RICHARD GREENBERG (Playwright)

is the author of Take Me Out (Tony Award for Best Play, Drama Desk Award, NY Drama Critics Circle Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Lucille Lortel Award), which received an acclaimed production on Broadway after successful runs at The Donmar on London’s West End and The Public Theater in New York City. Other works include The House in Town, The Violet Hour, The Dazzle (Outer Critics Circle Award: John Gassner, Lucille Lortel nominations), Everett Beekin, Three Days of Rain (L.A. Drama Critics Award; Pulitzer Prize finalist; Olivier, Drama Desk, Hull-Warriner nominations; Broadway revival starring Julia Roberts), Hurrah At Last, Night and Her Stars, The American Plan, Life Under Water, and The Author's Voice, among many other plays. His adaptation of Strindberg's Dance of Death was seen on Broadway starring Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, and David Strathairn. He is writing the book for a musical version of Todd Haynes’s film Far From Heaven and has adapted Breakfast at Tiffany’s for the stage. Greenberg received the Oppenheimer Award for a new playwright as well as the first PEN/Laura Pels Award for a playwright in mid-career. He is an associate artist at South Coast Repertory and a member of Ensemble Studio Theater.

LYNNE MEADOW (Director)

has been the visionary and artistic leader of Manhattan Theatre Club since 1972, creating work that has put the company at the forefront of the American theatre. Lynne has overseen hundreds of world, US and New York premieres; directed dozens of new plays on and off Broadway by America’s and England’s finest playwrights; and accepted every major theatre award (Tonys, Drama Desks, Obies, etc.) on behalf of the company.

Her most recent Broadway directing credits include the premiere of Margaret Edson’s Wit (Tony nominations for Best Revival and Best Actress in a Play); Donald Margulies’ Collected Stories (Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Play); Charles Busch’s The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife (three Tony nominations including Best Play); Alan Ayckbourn’s A Small Family Business; Off-Broadway and MTC: Donald Margulies’ The Loman Family Picnic; Alan Ayckbourn’s award-winning Woman in Mind and Absent Friends; the Obie Award-winning Ashes by David Rudkin; Charles Busch’s Our Leading Lady; David Greig’s The American Pilot; Ron Hutchinson’s Moonlight and Magnolias; Marsha Norman’s Last Dance; David Edgar’s The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs; Principia Scriptoriae; Lee Blessing’s Eleemosynary; Biography; Simon Gray’s Close of Play and Sally and Marsha.

Some of the works produced under her artistic direction include Lee Hall’s The Pitmen Painters; George S. Kaufman’s and Edna Ferber’s The Royal Family; Lynn Nottage’s Ruined (Pulitzer Prize); Alfred Uhry’s LoveMusik suggested by the letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya; John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt (Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play); Donald Margulies’ Sight Unseen (Pulitzer Prize finalist) and Time Stands Still; David Auburn’s Proof (Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play) and The Columnist; August Wilson’s King Hedley II; David Lindsay-Abaire’s Fuddy Meers, Rabbit Hole (Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award nomination for Best Play) and Good People; A.R. Gurney’s Sylvia; Terrence McNally’s Love! Valour! Compassion! (Tony Award for Best Play) and Lisbon Traviata; Charlayne Woodard’s Pretty Fire; Athol Fugard’s Playland; Stephen Sondheim’s Putting It Together; Richard Greenberg’s Eastern Standard; Beth Henley’s Crimes of the Heart (Pulitzer Prize) and The Miss Firecracker Contest; the Fats Waller musical, Ain't Misbehavin’.

Lynne is a graduate of Bryn Mawr, and attended the Yale School of Drama. She taught at Yale, Fordham, NYU, etc. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including, the 2003 Mr. Abbott Award, the Lee Reynolds Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women, the Person of the Year from National Theatre Conference, the Margo Jones Award, The Lucille Lortel Award for lifetime achievement, The Lilly Award for Lifetime Achievement, and this past fall, the Louis Auchincloss Prize.

