CLAUDIA LYNCH (Stage Manager) Broadway: Company, Little Shop of Horrors; The Light in the Piazza, The Rivals, Dinner at Eight, Contact (at Lincoln Center Theater). Regional: The Old Globe Theatre, The Cleveland Playhouse, Arena Stage. Graduate of SUNY Geneseo. Proud Member of Actors’ Equity Association.
DAVID GALLO (Scenic Design) BROADWAY: Xanadu, Radio Golf (Tony nom.), Company, The Drowsy Chaperone (2006 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards), Gem of the Ocean (Tony nom.), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Dance of the Vampires, Thoroughly Modern Millie (also London), King Hedley II, Epic Proportions, A View from the Bridge, Jackie (also London) and Hughie. OFF-BROADWAY: Evil Dead, The Wild Party, Jitney (also London), Wonder of the World, A New Brain, Bunny Bunny andBlue Man Group. Drama Desk, American Theatre Wing, Lucille Lortel, Hewes Design, Outer Critics Circle, Ovation, NAACP, AUDELCO, Obie, Barrymore and Eddy Awards and nominations. Represented American set design at The Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennial. Smithsonian Institute National Archive.
ANN HOULD-WARD (Costume Design) BROADWAY: Company, Dance of the Vampires, Beauty and the Beast (Tony, Olivier Nomination), Into the Woods (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC nominations), Falsettos, Sunday in the Park with George (Tony, Drama Desk nominations), Dream, St. Joan, In the Summer House. OFF-BROADWAY: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Antony & Cleopatra, House Arrest, Cymbeline (Public Theatre), Mahagonny (L.A. Opera), Surviving Grace. Film: Strike! Other credits include Peter Grimes (Metropolitan Opera), Alvin Ailey, Houston Grand Opera, New York City Opera, American Ballet Theatre.
BRIAN MACDEVITT (Lighting Design) NYC: The Seagull, The Receptionist, Cymbeline, Coast of Utopia Part I, Inherit The Wind, The Pod Project w/ Nancy Bannon, The Vertical Hour, The Pillowman, The Color Purple, Into the Woods, Urinetown, Fiddler, Nine, Invention of Love, Side Show, Master Class, et al. Dance: ABT, Tere O'Connor Dance, Lar Lubovitch, et al. Recipient of: Tonys, OBIE, Bessie, Outer Critics, Hewes Award, Drama Desk, et al. FILM: Cradle Will Rock. Faculty: Purchase College. Member: Naked Angels. Father: Jake and Georgie
DAN MOSES SHREIER (Sound Design) received a Drama Desk nomination for his work on John Doyle’s production of Sweeney Todd and recently designed Gypsy starring Patti Lupone. BROADWAY: 110 in the Shade, Julius Caesar, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Gem of the Ocean, Pacific Overtures, Assassins, Into the Woods, Topdog/Underdog, Dirty Blonde, The Tempest, Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk. Recently composed scores for August Wilson’s Radio Golf, Daniel Sullivan’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and designed L.A. Opera’s Mahagonny starring Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald. Awards: three Drama Desk Awards, the Entertainment Design and Obie Award, both for sustained excellence.
ZACHARY BOROVAY (Projection Design) Recent credits: Radio City Music Hall’s 75th Anniversary Christmas Spectacular, Xanadu (Broadway), I LAND (Culture Project), Nerds (Philadelphia Theatre Co.), 13 (Mark Taper Forum), The Wiz (Stage Entertainment, Holland) and Angels in America: The Opera (Opera Boston). Zak was also involved in the design of Grey Gardens, In My Life and The Good Body (all Broadway), Radiant Baby (Public) and Sinatra (Radio City). Zak is a member of USA829 (PD!) and ACT. www.borovay.com
JONATHAN TUNICK (Orchestrations)Long regarded as Broadway’s preeminent orchestrator, credits include LoveMusik, 110 In The Shade, The Apple Tree, A Chorus Line, The Color Purple, Sweeney Todd, Titanic, Passion, Into The Woods, Nine, A Little Night Music, Follies and Company. Film scores for Mike Nichols, Franco Zeffirelli and Sidney Lumet, plus Sweeney Todd, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein. TV classics “Murder, She Wrote” and“Columbo.” Recordings: arranger/conductor for Bernadette Peters, Judy Collins, Itzhak Perlman, Placido Domingo, Johnny Mathis, Bette Midler, Barbra Streisand and Paul McCartney. With his Tony, Emmy, Grammy and Academy Awards, he is one of five living persons holding all four major awards.
