Mary Zimmerman
MARY ZIMMERMAN
has worked with Lookingglass Theatre Company for more than twenty
years. She adapted and directed The Odyssey, The Secret in the Wings,
Arabian Nights, S/M, Metamorphoses, the Lookingglass/About Face
collaboration of Eleven Rooms of Proust and Argonautika. Zimmerman is also part of the Goodman Theatre artistic
team where she adapted and directed The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
(with several members of the Lookingglass ensemble), Silk, Journey to the West,
Mirror of the Invisible World and a re-creation of The Odyssey.
She has twice directed for the New York Shakespeare Festival in the Park. Her
work has won awards in Chicago, Seattle,
Los Angeles, Berkeley
and New York
including the 2002 Tony Award for her direction of Metamorphoses on
Broadway. In the world of opera, she directed and wrote the libretto Galileo Galilei (Philip Glass, composer)
which was produced at the Goodman Theatre and the Barbican Theatre in London. Additionally, she
has directed three operas at The Metropolitan Opera in New York City: Lucia Di Lammermoor, La Sonnambula, and Rossini’s Armida.  In 1998, she was awarded a MacArthur
Fellowship. She lives in Evanston and is a
professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern
University.
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