ERNEST THOMPSON (Playwright). Author and *Director. Theatre: Answers; On Golden Pond (Broadway, 1979, Best Play, Broadway Drama Guild); The West Side Waltz (starring Katharine Hepburn, Broadway, 1981); A Sense of Humor (Jack Lemmon); The One About the Guy in the Bar (Off-Broadway, 1987); The Valentine Fairy (Off-Off-Broadway, 1993); *Murdering Mother, (Seacoast Repertory Theatre, 1994); Zipless (Off-Off-Broadway, 1994); Amazons in August (Generic Theatre, Norfolk, VA, 1994); Rip Your Heart Out (Arena Stage New Plays, 1996); *Another Summer (the musical On Golden Pond, Seacoast Rep); *The Penis Responds (Off-Off Broadway 2000); *White People Christmas (Zephyr Theatre, Hollywood, 2003). Film and Television: "Answers" (Arts and Entertainment, Burgess Meredith, Eileen Brenan); On Golden Pond (Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Academy Award, Golden Globe); Sweet Hearts Dance (Susan Sarandon, Jeff Daniels); * 1969 (Robert Downey, Jr., Winona Ryder); "Take Me Home Again" (NBC, Kirk Douglas, Craig T. Nelson); *"The West Side Waltz" (CBS, Shirley MacLaine, Liza Minnelli); *"Out of Time" (Showtime, co-writer); *"The Live On Golden Pond " (CBS, Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer). Back to previous page
LEONARD FOGLIA (Director). Broadway: Master Class by Terrence McNally (also National Tour, West End), Wait Until Dark. Off-Broadway: Encores! One Touch of Venus (City Center); The Stendahl Syndrome by McNally (Primary Stages); By the Sea (Manhattan Theatre Club, Bay Street Theater Festival); Lonely Planet (Circle Repertory Company), If Memory Serves (Promenade, Pasadena Playhouse). Regional: Paper Doll (Pittsburgh Public Theater, Long Wharf Theater); The Last True Believer (Seattle Rep.); Seascape, The Woman in Black and A Coffin in Egypt by Horton Foote (Bay Street Theater Festival); Dinner with Friends and God's Man in Texas (Old Globe Theater); Deathtrap (Paper Mill); Dreamland...The Music of Harold Arlen (Sharon Stage); Revelers by Beth Henley (New York Stage and Film); Art, Lips Together Teeth Apart, The Heidi Chronicles, Reckless, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Trinity Repertory Company). He also directed the Boston (Huntington Theater), Toronto and Chicago productions of Frankie and Johnny. Opera: Dead Man Walking by Jake Heggie, Terrence McNally (New York City Opera, Opera Pacific, Cincinnati Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, Pittsburgh Opera); The End of the Affair by Heggie, Heather McDonald (Houston Grand Opera). He is co-author of the mystery novels 1 Ragged Ridge Road and Face Down in the Park, both published by Pocket Books. Back to previous page
RAY KLAUSEN (Scenic Designer) has designed over 350 shows for the theatre and television in England, Monte Carlo, Germany, Mexico, Australia and Canada. Broadway: Brooklyn, Big River, Comedy Tonight, Waiting in the Wings, Bea Arthur on Broadway. Off-Broadway: Pete 'n' Keely. Regional: The Mark Taper Forum (five shows), St. Louis Rep (three), The Kennedy Center (five), Prince Music Theatre (one), Reprise! in Los Angeles (three), plus Jubilee! at Bally's Grand, Las Vegas. Current projects include The Night of the Hunter, the European tour of A Few Good Men... DANCIN' and Dancing in the Wings at The Kennedy Center. He is the recipient of three Emmy Awards, and Los Angeles Drama Critics and Ovation awards, as well as the Hoffman Eminent Scholar Chair from Florida State University. Graduate, Yale School of Drama. Website: www.rayklausen.com. Back to previous page
