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  • DAVID IVES (Playwright). David Ives is probably best known for his evenings of one-act comedies called All in the Timing and Time Flies. All in the Timing won the Outer Critics Circle Playwriting Award, ran for two years Off-Broadway, and in the 1995-96 season was the most performed play in the country after Shakespeare productions. His full-length plays include The School For Lies (adapted from Moliere's The Misanthrope and a major hit at New York's Classic Stage Company last spring); The Heir Apparent (an adaptation of J-F Regnard's comedy that was an audience and critical hit at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. this past fall); New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza, which won the prestigious Hull-Warriner Award; Is He Dead? (adapted from Mark Twain); White Christmas; Polish Joke; and Ancient History. He has translated Feydeau's classic farce A Flea in Her Ear, Yazmina Reza's drama A Spanish Play, and Pierre Corneille's 1643 comedy The Liar (also an enormous hit at the Shakespeare Theatre Company two years ago). David Ives is the author of three young-adult novels: Monsieur Eek, Scrib, andVoss, and he has adapted 32 American musicals for New York City's beloved Encores! series. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama and a former Guggenheim Fellow in playwriting, he lives in New York City.

  • WALTER BOBBIE (Director). Walter Bobbie won the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards as director of the international hit Chicago which and has become the longest-running revival in Broadway history. Recent directing includes David Ives's New Jerusalem, Venus in Fur, and The School for Lies, all at Classic Stage Company, Ives' The Other Woman at EST, as well as Jeff Talbott's The Submission at MCC, Evan Smith's The Savannah Disputation at Playwrights Horizons, Christopher Durang's The Marriage of Bette & Boo at the Roundabout, and Terrence McNally's Golden Age at the Kennedy Center. Broadway credits include White Christmas, High Fidelity, Sweet Charity, Twentieth Century, Footloose, and A Grand Night for Singing. Bobbie is also an actor who appeared in a range of plays and musicals from the original cast of Grease to Shaw's Getting Married at Circle in the Square, Assassins at Playwrights Horizons, I Love My Wife, Going Up, A History of the American Film, Driving Miss Daisy, Café Crown, and Lincoln Center's Anything Goes, among others. He received a Drama Desk nomination for his performance as Nicely-Nicely in 1992 revival of Guys and Dolls, and Drama Desk, Outer Critics' Circle and Lucille Lortel Award nominations for his performance in David Ives's Polish Joke at Manhattan Theatre Club. Bobbie was Artistic Director for City Center's acclaimed Encores!, and serves on the Executive Board of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.

  • JOHN LEE BEATTY (Scenic Design). Broadway: Other Desert Cities, Good People, Time Stands Still, Born Yesterday, A View From the Bridge, The Royal Family, The Color Purple, Doubt, Chicago, Dinner at Eight, Proof, Rabbit Hole, Last Night of Ballyhoo, A Delicate Balance, The Heiress, The Most Happy Fella, The Sisters Rosensweig, Burn This, Penn & Teller, Ain't Misbehavin', Talley's Folly, Crimes of the Heart, among others. Off-B'way: We Live Here; School for Lies; The Whipping Man; New Jerusalem; The Substance of Fire; A Life in the Theatre; Sylvia; Lips Together, Teeth Apart. Also MTC, Lincoln Center,Circle Rep, all City Center Encores! productions.Tony, Obie Awards; Theatre Hall ofFame. Graduate of Brown and Yale Schoolof Drama.

  • ANITA YAVICH (Costume Design). Broadway: Anna in the Tropics. Other theatre: Orlando, Venus in Fur, New Jerusalem and Texts for Nothing (CSC); The Submission, Coraline the Musical, The Wooden Breeks (MCC); Henry V (New Victory, the Guthrie); Iphigenia 2.0 (Signature); Measure for Pleasure, Kit Marlowe, The Winter's Tale, Civil Sex and Pericles (NYSF); Macbeth, Coriolanus and Svejk (TFANA). Opera: Cyrano de Bergerac (La Scala, Met and Royal Opera); Les Troyens (Met); The Gambler (Opera Zuid);Steve Reich's Three Tales (international tour); Salome, Fidelio, Die Walkure and Das Rheingold (Washington Opera); Arsace II (SF Opera); Madame Butterfly (HGO andGrand Theatre de Geneve); The Silver River and Der Fliegende Hollander (SpoletoFestival); puppet and costume designer forSalzburger Marionetten Theatre's The Sound of Music. 2006 Obie Award.

