Please answer the following question: Facts:     - birth date: 1964    - name: michael wilson    - birth place: united states    - occupation: director   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of michael wilson -lrb- director -rrb- .
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michael wilson -lrb- born 1964 -rrb- is an american stage director working extensively in regional theatre , broadway , and off-broadway .he is devoted to american artists and recently completed a ten-year retrospective of the known and neglected works of tennessee williams at hartford stage , where he was the company 's artistic director from 1998 to 2011 .wilson has also furthered new play development by nurturing and commissioning works by both renowned and emerging artists as a director and through hartford stage 's brand : new festival of new works and american voices , a reading series spotlighting american artists of color .