André Bishop is the artistic director at the Lincoln Center Theater. He's known for producing musicals such as Contact and The Light in the Piazza, as well as for championing young talent.

Bishop began his career working for the New York Shakespeare Festival and the American Place Theatre. He later joined the influential off-Broadway theater Playwrights Horizons as artistic director and literary manager in 1978. Despite the theater's limited budget, Bishop earned a reputation for bringing innovative works by contemporary playwrights to the stage, and was tapped to serve as artistic director of the Lincoln Center Theater in 1991.

He's staged three Pulitzer Prize-winning works at Lincoln Center over the years—The Heidi Chronicles, Driving Miss Daisy and Sunday in the Park with George—and earned both Playwrights Horizons and Lincoln Center numerous prestigious honors.

Bishop's longtime partner is theater producer Peter Manning. The couple lives in a three-story townhouse in Yorkville, which Bishop bought for $3.775 million in 2008.

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