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KENNY LEON (Director) is
an acclaimed producer and director who is presently co-founder and
Artistic Director of True Colors Theatre Company, dedicated to diversity
and the preservation of African American classics. He served as
Artistic Director of the Alliance Theatre Company for over a decade
and has directed regionally at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival,
Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Dallas Theater Center, San Jose Rep,
Indiana Rep, Goodman, Huntington, Hartford Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse
in the Park, Geva Theatre, Long Wharf, BAM, Ga Shakespeare Festival,
Arena Stage and the Theatre of the Stars. While at the Alliance,
he produced ten world premieres of Elton John’s Aida, Pearl
Cleage’s Flyin’ West and Blues for an Alabama Sky,
Alfred Uhry’s The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Athol Fugard’s
Playland and in cooperation with the Kennedy Center, Debbie
Allen’s Soul Possessed. He made his Off-Broadway debut at
The Public directing Thulani Davis’s Everybody’s Ruby. His
work includes the 2003 world premiere of Sandra Deers’ The Subject
Tonight Is Love. A graduate and honorary Ph.D. of Clark Atlanta
University, Kenny is the recipient of the MIT Eugene McDermott Award
and was chosen Top 20 to watch by The Financial Times. As
an actor, Mr. Leon recently originated the role of Citizen in August
Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean at The Goodman. In 2005, Kenny
will direct the World Premiere Opera Margaret Garner by Toni
Morrison with music by Richard Danielpour.
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THOMAS LYNCH
(Scenic Designer). Broadway: Contact, The Music
Man (Tony nomination), Thou Shalt Not, Swing!,
Having Our Say, The Heidi Chronicles (Tony nomination),
Ah, Wilderness!, The Young Man From Atlanta, Little
Voice, Tintypes. Off-Broadway: Valhalla, Old
Money, Laughing Wild, Food Chain, Madame Melville,
Betty’s Summer Vacation (Obie Award), Driving Miss Daisy.
Designs for all major regional theaters and with directors including
Daniel Sullivan, Robert Falls, Emily Mann, Christopher Ashley, Richard
Nelson and Stephen Wadsworth. Opera: The Ring Cycle (Seattle),
Xerxes, (NYCO), Alcina (Covent Garden), A Quiet
Place (Vienna Staatsoper), upcoming Rodelinda (Metropolitan
Opera). Twice participant in the Prix d’Or of the Prague Quadrennial.
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PAUL TAZEWELL
(Costume Designer) Broadway: Caroline, or Change;
Drowning Crow; Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ’da Funk
(Tony nom); Elaine Stritch: At Liberty; On the Town;
The Gershwin’s Fascinating Rhythm; and Def Poetry Jam.
Off-Broadway: Flesh and Blood; Fame on 42nd Street;
One Flea Spare; Henry V; Venus; Dinah Was;
and Playboy of the West Indies for Lincoln Center. Mr Tazewell
designs regionally and internationally and has won Lortel, Helen
Hayes and AUDELCO awards.
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BRIAN MacDEVITT (Lighting Designer). New York: Fiddler
on the Roof, Henry IV, Retreat from Moscow, Long
Day’s Journey into Night, Nine (Tony nomination), Frankie
and Johnny in the Claire de Lune, Into the Woods (Tony
Award), Urinetown, Morning’s at Seven, Invention
of Love, Judgment at Nuremburg, The Dinner Party,
Side Show, The Diary of Anne Frank, Master Class,
Love! Valour! Compassion!, True West, The Ride
Down Mt. Morgan. Tours: Urinetown, Angels in
America. Dance: ABT, Tere O’Connor Dance, Lar Lubovitch. Film:
The Cradle Will Rock. Additional awards: Obie for Sustained
Excellence, Bessie for works with Tere O’Connor. Faculty: Purchase
College. Member: Naked Angels. Father: Jake.
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T. RICHARD FITZGERALD (Sound Designer). 1980 Tony Award
for introduction of Infrared Listening Systems to aid hearing impaired
patrons in Broadway theatres. 1993-94 Drama Desk nomination: Outstanding
Sound Design, Beauty and the Beast. L.A. Ovation nominations:
Best Sound Design, An Inspector Calls (1996), Sexaholix
(2003). 2000 Lucille Lortel Award nomination: Best Sound Design,
4 Guys Named Jose. Broadway sound design credits: Annie,
42nd Street, Zorba, The King & I, An
Inspector Calls, Translations, Dancing at Lughnasa,
Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan, The Dresser,
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Sunshine Boys, Freak,
Electra, Rocky Horror Show, Sexaholix, Little
Shop of Horrors, Sly Fox.
