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Mary Zimmerman
School of Communication
Professor, Jaharis Family Foundation Chair in Performance
About
Areas of Focus
- Theater
- Stage adaptation
- Directing
- Performance Studies
- Opera
Work/Research
- John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship
- Artistic Associate with Lookingglass Theatre Company and Goodman Theatre
- Tony Award for Best Direction for “Metamorphoses” developed at Northwestern
- Other acclaimed works include “Journey to the West,” “The Odyssey,” “The Arabian Nights,” “The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci” and “Eleven Rooms of Proust”
- Director and co-librettist of 2002 opera “Galileo Galilei” with music by Philip Glass
- Director of “Lucia di Lammermoor,” “Rusalka,” “La Sonnambula” and “Armida” at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, also broadcast live worldwide in movie theaters