Artistic Director of the Globe’s 2004-2007 Shakespeare Festivals, Darko Tresnjak's directorial credits at the Globe include: Pericles, The Winter's Tale, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Titus Andronicus, The Comedy of Errors, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Antony and Cleopatra and Bell, Book and Candle. Earlier this year he directed The Merchant of Venice at Theatre for a New Audience, a production that traveled to the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Complete Works Festival. Other credits include All's Well That Ends Well at Theatre for a New Audience; The Two Noble Kinsmen at The Public Theatre; Princess Turandot and Hotel Universe at Blue Light Theater Company; More Lies About Jerzy at the Vineyard Theater Company; The Skin of Our Teeth, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Winter's Tale, Under Milk Wood, Moving Picture, The Blue Demon, Princess Turandot and The Love of Three Oranges at Williamstown Theatre Festival; Heartbreak House, What the Butler Saw, Amphitryon and The Blue Demon at the Huntington Theatre; Hay Fever and Princess Turandot at Westport Country Playhouse; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at Long Wharf Theater; A Little Night Music, Amour at Goodspeed Opera House; and La Dispute, UCSD.
Other directing credits include productions at Florida Grand Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Virginia Opera, Florentine Opera Company, and the American premiere of Rimsky-Korsakov’s May Night at Sarasota Opera. Upcoming projects include The Dwarf and The Broken Jug for Los Angeles Opera’s “Recovered Voices” series and Antony and Cleopatra at Theatre for a New Audience.
He is the recipient of the Alan Schneider Award for Directing Excellence, TCG National Theater Artist Residency Award, Boris Sagal Directing Fellowship, NEA New Forms Grant, two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowships, San Diego Critics Circle Awards for his direction of Pericles and The Winter's Tale, and Patté Awards for his direction of The Winter’s Tale and Titus Andronicus. He has performed with numerous Philadelphia dance and theater companies and toured across the United States and Japan with the UNIMA Award-winning Mum Puppettheatre. He was educated at Swarthmore College and Columbia University.
