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WILLIAM PULLINSI was the Artistic Director of Candlelight Playhouse and Forum Theatre in Chicago since its inception. He has directed and/or produced over 300 shows. The Joseph Jefferson Committee presented him with a special Jeff Award for "many years of innovation and quality, bringing the joys of live theater to hundreds of thousands of Chicago-area patrons." Pullinsi received 18 Jeff Awards for direction and production. Shows for which he received awards for both Best Production and Best Direction include: Follies, Into the Woods, Phantom, Little Shop Of Horrors, Nine, The National Health, and Man of La Mancha . Pullinsi directed Follies for the San Diego Civic Light Opera ; Phantom and Singin' in the Rain at Westchester Broadway Theatre in New York ; Into the Woods at Marriott's Lincolnshire Theatre; and Over the Tavern at Northlight Theatre and the Mercury Theater. He was recently Associate Producer of Trying , a new play off Broadway in New York . Mr. Pullinsi received his B.F.A. degree at Boston Conservatory and did graduate work at the Goodman School . He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities from Lewis University , was honored as a Distinguished Artist in the Theatre by the Chicago Academy of Arts and most recently by the Chicago Drama League. In 1989, Mr. Pullinsi became the first American director to stage a musical in Russia with a Soviet cast and crew. He directed Man of La Mancha during a five week visit to the Drama Theatre of Turgenev in Orel (south of Moscow ). Mr. Pullinsi is a lifelong member of Actors' Equity Association, a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, and a member of the National Alliance for Music Theatre, and the New York Drama League. |