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Mike Ockrent

 
Director: Mike Ockrent
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  • Born: 1946 in London, England
  • Died: Dec 02, 1999 in New York City, New York
  • Occupation: Director
  • Active: '90s-2000s
  • Major Genres: Drama
  • Career Highlights: Rock Star, Crazy For You, Dancin' thru the Dark
  • First Major Screen Credit: Dancin' thru the Dark (1990)

Biography

Mike Ockrent's professional career was largely dedicated to directing for the theater, which he had great success doing. Ockrent was born in London and educated at Edinburgh University, obtaining a degree in physics. In the late '60s and throughout the 1970s, Ockrent spent the majority of his time working with various theater groups throughout Great Britain. It was the 1980s and 1990s that he would enjoy his greatest amount of success, and, naturally, he tried his hand at film. His first film, Dancin' Thru the Dark, played at the 1990 Venice Film Festival with some success, but his main interests seemed to be in theater and he would only work on a couple more films in various capacities. At the time of his death in late 1999, at age 53, he was working on a number of plays and musicals that were in various stages of preproduction. ~ All Movie Guide
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Mike Ockrent (18 June 1946 - 2 December 1999) was a British stage director, well-known both for his Broadway musicals and smaller niche plays. He was educated at Highgate School. From directing Educating Rita and Follies, he became an established figure on the London scene. In 1986 he made a successful transition to New York with Me and My Girl transferred from London to New York and earned several Tony Award nominations. In later life Ockrent worked on film, mainly straight-to-TV movies.

In 1992 Mike Ockrent worked with Susan Stroman on Crazy for You and later on other productions. They were married in 1996 and remained so until Ockrent's death from leukemia in New York in 1999. A charitable trust now exists in his name.

The trust aims to give access to theatre for children with cancer, this involves a night at the theatre with a visit backstage afterwards. It also funds leukaemia research, "both mainstream and 'alternative'".

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Work

Filmography

  • Shakespeare Lives! (1982) TV series (co-producer)
  • Bestseller (1985) (TV) (director)
  • Mrs. Capper's Birthday (1985) (TV) (aka Star Quality: Mrs. Capper's Birthday (UK)) (director)
  • Dancin' Thru the Dark (1990) (director)
  • Money for Nothing (1993/II) (TV) (aka Hot Millions (USA) or Screen One: Money for Nothing (UK: series title)) (director)
  • A Christmas Carol (2004/I) (TV) (musical) (aka A Christmas Carol: The Musical (USA)) (screenplay)

Stage

  • The Dead of Night by Stanley Eveling (1975)
  • Once a Catholic (1979)
  • Rowan Atkinson at the Atkinson (1986)
  • Me and My Girl (1986 - 1989)
  • Crazy for You (1992 - 1996) (Ockrent conceived the idea)
  • A Christmas Carol (1995)
  • Big (1996)
  • King David (1997)

Novel

  • Running Down Broadway (1992)

Awards and nominations

Awards
  • 1987 - Drama Desk Award Outstanding Book - Me and My Girl
  • 1987 - Drama Desk Award Outstanding Director of a Musical - Me and My Girl
Nominations
  • 1987 - Tony Award Best Book of a Musical - Me and My Girl (joint with L. Arthur Rose, Douglas Furber and Stephen Fry)
  • 1987 - Tony Award Best Direction of a Musical - Me and My Girl
  • 1992 - Drama Desk Award Best Direction of a Musical - Crazy for You
  • 1992 - Drama Desk Award Outstanding Director of a Musical - Crazy for You

References

External links

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Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical

Arthur Laurents (1975) · Michael Bennett (1976) · Martin Charnin (1977) · Peter Masterson / Tommy Tune / Stephen Schwartz (1978) · Harold Prince (1979) · Harold Prince (1980) · Wilford Leach (1981) · Tommy Tune (1982) · George Abbott (1983) · James Lapine (1984) · Wilford Leach (1986) · Mike Ockrent (1987) · Harold Prince (1988) · Tommy Tune (1990) · Scott Ellis (1991) · Jerry Zaks (1992) · Des McAnuff (1993) · Nicholas Hytner (1994) · Harold Prince (1995) · Christopher Renshaw (1996) · Walter Bobbie (1997) · Julie Taymor (1998) · Matthew Bourne (1999) · Michael Blakemore (2000) · Susan Stroman (2001) · Michael Mayer (2002) · Jack O'Brien (2003) · Joe Mantello (2004) · James Lapine (2005) · John Doyle (2006) · Michael Mayer (2007) · Bartlett Sher (2008) · Stephen Daldry (2009)

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