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Michael Mayer (director)

Michael Mayer (born June 27, 1960) is an American theatre director, filmmaker, and playwright. He won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical in 2007 for directing Spring Awakening.

Michael Mayer

(1960-06-27) June 27, 1960[1]

Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.

New York University (MFA)

Theater director, filmmaker, playwright

1976-present

Roger Waltzman

Early life and education[edit]

Mayer was born in Bethesda, Maryland, to Jewish parents Jerry and Louise Mayer (born 1936).[2][3] For his bar mitzvah, he asked his parents for a movie camera and received a Super 8 single lens with a zoom.[4] His first film was a dramatization of "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia".[5]


After graduating from Charles W. Woodward High School, he studied at the University of Wisconsin before transferring to study acting at New York University (NYU)'s Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, where he earned an MFA in Theater in 1983.[6][7]

Personal life[edit]

Mayer is openly gay. He lives with his partner, oncologist Roger Waltzmann, in Chelsea, Manhattan.[11] He is close friends with playwright Tony Kushner, whom he met while studying at NYU.[12]

(2022)

Funny Girl

(2019)

Burn This

(2018)

Head Over Heels

(2017)

The Terms of My Surrender

(2014)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

(2011)

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

(2010)

Everyday Rapture

(2010)

American Idiot

(2006)

Spring Awakening

(2002)

Thoroughly Modern Millie

(2004)

'night, Mother

(2004)

After the Fall

(2002)

An Almost Holy Picture

(2000)

Uncle Vanya

(1999)

The Lion in Winter

(1999)

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

(1998)

Side Man

(1997)

A View from the Bridge

(1997)

Triumph of Love

Broadway


Off-Broadway


West End


National tour


Opera


Film

at the Internet Broadway Database

Michael Mayer

at IMDb

Michael Mayer

. "A Two-Career Man: Theater Director And Jewish Mother", The New York Times, January 3, 1999. Retrieved July 2, 2007.

Steven Drukman

Mayer milestones