GEORGE S. KAUFMAN and MOSS HART
Kaufman & Hart first collaborated on Once in a Lifetime (1930), followed by seven others plays including Merrily We Roll Along (1934), YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (1936, Pulitzer Prize), The Man Who Came to Dinner (1939) and George Washington Slept Here (1940). Kaufman and Hart also directed much of their own work, and each won a Tony Award® for Best Director: Kaufman for Guys and Dolls, Hart for My Fair Lady. www.georgeskaufman.com
SCOTT ELLIS
Director
Broadway: Drood (Tony® nom.), Harvey, Curtains (Tony® nom.), Twelve Angry Men (Tony® nom.; OCC, DD Awards), 1776 (DD, Tony® nom.), She Loves Me (Tony® nom.; DD, OCC Awards), Picnic (OCC nom.), Steel Pier (Tony® nom.; DD, OCC Awards). London: She Loves Me (Olivier Award). Off-B’way: And the World Goes Round (DD, OCC Awards), Streamers, Tom Durnin. TV: Weeds (Exec. Producer), 30 Rock (Emmy® nom., Best Director), Modern Family. Associate artistic director, Roundabout Theatre.
DAVID ROCKWELL
Scenic Design
David designed the sets for Kinky Boots (Tony® nom.), Lucky Guy (Tony® nom.), Catch Me If You Can, Hairspray (Tony®, Drama Desk, OCC noms.), Legally Blonde (Drama Desk nom.), Harvey, The Normal Heart, A Free Man of Color, The Rocky Horror Show (Drama Desk nom.), All Shook Up (Drama Desk nom.), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Founder of Rockwell Group, an architecture and design firm.
JANE GREENWOOD
Costume Design
Jane has designed for theater, opera, dance and film, including more than 125 productions for B'way since Ballad of the Sad Café (1963). Recent: Act One, Harvey, The House of Blue Leaves, Driving Miss Daisy, Million Dollar Quartet. Recipient: Irene Sharaff Award, as well as 18 Tony Award® nominations, a Lifetime Achievement Tony® and Theater Hall of Fame inductee. Professor, Yale School of Drama since 1976.
DONALD HOLDER
Lighting Design
Broadway credits include The Lion King and South Pacific (Tony Awards®); The Bridges of Madison County, Golden Boy, Ragtime, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, A Streetcar Named Desire, Movin' Out, Gem of the Ocean, Juan Darien (all Tony® nominated); Spider-Man; Big Fish; Bullets Over Broadway; Annie; Cyrano de Bergerac; The Boy From Oz, many others. Television: Smash seasons one and two.
JON WESTON
Sound Design
Broadway: The Bridges of Madison County; Big Fish; How to Succeed; 13; Les Misérables; The Color Purple; Caroline, or Change (AUDELCO Award); Nine; Imaginary Friends; Thoroughly Modern Millie. Off-Broadway/ regional: Atomic the Musical; Little Miss Sunshine; Los Otros (Mark Taper Forum); The Scottsboro Boys (Old Globe); Parade (Mark Taper Forum); tick, tick . . . BOOM!; Bright Lights, Big City; Family Guy, Live! (Carnegie Hall).
TOM WATSON
Hair and Wig Design
Tom is head of the wig and makeup department at the Met Opera. He has designed wigs for more than 60 Broadway productions. Current and recent B’way: Act One; No Man's Land/Waiting for Godot; Annie; The Snow Geese; The Assembled Parties; Picnic; A Christmas Story; Harvey; Million Dollar Quartet; Rock of Ages; Wicked; How to Succeed and Promises, Promises.
JASON ROBERT BROWN
Original Music
Jason is the three-time Tony Award®-winning composer and lyricist of The Bridges of Madison County, Parade, 13, Songs for a New World, The Last Five Years (soon to be released as a feature film) and Honeymoon in Vegas, opening on Broadway this season. A singer and pianist, he performs around the world with his band, the Caucasian Rhythm Kings.
JEFFREY RICHARDS
Jeffrey is grateful to Chris Hart and Anne Kaufman for giving him the opportunity to present this wonderful American comedy and is deeply appreciative to Scott Ellis for taking the helm. It all wouldn’t be possible without the extraordinary cast headed by James Earl Jones and the gift of the Longacre, thanks to Philip J. Smith and Robert Wankel of the Shubert Organization.
JERRY FRANKEL
Jerry received Tony Awards® for All the Way, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Porgy and Bess, Hair, August: Osage County, Spring Awakening, Glengarry Glen Ross and Death of a Salesman. Past Broadway: The Glass Menagerie; Glengarry Glen Ross; The Best Man; Bonnie & Clyde; Chinglish; The Merchant of Venice; Race; Blithe Spirit; Reasons to Be Pretty; You’re Welcome America; Speed-the-Plow; Jekyll & Hyde; You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.
