Tina Landau

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Tina Landau (born May 21, 1962, NYC) is an American theater writer and director. She is the author of such works as Floyd Collins (with composer Adam Guettel), Dream True (with composer Ricky Ian Gordon), Beauty, Space, 1969, and Stonewall. Landau is a member of the Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago, Illinois, where she’s directed productions including The Time of Your Life, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Cherry Orchard, Theatrical Essays, Time to Burn, Berlin Circle, and The Ballad of Little Jo. In New York, she’s directed Charles Mee’s Iphigenia 2.0, The Trojan Women, and Orestes, as well as various plays at the Vineyard Theater, The Public Theater, and Playwrights Horizons. Landau also directed the 2001 Broadway revival of Bells Are Ringing, starring Faith Prince.

With Anne Bogart, Landau has written The Viewpoints Book: A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition. In 2007, she was a recipient of the prestigious United States Artists Fellowship.

Landau was born in New York City to parents Edie and Ely Landau, producers of such films as The Pawnbroker, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, King, Hopscotch, The Chosen, and the films of the American Film Theater (A Delicate Balance, Man in the Glass Booth, Butley, The Homecoming.) She moved with her family to Beverly Hills, California, where she graduated from Beverly Hills High before going on to Yale College. She later attended the American Repertory Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard.

Tina Landau was named a 2007 USA Ford Fellow and granted $50,000 by United States Artists, an arts advocacy foundation dedicated to the support and promotion of America's top living artists.

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₵ Peterson, Jane T., and Bennett, Suzanne. Women Playwrights of Diversity: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook , Greenwood Press, 1997. ISBN-13: 9780313291791

₳ Dominus, Susan. The 9 Habits of Highly Creative Directors, New York Times, September 4, 2005.

₳ Bogart, Anne and Landau, Tina. The Viewpoints Book: A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Compositions . Theater Communications Group, 2005. ISBN-13: 9781559362412

₳ Hausam, Wiley, ed., The New American Musical: An Anthology from the End of the 20th Century. Theatre Communications Group, 2001. ISBN-13: 9781559362009