1. David Cromer was born on October 17,1964 and is an American theatre director, and stage, film, and TV actor.
19 Facts About David Cromer
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David Cromer has received recognition for his work on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and in his native Chicago.
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David Cromer was nominated for the Drama Desk Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award for his direction of The Adding Machine.
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In 2018, David Cromer won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for The Band's Visit.
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David Cromer dropped out of high school in his junior year, later acquired a GED, and attended Columbia College Chicago.
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David Cromer has been nominated for or won the Joseph Jefferson Award for his work in Chicago productions, winning for Angels in America Parts I and II in 1998, The Price in 2002, and The Cider House Rules in 2003.
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In 2005, David Cromer made his Off-Broadway debut directing Austin Pendleton's Orson's Shadow at the Barrow Street Theatre.
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David Cromer received a nomination for the 2008 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Director of a Musical, for The Adding Machine.
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In 2009, David Cromer performed the role of the Stage Manager in an Off-Broadway revival of Our Town, which he directed, at The Barrow Street Theatre.
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David Cromer won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Director and the Obie Award, Directing for Our Town.
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In October 2009, David Cromer directed a short-lived Broadway revival of Brighton Beach Memoirs starring Noah Robbins, Santino Fontana, Laurie Metcalf, and Dennis Boutsikaris.
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David Cromer directed the Broadway revival of The House of Blue Leaves, which starred Ben Stiller and Edie Falco and played a limited run from April 2011 to August 2011.
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David Cromer was announced to direct a Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth starring Nicole Kidman and James Franco and set for Fall 2011, but in August 2011 the production was delayed and Franco dropped out.
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David Cromer directed Tribes by Nina Raine at the Off-Broadway Barrow Street Theatre, which ran from February 2012 to September 2012.
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In 2019, he directed The Sound Inside at Studio 54 for which David Cromer received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play, one of the six Tony nominations the production received.
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David Cromer directed the Broadway production of the play Prayer for the French Republic by Joshua Harmon in 2024.
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In 2024, it was announced that David Cromer was set to direct the stage adaptation of Good Night, and Good Luck co-written and starring George Clooney.
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David Cromer was named a 2010 MacArthur Fellows Program, the foundation cited his efforts in reviving classic theater such as his work on The Adding Machine and Our Town in their announcement.
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David Cromer taught directing at Columbia College Chicago, the same school he attended years prior.