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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the ForumA Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
 
[St. Louis, MO (Regional), 2017]
Director
Moonshine: The Hee Haw MusicalMoonshine: The Hee Haw Musical
 
[Regional (US), 2015]
Director
Into the WoodsInto the Woods
 
[St. Louis, MO (Regional), 2015]
Director
ParadeParade
 
[New York, 2015]
Director
Honeymoon in VegasHoneymoon in Vegas
 
[Broadway, 2014]
Director
SavedSaved
 
[Off-Broadway, 2008]
Director
1776
 
[East Haddam, CT (Regional), 2007]
Director
Kismet
 
[West End, 2007]
Director
The Apple TreeThe Apple Tree
 
[Broadway, 2006]
Director
The Color PurpleThe Color Purple
 
[Broadway, 2005]
Director
The Color Purple
 
[New York, 2005]
Director
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
 
[Off-Broadway, 2005]
Director
Pardon My English
 
[Off-Broadway, 2004]
Director
The Color Purple
 
[New York, 2004]
Director
Pacific Overtures
 
[West End, 2003]
Director
The New Moon
 
[Off-Broadway, 2003]
Director
Amour
 
[Broadway, 2002]
Director
Pacific Overtures
 
[Regional (US), 2001]
Director
Saturday Night
 
[Regional (US), 1999]
Director

Awards and Nominations

Helen Hayes Awards - 2004 - Outstanding Director, Resident Musical

Gary GriffinA Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Olivier Awards - 2004 - Best Director

Gary Griffin, Pacific Overtures

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Review: BLACKBIRD at Dirt Dogs Theatre Co. Photo
Review: BLACKBIRD at Dirt Dogs Theatre Co.
by Brett Cullum - Feb 24, 2025

This is a wonderfully produced version of an unflinching script, which may be the hardest part of BLACKBIRD. It feels so real that the fear factor of an abuser and a victim seething at each other or, worse, being tender to them feels too real sometimes.
BWW Q&A: Director Katie Spelman on WAITRESS at Paramount Theatre Photo
BWW Q&A: Director Katie Spelman on WAITRESS at Paramount Theatre
by Joshua Wright - Jan 30, 2025

What is more American than apple pie? A small-town 
waitress with a dream and the ingredients for success! Sugar, butter, flour. These aren’t the only ingredients Jenna, a waitress and expert pie maker, uses to make her famous pies. Stuck in a small town and a loveless 
marriage, Jenna unexpectedly becomes pregnant, and then finds acceptance and love in the most unexpected place.
Len Cariou, Santino Fontana and More Join SONDHEIM TONIGHT! With The San Diego Sympho Photo
Len Cariou, Santino Fontana and More Join SONDHEIM TONIGHT! With The San Diego Symphony Orchestra
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 31, 2024

Tony Award-winner Santino Fontana, Emily Skinner, Tony Yazbeck, Amy Owens, and special guest vocalist: Len Cariou will join the San Diego Symphony Orchestra in a celebration of Stephen Sondheim next month.
Review: APPROPRIATE Stuns at Dirt Dogs Theatre Co. Photo
Review: APPROPRIATE Stuns at Dirt Dogs Theatre Co.
by Brett Cullum - May 25, 2024

It is a tense Southern psychodrama about family and the results of abuse on members of it. Cicadas, verbal sparring, racism, and outright brawls all make appearances as one would expect. Yet the show is still surprising in many turns and should have audiences laughing and gasping often simultaneously. The darkest of humor surfaces out of tragedy.
Nashville Repertory Theatre's Stellar 39th Season Continues With Superb Prooduction o Photo
Nashville Repertory Theatre's Stellar 39th Season Continues With Superb Prooduction of THE COLOR PURPLE
by Jeffrey Ellis - Apr 9, 2024

Led by a bravura performance from Carli Hardon, Nashville Repertory Theatre’s production of The Color Purple – the musical based on the beloved Alice Walker novel – is yet another extraordinary success from the professional company in the midst of its 39th season. Directed with complete self-assurance and confidence by Reggie Law, with evocative and energetic choreography by Joi Ware and the musical direction of Dion Treece that results in one of the most emphatically sung shows in Nashville Rep history.
Chilina Kennedy and Constantine Maroulis Will Lead Reading of ALL THE RAGE Musical Photo
Chilina Kennedy and Constantine Maroulis Will Lead Reading of ALL THE RAGE Musical
by Stephi Wild - Feb 27, 2024

A one-night-only reading of the musical All The Rage will be held as part of Spark Theatre Festival this March. The reading will star Broadway's Chilina Kennedy and Constantine Maroulis.
Review: The San Diego Symphony Orchestra Performs in the California Festival at The R Photo
Review: The San Diego Symphony Orchestra Performs in the California Festival at The Rady Shell
by Ron Bierman - Nov 16, 2023

What did our critic think of THE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PERFORMS IN THE CALIFORNIA FESTIVAL at The Rady Shell?
Chicago Teacher is Honoring the 400th Anniversary Of Shakespeare's First Folio Photo
Chicago Teacher is Honoring the 400th Anniversary Of Shakespeare's First Folio
by Stephi Wild - Aug 17, 2023

Hart, of Andersonville, has been training actors of all levels since she began teaching in 2006. She taught for five years at the acclaimed Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, as well as at Loyola University, Notre Dame University Summer Shakespeare, and Act One Conservatory. She has served as text coach for Chicago Shakespeare, Strawdog Theatre and Summer Shakespeare at Notre Dame, and her directing credits include Macbeth at City Lit Theatre and Falstaff's Dream at Notre Dame.
Review: THE BOOK OF MARY inspires the 'Diva Within' at DIRT DOGS THEATRE Photo
Review: THE BOOK OF MARY inspires the 'Diva Within' at DIRT DOGS THEATRE
by Brett Cullum - Mar 24, 2023

