Creative

CHRISTOPHER DURANG (Playwright)

His plays include The Idiots Karamazov (coauthored with Albert Innaurato), A History of the American Film (Tony nom.), Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You (Obie Award), Beyond Therapy (off and on Broadway), Baby with the Bathwater, The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Obie's for playwriting, Jerry Zaks' directing, ensemble acting; Dramatists Guild Hull Warriner Award), Laughing Wild, For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls, Betty's Summer Vacation (Obie's for playwriting, Nicholas Martin's directing, Kristine Nielsen), Miss Witherspoon (2005 Pulitzer finalist), Why Torture is Wrong and the People Who Love Them. Cabaret: Das Lusitania Songspiel, coauthored and performed by Sigourney Weaver and Durang (Drama Desk nominations for both performers); Chris Durang and Dawne (Bistro Award for Durang and cohorts John Augustine and Sherry Anderson). He won the Harvard Arts Medal, the PEN/Laura Pels Award for a Master American Dramatist; recently inducted in the Theatre Hall of Fame. For 18 years he and Marsha Norman have been co-chairs of the Juilliard Playwriting Program. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild Council. www.christopherdurang.com

NICHOLAS MARTIN (Director)

Broadway: Present Laughter, Butley, Match, Hedda Gabler, The Rehearsal, You Never Can Tell. Off-Broadway: Saturn Returns, The New Century, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Drama Desk nom.), Chaucer in Rome, The Time of the Cuckoo (LCT); Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them (The Public Theater); Fully Committed (Vineyard Theatre, Cherry Lane); Full Gallop (MTC, Westside Theatre); Betty’s Summer Vacation (Obie Award, Drama Desk nom.), Sophistry (Playwrights Horizons); Bosoms and Neglect (Signature Theatre). Regional: She Stoops to Conquer (McCarter); The House of Blue Leaves (Mark Taper Forum); Dead End (Ahmanson Theatre); Pygmalion, Macbeth (Old Globe); The Verizon Play (Humana); The Circle, A Cheever Evening (Westport Country Playhouse); My Wonderful Day (Two River Theater). Former Artistic Director of Williamstown Theatre Festival and Boston’s Huntington Theatre.

DAVID KORINS (Sets)

Broadway: Motown, Annie, Bring It On, Chinglish, An Evening with Patti LuPone & Mandy Patinkin, Magic/Bird, Godspell, The Pee-Wee Herman Show, Lombardi, Passing Strange and Bridge and Tunnel. David has worked extensively both Off-Broadway and regionally. Opera credits include the world premiere operas of The Gospel of Mary Magdalene at the San Francisco Opera, and Oscar and Life is a Dream at Santa Fe Opera. David served as Kanye West’s creative director designing several concerts in the United States & abroad. He received a Drama Desk Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, three Henry Hewes Awards and the 2009 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Design. Dad to Stella and Vivian. www.davidkorinsdesign.com

EMILY REBHOLZ (Costumes)

Broadway: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Recent NY: The Madrid, Close Up Space (MTC); Slowgirl (Lincoln Center); What Rhymes with America (Atlantic); Into the Woods (Shakespeare in the Park); Lonely, I’m Not (2012 Henry Hewes Design nomination), Bachelorette (Second Stage); Carrie (MCC); The Shaggs… (Playwrights Horizons); This Wide Night (Naked Angels, 2011 Lucille Lortel nomination). Additional designs: LABrinth, Lincoln Center, Roundabout, Rattlestick, Ars Nova, Atlanic, Opera St. Louis, The Old Globe, A.R.T., Williamstown, Cincinnati Playhouse. M.F.A., Yale School of Drama.

JUSTIN TOWNSEND (Lighting)

Broadway: The Other Place, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. NYC: On The Levee, Luck of the Irish (LCT3); Galileo, Unnatural Acts (Classic Stage Company); Milk Like Sugar (Playwrights Horizons); The Other Place (MCC); Opus (Primary Stages); Speech and Debate (Roundabout); The Treatment (Culture Project); Beauty on the Vine, Palace of the End (Epic Theatre). Regional: Arden, Alliance, A.R.T., Bard SummerScape, Boston Court, Baltimore’s Centerstage, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Play House, Folger Theatre, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre, Kirk Douglas, Intiman, La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Playmakers Repertory Company, Portland Center Stage. Assistant professor at Northeastern.

