REGINA TAYLOR (Playwright) recently wrote and directed Crowns, which was produced at the McCarter Theatre and Second Stage. She is an artistic associate at the Goodman Theatre, which originally produced Drowning Crow. Upcoming projects: the musical of The Color Purple as well as an adaptation of The Cherry Orchard. She has worked on The Ties That Bind at the Alliance Theater; Oo-Bla-Dee at the Goodman; Urban Zulu Mambo; Escape From Paradise, a one-woman show adapted from her play Jennine’s Diary; Watermelon Rinds; Inside the Belly of the Beast; A Night in Tunisia; Mudtracks; Between the Lines; and Behind Every Good Man. Her acting credits include roles on Broadway, Off- Broadway and at numerous regional theatres and the films Clockers, Losing Isaiah, Lean on Me, A Family Thing, Courage Under Fire and The Negotiator. For her role as Lilly Harper on the television series “I’ll Fly Away,” she won an NAACP Image Award, was nominated for an Emmy and received a Golden Globe.
  MARION McCLINTON (Director) has directed August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom , King Hedley II (Broadway, Tony nomination), Two Trains Running (Center Stage) , Fences (Indiana Rep, Pittsburgh Public), The Piano Lesson (Penumbra Theatre), Seven Guitars (Pittsburgh Public, Center Stage), Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Missouri Rep) and Jitney (Pittsburgh Public, Center Stage, Studio Arena, Geva, Goodman Theatre, Mark Taper, Second Stage and The Royal National Theatre in London). Recent Center Stage: Les Blancs and Splash Hatch on the E Going Down. Other directing: Thunder Knocking on the Door (Guthrie, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Center Stage, Dallas Theater Center); The Coming of the Hurricane (Arena Stage); A Midsummer Night's Dream (La Jolla); Death and the King's Horseman (Syracuse Stage); East Texas Hot Links (Public Theater); TALK (Foundry Theatre); A Raisin in the Sun (Center Stage); Breath, Boom! (Playwrights Horizons); Carson McCullers (Historically Inaccurate) (Playwrights Horizons/Women's Project). Playwrighting: Police Boys (Center Stage, Playwrights Horizons, Pittsburgh Public), Walkers (Off-Broadway), Stones and Bones (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Who Causes the Darkness? (Penumbra). Awards: two Audelcos, Obie, Ira Aldredge, Joseph Calloway, Kesselring Prize, NEA/TCG Pew Charitable Trust Grant; Drama Desk and Evening Standard nominations. Alumnus, New Dramatists; company member, Penumbra Theatre; associate artist, Center Stage.
  DAVID GALLO (Set Design). Broadway: Dance of the Vampires, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Smell of the Kill, King Hedley II, Epic Proportions, …Charlie Brown, Jackie, A View From the Bridge, Hughie. Off-Broadway: Mr. Goldwyn, Surviving Grace, Wonder of the World, Wild Party, Jitney, Communicating Doors, Bunny Bunny, Machinal. Touring: Angels in Ameri - ca, Blues Clues, Blue Man (NYC, Vegas, etc.). Drama Desk, Obie, Lortel, Outer Critics, NAACP, AUDELCO, American Theatre Wing and Eddy awards.
  PAUL TAZEWELL (Costume Design). Broadway: 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: Caroline, or Change; 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.
  KEN BILLINGTON (Lighting Design) has designed more than 80 Broadway productions and has been honored with six Tony Award nominations, receiving the 1997 Tony Award for his work on Chicago. His Tony nominations include End of the World (1984), Foxfire (1982), Sweeney Todd (1979), Working (1978) and The Visit (1973). Other credits include supervising the North American productions of the Irish dance sensation Riverdance, and 2003 marked his 25th season lighting the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular.
  DAN MOSES SCHREIER (Sound Design). Broadway: Into the Woods; Topdog/Underdog; Dirty Blonde; Amour; Dance of Death; Major Barbara; Dirty Blonde; The Diary of Anne Frank; The Ride Down Mt. Morgan; Golden Child; Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk; The Tempest with Patrick Stewart; The Tenth Man; The Government Inspector; Hedda Gabler. Off- Broadway: Homebody/Kabul, Spinning Into Butter, The Shoulder, Far East, God’s Heart, Spic-O-Rama, Twelve Dreams, Film Is Evil: Radio Is Good. Drama Desk, Obie, AUDELCO awards and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.
 

WENDALL K. HARRINGTON (Video Design). Drama Desk Award for The Who’s Tommy. Broadway: Amy’s View, The Capeman, Ragtime, Freak, Company, Racing Demon, The Heidi Chronicles, My One and Only, They’re Playing Our Song. Opera: A View From the Bridge, Nixon in China. Ballet:

Othello, Ballet Mecanique. Off-Broadway: Hapgood, As Thousands Cheer, Night and Her Stars, Merrily We Roll Along. The former design director of Esquire magazine, she created player introductions for the Knicks, Liberty and Rangers. Directed and designed the opera Arjuna’s Dilemma

and Snapshots for the Elements Quartet.
  DARYL WATERS (Original Music). Cocomposer/orchestrator: Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk (Broadway); Harlem Song (Apollo Theatre); In Real Life (MTC). Orchestrator: Memphis (North Shore Music Theatre), Tell Me on a Sunday (Kennedy Center), Street Corner Symphony (Broadway). Music director for Eartha Kitt. Mr. Waters is a music graduate of Livingstone College in Salisbury, NC.
  KEN ROBERSON (Choreography). Broadway: Avenue Q, Freak (assoc. chor.), Jelly’s Last Jam (asst. chor.). Off-Broadway: Harlem Song, The Mineola Twins, Stupid Kids, Avenue X, Insurrection and Blade to the Heat. Regional: Ain’t Misbehavin’ (asst. dir./chor., Paper Mill), Spunk, A Brief History of White Music (asst. chor.), Me and Mrs. Jones and Thunder Knocking on the Door. Tours: Guys and Dolls, Cinderella. Emmy nom. for Fox’s “House of Buggin’”; NAACP and AUDELCO awards; Lortel and Drama Desk noms and a New York State Council of the Arts grant. Ken holds a B.A. in journalism from the University of Georgia, has studied at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center and guest teaches around the world.
  DIANE DiVITA (Production Stage Manager). Broadway: August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and King Hedley II, The Sound of Music, Dream, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass. Off-Broadway: Thunder Knocking on the Door, Last Yankee, Pretty Fire, Arabian Nights and Lynne Meadow’s Nine Armenians. Other: Many regional theatres, in addition to international touring throughout Europe and China. Lecturer at Yale School of Drama. As always, a pleasure to work with stage managers Cynthia Kocher and Lisa Shuster.
  CYNTHIA KOCHER (Stage Manager). Broadway: Ma Rainey, King Hedley II. Other New York: Endpapers (Variety Arts); Andorra (Lucille Lortel Theatre/Theatre for a New Audience); Lincoln Center Directors Lab; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (tour). Regional: Goodman Theatre, Trinity Repertory Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Westport Playhouse. Opera: Santa Fe Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Opera Festival of New Jersey at the McCarter Theatre. Graduate of Yale School of Drama.