 |
|
| CHARLES BUSCH (Playwright) is the author of The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife (Tony and Drama Desk nominations, Outer Critics Circle Award). Among the plays he’s written and starred in are Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, Psycho Beach Party, The Lady in Question, Red Scare on Sunset and Shanghai Moon. He wrote and starred in the film versions of his plays Psycho Beach Party and Die Mommie Die!, the latter of which won him the Best Performance Award at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2003, the Drama Desk Awards presented him with a Career Achievement Award for his work as both playwright and performer. |
|
| LYNNE MEADOW (Director/Artistic Director, Manhattan Theatre Club). Responsible for over 400 NY and world premieres for MTC. Directing credits include The American Pilot, Moonlight and Magnolias (MTC, Alliance Theatre). The Tale of The Allergist’s Wife (Broadway, MTC, national tour). Nine Armenians (Drama Desk nomination, Best Director). The Loman Family Picnic, Woman in Mind (Drama Desk nomination, Best Director). A Small Family Business (Broadway), Ashes (Obie Award) and NY premiers of plays by Marsha Norman, Simon Gray, Howard Brenton, Melanie Marnich, Lee Blessing, Sybille Pearson, etc.; attended Yale School of Drama, Bryn Mawr, Recipient of numerous awards including the Mr. Abbott Award. Has taught at Yale, Fordham, NYU. |
|
| SANTO LOQUASTO (Scenic Design). Designer for theatre, film, dance and opera, has won three Tony Awards and has been nominated 14 times. He has collaborated with Woody Allen on 24 films including costume design for Zelig and production design for Radio Days and Bullets Over Broadway, for which he received Academy Award nominations. Recent designs include Three Days of Rain, Shining City, Glengarry Glen Ross and Suddenly Last Summer. He received the 2006 Governor’s Award for the Arts in Pennsylvania and was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2004. |
|
| JANE GREENWOOD (Costume Design). Over 100 Broadway/Off-Broadway credits including Heartbreak House, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, On Golden Pond, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Retreat From Moscow, The Violet Hour, The Caretaker, A Delicate Balance, A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Master Class, Passion, The Heiress, The Sisters Rosensweig, Metropolitan Opera: Dialogues of the Carmelites, The Great Gatsby. Film: Arthur, Glengarry Glen Ross. Awards: Theatre Hall of Fame, 14 Tony nominations. Professor, Yale School of Drama. |
|
| SCOTT LEHRER (Sound Design). 25 years of sound: Chicago, Chita Rivera, The Caretaker, Frankie and Johnny…, The Dead, Angels in America, The Heidi Chronicles. MTC: Perfect Ganesh, Putting It Together, The Last Yankee, many others. LCT: Dessa Rose, The Frogs, Invention of Love, Hapgood, 25 Encores! Playwrights Horizons: Franny’s Way (Lortel Award), Assassins, Isn’t It Romantic, Geniuses. Second Stage: Little Fish, Saturday Night. Also sound for museums/corporate/film/TV. Music recording: Last Forever (Nonesuch), Geoff Muldaur’s Private Astronomy (DG), Meredith Monk’s mercy (ECM), Hazmat Modine (Barbes). Faculty at Bennington College. |
|
| TOM WATSON (Hair and Wig Design) is head of the wig department at the Metropolitan Opera. He designs for numerous regional theatres and opera companies. He has designed wigs for more that 20 Broadway productions. Current Broadway designs include Wicked, Hearbreak House, Les Miserables and The Coast of Utopia |
|
| J. DAVID BRIMMER: (Fight Director) Fight Master, SAFD. David has choreographed some stuff (New York premieres of The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Killer Joe, Bug), taught a few places (NYC/Tisch School of the Arts, RADA, Yale) and had the privilege of working with some great folks (Stella Adler, Joe Chaikin, Franco Zeffirelli). He’s happy to be back at MTC. |
|
| ANGELINA AVALLONE: (Makeup Designer). Broadway credits include Sweeney Todd, The Times They Are A Changin’, Curtains, The Pirate Queen, Company, The Color Purple, The Pajama Game, Grey Gardens, Awake and Sing!, Fame Becomes Me, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Sweet Charity, The Light in the Piazza, The Pillowman, Wonderful Town, Seascape, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Lestat, Dance of the Vampires, Dracula the Musical and Little Shop of Horrors.. |
|
| DONALD FRIED: (Production Stage Manager). Broadway: Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays, A Raisin in the Sun, The Producers, Sandra Bernhard’s I’m Still Here… Off-Broadway: The American Pilot and Regrets Only at MTC, Manuscript and Addicted directed by Bob Balaban, John Leguizama’s Freak, Atlantc. MTC, Roundabout, Public, Playwrights Horizons, and Signature. National tours: Blast!, Scooby-Doo, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story. M.F.A: Yale School of Drama. |
|
| ALISON DeSANTIS: (Assistant Stage Manager). MTC: Regrets Only Other NYC: work with The Play Co, Gotham Stage Company, Drama Dept. Regional: three years at Geva Theatre Center. AEA Member. |
|
| HILARY ADAMS: (Assistant Director). Hilary is delighted to be on her fifth MTC show, and is honored to be working with Lynne Meadow again. www.HilaryAdams.com. |
|
|
