James Lapine
Lapine, James (b. 1949), playwright and director. A native of Mansfield, Ohio, he studied design at the California Institute of the Arts and apprenticed at the Yale School of Drama. But he turned to writing and directing, first calling attention to his abilities with his play Table Settings (1980), then earned wide acclaim for his staging of the Off‐Broadway musicals March of the Falsettos (1981) and Falsettoland (1990). Lapine is most known for the musicals with Stephen Sondheim that he wrote and directed: Sunday in the Park with George (1984), Into the Woods (1987), and Passion (1994). His other directing credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream (1982) and A Winter's Tale (1989) for the New York Shakespeare Festival, and on Broadway The Diary of Anne Frank (1997), Golden Child (1998), Dirty Blonde (2000), and Amour (2002).