JANE GREENWOOD (Costume Designer). Broadway: over 100 shows, including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Retreat from Moscow, The Caretaker, Salome, Tartuffe, Fortune's Fool, Morning's at Seven, Major Barbara, The Dinner Party, A Moon for the Misbegotten, James Joyce's The Dead, The Scarlet Pimpernel, A Delicate Balance, Master Class, Passion, She Loves Me, The Heiress, The Sisters Rosensweig, Plenty, The Ballad of the Sad Café, Burton's Hamlet. Off-Broadway: Moonlight and Magnolias, La Belle Epoque, A Man of No Importance, Burn This, House/Garden, Vita and Virginia, Sylvia, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, The Lisbon Traviata. Metropolitan Opera: The Great Gatsby. Film: Arthur, The Four Seasons, Glengarry Glen Ross, Oleanna. Awards: 13 Tony nominations, Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award, Theatre Hall of Fame, 2 Lortel Awards. Professor, Yale School of Drama faculty. Back to previous page
BRIAN NASON (Lighting Designer). Broadway: Fortune's Fool, Taller Than a Dwarf, 1776, Metamorphosis with Mikhail Baryshnikov (Tony nom.), A Month in the Country (OCC nom.), Arthur Miller's Broken Glass, 3 Penny Opera with Sting, M. Butterfly, Cyrano: The Musical. Off-Broadway: Showtune; Bailegangaire; The Dog Problem; The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Cripple of Inishmaan; An Empty Plate; Neat (Audelco nom.); Cellini, Four Dogs and a Bone; The Cocoanuts; Grace and Glorie; Richard II (Audelco nom.); Durang, Durang; Amphigorey; Pretty Fire; Cantorial (OCC nom.); Advice from a Caterpillar; A Life in Theatre. Opera: Dead Man Walking (NYCO, Opera Pacific, Cincinnati, Austin Lyric), Salome (NYCO, Opera Pacific), West Side Story (La Scala, Beirut, Japan). TV/Film/Special Events: "Great Performances," "Live from Carnegie Hall," "American Playhouse presents O Pioneers," Sing (Tri-Star feature), The Big Apple Circus Stage Show. Back to previous page
DAN MOSES SCHREIER (Original Music and Sound Designer) composed the music for Broadway's current The Glass Menagerie and Julius Caesar, Dance Of Death, George C. Wolfe's production of The Tempest (co-composed with Carlos Valdez) and Daniel Sullivan's production of Major Barbara. His music/theater piece The Shoulder, written with Dan Hurlin, is available from Innovarecordings.com. As a sound designer - Broadway: Pacific Overtures, Gem of the Ocean, Assassins, Anna in the Tropics, Into the Woods, Topdog/Underdog, Dirty Blonde, Amour, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, The Diary of Anne Frank, Noise/Funk. Off-Broadway: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Homebody/Kabul, Radiant, Spinning Into Butter, Far East, Floyd Collins, Spic-O-Rama. Awards include three Drama Desks, 2004 LA Ovation Award for his work on August Wilson's Gem Of The Ocean, 2003 Entertainment Design Award for sustained excellence, and an OBIE for sustained excellence. Back to previous page
STUART HOWARD, AMY SCHECTER & PAUL HARDT (Casting) have cast over 100 shows for Broadway, Off-Broadway and in England. Most recently they cast Sly Fox by Larry Gelbart starring Richard Dreyfuss and The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer. They have begun casting the revival of The Pajama Game starring Harry Connick, Jr. directed by Kathleen Marshall and they will cast the 50th anniversary production of West Side Story as well as The Caine Mutiny Court Marshall directed by Jerry Zaks. They are members of the Casting Society of America. Back to previous page
THEATERSMITH, INC. (Christopher C. Smith, Technical Supervisor). Credits include Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Brooklyn, Never Gonna Dance, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Aida (New York, Tour and Osaka), Fame, Imaginary Friends, Def Jam, Salome, Some Like It Hot, Disney's Berlin Hunchback, Charlie Brown, Capeman, Show Boat, Spider Woman, Jack, Waterfront, Kentucky Cycle and The Most Happy Fella. Smitty previously owned Metro Scenic and lives in N.J. with wife, actress Nancy Ringham, and daughters Caitlyn and Madeline. Back to previous page