MARK BENNETT (Original Music and Sound)

Broadway (composition and/or sound design): The Coast of Utopia (Drama Desk Award; Outstanding Score, Henry Hewes Award; Outstanding Sound Design), Dead Accounts, Driving Miss Daisy, A Steady Rain, Henry IV; A Streetcar Named Desire, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Golda’s Balcony, The Goat, Lily Tomlin’s The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, The Lion in Winter, A View From the Bridge; Off-Broadway: The Bridge Project 2009–2012 (BAM/Old Vic), Talley's Folly (Roundabout), The New Century, Chaucer in Rome, The Time of the Cuckoo, Pride’s Crossing (Lincoln Center Theater), An Iliad (Obie Award); Mad Forest (NYTW); Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them; The Seagull; Dogeaters; scores for eight Shakespeare productions (The Public Theater). Fourteen Drama Desk noms, 1998 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Sound Design.

DENISE YANEY (Production Stage Manager)

Most recently: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at Lincoln Center Theater. Broadway credits include: Time Stands Still, American Buffalo, The Homecoming, The Retreat from Moscow, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Redwood Curtain and As Is; In the Next Room, Awake and Sing! and Morning's at Seven (Lincoln Center); The Columnist, Good People, Accent on Youth, Brooklyn Boy and Sight Unseen (MTC); The Road to Mecca, Old Acquaintance, Major Barbara and The Play’s the Thing (Roundabout). Off-Broadway: LCT, MTC, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage and Circle Rep (company member). Regional: Hartford Stage, Arizona Theatre Company, Long Wharf and Bay Street.

JOEY PARNES (Producer)

Currently represented on Broadway with Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike, past Broadway credits include End of the Rainbow, Hair (Broadway, West End and National tour), The Merchant of Venice, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Equus, Passing Strange, Butley, Well, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Broadway, West End and National tour), The Goat, or who is Sylvia?, Copenhagen (Broadway and National tour), The Tempest, Noise/Funk, Dreamgirls (Broadway and National tour), Grand Hotel (Broadway and National tour) and Passion among others. Coordinating producer of the Tony Awards (2001-2008). Past president of the Yale Dramatic Association.

LARRY HIRSCHHORN (Producer)

Broadway: Peter and the Starcatcher (5 Tony Awards); Gore Vidal’s The Best Man (2012); Driving Miss Daisy (Starring James Earl Jones & Vanessa Redgrave, also in London); The Addams Family; Hair (Broadway, London, National Tour) Winner of Tony & Drama Desk for Best Revival of a Musical; The Seagull (starring Kristin Scott Thomas); Passing Strange (Drama Desk Award-Best Musical); Butley (starring Nathan Lane); and Well. Off-Broadway: Rated P: For Parenthood; Make Me a Song: The Music of William Finn. Favorite productions: Jessie, Josh & Ben. Thanks to Joey, Sue and John. Love and thanks always to MP.

JOAN RAFFE & JHETT TOLENTINO (Producer)

Off-Broadway: My Name is Asher Lev. Broadway investments: Matilda; Kinky Boots; Cinderella; Evita; The Best Man; On A Clear Day; The Broadway Consortium: Porgy & Bess (Tony); Bonnie & Clyde; Chinglish. Broadway Records: Patti LuPone Far Away Places; Norbert Leo Butz Memory & Mayhem; Andrea McArdle 70s and Sunny (Live at 54 Below); Jekyll & Hyde; From Broadway with Love: A Benefit Concert for Sandy Hook; Bonnie & Clyde; How to Succeed in Business; Lysistrata Jones; and Laura Osnes at Café Carlyle.

MARTIN PLATT (Producer)

Co-director Perry Street Theatricals. NY: Here Lies Jenny, with Bebe Neuwirth; Treason; In the Continuum (Obie); An Oak Tree (Obie); Shylock. London: Lend Me A Tenor the Musical, Nixon's Nixon, Woman in Waiting, Gumboots, Miss Evers' Boys, The Good Person Of Sharkeville (Janet Suzman), The Free State, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, Gumboots.

DAVID ELLIOTT (Producer)

As Co-Director of Perry Street Theatricals, nearly twenty productions including: Lend Me A Tenor (Gielgud Theatre, West End), An Oak Tree (Barrow Street, Obie); In The Continuum (Perry Street, Obie, Outer Critics); The Exonerated (Drama Desk, Lortel). Upcoming: Always…Patsy Cline (Broadway).

PAT FLICKER ADDISS (Producer)

Broadway credits: Little Women, Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life, Bridge and Tunnel, Spring Awakening, Passing Strange, 39 Steps, Promises, Promises, A Christmas Story. Off- Broadway: Shout, Housewives of Mannheim. Boards of NJ Rep & League of Professional Theatre Women. Created the Anti-Bullying organization, Embrace The Differences. Speaker/event planner.

