MICHAEL GREIF (Director) is a five-time Tony Award nominee for his original direction of the groundbreaking musicals Rent, Next to Normal (which both won the Pulitzer Prize), Grey Gardens, Dear Evan Hansen, and Hell's Kitchen. Other notable productions include War Paint (Broadway), If/Then (Broadway), The Low Road, Fucking A, Dogeaters, Giant, Machinal, The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide... (The Public Theater), Our Lady of Kibeho, Landscape of the Body, Angels in America (Signature Theatre), A Parallelogram, Make Believe (Second Stage), Far From Heaven and Spatter Pattern (Playwrights Horizons), Man in the Ring (Huntington). In the 2024 Broadway season, Michael directed Alicia Keys' Hell's Kitchen and Days of Wine and Roses, and co-directed The Notebook (with Schele Williams). Off-Broadway, he's received Obie Awards for Machinal, Dogeaters (Public), and Rent (NYTW), and has directed new plays and musicals at Playwrights Horizons, Roundabout, MTC, MCC, New York Theatre Workshop and at Second Stage, where he directed Next to Normal and Dear Evan Hansen. Regional work includes premieres and revivals at Williamstown Theatre Festival (ten seasons), La Jolla Playhouse (Artistic Director, five seasons), The Goodman, Arena Stage, Center Stage, Mark Taper Forum, Dallas Theater Center, Trinity Repertory Company. Michael holds a BS from Northwestern University and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego.