Daniel Sullivan


Director

About

Birth Place
Wray, Colorado, USA
Born
June 10, 1940

Family & Companions

Shelley Plimpton
Wife
Actor. Divorced; mother of actor Martha Plimpton.

Biography

Filmography

 

Director (Feature Film)

The Substance of Fire (1996)
Director

Music (Feature Film)

The Substance of Fire (1996)
Theme Lyrics

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

The Heidi Chronicles (1995)
Assistant

Director (Special)

Far East (2001)
Director

Life Events

1963

Began career as an actor with the Actor's Workshop in San Francisco, CA

1968

Was an assistant director for "Hair" on Broadway

1971

Made his directorial debut at the Lincoln Center Theater with A.R. Gurney's "Scenes from American Life"

1971

Directed the American debut of Durrenmatt's "Play Strindberg"

1973

Directed a revival of Sean O'Casey's "The Plough and the Stars"

1979

Became the resident director for the Seattle Repertory Theatre

1981

Served as the artistic director for the Seattle Repertory Theatre

1984

Directed Herb Gardner's play "I'm Not Rappaport" at the Seattle Repertory Theatre; later directed the play when it moved to Broadway in 1985

1988

Wrote and directed "Truffles in the Soup" for the Seattle Repertory Theatre

1989

Directed Wendy Wasserstein's "The Heidi Chronicles" on Broadway

1991

Wrote and directed "Inspecting Carol" for the Seattle Repertory Theatre

1991

Re-teamed with Herb Gardner to stage "Conversations with My Father" for the Seattle Repertory Theatre; also directed the L.A. production in 1993

1992

Directed Jon Robin Baitz's "The Substance of Fire" at the Lincoln Center Theater

1992

Re-teamed with Wendy Wasserstein for "The Sisters Rosensweig"

1996

Re-teamed with Jon Robin Baitz for the Lincoln Center production of "A Fair Country"

1996

Directed the film adaptation of Baitz's play, "The Substance of Fire"

1997

Directed Seattle and Broadway productions of Wendy Wasserstein's "An American Daughter"

1998

Directed the Lincoln Center production of Eugene O'Neill's "Ah, Wilderness!"

1999

Directed the Pulitzer-Prize-winning play, "Dinner With Friends"

2000

Staged the revival of Eugene O'Neill's "A Moon for the Misbegotten"

2000

Earned critical praise for his direction of David Auburn's "Proof"

2003

Directed the Broadway production of "The Retreat from Moscow"

2005

Directed Elaine May's "After the Night and the Music" on Broadway

2006

Directed David Lindsay-Abaire's "Rabbit Hole" on Broadway

2007

Directed the Broadway revival of Harold Pinter's "The homecoming"

2010

Directed the acclaimed Public Theater production of Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice," starring Al Pacino

2011

Re-teamed with David Lindsay-Abaire for "Good People"

Family

John Martin Sullivan
Father
Mary Catherine Sullivan
Mother
Megan Anne Sullivan
Daughter
Mother, first wife.
John Sullivan
Son
Mother, second wife.
Rachel Sullivan
Daughter
Mother, second wife.
Martha Plimpton
Step-Daughter
Actor. Daughter of Keith Carradine and Shelley Plimpton.

Companions

Shelley Plimpton
Wife
Actor. Divorced; mother of actor Martha Plimpton.

Bibliography