CATHERINE ADLER (Producer)

has been involved in many Broadway and Off-Broadway productions including The Heiress and Guys & Dolls. Founding member of the Raymond J. Kravis Center in West Palm Beach. Board Member of the Academy of the Palm Beaches, Ballet Florida and the International Director’s Council of the Guggenheim Museum.

JOHN O'BOYLE (Producer)

is working with the RSC on Matilda. Previous Broadway: La Cage Aux Folles (Tony, Best Musical Revival), Elling, Glory Days, A Catered Affair, Is He Dead?, Radio Golf. London: Marguerite. Member of Dramatist Guild and ASCAP. His contemporary oratorio, Easter Mysteries, will be performed at St. Clements during Holy Week celebrations.

JOSHUA GOODMAN (Producer)

is an attorney who is excited to make his producing debut this season with Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, and Pippin. Many thanks to Colleen and Dave for their support and encouragement. Love to David. For my parents who taught me to appreciate the magic of live theater.

JAMIE deROY (Producer)

Broadway: Cinderella, Nice Work…., Peter and the Starcatcher, Mother F**ker with a Hat, Catch Me…., Addams Family, Lend Me A Tenor, Finian's Rainbow, The Norman Conquests (Tony, Drama Desk, Occ), All My Sons, The Seagull, Thurgood. Off-Broadway: All In The Timing, My Name is Asher Lev, Forbidden Broadway, Black Tie, Dividing the Estate, Opus.

RICHARD WINKLER (Producer)

Broadway: The Norman Conquests (Tony Award), La Cage Aux Folles (Tony Award), Memphis (Tony Award), A Little Night Music, Lend Me A Tenor, La Bete, Long Story Short, Nice Work, Cinderella. West End: Long Day's Journey Into Night, Betrayal, Hair. President, Mark Stuart Dance Theatre.

CRICKET HOOPER JIRANEK (Producer)

Cricket has enjoyed being part of the NYC theatre community since 1984, as founding partner for CTM Media Group and CTM Productions. B'way: Gore Vidal's The Best Man (Tony nom.), Ring of Fire, Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home (Tony nom.), It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues (Tony nom.), Fool Moon (Tony).

MICHAEL PALITZ (Producer)

Broadway: Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man (Tony nom.), Leap of Faith (Tony nom.), The Scottsboro Boys (Tony nom.), Next Fall (Tony nom.). West End: Noel Coward’s Hay Fever. www.GemsGroupProductions.com

MARK S. GOLUB & DAVID S. GOLUB (Producer)

Broadway: Tony Award-winning Porgy & Bess, Tony-nominated The Best Man, Virginia Woolf, Glenngary Glen Ross. Off Broadway: If Love Were All, Tennessee Williams Remembered. Mark is also president and executive producer of America's national Jewish television network, Shalom TV.

RADIO MOUSE ENTERTAINMENT (Producer)

is M. Kilburg Reedy and Jason E. Grossman. Previous credits include the Broadway productions of Peter and the Starcatcher (winner of 5 Tony Awards) and The Pee-wee Herman Show, as well as the Olivier-nominated premiere of Lend Me A Tenor The Musical in London’s West End. www.radiomouse.com

SHADOWCATCHER ENTERTAINMENT (Producer)

ShadowCatcher is a Seattle-based production company that develops, produces, distributes and invests in character-driven feature films, theatre, books and graphic novels. Broadway projects include End of the Rainbow, Memphis, The Mountaintop, Passing Strange, All Shook Up, Fiddler on the Roof, Match and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. Road shows: Memphis and Hair. Off-Broadway: Tuesdays With Morrie, and Debbie Does Dallas.

MARY COSSETTE (Producer)

5-Time NYC Marathon finisher. Winner Brighton Festival U.K. “Woody SEZ.” 7^th Broadway Production. Others include Scarlet Pimpernel, Follies, That Championship Season, The Addams Family and Bonnie and Clyde.

BARBARA MANOCHERIAN (Producer)

Two-time Tony Award winner: Hair, The Norman Conquests. Other Broadway productions: Next Fall, The 39 Steps, Sunday in the Park with George, Cyrano de Bergerac, Butley The Best Man. Numerous off-Broadway productions. New York Stage & Film Board member. Broadway League member. Love to ARI.

MEGAN SAVAGE (Producer)

is a recent graduate of Harvard University. This is her professional producing debut. NYC associate producing credits include JUNK: A Rock Opera and Foreverman. Thanks to Mark and Tricia Beisler, Paul Halas and Jackie Whitney, Tim and Cathy Davenport, Jim and Carol Savage, Bill Raduchel, Michael Roderick, Mom and Dad.

