Artist Profiles

David Cromer

Broadway: The Sound InsideThe Band’s Visit (2018 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical); Brighton Beach Memoirs, The House of Blue Leaves. Off Broadway: The Treasurer (Playwrights Horizons); Man from Nebraska (Second Stage); The Band's VisitWomen or Nothing (Atlantic Theater); Really Really (MCC Theater); When the Rain Stops FallingNikolai and the Others (Lincoln Center Theater). At Barrow Street Theatre, he directed Tribes, The Effect, Orson's Shadow, Adding Machine (prestented at the Minetta Lane) and Our Town, which originated in Chicago and later played in London, Los Angels, Boston and Kansas City. In Chicago his directing credits include Next to Normal, A Streetcar Named Desire, Picnic, Booth (Writers Theatre); Cherrywood, Mojo, The Hot l Baltimore (Mary-Arrchie Theatre); The Cider House Rules (co-directed with Marc Grapey at Famous Door); and Angels in America (The Journeymen); among others. For his direction he has received a Tony Award, a Drama Desk, three Obie Awards, three Lucille Lortel Awards, a Joe A. Callaway Award, four Jeff Awards, and in 2010 was made a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.