Background
His mother was a nurse, also a chorus girl. His father was an engineer, and also played in a brass band.
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John Tiffany
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He initially studied biology at Glasgow University, but switched to classics and drama.
Career
He directed the internationally successful productions Black Watch and Tiffany was brought up near Huddersfield, England. As a youth, he participated in the Huddersfield Choral Society Youth Choir and held jobs at Boots United Kingdom and a restaurant. Tiffany"s theatrical background is in "developing and directing new plays at Scottish theaters".
He was literary director at Edinburgh"s Traverse Theatre from 1997 to 2001.
After Featherstone was named founding Artistic Director of the in late 2004, she hired Tiffany again, as Associate Director of New Work of the company. Tiffany"s earliest success with the company was his direction of the highly regarded 2006 production of Black Watch.
Tiffany"s other productions included an adaptation of Peter Pan, which played in Glasgow, in April to May 2010, and then toured to London, Inverness, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. A version of The Bacchae, starring Alan Cumming as Dionysus.
And Macbeth, as co-director with Andrew Goldberg, in which Cumming played all the roles.
His final production as Associate Director was Let the Right One In which premiered in Dundee in 2013. James Bond movie producer Barbara Broccoli acquired the stage production rights for, which is based on the 2006 musical film by the same name, and subsequently recruited Tiffany to produce it after seeing his Black Watch at Saint Ann"s Warehouse in Brooklyn. marked their seventh collaboration. Tiffany directed the Office-Broadway and Broadway productions of in 2011–2012.
In 2013, he directed a production of Tennessee Williams" The Glass Menagerie at the American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, Massachusetts, which transferred to Broadway.
Achievements
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He has won a Tony Award, an Olivier Award, a Drama Desk Award and an Obie Award. He won the 2012 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical for his direction of Among the artistic decisions that Hoggett and Tiffany made was the decision to eliminate the choreography from several works including "Falling Slowly", which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 80th Academy Awards in 2008. He won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for at the 66th Tony Awards. Tiffany also received a 2012 Obie Award special citation (along with colleagues Hoggett and Martin Lowe). Earned 11 Tony Award nominations, more than any other production for the 2011-2012 season. The work earned him a second Best direction of a play Tony Award nomination.
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