Theater & Music Theater Faculty

John Doyle

John Doyle headshot

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About

John Doyle has been Artistic Director of Classic Stage Company since 2016. He has directed productions of Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins (2022, Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding Director of a Musical), Pacific Overtures (2017), and Passion (2013, Drama Desk Nomination, Outstanding Director of a Musical); Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Allegro (2014, Drama League Nomination, Best Revival of a Musical); as well as Dead Poets Society (2016), Peer Gynt (2016), and As You Like It (2017).

Additional theater in the U.S. includes: The Color Purple (Tony Award, Best Revival of a Musical; Drama Desk Award, Best Director of a Musical), Sweeney Todd (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards, Best Director of a Musical; Drama Desk Nomination Outstanding Set Design of a Musical), Company (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Awards Best Musical Revival; Tony and Drama Desk Nominations, Outstanding Director of a Musical), A Catered Affair (Drama League Award, Best Musical Production; Drama Desk Nomination, Outstanding Director of a Musical), The Visit (Tony Nomination, Best Musical; Drama Desk Nomination, Outstanding Director of a Musical), Ten Cents a Dance (Williamstown/ McCarter), The Exorcist (The Geffen, LA), Road Show (Public Theater/Menier Chocolate Factory), Where’s Charlie? and Irma La Douce (Encores!), Wings (Second Stage), A Bed and a Chair (City Center), Kiss Me Kate (Stratford), Caucasian Chalk Circle (ACT), Merrily We Roll Along and Three Sisters (Cincinnati).

In the U.K., John Doyle has been Artistic Director of four regional theaters: The Worcester Swan, The Cheltenham Everyman, The Liverpool Everyman, The York Theatre Royal, and he was also Associate Director of the Watermill Theatre in Newbury. During these residencies, he directed numerous productions of new and classic works. Notable credits include: Female Parts, Sweeney Todd, Gondoliers, Mack and Mabel (West End); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Oklahoma! (Chichester), Amadeus (Wilton’s Music Hall), The Millenium Cycle of Mystery Plays (London), Carmen, Fiddler on the Roof (Watermill); The War of the Roses, The Madness of George III (York), The White Devil, Othello, Candide (Liverpool). He is co-author of Shakespeare For Dummies.

LINKS

Review: John Doyle’s Staging of Carmen Jones at Classic Stage Company | The New Yorker, July 9-16, 2018, issue

2019 Lucille Lortel Award Nominations: John Doyle for Outstanding Director, Carmen Jones

The Forerunners: Sweeney Todd (2005 Revival) | The New York Times, April 13, 2020

Bringing back Broadway: Princeton artists and students return to New York City theaters” | The Daily Princetonian, Nov. 28, 2021

John Doyle Nominated for Outstanding Director of a Musical for Assassins at Classic Stage | TheaterMania, May 16, 2022

 

 

Campus Address

Wallace Dance Building W323
Lewis Arts complex
122 Alexander Street

Email Address

johnmd@princeton.edu