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Marion McClinton

American theatre director (1954–2019)

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American theatre director (1954–2019)

Field	Value
name	Marion McClinton
image	File:Marion McClinton, October 2012-3.jpg
caption	Marion McClinton in October 2012
birth_name	Marion Isaac McClinton
birth_date
birth_place	St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
death_date
death_place	St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
occupation	Theatre director, playwright, actor

Marion Isaac McClinton (July 26, 1954 – November 28, 2019) was an American theatre director, playwright, and actor. He was nominated for the Tony Award for King Hedley II. He won the 2000 Vivian Robinson Audelco Black Theatre Awards, Director/Dramatic Production and the 1999–2000 Obie Awards, Direction, for Jitney, and was nominated for the Drama Desk Award.

McClinton's early theater career was at Penumbra Theatre Company in Saint Paul, Minnesota where he was born. He played the part of narrator in August Wilson's first stage piece, Black Bart and the Sacred Hills in 1981, and remained active at Penumbra through the early 1990s.

He has directed all of August Wilson's plays, both on Broadway and regionally, and has been termed "One of the leading Wilson directors". The first premiere of Wilson's works that he directed was King Hedley II in 2001, taking over from the then-retired Lloyd Richards as Wilson's director.

He was an associate artist at Center Stage in Baltimore, Maryland, where he directed several Wilson plays as well as Les Blancs and Splash Hatch on the E Going Down. He directed at, among others, the Pittsburgh Public Theater (several Wilson plays), Guthrie Theater, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and Playwrights Horizons. At the Goodman Theatre he directed a staged reading of Fences as part of the Goodman's August Wilson Celebration in February 2007. He had previously directed King Hedley II, Gem of the Ocean and Jitney at the Goodman.

He directed an Off-Broadway production of Pure Confidence in May 2009 as part of Americas Off Broadway Festival.

McClinton died from kidney failure in Saint Paul on November 28, 2019, at age 65.

Selected works

Jitney (2000 off-Broadway) - Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Director of a Play nominee
King Hedley II (2001 Broadway) Tony Award, Best Direction of a Play nominee
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2003 Broadway)
Gem of the Ocean (2003 World premiere, Goodman Theater)
Drowning Crow (2004 Broadway)
Elmina's Kitchen (American premiere, 2005, Center Stage)

References

Lefkowitz, David and Hernandez, Ernio.[https://archive.today/20120910100827/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/56932 "Jitney Takes Eight AUDELCO Awards for Excellence in Black Theatre"], playbill.com, November 21, 2000
[http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0862276.html Obie Awards listing, 1999-2000], infoplease.com, accessed May 29, 2009
(September 10, 2000). "Theater Not an Assignment, an Honor – To Marion McClinton, directing the new August Wilson play means protecting a legacy".
[[Simonson, Robert]].[https://archive.today/20130131105820/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/60317 "Marion McClinton to Direct Wilson's Joe Turner at Missouri Rep in 2002"], playbill.com, May 23, 2001
Rawson, Christopher.[http://www.post-gazette.com/magazine/19990406summit1.asp "Black in a white theater world"],''Post-Gazette Magazine'', April 06, 1999
Gener, Randy.[https://web.archive.org/web/20100805054042/http://www.villagevoice.com/2001-04-24/theater/august-wilson-s-new-main-man/ "August Wilson’s New Main Man"],''Village Voice'', April 24, 2001
[http://americantheatrewing.org/biography/detail/marion_mcclinton Credits as of June 2007] {{webarchive. link. (2008-12-12 americantheatrewing.org, accessed May 28, 2009)
[http://www.goodmantheatre.org/News/PressRoom/Releases/021607_FencesRelease.aspx Press release] goodmantheatre, February 13, 2007
Bacalzo, Dan.[http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/news/04-2009/marion-mcclinton-to-direct-mixed-bloods-pure-confi_18388.html "Marion McClinton to Direct Mixed Blood's Pure Confidence for Americas Off Broadway Festival; Line-up Announced"], theatermania.com, April 6, 2009
Genzlinger, Neil. (November 28, 2019). "Marion McClinton, Interpreter of August Wilson, Dies at 65". [[The New York Times]].
Jones, Kenneth.[https://archive.today/20120914164402/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/84452 "Regina Taylor Gives Chekhov New Wings With Drowning Crow, Opening Feb. 19"], playbill.com, February 19, 2004
link. (2008-04-21 centerstage.org, accessed May 28, 2009)

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