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Mark Brokaw Dies: ‘This Is Our Youth’, ‘How I Learned To Drive’ Director Was 66
Mark Brokaw, a stage director who worked with playwrights Douglas Carter Beane, Kenneth Lonergan, Nicky Silver, and Paula Vogel, died June 29 of cancer.
Over the next decade Brokaw directed the premieres of some of the most acclaimed plays and playwrights to emerge in the 1990s, including Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth(1996), Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive(1997), and Beane’s As Bees in Honey Drown(1997). On Broadway, Brokaw directed Lucas’ Reckless(2004), W. Somerset Maugham’s The Constant Wife(2005), the stage musical adaptation of the John Waters film Cry-Baby(2007), Patrick Marber’s adaptation of Strindberg’s After Miss Julie(2009), Silvers’ The Lyons starring Linda Lavin (2012), Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella(2013), Simon Stephens’ Heisenberg(2016) and, most recently, a revival of Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive, which reunited the director with Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse 28 years after the play debuted Off Broadway. In a statement the Drama League said, “Since receiving his fellowship in 1986, Mark remained an integral part of our community—as a mentor, Master Director in our programs, and a board member for a number of years.
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