TELSEY + COMPANY (Casting) Broadway/Tours: Cry-Baby, South Pacific, In the Heights, November, The Homecoming, Legally Blonde, Wicked, Hairspray, Rent, The Color Purple, The Drowsy Chaperone, Sweeney Todd, High School Musical; Off-Broadway: Next to Normal (Second Stage), 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.
CONSTANTINE KITSOPOULOS (Music Director/Arrangements) General Director: Chatham Opera. Music Director: Queens Symphony. Broadway: Coram Boy, La Bohème, Les Misèrables, Dracula, Swan Lake, An Inspector Calls, Cyrano. Symphony: San Francisco, Detroit, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Blossom Festival, Hartford, Santa Barbara, National Arts Centre, Mobile, Virginia, Princeton, National, Brooklyn, New Jersey, Calgary, Annapolis, Hong Kong. Opera: NYC Opera, Hong Kong, Sarasota, Dicapo. Recordings: La Bohème, Happy End. Conducting studies with Vincent LaSelva.
JOHN MILLER (Music Coordinator) Recent Broadway: Cry-Baby, Sunday in the Park with George, Young Frankenstein, Jersey Boys, Hairspray, Les Miserables, Grey Gardens, The Producers, Beauty & the Beast, Sweeney Todd. Studio musician (bass) for: Michael Jackson, Madonna, Eric Clapton, BB King, Frank Sinatra, Carly Simon, Celine Dion, Tommy Flanagan, Portishead, The Smashing Pumpkins, Pete Seeger, NY Philharmonic.
JUNIPER STREET PRODUCTIONS (Production Manager)is comprised of Hillary Blanken, Kevin Broomell, Guy Kwan, Ana Rose Greene. Recent Broadway productions: Cry Baby, Gypsy, Thurgood, Xanadu, Company, Grey Gardens, Martin Short, The Wedding Singer, Lestat, All Shook Up, Little Shop of Horrors, The Producers, Medea, The Sweet Smell of Success, Fosse. Las Vegas: Bette Midler, The Producers.National Tours: Little Shop…, The Producers, Fosse, Cabaret, Tallulah, Backyardigans, Thomas and Friends, Barbie in Fairytopia, Scooby-Doo, Dora the Explorer, Blue’s Clues, Rugrats.
DAVID LAWRENCE (Hair Design) BROADWAY: Rock ’N’ Roll, Coram Boy, Company, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, 42nd Street, All Shook Up, Anything Goes, Guys and Dolls, Tommy, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The King and I , On The Town, Grease, Bells are Ringing, The Full Monty, Souvenir, Death Of a Salesman, Crucible TOURS: Chicago, Bounce; Doctor Dolittle, All Shook Up. Also many regional theatre/summer stock productions.
ANGELINA AVALLONE (Make-up Design) Broadway credits include Young Frankenstein, Little Mermaid, Curtains, The Color Purple, Sunday in the Park With George, Sweeney Todd, Company, Is He Dead?, Grey Gardens, The Coast of Utopia, How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Pajama Game, Sweet Charity and The Light in the Piazza.
ANGELINA AVALLONE (Make-up Design) Broadway credits include Young Frankenstein, Little Mermaid, Curtains, The Color Purple, Sunday in the Park With George, Sweeney Todd, Company, Is He Dead?, Grey Gardens, The Coast of Utopia, How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Pajama Game, Sweet Charity and The Light in the Piazza.
OLD GLOBE THEATRE (Regional Production) The internationally-acclaimed, Tony Award-winning Old Globe is San Diego's flagship arts institution and one of the most esteemed regional theatres in the country. Founded in 1935, the Globe produces 15 plays and musicals annually - from Shakespeare to Stoppard to Sondheim. Numerous world-premiere productions, such as A Catered Affair, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and The Full Monty have been developed at the Globe and gone on to enjoy highly successful runs on Broadway. Under the leadership of Executive Producer Louis G. Spisto, The Old Globe is at the forefront of the nation's leading arts organizations, setting the standard for excellence in American Theatre.
ALAN WASSER ASSOCIATES (General Management) Alan Wasser and Allan Williams oversee and supervise The Phantom of the Opera, A Chorus Line, A Catered Affair, Cry Baby, and Thurgood on Broadway; Phantom on tour and in Las Vegas and A Chorus Line, Walking With Dinosaurs, Go Diego Go, and Backyardigans on tour in North America.
TYPE A (Marketing) Under the leadership of Anne Rippey, Type A is an independent, full-service entertainment marketing company that specializes in Broadway and National Touring productions. Current Broadway: A Catered Affair, A Chorus Line, Phantom, Thurgood and the upcoming production of 9 to 5 Ain't Misbehavin' starring Ruben Studdard and Frenchie Davis, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Little House On The Prairie and Xanadu.. National: A Chorus Line, Cirque Dreams: Jungle Fantasy, Curvy Widow, My Fair Lady, Phantom, Go, Diego, Go Live! and next season's starring Laurence Fishburne
ADAM HUNTER (Associate Director/Production Stage Manager) has worked on the recent Broadway productions of Company, Sweeney Todd, Little Shop of Horrors, Dinner at Eight, 42nd Street, Swing!, Annie Get Your Gun and Gypsy with Patti LuPone at City Center.
