CAMERON
WATSON has directed five productions for the Colony,
The Savannah Disputation, On Golden Pond. He previously directed
Grace &
Glorie,
which garnered four Ovation Award nominations including Best Production
and won the Ovation Award for Best Actress (Beth Grant);
Educating
Rita; and
Trying,
which received eight Ovation Award nominations and won for Best Actor
(Alan Mandell) along with the Garland Award for Best Director.
He most
recently directed the critically-acclaimed revival of
All My Sons
at The Matrix Theatre Company for producer Joseph Stern (LA Drama
Critics’Circle Award winner - AnneGee Byrd - Best Actress, LAWeekly
Award nomination -Best Revival) and the critically lauded revival of
I Never
Sang for My Father starring Philip Baker Hall at The New
American Theatre and
A Midsummer Night’s Dream at
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. Cameron directed the American
premiere of
I Capture the Castle at
the El Portal (six Ovation Award nominations) and the east coast
premiere at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey last winter.
Other
directing credits include Horton Foote’s
The Habitation of
Dragons at the Actor’s Co-Op and the unique one-woman show
Rolling
with Laughter which
played Los Angeles, the Edinburgh Festival, and Her Majesty’s Theatre
in London’s West End.
Cameron wrote and directed the Miramax feature
film
Our Very Own, which stars Allison Janney in an
Independent
Spirit Award-nominated performance along with Jason Ritter, Keith
Carradine, Cheryl Hines, Faith Prince, Beth Grant, and Mary Badham. His
professional acting career began in New York when Horton Foote cast him
in the original Off-Broadway production of
The Widow Claire at
Circle in the Square.
His lengthy acting credits include leading roles
at the Pasadena Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Laguna Playhouse, and
numerous film and television appearances.
June, 2012