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DWIGHT ANDREWS (Composer). Broadway: Ma Rainey’s Black
Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,
The Piano Lesson, Seven Guitars. Off-Broadway:
Everybody’s Ruby, Resurrection of Lady Lester.
Regional theatre work includes Miss Evers’ Boys, Colored
Museum, Heliotrope Bouquet, Flyin’ West and Blues
for an Alabama Sky. Film credits include Piano Lesson,
Old Settler, Miss Evers’ Boys, W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography
in Four Voices and Homecoming. Ph.D., Yale University.
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JAMES CALLERI, C.S.A. (Casting) with associate Alaine
Alldaffer. Theatre: Playwrights Horizons (8 seasons), The Dead
(Broadway, National Tour), Betty’s Summer Vacation, Lobby
Hero. Also CSC Repertory and Huntington Theater. Other credits:
Albee/Beckett, Fully Committed, The Vagina Monologues,
The Syringa Tree, The Guys. TV: NBC’s “Ed,” USA’s
“Monk.” Film: upcoming Heights (Merchant Ivory production
to be released this spring by Sony Classics), Lisa Picard Is
Famous (dir. Griffin Dunne), The Jimmy Show (dir. Frank
Whaley), Trouble Every Day (dir. Claire Denis). Member CSA.
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PATDRO HARRIS (Choreographer) has served as director,
choreographer and artistic consultant for houses nationwide, including
Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Kennedy Center, Alliance Theatre, Studio
Theatre, San Diego Rep, Tribeca PAC, Arena Stage and National Black
Theatre Festival. He earned the 1996 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding
Choreography and a nomination as Best Supporting Actor and he’s
choreographed for many artists, including Stevie Wonder. Patdro
is president and CEO of One Production Company, an entertainment
consulting firm and artist training center in Atlanta.
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CHARLES G. LaPOINTE (Wigs). Broadway: Henry IV with
Jess Goldstein; Wicked, Anna in the Tropics, Jane
Eyre, Into the Woods, Assassins, Cat on a Hot
Tin Roof as Assistant to Tom Watson. Many regional and opera
credits including Huntington, McCarter, American Repertory and Hartford
Stage Theaters, Minnesota Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Santa
Fe Opera Opera Company of Philadelphia and Boston Lyric Opera. Thanks
Tom for everything!
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KATE WILSON (Dialect and Vocal Coach). Broadway: Fiddler
on the Roof, Anna in the Tropics, Nine, The
Graduate, Oklahoma!, The Graduate, The Man
Who Had All the Luck, Major Barbara, Betrayal,
Tom Sawyer, The Best Man, Rainmaker. Off-Broadway:
Mr. Fox: A Rumination, Big Bill, Henry V,
Raindance, Burn This, Far Away, The Glory of
Living, Othello, The Seagull, Impossible Marriage,
Arms and the Man, Misalliance. NYC Opera: A Little
Night Music. Film: Uptown Girls, Soldier’s Girl,
Going Under. Faculty: Juilliard.
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MICHAEL BRUNNER (Production Stage Manager). Broadway:
Henry IV, Vincent in Brixton, Rose, The
Heiress, A Delicate Balance, The Most Happy Fella,
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (all for Lincoln Center), Not
About Nightingales, Wait Until Dark, Rent.
Off-Broadway: A Man of No Importance, Dinner with
Friends, The Unexpected Man, Chaucer in Rome,
Impossible Marriage. Regional: Williamstown, Goodspeed
Opera House (20 musicals), Kennedy Center. Concerts: Carousel
with Hugh Jackman and Audra McDonald and Sail Away
with Elaine Stritch (both at Carnegie Hall).
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NARDA ALCORN (Stage Manager). Broadway: The Lion King,
Seven Guitars. Other: Jitney at Second Stage and National
Theatre of Great Britain (winner Olivier Award). Regional: Yale
Repertory, ACT, Goodman, Huntington, Taper, Ahmanson, La Jolla Playhouse,
Seattle Repertory, Alley. Professor of Stage Management at Suny
Purchase Conservatory of Theatre Arts and Film.
