Bartlett Sher has been INTIMAN’s Artistic Director since 2000. He received a 2006 Tony nomination for his direction of Awake and Sing! by Clifford Odets and 2005 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critic Circle nominations for his direction of The Light in the Piazza by Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel, both for Lincoln Center Theater. In 2006, he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera with Rossini’s 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 Prayer for My Enemy and Singing Forest by Craig Lucas (both also for Long Wharf Theatre) as well as Lucas’s The Dying Gaul; and the world premiere of Nickel and Dimed, a commissioned adaptation of the nonfiction book by Barbara Ehrenreich by Joan Holden. Other INTIMAN credits include Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters; Shaw’s Arms and the Man; 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 as the first American Shakespeare ever performed at the Royal Shakespeare Company. He received the Callaway Award for the production’s award-winning Off-Broadway run. For TFANA he 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. He serves on the Board of Theatre Communications Group, and has held positions as 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.

His directing projects in 2008 include the first Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific, which will be produced by Lincoln Center Theater, and the opera Roméo et Juliette, starring Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón, for the Salzburg Festival.