Theater He’s Baaaaaack
posted by on September 15 at 18:51 PM
Haven’t had a chance to Slog this yet, so you may already know, but…
Daniel Sullivan, the Seattle Rep’s artistic director of 16 years and Seattle’s golden boy, is returning in an advisory capacity while Esbjornson jumps ship.
(Esbjornson is jumping ship pretty much immediately, and not sticking around through 2010, like he said he would after declining to renew his four-year contract with the theater.)
Sullivan seems to be pulling a Susan Trapnell: like Susan returned to ACT to help it though its financial crisis, Danny S is returning to the Rep to shepherd it through an artistic—and perhaps identity—crisis.
The Age of Sullivan was before my time, so I don’t have much to say about his work. But here’s a list of his awards and nominations:
Awards
1972 Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Director - Suggs
2001 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play - Proof
Nominations
1989 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play - The Heidi Chronicles
1989 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play - The Heidi Chronicles
1992 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play - Conversations With My Father
1993 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play - The Sisters Rosensweig
1993 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play - The Sisters Rosensweig
2000 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play - Dinner with Friends
2002 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play - Morning’s at Seven
2006 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play - Stuff Happens
2006 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play - Rabbit Hole
And here’s a distribution map of Daniel Sullivans across the United States:
Funny. I thought there’d be more.
I worked for three years at the Rep during the Sullivan years and I don't have fond memories of the guy. If you're an actor, he's warm and friendly and engaging. If you're "just" a crew member, he won't even acknowledge your existence if he passes you in the hall.
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Ay krikey, and I'm thinking I've done in all them bastard Danny O'Sullivans. You watch your back Danny boy. You watch your back. Sullivan bastards!
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Not many good comments here - I thought you meant Eddy Money was back ...
Hard to see how this is a step forward for Seattle towards becoming a world class theatre town. From my near two decade view from the trenches, it's kinda like a Union soldier being told Fightin' Joe Hooker is back in charge. No one more perfectly embodies the hub-and-spoke New York centric development model that Seattle's gonna have to shed if it wants a seat at the grownups' table. (How's that for metaphor mess?!)
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