HAROLD PINTER (Playwright) Born 10 October 1930 in East London. Plays in chronological order are The Room; The Birthday Party; The Dumb Waiter, A Slight Ache; The Hothouse; The Caretaker; A Night Out; Night School; The Dwarfs; The Collection; The Lover; Tea Party; The Homecoming; The Basement; Landscape; Silence; Old Times; Monologue; No Man’s Land; Betrayal; Other Places, comprising Family Voices, Victoria Station and A King of Alaska; One for the Road; Mountain Language; Party Time; Moonlight; Ashes to Ashes; Celebration. Screenplays: The Servant, The Pumpkin Eater; The Quiller Memorandum; Accident; The Go-Between; Langrishe; Go Down; The Last Tycoon; A la Recherche du Temps Perdu; The French Lieutenant’s Woman; Turtle Diary; Reunion; The Heat of the Day; The Handmaid’s Tale; The Comfort of Strangers; The Trial, Sleuth.
DANIEL SULLIVAN (Director) Broadway: Prelude to a Kiss, Rabbit Hole, Julius Caesar; Brooklyn Boy; Sight Unseen; Retreat From Moscow; Morning’s at Seven; Proof; Major Barbara; A Moon for the Misbegotten; Ah, Wilderness!; An American Daughter; The Sisters Rosensweig; Conversations With My Father; The Heidi Chronicles; and I’m Not Rappaport. Off-Broadway credits include Stuff Happens, Third, Intimate Apparel, Dinner With Friends, Ten Unknowns, Ancestral Voices, Spinning Into Butter, Far East, Substance of Fire, Psychopathia Sexualis, A Fair Country and An American Clock. From 1981 to 1997, Mr. Sullivan served as artistic director of Seattle Repertory Theatre, where he directed more than 60 productions and established a New Play Program. Mr. Sullivan’s film and television credits include The Substance of Fire and “Far East.” He is the Swanlund Professor of Theater at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
EUGENE LEE (Set Design) has been resident designer at Trinity Repertory since 1967. He holds BFA degrees from Art Institute of Chicago and Carnegie Mellon, an MFA from Yale, and three honorary doctorates. He has been the production designer at "Saturday Night Live" since 1974. He has received the Tony Award, American Theatre Wing's Design Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award, Elliot Norton Award, and Pell Award. He was recently inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame. He is an adjunct professor at Brown University and lives with his wife Brooke in Providence, where they raised their two sons.
JESS GOLDSTEIN (Costume Design) received the 2005 Tony Award for Lincoln Center’s The Rivals. New York credits include Cymbeline, Jersey Boys, The Apple Tree, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, Julius Caesar, Henry IV, Take Me Out, Enchanted April, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Most Happy Fella, Dinner with Friends, How I Learned to Drive, NYSF’s Much Ado About Nothing, Buried Child and The Mineola Twins (Lortel and Hewes Awards). He recently made his Met debut with Jack O’Brien’s Il Trittico. Films include A Walk on the Moon, Love! Valour! Compassion! and Substance of Fire. He is an associate professor at the Yale School of Drama.
KENNETH POSNER (Lighting Designer) has designed over 30 Broadway plays and musicals including Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards), Wicked, Hairspray, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Tony nominations), Legally Blonde, The Odd Couple, Glengarry Glen Ross, Little Women, The Frogs, Imaginary Friends, Swing!, Charlie Brown, The Goat, Uncle Vanya, Side Man, The Lion in Winter, Little Me, A View From the Bridge, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, The Little Foxes and The Rose Tattoo. Recipient of the OBIE for sustained excellence in lighting design. He resides in Verona, New Jersey with his wife Michelle and their three children.
