David Esbjornson
Positions
Biography
Mr. Esbjornson’s recent work as a director includes the Broadway debut of Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry with Vanessa Redgrave, James Earl Jones and Boyd Gaines, Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller with Harris Yulin at he Gate Theatre in Dublin, the premiere of Molly Ivins: Red Hot Patriot by Allison and Margaret Engels, starring Kathleen Turner at Philadelphia Theatre Company; the American premieres of Moira Buffini’s Dinner at Bay Street Theatre and Gabriel with Lisa Emery and Zach Grenier for the Atlantic Theater Company, where he also directed the world premiere of Peter Parnell’s Trumpery with Michael Christopher. Mr. Esbjornson directed the highly acclaimed production of Hamlet for Theatre for a New Audience starring Christian Camargo, for which they won Obie awards. Other recent productions are Bill Cain’s Equivocation at the Geffen, Arthur Miller’s All My Sons at Boston’s Huntington Theatre and The Great Gatsby, which inaugurated the new Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis. Mr. Esbjornson worked with Arthur Miller on two of his last plays; The Ride Down Mt. Morgan starring Patrick Stewart at The Public Theater and on Broadway and the world premiere of Resurrection Blues at the Guthrie Theater. David has also had a long-standing relationship with Edward Albee, directing his Tony Award-winning play The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? on Broadway in 2002, The Play About the Baby at the Century Theatre, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with Patrick Stewart and Mercedes Ruehl at the Guthrie Theater and the first major American revival of Lady From Dubuque at Seattle Repertory Theatre featuring Myra Carter. Other premieres directed by David Esbjornson include the London’s West End premiere of A Few Good Men by Aaron Sorkin starring Rob Lowe, Kathleen Tolan’s Memory House with Dianne Weist at Playwrights Horizons, Tuesdays With Morrie by Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom with Alvin Epstein (at NY Stage & Film, Minetta Lane Theatre and Seattle Repertory Theatre).
Productions
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Director Equivocation (2009) |
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Director Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins (2012) |