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Associate Artist David Wheeler (No Man's Land) has previously directed A.R.T. productions of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming and The Caretaker. No Man's Land is his 14th Pinter production, including the American premieres of The Dwarfs, A Slight Ache, and The Room. As Resident Director at A.R.T. since 1984: Othello, Doctor's Dilemma, Valparaiso, How I Learned to Drive, Nobody Dies on Friday, Man and Superman, Waiting For Godot (1995), Picasso at the Lapin Agile, What the Butler Saw, Heartbreak House, Misalliance, True West, Angel City, The Day Room, Cannibal Masque, Gillette, David Mamet's adaptation of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya (with Christopher Walken and Lindsay Crouse), and Two by Korder: Fun and Nobody. He directed The Boys Next Door both at the A.R.T. and at Trinity Repertory Company, where he has directed over a dozen productions including Hurly Burly, Fool for Love, A Lie of the Mind, and The House of Blue Leaves.
On Broadway he directed Richard III with Al Pacino, and The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, for which Mr. Pacino won the Tony Award for Best Actor. Regional theatres include the Guthrie Theatre, Alley Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, Arizona Theatre Company, Pittsburgh Playhouse, and the Charles de Rochefort Theatre in Paris, where he directed the French premiere of Edward Albee's The Zoo Story.
As Artistic Director of the Theatre Company of Boston (TCB) from 1963–75, Mr. Wheeler directed over eighty productions, among them ten by Pinter, seven by Brecht, five by Albee, nine by Beckett, two by O'Neill, and numerous works by new writers such as Ed Bullins, Jeffrey Bush, John Hawkes, Adrienne Kennedy, and Sam Shepard, helping launch the careers of then unknown actors including Paul Benedict, Larry Bryggman, John Cazale, Stockard Channing, Blythe Danner, Robert DeNiro, Robert Duvall, Hector Elizondo, Spalding Gray, Paul Guilfoyle, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, Jon Voight, Ralph Waite, and James Woods. His film The Local Stigmatic (with Mr. Pacino), adapted from the play by Heathcote Williams, was presented at the Montreal Film Festival, screened at the Whitney Museum and the MOMA, and will be released in 2006.
Mr. Wheeler's honors include the Elliot Norton Award for his work on Misalliance, the St. Botolph Club Foundation's Award for Distinction in the Performing Arts, and the Rodgers and Hammerstein Award. He has taught and directed at Harvard University, Boston University, MIT, Brandeis, Barnard, Colorado College, and Circle-in-the-Square; he has directed student productions at U.N.C. Chapel Hill, U.C. Irvine and Long Beach, and Evora, Portugal. After receiving his M.A. at Harvard, Mr. Wheeler trained with José Quintero in New York during the great 'O'Neill years' of the 1950's.
• Read an interview with David Wheeler coinciding with No Man's Land.
• Read an interview with David Wheeler
coinciding with The Doctor's Dilemma.
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