David Cromer is director and actor originally from Chicago, currently based in New York. As a director, his New York credits include The Sound Inside (Broadway); The Band’s Visit (Atlantic Theater Company, Broadway & National Tour); the Broadway revivals of Brighton Beach Memoirs and The House of Blue Leaves; The Treasurer (Playwrights Horizons); Man from Nebraska (Second Stage Theatre); The Effect, Orson’s Shadow, and Tribes (Barrow Street Theatre); Women or Nothing (Atlantic Theater Company); Really Really (MCC Theater); When the Rain Stops Falling and Nikolai and the Others (Lincoln Center Theater); and Adding Machine (Minetta Lane Theatre). Other directing credits include BUG (Steppenwolf Theatre Company) Next to Normal (Writers Theatre); Come Back, Little Sheba (Huntington Theatre Company); The Sound Inside (Williamstown Theatre Festival); and Our Town in London, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston and Kansas City. As an actor, he recently appeared on Broadway as Howard Fine in the 2018 production of The Waverly Gallery. Prior to that, he appeared on Broadway as Karl Lindner in the 2014 revival of A Raisin in the Sun, and Off-Broadway as the Stage Manager in Our Town, which he also directed, at the Barrow Street Theatre. He appeared in the HBO series “The Newsroom,” the Showtime series “Billions,” and in the motion picture The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected). Cromer has received a Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, three Obie Awards, three Lucille Lortel Awards, a Joe A. Callaway Award, four Jeff Awards, and in 2010 was made a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.
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David Cromer, Dead Outlaw
David Cromer, Dead Outlaw
David Cromer, Dead Outlaw
David Cromer, Dead Outlaw
David Cromer, A Case for the Existence of God
David Cromer, The Sound Inside
David Cromer, The Sound Inside
David Cromer, The Band's Visit
David Cromer, The Band's Visit
David Cromer, The Band's Visit
David Cromer, The Band's Visit
David Cromer, Tribes
David Cromer, Tribes
David Cromer, Tribes
David Cromer, When the Rain Stops Falling
David Cromer, Our Town
David Cromer, Our Town
David Cromer, Adding Machine
David Cromer, Adding Machine
David Cromer, Adding Machine
David Cromer, Adding Machine
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David Cromer has appeared on Broadway in 2 shows.
David Cromer has not appeared in the West End.
David Cromer has been nominated for several awards for his outstanding direction in various productions. These nominations include Outstanding Direction of a Musical at the Drama Desk Awards, Drama League Awards, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for "Dead Outlaw." He has also been nominated for Best Direction of a Play at the Tony Awards for "The Sound Inside" and for Best Direction of a Musical at the Tony Awards for "The Band's Visit." Other nominations include Outstanding Director at The Lortels for productions like "A Case for the Existence of God," "Tribes," and "When the Rain Stops Falling." Cromer has also received nominations for Directing at the Obie Awards for shows like "The Band's Visit" and "Our Town." Additionally, he has been recognized with nominations for Outstanding Director of a Musical at the Drama Desk Awards and Outer Critics Circle Awards for productions such as "Adding Machine."
David Cromer has won several awards for his outstanding directing work. Some of his notable wins include Outstanding Director of a Play from the Outer Critics Circle Awards for "The Sound Inside," Best Direction of a Musical at the Tony Awards for "The Band's Visit," Outstanding Director of a Musical at the Drama Desk Awards for "The Band's Visit," and Directing at the Obie Awards for "The Band's Visit." He has also been recognized for his work on productions such as "When the Rain Stops Falling" and "Our Town," winning Outstanding Director at The Lortels for both. Additionally, Cromer won the Directing Obie Award for "Our Town" and "Adding Machine," and Outstanding Director at The Lortels for "Adding Machine."
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