Darko Tresnjak
Darko Tresnjak () is a director of plays, musicals, and opera, and winner of several awards, including the Tony Award. He was the artistic director of the Hartford Stage in Connecticut, United States. Early life and education. Tresnjak is of Serbian heritage. Tresnjak and his mother moved from Zemun, Yugoslavia (modern-day Serbia) to Maryland in 1976. He graduated from Swarthmore College, became a US citizen, and received a master of fine arts degree from Columbia University. Career. Around 2000 he wrote "Princess Turandot", inspired by Carlo Gozzi's play written in 1762 (upon which Puccini's opera "Turandot  was based). Tresnjak's play was performed by the Blue Light Theater Company in New York City in December 2000. He served as resident artistic director at Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California, in 2009, and directed for eight summers at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts. He was the artistic director at Hartford Stage in Hartford, Connecticut from the 2011–2012 season through the 2018–2019 season, where he commissioned The Man in the Case" with Mikhail Baryshnikov and directed Kevin Bacon in "Rear Window". He left the Hartford Stage for freelance work in June 2019, and was succeeded by  Melia Bensussen. He directed two productions on Broadway: "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" in 2013 and "Anastasia" in 2017. He directed the Theatre for a New Audience production of Eugène Ionesco's "The Killer" in 2014 at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, New York City. Productions. Hartford Stage productions. Tresnjak's productions at Hartford Stage have included: External links.