JOE HORTUA (Playwright). Joe’s work has been performed in New York City, Los

Angeles, Chicago, Brussels and London. His first play, Making It, received its world

premiere in 2001 at South Coast Repertory after being developed at the Sundance

Institute’s Theatre Lab in Utah for three weeks. Burning, his next play, was directed

the following summer by Marshall Mason at the Cape Cod Theatre Project. He has

worked for the television show “Septuplets” on Fox. His most recent play, World

Thrown Tizzy, was commissioned by Mark Taper Forum. He is a member of Writers

Guild and the MCC Theatre Playwrights’ Coalition.

CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY (Director). MTC: Wonder of the World, Newyorkers. Other

credits: Valhalla (NYTW), The Rocky Horror Show (Circle in the Square), The Smell

of the Kill (Helen Hayes), The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told (NYTW, Minetta Lane),

Jeffrey (WPA, Minetta Lane), Fires in the Mirror (Public), Communicating Doors

(Variety Arts), Bunny Bunny (Lucille Lortel), Das Barbecu (Minetta Lane), As

Thousands Cheer, Country Club, Mondo Drama, Rude Entertainment (Drama

Dept.), Sweeney Todd and Merrily We Roll Along (Sondheim Celebration, Kennedy

Center). Film: Jeffrey (Orion Classics), “Blown Sideways through Life” (American

Playhouse, PBS).

NEIL PATEL (Set Design). Broadway and West End: Side Man. Off-Broadway: The

Beard of Avon (NYTW); The Long Christmas Ride Home (Vineyard); The Mercy Seat

(MCC); Private Jokes, Public Places; Barbra’s Wedding; Adult Entertainment;

Endpapers (Drama Desk nom.); Dinner with Friends (Variety Arts, Drama Desk

nom.); Glimmer, Glimmer, and Shine (MTC); Othello; References to Salvador Dali

Make Me Hot; Henry V (NYSF); Hurrah at Last (Roundabout); Quills (Drama Desk

nom.); Slavs (NYTW); Lobster Alice (Playwrights Horizons). His work with Anne

Bogart and the SITI Company has been seen throughout the world including the

Holland Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Paris Exit Festival and the Next

Wave Festival at BAM. 2000 EDDY Award, 1996 and 2001 Obies (for Sustained

Excellence).

JESS GOLDSTEIN (Costume Design). Broadway: MTC’s Proof; Lincoln Center’s

Henry IV; Enchanted April; Take Me Out; Judgment at Nuremberg; Love! Valour!

Compassion!; Tintypes; revivals of The Most Happy Fella, Inherit the Wind, A

Streetcar Named Desire, and Night Must Fall. Off-Broadway: Big Bill, The Long

Christmas Ride Home, The Persians, Tea at Five, Dinner with Friends, How I L

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 and Collected Stories.

Film: A Walk on the Moon; Love! Valour! Compassion! and The Substance of Fire.

Graduate and current faculty of Yale School of Drama.

CHRISTOPHER AKERLIND (Lighting Design). MTC: The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife

(also Broadway), Day Standing on Its Head, Mad Forest. Broadway: Seven Guitars

(Tony nomination); Philadelphia, Here I Come!; The Piano Lesson. Other NY: CSC,

Lincoln Center Theatre, NYSF/Public, NY Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons,

TFANA, Vineyard. Recent: Pericles (TFANA/BAM), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (San

Jose Rep/SITI), The Light in the Piazza (Goodman); Giulio Cesare (Houston Grand

Opera); Homebody/Kabul (Steppenwolf/Taper); Nicholas and Alexandra (LA Opera).

Awards: Obie for Sustained Excellence; Michael Merritt Award for Design and

Collaboration, numerous nominations for American Theatre Wing, Drama Desk,

Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle awards.

DARRON L. WEST (Sound Designer). Sound Designer for Anne Bogart’s SITI

Company. Broadway: Wait Until Dark. Numerous productions Off-Broadway and at

BAM Next Wave Festival. Regional: Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago,

Columbus, Juneau, La Jolla, Los Angeles, Louisville, Minneapolis, Miami,

Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Portland, Providence, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle,

St. Louis, Washington, and Williamstown. International: Amsterdam, Belfast, Berlin,

Bogota, Copenhagen, Dublin, London, Leeds, Prague, Paris, Salzburg, Tibilisi,

Togamura, and Vienna. Former Resident Sound Designer, Actors Theatre of

Louisville. As Director: Kid Simple (2004 Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of

Louisville), Big Love (Rude Mechanicals, 2001 Austin Critics Table Best Director),

Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse and Eurydice (Children’s Theatre Company Minneapolis),

War of the Worlds Radio Play (SITI Company National Tour). Awards: Princess

Grace, OBIE, Entertainment Design Magazine EDDY.

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 and Imagining Brad

(Drama Dept.), Gone Home, Alligator Tales, Dealer’s Choice (MTC).  Regional:   

Paper Doll (Long Wharf & Duke), James Joyce’s The Dead (Kennedy Center), A

Month in the Country, Hedda Gabbler, Dead End (Huntington Theatre Company),

The Road to Mecca (Long Wharf). For the Williamstown Theatre Festival: The

Threepenny Opera, Under Milkwood, Street Scene, The Winter’s Tale, The Skin of

Our Teeth, The Hot L Baltimore, Ancestral Voices, Camino Real, The Waverly

Gallery, The Rivals, The Matchmaker, Dead End, Johnny On a Spot, Dinah Was,

Filumena, Big Men/Small Rooms.

ROBYN HENRY (Stage Manager). Off-Broaway: House/Garden, Further Than the

Furthest Thing (Manhattan Theatre Club), The Two Noble Kinsman, The Story (The

Public), Debbie Does Dallas (Jane Street Theater), The Hiding Space (The Atlantic).

Robyn has also worked at The George Street Playhouse, The Pearl Theatre

Company, The Contemporary American Theatre Festival, The Isadora Duncan

Dance Foundation and The Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland.