Jack has won three Tony Awards and been nominated for seven more, and won five Drama Desk Awards. Select Broadway credits include All My Sons, Carousel, Charlie and the Chocolate factory, The Front Page, Its Only a Play, The Nance, Catch Me If You Can, A Catered Affair, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, The Coast of Utopia (TONY), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Tony nom), Henry IV (TONY), Hairspray (TONY), the Invention of Love (Tony Nom), The Full Monty (Tony Nom), Damn Yankees, Porgy and Bess (Tony nom), Two Shakespeare Actors (Tony Nom) The Piano Lesson, The Most Happy Fella, The Little Foxes among many, many more. According to the Internet Broadway Data Base, Jack O’Brien has 52 Broadway credits to his name.
Jack served as the Artistic Director of the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California from 1981 to 2007
Additional select credits include Il Trittico at the Metropolitan Opera; Guys and Dolls at Carnage Hall; and Much Ado About Nothing at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. London credits include: Love Never Dies, Hairspray (Olivier Award nomination) and His Girl Friday at the National Theater. He has directed six movies for PBS's "American Playhouse." O’Brien has aslo directed the critically acclaimed national tour of The Sound of Music and the world premiere of the Jake Heggie/Terrence McNally opera Great Scott for The Dallas Opera. Jack was nominated for an Emmy Award for his documentary "Becoming Mike Nichols" (HBO). And if you have not read his book, Jack Be Nimble, please do yourself a favor and grab a copy.
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