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GENE O’DONOVAN, AURORA PRODUCTIONS (Production Management).
Recent productions include Caroline or Change, More,
Fiddler on the Roof, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Retreat
From Moscow, Golda’s Balcony, Bobbi Boland, The
Graduate (New York and tour) and The Full Monty (New
York and tour). Other projects include Man of La Mancha,
Proof (national tour), True West, Art, Titanic
and Tommy. He teaches Production Management at SUNY
Purchase. His associates are Melissa Mazdra and Ben Heller.
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ROBERT COLE (General Manager). Since 1989, Robert Cole
Productions has provided general management services for various
shows, including the recent B’way revival of Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, A Moon
for the Misbegotten, Arthur Miller’s The Price, The
Crucible and Death of a Salesman, John Leguizamo’s Freak,
and Sam Shepard’s Buried Child. Producing credits include
Omnium Gatherum, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (original
B’way production), The Crucible, Elaine Stritch at Liberty,
Angels in America, The Young Man from Atlanta, Redwood
Curtain and Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll. Cole produced
the film, Tape, starring Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke.
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LISA M. POYER (General Manager). Also this
season: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Omnium Gatherum. On
Broadway, as Company Manager: The Crucible, One Flew Over
the Cuckoo’s Nest, A Moon for the Misbegotten, The
Price, Death of a Salesman, Freak, An Ideal
Husband, Having Our Say, Angels in America: Millennium
Approaches and Perestroika, Gypsy Passion, A
Streetcar Named Desire, Lend Me a Tenor, Fences.
Lisa is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and
a member of the New York Bar.
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DAVID BINDER (Producer) has spent the last decade bringing
alternative audiences and new artists to the theater. He is the
original producer of John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask's rowdy,
loud, and ultimately sweet rock 'n' roll musical Hedwig and the
Angry Inch. At De La Guarda, a group of flying Argentines
have literally been lifting a young, international crowd
off its feet for over six years now. That show has been seen everywhere
from Las Vegas to Tokyo, London to Tel Aviv. With Lisa Kron's 2.5
Minute Ride, (which David produced in New York and San Francisco),
and Kenny Lonergan's Lobby Hero (West End), he's shown his
support for new writing that is polemical, political, and hilarious.
On Broadway, David has produced benefit readings of Larry Kramer's
The Normal Heart with Barbra Streisand, (which was recorded
and released by Simon and Schuster Audio), and Tony Kushner's Slavs!
featuring a cross-dressing cast of comediennes including Tracey
Ullman, Sandra Bernhard, and the late Madeline Kahn. David's first
and longest running project is a seasonal reading series of Truman
Capote's A Christmas Memory with a rotating cast that has
included Matthew Broderick, Cherry Jones, Nathan Lane, Kevin Spacey
and Elaine Stritch, among many, many others.
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VIVEK J. TIWARY (Producer). As Founder/CEO of Tiwary
Entertainment Group (www.tegltd.com) and StarPolish (www.starpolish.com),
Vivek is involved in production, management, marketing, and investment
in theatre, music, television, and film. Upcoming TEG productions
include The Ride, a high-tech, experience-oriented show,
and AMC television series “Into Character.” TEG has been a consultant
for numerous arts and entertainment properties, and is an initial
investor/Limited Partner in Mel Brooks’ The Producers. At
StarPolish, Vivek co-manages Columbia Records recording artist Ari
Hest and rock bands Spinning Images, Gooding and Junior. Vivek also
produces musicians/recordings in all genres. Vivek is a graduate
of the Wharton School of Business.
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SUSAN BATSON, BLACK NEXXUS, INC. (Producer) has been
publicly thanked by Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman for coaching their
performances, and has been the creative consultant for many of Spike
Lee’s films. As an actress, she’s the recipient of NY and L.A. Drama
Critics awards and an Obie. She was recently profiled in The
New Yorker, Backstage and The Hollywood Reporter.
Producing credits: The Rivals alongside Dan Jinks and Bruce
Cohen, dir. Steven Spielberg; American Darlings alongside
Craig Zadan and Neil Meron.
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CARL RUMBAUGH (Producer) spent the first eight years
of his entertainment career as an agent with Agency for the Performing
Arts, later becoming a talent manager at Industry Entertainment.
