Michael Hackett

About Michael

• Professor
• Office: 2329 Macgowan
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• Phone: 310-206-8293

Biography

Michael Hackett is a Professor of Theater in the School of Theater, Film and Television at UCLA. He has directed for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden; the Royal Theatre at the Hague; the Centrum Sztuki Studio and Dramatyczny Theatre in Warsaw; the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl; the Los Angeles Opera (children’s series); the L. A. Theatre Works and the Getty Museum. He was the artistic producer for Robert Wilson’s “King Lear” at Studio One, Metromedia in Hollywood and he was co-producer, with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles for two radio plays directed by Peter Sellars.

His presentation on 18th century French children’s costume, “Dressing for the Carnival,” was commissioned for the opening day of the new Getty Center. Recently he has directed and composed “fragments” from “Elektra” by Euripides for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Connecticut and he has directed five productions for KCRW/National Public Radio including Wilde’s “An Ideal Husband” with Jacqueline Bisset, Martin Jarvis, Alfred Molina and Miriam Margolyes.