HEATHER J. WEISS (Assistant Stage Manager) Broadway: Company. Off-Broadway: Altar Boyz, Naked Boys Singing!, Awesome'80s Prom, From Door to Door. NY/Regional: Twilight: LA 1992 with Lincoln Center, Paul Newman’s Camp Gala, numerous events with Broadway Cares and Artists Striving to End Poverty. (www.asteponline.org). BFA from North Carolina School of the Arts. Love & thanks to family, Mary-Mitchell Campbell and Vernon for their constant support & blessings. Member AEA.
JUJAMCYN THEATERS (Producer) owns and operates the St. James, Al Hirschfeld, August Wilson, Eugene O'Neill and Walter Kerr theatres on Broadway, and is currently represented by Spring Awakening (Best Musical Tony Award), Jersey Boys (Best Musical Tony Award), Curtains and Gypsy. Rocco Landesman, Paul Libin, Jack Viertel and Jordan Roth are the company's president, producing director, creative director and vice president, respectively. Past productions include Angels in America, Big River, Caroline, or Change, City of Angels, Death of a Salesman, A Funny Thing Happened…Forum, Guys and Dolls, Into the Woods, Jelly’s Last Jam, M. Butterfly, Proof, The Secret Garden, Smokey Joe’s Café and six plays by August Wilson. Visit Jujamcyn.com and Givenik.com.
JORDAN ROTH (Producer)is Vice President of Jujamcyn Theaters. Prior to joining Jujamcyn, he produced The Rocky Horror Show (Best Musical Revival - Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics nominations), The Donkey Show (6 years Off-Broadway) and The Karaoke Show. Jordan created GIVENIK.COM, where theatergoers can purchase discount tickets and 5% of their ticket price goes to the charity of their choice. He serves on the boards of GMHC, Broadway Cares, The Broadway League and Freedom to Marry. He was graduated summa cum laude from Princeton with degrees in philosophy and theatre.
RON FIERSTEIN (Producer) Ron and brother Harvey’s first theatrical collaboration was Freaky Pussy, the 1973 OOB musical for which Ron wrote the music to Harvey’s book. Now he is proud to have helped Harvey develop his latest stage inspiration. Ron produced the film version of Harvey's Torch Song Trilogy that starred Matthew Broderick and Anne Bancroft. A long time artist manager, he worked with Suzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin and Mary Chapin Carpenter, among others. Ron is a former litigator at the New York law firm of Fish & Neave.
RICHIE JACKSON (Producer) is the president of Jackson Group Entertainment, a management and production firm representing actors , writers and directors and producing theatre, television and film, including Shortbus, written and directed by John Cameron Mitchell. Richie is an adjunct faculty member of his alma mater, NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
DARYL ROTH (Producer) is proud to have produced five Pulitzer Prize winning plays: Proof (2001 Tony); Wit; How I Learned to Drive; Three Tall Women; and Anna in the Tropics. Curtains; August: Osage County; The Country Girl; Thurgood; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; The Year of Magical Thinking; Is He Dead; Deuce; Inherit the Wind; Coram Boy; Caroline or Change; Salome; Medea; The Goat, or Who is Sylvia (2002 Tony); The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife; Twilight: Los Angeles; Die, Mommie, Die!; Beckett/Albee; The Play About the Baby; The Baby Dance; Old Wicked Songs; Defying Gravity; Camping with Henry & Tom; Thom Pain; Closer Than Ever. Love to Steven, my wonderful family and Leo & Lucy.
RICK STEVENS (Producer) Broadway: Mark Twain’s Is He Dead?, August Wilson’s Radio Golf (four Tony nominations), London: Legrand/Schonberg/Boubil’s Marguerite. Ricky has produced/general managed over 100 productions internationally. Thanks to Dawn Timm, Zilla, Bella.
JOHN O’BOYLE (Producer) Broadway: Mark Twain’s Is He Dead?, August Wilson’s Radio Golf (four Tony nomination’s). London: Legrand/Schonberg/Boublil’s Marguerite at the Haymarket, May, 2008. Off-Broadway: My Name Is Rachel Corrie. Member of Dramatist Guild and ASCAP.
