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HUNTER COLLEGE Appointment of Gregory Mosher As Professor Of

HUNTER COLLEGE Appointment of Gregory Mosher As Professor Of

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HUNTER COLLEGE

Appointment of as Professor of Theatre with Waiver of §6.2.b. of the Bylaws

RESOLVED, That Gregory Mosher be appointed Professor of Theatre at Hunter College with immediate tenure effective August 25, 2017, waiving the previous tenure requirement in §6.2.b. of the Bylaws.

EXPLANATION: Gregory Mosher is an internationally acclaimed director and producer of more than 200 stage productions on and off , at and ’s , at Great Britain’s and in London’s West End. He has also produced and directed a number of film and television projects. In 1989 he won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play for his production of .

Since 2010, Mr. Mosher has been Professor of Professional Practice, a non-tenure track title, in the School of the Arts at . Despite having guest-taught at other impressive institutions such as Yale, Julliard, the University of Pennsylvania, University, and , he has never had the opportunity to earn tenure. Mr. Mosher’s appointment represents a wonderful addition to Hunter’s College Theatre Department, where it is anticipated he will be designated Chair, and to CUNY in general. It is therefore in the best interests of the College and the University to waive §6.2.b of the Bylaws, granting Mr. Mosher immediate tenure without having been previously tenured at another institution. Gregory Mosher

Curriculum Vitae

Born January 15, 1949, in New York, NY

EDUCATION

Oberlin College 1967-69

Ithaca College 1969-1971 BFA Theatre

The 1971-74, Theatre Division (first directing student)

TEACHING

Goodman School of Drama, Acting, 1974-76

Columbia University School of the Arts, Adjunct, Theatre Department, 2005-2007

Columbia University, School of the Arts, Professor of Professional Practice ≈2010 – current

Guest taught or lectured at Yale, Juilliard, Penn, NYU, Oberlin, others

HONORS AND AWARDS

Broadway: (Tony) and Drama Desk Awards and Nominations

2000 Tony Award® Best Musical James Joyce's The Dead [nominee]

Produced by Gregory Mosher

2000 Outstanding New Musical James Joyce's The Dead [nominee]

Produced by Gregory Mosher

1998 Tony Award® Best Play Freak [nominee]

Produced by Gregory Mosher

1997 Tony Award® Best Play [nominee]

Produced by Circle in the Square (Gregory Mosher: Producing Director; M. Edgar Rosenblum: Executive Producer)

1995 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Play Gregory Mosher [nominee] ( for "" )

1992 Tony Award® Best Play Two Shakespearean Actors [nominee]

Produced by Lincoln Center Theater (Gregory Mosher: Artistic Director; : Executive Producer)

1991 Tony Award® Best Play Six Degrees of Separation [nominee]

Produced by Lincoln Center Theater (Gregory Mosher: Artistic Director; Bernard Gersten: Executive Producer)

1991 Drama Desk Award Outstanding New Play Six Degrees of Separation [nominee]

Produced by Lincoln Center Theater (Gregory Mosher: Artistic Director; Bernard Gersten: Executive Producer)

1990 Drama Desk Award Outstanding New Play Some Americans Abroad [nominee]

Produced by Lincoln Center Theater (Gregory Mosher: Artistic Director; Bernard Gersten: Executive Producer)

1989 Tony Award® Best Direction of a Play Our Town [nominee]

1989 Tony Award® Best Revival Our Town [winner]

Produced by Lincoln Center Theater (Gregory Mosher: Artistic Director; Bernard Gersten: Executive Producer)

1989 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Revival Our Town [winner]

Produced by Lincoln Center Theater (Gregory Mosher: Artistic Director; Bernard Gersten: Executive Producer)