MEREDITH LYNSEY SCHADE (Producer)

Recent: Erik Ehn's 17-play cycle Soulographie: Our Genocides. Collaborations: Venus in Fur, Uncle Vanya (CSC); Macbeth (A Modern Ecstasy), 11 septembre 2001 (Center for New Performance); Million Dollar Quartet (Dee Gee Entertainment); Taking Flight, Passing Strange (Sundance). Previously the Executive Director of ArtWallah, she recently co-founded StageReads, an e-play periodical. www.stagereads.com

HUGH HYSELL (Producer)

Broadway producing credits: Vanya…Spike, Peter & the Starcatcher (winner 5 Tonys). Off-Bway: All-Male Importance of Being Earnest (also adapted/directed), Y2Gay, Seamen. Hugh is president of HHC Marketing & TheMenEvent.com and an Assoc Prof. at Columbia. Founding member of The Off-Broadway Alliance and nominator for their OBA Awards.

RICHARD JORDAN (Producer)

is one of the UK's most prolific producers. He has produced in 18 different countries and is grateful to have enjoyed a degree of success in the theatre, winning many major awards including London's 2012 Olivier Award for the play Roadkill. Named in Stage Newspaper’s Top 100 UK Theatre Professionals, this is his 179th production.

CHERYL WIESENFELD (Producer)

Broadway: The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess (Tony Award); A Steady Rain; Legally Blonde; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; ’night, Mother; Caroline, or Change; and Elaine Stritch: At Liberty (Tony Award). Off-Broadway: 10^th Anniversary production of The Exonerated; In the Continuum, Shockheaded Peter, The Exonerated, Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads and Kenneth Lonergan’s The Waverly Gallery. She is on the board of Long Wharf Theatre and TRU, and is on the National Council of TCG.

RON SIMONS (Producer)

Founder of SimonSays Entertainment, Ron Simons has produced several acclaimed Broadway shows and independent films. Notable theater credits include the 2012 Tony Award-winning Porgy & Bess and the 2012 revival of Street Car Named Desire. Film credits include Night Catches Us, Gun Hill Road, Blue Caprice and Mother of George.

S.D. WAGNER (Producer)

Broadway credits include: End of the Rainbow, Hair (Broadway, West End and National tour), The Merchant of Venice, Lombardi, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Equus, Passing Strange, Butley, Well, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Broadway, West End and National Tour), Beckett/Albee and Waiting for Godot. Additional West End credits include The Lady from Dubuque, Duet for One, The Goat or, who is Sylvia? Other Credits: The Invested, Roxy Font and Beat. A Play on Words as well as The Tony Awards (2001–2008).

JOHN JOHNSON (Producer)

Broadway credits include End of the Rainbow, Hair (West End & National Tour), The Merchant of Venice, Lombardi, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Equus, Passing Strange, Butley, Well, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, (West End & National Tour), The Goat or, who is Sylvia?, The Play About the Baby, as well as The Tony Awards (2001-2008). Other Credits: 35MM The Musical. Faculty: Northwestern University’s National High School Institute. Graduate: Fordham University at Lincoln Center.

McCARTER THEATRE CENTER

Under the leadership of Artistic Director Emily Mann and Managing Director Timothy J. Shields, along with Producing Director Mara Isaacs, McCarter Theatre Center is recognized as one of the nation’s premier theater companies. Premieres include Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike and Miss Witherspoon; Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brother/Sister Plays; Edward Albee’s Me, Myself & I; Emily Mann’s Having Our Say; Danai Gurira’s The Convert; and Regina Taylor’s Crowns. Other significant Broadway productions include Brian Friel’s Translations; Nilo Cruz’s Anna in the Tropics; and Electra, directed by David Leveaux. McCarter is supported by Princeton University, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and over 3,000 individuals, corporations, and foundations. www.mccarter.org.

LINCOLN CENTER THEATER

Under the direction of Andre Bishop and Bernard Gersten, produces plays and musicals at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont, Mitzi E. Newhouse and Claire Tow Theaters, as well as on Broadway, nationally and internationally. Recent productions include the award-winning The Coast of Utopia, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific, War Horse and Other Desert Cities. LCT develops new work through play readings, workshops and an annual Directors Lab. LCT also presents a “platform” discussion series and publishes the Lincoln Center Theater Review. LCT3 is Lincoln Center Theater’s programming initiative devoted to producing the work of new artists and developing new audiences.