John Bernard Hofsiss (September 28, 1950 â€" September 13, 2016) was
an American theatre, film, and television director. He received a Tony
Award for his direction of The Elephant Man on Broadway, the youngest
director to have ever received it at the time. The production also
garnered him a Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Obie
Award, and New York Drama Critics Circle Award. Director of Family
Secrets in the year 1984; starring Melissa Gilbert, James Spader,
Stefanie Powers, and Maureen Stapleton.John Bernard Hofsiss was born
on September 28, 1950 in Brooklyn. He grew up in New York City, as a
Catholic, and served as an altar boy, which he has said was his "first
experience of theatre". He was a 1971 graduate of Georgetown
University.After a directing stint at the Folger Theatre in
Washington, D.C., he became a casting director in New York for several
years. He then directed The Best of Families, a mini-series, for
television in 1977. He also directed for TV Out of Our Father's House
(1978), 3 by Cheever: The Sorrows of Gin (1979), The Elephant Man
(1982), "Family Secrets (1984), and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1985). In
1982 he directed the film I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can.In 1985,
Hofsiss dived into a pool and suffered a spinal cord injury, resulting
in paralysis up to his mid-chest. He spent eight months at the Rusk
Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine and used a wheelchair. Just
months after the accident he returned to the theater scene, directing
All the Way Home at the Berkshire Theatre Festival. Hofsiss appeared
in the documentary The Needs of Kim Stanley in 2005.
an American theatre, film, and television director. He received a Tony
Award for his direction of The Elephant Man on Broadway, the youngest
director to have ever received it at the time. The production also
garnered him a Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Obie
Award, and New York Drama Critics Circle Award. Director of Family
Secrets in the year 1984; starring Melissa Gilbert, James Spader,
Stefanie Powers, and Maureen Stapleton.John Bernard Hofsiss was born
on September 28, 1950 in Brooklyn. He grew up in New York City, as a
Catholic, and served as an altar boy, which he has said was his "first
experience of theatre". He was a 1971 graduate of Georgetown
University.After a directing stint at the Folger Theatre in
Washington, D.C., he became a casting director in New York for several
years. He then directed The Best of Families, a mini-series, for
television in 1977. He also directed for TV Out of Our Father's House
(1978), 3 by Cheever: The Sorrows of Gin (1979), The Elephant Man
(1982), "Family Secrets (1984), and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1985). In
1982 he directed the film I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can.In 1985,
Hofsiss dived into a pool and suffered a spinal cord injury, resulting
in paralysis up to his mid-chest. He spent eight months at the Rusk
Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine and used a wheelchair. Just
months after the accident he returned to the theater scene, directing
All the Way Home at the Berkshire Theatre Festival. Hofsiss appeared
in the documentary The Needs of Kim Stanley in 2005.
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