JOHN GROMADA (Sound Design) Broadway: original music for A Bronx Tale, Old Acquaintance, Prelude to a Kiss, Heartbreak House, Well, Rabbit Hole, A Streetcar Named Desire, Twelve Angry Men, Proof, Sight Unseen, Summer and Smoke, and more. Other NY: Some Men, Pig Farm, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Bach at Leipzig, Oedipus at Palm Springs, On the Mountain, Small Tragedy, , many others. Public Theater: Henry V, Julius Caesar, Tartuffe, The Skriker, Machinal, The Swan, others. Regional: More than 200 productions at leading theatres here and abroad. Awards: Drama Desk, Obie, Eddy, Drama-Logue, NEA Opera Music Theatre Fellow, ASCAP awards. Visit www.broadjam.com/johngromada.
RICK SORDELET (Fight Director) Thirty-eight Broadway shows Tarzan, Aida, Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Little Mermaid, Cry-Baby and Curtains. Forty-two productions worldwide. Stunt coordinator for the films The Game Plan, Dan in Real Life and the TV show “Guiding Light.” He is an instructor for the Yale School of Drama, the New School and the Neighborhood Playhouse; company member of the Drama Department; board member of the Shakespeare Festival of New Jersey. Recipient of the Lortel Foundation’s Edith Oliver Award for Sustained Excellence. Married to actress Kathleen Kelly with three wonderful children, Kaelan, Christian and Collin.
KATHY FABIAN/PROPSTAR (Properties Coordinator) Fabian’s Broadway credits include: Cyrano De Bergerac, Pygmalion, Old Acquaintance, 110 in the Shade, Talk Radio, Prelude to a Kiss, Spring Awakening, High Fidelity, Barefoot in the Park, Souvenir, Steel Magnolias, Sweet Charity, Match, Fiddler on the Roof, Bobby Boland, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, and Golda’s Balcony. Off Broadway: Altar Boyz, Dodger Stages; Woody Allen’s A Second Hand Rose, Atlantic Theatre Co; and The Vineyard Theatre’s production of Avenue Q. Fabian has served as resident Props Designer for Manhattan Ensemble Theatre, Bay Street Theatre Festival, and The Big Apple Circus.
ROY HARRIS (Production Stage Manager) Broadway: Rabbit Hole, Brooklyn Boy, Sight Unseen, The Retreat From Moscow, Morning’s at Seven, Major Barbara, A Moon for the Misbegotten, An American Daughter, The Sisters Rosensweig and The Heidi Chronicles – all directed by Daniel Sullivan; Old Acquaintance, Twelve Angry Men, An Almost Holy Picture (RTC). Off-Broadway: Dying City, The Clean House, Third and Ten Unknowns (LCT); many more. Author: four books, including More Recipes & Reminiscence: A Celebration of My Friends in the Theatre.
DENISE YANEY (Stage Manager) Broadway: The Retreat From Moscow, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Redwood Curtain and As Is; Awake and Sing! and Morning’s at Seven (Lincoln Center); After the Night and the Music, Brooklyn Boy and Sight Unseen (MTC); 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.
NEIL A. MAZZELLA (Technical Supervisor) is the CEO of Hudson Scenic and Hudson Sound and Light. Broadway credits for these companies include Young Frankenstein, Mary Poppins, Monty Python’s Spamalot, The Producers, Mamma Mia!, The Lion King and Chicago. As technical supervisor: Spring Awakening, Talk Radio, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Boy From Oz and Angels in America. Graduate, Yale School of Drama.
TELSEY + COMPANY (Casting) Broadway/Tours: A Catered Affair, In the Heights, November, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Legally Blonde, The Drowsy Chaperone, The Color Purple, Wicked, Hairspray, Rent, Sweeney Todd, High School Musical; Off-Broadway: The Fantasticks, Blue Man Group, Atlantic, MCC, Signature; Film: Sex and the City, Dancing with Shiva, Dan in Real Life, Then She Found Me, Across the Universe, Ira and Abby, Rent, Pieces of April, Camp, The Grey Zone, Finding Forrester, The Bone Collector; TV: Whoopi, HBO’s Undefeated, commercials.
