DOUG HUGHES recently directed John Patrick Shanley’s Defiance for MTC. He also directed Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Doubt (2005 Tony, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics and Drama Desk awards for Best Direction of a Play). Hughes is the resident director at Roundabout Theatre Company, where he has directed Howard Katz, A Touch of the Poet, A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, The Paris Letter and McReele. Other work in New York includes Inherit the Wind at the Lyceum Theatre (Drama Desk nomination, Best Director; Tony Award nomination, Best Revival); The House in Town at Lincoln Center; Frozen (Tony Award, Outer Critics Circle and Lortel nominations for Best Director) and The Grey Zone (1996 Obie Award, Direction) at MCC; Engaged at TFANA; Flesh and Blood (Callaway Award, Best Direction) at NYTW; Othello at the Public; and Lake Hollywood at Signature. In May 2005, Hughes received an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence.

Previously seen in Show Theatre Role Mauritius Biltmore Theatre Director Inherit the Wind Lyceum Theatre Director Doubt Walter Kerr Theatre Director Frozen Circle in the Square Theatre Director

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