Thomas Kail
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Thomas Kail (born January 20, 1977) is an American film and theatre director, known for directing the Off-Broadway and Broadway productions of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musicals In the Heights and Hamilton, the latter of which he received the 2016 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical.
Kail was awarded the Kennedy Center Honor in 2018.
Personal life
Kail grew up in Alexandria, Virginia and graduated from Sidwell Friends School in 1995 and subsequently from Wesleyan University in 1999. He remains good friends with Lin-Manuel Miranda, with whom he co-created the freestyle hip-hop group Freestyle Love Supreme. Kail is Jewish.
Kail began a relationship with theatre actress Angela Christian in 2006; they divorced in 2019. In December 2019, it was announced that he was engaged to Fosse/Verdon actress Michelle Williams, who was expecting their first child together; they married in March 2020. Their son, Hart, was born by June that year. In May 2022, Williams revealed she is pregnant with their second child together. Williams also has a daughter from a previous relationship.
Career
Kail joined Wesleyan University as assistant stage manager at American Stage Company in New Jersey.
In 2007, and 2008, Kail conducted the 24 Hour Plays benefit performances, where "6 short plays were written, rehearsed, and directed, and all finished in 24 hours." He supervised Julia Jordan's A Bus Stop Play and Beau Willimon's Zusammenbruch in 2008. Both productions were seen at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway.
Kail produced In the Heights, a hit Broadway show that gained him a Tony Award nomination for Best Direction of a Musical. The musical premiered on Broadway on February 14, 2008, with a formal opening at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on March 9, 2008.
The Broke-ology, directed by Kail, appeared at the Lincoln Center Theater Off-Broadway from October 5, 2009, to November 22, 2009. This performance received the Best Director of a Dramatic Production award from the Kail Company. The world premiere at the Williamstown Theatre Festival was also staged by Kail. Kail also directed Encores at the New York City Center in 2009. The Wiz is a staged revival of The Wiz's musical production.
Eric Simonson, based on Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi, a week in the 1965 season, was the head coach of his team's victory. On October 21, 2010, Lombardi officially premiered on Broadway at the Circle in the Square Theatre.
When I Come to Die, Nathan Louis Jackson's Off-Broadway version, which appeared in January and February 2011.
On Magic/Bird, a new play retelling the intertwined life tales of basketball Hall of Famers Larry Bird and Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Kail reunited with Lombardi playwright Eric Simonson. In previews, the play premiered on Broadway on March 21, 2012, and it was ended on May 12, 2012. Kevin Daniels played "Magic" Johnson and Tug Coker as Larry Bird in Kail directed, with the cast including Larry Bird as "Magic" Johnson and Tug Coker as Larry Bird.
Kail continued his cooperation with Lin-Manuel Miranda, producing the film Hamilton in 2015, both Off-Broadway and on Broadway, for which he received a Tony Award.
Grease was produced by Kail, a television show directed by Kail, was screened live on Fox on January 31, 2016; the world premiere of Dry Powder with Hank Azaria, Claire Danes, John Krasinski, and Sanjit De Silva ran from March to May 2016, which was also on Fox; and Tiny Beautiful Things, also at The Public Theater in New York City, from November to December 2016.
FX revealed an eight-episode order for a limited-series named Fosse/Verdon on July 5, 2018, with Sam Rockwell playing Bob Fosse and Michelle Williams playing Gwen Verdon. Thomas Kail will direct at least four of the series's eight episodes, according to a total of five episodes. The Directors Guild of America had nominated Kail for Outstanding Directing – Movies for Television and Limited Series for the episode "Nowadays."