Terry Kinney is perhaps best-known for his portrayal of the idealistic unit manager Tim McManus in HBO’s prison drama Oz. Among his many other television credits are the TNT movie Wallace with Gary Sinise and Angelina Jolie; the Showtime movie That Championship Season with Vincent D’Onofrio and Tony Shalhoub; the HBO special The Laramie Project with Laura Linney and Peter Fonda; CSI: NY; Kidnapped; and the Fox series Canterbury’s Law with Julianna Margulies. Kinney has also appeared in a number of features films, including Save the Last Dance with Julia Stiles; Sleepers with Kevin Bacon and Robert De Niro; Fly Away Home with Jeff Daniels; House of Mirth with Gillian Anderson; No Mercy with Richard Gere and Kim Basinger; The Last of the Mohicans with Daniel Day-Lewis; The Firm with Tom Cruise; and Devil in a Blue Dress with Denzel Washington.
Since co-founding the Steppenwolf Theatre with Gary Sinise and Jeff Perry in 1976, Kinney has directed numerous plays there, including The Violet Hour, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Clockwork Orange, And a Nightingale Sang, Of Mice and Men, My Thing of Love and Streamers. In New York he has directed After Ashley and Beautiful Child for the Vineyard Theatre, Eyes for Consuela for the Manhattan Theatre Club and Reasons to Be Pretty for MCC Theatre’s Lucille Lortel.
After directing the short film Kubuku Rides (This Is It) for Steppenwolf Films, Kinney directed his first full-length feature, Diminished Capacity with Matthew Broderick and Alan Alda. This season he will once again direct Neil LaBute’s critically acclaimed Reasons to Be Pretty, which is moving to The Lyceum for a Broadway opening on April 2, 2009.
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