SANTO LOQUASTO (Scenic Design)

designs for theatre, film, dance and opera. He has received three Tony Awards and has been nominated 15 times. Recent NY theatre designs include Waiting for Godot, Fences and Wit. He has collaborated with Woody Allen on more than 24 films, receiving Academy Award nominations for production designs for Radio Days and Bullets Over Broadway and for the costume design of Zelig. He received the Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration in 2002, was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2004, received the Pennsylvania Governor’s Award for the Arts in 2006 and the Robert L.B. Tobin Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2007.

JANE GREENWOOD (Costume Design)

More than 100 Broadway/Off-Broadway credits including A View From the Bridge, Million Dollar Quartet, Heartbreak House, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Delicate Balance, The Ballad of the Sad Café, A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Master Class, Sylvia. Film: Arthur, Can’t Stop the Music, Glengarry Glen Ross. Awards: Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award, Theatre Hall of Fame,15 Tony nominations. Professor, Yale School of Drama.

PETER KACZOROWSKI (Lighting Design)

MTC: Wit, Venus in Fur, Time Stands Still, After the Night and the Music, A Small Family Business, The Loman Family Picnic, Italian American Reconciliation, Bad Habits, The Years. Broadway: more than 45 plays and musicals including Breakfast at Tiffany’s; The Road to Mecca; Nice Work; Anything Goes; A View From the Bridge; Waiting for Godot; Grey Gardens; Contact; The Producers; Kiss Me, Kate; Steel Pier. Extensive Off-Broadway, resident and regional credits. Opera: the Met, NYCO, San Francisco, Houston Grand, Santa Fe, LAMCO, Seattle. Abroad: Royal Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera/North, Maggio Florence, L’Arena di Verona, LaFenice, Bonn, Lisbon. Recipient of Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Drama League and Hewes Design awards.

OBADIAH EAVES (Original Music &Sound Design)

Obadiah’s work has appeared on Broadway in Harvey; A Life in the Theatre; Collected Stories; Accent on Youth; Come Back, Little Sheba; The Lieutenant of Inishmore; and Shining City; and in The American Pilot and Moonlight and Magnolias previously at MTC. Recently, he created music and sound for If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet (Roundabout), The Total Bent (Public), The Glass Menagerie (Seattle Rep) and Three Hotels (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Awards: BACC, Lortel, AUDELCO Viv.TV: HBO, Nickelodeon, Discovery, History Channel, the Learning Channel and Fisher-Price toys.

TOM WATSON (Hair and Wig Design)

is head of the wig and makeup department at the Metropolitan Opera. He has designed wigs for more than 55 Broadway productions. Current and recent Broadway designs include Annie; An Enemy of the People; Picnic; A Christmas Story; Harvey; Million Dollar Quartet; Rock of Ages; Wicked; How to Succeed…; The Addams Family; On a Clear Day…; Promises, Promises; South Pacific; Sondheim on Sondheim; A View From the Bridge; and Sunday in the Park With George.

BARCLAY STIFF (Production Stage Manager)

Broadway: The Other Place, Don’t Dress for Dinner, Wit, The House of Blue Leaves, Elling, Enron, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Mary Stuart, The Country Girl, The Seafarer, Inherit the Wind, Losing Louie, Shining City, Whoopi, Hedda Gabler, The Price. Off-Broadway: Gruesome Playground Injuries, Farragut North, Beauty of the Father, A Picasso, House/Garden, From Door to Door, Juvenilia, Frank’s Home, Debbie Does Dallas, Fully Committed. Williamstown: eight seasons. Thanks to a great team with Kelly, Catherine and Stephen.

KELLY BEAULIEU (Stage Manager)

Broadway: The Other Place, Don’t Dress for Dinner, Wit, The House of Blue Leaves, Elling, Enron, Brighton Beach Memoirs. National tours: Grease. Off-Broadway: Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Atlantic Theater Company, stageFARM, others. Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival, Huntington Theatre Company. Education: Boston University.