HAROLD PRINCE
(Director)
Mr. Prince directed the premiere productions of She Loves Me, Cabaret, Company, Follies, Candide, Pacific Overtures, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Evita, The Phantom of the Opera, Parade and LoveMuzik.
Before becoming a director, Mr. Prince's productions included The Pajama Game, Damn Yankees, West Side Story, Fiddler On The Roof, Fiorello!, and A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum.
Among the plays he has directed are Hollywood Arms, The Visit, The Great God Brown, End Of The World, Play Memory and his own play, Grandchild Of Kings.
In May 2010, he directed Paradise Found based on Joseph Roth’s The Tale of the 1002nd Night, starring Mandy Patinkin, John Cullum, Judy Kaye and Shuler Hensley.
His opera productions have been seen at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Dallas Opera, Vienna Staatsoper and Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires.
He served as a trustee for the NY Public Library and on the National Council of the Arts of the NEA.
Recipient of a 2000 National Medal of Arts from President Clinton for a career spanning more than 40 years, in which "he changed the nature of the American musical."
The recipient of twenty-one Tony Awards, he was a 1994 Kennedy Center Honoree.
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