She was meant to play Presidents and C.E.O.s, editors-in-chief and visionary directors.
While all visionary directors proclaim a theater of inclusion, the Tonys go on signifying theater of exclusion.
Lan's most talked-about programming came with productions that matched classic plays with radical, visionary directors who, notably, have international reputations and experience.
"Gareth's film-making talent makes him one of his generation's most creative and visionary directors," said Thomas Tull of Godzilla production company Legendary Entertainment.
There's a Hollywood history of visionary directors whose expensive films aroused the derision and the enmity of journalists and critics, whether Erich von Stroheim or Orson Welles or Michael Cimino (whose "Heaven's Gate" was another victim of facile critical attitudinizing).
Last week, speaking at the University of Southern California, the two film-makers outlined a doomsday scenario of hugely inflated ticket prices, limited choice at the box office and no place for talented, visionary directors – like themselves.