KELLEY KIRKPATRICK (Production Stage Manager). Broadway: Hedda Gabler, The Price, Getting And Spending. Off Broadway: Trumbo (Westside), Ancestral Voices, The Time of the Cuckoo (Lincoln Center), Betty's Summer Vacation, James Joyce's The Dead (Playwrights Horizons), The Author's Voice, Imagining Brad (Drama Dept.), Between Us, Gone Home, Alligator Tale, Dealer's Choice (MTC). Regional: Paper Doll (Long Wharf, Duke), The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, James Joyce's The Dead (Kennedy Center), A Month In The Country, Hedda Gabler, Dead End (Huntington), The Road To Mecca (Long Wharf). Williamstown: The Cherry Orchard, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Threepenny Opera, Street Scene, The Winter's Tale, The Skin of our Teeth, The Hot L Baltimore, Camino Real, The Waverly Gallery, The Matchmaker, Dead End. Back to previous page
MARTI McINTOSH (Stage Manager). New York : Dracula (Broadway, sub); Big Bill , Observe the Sons of Ulster (Lincoln Center); Iron (MTC). Regional: On Golden Pond, Game Legs, A Fair Affair (Kennedy Center); The Cherry Orchard, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Cabaret & Main, An Enemy of the People, Under Milkwood, The Threepenny Opera, Where's Charley?, The King Stag, The Winter's Tale (Williamstown); Blue Demon (Huntington); The Lepers of Baile Baiste (Boston Playwright's Theatre); Over It (Next Stages). Graduate: Boston University School of Theatre Arts. Back to previous page
JAMES TRINER (General Manager), with Stuart Thompson Productions, is general manager of Julius Caesar; Doubt; and recently Gem of the Ocean; Caroline, or Change; The Retreat from Moscow; Life (x) 3; Take Me Out; Medea and the touring productions of The Tale of the Allergist's Wife and Proof. Company Manager: Proof, Amy's View, The Blue Room, The Judas Kiss. He was Company Manager of Manhattan Theatre Club for three seasons, and is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.
STUART THOMPSON (Producer) has also been a co-producer of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning 2001 best play, Proof, and of the Tony-nominated productions The Retreat from Moscow, The Play What I Wrote, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Not About Nightingales and The Chairs. Off-Broadway, he was a co-producer of The Shape of Things. He has been general manager for numerous Broadway, Off-Broadway and touring productions, including this season's Julius Caeser, Doubt, Gem of the Ocean, Woman Before a Glass and Modern Orthodox. Back to previous page
ARLENE SCANLAN (Producer) began her career working for Columbia Pictures in 1978. She later joined Marvel Comics Group and finally United Media Enterprises where she was VP of merchandise licensing, marketing and promotion for the Peanuts characters, Peter Max and Garfield. Scanlan started her first company in Westport in 1991 where she represented Carmen SanDiego, Sonic the Hedgehog, WGBH public television, Archie Comics, The American Museum of Natural History and The World Wildlife Fund. Her new licensing and property development and entertainment venture, Moxie Productions, manages Ziggy, Cindy Adams and Orange County Choppers. Her first Broadway-bound venture, Two Cities - The Musical, based on Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, premiered last summer in Stamford. On Golden Pond represents her first Broadway producing credit. Back to previous page
JEFFREY FINN (Producer) received a 2005 Tony Award nomination for Best Play Revival for the Broadway production of On Golden Pond starring James Earl Jones and Leslie Uggams, which originally premiered at The Kennedy Center. Additional current productions include the Pulitzer Prize winning drama The Subject Was Roses; The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber; Game Show, for which Mr. Finn is also a co-author; and the U.S. and international tours of A Few Good Men...DANCIN'. Previous U.S. tours include The Who's Tommy; Andrew Lloyd Webber's Tell Me On A Sunday; Leader of the Pack; Promises, Promises; Stephen Sondheim's Company; Chess; and a series of national concert tours produced under the aegis Broadway Songbooks. Upcoming projects include a Broadway production of Fannie Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes. Back to previous page
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