Peer Gynt at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. In 1981, Houston Ballet presented "Peer Gynt" as adapted by Artistic Director Ben Stevenson, OBE. In 1989, John Neumeier created a ballet "freely based on Ibsen's play", for which Alfred Schnittke composed the score. In 1998, the Trinity Repertory Company of Providence, Rhode Island commissioned David Henry Hwang and Swiss director Stephan Muller to do an adaptation of "Peer Gynt". In 1998, playwright Romulus Linney directed his adaptation of the play, entitled "Gint", at the Theatre for the New City in New York. This adaptation moved the play's action to 20th-century Appalachia and California.
Jan Eliasberg first woman to direct Michael Mann's "Crime Story," as well as "Wiseguy." Her other television directing credits include multiple episodes of Nashville, The Magicians, Blue Bloods, NCIS;Los Angeles, Parenthood, Criminal Minds, 21 Jump Street", "Dawson's Creek", "Sisters" (also a producer and writer), "Early Edition", "Party of Five", among many other notable series. She was fired from directing "How I Got into College" only five days into filming. She has directing such plays as "Spring Awakening", "Peer Gynt", "Hedda Gabler", "The Threepenny Opera", the American premiere of Howard Brenton's "Sore Throats" and "The Importance of Being Earnest". In 1991, Eliasberg married