Frank Galati

(Director) won two Tony® Awards in 1990 for his adaptation and direction of The Grapes of Wrath. He was nominated for a Tony Award in 1998 for directing the musical Ragtime. He is a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company and an Associate Director at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre. He has directed for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Chicago Opera Theatre, San Francisco Opera, Dallas Opera, The Roundabout Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Warf Theatre, and the Metropolitan Opera. In 1989 he was nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay (with Lawrence Kasdan) of The Accidental Tourist. Mr. Galati is an emeritus professor of performance studies at Northwestern University. In 2001, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Graciela Daniele

(Musical Staging). Broadway (Director/Choreographer): Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life, Annie Get Your Gun, Marie Christine, Once on This Island, Chronicle of a Death Foretold and Dangerous Game. Musical Staging/Choreography includes: Ragtime (Astaire, Ovation, NAACP, and Callaway Awards), The Goodbye Girl, Zorba with Anthony Quinn, The Rink starring Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Choreography: The Pirates of Penzance (NYSF) on Broadway, Los Angeles, and London. Film: Pirates, and Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite (1996 Fosse Award) and Everyone Say I Love You (1997 Fosse Award). Lincoln Center Theater (Resident Director): Directed and Choreographed William Finn’s A New Brain and Elegies, Michael John LaChiusa’s Hello Again and Bernarda Alba, and Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s Dessa Rose. Mr. Abbot Award (1998) for Outstanding Achievement by a Director/Choreographer, ten Tony nominations, six Drama Desk nominations and inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame.

Julian Kelly

(Orchestrations, Vocal Arrangements, Musical Supervision & Direction). Theatre credits include Stephen Sondheim's Company, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, Pacific Overtures, Follies, Into the Woods, Sunday In The Park With George and A Little Night Music. Also, Chicago, 70, Girls, 70!, The Rink, Mack And Mabel, The Best Of Times, West Side Story, Oliver!, The King And I, Carousel, The Sound Of Music, Guys And Dolls, Calamity Jane, Piaf, Damn Yankees, Singin' In The Rain and On Your Toes.

Carol Leavy Joyce

(Irish Dance Choreographer) is a Teacher and Adjudicator of Irish Dance. During her dancing career she won 3 World Titles and danced with the Roddy School, Co. Louth. She was Dance Director and then Assistant Director with Riverdance - The Show, where her responsibilities included auditioning and training the Irish Dancers and monitoring their performance in the Show. Carol also contributed new Choreography to the show.

Eugene Lee

(Scenic Design) has been resident designer at Trinity Repertory since 1967. He holds BFA degrees from Art Institute of Chicago and Carnegie Mellon, an MFA from Yale, and three honorary doctorates. He has been the production designer at "Saturday Night Live" since 1974. He has received the Tony Award, American Theatre Wing’s Design Award, Outer Critics’ Circle Award, Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award, and Pell Award. He is currently represented on Broadway by the musical Wicked. He is an adjunct professor at Brown University, and lives with his wife Brooke in Providence, where they raised their two sons.

Martin Pakledinaz

(Costume Design). Recent NY theatre: The Pajama Game (Tony nomination) and The Trip To Bountiful (Signature Theatre; Lortel nomination). Other shows include Thoroughly Modern Millie, Wonderful Town, Kiss Me, Kate, The Wild Party (Lippa), A Year With Frog and Toad, Golden Child, The Diary of Anne Frank, and The Life. Opera includes Rodelinda (Metropolitan Opera) Tristan and Isolde & Adriana Mater (Paris Opera/Bastille), L'amour de Loin (Salzburg, Paris/Chatelet, Sante Fe, Helsinki, and works throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Japan). Dance includes: Mark Morris Dance Group, San Francisco Ballet, Boston Ballet, New York City Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet. Awards include two Tonys, the Drama Desk, Obie, Lucille Lortel, and others.

Kenneth Posner

(Lighting Design). Has designed 30 Broadway plays and musicals including; Wicked, Hairspray, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (TONY Nominations). Shipwreck, The Odd Couple, Glengarry Glen Ross, Little Woman, The Frogs, Imaginary Friends, Swing!, Charlie Brown, The Goat, Uncle Vanya, Side Man, The Lion in Winter, Little Me, A View from the Bridge, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, The Little Foxes, and The Rose Tattoo. Recipient of the OBIE for sustained excellence in lighting design. He resides in Verona, New Jersey with his wife Michelle and their three children.

