and

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s. In 2013, she was inducted into the

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. Meadow's directing credits include ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Absent Friends'' and ''The Commons of Pensacola'' (2013). Meadow has taught at

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, Fordham University,

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Theatre School, and Stony Brook University.

Personal

She is married to attorney Ronald Shechtman.

Education

*Bryn Mawr Board of Trustees *Herbert Brodkin Fellow at Yale

Awards

* Lucille Lortel Award for Lifetime Achievement *Lilly Award for Lifetime Achievement *

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’s Auchincloss Prize *Lee Reynolds Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women *Manhattan Award from Manhattan magazine *Person of the Year from the National Theatre Conference *Margo Jones Award *Mr. Abbot award for Lifetime Achievement from the Stage Directors Foundation *She has twice been nominated for Best Director at the Drama Desk Awards: in 1996 for Leslie Ayvazian’s Nine Armenians and in 1988 for Alan Ayckbourn’s Woman in Mind with Stockard Channing.

Directing credits

Sources: Internet Off-Broadway Database;"Meadow Listing"
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ibdb.com *1974: Mark Medoff’s ''The Wager'' *1974:

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’s ''Bits and Pieces'' *1975: Clifford Odets’ '' Golden Boy'' *1976: ''

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'' *1977: David Rudkin's '' Ashes'' (Obie Award) *1978: Istvan Orkeny's '' Catsplay'' *1979: Joanna M. Glass’ ''Artichoke'' *1979: David Edgar's '' The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs'' *1980: S.N. Behrman's ''

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'' *1980: Steve Metcalf's ''Vikings'' *1982: Anton Chekhov's '' Three Sisters'' *1984: Israel Horovitz's ''

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'' *1986: Richard Nelson's '' Principia Scriptoriae'' *1988: Alan Ayckbourn's ''

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'' (Drama Desk nomination, Best Director) *1989: Lee Blessing's ''

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'' *1992: Alan Ayckbourn's ''

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'' *1996: Leslie Ayvazian's '' Nine Armenians'' (Drama Desk nomination) *1999: Frederick Freyer and Patrick Cook's ''Captains Courageous'' *2001: Melanie Marnich's ''Blur'' *2003: Neil Simon's '' Rose's Dilemma'' *2003: Marsha Norman's ''Last Dance'' *2005: Ron Hutchinson's '' Moonlight and Magnolias'' *2006: David Greig's '' The American Pilot'' *2007: Charles Busch's '' Our Leading Lady'' *2010: Donald Margulies’ '' Collected Stories'' *2011: Margaret Edson's '' Wit'' *2013: Richard Greenberg's '' The Assembled Parties''

Selected world/New York premieres produced under Meadows' artistic direction

Sources: Internet Off-Broadway Database; Internet Broadway database *1988:

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’s ''

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'' *1993:

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’s '' Pretty Fire'' *1993: Athol Fugard’s ''Playland'' *1995:

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’s '' Sylvia'' *2004:

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’ '' Sight Unseen'' (Pulitzer Prize finalist) *2006:

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’s ''

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'' *2007:

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’s ''

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'' suggested by the letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya *2007:

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’s '' Blackbird'' *2009: George S. Kaufman’s and

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’s '' The Royal Family'' *2009: Lynn Nottage’s ''

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'' (Pulitzer Prize) *2009:

’ '' Time Stands Still (play)'' *2010: Lee Hall’s '' The Pitmen Painters'' *2011:

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’s '' Good People'' *2012: David Auburn’s ''

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