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LIZ FLAHIVE (Playwright)

Flahive's first play, From Up Here, premiered at Manhattan Theatre Club in 2008 and received the John Gassner Playwriting Award from the Outer Critics Circle. From Up Here was also nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play. Her plays have been developed at Williamstown Theater Festival, Naked Angels, Keen Company, Sundance Institute Playwrights Retreat at Ucross Foundation and Ars Nova. Founding member: Playgroup (Ars Nova). Recipient of MTC's Bank of America New Play Commission. Liz is a proud, longtime volunteer with The 52nd Street Project. She is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Department of Dramatic Writing and is currently a producer on the Showtime original series "Nurse Jackie."

LEIGH SILVERMAN (Director)

Broadway: David Henry Hwang's Chinglish, Lisa Kron's Well. Recent world premieres: Chinglish (Goodman Theater, Jeff nomination; West Coast/Hong Kong tour), In the Wake (Center Theatre Group/Berkeley Repertory Theatre and The Public Theater, Obie Award, Lortel nomination), No Place to Go (Public Theater; Two River Theater), Go Back to Where You Are (Playwrights Horizons, Obie Award), Close Up Space (MTC), From Up Here (MTC, Drama Desk nomination), Yellow Face (Center Theatre Group/The Public Theater), Coraline (MCC/True Love), Beebo Brinker Chronicles (Hourglass Group/37 Arts), Creature (New Georges/P73), Hunting and Gathering (Primary Stages), Well (The Public Theater; Huntington Theatre; ACT), The Retributionists (Playwrights Horizons), Blue Door (Playwrights Horizons; Seattle Repertory Theatre), Oedipus at Palm Springs (NYTW); also Golden Child (Signature Theatre), and Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (Second Stage Theatre); and many regional productions. West End: Wit. She is Artistic Associate at Two River Theater and on the Board of SDC.

DAVID ZINN (Scenic Design)

MTC: The Other Place, Good People, We Live Here (costumes); That Face, Back Back Back, The Four of Us (sets/costumes). Broadway: Seminar (sets/costumes); Picnic, Other Desert Cities, Bengal Tiger…, In the Next Room…(Tony, Drama Desk noms.), A Tale of Two Cities, Xanadu (costumes). Recent Off-Broadway: The Flick, The Big Meal, Circle Mirror Transformation, Completeness, Dogfight and The Select (The Sun Also Rises) (sets/costumes); Look Back in Anger, Kin (costumes). International: costumes for Rocky the Musical.

EMILY REBHOLZ (Costume Design)

MTC: Close Up Space. Broadway: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Recent NY: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Slowgirl (Lincoln Center); What Rhymes With America (Atlantic); Into the Woods (Shakespeare in the Park); Lonely, I’m Not (Henry Hewes Design nomination), Bachelorette (Second Stage); Carrie (MCC); This Wide Night (Naked Angels, Lortel nomination). Additional designs include LAByrinth, Lincoln Center, Roundabout, Rattlestick, Ars Nova, Atlantic, Old Globe, A.R.T., Williamstown, Cincinnati Playhouse, Asolo. M.F.A., Yale School of Drama.

JEFF CROITER (Lighting Design)

Broadway: Newsies; Peter and the Starcatcher (Tony Award); The Performers; The Anarchist; The Pee-wee Herman Show; Next Fall; Kiki and Herb. Other NYC: Old Jews Telling Jokes; Clive; Silence!; Love, Loss, and What I Wore; Soul Doctor; Harper Regan; By the Way, Meet Vera Stark; Rapture, Blister, Burn; A Lie of the Mind; Ordinary Days; Streamers; Family Guys Sings; Jerry Springer The Opera; Rufus Wainwright’s Judy concert; The Voysey Inheritance; The Internationalist; Jacques Brel…; Almost, Maine; The Dazzle; Jennifer Muller The Works.

JILL BC DU BOFF (Sound Design)

MTC: Wit, Regrets, Close Up Space, Cradle and All, From Up Here, The Whipping Man, Good People. Broadway: Picnic,  Other Desert Cities, Wit, Good People, The Good Body, Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home. Off-Broadway: Lincoln Center, Atlantic, MCC, Playwrights Horizons, The Public, Vineyard, Second Stage, NYTW, Flea, Signature, Clubbed Thumb (Affiliate Artist). Radio: Studio 360, Naked Radio. Awards: LPTW Design Award, 2011 Obie. Nominations: Drama Desk, Henry Hewes. Adjunct Professor: Sarah Lawrence. Love to Adam.

TOM KITT (Composer)

Tom Kitt received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Orchestrations, for Next to Normal. Tom is also responsible for the music supervision, arrangements and orchestrations for Green Day’s American Idiot. Other composing and arranging credits include High Fidelity, Bring It On The Musical, Pitch Perfect, The Winter’s Tale, All’s Well That Ends Well (The Public’s Shakespeare in the Park) and From Up Here (MTC).

MARTHA DONALDSON (Production Stage Manager)

Broadway: Next to Normal, [title of show], Top Girls, The Year of Magical Thinking, James Joyce’s The Dead. Off-Broadway credits include shows at the Manhattan Theatre Club, The Duke on 42nd Street, Vineyard Theatre, The Public Theater and Shakespeare in the Park, New York Theatre Workshop, Minetta Lane, St. Ann’s Warehouse and many others. National tour: The Vagina Monologues.

ALISON DeSANTIS (Stage Manager)

Manhattan Theatre Club: Spirit Control, Ruined, Our Leading Lady, Regrets Only. Atlantic Theater Company: eight productions, most recently Storefront Church. The Public Theater: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide… Regional: Apples and Oranges, directed by Lynne Meadow (Alliance Theatre).