Director
CHARLES NEWELL (Director/Artistic Director) most recently directed Court Theatre's critically acclaimed production of Hamlet. Other Court directorial credits include Piano, The Invention of Love, The Learned Ladies, Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards, The Little Foxes, La Bête, The Cherry Orchard, Nora, and An Ideal Husband. Mr. Newell made his Chicago directorial debut in 1993 with Court's production of The Triumph of Love, which won the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Production. He also directed Court's acclaimed pairing of The Misanthrope and Travesties, as well as Celimene and the Cardinal (Jeff Award, Best Director), Travels with My Aunt, The Philadelphia Story, Henry IV: The Shadow of Succession, Barber of Seville, and Once in a Lifetime. Other directing credits include Two Gentlemen of Verona (Arena Stage, John Houseman's The Acting Company), The History Plays, Cymbeline (Guthrie Theatre), Macbeth (California Shakespeare), Blithe Spirit (Alabama Shakespeare), Love's Labour's Lost (PlayMakers Rep), Journey of the Fifth Horse (Juilliard), Pericles (Tisch School, NYU), and The Jewel Box and Don Giovanni (Chicago Opera Theater). Before coming to Court, Mr. Newell served as the Resident Director of the Guthrie Theatre, Staff Repertory Director for John Houseman's The Acting Company, and won the 1992 TCG Alan Schneider Director Award. He has been a strong advocate for the arts by serving as a panelist on the NEA Theatre Program, the NEA/TCG Career Development for Directors, and the New York State Council for the Arts. Last year, Mr. Newell was appointed to the Board of Directors of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization that promotes American not-for-profit theaters. He will direct Court's upcoming production of The Romance Cycle.


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