Darko_Tresnjak

Darko Tresnjak

Darko Tresnjak

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Darko Tresnjak (Serbian Cyrillic: Дарко Трешњак, romanized: Darko Trešnjak) is a director of plays, musicals, and opera, and winner of several awards, including the Tony Award. He was the artistic director of the Hartford Stage in Connecticut, United States.

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Early life and education

Tresnjak is of Serbian heritage.[1] Tresnjak and his mother moved from Zemun, Yugoslavia (modern-day Serbia) to Maryland in 1976. He graduated from Swarthmore College, became a US citizen, and received a master of fine arts degree from Columbia University.[2]

Career

Around 2000 he wrote Princess Turandot, inspired by Carlo Gozzi's play written in 1762 (upon which Puccini's opera Turandot was based). Tresnjak's play was performed by the Blue Light Theater Company in New York City in December 2000.[3]

He served as resident artistic director at Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California, in 2009,[4] and directed for eight summers at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts.[2]

He was the artistic director at Hartford Stage in Hartford, Connecticut[5] from the 2011–2012 season through the 2018–2019 season,[6] where he commissioned The Man in the Case with Mikhail Baryshnikov[7] and directed Kevin Bacon in Rear Window.[8] He left the Hartford Stage for freelance work in June 2019,[9] and was succeeded by Melia Bensussen.[10]

He directed two productions on Broadway: A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder in 2013 and Anastasia in 2017.[11][12]

He directed the Theatre for a New Audience production of Eugène Ionesco's The Killer in 2014 at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, New York City.[13]

Awards

Productions

Hartford Stage productions

Tresnjak's productions at Hartford Stage have included:

Other theater and opera

References

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