1989 Drama Desk Award Special Award Gregory Mosher [winner]

1988 Tony Award® Best Direction of a Play Speed-the-Plow [nominee]

1988 Tony Award® Best Musical Sarafina! [nominee]

Produced by Lincoln Center Theater (Gregory Mosher: Artistic Director; Bernard Gersten: Executive Producer)

1988 Tony Award® Best Play Speed-the-Plow [nominee]

Produced by Lincoln Center Theater (Gregory Mosher: Artistic Director; Bernard Gersten: Executive Producer)

1988 Tony Award® Best Revival [winner]

Produced by Lincoln Center Theater (Gregory Mosher: Artistic Director; Bernard Gersten: Executive Producer)

1988 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Director of a Play Speed-the-Plow [nominee]

1988 Drama Desk Award Outstanding New Play Lincoln Center Theater (Gregory Mosher: Artistic Director; Bernard Gersten: Executive Producer) [nominee]

1988 Drama Desk Award Outstanding New Play Speed-the-Plow [nominee]

Produced by Lincoln Center Theater (Gregory Mosher: Artistic Director; Bernard Gersten: Executive Produ

1988 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Revival Anything Goes [winner]

Produced by Lincoln Center Theater (Gregory Mosher: Artistic Director; Bernard Gersten: Executive Producer)

1987 Tony Award® Best Revival [nominee]

Produced by Lincoln Center Theater (Gregory Mosher: Artistic Director; Bernard Gersten: Executive Producer)

1986 Tony Award® Best Play [nominee]

Produced by Lincoln Center Theater (Gregory Mosher: Artistic Director; Bernard Gersten: Executive Producer)

1986 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Revival The House of Blue Leaves [winner]

Produced by Lincoln Center Theater (Gregory Mosher: Artistic Director; Bernard Gersten: Executive Producer)

1984 Tony Award® Best Direction of a Play (nominee)

1984 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Director of a Play Glengary Glen Ross (nominee) Glengarry Glen Ross [nominee]

1983 Drama Desk Award Outstanding New Play The Goodman Theatre (Gregory Mosher: Artistic Director) [nominee] ( for "" )

Off-Broadway and other: Joseph Jefferson Award (Chicago) Director, Sizwe Bansi is Dead, 1977 Joseph Jefferson Award, Director, Glengarry Glen Ross, 1984 , Director, Edmond, 1983 Margo Jones Award, 1984 Lucille Lortel Award, for Woza Afrika! Festival, Lincoln Center Theatre, 1986 (Inaugural Award) Cable Ace Award, Best Drama, (award to producers, directed by Gregory Mosher)

PANELS AND COMMITTEES Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Theater Foundation Award 1990-2004 Board Member National Endowment for the Arts Theatre Panelist c. 1983

Goodman Theatre Stage Director/Producer

The Son (Gert Hoffman, translated by Jon Swan), Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, Chicago, IL, 1974-1975 AP (), Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, 1975-1976 WP Statues/The Bridge at Belharbour (Janet Neipris), Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, 1975-1976 WP (), Goodman Theatre, Mainstage, Chicago, IL, 1976-1977 Sizwe Bansi Is Dead (Kani, Ntshona, Fugard), Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, 1976-1977 A Life in the Theatre, Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, 1976-1977 WP The Seagull (trans van Itallie, Goodman Theatre, Mainstage, 1977-1978 Battering Ram, Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, 1977-1978 AP Native Son (adapted Mosher and Mamet, credited to Paul Green), Goodman Theatre, Mainstage, 1978-1979 WP Lone Canoe; or, The Explorer (David Mamet), Goodman Theatre, Mainstage, 1978-1979 WP Emigres, Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, 1978-1979 The Island (Kani, Ntshona, Fugard), , Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, 1978-1979 Bal (Richard Nelson), Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1979-1980 The Suicide (Nikolai Erdman, trans Richard Nelson), Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1980-1981 Plenty (David Hare), Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1980-1981 Panto (), Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1981-1982 (Mamet), Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1981-1982 Edmond (Mamet), Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1981-1982 Gardenia (), Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1982-1983 Disappearance of the Jews (Mamet), Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1982-1983 WP Glengarry Glen Ross (Mamet), Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1983-1984, then Broadway, 1986 WP Death and the King's Horseman (), Lincoln Center Theatre, , 1987 AP Road (Jim Carthwright) , Annex, La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, New York City, 1988 Speed-the-Plow (Mamet), Royale Theatre, New York City, 1988, then Eisenhower Theatre, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC, 1989-1990 WP Our Town (Thornton Wilder), Lyceum Theatre, New York City, 1988-1989 The Tenth Man, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York City, 1990 Bobby Gould in Hell (Mamet), Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre, 1990 WP The Devil and Billy Markham (Shel Silverstein), Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre WP Six Degrees of Separation, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center, New York City, 1990-1992 Monster in a Box (), Lincoln Center Theatre, 1991 Mr. Gogol and Mr. Preen (), Mitzi E. Newhouse WP Theatre, 1991 (Tennesee Williams), Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 1992 The Cryptogram (Mamet), Ambassadors Theatre, London, 1994 WP Freak, , New York City, 1998

