Stephen Brackett

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Stephen Brackett is an American stage director known for directing Broadway musicals A Strange Loop, Be More Chill, and The Lightning Thief. He earned a BFA from New York University, at the Playwrights Horizons Theater School. He began his career as an assistant director to Annie Dorsen on Passing Strange at the Public Theater and on Broadway.

Off-Broadway, Brackett has directed To My Girls, The Mad Ones, City Of, and Buyer & Cellar. His Off-Broadway productions of A Strange Loop (originally at Playwrights Horizons), Be More Chill (Pershing Square Signature Center), and The Lightning Thief (Lucille Lortel Theater) later transferred to Broadway. A Strange Loop won the Drama Desk Award, Drama League Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, and Tony Award for Best Musical. Brackett was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for A Strange Loop and also won the Drama Desk Best Director and Outer Critics Circle awards.