ALBERT POLAND (General Manager) has served in the capacity of general manager for more than 90 New York productions, including Talk Radio, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Boy From Oz, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, Dirty Blonde, Last Night of Ballyhoo, Grapes of Wrath, As Is, Little Shop of Horrors, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Mrs. Klein, Waverly Gallery, Always…Patsy Cline, Steel Magnolias, A Lie of the Mind, Vanities, A Life in the Theatre, One Mo’ Time, Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), Neon Woman, Tommy Tune Atop the Village Gate, Let My People Come, Marry Me a Little and Tomfoolery.
JEFFREY RICHARDS (Producer) is proud to have presented plays and musicals by the following authors: David Mamet, Tracy Letts, Gore Vidal, August Wilson, Eric Bogosian, George Abbott, Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater, Herman Wouk, Betsy Kelso and David Nehls, Matthew Barber, Herb Gardner, Peter Ackerman, John Logan, David Ives, and Jess Winfield, Adam Long, Daniel Singer. He is equally thrilled to have worked with the following directors: Joe Mantello, Anna D. Shapiro, Robert Falls, Jerry Zaks, Kenny Leon, Michael Mayer, Kathleen Marshall, Michael Wilson, John Rando, Jeremy Dobrish, Ethan McSweeny, Warner Shook, and James McDonald.
JERRY FRANKEL (Producer) is currently represented by August: Osage County and Spring Awakening (Tony Award). Other Broadway productions include Talk Radio, Radio Golf, The Little Dog Laughed, Glengarry Glen Ross (Tony Award), Death of a Salesman (Tony Award), Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Jekyll & Hyde, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Mr. Frankel operated the Park Cities Playhouse in Dallas where he has presented numerous productions including Lynn Redgrave’s Shakespeare for My Father. Upcoming: David Mamet’s November.
JAM THEATRICALS (Producer) is a Chicago-based entertainment company founded by Arny Granat, Jerry Mickelson and Steve Traxler. Jam has received three Tony Awards for producing: The History Boys (Best Play, 2006), Monty Python’s Spamalot (Best Musical, 2005), and Glengarry Glen Ross (Best Play Revival, 2005). Additional Broadway credits include Tony-nominated productions of Talk Radio, The Wedding Singer, The Retreat from Moscow and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. Jam also manages 35 subscription-series markets throughout North America and has presented shows such as CATS, The Producers, STOMP, Les Misérables, Mamma Mia!, Hairspray, and Miss Saigon. Please visit www.jamtheatricals.com for more information.
ERGO ENTERTAINMENT (Producer) is a film and theatrical producing partnership comprised of Donny Epstein, Yeeshai Gross and Elie Landau. Broadway: Barefoot in the Park, Steel Magnolias, Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2003 Tony Award). Off-Broadway: Private Jokes, Public Places (also London), Something Old, Something New. Film: Paper Clips (2006 Emmy nomination; 2005 Christopher Award), Let it Snow (Sundance 2000), Black People Hate Me and They Hate My Glasses. Upcoming: David Mamet's November starring Nathan Lane, film comedy Boom!, mockumentary TV series “Impartial”.
BARBARA & BUDDY FREITAG (Producer) Barbara’s Broadway credits include The Drowsy Chaperone (5 Tony Awards), Legally Blonde, Butley with Nathan Lane, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, Caroline, or Change, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (all Tony nominees), Brooklyn, and The Goat or Who is Sylvia? (Tony winner, Best Play). Barbara is on the Board of Trustees of the Transport Group. Buddy is a former advertising executive, mortgage banker, and Broadway investor including the Pulitzer Prize-winner Anna in the Tropics. He is beginning a new career as a producer with this revival of the Tony wining play, The Homecoming. He thanks his wife, Barbara, for her loving encouragement and sharing his passion for the theater.
MICHAEL GARDNER'S (Producer) love of theatre began under the tutelage of his mother, an assistant to playwright and theatrical producer, David Belasco. Mr. Gardner has produced numerous shows on Broadway and in London. He is a Trustee of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Oklahoma City University, and the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases. He also serves as a Director of the Bid-A-Wee Association and the NY Theater Ballet. Mr. Gardner divides his time between his homes in Manhattan, Quogue, and Las Vegas.