For the past year and a half, he and his producing partner,
Susan Batson, have been developing film projects. Their first endeavor
is the Dreamworks project The Rivals, directed by Steven
Spielberg and starring Nicole Kidman. Their second studio project,
American Darlings, will star Jennifer Lopez and Nicole Kidman.
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RUTH HENDEL (Producer) is also currently
represented on Broadway by Tony Kushners’s Caroline, Or Change
(co-producer) and William Gibson’s Golda’s Balcony (associate
producer.) In addition, she was a producer of Mary Zimmerman’s
Metamorphoses on Broadway. Recent Off-Broadway productions:
The Exonerated and Stephen Guirgis’ Our Lady of 121st
Street. Love to Stephen, Abby, Sam and Joe.
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JAYNE BARON SHERMAN (Producer) makes her Broadway debut
with A Raisin in the Sun. Currently she is also developing
a feature film about Tallulah Bankhead, which will be directed by
Philip Kaufman and written by Christopher Bram and Draper Shreve.
As co-chair of the Emmy-nominated “In the Life,” America’s
independently produced gay and lesbian magazine format television
show, broadcast on PBS, she focuses her business and creative skills
for community activism.
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DEDE HARRIS (Producer). Hairspray (2003 Tony Award,
Best Musical); Golda’s Balcony; The Crucible (Liam
Neeson, Laura Linney); Elaine Stritch At Liberty (2002 Tony
Award, Best Theatrical Event); Metamorphoses; Noises Off
(Peter Gallagher, Patti LuPone); One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
(2001 Tony Award, Best Revival of a Play); The Music Man;
Swing!. Off-Broadway: The Exonerated; tick, tick,
...BOOM!; Mnemonic; The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told.
London: Ragtime; On an Average Day (Woody Harrelson,
Kyle MacLachlan); Boston Marriage.
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ARIELLE TEPPER (Producer), since 1998, has produced on
Broadway and received 12 Tony nominations. Ms. Tepper is currently
producing Jumpers and The Moonlight Room. Recent credits:
Bounce at the Kennedy Center by Stephen Sondheim and John
Weidman, directed by Harold Prince. Broadway: Hollywood Arms
by Carol Burnett, A Class Act, James Joyce’s The
Dead, John Leguizamos’s Freak and Sandra Bernhard’s I’m
Still Here…Damn It. Off-Broadway: De La Guarda
“Villa Villa”, The Last Five Years, Harlem Song
and Goodnight Children Everywhere.
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BARBARA WHITMAN (Producer) is thrilled to make her Broadway
debut with this production. She recently produced The Comedy
of Errors with Westchester’s Semi-Royal Shakespeare Company.
She is the proud mother of Daniel and Will.
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CYNTHIA STROUM (Producer), after graduating from the
University of Southern California, worked in the film industry,
eventually producing national television commercials. She now focuses
on personal investments in start-up businesses and philanthropy.
She has served on the boards of Pacific Northwest Ballet, Channel
9/KCTS (Public TV), The Jewish Television Network, A Contemporary
Theatre and, most recently, The Shoah Foundation (founded by Steven
Spielberg). She is also the national Chair of the Pancreatic Cancer
Action Network (PanCAN).
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ERIC SCHNALL (Associate Producer/Marketing Director)
is represented off-Broadway by De La Guarda. He handled marketing
and promotions for The Vagina Monologues and was a producing
associate of the Broadway, West End and touring productions of Rent.
Eric is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis. He is
also a writer whose work has appeared in Billboard, Revolution
and Travel & Leisure.
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BRIAN SAVELSON (Associate Producer) is a writer, director,
producer and actor. His original play, All the Kings’ Men,
received rave reviews for its New York run. Directing credits include
Picture, Dreamers and an original adaptation of the
Marguerite Duras novel, La Maladie de la Mort. Brian
is also the author of an original feature-length screenplay, currently
in development for production.
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HAL GOLDBERG (Associate Producer) is an agent for commercial
photographers. His company, Proof, has many clients in the Entertainment,
Fashion and Advertising industries. This is Mr. Goldberg’s first
theatrical endeavor, but not his last. He would like to thank David
Binder for inspiring him by his commitment in bringing this production
to Broadway.
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