January 10, 1949 -
American stage director, playwright, screenwriter and librettist
Author of "Sunday in the Park with George" (for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical and Best Direction of a Musical in 1984, won a Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Book of a Musical and Outstanding Director of a Musical in 1984, won a New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical in 1984 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1985), "Into the Woods" (for which he won a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical and was nominated for Best Direction of a Musical in 1988, won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical and was nominated for Outstanding Director of a Musical in 1988 and won a New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical in 1988), "Falsettos" (for which he won a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical and was nominated for Best Direction of a Musical in 1992) and "Passion" (for which he won a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical in 1994 and won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of Musical and was nominated for Outstanding Direction of a Musical in 1994)