Mark Brokaw, a director of Broadway, off-Broadway and regional productions, who shepherded the work of rising playwrights like Kenneth Lonergan, Lisa Kron, Paula Vogel and Nicky Silver beginning in the early 1990s, died June 29 at his home in Manhattan. He was 66.

His husband, Andrew Farber, said the cause was prostate cancer.

Brokaw was comfortable with the classics. He directed productions of Molière’s “Tartuffe,” W. Somerset Maugham’s “The Constant Wife” and the musical “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella” — albeit a Cinderella with a fresh, feminist gloss.

But he was a specialist in new plays, including Patrick Marber’s “After Miss Julie,” which he directed in 2009; Lonergan’s “This Is Our Youth,” which he directed in 1996 and again in 1998; and Kron’s “2.5 Minute Ride,” in 1999. And he had something of a subspecialty in the nonlinear storytelling seen in works like Douglas Carter Beane’s “As Bees in Honey Drown” and Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “How I Learned to Drive”; he directed both in 1997.

“Mark was especially good with plays that jump around in time, and you had multiple people playing multiple parts,” said actor Cynthia Nixon, who worked with Brokaw on “As Bees in Honey Drown” and Lisa Loomer’s “Distracted” in 2009.

If the storytelling could be complex, the productions themselves were often anything but. “They were so spare,” Nixon said. “No unneeded froufrou. You know, Mark was kind of a very WASP-y Midwestern guy, and a lot of his plays were like that.”

The haberdashery department at Saks, the backseat of a limousine and the lobby of a boutique hotel? All handily represented by a few cushioned stools in “As Bees in Honey Drown.”

A few months earlier, Brokaw had worked the same sleight-of-hand, slight-of-set magic with his direction of “How I Learned to Drive,” an account of a young woman’s incestuous relationship with her pedophile uncle, which was performed on a nearly bare stage. (Brokaw directed the play again in 2022; it would be his final Broadway credit.)