Rebecca Taichman
Rebecca Taichman is an American theatre director. In 2017, she received the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for "Indecent". Life and career. Taichman attended McGill University, Montreal, and graduated from the Yale School of Drama. She was the associate artistic director at the Woolly Mammoth Theater in Washington, D.C. for two years. She is an affiliated artist at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C, where she has directed "Taming of the Shrew", "Twelfth Night" (2008), "The Winter's Tale" and "Cymbeline" (2011). The "Washington Post" reviewer wrote of her work: "Taichman has a proven knack  for framing difficult plays in tantalizing ways. Her saucy, la dolce vita "The Taming of the Shrew" in 2007 remains one of the smartest nights of Shakespeare the company has offered." "Playbill" noted that Taichman cannot be put in a category: "...her career is marked by an eclectic range of works—from new plays to outdoor operas. Taichman said that 'The end goal of it all...is to open people’s hearts.' ” She has directed several Shakespeare plays at the McCarter Theatre, Princeton. New Jersey, including "The Winter’s Tale" in 2013. She said: "With Shakespeare, there's obviously  no playwright telling me what he wants to see or how he wants to see it. In a sense, it's extremely liberating, if also lonely. When directing Shakespeare, I'm looking for my deepest, most authentic possible connection to the play and trusting that way in." Work (selected) as stage director. Sources: Internet Off-Broadway Database; Internet Broadway Database