Artistic Consultant
Daniel Sullivan is happy to return to Seattle Rep to direct The Night Watcher and join the staff as Artistic Consultant for the 2009-2010 season. From 1981 to 1997, Mr. Sullivan served as Artistic Director of Seattle Repertory Theatre, where he directed more than 60 productions including Uncle Vanya, Caucasian Chalk Circle, She Stoops To Conquer, Inspecting Carol, The Mandrake, The Wedding, As You Like It, Major Barbara among many others. He established Seattle Rep’s new play program, developing new works by Jon Robin Baitz, Herb Gardner, A.R. Gurney, Arthur Miller, Wendy Wasserstein, Charlayne Woodard, and William Mastrosimone, among others. Daniel Sullivan has directed in theatres both nationally and abroad. Mr. Sullivan’s revival of The Homecoming by Harold Pinter was on Broadway this past season. Recent Broadway credits include Prelude to a Kiss, Rabbit Hole, After the Night and the Music, Julius Caesar, Brooklyn Boy, Sight Unseen, The Retreat from Moscow, Proof, Morning’s At Seven, I’m Not Rappaport, Major Barbara, A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Heidi Chronicles, Conversations With My Father, Lincoln Center’s Ah! Wilderness, The Sisters Rosensweig, and An American Daughter. Recent off-Broadway credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (in Central Park), Stuff Happens (NY premiere), Third, Intimate Apparel, In Real Life, Ten Unknowns, Spinning Into Butter, Dinner With Friends, Far East, Psychopathia Sexualis, A Fair Country, The Substance of Fire, and London Suite. Mr. Sullivan’s film and television credits include The Substance of Fire and the PBS presentation of “Far East.” Mr. Sullivan is the SwanLund Professor of Theater at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
