James Lapine
American stage director and librettist. · United States · On the map · Directors · Born 1949 · age 77
James Elliot Lapine is an American stage director, playwright, screenwriter, and librettist. He has won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical three times, for Into the Woods, Falsettos, and Passion, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Sunday in the Park with George.
James Lapine is read about 101 times a day, in 11 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 19 September 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
In the Company of RoseFilm, Director, Producer2017
FalsettosFilm, Director, Writer2016
CustodyFilm, Director, Writer2015
Act One: Live from Lincoln CenterFilm, Writer2014
Into the WoodsFilm, Writer2013
Six by SondheimFilm, Director, Producer2005Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a MusicalAward2004
Children Will ListenFilm1996
PassionFilm, Director, Writer1995
A Tribute to Stephen SondheimFilm1994Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a MusicalAwardDrama Desk Award for Outstanding MusicalAwardTony Award for Best Book of a MusicalAward1993
Life with MikeyFilm, Director1992Tony Award for Best Book of a MusicalAward1991Laurence Olivier Award for Best New MusicalAward
ImpromptuFilm, 1991Director1990
Into the Woods: A ConversationpieceFilm, Writer1988Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a MusicalAwardDrama Desk Award for Outstanding MusicalAwardTony Award for Best Book of a MusicalAward1986
Sunday in the Park with GeorgeFilm, Director, Writer1985Pulitzer Prize for DramaAward1984Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a MusicalAwardDrama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a MusicalAwardDrama Desk Award for Outstanding MusicalAward1982
American PlayhouseSeries, Director, Writer
Table SettingsFilm, 1982Writer1976
Live from Lincoln CenterSeries, Writer1949Born10 January 1949People around James
Mandy Patinkin James directed Impromptu and Life with Mikey
Stephen Sondheim Also in Sunday in the Park with George (1986)
Bernadette Peters James directed Impromptu (1991)
Christine Baranski James directed Life with Mikey (1994)
Susan Sarandon James directed Earthly Possessions (1999)
Emma Thompson James directed Impromptu (1991)
Michael J. Fox James directed Life with Mikey (1994)
Hugh Grant James directed Impromptu (1991)
Viola Davis James directed Custody (2016)
Hayden Panettiere James directed Custody (2016)
Tony Shalhoub James directed Custody (2016)
Nathan Lane James directed Life with Mikey (1994)
Victor Garber James directed Life with Mikey (1994)
Jerry Lawler James directed Life with Mikey (1994)
Aida Turturro James directed Life with Mikey (1994)
Mary Alice James directed Life with Mikey (1994)
Laura Bell Bundy James directed Life with Mikey (1994)
Marc Platt Produced Into the Woods (2014)
Christina Vidal James directed Life with Mikey (1994)
Georges Corraface James directed Impromptu (1991)
William Finn Also in Life with Mikey and Falsettos
Danielle Ferland Also in Into the Woods and Earthly Possessions
Lonny Price Directed Passion (2005)
Annabelle Gurwitch James directed Life with Mikey (1994)
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Custody 2016
Impromptu 1991
Into the Woods 2014
Life with Mikey 1993
Filmography 18
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Television 2
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He has frequently collaborated with Stephen Sondheim and William Finn.