Jonathan Deans

(Sound Design) credits include Cirque du Soleil’s Love, Ka, Zumanity, O, Mystere, La Nouba and the current tour of Corteo. Broadway productions include Lestat, Brooklyn, Taboo, Follies, Seussical, Music Man, Fosse, Parade, Ragtime, Candide, and Disney's King David. His goal as a Sound designer is to create a listening environment that is unique to the production, fusing the visual and musical components to become one cohesive multi-layered theatrical experience. Jonathan would like to thank his family for their unwavering support.

Paul Huntley

(Wig Designer). Paul Huntley, London born, is a Special Tony Award winner. Current Broadway shows include The Producers, Hairspray, Grey Gardens, Curtains and The Pirate Queen. Movies are Fast Track, Ralph Fiennes in Doris, Jennifer Lopez in La Cante, Christopher Walken in Balls of Fire and Hairspray, and Susan Sarandon in Enchanted. TV series include "Kidnapped".

Gregory Meeh

(Special Effects Design) designs special effects for theatre, opera, dance, industrials, television, film and print. Some recent credits include Ka for Cirque Du Soleil, Lord of the Rings in Toronto, the Broadway productions of: Spamalot, An Inspector Calls (Drama Desk Award), Angels in America, Tommy, Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, and the television productions of "Fool’s Fire" for American Playhouse, "Late Show," "SNL," and "One Life to Live."

Paul Rubin

(Aerial Sequence Design) has been choreographing aerial sequences since 1988. Broadway: Wicked, Frozen, Curtains with David Hyde Pierce, Dance of the Vampires, The Green Bird, Fiddler on the Roof, Saturday Night Fever, Peter Pan with Cathy Rigby, and Kiss Me, Kate. National Tours: Dora the Explorer, Camelot with Michael York, Seussical, Leslie Bricusse’s Doctor Dolittle, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Spiderman Stunt Spectacular, Blues Clues Live, Scooby-Doo Live & Cathy Rigby’s farewell Peter Pan tour. Television: CNN, "The Tony Awards", "All That", "The Rosie O’Donnell Show", A&E’s "Peter Pan", "E.T." and "The Tony Danza Show". www.TheFlyGuy.com

Angelina Avallone

(Make-up Design). Broadway: The Color Purple, Sweeney Todd, The Pajama Game, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Light in the Piazza, Grey Gardens, Lestat, The Odd Couple, All Shook Up, Lennon, Seascape, Sweet Charity, The Pillowman, Wonderful Town, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Gypsy, Little Shop of Horrors, Dance of the Vampires, Dracula the Musical and Julius Caesar.

Edward Pierce

(Scenic Design Associate). Mr. Pierce operates a NYC-based design studio specializing in the production design of Broadway, touring, and international stage productions. With his team of artists, Edward provides first-class development and management of designs. Notable collaborations include the TONY® Award winning musical Wicked with Eugene Lee, Elton John’s Aida, Ragtime, Cabaret, Noise/Funk and The Tempest.

J. Steven White

(Fight Director). Broadway: 18 productions including Pillowman, Color Purple and A View From the Bridge. Off-Broadway favorites: Burn This and Hurly Burley. Public Theater: 22 shows including The Tempest, Julius Casesar, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, King Lear, A Language of their Own, and Cymbeline. Faculty Member: Graduate Acting Program at NYU-Tisch, the Stella Adler Studio, and Columbia University MFA.

Tara Young

(Associate Director). Broadway: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Frogs, Dance of the Vampires, Contact, The Music Man, Thou Shalt Not, Ragtime, Showboat, Sondheim at Carnegie Hall, Steel Pier (Workshop), Parade (Workshop). Other: A Little Night Music NYCO-LA Opera, Double Feature NYCB. Tours: Ragtime, Crazy For You, Showboat, And the World Goes' Round, Minelli/ Aznavour Paris, Liza Minelli Stepping Out at Radio City Music Hall. Film: Stepping Out, Sing.Upcoming: The Little Mermaid on Broadway.

Rachel Bress

(Associate Choreographer/Dance Captain/Swing). Associate/assistant choreography: Dirty Blonde (Broadway), Old Money (Lincoln Center), Carol King: Making Music with Friends (Madison Sq. Garden), On a Clear Day/The Apple Tree (Encores!), Pippin (National Tour). Choreography: NBA All-Star Half-time (NBC), “Sex and the City” (HBO), Apt. 3A by Jeff Daniels (NYC). Performance: Mamma Mia! (Broadway), West Side Story (National Tour), Most Happy Fella (NYC Opera). L-2 Mom, Dad, Laurie & Sas.

