Bartlett Sher Named Resident Director of Lincoln Center Theater

Lincoln Center Theater has named Bartlett Sher Resident Director of the theater. Sher will have an office at LCT, consult with Artistic Director Andre Bishop on artistic matters and direct one production each year.

Sher, who will continue in his role as Artistic Director of Seattle’s Intiman Theatre, won Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for his direction of Lincoln Center Theater’s current hit production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. He was also nominated for Tony Awards for his direction of LCT’s productions of Clifford Odets’ Awake & Sing! and the Craig Lucas-Adam Guettel musical The Light in the Piazza. His other New York credits include the Metropolitan Opera’s production if Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Mourning Becomes Electra at the New York City Opera which he originally directed for the Seattle Opera and the Theatre for A New Audience productions of Cymbeline, which was also the first American Shakespeare presented at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Waste and Don Juan. Upcoming productions include Craig Lucas’ Prayer for My Enemy later this fall at Playwrights Horizons, The Tales of Hoffman next season at the Metropolitan Opera and Othello at the Intiman.