Stephen Porter (director)

Stephen Winthrop Porter (July 24, 1925 – June 11, 2013) was an American stage and television director, producer, set designer and writer best known for directing the classics, especially George Bernard Shaw, Molière and Shakespeare. Porter directed more than thirty Broadway plays and many regional, Off-Broadway and other productions over his long career. He was nominated for two Tony Awards and two Drama Desk Awards for his work as a director.

Stephen Porter was born in Ogdensburg, New York to Charles Talbot and Anna Martin. His father was an engineer and his mother a school teacher. Porter studied at Yale University. He died in New York City, his longtime home, on June 11, 2013.

Porter began his career as a teacher, director and designer for McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He worked at the university from 1952 to 1955 and while there directed productions of Measure for Measure, Les Caprices de Marianne, The Cenci, The Seagull and Much Ado About Nothing. He then directed at various theatres in Canada. In 1956, Porter moved to New York City to direct and produce The Misanthrope at the Off-Broadway Theatre East. Porter remained in New York for the next three years directing and/or producing several Broadway and off-Broadway plays, including productions of The Country Wife, Mister Roberts, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Matchmaker, Inherit the Wind, Auntie Mame and Room at the Top. In 1959, Porter moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin to work for the Fred Miller Theatre where he directed two plays: the Dark of the Moon and Our Town.

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