  • PETER KACZOROWSKI (Lighting Design). Previously for MTC: Time Stands Still, After the Night and the Music, A Small Family Business, The Loman Family Picnic, Italian American Reconciliation, Bad Habits, The Years. Broadway: more than 40 plays and musicals including Born Yesterday; Anything Goes; That Championship Season; Driving Miss Daisy; A View From the Bridge; Waiting for Godot; Curtains; Grey Gardens; Contact; The Producers; Kiss Me, Kate; Steel Pier.Extensive Off-Broadway, resident andregional credits. Opera: the Met, NYCO,San Francisco, Houston Grand, Santa Fe,LAMCO, Seattle. Abroad: Royal Opera,Scottish Opera, Opera/North, MaggioFlorence, L'Arena di Verona, La Fenice,Bonn, Lisbon. Recipient of Tony, DramaDesk, Outer Critics, Drama-Logue andHewes Design Awards.

  • ACME SOUND PARTNERS (Sound Design). More than 30 Broadway showssince 2000 including Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Tony nomination), The Merchant of Venice, Lombardi, Fences (Tony nomination), The Addams Family, Ragtime, Hair (Tony nomination), In the Heights (Tony nomination), [title of show], Legally Blonde, A Chorus Line (2006), The Drowsy Chaperone, The Light in the Piazza, Monty Python's Spamalot, Avenue Q, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and La Bohème. Acme isTom Clark, Mark Menard, Nevin Steinbergand Sten Severson.

  • THOMAS SCHALL (Fight Direction). Broadway: War Horse, The House of Blue Leaves, The Merchant of Venice, A Free Man of Color, A View From the Bridge, After Miss Julie, Mary Stuart, Waiting for Godot, The Seafarer, Rock 'n' Roll, Coram Boy, Sixteen Wounded, Journey's End, The Woman in White, 13 the Musical, Wicked, Life (x) 3, Art. Off-Broadway: Break of Noon, The Pride, The Submission (MCC); King Lear, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mother Courage, Why Torture Is Wrong…, The Book of Grace (PublicTheater); Belle Epoque, Bernarda Alba, Dessa Rose, A Man of No Importance (LCT); Ruined (MTC); The Lyons (Vineyard); Beast (NYTW); Homebody/Kabul (BAM).

  • WINNIE Y. LOK (Production Stage Manager). Recently: Sex Lives of Our Parents and The Talls (Second Stage Uptown), The Whipping Man (MTC). New York: NYTW, the Public/NYSF, Mabou Mines, the Acting Company, Vineyard Theatre, 13P, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, Ma-Yi Theatre Company, Signature Theatre Company. Regional: Westport Country Playhouse; Coronet Theater; Kirk Douglas Theatre; The Theatre @ Boston Court; East West Players; Taper, Too; Walt Disney Concert Hall; Mark Taper Forum; NYTW Usual Suspect. Proud member of AEA. Many thanks to Carlos and Sam for their great work.

  • CARLOS MAISONET (Stage Manager). Recent NY credits: The Whipping Man (MTC); Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating & Marriage; Altar Boyz; ROOMS –a rock romance; Naked Boys Singing!; NEWSical the Musical; Night Sky; SoHo Rep; Playwrights Horizons; Manhattan Theatre Club; Lincoln Center Out of Doors and Midsummer Night Swing. Other recent: Stephen Schwartz's Captain Louie (national tour) and Hartford Stage Company. Graduate of NYU's Tisch School of theArts. Proud member of AEA. For Mom, Dad and Steve.

  • JON B. PLATT (Producer) received Tony Awards for the most honored dramatic work in Broadway history, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika. This extraordinary two-part play won 7 Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize, accomplishing the unprecedented feat of winning the Tony Award for Best Play two years in a row. Mr. Platt received Best Play Tony Awards for Copenhagen and God of Carnage and Best Musical for The Book of Mormon, winner of 9 Tony Awards. Mr. Platt’s Tony Nominations include Wicked, Peter Pan, The Diary of Anne Frank, Hello Dolly!, The Lonesome West, Man of La Mancha, You’re Welcome America, A View From The Bridge, The Mother F**cker With the Hat and Jerusalem. He has received 10 New York Drama Desk Awards and 5 New York Outer Critics Circle Awards and has produced numerous National tours including Wicked (2 North American tours, England, Asia). Mr. Platt is represented on Broadway this season by Wicked, The Book of Mormon, Death Of A Salesman, Clybourne Park and Nice Work If You Can Get It.

