Susan Stroman, Five Time Tony Award® winner
Interviewed by Sharon Washington, Tony Award® nominee

Bruno Walter Auditorium
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
65th Street on Amsterdam Ave, NYC.
Producer:  Ludovica Villar-Hauser

First come, first seated. Arrive early to avoid disappointment.

Susan Stroman Photo Credit: Tess Mayer

Susan Stroman, a five-time Tony Award winning director and choreographer known for the Broadway musicals Crazy for You, Contact, The Scottsboro Boys, and The Producers – winner of a record- making 12 Tony Awards including Best Direction and Best Choreography – her work has been honored with Olivier, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel, and a record six Astaire Awards. For Broadway, she most recently directed and choreographed the new Kander & Ebb musical New York, New York and directed the new play POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive. This season in London’s West End, she directed and choreographed the revival of Crazy for You at the Gillian Lynne Theatre. Other Broadway credits include Show Boat, Prince of Broadway, Bullets Over Broadway, Big Fish, Oklahoma!, Young Frankenstein, Thou Shalt Not, The Music Man, Big, The Frogs, and Steel Pier. Off-Broadway she directed and choreographed Little Dancer, The Beast in the Jungle, Dot, Flora the Red Menace, And the World Goes ‘Round, Happiness, The Last Two People on Earth: An Apocalyptic Vaudeville, as well as The Merry Widow for The Metropolitan Opera. She has created ballets for New York City Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Martha Graham. She received the American Choreography Award for her work in Columbia Pictures feature film Center Stage. She is the recipient of the George Abbott Award for Lifetime Achievement in the American Theater and an inductee of the Theater Hall of Fame in New York City. www.SusanStroman.com

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Sharon Washington

Sharon Washington was nominated for a 2023 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical as co-writer of New York New York. Sharon made her debut as playwright at City Theatre with the world-premiere of her solo play Feeding The Dragon which subsequently played at Hartford Stage and made its Off-Broadway debut at Primary Stages where she was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Lucille Lortel Award and won an Audelco Award. She was the Primary Stages 2017-18 Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence. Feeding the Dragon is currently available as an Audible Original and was selected as an Audible Essentials Top 100 pick. It is published by Oberon Books. Sharon is working on a picture book adaptation of her story: The Little Girl Who Lived in the Library for Scholastic.
As an actor Sharon was seen as Queen Margaret in the Public Theater/Shakespeare in the Park production of Richard III starring Dania Gurira, broadcast on PBS Great Performances. Recent film and television appearances include Power Book III: Raising Kanan, Bull; the award-winning short film Birdwatching co-starring Amanda Seyfried, and the Academy-Award winning Joker. You may also recognize her voice as the narrator of several documentary series for Animal Planet, Discovery and NOVA.
On Broadway Sharon appeared in The Scottsboro Boys musical. Off-Broadway credits include Dot (Vineyard Theater); Wild with Happy (Public Theater/NYSF - Lucille Lortel nomination and Audelco Award; While I Yet Live and String of Pearls (Primary Stages); as well as regional theaters around the country including: Guthrie Theater, Denver Center, and Arena Stage among many others.
Sharon holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama and a BA from Dartmouth College. She currently sits on the boards of The Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth, Primary Stages, Girl Be Heard and the Theatre Gap Initiative.
 

*While tickets are free, seating is granted on a first come first serve basis. Five minutes before showtime, seats will be given out to people on the wait list regardless of reservation status.

NEXT ORAL HISTORY PROJECT INTERVIEW Monday June 3rd, 2024

The Oral History Project was conceived and founded by Betty Corwin, which she produced for 26 years.  This ongoing program, produced in partnership with the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, chronicles and documents the contributions of significant theatre women across all disciplines who represent a broad array of ethnic, cultural, and racial backgrounds.  Currently, Oral History is produced by director/producer and former LPTW Co-President Ludovica Villar-Hauser.

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