# Lynne Meadow

Lynne Meadow is an American theatre producer, director and a teacher. She has been the artistic director of the Manhattan Theatre Club since 1972.

## Career

A cum laude graduate of Bryn Mawr, Meadow attended the Yale School of Drama.
In 1972, she joined the Manhattan Theatre Club as Artistic Director, and in that position, she has directed and produced more than 450 New York City and world premieres of plays by American and international playwrights, including Terrence McNally, Beth Henley, John Guare, Athol Fugard, Brian Friel, Harold Pinter, Alan Ayckbourn, and John Patrick Shanley.
Under Meadow's leadership, MTC has been honored with every prestigious theatre award, including nineteen Tony Awards, six Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, 48 Obie Awards, and 32 Drama Desk Awards, as well as New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards, Outer Critics Circle Awards, and Theatre World Awards. In 2013, she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
Meadow's directing credits include Sally and Marsha, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Absent Friends and The Commons of Pensacola (2013).
Meadow has taught at Yale University, Fordham University, NYU, Circle in the Square Theatre School, and Stony Brook University.

## Personal

She is married to attorney Ronald Shechtman.
In 2008 Meadow made national headlines when an argument with a flight attendant led to her being detained and interrogated by the FBI. Meadow subsequently sued Continental Airlines and the flight attendant for "emotional distress and humiliation and for providing her with faulty equipment on the flight."

## Education

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

## Awards

* Lucille Lortel Award for Lifetime Achievement
* Lilly Award for Lifetime Achievement
* Museum of the City of New York’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; Internet Broadway Database
* 1974: Mark Medoff’s The Wager
* 1974: Corinne Jacker’s Bits and Pieces
* 1975: Clifford Odets’ Golden Boy
* 1976: The Pokey
* 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 Biography
* 1980: Steve Metcalf's Vikings
* 1982: Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters
* 1984: Israel Horovitz's Park Your Car in Harvard Yard
* 1986: Richard Nelson's Principia Scriptoriae
* 1988: Alan Ayckbourn's Woman in Mind (Drama Desk nomination, Best Director)
* 1989: Lee Blessing's Eleemosynary
* 1992: Alan Ayckbourn's A Small Family Business
* 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: Richard Greenberg’s Eastern Standard
* 1993: Charlayne Woodard’s Pretty Fire
* 1993: Athol Fugard’s Playland
* 1995: A.R. Gurney’s Sylvia
* 2004: Donald Margulies’ Sight Unseen (Pulitzer Prize finalist)
* 2006: Conor McPherson’s Shining City
* 2007: Alfred Uhry’s LoveMusik suggested by the letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya
* 2007: David Harrower’s Blackbird
* 2009: George S. Kaufman’s and Edna Ferber’s The Royal Family
* 2009: Lynn Nottage’s Ruined (Pulitzer Prize)
* 2009: Donald Margulies’ Time Stands Still (play)
* 2010: Lee Hall’s The Pitmen Painters
* 2011: David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People
* 2012: David Auburn’s The Columnist