Stage Producer – Goodman Theatre, Lincoln Center Theatre, Broadway

Winnebago (), Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, Chicago, IL, 1974-1975 WP Once and for All, Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, 1974-1975 Three Women, Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, 1974-1975 WP Three Plays of the Yuan Dynasty, Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, 1975-1976 Chicago/The Local Stigmatic (, Heathcote Williams), Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, 1975-1976 Dandelion Wine (Adaptation of Ray Bradbury), Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, 1975-1976 Kaspar, Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, 1976-1977 George Jean Nathan in Revue, Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, 1976-1977 Hail Scrawdyke, Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, 1977-1978 Annulla Allen (), Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, 1977-1978 A Christmas Carol, Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1978-1979 Two-Part Inventions (Richard Howard), Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1978-1979 WP (?) Bosoms and Neglect (John Guare), Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1978-1979 WP Holiday (Philip Barry), Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1978-1979 Curse of the Starving Class (Shepard), Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, 1978-1979 Scenes and Revelations, Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, 1978-1979 Death and the King's Horseman (Wole Soyinka) Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1979- 1980 A Christmas Carol, Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1979-1980 An Enemy of the People (Ibsen, Miller adaptation), Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1979- 1980 Talley's Folly (Lanford Wilson), Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1979-1980 Cyrano de Bergerac, Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1979-1980 (Harold Pinter), Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1980-1981 Dwarfman, Master of a Million Shapes (Michael Weller), Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1980-1981 WP Still Life (Emily Mann), Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, 1980-1981 WP (?) /Krapp's Last Tape, Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, 1980-1981 Directed by The Frosted Glass Coffin/A Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot/Some Problems for the Moose Lodge (WP) (), Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, 1980-1981 Kukla and Ollie Live, Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, 1980-1981 WP A House Not Meant to Stand ((Tennessee Williams), Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, 1980- 1981 WP The Front Page, Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1981-1982 A House Not Meant to Stand, Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1981-1982 Re-write of Stage 2 version) Sganarella, Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1981-1982 Edmond (Mamet), New York City, 1982 The Man Who Had Three Arms (), Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1982- 1983 The Comedy of Errors (with the Flying Karamoz Brothers), Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1982-1983 The Dining Room (A.R. Gurney), Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1982-1983 Red River (Pierre Laville, translation Mamet), Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1982-1983 A Soldier's Play (Charles Fuller), Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1982-1983 Kukla and Ollie Live/The Theatre of , Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, 1982- 1983 The Beckett Project: Ohio Impromptu, Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, 1982-1983 Eh, Joe, Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, 1982-1983 A Piece of Monologue, Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, 1982-1983 A Spalding Grey Retrospective, Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, 1982-1983 Jungle Coup (Nelson), Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, 1982-1983 Gorilla (Silverstein) Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, 1982-1983 WP Hotline (Elaine May), Stage 2, Goodman Theatre, 1982-1983 WP ( , Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1983-1984 Candida (GB Shaw), Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1983-1984 The Road (Soyinka), Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1983-1984 AP (William Saroyan), Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1983-1984 The Three Moskowteers (Flying Karamozov Brothers), Mainstage, Goodman Theatre, 1983-1984 Diagonal Man/Theory and Practice, Bread and Puppet Theatre, Stage2, Goodman Theatre, 1983-1984 The House of Blue Leaves (Guare), Lincoln Center Theatre, New York City, 1986 The Front Page (Hecht and MacArthur), Lincoln Center Theatre, 1987 Danger: Memory, (Miller) first produced in 1987 AP (?) Anything Goes (adaptation Timothy Crouse and John Weidman), Lincoln Center Theatre, 1988 WP version Sarafina! (Mbongnei Ngema), Lincoln Center Theatre, 1988 WP Mule Bone ( and ), Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 1991 WP (full production) Six Degrees of Separation (Guare), Vivian Beaumont Theatre,Lincoln Center, New York City, 1990-1992 WP Two Shakespearean Actors (Nelson), Lincoln Center Theatre, 1992 AP James Joyce's The Dead (musical, Nelson and Shaun Davey), Playwrights Horizons, then , New York City, 2000 Freak (), Cort Theater Broadway, 1998 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Edward Albee), Copenhagen, 2004 (Tennessee Williams, with Sally Field), Kennedy Center, 2004 () Cort Theater Broadway, 2010 (Jason Miller) Schoenfeld Theater Broadway, 2011 The Guardsman (Ference Molnar, new translation Richard Nelson), Eisenhower Theater/Kennedy Center, 2013 Love Letters (A.R Gurney), Nederlander Theater, Broadway, Fall 2014 Antigone (Sophocles, Mosher adaptation), tour of Nairbobi, Johnannesburg, Cape Town, Summer 2015. Upcoming partnership with Bard Prison Initiative New musical (director, with Roseanne Cash, John Leventhal, John Weidman) in prep for 2017 Broadway The Seagull (Chekhov, new translation by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky) in prep for 2017