  • SCOTT LANDIS (Producer). Recent credits: Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour (West End) starring Keira Knightley, Elisabeth Moss, Ellen Burstyn and Carol Kane, La Bete (West End, Broadway) starring Mark Rylance, David Hyde Pierce and Joanna Lumley. Other credits: The House of Blue Leaves starring Ben Stiller and Edie Falco, It Shoulda Been You starring Tyne Daly, The Pajama Game starring Harry Connick Jr. and Kelli O'Hara (Tony Award). Upcoming: Nice Work If You Can Get It starring Matthew Broderick & Kelli O'Hara.

  • LYNNE MEADOW (Artistic Director, Manhattan Theatre Club) as Artistic Director, Lynne has been the artistic visionary and leader of MTC since 1972, creating work that has put the company at the forefront of the American theatre. She has accepted every major theatre award on behalf of MTC. Directing credits include Margaret Edson’s Wit, Donald Margulies’ Collected Stories (Broadway) and The Loman Family Picnic; Charles Busch’s The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife (Broadway, national tour); Alan Ayckbourn’s Woman in Mind (Drama Desk nomination, Best Director) A Small Family Business (Broadway); David Greig’s The American Pilot; Ron Hutchinson’s Moonlight and Magnolias (MTC, Alliance Theatre); Leslie Ayvazian’s Nine Armenians (Drama Desk nomination, Best Director); David Rudkin’s Ashes (the Public, Obie Award). American premieres by Marsha Norman, Simon Gray, Howard Brenton, etc. Graduate of Bryn Mawr College, attended Yale School of Drama. Mr. Abbott Award, Margo Jones Award, Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award, The 2011 Lilly Award for Lifetime Achievement etc. Teaching: Yale, Fordham, NYU, Circle in the Square etc.

  • BARRY GROVE (Executive Producer, Manhattan Theatre Club, Inc.) is in his 36th year of partnership with artistic director Lynne Meadow at MTC, where he has produced hundreds of American and world premieres for MTC. He is a member of the LORT Executive, Committee, the Broadway League Board of Governors and the Tony Administration Committee and is a trustee of the Equity-League Pension and Health Trust Funds. In the past, he has served as president of ART/New York. He received the 2000 Edith Oliver Award for Sustained Excellence Off-Broadway, the Arts and Business Council’s 1997 Arts Management Excellence Award and a citation from the New York City Council declaring June 4, 1990, “Barry Grove Day.” A Dartmouth graduate, he is an adjunct professor at both Yale and Columbia universities.

  • JESSICA R. JENEN (Producer) Broadway: An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin. Jenen served as Executive Director of Classic Stage Company, the award-winning Off-Broadway theatre company, for seven seasons. CSC producing credits include: David Ives’ Venus in Fur and New Jerusalem, directed by Walter Bobbie; Chekhov’s Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, with Denis O’Hare as ‘Vanya,’ directed by Austin Pendleton; Unnatural Acts; The Seagull with Dianne Wiest and Alan Cumming; Yasmina Reza’s A Spanish Play, directed by John Turturro, with Zoe Caldwell; Hamlet, Richard III with Michael Cumpsty; The Tempest with Mandy Patinkin. Producer of sold-out benefit concert “Mandy Patinkin on Broadway;” Associate General Manager Jujamcyn Theaters; General Manager: Betty Rules (Off-Broadway and Chicago); Broadway management credits include: Smoky Joe’s Café, Swing!, and Jane Eyre. BA Brandeis University, MFA Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where she serves as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theatre.

  • SCOTT M. DELMAN (Producer) is a private equity investor and Managing Partner at DGZ Capital. As a long time Board member of Manhattan Theatre Club, Scott is delighted to reunite with the MTC family for the transfer of this production and is grateful to Jon and Scott for inviting his participation. Delman has previously co-produced Tony nominees such as Mary Stuart, Reasons to Be Pretty, Ragtime, American Idiot and the Tony Award-winning musical The Book of Mormon

  • CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY (Producer) is the award-winning Off-Broadway theatre committed to re-imagining the classical canon. David Ives’ Venus in Fur premiered at CSC in 2010. Upcoming: Brecht's Galileo with F. Murray Abraham. Recent work: The Cherry Orchard, the culmination of CSC’s Chekhov Cycle with The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, and Three Sisters which featured such artists as Alan Cumming, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Denis O’Hare, Peter Sarsgaard, John Turturro, and Dianne Wiest. Other productions: The Tempest, starring Mandy Patinkin; Hamlet; Richard III, starring Michael Cumpsty; Anne Carson’s An Oresteia. CSC productions have been cited repeatedly by all major Off-Broadway theatre awards.