Sam Gold

Sam Gold is a Tony Award-winning director based in Brooklyn, NY. His Broadway credits include King Lear; A Doll’s House, Part 2 (Tony Award nomination); The Glass Menagerie; Fun Home (Tony Award); The Real Thing; The Realistic Joneses; Picnic; Seminar. Other productions include The Flick (Barrow Street Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, National Theatre; Lortel Award nomination); Kin (Playwrights Horizons); The Big Meal (Playwrights Horizons; Lortel Award); Circle Mirror Transformation (Playwrights Horizons; Obie Award, Drama Desk nomination); The Secret Life of Bees (Atlantic Theatre Company); Hamlet (The Public Theater); Othello (New York Theatre Workshop); The Glass Menagerie (Toneelgroep Amsterdam); John (Signature Theatre; Obie Award, Lortel and Drama Desk Award nominations); The Village Bike (MCC); Uncle Vanya (Soho Rep.; Drama Desk nomination); TheRealistic Joneses (Yale Repertory Theatre); The Cradle Will Rock (Encores! Off-Center); Look Back in Anger (Roundabout Theatre Company; Lortel nomination); and The Aliens (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater; Obie Award). Training: The Juilliard School. Gold will direct Oscar Isaac and Greta Gerwig in Clare Barron’s new adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters at New York Theater Workshop.

Photo by Matthew Murphy for MurphyMade. Bio updated as of June 2021.

• “A life-in-overdrive comic drama. Dan LeFranc’s snappy dialogue captures the tumultuous tenor of family gatherings. THE CAST IS SUPERB.”

  — Charles Isherwood, The New York Times

• “INTIMATE AND EXHILARATING. The expert ensemble make their merry-go-round of characters feel both universal and tenderly specific.”

  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker

• “Packed with humanity and humor, "The Big Meal" dishes up laughs and tears. Sam Gold is in his element.”

  — Joe Dziemianowicz, New York Daily News

• “AMBITIOUS AND IMPRESSIVE. You will be amazed.”

  — David Cote, Time Out New York