For
Immediate Release
Jan.
10, 2014
Tony Award-winning Point Park alum Rob
Ashford nominated for Directors Guild Award
PITTSBURGH – Point Park alumnus and Tony Award-winner Rob
Ashford has received a Directors Guild Award nomination for directing The Sound of Music Live! on NBC last month.
Ashford and co-director Beth McCarthy-Miller were nominated
in the category of Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television
and Mini-Series. This is Ashford’s first Directors Guild Award nomination.
The winners will be announced at a
ceremony on Feb. 25.
The three-hour live telecast of The Sound of Music in December starred six-time
Grammy Award-winner Carrie Underwood as Maria von Trapp, Stephen Moyer, star of
HBO’s hit series True Blood,
as Captain von Trapp, and five-time Tony Award-winner and two-time Grammy
Award-winner Audra McDonald as Mother Abbess.
Ashford won a Tony Award in 2002 for choreographing Thoroughly Modern Millie. He has been nominated for a Tony Award
eight times and for several Laurence Olivier awards, the British equivalent of
the Tony. He won the Drama Desk, Fred
Astaire Award, and Outer Critics Circle awards for Cry-Baby(2008).
Ashford made his directorial debut with Parade (2008) on London’s West End. On
Broadway, he directed revivals of the musicals Promises, Promises, starring
Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth, and How To
Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, starring
Daniel Radcliff. Ashford directed his first non-musical on Broadway, a
revival of Tennessee Williams’ Cat
on a Hot Tin Roof, starring Scarlett Johansson, last year.
Ashford also directed the musical numbers for the film, Beyond the Sea, Kevin Spacey’s Bobby Darin biopic, and
won a 2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography for the 81st Annual Academy Awards.
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