Daniel J. Sullivan Biography

Sullivan worked as both an actor and director with the Lincoln Center Repertory Company in the late 1960s and 1970s. His directorial debut there was A.R. Gurney's Scenes from American Life in 1971 for which he won a Drama Desk Award.
After two years as Resident Director of the Seattle Repertory Theatre he assumed the position of Artistic Director in 1981 serving until 1997. It was there that he directed the first production of his own play Inspecting Carol.
Sullivan has forged successful working relationships with many prominent American playwrights. He directed Herb Gardner's Tony winning I'm Not Rappaport at Seattle Rep before staging it off-Broadway on Broadway in London's West End and the United States national tour. He reteamed with Gardner to stage Conversations with My Father in Seattle New York City and Los Angeles. His first association with Wendy Wasserstein was the Pulitzer Prize and Tony-winning The Heidi Chronicles which he directed off Broadway on Broadway and its National Tour. The duo later collaborated on The Sisters Rosensweig on Broadway and the National Tour An American Daughter and Ms. Wasserstein's final play Third. He directed both the off-Broadway and screen version of Jon Robin Baitz's The Substance of Fire as well as the original productions of A Fair Country and Ten Unknowns in New York and Baitz's translation of Hedda Gabler in Los Angeles.

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