Sam Gold has received Tony Award and nominations for three Drama Desk Awards.
24 Facts About Sam Gold
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Sam Gold made his Broadway debut directing the Theresa Rebeck play Seminar.
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Sam Gold followed-up directing the revival of the William Inge play Picnic, the Tracy Letts play The Realistic Joneses, and the Tom Stoppard play The Real Thing.
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Sam Gold has since directed the revival of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, Lucas Hnath's A Doll's House, Part 2, and revivals of William Shakespear's King Lear, and Macbeth.
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Sam Gold's father, Jeffrey, is an investment banker, and his mother, Lenore, is a painter.
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Sam Gold graduated from Cornell University with a degree in English and had internships at Playwrights Horizons and the Signature Theater, and attended the directing program at the Juilliard School.
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Sam Gold spent three years as an assistant director and dramaturge at the Wooster Group.
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Sam Gold's Off-Broadway directing work began with The Black Eyed at the New York Theatre Workshop in 2007.
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Sam Gold directed The Big Meal by Dan LeFranc in 2012 at Playwrights Horizons and won the 2012 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Director.
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Sam Gold has directed five of the plays of Annie Baker: Circle Mirror Transformation in 2009, The Aliens in 2010, an adaption of Uncle Vanya in 2012, The Flick in 2013, and John in 2015.
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Sam Gold won the 2010 Obie Award, Directing, for Circle Mirror Transformation and the 2016 Special Citation Obie Award for Collaboration between Sam Gold, Baker, and the design team.
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Sam Gold directed The Flick in its West End premiere at the National Theatre's Dorfman Theatre, which opened in April 2016.
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Sam Gold directed a revival of Look Back in Anger for the Roundabout Theatre Company in 2012.
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Not only has he met the test, Sam Gold deserves a chorus of huzzahs for unmitigated audacity.
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The look, apparently chosen by the habitually iconoclastic director Sam Gold, is certainly nothing like what the original cast was intended to wear.
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Sam Gold gained attention for his direction of the musical Fun Home on Broadway in 2015, in a Public Lab at The Public Theater in October 2012, and Off-Broadway at The Public Theater in 2013.
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Sam Gold directed Othello at the Off-Broadway New York Theatre Workshop, opening on November 22,2016, in previews, officially on December 12,2016, through January 18,2017.
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Sam Gold directed the latest Broadway revival of The Glass Menagerie at the Belasco Theatre, which started previews on February 7,2017.
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Sam Gold directed the new play by Lucas Hnath, A Doll's House, Part 2, which starred Laurie Metcalf and Chris Cooper and premiered on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre on April 1,2017.
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Sam Gold directed a new production of William Shakespeare's King Lear at the Cort Theatre, starring Glenda Jackson.
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Sam Gold directed Macbeth starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga at the Longacre Theatre in 2022.
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Sam Gold was set to direct an adaptation of Anton Chekov's Three Sisters starring Greta Gerwig, Oscar Isaac, Chris Messina, and Steve Buscemi at the New York Theatre Workshop.
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Sam Gold is currently directing and executive producing the half-hour comedy Compliance for FX from writer Sarah Burgess and produced by Scott Rudin.
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Sam Gold has been married to playwright Amy Herzog since 2011.