HERBERT GOLDSMITH PRODUCTIONS (Producer) On Broadway he co-produced The Two and Only (Tony and Lortel Awards), Glengarry Glen Ross (Tony and Drama Desk Awards), Mnemonic (Drama Desk and Lortel Awards), Marlene starring Sian Phillips, Arthur Miller's Broken Glass (Tony nom.), The Flying Karamazov Brothers Do The Impossible, Swinging On A Star (Tony nom.), the NY revival and London production of Annie, the LA production of Paul Rudnick's Jeffrey (Obie Award). He thanks his wife and daughters for their support.
TERRY E. SCHNUCK (Producer) Tony Award-winning producer of Spring Awakening. Credits also include Enchanted April, 'night, Mother, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Ministry of Progress and the upcoming Ace, The Musical. Other productions: Thoroughly Modern Millie, All Shook Up! and Summer of ’42. Executive Producer of The Manhattan Monologue Slam. Also: Chair of The Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis;Board of Directors for The MUNY as well as The Professional Theatre Awards Council which annually bestows The Kevin Kline Awards.
HAROLD THAU (Producer) has produced theatre in New York, London, Los Angeles, and Aspen. His credits include productions of Spring Awakening, Bombay Dreams, David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross, Sam Shepard’s True West, Stephen Poliakoff’s Breaking the Silence, Camille, Beirut, Love Letters, Swim Visit, The Flying Brothers Karamazov, and Sid Caesar & Company, Does Anybody Know What I’m Talking About. Mr. Thau was Executive Producer of the television production of A.R. Gurney’s The Dining Room, True West, and Heartbreak House. Mr. Thau was a producer of Tuesdays With Morrie at the Minetta Lane Theatre. Mr. Thau produced Almost Heaven – Songs and Stories of John Denver which premiered at the Dean Lesher Regional Center Repertory, Walnut Creek, CA in September 2005 and the Promenade Theatre, New York City on October 28, 2005 through December 31, 2005. He is the President of Advent Management Corporation, an entertainment management firm. His writing credits include an autobiography, Bronx to Broadway: A Life in Show Business.
MICHAEL FILERMAN (Producer) has produced Frozen on Broadway, Tea at Five starring Kate Mulgrew and was associate producer of Our Lady of 121st Street, for the LAByrnth Theatre of which he is now a proud board member. He developed and executive produced the long-running television series "Knots Landing," "Falcon Crest," "Flamingo Road," "Sisters," and "Dallas." Television movies include "Christmas Eve," "The Story Lady," "Roommates." Mr. Filerman also produced the Los Angeles productions of The 24th Day and I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change.
LYNNE PEYSER (Producer) has produced regional and commercial theatre for more than 25 years. As the associate producer of the Coconut Grove Playhouse for ten years, and prior to that at the Whole Theatre Company in Montclar, NJ she developed new works that transferred to Broadway, London and elsewhere. Her Broadway producing credits include Alone Together, Electra, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Golda’s Balcony. She participated in financing the Broadway productions of The Real Thing, Hedda Gabler, Metamorphoses and Stomp Out Loud in Las Vegas.
RONALD FRANKEL (Producer) Producing credits include Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Talk Radio and the current production of August: Osage County. He also produced Glengarry Glen Ross, the 2005 Tony Award winner for Best Revival of a Play. Ronald is the founder of Rafaella Apparel Group. Love to Alex, Sammy and Nicole.
DAVID JAROSLAWICZ (Producer) was born in Paris and currently practices law in New York and California.
JOSEPH PIACENTILE (Producer) Joseph Piacentile and Darcie Douglas-Piacentile manage Love Bunny Entertainment, a theatrical production company. Dr. Piacentile began his career as a member of Local 802, the American Federation of Musicians. He is a graduate of Fordham University and Georgetown Medical School. Darcie Douglas-Piacentile graduated Marymount Manhattan College and is a singer-songwriter.