JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY (Playwright). John Patrick Shanley is from the Bronx.  He was thrown out of St. Helena's kindergarten.  Hew was banned from St. Anthony's hot lunch program for life.  He was expelled from Cardinal Spellman High School.  He was placed on academic probation by New York University and instructed to appear before a tribunal if he wished to return.  When asked why he had been treated in this way by all these institutions, he burst into tears and said he had no idea.  Then he went in the United States Marine Corps.  He did fine.  He's still doing okay.

DOUG HUGHES (Director). Is resident director at MCC Theater, where he has directed Last Easter, Scattergood, Frozen and The Grey Zone (Obie Award and Drama Desk nomination), co-produced Wit and received the first-ever MCC Award.  Recent work in New York includes Engaged; Flesh and Blood (Callaway Award), The Beard of Avon and A Question of Mercy, all at NYTW; Othello (with Keith David and Liev Schreiber) at The Public; John Guare's  Lake Hollywood at Signature; and An Experiment with an Air Pump for MTC.  He has directed five productions for the Guthrie, where he also served as director of artistic planning.  Other regional: Long Wharf, Seattle Rep, LaJolla Playhouse, the Shakespeare Theatre in D. C., London's Bush Theatre, Yale Rep, and the McCarter.  For his work on Frozen, Hughes received, Tony, Lortel and OCC nominations.

JOHN LEE BEATTY (Set Design). Broadway: Wonderful Town, Chicago, Tartuffe, Dinner at Eight, Proof, Frankie and Johnny., Morning's at Seven, Major Barbara, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, The Little Foxes, Anna Christie, A Delicate Balance, The Heiress, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, The Most Happy Fella, The Sisters Rosensweig, Burn This, Penn & Teller (twice), Ain't Misbehavin' (twice), Talley's Folly, Fifth of July, Loot, Crimes of the Heart, among others, Many designs for MTC since 1974 include Ashes; Sylvia; House and Garden; Experiment With an Airpump; Lips Together, Teeth Apart.  Off-Broadway: Substance of Fire, Road to Mecca, Song of Singapore, A Life in the Theatre, and many seasons at Lincoln Center, Circle Rep and City Center's Encores! A recipient of Tony, Obie, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards, Theater Hall of Fame.  Graduate of Brown and the Yale School of Drama.

CATHERINE ZUBER (Costume Design). Broadway: Dracula; Frozen; Dinner at Eight (Tony, OCC, Drama Desk noms.); Twelfth Night (Tony and Drama Desk noms.); Ivanov; Triumph of Love (Drama Desk nom.); London Assurance; The Rose Tattoo; Philadelphia, Here I Come!; The Sound of Music; The Red Shoes.  Recent: Five by Tenn, Light in the Piazza, Intimate Apparel (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle noms.), Engaged, Beckett/Albee and The Beard of Avon (Lortel Award). She Received a 1996 Obie for Sustained Achievement and the 2003 and 2004 Hewes Awards for Outstanding Costume Design.

PAT COLLINS (Lighting Design). Broadway includes Sight Unseen, 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 and 1988 revival). Lincoln Center Theater: Ten Unknowns, An American Daughter, A Delicate, Balance, The Sisters Rosensweig, Threepenny Opera (Tony nomination). Off-Broadway includes Occupant, Burn This, Thief River.  Various regional theatres.  Opera includes Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, English National Opera, Glyndebourne, Bayerische Staatsoper.

DAVID VAN TIEGHEM (Original Music & Sound Design). Broadway: Reckless, Frozen, The Good Body, The Crucible, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Best Man, Uncle Vanya, Night Must Fall.  Off-Broadway: The Beard of Avon, The Long Christmas Ride Home, The Baltimore Waltz, Wit, How I Learned to Drive, The Grey Zone, A Question of Mercy, Cellini, The Dying Gaul, A Few Stout Individuals, Flesh and Blood, The Stendhal Syndrome. Film: Eye of God, Working Girls.  Penn & Teller, Wooster Group. Dance: Twyla Tharp, Doug Varone, Michael Moschen, Boston Ballet.  Percussionist with Laurie Anderson, Talking Heads, Brian Eno, Steve Reich.  Awards/Nominations:  Obie, Bessie, Lortel, Drama Desk.  CDs: Strange Cargo, Safety in Numbers, These Things Happen.  Internet: www.vantieghem.com