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Daniel J. Sullivan (born June 10, 1940) is an American theatre and film director and playwright. ==Life and career== Sullivan was born in Wray, Colorado, the son of Mary Catherine (née Hutton) and John Martin Sullivan.〔(Sullivan ) filmreference.coml〕 He was raised in San Francisco, where he graduated from San Francisco State University. In 1963, he began his professional career as an actor at the city's Actor's Workshop, where he remained for two years. 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. 〔Hischak, Thomas S. "Daniel Sullivan", ''Enter the Playmakers: Directors and Choreographers on the New York Stage'', Scarecrow Press, 2006, isbn=0810857472, p. 125〕 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''. 〔Berson, Misha. ("Former director Daniel Sullivan to return to Seattle Rep as consultant" ) ''Seattle Times'', September 12, 2008〕 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. His collaborations with Donald Margulies include the Pulitzer-Prize-winning ''Dinner With Friends'' in New York and Los Angeles, the Broadway revival of ''Sight Unseen'', and the Broadway productions of ''Brooklyn Boy'' and the 2010 Broadway production of ''Time Stands Still''. Sullivan has directed most of Charlayne Woodard's plays: ''Pretty Fire (Seattle Rep, 1994-95),'' ''Neat'' (Seattle Rep, 1996-97), ''Stories'' (Seattle Rep, May 1999),〔Jones, Kenneth. ("Woodard's New Work, 'Stories', Develops in Seattle Rep Workshop May 21-23" ) playbill.com, May 21, 1999〕 ''In Real Life'' (Mark Taper Forum, July 2001 and Manhattan Theatre Club, October 2002)〔Phillips, Michael. ("Pleasures of 'Real Life'" ) ''Los Angeles Times'', July 31, 2001〕 and ''The Nightwatcher.'' Other Broadway credits include ''Retreat From Moscow'', ''Morning's at Seven'', ''Proof'', ''Major Barbara'', ''A Moon for the Misbegotten'', ''Accent on Youth'', ''The Homecoming'', ''Rabbit Hole'', ''Prelude to a Kiss'', ''After The Night And The Music'', ''Julius Caesar'', and ''Ah, Wilderness''. 〔("Daniel Sullivan Broadway Credits and Awards" ) playbillvault.com, accessed August 1, 2015〕 For Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte, Sullivan directed ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'', ''A Midsummer Night’s Dream'' (2007)〔Brantley, Ben. ("A Rude Mechanical’s Dream" ) ''The New York Times'', August 24, 2007〕 and ''Twelfth Night'' (2009).〔Hetrick, Adam. ("Casting Complete for Shakespeare in the Park's 'Twelfth Night' " ) playbill.com, May 29, 2009〕 Other Off-Broadway credits include ''Stuff Happens'', ''Intimate Apparel'', ''Ancestral Voices'', ''Spinning Into Butter'', ''Far East'', ''London Suite'', ''Psychopathia Sexualis'' ''The American Clock'', and ''Good People''. At The Old Globe Theatre, Sullivan directed ''Julius Caesar'', ''Cymbeline'' (1999),〔Manus, Willard. ("Sullivan, Walton and Rees Featured in Old Globe Theatre Festival 1999" ) playbill.com, April 1, 1999〕''Romeo and Juliet''(1998), 〔Shirley, Don. ("Dark 'Romeo' Rises Above Shadow of Celebrity" ) ''Los Angeles Times'', September 7, 1998〕 ''Merry Wives of Windsor'' and ''Othello'', and at South Coast Repertory he directed ''Hamlet'', ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', ''Taming of the Shrew'' and ''Volpone''. Sullivan's Broadway acting credits include the 1973 revival of ''A Streetcar Named Desire'', ''The Merchant of Venice'' (1973), ''The Playboy of the Western World'' (1971),〔''The Good Woman of Setzuan'', and ''Camino Real''. In addition to his directing, Sullivan currently holds the Swanlund Chair at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Daniel J. Sullivan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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