Darko Tresnjak, refered to as Darko, is well known for his work as a theatre director in the U.S. He has recieved the Alan Schneider Award for Directing Excellence, a T.C.G. National Theater Artist Residency Award, a Boris Sagal Directing Fellowship, an NEA New Forms Grant, two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowships, and a San Diego Critics Circle Award.
Darko has been working for the past three summers (2004-2006) at the Globe Shakspeare Festival in San Diego, CA. San Diego County in the Southwest corner of California. ... Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) Senators Dianne Feinstein (D) Barbara Boxer (D) Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd) - Land 404,298 km² - Water 20,047 km² (4. ...
Director DarkoTresnjak was once introduced to a woman who -- upon hearing that he was originally from Yugoslavia -- exclaimed that he must speak Anglo-Saxon.
Tresnjak's directing impulses were apparent as early as the summer of 1972, when he organized the neighborhood kids in simulations of the Olympics that were being held in Munich.
Darko and his mother crossed the Atlantic to join his sister and her husband in the Maryland suburbs of Washington in 1976.
DarkoTresnjak (BA, Swarthmore College, MFA, Columbia University) has directed at The Public, The Old Globe, Williamstown, Huntington, Blue Light, Vineyard, Goodspeed, Westport, and Long Wharf theater companies, and at Saint Louis, Virginia, Carolina, Florentine, Florida Grand, and Sarasota opera companies.
He is the artistic director of The Old Globe Shakespeare Festival, where he has staged The Winter's Tale, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Comedy of Errors.