There is a short, tight list of Houston actors who could do a show about their life and have it mean anything more than a vanity project, but she is at the top of that register. There is something about Mary Hooper that Houston loves, and if you are lucky enough to catch this one woman show called THE BOOK OF MARY you will learn why.
Review: MISERY Hobbles Along at Dirt Dogs Photo
Review: MISERY Hobbles Along at Dirt Dogs
by Brett Cullum - Mar 7, 2023

That Dirt Dogs would choose MISERY for their “season of love” makes perfect sense. As a company they have made a name for themselves by creating plays fueled by testosterone laden energy and provocative rough language. There is an intensity and violence that suggests MISERY would be a perfect project for them, and indeed this production proves that assumption mostly correct.
Porchlight Announces Rick Boynton as 2023 Guy Adkins Award Recipient and the CHICAGO Photo
Porchlight Announces Rick Boynton as 2023 Guy Adkins Award Recipient and the CHICAGO SINGS BROADWAY POP Cast
by Stephi Wild - Feb 24, 2023

Porchlight Music Theatre has announced the Chicago Sings Broadway Pop cast and that Rick Boynton of Chicago Shakespeare Theater is the 2023 Guy Adkins Award for Excellence in the Advancement of Music Theatre in Chicago recipient.
Paul Alexander Nolan, Chilina Kennedy & More to Star in NORTHERN EXPOSURE at 54 Below Photo
Paul Alexander Nolan, Chilina Kennedy & More to Star in NORTHERN EXPOSURE at 54 Below
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 17, 2023

54 Below, Broadway’s Supper Club, will present “Northern Exposure” on Sunday, February 5, 2023 at 7:00PM.
Tickets Go On Sale This Tuesday For Porchlight's CHICAGO SINGS BROADWAY POP Photo
Tickets Go On Sale This Tuesday For Porchlight's CHICAGO SINGS BROADWAY POP
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 13, 2023

Porchlight Music Theatre have announced tickets go on sale Tuesday, Jan. 17 for Chicago Sings Broadway Pop, its annual fundraising concert, Monday, March 27, at the House of Blues Chicago, 329 N Dearborn St, directed by Porchlight's Artistic Director Michael Weber+.
Porchlight Presents CHICAGO SINGS BROADWAY POP at House of Blues Chicago in March Photo
Porchlight Presents CHICAGO SINGS BROADWAY POP at House of Blues Chicago in March
by Stephi Wild - Dec 7, 2022

Porchlight Music Theatre has announced Chicago Sings Broadway Pop, its annual fundraising concert, Monday, March 27, 2023 at the House of Blues Chicago, 329 N Dearborn St, directed by Porchlight's Artistic Director Michael Weber+.
Ken-Matt Martin To Direct New Production Of TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS At Baltimore Center Photo
Ken-Matt Martin To Direct New Production Of TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS At Baltimore Center Stage
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 10, 2022

Acclaimed director, producer, and advocate Ken-Matt Martin will helm Baltimore Center Stage's Spring 2023 production of Tiny Beautiful Things. Martin replaces previously announced director Stori Ayers. Tiny Beautiful Things begins performances at BCS on March 9, 2023.
Review: COYOTE ON A FENCE at Dirt Dogs Theatre Photo
Review: COYOTE ON A FENCE at Dirt Dogs Theatre
by Brett Cullum - Oct 31, 2022

This is a morally complex piece of theater, and luckily the cast is up to the challenge of bringing these people to life without judgment or any trace of hesitation. The language, the situations, the truths, are all difficult matters that have to be handled directly and confidently.
Porchlight Announces Cast of CHICAGO SINGS STEPHEN SONDHEIM, May 23 Photo
Porchlight Announces Cast of CHICAGO SINGS STEPHEN SONDHEIM, May 23
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 14, 2022

Porchlight Music Theatre has announced the current roster of music theatre and cabaret talent performing in this year’s annual Chicago Sings fundraising concert, Chicago Sings Stephen Sondheim, Monday, May 23, at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Berkeley Repertory Theatre to Present DANA H. Photo
Berkeley Repertory Theatre to Present DANA H.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 31, 2022

Berkeley Repertory Theatre today announced the critically acclaimed play Dana H. written by Lucas Hnath and directed by Les Waters will run Friday, June 3–Sunday, July 10, 2022.
Eva Noblezada, Reeve Carney & More This April at The Green Room 42 Photo
Eva Noblezada, Reeve Carney & More This April at The Green Room 42
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 30, 2022

The Green Room 42 has announced their April line-up for in-person performances. Located inside YOTEL Times Square (570 Tenth Avenue, Fourth Floor), The Green Room 42 is Broadway's newest and most spacious cabaret club.
Josh Young and Emily Padgett Will Bring VALJEAN, COSETTE AND A STRING QUARTET to the Photo
Josh Young and Emily Padgett Will Bring VALJEAN, COSETTE AND A STRING QUARTET to the Green Room 42
by Nicole Rosky - Mar 29, 2022

On April 9 (7pm), join Tony Award Nominee Josh Young and his wife, Broadway Star Emily Padgett at the Green Room 42, as they celebrate the decade that gave us Les Miserables, Phantom of The Opera and Cats - the decade where Stephen Sondheim and Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber reached the pinnacle of their creative mastery: the 1980’s.
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What awards has Gary Griffin been nominated for?

Outstanding Director, Resident Musical (Helen Hayes Awards) for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Best Director (Olivier Awards) for Pacific Overtures.

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