one of America’s greatest and most seminal playwrights, is the author of The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire (Pulitzer Prize), Summer and Smoke, The Rose Tattoo (Tony Award), Camino Real, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award), Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Summer, Sweet Bird of Youth, Period of Adjustment, The Night of the Iguana (Tony Nominee), The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, Slapstick Tragedy, In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel, Small Craft Warnings, Vieux Carre, The Red Devil Battery Sign, and many other plays as well as many short stories, several novels, and screenplays.
EMILY MANN
DIRECTOR
is a Tony nominated director and playwright and a Tony winning Artistic Director. In her 30 years as Artistic Director and Resident Playwright at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey, she wrote 15 new plays and adaptations, directed over 50 productions, produced 180 plays and musicals, and supported and directed the work of emerging and legendary playwrights including Ntozake Shange, Athol Fugard, Edward Albee, Chris Durang, Nilo Cruz and Danai Gurira and is known for her productions of Williams, Lorca, Chekhov, and Shakespeare. On Broadway, she directed her own plays Execution of Justice and Having Our Say, Nilo Cruz’s Anna in the Tropics and A Streetcar Named Desire. Her other plays include: Still Life; Annulla, An Autobiography; Greensboro (A Requiem); Meshugah; Mrs. Packard, and Gloria,A Life which aired on PBS’ Great Performances. Her newest play, an adaptation of The Pianist, premiered earlier this year. Her adaptations include BabyDoll, Scenes from a Marriage, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, A Seagull in the Hamptons, The House of Bernarda Alba, and Antigone. Awards include Peabody, Guggenheim, Hull Warriner, NAACP, 6 Obies; Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, WGA nominations; Princeton University Honorary Doctorate of Arts; Helen Merrill Distinguished Playwrights’ Award; Margo Jones Award; TCG Visionary Leadership Award; both The Lilly and Gordon Davidson Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Theater. She has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Theater Hall of Fame.,
BEOWULF BORITT
SCENIC DESIGN
Beowulf Boritt (Set Designer) 31 Broadway designs include the Tony Award winning sets for New York, New York and Act One, the Tony nominated sets for The Scottsboro Boys, Therese Raquin, Potus, and Flying Over Sunset. Also on Broadway, Harmony, The Piano Lesson, Ohio State Murders,The Old Man and the Pool, Come From Away, A Bronx Tale, Hand To God, …Spelling Bee , LoveMusik. 100 Off-Broadway shows include Shakespeare in the Park (Hamlet, Much Ado, Merry Wives, Coriolanus), The Last Five Years, Fiddler On The Roof (in Yiddish), Sleepwalk With Me, and Miss Julie. Author: Transforming Space Over Time, about Broadway design.
JENNIFER VON MAYRHAUSER
COSTUME DESIGN
Has designed many productions with Emily Mann, including 20th Century Blues (Off-Broadway); Bathing In The Moonlight; Five Mile Lake; Proof; A Delicate Balance; Mrs. Ward’s Professions; Me, Myself And I; A Seagull In The Hamptons, Mrs. Packard, The Birthday Party; All Over; The Cherry Orchard; Doll House; Miss Julie; Cat On A Hot Tin Roof; Three Sisters, Betsey Brown, The Glass Menagerie; and Execution of Justice. She has designed costumes for many Broadway and Off-Broadway shows. She won an Obie for “Sustain Excellence in Costume,” Design.” Film/TV: “The Sinner,” “FBI.” “Seal Team,” “The Slap”; “Game of Silence,” Unforgettable,” “Law & Order” (Emmy nom,) Hateship, Loveship The Ballad of Jack and Rose ; The Private Lies Of Pippa Lee, Mystic Pizza, The Hand That Rocks, The Cradle; The Real Blonde; Lean On Me; I’m Not Rappaport and others. jennifervonmayrhauser.com
JEFF CROITER
LIGHTING DESIGN
Broadway: Gutenberg the Musical, Cost of Living, Freestyle Love Supreme, Bandstand, Falsettos, Holiday Inn, Something Rotten!, Penn&Teller, Newsies, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Pee-wee Herman Show, Disaster, Jekyll and Hyde, Next Fall, among others. Off-Broadway: Sabbath’s Theatre, Gatsby Interactive, Drinking in America, The Fears, Only Gold, Black No More, Hyprov, Beyond Babel, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Jerry Springer: The Opera, Tiny Beautiful Things. Winner of Tony, Hewes, and Bass Awards; and Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lortel, NAACP, Ovation, IRNE, and AUDELCO nominations. Jeff is a producer of Light Humor.
DARRON L WEST
SOUND DESIGN
is a TONY and OBIE award-winning sound designer whose 30-year career spans theater and dance, Broadway and Off Broadway. His work has been heard in over 600 productions all over the United States and internationally in 15 countries. Additional honors include the Drama Desk, Lortel, Audelco and Princess Grace Foundation Statue Award, among many others. Thirty year company member designing the productions of Anne Bogart and the SITI company. His soundscapes for Photograph 51, Paradise Blue and Coal Country can be heard on Audible.
Terry Berliner
Associate Director
New York City based director, choreographer, writer and educator. Her work has been seen on and Off Broadway and in regional theatres and universities across the country. Broadway: The Lion King, The Sound of Music and The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife. Recent regional: On Cedar Street, The Pianist and Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End. Upcoming: Suddenly Supernatural and New World Comin’. Core faculty member at Peridance Center and member of SDC Society and the Dramatists Guild.