Mary Zimmerman

Department of Performance Studies

Mary Zimmerman is a member of the Lookingglass Theatre Company and is an Artistic Associate of the Goodman Theatre. She has earned national and international recognition in the form of numerous awards. Metamorphoses, for which she received the Tony Award for Best Direction, was developed at Northwestern. Other acclaimed works include Journey to the West, The Odyssey, The Arabian Nights, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, and Eleven Rooms of Proust. She is the director and co-librettist of the 2002 opera Galileo Galilei, music by Philip Glass, at the Goodman Theatre, and director of La Sonnambula and Armida at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Zimmerman’s interests lie in the adaptation of literary texts for performance, directing, devising theatre.

Education

PhD	Performance Studies, Northwestern University
MA	Performance Studies, Northwestern University
BS	Theatre, Northwestern University

Recent Awards and Honors

Tony Award, Best Direction, for Metamorphoses

John D. and Catherine t. MacArthur Fellowship

2006 Northwestern University Alumnae Award, Graduate School

Courses

103	The Analysis and Performance of Literature
210-1	Performance of Poetry
326	Performance Art
410	Studies in Performance
412	Performance of Individual Literary Styles