John A. McQuiggan
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Assisted by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Arts,
John A. McQuiggan has been adapting three great dramas of the American
theatre to be produced as feature films and eventually shown on network
television as a repertory series. He has recently completed two
screenplays: Time and Madness and In Your Dreams, which are being
developed as feature films. In 1999 McQuiggan served as Executive
Producer of the documentary Project Discovery: The First Film School in
Cyberspace that had its world premiere on Bravo and was later shown on
PBS Stations. In 1993, he co-produced the BBC and PBS film version of
Simon Gray's play The Common Pursuit for Great Performances. Prior to
this, he produced the New York production which received the Outer
Critics' Circle Award and the Lucille Lortel Award for the Outstanding
Off-Broadway Production of the 1986-87 season. This was followed by his
London production at the West End's Phoenix Theatre where it was
nominated for an Olivier Award (London's Tony) as the Best Comedy of
1988. In 1985, he won the Outer Critics' Circle Award and two Obie
Awards for Best Off-Broadway Production for Larry Shue's The Foreigner
which ran for over two years. In 1983, he produced Quartermaine's Terms
by Simon Gray which garnered eight Obie Awards and was named one of the
Ten Best Plays of 1983 by over a dozen major publications. In the
1960s, in tandem with Ellis Rabb and Rosemary Harris, he was a founder
and later Producing Director of the famed APA Repertory Company at the
Lyceum Theatre on Broadway. From 1964 to 1968, he was the
Founder-Producer of the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre and established the
company as a prominent force in the regional theatre movement.
In the 1970s, McQuiggan served as Director of Development for the Performing Arts Division of the Smithsonian Institution and in 1984, he was selected by A. Bartlett Giamatti, the late president of Yale University, as one of five professionals to serve on the University Council Committee of the Drama School for five years.
In the 1970s, McQuiggan served as Director of Development for the Performing Arts Division of the Smithsonian Institution and in 1984, he was selected by A. Bartlett Giamatti, the late president of Yale University, as one of five professionals to serve on the University Council Committee of the Drama School for five years.