A. J. Antoon
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A. J. Antoon (December 7, 1944 - January 22, 1992), was an American theatre director.
Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Antoon was a graduate of Boston College and attended the Yale School of Drama.
In 1972, the Broadway novice, a protegé of producer Joseph Papp, became the first director to be nominated in the same year for two Tony Awards as Best Director of a Play, for Much Ado About Nothing (which he adapted for television the following year) and That Championship Season. The latter won him not only the Tony but the Drama Desk Award as well. He also received a Tony nod for his direction of the Kander and Ebb musical The Rink in 1984.
Antoon died from complications due to AIDS at the New York University Medical Center in Manhattan.
[edit] Additional Broadway credits
- The Good Doctor (1973)
- Dance of Death (1974)
- Trelawny of the Wells (1975)
- The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1978)
- Sherlock's Last Case (1987)
