John Tillinger

John Tillinger (born June 28, 1938) is a theatre director and actor.

He spent his early years on Broadway as an actor, appearing in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (standby "Freddie", 1968),[2] Othello ("Roderigo", 1970),[3] Hay Fever ("Sandy Tyrell", 1970),[4] and The Changing Room ("Colin Jagger", 1973).

[6] Since then he has directed:[7] Love Letters (1989) with Colleen Dewhurst and Jason Robards, The Price (1992) with Eli Wallach, Three Men on a Horse (1993) and The Sunshine Boys (1997), both with Jack Klugman and Tony Randall, Inherit the Wind (1996) with George C. Scott and Charles Durning, Night Must Fall (1999) with Matthew Broderick,[8] Judgment at Nuremberg (2001) with George Grizzard and Maximilian Schell,[9] Say Goodnight, Gracie (2002) with Frank Gorshin,[10] and Absurd Person Singular (2005) with Paxton Whitehead and Sam Robards.

[11] Tillinger's many Off-Broadway directing credits include Entertaining Mr Sloane (1981), After the Fall (1984),[12] Loot (1986),[13] What the Butler Saw (1989),[14] The Lisbon Traviata (1989),[15] Lips Together, Teeth Apart (1991),[16] Sylvia (1995), and Jewtopia (2004).

[20] He directed many plays at the Long Wharf Theatre, including This Story of Yours and Solomon's Child (1980), Another Country (1982), and most recently Paddywhack and Broken Glass (1994).