Leigh Silverman

Leigh Silverman is an American director for the stage, both Off-Broadway and on Broadway. She was nominated for the 2014 Tony Award, Best Direction of a Musical for the musical Violet and the 2008 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Director of a Play for the play From Up Here.

Silverman was born in Rockville, Maryland, went to high school in Washington, D.C., and attended Carnegie Mellon University, earning a BFA in Directing, and an MA in Playwriting.

Upon graduation, she had an internship at the New York Theater Workshop. Silverman said "I can say, without a doubt, that most, if not all, of my important theatrical relationships came out of my time with New York Theater Workshop."

Silverman directed the Lisa Kron play Well Off-Broadway at The Public Theater; the play ran from March 2004 to May 2004. She also directed Well on Broadway in 2006. Among other awards, the play was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Off-Broadway Play. She directed Kron's play In the Wake in its premiere engagement at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles, California in March 2010. She directed In the Wake at the Public Theater in November 2010.

She has directed many plays Off-Broadway, including Blue Door by Tanya Barfield in 2006 at Playwrights Horizons, for which she was nominated for the Audelco Award, Best Director. The New York Times reviewer wrote that the play was "directed with care by Leigh Silverman." She directed From Up Here, by Liz Flahive at The Manhattan Theatre Club's Off-Broadway City Center Stage I in 2008 and received a 2008 Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Director of a Play. She directed David Greenspan's Go Back to Where You Are at the Off-Broadway Playwrights Horizons' Peter Jay Sharp Theater, opening in March 2011. She received the 2011 Obie Award, as director, for Go Back to Where You Are and In the Wake.

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