Tara Rubin Casting

(Casting). Broadway: Les Miserables; Mary Poppins; Jersey Boys; Spamalot; Spelling Bee; The Producers; Mamma Mia!; Phantom…; Good Vibrations; Bombay Dreams; Oklahoma!; Flower Drum Song; Imaginary Friends; Metamorphoses. Lincoln Center: The Frogs; Contact; Thou Shalt Not; A Man of No Importance. Off-Broadway: Second Stage. Regional: Williamstown; Kennedy Center; La Jolla; Yale Rep. Film: The Producers The Musical. Member: Casting Society of America.

C. Randall White

(Production Stage Manager). Thirty-five years of working backstage Randall has worked everything from Broadway to Vegas, Cruise Ships to Concert Halls. Credits include: The Broadway productions of: Ragtime, Starlight Express, Sweet Charity, Big Deal. National Tours of: Ragtime, The Who’s Tommy, The Lion King, Aspects of Love, Showboat, Starlight Express, Spirit A Journey in Dance Drum and Song, Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Barbra Streisand’s "Timeless" Concert.

MSI/Sam Lutfiyya

(Musical Contractor) via his company Music Services International, has worked with many of the world’s leading theatrical producers on numerous North American and International productions. Highlights are North American tours of Showboat, Full Monty, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Mamma Mia!, Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life, the International tour of West Side Story, the Las Vegas production of The Phantom of the Opera, and Broadway production of Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang.

Kathleen E. Purvis

(Stage Manager) has stage managed Broadway shows, National Tours, Regional Theatre and TV. Some credits include The Lion King, Ragtime, Show Boat, The Scarlet Pimpernel, CATS, The Good Body, The Vagina Monologues, The Wizard of Oz, Spirit and Barbra Streisand’s "Timeless Concert".

Sandra M. Franck

(Assistant Stage Manager). Broadway: The Lion King, Ragtime, Laughing Room Only. National Tours: The Who’s TOMMY, Ragtime, The Lion King. Off-Broadway, Stock and multitudes of corporate meetings and special events. Love and thanks to R.

Charlene Speyerer

(Assistant Stage Manager). Broadway: Mamma Mia!, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, 42nd Street, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Les Misérables. National tours: Miss Saigon, The Phantom of the Opera. Proud Equity member. The "whole world" to RLO.

Michael Wilhoite

(Assistant Stage Manager). Broadway: Amadeus, Beauty and the Beast, The Iceman Cometh, Kiss me Kate, Match, Private Lives, Rent, The Real Thing, Phantom of the Opera, Wonderful Town. National Tours: Contact, Fiddler on the Roof.

Peter W. Lamb

(Production Manager) productions include: The Phantom of the Opera (Toronto, Touring); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Toronto, Touring); Show Boat (Toronto, Broadway, Chicago, Touring); Sunset Boulevard (Toronto, Vancouver); Ragtime (Toronto, Los Angeles, Broadway, Chicago, Touring); for Roundabout, Follies (Broadway); for CanStage, The Overcoat (London, Adelaide, Wellington, Hartford); Blue Man Group (Toronto, Las Vegas); Technical Consultant on theatre construction projects, including The Canon, Toronto, The Ford, Vancouver, The Hilton, New York and The Oriental, Chicago; Principal Consultant for Artec Consultants, on numerous international performing arts building projects.

Dancap Productions, Inc.

(Associate Producer). Aubrey Dan is President and Founder of Dancap Private Equity Inc. (www.dancap.ca), investing his own funds in diverse businesses around the globe. Aubrey is a seasoned businessman with his roots in generic pharmaceuticals. He began producing theatre in Toronto, Canada with CanStage on Urinetown: The Musical, Ain’t Misbehavin’, and Hair. On Broadway he was an Associate Producer of The Wedding Singer, currently he’s Co- producing 3 Mo’ Divas that’s touring globally (www.3modivas.com)

Frank P. Scardino

(General Management) has served as executive producer or general manager for the following shows: Follies (Broadway), Ragtime (Broadway, LA, Toronto and Tour), The Phantom of the Opera (Toronto and International Tour), Sunset Blvd. (Toronto), To Grandmother’s House We Go (Broadway), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, (Chicago, Toronto and Tour), Aspects of Love (Tour), Kiss of the Spider Woman (Broadway and Tour), Show Boat (Broadway, Toronto, Chicago and Tour), Barrymore (Broadway), Candide (Broadway) and Music of the Night (Tour). Other Broadway credits: The 1940'S Radio Hour, On the Twentieth Century, Pippin, The Mikado, and Chicago (original company). Also, Theatre Production Group LLC has managed Laughing Room Only, the Will Rogers Follies tour, Immigrant the Musical, and Jackie Mason: Freshly Squeezed. www.theatreproductiongroup.com

Actors' Equity Association

(AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org