Donald Margulies (Playwright) was awarded the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Dinner with Friends, which also won the Outer Critics, Lucille Lortel and Dramatists Guild/Hull-Warriner awards and was nominated for the Drama Desk award. His other plays include Two Days (Long Wharf Theatre); God of Vengeance (based on Sholem Asch’s 1906 Yiddish classic; Williamstown Theatre Festival and A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle); Collected Stories (HB Studio/Lucille Lortel Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, South Coast Repertory, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, L.A. Ovation Award, Drama Desk nominee, Dramatists Guild/Hull-Warriner finalist, Pulitzer Prize finalist); The Loman Family Picnic (MTC, Drama Desk nominee); What’s Wrong with this Picture? (MTC, Jewish Rep, Brooks Atkinson Theatre); Found a Peanut (New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theatre); Broken Sleep; Three Plays (Williamstown Theatre Festival); July 7, 1994 (Actors Theatre of Louisville/Humana Festival); Pitching to the Star (West Bank Café). He received the 2000 Sidney Kingsley Award for outstanding achievement in the theatre by a playwright. Instructor, Yale University. Council member, Dramatists Guild of America.

Daniel Sullivan (Director) has directed in theatres both nationally and abroad. On Broadway, he directed Retreat from Moscow, Proof, A Moon for the Misbegotten, I’m Not Rappaport, Conversations with My Father, The Heidi Chronicles and Lincoln Center’s Ah, Wilderness!, The Sisters Rosensweig, An American Daughter and Morning’s at Seven. Most recent Off-Broadway credits include Intimate Apparel, In Real Life, Far East, Psychopathia Sexualis, A Fair Country, London Suite, The Substance of Fire, Ancestral Voices and Dinner with Friends. From 1982 to 1997, Mr. Sullivan served as artistic director of Seattle Rep’s new play program, developing new works by Jon Robin Baitz, Herb Gardner, A.R. Gurney, William Mastrosimone, Arthur Miller, Wendy Wasserstein and Charlayne Woodard, among others. Mr. Sullivan’s film and television credits include The Substance of Fire and “Far East”. He teaches in the theatre department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and serves as an associate director at Lincoln Center Theater.

Douglas W. Schmidt (Set Design). Audiences have seen his design work on Broadway and off, in regional theatres, American and international opera houses, arenas and theme parks and on television and film. Form the original record-breaking Broadway production of Grease! To the legendary production of Frankenstein that closed on opening night at the Palace, he has created designs for more than 200 productions in the past 40 years.

Jess Goldstein (Costume Design). Broadway: Lincoln Center’s Henry IV; Enchanted April; Take Me Out; Judgment at Nuremburg; Love! Valour! Compassion!; Tintypes; and revivals of The Most Happy Fella, Inherit the Wind, A Streetcar Named Desire and Night Must Fall. Off-Broadway: The Normal Heart, Big Bill, The Long Christmas Ride Home, The Persians, Tea at Five, Dinner with Friends, How I Learned to Drive, Ten Unknowns, The Dying Gaul, Far East, The Substance of Fire, The Mineola Twins (Lortel and Hewes awards), Other People’s Money, Buried Child and many MTC shows including Corpus Christi, Sight Unseen, Collected Stories and Between Us. Film: A Walk on the Moon, Love! Valour! Compassion! and The Substance of Fire. Graduate and current faculty of Yale School of Drama.

Pat Collins (Lighting Design). Broadway: Proof; A Moon for the Misbegotten; Once Upon a Mattress; Conversations with my Father; The Heidi Chronicles; I’m Not Rappaport (Tony Award); Execution of Justice (Drama Desk Award); Arsenic and Old Lace; Ain’t Misbehavin’ (original production and 1988 revival); and others. Lincoln Center Theater: Ten Unknowns, An American Daughter, A Delicate Balance, The Sisters Rosensweig, Threepenny Opera (Tony nomination) and others. Off-Broadway: Edward Albee’s Occupant, Thief River, Quartermaine’s Terms, How I Got That Story, A Life in the Theatre. Regional: Mark Taper Forum, McCarter, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf, Guthrie, A.R.T., and others. Opera: Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, English National Opera, Glyndebourne Festival, The Bayerische Staatsoperin Munich, as well as Washington, Boston, and Houston Operas.

John Gromada (Original Music/Sound Design). Broadway/composer: Sixteen Wounded, The Retreat from Moscow, Proof, Enchanted April, Summer and Smoke, Holiday, A Few Good Men. Public Theatre: Henry V, Julius Caesar, Tartuffe, The Skriker, Machinal, The Swan, many others. Broadway/sound design: Proof; Wrong Mountain; Twilight: LA, 1992; The Father; Sex and Longing. Other NY: Small Tragedy, Trumbo, Living Out, Dinner with Demons, Carpetbagger’s Children, What Didn’t Happen, Fifth of July, Tea at Five, Thief River, Vita and Virginia, Baltimore Waltz, After-Play, subUrbia, Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune, many others. Awards: Drama Desk, Obie, NEA Opera/Music Theatre Fellowship, L.A. Drama-Logue Award, EDDY, two Connecticut Critics Circle Awards, three Drama Desk nominations, Lortel nomination. Regional: more than 150 productions in scores of theatres in the U.S. and abroad.

Roy Harris (Production Stage Manager). Broadway: The Retreat from Moscow; 2002 revival of Morning’s at Seven, Wendy Wasserstein’s An American Daughter and The Sisters Rosensweig and O’Neill’s Ah, Wilderness! (all directed by Daniel Sullivan and produced by Lincoln Center Theater); An Almost Holy Picture, Summer and Smoke, Major Barbara (Roundabout); the 2000 revival of O’Neill’s A Moon for the Misbegotten; and Wendy Wasserstein’s 1989 Pulitzer-Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles. Off-Broawday: Charlotte Jones’ Humble Boy, A.R. Gurney’s Sylvia, Richard Greenberg’s Three Days of Rain (MTC), Jon Robin Baitz’s A Fain Country and Ten Unknowns (LCT), many more at the Public, the Vineyard and Playwright’s Horizons. Author: Conversations in the Wings, Eight Women of the American Stage and the soon-to-be-published Recipes & Reminiscence, a Celebration of My Friends in the Theatre.

Denise Yaney (Stage Manager). Broadway credits include The Retreat from Moscow, Morning’s at Seven, Major Barbara, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Redwood Curtain and As Is. Off-Broadway she has stage managed commercially and for Manhattan Theatre Club, Lincoln Center, Playwright’s Horizons, Second Stage and Circle Repertory Company. Regional credits include Hartford Stage, Arizona Theatre Company, Long Wharf and Bay Street. Special thanks to Fred and Roy for their guidance, partnership, and friendship.