Mary Zimmerman is the recipient of a 1998 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2002 Tony Award for Best Direction of her original adaptation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, and numerous Joseph Jefferson Awards—including Jeffs for best production and best direction. She is the Manilow Resident Director of Goodman Theatre, a member of the Lookingglass Theatre Company of Chicago and a professor of performance studies at Northwestern University.
Works which she has created and directed at Goodman Theatre include The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Journey to the West, Silk, Mirror of the Invisible World, the opera Galileo Gallei (with Philip Glass) and The Odyssey (based on an earlier production at Lookingglass). Works created and directed at Lookingglass include Metamorphoses, The Arabian Nights, Argonautika, The Secret in the Wings and Eleven Rooms of Proust (in collaboration with About Face). These original shows have gone on to production in regional theaters such as Berkeley Repertory, Seattle Repertory, Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, Missouri Repertory, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre and New York theatres such as Broadway's Circle in the Square, Second Stage, Manhattan Theatre Club and Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Recent directing credits for the Metropolitan Opera in New York include Lucia di Lammermoor and La Sonnambula, and this spring's Armida (with Renée Fleming). All three operas have been or will be seen as live HD movie theater broadcasts around the world.
Additionally, she has staged Pericles, All's Well That Ends Well, The Trojan Women and The Baltimore Waltz at the Goodman; and twice directed for the New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park.
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