Darko Tresnjak

Biography

Darko Tresnjak (BA, Swarthmore College, MFA, Columbia University) has directed at The Public, The Old Globe, Williamstown, Huntington, Blue Light, Vineyard, Goodspeed, Westport, and Long Wharf theater companies, and at Saint Louis, Virginia, Carolina, Florentine, Florida Grand, and Sarasota opera companies.  He is the artistic director of The Old Globe Shakespeare Festival, where he has staged The Winter's Tale, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Comedy of Errors. He is the recipient of the Alan Schneider Award for Directing Excellence, T.C.G. National Theater Artist Residency Award, N.E.A. New Forms Grant, Boris Sagal Directing Fellowship, two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowships, and San Diego Critics Circle Craig Noel Award for his direction of Pericles.  He has performed with numerous Philadelphia dance and theater companies and toured across the United States and Japan with the U.N.I.M.A. Award-winning Mum Puppettheater.