Wilson Milam
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Bellevue, Washington
Bellevue is a city in the Eastside region of King County, Washington, United States, across Lake Washington from Seattle. Long known as a suburb or satellite city of Seattle, it is now categorized as an edge city or a boomburb. The population was 122,363 at the 2010 census.Downtown Bellevue is...
. He is a founding member and Artistic Director of The Hired Gun Theatre Company.
Nominated for a Tony Award
Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
for Best Director of a Play for Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore
The Lieutenant of Inishmore
The Lieutenant of Inishmore is a black comedy by playwright Martin McDonagh, first produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London in 2001.-Plot:...
, Milam helmed the show's UK premiere, as well as the Off-Broadway production which transferred to Broadway. He also directed Patrick Marber
Patrick Marber
Patrick Albert Crispin Marber is an English comedian, playwright, director, puppeteer, actor and screenwriter.-Early life and education:...
's Closer
Closer (play)
Closer is the third play written by English playwright Patrick Marber. The play was premiered at the Royal National Theatre's Cottesloe Theatre in London in 1997, and made its North American debut at the Music Box Theatre on Broadway on 25 January 1999....
at the Berkeley Rep in San Francisco and The Wexford Trilogy at the Tricycle Theatre
Tricycle Theatre
The Tricycle Theatre is located on Kilburn High Road in Kilburn in the London Borough of Brent, England. During the last 30 years, the Tricycle has been presenting plays reflecting the cultural diversity of its community; in particular Black, Irish, Jewish, Asian and South African works, as well as...
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His production of David Rabe's Hurlyburly
Hurlyburly
Hurlyburly is a dark comedy play by David Rabe, first staged in 1984.-Plot:More than three hours long, Hurlyburly focuses on the intersecting lives of several low- to mid-level Hollywood players in the 1980s. Fueled by massive amounts of drugs, they attempt to find some meaning in their isolated,...
for the Peter Hall Company at the Old Vic
Old Vic
The Old Vic is a theatre located just south-east of Waterloo Station in London on the corner of The Cut and Waterloo Road. Established in 1818 as the Royal Coburg Theatre, it was taken over by Emma Cons in 1880 when it was known formally as the Royal Victoria Hall. In 1898, a niece of Cons, Lilian...
and Queen
Queen's Theatre
The Queen's Theatre is a West End theatre located in Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster. It opened on 8 October 1907 as a twin to the neighbouring Gielgud Theatre which opened ten months earlier. Both theatres were designed by W.G.R...
's theatres, London, was nominated for two Olivier Awards including one for Best Play.
Milam studied history at the University of Washington
University of Washington
University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...
and began his career as an actor.
Chicago credits include Pot Mom at Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Steppenwolf Theatre Company is a Tony Award-winning Chicago theatre company founded in 1974 by Gary Sinise, Terry Kinney and Jeff Perry in the basement of a church in Highland Park, Illinois. It has since relocated to Chicago's Halsted Street, in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. Its name comes from...
; The Caine Mutiny Court Martial at A Red Orchid Theatre; Skeleton at Shattered Globe Theatre, and Killer Joe
Killer Joe
Killer Joe is the second album by Jimmy Osmond, released in 1972 on MGM Records. He was credited on the album as Little Jimmy Osmond. The first single from this album, "Long Haired Lover from Liverpool", reached #1 on the U.K...
at the Next Lab Theatre, a production that moved to the Traverse Theatre
Traverse Theatre
The Traverse Theatre is a theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was founded in 1963.The Traverse Theatre commissions and develops new plays or adaptations from contemporary playwrights. It also presents a large number of productions from visiting companies from across the UK. These include new plays,...
in Edinburgh where it won the Scotsman Fringe First Award.
In New York, he directed Killer Joe at 29th Street Rep in 1994 and Soho Playhouse in 1998, and the staged reading of The Glory of Living for New Plays at the Public Theater.
He moved to the UK in the 90s and has directed at a number of British theatres. In London, he has been well received in the west-end and continues to have a good relationship with the Royal Court Theatre
Royal Court Theatre
The Royal Court Theatre is a non-commercial theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is noted for its contributions to modern theatre...
where he directed Ché Walker
Ché Walker
Ché Walker is an English actor, playwright, theatre director and teacher at the Identity Drama School.Walker lives in Camden in London and his play The Frontline deals with street life outside Camden Town tube station....
's Flesh Wound, Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder's Fresh Kills and in 2005, Richard Bean
Richard Bean
Richard Bean, born in East Hull in 1956, is an English playwright.-Early years:Bean studied Social Psychology at Loughborough University of Science and Technology and graduated with a 2-1 BSc Hons, and went on to become an occupational psychologist, having previously worked in a bread plant for a...
's Harvest. Other international productions include; Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard is an American playwright, actor, and television and film director. He is the author of several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child...
's True West
True West (play)
True West is a play by American playwright Sam Shepard. Like most of his works it is inspired by myths of American life and popular culture. The play is a more traditional narrative than most of the plays that Shepard has written.-Plot:...
at Bristol Old Vic and A Lie of the Mind
A Lie of the Mind
A Lie of the Mind is a play written by Sam Shepard, first staged at the off-Broadway Promenade Theater on 5 December 1985. The play was directed by Shepard himself with stars Harvey Keitel as Jake, Amanda Plummer as Beth, Aidan Quinn as Frankie, Geraldine Page as Lorraine, and Will Patton as Mike...
at the Donmar Warehouse, Defender of the Faith at Abbey Theatre in Dublin, Mr Placebo at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, and Bug at Gate Theatre, London.
In 2008 he directed for the first time at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art is a drama school located in London, United Kingdom. It is generally regarded as one of the most renowned drama schools in the world, and is one of the oldest drama schools in the United Kingdom, having been founded in 1904.RADA is an affiliate school of the...
-a student production, of Much Ado About Nothing.
His production of The Seafarer
The Seafarer
The Seafarer may refer to the following:*The Seafarer , a play by Conor McPherson*"The Seafarer" , an Old English poem*The Seafarers, a short film by Stanley Kubrick...
opened at Seattle Repertory Theatre in February 2009.
In 2011, Milam directed the world premiere of David Hay's A Perfect Future
A Perfect Future
A Perfect Future is a two-act play by David Hay, set in 2005. The play premiered Off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre in February, 2011. The production was directed by Tony Award nominee Wilson Milam . A Perfect Future opened on February 17th, 2011 following previews beginning on February 4...
Off Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre
Cherry Lane Theatre
The Cherry Lane Theatre , located at 38 Commerce Street in the borough of Manhattan, was New York City's oldest, continuously running off-Broadway theater...
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