Melvin Bernhardt
MELVIN BERNHARDT received the 1978 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for and the 1977-1978 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director for Hugh Leonard's Da, starring Barnard Hughes. Bernhardt received a Tony Award nomination and Drama Desk Award nomination as Best Director for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Crimes of the Heart in 1982. Other Broadway directing credits include: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Cop-Out, And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, Hide and Seek, Dancing in the End Zone. Off-Broadway: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds and Nancy Donohue's The Beach House (Circle Rep). TV: One Life To Live. Executive Vice President of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. Bio as of March, 2010. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: Working in the Theatre (video) Playwright, Director and Choreographer - September, 1996 - Watch now. Playwright and Director - April, 1987 - Watch now. SDCF Masters of the Stage (audio) Susan H. Schulman - March, 1994 - Listen Now. Arthur Penn - May, 1987 - Listen Now. Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)