JAM THEATRICALS
Jam Theatricals is an entertainment company founded by Arny Granat and Steve Traxler in 1997 to present Broadway subscription seasons in markets across the country and produce shows on Broadway, having done more than 40 shows at this point. They hope they will finally be able to take this production with them, so to speak, but in a very non-materialistic way for all of the reasons so eloquently written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman in 1936.
DOMINION PICTURES
Carl Moellenberg: six Tonys®, produced 43 shows, chairman Dominion Pictures. Wendy Federman: three Tonys®, produced 40 shows, VP Dominion Pictures. Bobby Sain: CEO of Dominion Pictures, film/theater producer. Ricardo Hornos: Producer on B’way, West End, Buenos Aires.
JAY AND CINDY GUTTERMAN & RICHARD WINKLER
Collectively won seven Tony Awards® and seven Drama Desk Awards for All the Way, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Spring Awakening, Memphis, Glengarry Glen Ross, La Cage, Norman Conquests, The Merchant of Venice, Cinderella, Evita, Nice Work…, Race, The Seagull. Upcoming: Disgraced, The War of the Roses.
DARYL ROTH
Daryl has produced seven Pulitzer Prize-winning plays: Anna in the Tropics, August: Osage County, Clybourne Park, How I Learned to Drive, Proof, Three Tall Women and Wit. More than 85 productions, including Kinky Boots and The Normal Heart. Winner eight Tony Awards®. www.DarylRothProductions.com
TERRY SCHNUCK
Beautiful; Clybourne Park (Tony®); The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Tony®); Bonnie & Clyde; High; Race; Superior Donuts; Hair (Tony®); Blithe Spirit; The Homecoming; Spring Awakening (Tony®); ’night, Mother; Enchanted April; Falling; Silence! The Musical; others.
JANE BERGÈRE
Currently: Kinky Boots*. Past highlights: Rocky, Annie; Twelfth Night/Richard III; Driving Miss Daisy; War Horse*; Clybourne Park*; A Little Night Music; All My Sons; Curtains; Glengarry Glen Ross*; Caroline, or Change; Metamorphoses. *Tony Award®. www.janebergereproductions.com
CAIOLA PRODUCTIONS
Brother and sister, Luigi and Rose Caiola, made their producing debut with Godspell (2011). Recent: All the Way (Tony®), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Tony®), Cinderella, Glengarry Glen Ross. This season: It’s Only a Play, The Elephant Man.
REBECCA GOLD
Rebecca aims to produce pieces that provoke thought and stimulate conversation. She has garnered awards on and off Broadway, including multiple Tonys®. Committed to bringing extraordinary work to audiences, she is extensively involved in not-for-profit theatre, including the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University.
ROB HINDERLITER & DOMINICK LARUFFA, JR.
Actors and producers of stage, film, music. B’way: All the Way (Tony®), Realistic Joneses, The Velocity of Autumn. Executive producers of Grammy®-nominated Broadway Records. Also this season: On the Town. Thanks, John Khoury!
LARRY MAGID
Two Tonys®, five nominations. Recent: Beautiful, 700 Sundays, I’ll Eat You Last. Produced national and international tours for Richard Pryor, Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Bette Midler, Stevie Wonder, Kristin Chenoweth, among others. Produced Live Aid and Live 8.
GABRIELLE PALITZ
Delighted to be working with this remarkable cast on this timely classic! B’way: Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, All the Way (Tony®), Matilda. Nat’l tour: Peter and the Starcatcher. Upcoming: Scottsboro Boys (London), An American in Paris, Bandstand.
SPISTO & KIERSTEAD
Jim Kierstead: B’way: Kinky Boots (Tony®), Pippin (Tony®), Rocky. Off-B’way: Yank!, Thrill Me. Thanks to our team! Lou Spisto: B’way: The Glass Menagerie, Rocky, Big Fish; London: Strangers on a Train. Produced ten seasons at the Old Globe.
SUNNYSPOT PRODUCTIONS
Bruce Robert Harris and Jack W. Batman have produced more than 40 shows including On the Town, Pippin (Tony®), Clybourne Park (Tony®), Nice Work (Tony® nomination), The Scottsboro Boys (Tony® and Olivier nominations, London Critics Circle Award). www.sunnyspotentertainment.com
VENUWORKS THEATRICALS
Part of VenuWorks, Inc., a family-owned venue management company serving more than 50 theatres, arenas and conference centers nationwide. Founders Steve and Randi Peters, and their entire family, are very proud of this, their first Broadway project.
JESSICA GENICK
Broadway: Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, Grace. After working as an actress, Jessica received her Master’s in drama therapy from NYU. She then went on to design and teach theatre arts curriculum in NYC public schools.
WILL TRICE
Tony Awards® for All the Way, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Porgy and Bess as well as nominations for The Glass Menagerie and The Best Man. Many thanks to Jeffrey and Jerry for the opportunity.
LONGACRE THEATRE
PATRICK KERR
