Michael Wilson (director)

Michael Wilson directed the 2013 Broadway revival, as well as the 2014 Emmy nominated Lifetime/Ostar Productions film, of Horton Foote’s The Trip to Bountiful, for which he received a 2014 DGA nomination for Best Director. He received Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for his production of Foote’s nine-hour epic The Orphans’ Home Cycle. Also on Broadway, he directed Foote’s Tony-nominated Dividing the Estate, as well as Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, Enchanted April, and Old Acquaintance. Off-Broadway, he directed Foote’s The Carpetbagger’s Children and The Day Emily Married; premieres by Eve Ensler, Marcus Gardley, Rebecca Gilman, David Grimm, John Guare, Beth Henley, Tina Howe, Chris Shinn, and Tennessee Williams; and revivals of Lanford Wilson and Arthur Miller (Incident at Vichy at Signature Theater Company, which was subsequently filmed for television by WNET 13 with BroadwayHD). His other screen work includes the award-winning indie film Showing Roots. Internationally, he directed Tony Kushner’s Angels in America for the 1995 Venice Biennale. From 1998 to 2011, he was Artistic Director of Hartford Stage, where he commissioned and developed numerous plays, including Quiara Alegria Hudes’ Pulitzer Prize-winning Water By the Spoonful. A recipient of the Princess Grace Fellowship and Statue Awards, as well as Daryl Roth’s Creative Spirit Award, he most recently directed the Los Angeles premiere of Grey Gardens starring Betty Buckley and Rachel York.