Member Profiles
Terry Kinney
Biography
Terry Kinney is a co-founder of Steppenwolf Theatre Company. His directing credits there include The Violet Hour, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Clockwork Orange, Of Mice and Men and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, which moved to Broadway and won a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. NYC directing credits include the world premiere of Checkers by Doug McGrath, reasons to be pretty for MCC and Broadway, After Ashley and Beautiful Child at the Vineyard Theatre, The Money Shot by Neil LaBute for MCC and others. Upcoming projects include Sins of the Mother by Israel Horowitz and Rear Window, adapted by Keith Reddin. Mr. Kinney’s film directing credits include the short film Kubuku Rides (This Is It) for Steppenwolf Films and Diminished Capacity with Matthew Broderick and Alan Alda. Film appearances include Save the Last Dance, Sleepers, Fly Away Home, Last of the Mohicans, The Firm, Devil in a Blue Dress and Turn The River. TV credits include Tim McManus in HBO’s prison drama Oz, The Black List, The Mentalist, The Unusuals, The Laramie Project, 30something, Kidnapped, George Wallace and The Good Wife with Julianna Margulies.
Watch & Listen
Credits & Awards
Film
The Game of Their Lives; Save the Last Dance; House of Mirth; Luminous Motion; The Young Girl and the Monsoon; Oxygen; Sleepers; Fly Away Home; The Firm; Devil in the Blue Dress; No Mercy.
Theatre
Director Off-Broadway: The Agony and the Agony; Beautiful Child; Eyes for Consuela; Brilliant Traces.
Television
Actor The Laramie Project (HBO); Oz (HBO); That Championship Season (Showtime); George Wallace (TNT); Thirtysomething (ABC); The Unusuals (ABC); The Mentalist (CBS)
Director Oz (HBO)
Awards
Tony Award nomination (The Grapes of Wrath); Drama Desk Award nomination (And a Nightingale Sang...); Joseph Jefferson Award (And a Nightingale Sang...); Cable ACE nomination (Oz).
Past Productions
- A Clockwork Orange
- A Prayer for My Daughter
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- Action
- And A Nightingale Sang
- Another Time
- Balm In Gilead
- Balm in Gilead (Remount at the Apollo Theater Center)
- Born Yesterday
- Cloud Nine
- Death Of A Salesman
- Exit The King (at Hull House)
- Fool for Love
- Ghost in the Machine
- Home Free
- Inspecting Carol
- Joe Frank in Murdered by the Mind
- Joe Frank in Too Close To Home
- East of Eden
- Lydie Breeze
- Mack, Anything Goes Over the Rainbow
- My Thing Of Love
- Of Mice And Men
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
- Orphans
- Our Late Night
- Petty Delusions And Grand Obsessions
- Reckless
- Ring Round the Moon
- Rosencrantz And Guildenstern are Dead
- Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead
- Sandbar Flatland
- Savages
- Stepping Out
- Streamers
- Talking Heads
- The Glass Menagerie
- The Grapes Of Wrath
- The House
- The Indian Wants The Bronx
- The Indian Wants the Bronx
- The Loveliest Afternoon Of The Year
- The Lover
- The Song of Jacob Zulu
- The Violet Hour
- The Well-Appointed Room
- Tracers
- Waiting For Lefty
- You Can't Take It With You
- Your Home In The West
- Another Marriage