Frank Galati
FRANK GALATI has been an associate director at the Goodman Theatre since 1987. Most recently at the Goodman, he directed Oedipus Complex. Other notable Goodman directing credits include the Kander and Ebb, Terrence McNally musical The Visit, She Always Said, Pablo, which he adapted from the works of Gertrude Stein, The Winter’s Tale, the musical Cry, The Beloved Country, Gertrude Stein: Each One As She May, The Good Person of Sechuan, The Government Inspector, and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Most recently re-mounted the musical The Snow Queen for Victory Gardens.
Mr. Galati was nominated for a Tony award in 1998 for directing the Steppenwolf production of The Grapes of Wrath. Also on Broadway, he directed Julie Harris and Calista Flockhart in The Glass Menagerie. Over the years he has received nine Joseph Jefferson Awards for his work in Chicago theatre-one for acting, five for directing and three for writing.
Mr. Galati is a member of the Steppenwolf Ensemble, and this fall he will direct his own adaptation of Murakami's novel Kafka on the Shore. Other Steppenwolf directing credits include his own adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s After the Quake (which also played at the Longwharf Theatre in New Haven), You Can’t Take it With You, Born Yesterday, Earthly Possessions, As I Lay Dying, Everyman, Morning Star, Valparaiso, and Homebody/Kabul (which also played at the Mark Taper Forum and the Brooklyn Academy of Music).
Mr. Galati appeared in the Steppenwolf production of The Drawer Boy with fellow ensemble member John Mahoney. He directed the world premiere of William Bolcolm’s A View From the Bridge for the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 1999, and made his New York Metropolitan Opera directing debut when he staged the opera there in 2000. Other Lyric Opera directing credits include The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe, La Traviata, Tosca, Pelleas and Mellisande and Postcard from Morocco. For Chicago Opera Theatre, Mr. Galati directed The Mother of Us All, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Albert Herring, The Good Soldier Schweik, Summer and Smoke, and Four Saints in Three Acts.
In 1989, he was nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay with Lawrence Kasdan, of The Accidental Tourist. Mr. Galati recently adapted and directed Loving Repeating: a Musical of Gertrude Stein, with a score by Stephen Flaherty, produced by About Face Theatre and the Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2001 Mr. Galati was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He teaches in the Department of Performance Studies at Northwestern University.