Annette Jolles has created a diverse body of work as a director and producer for theater and television and is the recipient of twenty-two Emmy Awards. She directed numerous broadcasts for Live From Lincoln Center including symphonic concerts for the NY Philharmonic and Mostly Mozart, three Richard Tucker Galas, and solo programs featuring Cynthia Erivo, Sutton Foster, Leslie Odom, Jr., Norm Lewis and Patina Miller. She also produced PBS’s Stars on Stage from Westport Country Playhouse, directing episodes starring Shoshana Bean and Brandon Victor Dixon. Additional PBS directing includes two Michael Feinstein specials from the Rainbow Room, and episodes of Metrofocus, Amanpour, Firing Line, and NYC-Arts, plus 119 episodes of The Dr. Joy Browne Show for Discovery Health. She has developed and directed new works including the Off-Broadway premieres of That Time of the Year and Little by Little (The York Theatre Company), Passion of the Hausfrau (Portland Stage Company), The Jerusalem Syndrome (NYMF), Suddenly Hope (Denver Civic Theater, Garfield Theater, & Rich Forum Theater), and Big Red Sun (Theatreworks Palo Alto’s New Works Festival). As a founding partner of KTW Productions, she produced, co-wrote and directed Keeping the Word and The Handshake, which toured nationwide. For over 20 years, she served as resident director/choreographer for The Little Orchestra Society, staging their acclaimed Lolli-Pops Series, as well as Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors, Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, Berezowsky’s Babar the Elephant, and an adaptation of Peter and the Wolf at Lincoln Center, BAM, and the Kaye Playhouse. For Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, she directed Così fan tutte at Alice Tully Hall, The Singing Heart at David Geffen Hall, and the world premiere of John Luther Adams’ In the Name of the Earth at St. John the Divine. At NYC’s Symphony Space, she has produced and directed over fifty programs and series, most notably Wall to Wall Bernstein, Wall to Wall Sondheim, multiple seasons of Project Broadway, and gala concerts of Pippin, A Little Night Music, and Cabaret. Continuing her long collaboration with playwright Bess Welden, she will be directing the world premiere of Madeleines (2022 National Jewish Plays Contest winner) at Portland Stage Company in March, 2025.
