DAVID MAMET (Playwright) is the author of the plays Romance, Boston Marriage, Oleanna, Glengarry Glen Ross (1984 Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Award), American Buffalo, The Old Neighborhood, A Life in the Theatre, Speed-the-Plow, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Reunion and The Cryptogram (1995 Obie Award). His translations and adaptations include Red River by Pierre Laville and The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya by Anton Checkov. His films include The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Verdict, The Untouchables, House of Games (writer/director), Oleanna (writer/director), Homicide (writer/director), The Spanish Prisoner (writer/director), Hoffa, The Edge, Wag the Dog, The Winslow Boy (writer/director), Hannibal, State and Main (writer/director) and Heist (writer/director). Mr. Mamet is also the author of Warm and Cold, a book for children with drawings by Donald Sultan, and two other children’s books, Passover and The Duck and the Goat; Writing in Restaurants; Some Freaks; Make Believe Town; three volumes of essays; The Hero Pony and The Chinaman, books of poems; Three Children’s Plays; On Directing Film; The Cabin; and Wilson. His most recent books include the acting books, True and False and Three Uses of the Knife and Bambi vs. Godzilla, On the Nature Purpose and Practice of the Movie Business. His film Redbelt, is due out this spring.
JOE MANTELLO (Director) Directing credits include The Receptionist, Blackbird, The Ritz, Three Days of Rain, The Odd Couple, Glengarry Glen Ross (Tony nomination), Laugh Whore, Assassins (Tony Award), Wicked, Take Me Out (Tony Award), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, A Man of No Importance, Design for Living, Terrence McNally and Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking for the San Francisco Opera, The Vagina Monologues, bash, Another American: Asking and Telling, Love! Valour! Compassion! (Tony nomination), Proposals, The Mineola Twins, Corpus Christi, Mizlansky/Zilinsky or Schmucks, Blue Window, God’s Heart, The Santaland Diaries, Snakebit, Three Hotels and Imagining Brad. Mr. Mantello also directed the film Love! Valour! Compassion! As an actor he appeared in Angels in America (Tony nomination) and The Baltimore Waltz. Mr. Mantello is the recipient of Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Clarence Derwent, Obie and Joe A. Callaway awards. He is a member of Naked Angels and an associate artist at the Roundabout.
SCOTT PASK (Set Design)Broadway: The Ritz, The Coast of Utopia (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Hewes Design Awards), Vertical Hour, The Pillowman (Tony Award, Outer Critics Circle nom.), Lieutenant of Inishmore, Take Me Out (Drama Desk nom.), Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, The Wedding Singer (Drama Desk nom), Kiki and Herb: Alive on Broadway, Sweet Charity (2005, Drama Desk nom.), La Cage aux Folles, Little Shop of Horrors, Nine (2004, Outer Critics Circle nom.), Amour (Drama Desk nom.), Urinetown: the Musical (Lortel nom.). Selected Off Broadway: Blackbird (Drama Desk nom.), The Mineola Twins (Lortel and Hewes Design Awards), Bash. London: Tales From Hollywood (Donmar Warehouse), LoveSong, On an Average Day (West End), Almeida Theatre, National Theatre. Opera: North, Leeds, Peter Grimes (Metropolitan Opera, 2008).
LAURA BAUER (Costume Design) Broadway: Talk Radio, Glengarry Glen Ross, Frankie and Johnny…, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Off-Broadway plays at MTC, the Vineyard, Playwrights Horizons, The Public, Lincoln Center, Naked Angels, Circle Rep and the Atlantic Theater. Years of work with Steppenwolf, Remains and the Goodman. Selected films: High Fidelity, Sweet and Lowdown, Telling Lies in America, Pieces of April and the to-be-released Spinning Into Butter. Laura is a member of the Atlantic Theatre Company and first began designing Mr. Mamet's plays in 1989 in Chicago.
PAUL GALLO (Lighting Designer) Broadway musicals: Never Gonna Dance, Man of La Mancha, Dreamgirls, 42nd Street, The Rocky Horror Show, The Civil War, On The Town, The Sound Of Music, Triumph Of Love, Titanic, Big, Forum, Smokey Joe’s Café, Guys and Dolls, Crazy For You, City of Angels, Anything Goes, Smile, Drood and Tintypes. Broadway plays: A Bronx Tale, Mauritius, Losing Louie, Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Three Days of Rain, The Crucible, 45 Seconds From Broadway, Man Who Came To Dinner, Epic Proportions, Skylight, The Tempest, I Hate Hamlet, Six Degrees of Separation, Lend Me A Tenor, Spoils of War, Front Page, House of Blue Leaves, Beyond Therapy, Come Back To The Five And Dime…, Passione, Grown Ups and Little Foxes. Awards: Eight Tony nominations, ten Drama Desk nominations (winning one), six Outer Critics Awards, two Obie Awards and the 1986 Obie for Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design.
JILL CORDLE (Production Stage Manager) Broadway: The Odd Couple, Glengarry Glen Ross, Reckless, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, True West, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Art. National Tours: Cats, MOMIX, Catskills on Broadway, The Boys Choir of Harlem. Off-Broadway: Blackbird, Annie Warbucks, Rose’s Dilemma, The Vagina Monologues, Blue Window, By the Sea, By the Sea… Stock: Park Your Car In Harvard Yard starring E.G. Marshall. Best credits: Emma Louise and Henry David.
NEIL KRASNOW (Assistant Stage Manager) Broadway: Urban Cowboy: the Musical, Frozen, Steel Magnolias, Absurd Person Singular, Barefoot in the Park and the workshop of Disney’s Hoopz. Off-Broadway: Numerous including the recent Blackbird. Regional: Coconut Grove (ten seasons), Westport (five summers). Industrials: U.S. Open, New Yorker Festival. Graduate of Syracuse University.
HUDSON THEATRICAL ASSOCIATES (Technical Supervision) is the newest member of Neil A. Mazzella's Hudson family which includes Hudson Scenic Studio and Hudson Sound & Light. Hudson has been providing technical supervision, scenery, lighting, automation, and special effects on Broadway since 1980. Supervisory credits include The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein, Cyrano De Bergerac, Spring Awakening, Talk Radio, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Boy From Oz and Angels in America.
TELSEY + COMPANY (Casting) Broadway/Tours: A Catered Affair, In the Heights, The Homecoming, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Legally Blonde, The Drowsy Chaperone, The Color Purple, Wicked, Hairspray, Rent, Sweeney Todd, High School Musical; Off-Broadway: 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.
RICHARDS/CLIMAN, INC. (General Manager) David R. Richards and Tamar Haimes currently manage August: Osage County, My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish, and I’m in Therapy and the national tour of Twelve Angry Men. Broadway: The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Bridge & Tunnel, The Glass Menagerie, Primo, Little Women, Say Goodnight Gracie (NY/Tour), Jane Eyre and Annie (NY/Tour). Off-Broadway: Jacques Brel…, Jewtopia, The Exonerated (NY/Tour), The Thing About Men and Dinner with Friends.