When his last Broadway-bound musical, Seussical, was something of a failure, Galati returned to Chicago -- and starred with John Mahoney in Steppenwolf's The Drawer Boy. He directed Terrence McNally's new musical, The Visit (premiering at the Goodman) and Edna Ferber & George S. Kaufman's The Royal Family at Steppenwolf.
As Associate Director of the Goodman Theatre, he has directed The Government Inspector, She Always Said, Pablo, Passion Play, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Winter's Tale, The Good Person of Setzuan, and the adaptations Cry, The Beloved Country and Gertrude Stein: Each One As She May.
He has also directed Chicago Opera Theatre several times (including Four Saints in Three Acts, and Chicago's Lyric Opera (The Voyage of Edgar Allen Poe, Pelleas and Melisande, La Traviata, and Tosca).
Galati recently directed the stage production of Ragtime in Chicago, Toronto, and Los Angeles. He has staged many operas for Chicago's Lyric Opera, San Francisco Opera, Dllas Opera, and Chicago Opera Theatre. Under his direction, Steppenwolf has performed As I Lay Dying and Everyman. Galati is also a member of the Northwestern University faculty, and holds multiple degrees from that institution (School of Speech '65, and graduate degrees in '67 and '71).
He adapted and directed "The Grapes of Wrath" for television in 1991 and wrote the teleplay for Arthur Miller's "The American Clock," also for TV (1993).
Nominated for Writing - Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium 1988: THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST (w. Lawrence Kasdan)
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