ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA (Playwright) has written many plays, including The Muckle Man (MTC), The Mystery Plays (Second Stage Theatre), Rough Magic (Hangar Theatre) and The Velvet Sky (Woolly Mammoth). His comedies Golden Age and Say You Love Satan were both nominated for GLAAD Media Awards. His thriller Dark Matters, which he is turning into a screenplay for Warner Brothers, will be seen at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater next fall. His commissions include Good Boys and True, a prep-school drama he wrote for MTC; Masaya, a mystery about missing backpackers set in Nicaragua he is writing for Second Stage; and Sweet Thunder, an adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream he is writing for Cal Shakes. For Marvel Comics, he writes The Sensational Spider-man.

MICHAEL BUSH (Director) is MTC’s Director of Artistic Production, where, in over 25 years, he has helped guide over 150 new plays and musicals including Love! Valour! Compassion!, Proof, Doubt, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, Sight Unseen, The Wild Party, Sylvia, Brooklyn Boy and A Class Act. From 2002-2004 he served as the Producing Artistic Director at Charlotte Repertory Theatre, where he produced such works as The Miracle Worker starring Hilary Swank and The Glass Menagerie starring Penny Fuller, among others. Recent directing projects: Pump Boys and Dinettes (20th Anniversary), the world premieres of Let Me Sing, A Musical Evolution (co-author with Michael Aman), All of the People, All the Time, and The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde (NYMF). Michael is also the Artistic Director of the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center Cabaret and Performance Conference.

ANNA LOUIZOS (Set Design). Broadway: Avenue Q (also Las Vegas, London), Steel Magnolias (Lyceum Theatre), Golda’s Balcony (also current national tour). Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (concurrent productions in San Francisco, Los Angeles & Boston). Off-Broadway: Altar Boyz; The Foreigner (Roundabout); The Butter and Egg Man (Atlantic); Children’s Letters to God; tick, tick… BOOM! (Jane Street, nat’l tour); Kafka’s The Castle. Regional: The Baker’s Wife (Paper Mill), Much Ado About Nothing and Beyond Therapy (Old Globe), Me and My Girl (Goodspeed), Disney Live Winnie the Pooh and the Perfect Day (world tour). Art direction, film/TV: “Sex and the City” (HBO), The Secret Lives of Dentists.

LINDA CHO (Costume Design). This season at MTC: The Other Side. Has designed numerous operas, dance and theatre Off-Broadway and at regional theatres across the country including works at New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater (Two Noble Kinsmen, Lortel Award nominee), Second Stage, The Vineyard, Atlantic Theater Company, The Old Globe (Pericles, Craig Noel Award), Arena Stage, Center Stage, Dallas Theater Center, Huntington Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Westport Country Playhouse, Long Wharf, Goodspeed and Virginia Opera. Film credits include Bookie’s Lament and True Nature. Upcoming projects include The Mikado for Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale School of Drama.

TRACI KLAINER (Lighting Design). MTC: Four (Lortel nomination), Five by Tenn. Projects directed by Michael Bush: The Ballad of Bonnie & Clyde, Pump Boys and Dinettes (Metrolina Theatre Award nomination), Let Me Sing. NYC: Prune Danish (Royale Theatre), The Asphalt Kiss (59E59), Echoes of the War (Mint Theatre), Red Frogs (Hourglass Group), Dragapella (Upstairs at Studio 54), BC/EFA’s Nothing Like a Dame 2001-2004. Regional: Philadelphia Theatre Company, Capital Repertory, Charlotte Repertory, Adirondack Theatre Festival, George Street Playhouse, ActII Playhouse. Ms. Klainer is a partner in the design firm Luce Group. The Irish Curse, a new comedy that she is producing, will be seen Off-Broadway in 2006.

RYAN RUMERY (Sound Design). New York: The Seagull (Blue Heron Arts Center); Mayhem (SPF at Theatre Row); Macbeth (Theatre of the Riverside Church); Edward II, Much Ado About Nothing (Queen’s Company); Twelfth Night, Fortinbras (Juilliard School of Drama). Regional: Cradle of Man (Florida Stage); Fully Committed, Journey’s End (Alley Theatre); Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (Round House Theatre); Hamlet, Chesapeake (Syracuse Stage); Indoor/Outdoor (Trinity Repertory Theatre); Unexpected Man (Adirondack Theatre Festival). Original Music and Sound Design: David Copperfield (Westport Country Playhouse); Hannah and Martin (Theatre J); I Am My Own Wife (Hangar Theatre); Thief River (Theatre Alliance, Helen Hayes nomination); Pinochio 3.5 (Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, GA).

GAIL EVE MALATESTA (Production Stage Manager) is pleased to make her Manhattan Theatre Club debut. Currently she also is a stage manager sub on Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Recently: Pompeii, a New Musical. Broadway: Sub on Design for Living and A Class Act. Off B’way and five regional productions of Summer of ’42. Other: WPA, Ensemble Studio, New Victory, Manhattan Class Company, American Jewish Theatre, Theatre Guild, Orlando Shakespeare, Two River, Music Theatre North, Gateway Playhouse, Downtown Cabaret, New London Barn and Theatre by the Sea. Also three Drama Desk Awards. Boston University, B.F.A. stage management. She dedicates her work to her father’s memory.

DIANE M. BALLERING (Stage Manager). New York City credits include Dog Sees God, The Joys of Sex, The Miracle Worker (New School of Drama), Swimming in the Shallows (Second Stage Theatre), After Ashley (Primary Stages), Sailor’s Song (LAByrinth Theatre Company), Musicals in Mufti (York Theatre), The Charity That Began at Home (Mint Theatre Company), among others. Diane has also worked at both Madison Repertory and Milwaukee Repertory Theatres. Diane has been a member of Actors’ Equity since moving to New York a few years ago.