Television

The Comedy of Errors, 1985 WNET live presentation of Lincoln Center Theatre production A Life in the Theatre, TNT, 1993, director. Screened at Deauville Film Festival. , BBC, 1991 Director Our Town, Great Performances, PBS, director of stage version taped Freak, HBO, 1998, producer of stage version filmed Speak Truth to Power, PBS, 2000, director of stage version in DC.

Movies

Producer, American Buffalo, Samuel Goldwyn , 1996 Director, The Prime Gig, Fine Line, 2000. Invited to Venice, London and Los Angeles film festivals. Screenwriter, The Golden Rule, unproduced Screenwriter, Laughter in the Dark, unproduced

Writing

Introduction, American Buffalo (David Mamet), Grove/Atlantic, 1994 Introduction, A House Not Meant to Stand (Tennessee Williams), New Directions, 2008 Adaptation, Sophocles’ Antigone, 2015 (performed in Nairobi, , Cape Town)

Special Events

New Yorker Magazine 1995-2008: Numerous one-night events, including Parting the Waters (a benefit for Hurricane Katrina victims). Artists include: Woody Allen, Don DeLillo, John Updike, Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, Ricky Moody, , Elvis Costello, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Tracy Chapman, Joan Didion, Henry Louis Gates Jr., John Ashbury, , Simon Schama, Martin Amis, Janet Malcom, Jon Stewart, and many others.

Speak Truth to Power (), Kennedy Center, 2000

Arthur Miller at 75th Birthday Tribute, Lincoln Center Theatre, 1990

Samuel Beckett memorial, Lincoln Center Theatre, 1990

Tina Brown’s Women for Women conference (director) 2015, London￿

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