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Tina Landau

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Director b. 1962

Tina Landau (born May 21, 1962) is an American playwright and theatre director. Known for her large-scale, musical, and ensemble-driven work, Landau's productions have appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regionally, most extensively at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago where she is an ensemble member. She attended Yale University where she met frequent collaborators Ted Sperling and Adam Guettel.

Also credited on4 works

SpongeBob SquarePants
Mother Play
Floyd Collins
Redwood

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 literature8 passages

  • In late 1991, Guettel sang the first 25 minutes of Floyd Collins to Tina Landau, little of which, he claims, actually survived as part of the final score. Eight months later there was a workshop of the first act. A year later, Floyd Collins debuted in Philadelphia and a year after that Playwrights Horizons premiered it in New York.ebooks/Singer, Barry/Ever After_ The Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond - Barry Singer.txt
  • What the show lacked was a performance tone onstage that tied up all this marvelous music into the theatrical occasion it deserved. Director Tina Landau seemed torn between the impulse to simply allow the songs to speak for themselves and an urge to apply cabaret performance values that were strictly from Vegas. There was also unavoidable…ebooks/Singer, Barry/Ever After_ The Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond - Barry Singer.txt
  • Lyric excerpt of "Dream True" by Ricky Ian Gordon and Tina Landau on page 183 Copyright © 1999 by Tina Landau and Ricky Ian Gordon. Public Doves Music owner of publication and allied rights on behalf of the interest of Ricky Ian Gordon throughout the world (administered by Williamson Music). All rights on behalf of Tina Landau administere…ebooks/Singer, Barry/Ever After_ The Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond - Barry Singer.txt
  • (Penn Yards) Tuesday, June 22-July 18, 1993 (24 performances) En Garde Arts presents: ORESTES by Charles L. Mee, Jr.: Director, Tina Landau: Sets, Kyle Chepulis; Costumes, James Schuette; Lighting, Brian Aldous; Music/Sound, John Gromada; Stage Manager, Marjorie Goodsell Clark; Press, David Rothenberg CAST: Christopher Adams (Patient), J.…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1993-94 Season, v. 50 (Willis).txt
  • Friday, Feb.9-Mar.24, 1996 (25 performances and 28 previews) FLOYD COLLINS: Music/Lyrics, Adam Guettel; Book/Direction, Tina Landau; Musical Director, Ted Sperling; Orchestrations, Bruce Coughlin; Set, James Schuette; Costumes, Melina Root; Lighting, Scott Zielinski; Sound, Dan Moses Schreier; Cast Recording, Nonesuch; Stage Manager, Eric…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1995-96 Season, v.52 (Willis).txt
  • CLOUD TECTONICS by Jose Rivera; Director, Tina Landau; Sets, Riccardo Hernandez; Costumes, Brandin Baron; Lighting, Anne Militello. CAST: Javi Mulero, Luis Antonio Ramos, Camilia Sanes.theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1995-96 Season, v.52 (Willis).txt

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