Sam Gold

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Gold won the 2010 Obie Award, Directing, for Circle Mirror Transformation "'Circle Mirror Transformation' 2009" lortel.org and the 2016 Special Citation Obie Award for Collaboration between Gold, Baker, and the design team.Village Voice Staff, "The Complete List of 2016 Obie Award Honorees" , The Village Voice, May 24th, 2016. The New York Times reviewer wrote that "Sam Gold has directed with an uncommonly observant eye and ear."Gates, Anita. "At Peter J. Sharp Theater: Actor, Make Like a Tree" The New York Times, October 15, 2009 He was nominated for the 2016 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Director of a Play for John. " She Loves Me, American Psycho, and Bright Star Lead 2016 Drama Desk Award Nominations" theatermania.com, April 28, 2016 He directed The Flick in its West End (and UK) premiere at the National Theatre's Dorfman Theatre, which opened in April 2016.Shenton, Mark. "National Theatre Announces Transfer of Annie Baker's 'The Flick' and More for 2016" Playbill, September 17, 2015Cavendish, Dominic. " The Flick: a gripping love triangle at the movies" The Telegraph, 20 April 2016 The CurtainUp reviewer wrote: "...as moved from page to stage by director Sam Gold and his ensemble, everything becomes remarkably and most effectively — enough so to make this a full-flavored theatrical meal.... LeFranc, like another Playwrights Horizon favorite, Annie Baker, has written exactly the kind of play that's director Sam Gold's forte. Like Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation, The Big Meal is a play in which nothing much happens, but everything does."Sommer, Elyse. "CurtainUp Review. 'The Big Meal'" CurtainUp.com, March 16, 2012

He directed a revival of Look Back in Anger for the Roundabout Theatre Company in 2012. David Finkle, in his review for TheaterMania of Look Back in Anger, wrote: "...there's no question the challenge director Sam Gold faced in mounting this possibly-dated work was finding an approach to the fire-brand script that would infuse it with the shock value it had at its debut. Not only has he met the test, Gold deserves a chorus of huzzahs for unmitigated audacity."Finkle, David. "Review. 'Look Back in Anger'" theatermania.com, February 2, 2012 He directed a staged concert presentation of The Cradle Will Rock for Encores! Off-Center in July 2013. David Finkle, reviewing for The Huffington Post, wrote: "The cast of the Encores! Off-Center concert production of Marc Blitzstein's once highly controversial first musical...are dressed in Clint Ramos's formal attire. The look, apparently chosen by the habitually iconoclastic director Sam Gold, is certainly nothing like what the original cast was intended to wear...is likely that he understands there's no point in expecting contemporary audiences to insert themselves fully into the context of the times.... That may be why Gold's presenting the work of art as simply as he does is so completely effective."Finkle, david. "First Nighter: Blitzstein's 1937 'Cradle Will Rock' Rocks 2013 Encores! Off-Center" Huffington Post, July 11, 2013 In regional theatre, he directed A Doll's House at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 2011. A Doll's House wtfestival.org, accessed october 8, 2015