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Michael Mayer was born on 27 June, 1960 in Bethesda, Maryland, U.S., is an American stage and film director. Discover Michael Mayer's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 63 years old?

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Occupation Theater director, filmmaker, playwright
Age 63 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 27 June 1960
Birthday 27 June
Birthplace Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1936

Mayer was born in Bethesda, Maryland, to Jewish parents Jerry and Louise Mayer (born 1936).

For his bar mitzvah, he asked his parents for a movie camera and received a Super 8 single lens with a zoom.

His first film was a dramatization of "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia".

1960

Michael Mayer (born June 27, 1960) is an American theatre director, filmmaker, and playwright.

1983

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.

1990

Mayer began performing onstage in New York City, performing in plays such as Tony Kushner's A Bright Room Called Day, but by 1990 had turned his efforts to directing, working as a freelancer while also teaching at NYU, the Lincoln Center Theater Institute, and the Juilliard School.

He also served as an assistant director for Kushner's Hydriotaphia.

1997

He directed Triumph of Love in 1997, starring Betty Buckley, Susan Egan, and F. Murray Abraham, with music by Jeffrey Stock and lyrics by Susan Bikenhead.

1998

He directed the 1998 Tony Award-winning revival of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge starring Anthony LaPaglia and Brittany Murphy, for which he was nominated for a Tony and won a Drama Desk Award.

1999

Other Broadway credits include The Lion in Winter (1999), the 1999 revival of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and Side Man (1998; Drama Desk Award).

2002

He was nominated for the 2002 Tony for his direction of Thoroughly Modern Millie, which he then directed on London's West End.

Mayer also won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical for both Spring Awakening and Thoroughly Modern Millie.

2004

After directing on- and off-Broadway for more than 15 years, Mayer made his feature-film directorial debut with A Home at the End of the World, starring Colin Farrell and Robin Wright Penn, in 2004.

2006

He went on to make the family film Flicka (2006), an adaptation of the story My Friend Flicka, which became a hit in DVD market.

2007

He won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical in 2007 for directing Spring Awakening.

In 2007, Mayer won his first Tony Award for his direction of the musical adaptation of Spring Awakening (2006), which also won the award for Best Musical.

He should not be confused with the identically spelled Michael Mayer, who directed a film titled Graduation (2007).

2009

Mayer directed and co-wrote the book for the Green Day-inspired musical American Idiot (which premiered in 2009 at Berkeley Rep and transferred to Broadway in 2010), based on the band's album of the same name.

2011

He directed and "re-conceived" the 2011 revival of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever starring Harry Connick Jr. He directed the first Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, which opened in 2014.

Mayer's off-Broadway directing credits include Little Shop of Horrors, The Credeaux Canvas, John C. Russell's Stupid Kids, Peter Hedges' Baby Anger, Theresa Rebeck's View of the Dome, and the New York premiere of Janusz Głowacki's Antigone in New York.

2012

He directed the pilot and three subsequent episodes of NBC's TV series Smash, which were broadcast starting in February 2012.

Mayer made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 2012 with Rigoletto; he reset the scene from 16th-century Mantua to 1960s Las Vegas.

2013

In 2013 and 2014 he directed select episodes of Amazon's Alpha House starring John Goodman.

2015

In 2015, he directed a new film adaptation of The Seagull, starring Annette Bening, Corey Stoll, and Saoirse Ronan.

2017

He was the director of the premiere of Nico Muhly's Marnie for the English National Opera in 2017, which was later performed at the Metropolitan Opera in 2018.

2018

He also directed a new production of Verdi's La traviata for the Metropolitan Opera in December 2018.

Mayer is openly gay.

He lives with his partner, oncologist Roger Waltzmann, in Chelsea, Manhattan.

He is close friends with playwright Tony Kushner, whom he met while studying at NYU.

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