Mary Zimmerman

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person playwright professor theatre director

Mary Zimmerman is an acclaimed American theatre director and playwright known for her visually inventive stage adaptations of classic works and myths.

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Label	Occurrences
Mary Zimmerman canonical	4

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	person ⓘ playwright ⓘ professor ⓘ theatre director ⓘ
affiliation	Goodman Theatre ⓘ Lookingglass Theatre Company ⓘ
awardReceived	Drama Desk Award ⓘ Joseph Jefferson Awards ⓘ surface form: Joseph Jefferson Award MacArthur Fellowship ⓘ Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
directed	Arabian Nights (stage production) ⓘ Argonautica ⓘ surface form: Argonautika (stage production) Candide (operetta by Leonard Bernstein) ⓘ surface form: Candide (stage production) Journey to the West ⓘ surface form: Journey to the West (stage production) Metamorphoses (stage production) ⓘ The Jungle Book musical ⓘ surface form: The Jungle Book (stage production) The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (stage production) ⓘ The Secret in the Wings (stage production) ⓘ Legend of the White Snake ⓘ surface form: The White Snake (stage production) Treasure Island (stage adaptation) ⓘ surface form: Treasure Island (stage production)
educatedAt	Northwestern University ⓘ
employer	Northwestern University ⓘ
fieldOfWork	adaptation of classical literature ⓘ opera direction ⓘ theatre ⓘ
notableFor	adaptations of Greek and Roman myths ⓘ adaptations of Ovid's Metamorphoses ⓘ adaptations of The Arabian Nights ⓘ collaborations with Lookingglass Theatre Company ⓘ visually inventive stage adaptations of classic works and myths ⓘ
notableWork	The Arabian Nights ⓘ surface form: Arabian Nights Argonautica ⓘ surface form: Argonautika Candide (operetta by Leonard Bernstein) ⓘ surface form: Candide (stage adaptation) Journey to the West ⓘ Metamorphoses ⓘ The Jungle Book musical ⓘ surface form: The Jungle Book (stage adaptation) Leonardo da Vinci notebooks ⓘ surface form: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci The Odyssey (stage adaptation) ⓘ The Secret in the Wings ⓘ Legend of the White Snake ⓘ surface form: The White Snake Treasure Island (stage adaptation) ⓘ
occupation	playwright ⓘ theatre director ⓘ university teacher ⓘ
positionHeld	professor of performance studies at Northwestern University ⓘ
style	adaptation of literary and mythological sources for the stage ⓘ highly visual staging ⓘ use of ensemble-based storytelling ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Mary Zimmerman
Description of subject: Mary Zimmerman is an acclaimed American theatre director and playwright known for her visually inventive stage adaptations of classic works and myths.

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Metamorphoses → creator → Mary Zimmerman ⓘ

Metamorphoses → author → Mary Zimmerman ⓘ

Lookingglass Theatre Company → foundedBy → Mary Zimmerman ⓘ

Lookingglass Theatre Company → hasEnsembleMember → Mary Zimmerman ⓘ