Birth Place: IRAN
Broadway: Absurd Person Singular with Paxton Whitehead and Deborah Rush; Say Goodnight, Gracie with Frank Gorshin; Judgment at Nuremburg with Maximilian Schell, Martha Keller and George Grizzard; Night Must Fall with Matthew Broderick; The Sunshine Boys with Jack Klugman and Tony Randall; Inherit the Wind with Charles Durning and George C. Scott (Tony Award nomination, OCC Award); Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass; The Price with Eli Wallach (Tony Award nomination); Sweet Sue with Mary Tyler Moore and Lynn Redgrave; Loot! with Joseph Maher (Tony Award nomination, OCC Award); Corpse! with Milo O’Shea; The Golden Age with Stockard Channing, Irene Worth and Jeff Daniels; Solomon’s Child. Off-Broadway: Tea at Five with Kate Mulgrew; A Picasso; House and Garden; Comic Potential with Janie Dee; The Exact Center; Dealer’s Choice; Sylvia with Sarah Jessica Parker; A Perfect Ganesh with Zoe Caldwell and Francis Sternhagen; The Last Yankee; Lips Together Teeth Apart with Nathan Lane, Christine Baranski and Swoosie Kurtz ; Prin with Dame Eileen Atkins; What the Butler Saw; Urban Blight; It’s Only a Play with Christine Baranski, James Coco and Joanna Gleason; (all at Manhattan Theatre Club); After the Fall with Frank Langella and Dianne Wiest; Breaking Legs with Vincent Gardenia and Philip Bosco; The Lisbon Traviata with Nathan Lane (Lortel Award); Love Letters with many stars including Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhurst (Lortel Award); The Film Society; Little Murders with Christine Lahti; The Perfect Party (OCC Award); Entertaining Mr. Sloane (Drama Desk Award). Regional: Don’t Dress for Dinner at the Royal George (Chicago); Eleanor with Jean Stapleton (Arena Stage); and many seasons at Long Wharf Theatre: Arsenic and Old Lace with Joanne Woodward; As You Like It; The Road to Mecca with Julie Harris; Betrayal; The Lover; The Ruffian on the Stair; A Flea in Her Ear; Another Country with Peter Gallagher and Peter McNichol; This Story of Yours; A Christmas Garland. Westport Country Playhouse: Children, How the Other Half Loves, The Drawer Boy, Relatively Speaking, Time of My Life.
John Tillinger, Judgment at Nuremberg
John TillingerThe Lisbon Traviata
John Tillinger, Love Letters
John Tillinger, Loot
John Tillinger, The Perfect Party
John Tillinger, Corpse!
John Tillinger , Loot
John Tillinger, Entertaining Mr. Sloane
John Tillinger has appeared on Broadway in 7 shows.
John Tillinger has appeared on London's West End in 1 shows.
John Tillinger's first West End show was Robert and Elizabeth which opened in 1964
John Tillinger has received several nominations for his work in theater. He was nominated for Outstanding Director of a Play at the Outer Critics Circle Awards for Judgment at Nuremberg. He also received nominations for Outstanding Director at The Lortels for The Lisbon Traviata and Love Letters. Additionally, he was nominated for Best Director at the Outer Critics Circle Awards for Loot, The Perfect Party, and Corpse!. He earned a nomination for Best Direction of a Play at the Tony Awards for Loot, and was nominated for Outstanding Director of a Play at the Drama Desk Awards for Entertaining Mr. Sloane.
John Tillinger has won several awards, including Outstanding Director (The Lortels) for The Lisbon Traviata, Outstanding Director (The Lortels) for Love Letters, Best Director (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Loot, Best Director (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for The Perfect Party, and Best Director (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Corpse!.
John Tillinger has written 1 shows including Urban Blight (Conceiver).
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