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Lear deBessonet

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Lear deBessonet is an American theatre director who currently works as the Kewsong Lee Artistic Director of Lincoln Center Theater. For her work, she has been nominated for a Tony Award and Obie Award, as well as winning the Drama League Founders Award for Excellence in Directing.

Also credited on4 works

Into the Woods (2022 Revival)
Once Upon a Mattress (2024 Revival)
Once Upon a Mattress
Ragtime

These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.

In the literature2 passages

  • THE ELIOTS by Lear deBessonet; Director, Lear deBessonet; April 29, 2004; Cast: Julie Kline, Christopher Logan Healy, Lethia Nall, Nate Schenkkan, Ryan Westtheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 2003-04 Season, v. 60 (Willis).txt
  • Tarazuka!!! by Susan Soon He Stanton; Directed by Lear deBessonet; Stage Manager, Megan Schwarz Dickert; Lighting Designer, Tyler Micoleau; Set Designer, Mimi Lien; Sound Designer, Dave Malloy; Choreographer, Tracy Bersley; Cast: Jennifer Ikeda, Brooke Ishibashi, Paul Juhn, Glenn Kubota, and Angela Lin; HERE Arts Center; May 26-June 4, 20…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 2011-12 Season, v. 68 (Willis).txt

Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.

What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
  • Birth or death year. Neither is on the record.
  • Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — director — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.

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