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'''Habib Azar''' (born October 19, 1979 in [[Pennsylvania]], United States) is an American film, theater and television director based in New York City. He married his wife, Carla Azar, in 2011, and
==Career==
===Film===
Azar directed the 2018 cinemacast of Marnie for the [[Metropolitan Opera Live in HD|Metropolitan Opera's Live in HD]] series. Azar directed the ''[[Live from Lincoln Center|Live From Lincoln Center]]'' film production of ''Pipeline,'' a play by [[Dominique Morisseau|Dominque Morisseau]], during its 2017 Off-Broadway run at Lincoln Center Theater's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/dominique-morisseaus-pipeline-arrives-on-broadwayhd-october-9|title=Dominique Morisseau's Pipeline Arrives on BroadwayHD October 9 {{!}} Playbill|website=Playbill|date=9 October 2018|language=en|access-date=2018-10-19}}</ref> He is the director of the New York Philharmonic’s facebook live series.
His first feature film ''Armless'' for which he both directed and wrote the score was an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival and went on to win awards at festivals around the world. ''Armless'' is an off-kilter comedy about a man who suffers from [[body integrity identity disorder]].<ref>^ {{cite web|url=http://festival.sundance.org/2010/press_industry/releases/2010_sundance_film_festival_announces_films_in_premieres/|title=
===Stage===
Azar's stage work focuses on world premiere and rarely performed contemporary operas.
He directed the world premiere of
He directed the American stage premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas' ''ATTHIS'' in a well-received production that had the heroine bound in duct tape. In the climactic scene she stripped naked by violently ripping the duct tape from her body in what the New York Times said 'must be one of the most searingly painful and revealing operatic performances of recent times.'<ref>{{cite news|last1=Fonseca-Wollheim|first1=Corinna|title=New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/18/arts/music/ariadne-greifs-searing-moment-in-opera-cabals-atthis.html}}</ref>
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His other productions include the world premiere of [[Lewis Nielson]]'s ''USW'' with Opera Cabal of Chicago<ref>{{Cite web|title=Opera Cabal at Galapagos: The revolution will be multimedia {{!}} Music, Blogs, The Volume blog {{!}} reviews, guides, things to do, film|url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/the-volume-blog/opera-cabal-at-galapagos-the-revolution-will-be-multimedia|access-date=2020-08-09|website=Time Out New York|language=en}}</ref> and the 2007 production of [[Luigi Nono]]'s rarely performed ''A Floresta e Jovem e Cheja de Vida'' with the [[International Contemporary Ensemble]] toured the US and Mexico and was the subject of an extended analysis in ''[[The Drama Review]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Lochhead|first=Judith Irene|date=2008-03-20|title=On Recent Performances of Luigi Nono's The Forest Is Young and Full of Life|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/233849|journal=TDR: The Drama Review|language=en|volume=52|issue=1|pages=182–189|doi=10.1162/dram.2008.52.1.182|s2cid=57564443|issn=1531-4715}}</ref>
Azar has directed numerous plays including ''Gorilla Man'' at PS122.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-03-15/theater/growing-pains/ |title=Growing Pains - Page 1 - Theater - New York - Village Voice |website=www.villagevoice.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100128090149/http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-03-15/theater/growing-pains/ |archive-date=2010-01-28}} </ref>
===Television===
In 2013 Azar directed all 8 episodes of the groundbreaking series ''[[All-Star Orchestra|The All Star Orchestra]]'' for PBS.
Azar has worked extensively in soap operas, having directed multiple episodes of ''[[As the World Turns]]'', ''[[The Young and the Restless]]'', ''[[All My Children]]'', and ''[[One Life to Live]]''.
He has won
==Awards and nominations==
[[Daytime Emmy Award]]
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*Nominated, 2012, Directing, ''The Young and the Restless''
*Win, 2014, Directing, ''One Life to Live''
Northwest Regional Emmy Award
* Win, 2016, Directing, ''The All Star Orchestra''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nominations & Recipients |url=https://www.natasnw.org/nominations-recipients |access-date=2023-01-17 |website=NATAS Northwest |language=en-US}}</ref>
New York Emmy Award
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*Win, 2017, Directing, ''The All Star Orchestra''
*Win, 2019, Directing, ''US Marine Band with The All Star Orchestra<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwclassical/article/US-Marine-Band-With-The-All-Star-Orchestra-Wins-Emmy-20190507|title=US Marine Band With The All-Star Orchestra Wins Emmy|author=BWW News Desk|website=BroadwayWorld.com|language=en|access-date=2019-06-06}}</ref>''
*Win, 2021, Director, ''The All Star Orchestra''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Habib Azar |url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1656173/awards |access-date=2023-01-17 |website=IMDb}}</ref>
==References==
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