BARBRA RUSSELL/RON SHARPE (Producer) are the Executive Producers of the upcoming 2008-09 Broadway Musical, A Tale of Two Cities. They co-produced the sold-out world premiere of Tale at the Asolo Repertory Theatre in 2007. A husband and wife team, they met while playing Cosette and Marius in Broadway’s Les Miserables. Other B’way credits: Scarlet Pimpernel; Civil War; and Disney’s King David. Theyconceived, produced and performed on the CD "Sweethearts," the music of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy and produced the concept recording of A Tale of Two Cities. They will always be proudest of their first and finest productions, Samantha and her little brother Logan.
BROADWAY ACROSS AMERICA (Producer) Owned and operated by British theatre producer John Gore (CEO) and led by Thomas B. McGrath (Chairman), Broadway Across America presents first-class touring Broadway musicals and plays, family productions and other live events throughout a network of 42 North American cities. Broadway Across America is also dedicated to the development and production of new and diverse live theatre for productions on Broadway, across America and throughout the world. Current productions include A Catered Affair, Passing Strange, Spamalot, Go, Diego, Go and The Backyardigans. For more information or to purchase tickets through an authorized agent go to BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com.
TRUE LOVE PRODUCTIONS (Producer) True Love Productions (Jeanne Donovan Fisher and Laurie Gilmore). Broadway: Medea, The Retreat from Moscow and Well. Off-Broadway: True Love, Shockheaded Peter, The Tricky Part; bobrauschenbergamerica at BAM, Vienna Lusthaus (Revisited) at New York Theater Workshop, Paradise Park at Signature Theatre. Regional: Rocket to the Moon and The Elliott Smith Project at Bard Summerscape. Film: Snow Angels.
FRANKEL-BARUCH-VIERTEL-ROUTH GROUP (Producer) Richard Frankel, Steven Baruch, Tom Viertel and Marc Routh have produced and managed many productions over the past 24 years. Currently: Gypsy, Young Frankenstein, Hairspray, Sweeney Todd and Stomp. Previously: The Producers, Company, The Weir, The Sound of Music, Smokey Joe's Café, Angels in America, Oleanna, Love Letters, Driving Miss Daisy, Frankie and Johnny, Penn & Teller and many others.
RICK STEINER / MAYERSON-BELL-STATON-OSHER GROUP (Producer) Rick has co-produced eleven Broadway musicals; four have won the Tony for Best Musical. He sits on the ownership bench of his hometown Cincinnati Reds and lives with his children Ace and Duke. Frederic H. Mayerson has co-produced nine musicals, winning Tonys for Hairspray and Jersey Boys. An entrepreneur, he is Chairman of The Walnut Group, a private equity firm. He lives in Cincinnati, East Hampton and Aspen with his wife Dawna. Marc Bell was Chairman of Globix and is CEO of Penthouse Media Group. Jersey Boys is his first Tony Award. He and Ruti reside in Florida with twins Rachel and David. Dan Staton, former President of Duke Realty, is CEO of Enterprise Acquisition Corporation. He won his first Tony for Jersey Boys and lives in Florida with wife Maria and children Ariana, George and Jack. John and Bonnie Osher won Tonys for Hairspray and Jersey Boys. They founded CAP Toys, Inc. and the Crest Spinbrush which was sold to Procter & Gamble. Their greatest productions: Jay, Jill, Zachary, Jordan and Jesse.
JAN KALLISH (Producer) The Color Purple (Broadway and first North American Tour); 9 to 5, music and lyrics by Dolly Parton, (pre-Broadway, Ahmanson Theatre, Broadway (2008-9 season); Princess Caraboo (in development, book, Marsha Norman, music, Jenny Giering, director, Gary Griffin); Associate Producer, Execution of Justice by Emily Mann, (About Face Theatre, Chicago). Consultant to Matthew Bourne's New Adventures (US tours of Edward Scissorhands and Car Man); most recently served as CEO of the Nederlander Broadway China Joint Venture. Formerly served as Executive Director of Chicago's Auditorium Theatre; Executive Producer: Ovations! Concert Celebrations of Great American Musicals. Ms. Kallish teaches Commercial Theatre Management at DePaul University's Theatre School in Chicago.
STACEY MINDICH (Producer) is a journalist, author of non-fiction books and a Contributing Editor of Town & Country. Stacey is delighted to make her Broadway debut with A Catered Affair. Off-Broadway, she has produced Make me a Song: The Music of William Finn. Most beloved productions: Russell (10), Danny (8) and Charlie (5).
RHODA MAYERSON (Producer) An Associate Producer of eight Broadway musicals, Rhoda Mayerson is active philanthropically through The Manuel D. and Rhoda Mayerson Foundation which supports rights of the disabled, children’s diseases, education and cultural activities. She thanks her husband Manuel for affording her the privilege and joy of being involved in A Catered Affair.
