Berkeley Rep director heads to Broadway. Again.

Tony Taccone sounds pretty relaxed for a man on the run between directing shows in Minneapolis, Berkeley and on Broadway. After two decades at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, serving as artistic director since 1997, the 57-year-old director may be most comfortable with a certain amount of chaos. Taccone moved from New York to Berkeley in 1974, where he lives with Morgan, his girlfriend of 10 years, and her son. He has two grown sons, Jorma, 32, a writer for "Saturday Night Live" and member of the Lonely Island comedy group, and Asa, 28, a music producer and composer. The former artistic director of the Eureka Theatre, where he commissioned Tony Kushner to write "Angels in America," he's just staged Kushner's "Tiny Kushner" at Minneapolis' Guthrie Theatre and will reprise the evening of short plays at the Rep this fall. Now he's... [read full story]                    

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