Moritz von Stuelpnagel
Moritz von Stuelpnagel is an American theatre director. Newsday has described him as, "best known for having staged blasphemous hand puppets" in Hand to God,[1] for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2015.[2]
Life and career[edit]
Von Stuelpnagel's parents emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1975.[3] He attended Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Theatre before receiving a Masters in Fine Arts from Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts, Theatre Division.[4][5]
From 2009 to 2015, he served as the Artistic Director of Studio 42, an Off-Off-Broadway theater company whose mission was to produce plays they deemed "unproducible".[4]
Critic Terry Teachout of The Wall Street Journal wrote of Von Stuelpnagel's work, "[His] 2015 Broadway staging of Hand to God proved him to be a master of stage comedy, physical and otherwise."[6] Hand to God garnered five Tony Award nominations in 2015, including Best Direction of a Play.[2] Von Stuelpnagel directed the 2016 production of Hand to God in London's West End at the Vaudeville Theatre where it was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy.[7]
In 2017, he directed a Broadway revival of Noël Coward's Present Laughter starring Kevin Kline, which was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play.
In 2018, von Stuelpnagel directed the premiere on Broadway of Theresa Rebeck's Bernhardt/Hamlet starring Janet McTeer.
Notable works[edit]
| Year | Title | Playwright | Producer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | The Most Lamentable and Tragical Historie of the Barber-Surgeons [1] | Timothy Charles Browne | Studio 42 |
| 2015 | Verité [2] | Nick Jones | Lincoln Center Theatre/LCT3 |
| Hand to God | Robert Askins | Booth Theatre | |
| Tiger Style! | Mike Lew | Alliance Theatre | |
| Important Hats of the Twentieth Century [3] | Nick Jones | Manhattan Theatre Club | |
| 2016 | Hand to God | Robert Askins | Vaudeville Theatre |
| Romance Novels for Dummies [4] | Boo Killebrew | Williamstown Theatre Festival | |
| 2017 | Present Laughter | Noël Coward | St. James Theatre |
| 2018 | Seared | Theresa Rebeck | Williamstown Theatre Festival |
| Teenage Dick | Mike Lew | Public Theatre | |
| Bernhardt/Hamlet | Theresa Rebeck | Roundabout Theatre Company | |
| 2023 | The Thanksgiving Play | Larissa FastHorse | Playwrights Horizons, Broadway |
| I Need That | Theresa Rebeck | Roundabout Theatre Company | |
| 2024 | Judgment Day | Rob Ulin | Chicago Shakespeare Theater |
References[edit]
- ^ Winer, Linda (5 April 2017). "'Present Laughter' review: Kevin Kline back on Broadway". Newsday.
- ^ a b "2015 Tony Award Nominations". The New York Times. June 12, 2017. Retrieved June 26, 2019.
- ^ Tran, Diep (1 September 2015). "The rattled hymn of a tiger cub". American Theatre. Vol. 32, no. 7. Archived from the original on 25 October 2019. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
- ^ a b Rothstein, Mervyn (June 26, 2018). "Stage Directions: Why Moritz von Stuelpnagel Says 'Certainty Is Dangerous'". Playbill. Retrieved June 26, 2019.
- ^ Appelo, Tim (May 29, 2015). "The 25 Best Drama Schools for a Master of Fine Arts". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved June 27, 2019.
- ^ Teachout, Terry (April 5, 2017). "'Present Laughter' Review: A Comedic Triumph for Coward and Kline". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved June 26, 2019.
- ^ "Olivier Winners 2016". OfficialLondonTheatre.com. Retrieved June 26, 2019.