WALTER BOBBIE
(Director)
WALTER BOBBIE (Director) directed the international hit Chicago which won him the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards and has become the longest-running revival in Broadway history. Other Broadway credits include White Christmas, High Fidelity, Sweet Charity, Twentieth Century, Footloose and A Grand Night for Singing. Recent New York productions include David Ives's Venus In Fur at Classic Stage, Evan Smith's The Savannah Disputation at Playwrights Horizons, Christopher Durang's The Marriage of Bette & Boo at the Roundabout, No No Nanette at Encores, and Mr. Ives's New Jerusalem, also at Classic Stage. Mr. Bobbie has also directed for New York Shakespeare Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Goodspeed Opera House, Sundance, and the O'Neill Center. He was Artistic Director for City Center’s acclaimed Encores, and serves on the Executive Board of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.
(Director)
WALTER BOBBIE (Director) directed the international hit Chicago which won him the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards and has become the longest-running revival in Broadway history. Other Broadway credits include White Christmas, High Fidelity, Sweet Charity, Twentieth Century, Footloose and A Grand Night for Singing. Recent New York productions include David Ives's Venus In Fur at Classic Stage, Evan Smith's The Savannah Disputation at Playwrights Horizons, Christopher Durang's The Marriage of Bette & Boo at the Roundabout, No No Nanette at Encores, and Mr. Ives's New Jerusalem, also at Classic Stage. Mr. Bobbie has also directed for New York Shakespeare Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Goodspeed Opera House, Sundance, and the O'Neill Center. He was Artistic Director for City Center’s acclaimed Encores, and serves on the Executive Board of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.