LIESL TOMMY
Midsummer in Oxford ’92
Liesl Tommy is an award-winning international theatre director and the first woman of color to be nominated for a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play. Credits include Eclipsed (2016 Tony Award Nominee for Best Direction of a Play; 2016 Lucille Lortel Award Winner, Outstanding Director), The Good Negro, The Urban Retreat, Informed Consent, A Melancholy Play, Kid Victory, Party People, Appropriate (2014 Obie Award, Direction), The White Man – A Complex Declaration of Love, Peggy Picket Sees the the Face of God, a History of Light, and Angela’s Mixtape. Liesl is known for her innovative interpretation of classics like Les Miserables, Hamlet, A Raisin in the Sun, and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, as well as her critically acclaimed four-city tour of Ruined.
Her film credits include: Respect. Her TV credits include: Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings, The Walking Dead, Insecure, Dietland, Queen Sugar.
She is an alumna of Trinity Rep Conservatory and a proud native of Cape Town, South Africa.