Mark Brokaw

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Mark Brokaw is a stage director He won the Drama Desk Award Obie Award and Lucille Lortel Award as Outstanding Director of a Play for How I Learned to Drive Brokaw was raised in Aledo Illinois and graduated from the Yale Drama School He received a Drama League fellowship and was initially given directing work through Carole Rothman and Robyn Goodman artistic heads of the Second Stage Theatre He has directed many offBroadway productions and his New York work includes premieres by Lynda Barry The Good Times Are Killing Me Douglas Carter Beane As Bees in Honey Drown Neal Bell Eric Bogosian Keith Bunin Jeremy Dobrish Kevin Elyot Lisa Kron 25 Minute Ride Lisa Loomer Kenneth Lonergan This Is Our Youth Lobby Hero Craig Lucas Dying Gaul Eduardo Machado Patrick Marber After Miss Julie Robert Schenkkan Paula Vogel How I Learned to Drive Long XMas Ride Home and Wendy Wasserstein He has directed in New York at Playwrights Horizons Vineyard Theatre New Group Second Stage Lincoln Center NYSFPublic Manhattan Theatre Club and the Roundabout He spent five seasons with the Young Playwrights Festival 19891995 Brokaw was also a member of the Drama Dept theatre company In regional theatre he has directed at the Guthrie A Month in the Country Racing Demon 19971998 Seattle Repertory Theatre The Lisbon Traviata 1991 The Good Times Are Killing Me 1992 Long Wharf Yale Rep Hartford Stage South Coast Repertory Huntington Actors Theatre of Louisville and the ONeill Conference Sundance Berekley Rep Center Theatre Group La Jolla Playhouse and New York Stage and Film He directed A Little Night Music for the Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration in 2002 On Broadway he directed Reckless 2004 The Constant Wife 2005 the musical CryBaby 2007 and After Miss Julie 2009 His work has also been seen at Londons Donmar Warehouse and Dublins Gate Theatre He directed the outoftown production of the musical version of Marty in 2002 Brokaw served as vice president Executive Board of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society He is the Artistic Director Yale Institute for Music Theatre 2009 and is an associate artist of the Roundabout Theatre Description above from the Wikipedia article Mark Brokaw licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia