BILL CAIN (Playwright) is the author of the widely-produced play Stand-Up Tragedy, which earned six L.A. Critics Awards (including Best Production and Distinguished Writing) in its premiere at the Mark Taper Forum. Stand Up later won four Helen Hayes Awards (including Outstanding Production) at Arena Stage in Washington, DC, before its 1990 Broadway engagement where it received the Joe A. Callaway Playwriting Award. More recently, The Laying on of Hands was developed at the Ojai Playwrights Conference and NYU's HotInk Series. 9 Circles was developed at Ojai and South Coast Rep's Pacific Playwrights Festival. How To Write a New Book For The Bible: A Play For An Older Actress was also developed at Ojai. Cain was the co-creator/writer/producer of "Nothing Sacred," a dramatic television series which premiered in the fall of 1997 on ABC and was awarded a George Foster Peabody Award for Outstanding Achievement in Television.

GARRY HYNES (Director) is artistic director of Druid Theatre, Galway, for which she has directed many productions, including Long Day’s Journey Into Night, My Brilliant Divorce and DruidSynge, The Complete Plays of J.M. Synge (also in Dublin, Edinburgh and New York). On Broadway, she directed Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane for which she received a Tony Award, the first ever given to a woman director. She has directed at many other theaters including The Abbey and Gate theaters in Dublin, The Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Court, London, and Second Stage, Signature, and Manhattan Theatre Club in New York. She is the recipient of honorary doctorate degrees from the National University of Ireland and Trinity College, Dublin, for her services to Irish theater. Her other productions include Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock (with Michael Gambon) and The Plough and the Stars (with Brendan Gleeson). More recently in New York she directed the highly acclaimed production of McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan at the Atlantic Theatre, Juno for Encores! at City Center and Brian Friel’s Translations for Manhattan Theatre Club.

Francis O’Connor (Scenic & Costume Design)
David Weiner (Lighting Design)
David Van Tieghem & Brandon Wolcott (Sound Design)
David Brimmer (Fight Direction)