Darko Tresnjak


Darko Tresnjak is a director of plays, musicals, and opera. He has won the Tony Award, Obie Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award He was the artistic director of the Hartford Stage.

Biography

He is of Serbian heritage. Tresnjak and his mother moved from Zemun, Yugoslavia to Maryland in 1976. He graduated from Swarthmore College, became a US citizen, and received a master of fine arts degree from Columbia University.
Tresnjak was the artistic director at Hartford Stage from 2011-12 season through the 2018 - 2019 season, where he commissioned “The Man in the Case” with Mikhail Baryshnikov and directed Kevin Bacon in “Rear Window”. He is leaving the Hartford Stage for freelance work after his current show, The Flamingo Kid, in May to June 2019.
Prior to his role at Hartford Stage, he served as resident artistic director at Old Globe Theatre. He also directed for eight summers at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
He directed two productions on Broadway: A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder in 2013 and Anastasia in 2017. He won the 2014 Tony Award for Direction of a Musical and the Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Director of a Musical for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder.
He directed the Theatre for a New Audience production of Eugène Ionesco's The Killer in 2014 at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, New York City. Tresnjak won the 2015 Obie Award for direction of The Killer.

Hartford Stage Productions

Tresnjak's productions at Hartford Stage have included: