Mary Zimmerman

(1960- ) lived in Lincoln. Playwright, director, educator, has adapted and directed nearly 20 plays and several short films for the theater in addition to duties as professor of performance studies at Northwestern University; won Tony Award for best director in 2002 and two other nominations, recipient of ten Joseph Jefferson Awards for best direction, and the prestigious 1998 MacArthur Fellowship. Consult Chicago Tribune-Magazine, November 22, 1998, pp. 14-16, 18, 20-21 and Kristina Aikens, “Between Reality and Enchantment: An interview with theater artist Mary Zimmerman,” Sojourner: The Women’s Forum, Vol 24, No 5 (January 1999) 29-30 and Time, December 3, 2001, p. 72 and American Theatre, March 2002, pp. 19-22 and Lincoln Journal Star, June 3, 2002, p. A-6 and Omaha Sunday World Herald, October 3, 2004, pp. AT-5, AT-6.

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