Moritz von Stuelpnagel is an American theatre director. Newsday has described him as, "best known for having staged blasphemous hand puppets" in Hand to God,[1] for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2015.[2]

Life and career

Von Stuelpnagel's parents emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1975.[3] He attended Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Theatre before receiving a Masters in Fine Arts from Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts, Theatre Division.[4][5]

From 2009 to 2015, he served as the Artistic Director of Studio 42, an Off-Off-Broadway theater company whose mission was to produce plays they deemed "unproducible".[4]

Critic Terry Teachout of The Wall Street Journal wrote of Von Stuelpnagel's work, "[His] 2015 Broadway staging of Hand to God proved him to be a master of stage comedy, physical and otherwise."[6] Hand to God garnered five Tony Award nominations in 2015, including Best Direction of a Play.[2] Von Stuelpnagel directed the 2016 production of Hand to God in London's West End at the Vaudeville Theatre where it was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy.[7]

In 2017, he directed a Broadway revival of Noël Coward's Present Laughter starring Kevin Kline, which was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play.

In 2018, von Stuelpnagel directed the premiere on Broadway of Theresa Rebeck's Bernhardt/Hamlet starring Janet McTeer.

Notable works

Year Title Playwright Producer
2008 The Most Lamentable and Tragical Historie of the Barber-Surgeons Timothy Charles Browne Studio 42
2015 Verité Nick Jones Lincoln Center Theatre/LCT3
Hand to God Robert Askins Booth Theatre
Tiger Style! Mike Lew Alliance Theatre
Important Hats of the Twentieth Century Nick Jones Manhattan Theatre Club
2016 Hand to God Robert Askins Vaudeville Theatre
Romance Novels for Dummies Boo Killebrew Williamstown Theatre Festival
2017 Present Laughter Noël Coward St. James Theatre
2018 Seared Theresa Rebeck Williamstown Theatre Festival
Teenage Dick Mike Lew Public Theatre
Bernhardt/Hamlet Theresa Rebeck Roundabout Theatre Company
The Thanksgiving Play Larissa FastHorse Playwrights Horizons

References

  1. ↑ Winer, Linda (5 April 2017). "'Present Laughter' review: Kevin Kline back on Broadway". Newsday.
  2. 1 2 "2015 Tony Award Nominations". The New York Times. June 12, 2017. Retrieved June 26, 2019.
  3. ↑ Tran, Diep (1 September 2015). "The rattled hymn of a tiger cub". American Theatre. Vol. 32, no. 7. Archived from the original on 25 October 2019. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
  4. 1 2 Rothstein, Mervyn (June 26, 2018). "Stage Directions: Why Moritz von Stuelpnagel Says 'Certainty Is Dangerous'". Playbill. Retrieved June 26, 2019.
  5. ↑ Appelo, Tim (May 29, 2015). "The 25 Best Drama Schools for a Master of Fine Arts". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved June 27, 2019.
  6. ↑ Teachout, Terry (April 5, 2017). "'Present Laughter' Review: A Comedic Triumph for Coward and Kline". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved June 26, 2019.
  7. ↑ "Olivier Winners 2016". OfficialLondonTheatre.com. Retrieved June 26, 2019.
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