Joe Dowling
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Joe Dowling is the Artistic Director for the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is also well known for his work as Artistic Director of the Abbey Theatre in Ireland, and has directed plays in all the major theatres in Ireland as well as theatres in London, New York, Washington, Montreal and Alberta. Dowling has been long connected Irish theatre having founded Ireland's premiere drama school, the Gaiety School of Acting, served as artistic director of the Irish Theatre Company and the Peacock theatre and founded the Young Abbey, Ireland's first theater-in-education group.
He became the Guthrie’s Artistic Director in 1995 and has directed productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Playboy of the Western World, Much Ado About Nothing, The Importance of Being Earnest, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night and Amadeus.
He is currently directing Hamlet, the Guthrie's last production in it’s original location next to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Hamlet was also the first play produced by the Guthrie in 1963, directed by Sir Tyrone Guthrie himself.
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