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JIM SIMPSON Founder and Artistic Director of The Flea Theater (2004 Drama Desk cited for Downtown Adventurous Theater). Two-time OBIE-award winner, 2002 National Board of Review Excellence in Filmmaking, and cited for artistic leadership in Downtown New York by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Jim has directed over 70 works for the theater and has also directed for film and television. Venues include nine seasons at the Williamstown Theater Festival, Alley Theater, Hartford Stage, Yale Rep, Actor's Theater of Louisville, Eisenhower Theater at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Playwrights Horizons, EST, CSC, MCC, the London International Theater Festival and the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Mr. Simpson was a child actor in his hometown of Honolulu, as a teenager worked with Jerzy Grotowski in Poland, and holds degrees from Keio University in Tokyo, Boston University School for the Arts, and the Yale Drama School. Most recently, Jim directed the revival of Nixon's Nixon at MCC, A. R. Gurney's Crazy Mary at Playwrights Horizons, and Will Eno's Oh, The Humanity and other exclamations now running at The Flea.
Bio as of December, 2007.
American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include:
Working in the Theatre (video)
Off-Broadway Companies - January, 2008 - Watch now.
Playwright and Director - September, 1986 - Watch now.
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