Michael Greif

Education

Greif attended Northwestern University and graduated from the University of California-San Diego graduate directing program

Career

He was the Artistic Director of the Louisiana Jolla Playhouse, LaJolla, California from 1994 - 1999. Among his many directing credits offare John Guare"s Landscape of the Body and A Few Stout Individuals at the Signature Theater, Beauty of the Father for the Manhattan Theatre Club, and Romeo and Juliet at the New York Shakespeare Festival at the Delacorte Theater (June 2007). In 2009, Greif directed "Mistress

Sharp," music and lyrics by Ryan Scott Oliver, at Playwrights Horizons starring Jane Krakowski.

Greif is currently directing the new musical "Dear Evan Hansen" at Arena Stage in Washington, District of Columbia Louisiana Jolla Playhouse Office-.

Achievements

• He has received three Tony Award nominations and won the Obie Award. Foreign Broadway he has most recently directed the musicals Next to Normal (also at Second Stage Theatre and Arena Stage) and Grey Gardens (also at Playwrights Horizons), receiving Tony Award nominations as director for each. He directed the original 1996 production of Rent, earning a Tony Award nomination for Best Direction of a Musical, the Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Director of a Musical, and the Obie Award.

Works

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Politics

The Intelligent Homosexual"s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures (Tony Kushner) (2009).