Bartlett Sher has been Artistic Director of Intiman Theatre since 2000. Under his artistic leadership, Intiman received the 2006 Regional Theatre Tony Award. His directing credits include the current Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific for Lincoln Center Theater. He was recently honored with the Julia Hansen Award for Excellence in Directing by the Drama League of New York.

Other productions for Lincoln Center include Awake and Sing! by Clifford Odets, for which he received a 2006 Tony nomination, and  The Light in the Piazza by Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel, for which he received 2005 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critic Circle nominations. In 2006, he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera with a new production of The Barber of Seville.

At Intiman, he has directed Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth and Our Town; Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya and Three Sisters, both in new adaptations by Craig Lucas; the world premieres of two new plays by Craig Lucas, Prayer for My Enemy and Singing Forest, both also for Long Wharf Theatre; and the world premiere of Nickel and Dimed, Joan Holden’s adaptation of the nonfiction bestseller by Barbara Ehrenreich, which transferred to the Mark Taper Forum. His other Intiman credits include The Dying Gaul by Craig Lucas; Carlo Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters; Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul; and Shakespeare’s Richard III, Titus Andronicus and Cymbeline, which was his Seattle directing debut.

He directed a new production of Cymbeline in 2002, produced by Theatre for a New Audience, which premiered in England at the Royal Shakespeare Company and was the first American production ever to be performed at the RSC. He received the Callaway Award and Lortel and Drama Desk nominations for the production’s award-winning Off-Broadway run at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. For TFANA he has also directed the American premiere of Harley Granville-Barker’s Waste (2000 Best Play OBIE), Don Juan and Pericles. He made his opera-directing debut with Mourning Becomes Electra for Seattle Opera and New York City Opera.

Mr. Sher currently serves on the Board of Directors of Theatre Communications Group. Prior to coming to Intiman, he was associate artistic director at Hartford Stage and company director at The Guthrie Theater under his mentor, Garland Wright. He received his graduate training as the only American in a class of international theatre artists at Leeds University in England. He has directed, lectured and run workshops at theaters, universities and training programs across the country.

His upcoming directing projects include the opera Roméo et Juliette for the Salzburg Festival, and the New York premiere of Prayer for My Enemy at Playwrights Horizons.