Creative Team

JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY (Playwright)

is from The Bronx, New York. His plays include Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Savage in Limbo, Italian-American Reconciliation, Welcome to the Moon, Four Dogs and a Bone, The Dreamer Examines His Pillow, Dirty Story, Defiance, Beggars in the House of Plenty and Storefront Church. His theatrical work is performed extensively across the United States and around the world. For his play, Doubt, he received both the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In the arena of screenwriting, he has nine films to his credit, most recently Doubt, with Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams, which was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay. The film of Doubt was also directed by Mr. Shanley. Other films include Five Corners (Special Jury Prize, Barcelona Film Festival), Alive, Joe Versus the Volcano, which he also directed, and Live from Baghdad for HBO (Emmy nomination). For his script of Moonstruck he received both the Writers Guild of America Award and an Academy Award for best original screenplay. The Writers Guild of America awarded Mr. Shanley the 2009 Lifetime Achievement in Writing.

DOUG HUGHES (Director)

Previous Manhattan Theatre Club productions include An Enemy of the People, The Whipping Man, the Tony-nominated revival of The Royal Family, Mauritius, An Experiment With an Air Pump, Defiance and Doubt, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Director. Other recent Broadway productions include The Big Knife, Born Yesterday, Elling, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Oleanna, A Man for All Seasons, the Tony-nominated revival of Inherit the Wind, A Touch of the Poet and Frozen (Tony nomination, Best Director). He has also worked extensively Off-Broadway, most recently the Roundabout production of Death Takes a Holiday (11 Drama Desk nominations including Best Direction of a Musical) and at most of the nation’s leading resident theatres. In addition to the Tony, he has been awarded Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel, Obie and Callaway Awards for his productions. He serves as the resident director of the Roundabout Theatre.

JOHN LEE BEATTY (Scenic Design)

has designed After Midnight, The Nance, Other Desert Cities, Venus in Fur, Good People, Time Stands Still, Chicago, Doubt, Rabbit Hole, The Color Purple, Proof, The Sisters Rosensweig, A Delicate Balance, The Heiress, Crimes of the Heart, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Talley’s Folly, Burn This, many, many more. Off-Broadway: Sylvia; Lips Together, Teeth Apart; A Life in the Theatre. His long relationships with Manhattan Theatre Club, Lincoln Center Theater, Circle Repertory and City Center Encores! have led to multiple Tony, Obie, Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk awards, and the Theater Hall of Fame. He is a graduate of Brown and the Yale School of Drama.

CATHERINE ZUBER (Costume Design)

Broadway: Golden Boy, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Born Yesterday, Edward Albee’s Seascape, Dinner at Eight, Twelfth Night (Tony nominations); The Royal Family, South Pacific, The Coast of Utopia, The Light in the Piazza, Awake and Sing! (Tony Awards). Other Broadway: The Big Knife, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Ivanov, Triumph of Love, Women on the Verge, Macbeth, Doubt, The Sound of Music, The Red Shoes, among others. Off-Broadway: BAM/Old Vic’s the Bridge Project 2009, ’10, ’11. Opera: Two Boys, L’Elisir d’Amore, Tales of Hoffman, The Barber of Seville, Compte d’Ory (Metropolitan Opera). Recent: “The Sound of Music” (NBC/Universal.) Graduate of the Yale School of Drama.

MARK McCULLOUGH (Lighting Design)

Broadway: After Miss Julie, The American Plan, Jesus Christ Superstar (revival). Off-Broadway: How I Learned to Drive, The Language Archive, The Long Christmas Ride Home, This Is Our Youth, Gemini, Lobby Hero, Juvenilia, Old Money.  International: Whistle Down the Wind (Aldwych Theatre, West End, London); Royal Shakespeare Company; Chichester Festival; tour of Jesus Christ Superstar; the Gate Theatre; and Rebecca (Palladium Theatre, Stuttgart, Germany). Regional: the Guthrie, the Old Globe, Shakespeare Theatre, Huntington Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Hartford Stage, Steppenwolf, Center Stage. Opera: Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera Covent Garden, Bolshoi Opera, Washington National Opera, San Francisco Opera, Glimmerglass Opera. Upcoming: the new Frank Wildhorn musical Artus (Theatre St. Gallen, Switzerland), The Visit (Ronacher Theatre, Vienna).

FITZ PATTON (Original Music & Sound Design)

has designed/scored 260 productions across the U.S., including MTC’s Choir Boy (AUDELCO nomination) and I’ll Eat You Last with Bette Midler. He was awarded Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk Awards for When the Rain Stops Falling at Lincoln Center and was nominated again for The Other Place at MCC, which completed its Broadway run at the Friedman. His symphony, The Holy Land, a 45-minute work for baritone, tenor, mezzo-soprano and orchestra, was completed this past year. Founder of Chance Magazine, a new theatre design magazine.

TOM WATSON (Hair & Wig Design)

is head of the wig and makeup department at the Metropolitan Opera. He has designed wigs for more than 60 Broadway productions.  Current and recent Broadway designs include Annie, No Man’s Land/Waiting for Godot, The Snow Geese, The Big Knife, The Assembled Parties, An Enemy of the People, Picnic, A Christmas Story, Harvey, Million Dollar Quartet, Rock of Ages, Wicked, How to Succeed…, The Addams Family, Promises, Promises, South Pacific, Sondheim on Sondheim, A View from the Bridge, and Sunday in the Park with George.

STEPHEN GABIS (Dialect Coach)

For MTC: Doubt, Further From the Furthest Thing, Comic Potential, East Is East. Current/recent Broadway/Off-Broadway: The Winslow Boy; A Time to Kill; Becoming Dr. Ruth; Fetch Clay, Make Man; Macbeth; Lucky Guy; Juno and the Paycock; The Weir; The Freedom of the City; Man and Boy; Look Back in Anger; Once; The Book of Mormon (two national tours); Tribes; By the Way, Meet Vera Stark. Selected Broadway/Off-Broadway: Lombardi, Memphis, Port Authority, The Emperor Jones, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Lend Me a Tenor, A View From the Bridge, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The 39 Steps, The Farnsworth Invention, Coram Boy, Stuff Happens, Jersey Boys. Film/TV: “Boardwalk Empire” (seasons 2 and 3), “Prime Suspect,” Across the Universe,“Bernard and Doris,” Salt.

WINNIE Y. LOK (Production Stage Manager)

Broadway: The Big Knife (Roundabout), An Enemy of the People (MTC), Venus in Fur (MTC, Lyceum). New York: Signature Theatre Company, the Greene Space, New York Stage and Film, 52nd Street Project, Second Stage, NYTW, the Public/NYSF, Mabou Mines, the Acting Company, Vineyard Theatre, 13P, LCT Directors Lab, Ma-Yi Theater Company. Regional: Westport Country Playhouse; Coronet Theater; Kirk Douglas Theatre; The Theatre @ Boston Court; East West Players; Taper, Too; Walt Disney Concert Hall; Mark Taper Forum. NYTW Usual Suspect. Co-producer at Facing Page Productions. www.facingpageproductions.com.

CARLOS MAISONET (Stage Manager)

Broadway: The Big Knife, An Enemy of the People, Venus in Fur. Off-Broadway: The Whipping Man (MTC), Miss Abigail’s Guide…, Altar Boyz, ROOMS - a rock romance, Naked Boys Singing!, NEWSical the Musical, Night Sky, Soho Rep, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club. Other credits: Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Midsummer Night Swing and Hartford Stage Company. Graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Proud member of AEA. For Mom, Dad and Steve.