DANIEL SULLIVAN (Director). For MTC, Mr. Sullivan directed Rabbit Hole, Brooklyn Boy, Sight Unseen, After the Night and the Music, Proof, In Real Life and Psychopathia Sexualis. Among his Broadway credits are The Homecoming; Prelude to a Kiss; Julius Caesar; Morning’s at Seven; I’m Not Rappaport; A Moon for the Misbegotten; The Heidi Chronicles; Conversations With My Father, Ah, Wilderness!; and The Sisters Rosenweig. Among his Off-Broadway credits are A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Intimate Apparel, Stuff Happens, Far East, Spinning into Butter, Dinner with Friends and The Substance of Fire. From 1981 to 1997, he served as Artistic Director of Seattle Repertory Theatre. Mr. Sullivan is the Swanlund Professor of Theatre at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

SAMSON RAPHAELSON (Playwright) was born in New York City, in 1894. Of his eight plays produced on Broadway, the first, The Jazz Singer (1925), ran 303 performances and was made into the first talking motion picture starring Al Jolson. Among his stage comedies included in publications of “The Ten Best Plays” of their seasons were the hits Accent on Youth (1934) and Skylark (1939) starring Gertrude Lawrence. In the 1930’s & 40’s in Hollywood, Raphaelson wrote numerous screenplays for the director Ernst Lubitsch including Trouble in Paradise and The Shop Around the Corner, and for Alfred Hitchcock, Suspicion, all considered classics of their genres. Raphaelson taught playwrights at the University of Illinois and screenwriters at Columbia University. His book The Human Nature of Playwrighting, a chronicle of one course, was described by an author as “the only useful book on the art of writing I’ve ever read.” Raphaelson continued to teach until his death in 1983, at age 89.

JOHN LEE BEATTY (Scenic Design). B’way: The Color Purple, Mauritius, Doubt, Chicago, Dinner at Eight, Proof, Rabbit Hole, Last Night of Ballyhoo, A Delicate Balance, The Heiress, The Most Happy Fella, The Sisters Rosensweig, Burn This, Penn & Teller, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Talley’s Folly, Crimes of the Heart, Morning’s at Seven, among others. Off-B’way: Savannah Disputation, Defiance, Substance of Fire, Road to Mecca, House and Garden, The Miss Firecracker Contest, A Life in the Theatre, 35 seasons with MTC, Lincoln Center, Circle Rep, City Center Encores! Tony, Obie, DD, OCC awards; Theatre Hall of Fame. Graduate of Brown and Yale School of Drama.

JANE GREENWOOD (Costume Design). More than 100 Broadway/Off-Broadway credits including Waiting for Godot, Thurgood, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Receptionist, Trumpery, Heartbreak House, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, On Golden Pond, A Delicate Balance, A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Master Class, Passion, The Heiress, The Sisters Rosensweig, Plenty, The Ballad of the Sad Café, Burton’s Hamlet, Vita and Virginia, Sylvia, The Lisbon Traviata. Metropolitan Opera: revival of Adriana Lecouvreur (2009), Dialogue of the Carmelites, The Great Gatsby. Chicago Lyric Opera: Nabucco and Rigoletto. San Francisco Opera: La Favorita. Film: Arthur, Can’t Stop the Music, Glengarry Glen Ross. Awards: Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award, Theatre Hall of Fame, 14 Tony nominations. Professor, Yale School of Drama.

BRIAN MacDEVITT (Lighting Design). Recent NYC: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Blithe Spirit, You’re Welcome America, Dr. Atomic at the Met, Speed-the-Plow, 13 a New Musical, American Buffalo, Puncture at the Chocolate Factory, A Catered Affair, The Coast of Utopia Part I, Inherit the Wind, The Pillowman, The Color Purple, et al. Future: Merce Cunningham at BAM. Dance: Nancy Bannon’s The Pod Project, the Joffrey Ballet, ABT, 25 yrs. w/Tere O’Connor Dance, Lar Lubovitch. Recipient: Tonys, Obie, Bessie, Outer Critics, Hewes awards, Drama Desk, et al. Film: Cradle Will Rock. Faculty: Purchase College. Member: Naked Angels. Father: Jake and Georgie.

OBADIAH EAVES (Original Music & Sound Design) designed sound for Come Back, Little Sheba; The Lieutenant of Inishmore; and Shining City on Broadway; and for The American Pilot and Moonlight and Magnolias at MTC. He has created award-winning music and sound for dozens of other venues, including the original productions of works by such playwrights as David Mamet, Woody Allen, Eric Bogosian, Theresa Rebeck, Nicky Silver and Suzan-Lori Parks. TV: HBO, Nickelodeon, Discovery, TLC and Fisher-Price toys. His band, Big Hair, has released two CDs.

TOM WATSON (Hair & Wig Design) is head of the wig department at the Metropolitan Opera. He designs for numerous regional theatres and opera companies. Current and recent Broadway designs include Wicked, South Pacific, The American Plan, Impressionism, Rock of Ages, A Tale of Two Cities, A Man for All Seasons, Cry-Baby, Sunday in the Park with George, Cyrano de Bergerac, 110 in the Shade, Les Misérables and The Coast of Utopia.

THOMAS SCHALL (Fight Director). Broadway: Mary Stuart, Waiting for Godot, The Seafarer, Rock ’n’ Roll, Coram Boy, Journey’s End, The Woman in White, Wicked, Sixteen Wounded, Noises Off, Art. Off-Broadway: The Good Negro, Why Torture Is Wrong…, Singing Forest, Hamlet, Mother Courage (Public); Bernarda Alba, Dessa Rose, Belle Epoque (LCT); Ruined (MTC); Homebody/Kabul (BAM).

ROY HARRIS (Production Stage Manager). Broadway: Dividing the Estate, directed by Michael Wilson; The Homecoming, Rabbit Hole, Brooklyn Boy, Sight Unseen, The Retreat From Moscow, Morning’s at Seven, Major Barbara, A Moon for the Misbegotten, An American Daughter, The Sisters Rosensweig and The Heidi Chronicles — all directed by Daniel Sullivan; Old Acquaintance, Twelve Angry Men, An Almost Holy Picture (RTC). Off-Broadway: Dying City, The Clean House, Third and Ten Unknowns (LCT); many more. Author of four books, including More Recipes and Reminiscence.

DENISE YANEY (Stage Manager). Broadway credits include MTC’s After the Night and the Music, Brooklyn Boy and Sight Unseen; American Buffalo; The Homecoming; The Retreat From Moscow; A Moon for the Misbegotten; Redwood Curtain; As Is; Awake and Sing! And Morning’s At Seven (Lincoln Center); Old Acquaintance, Major Barbara and The Play’s the Thing (Roundabout). Off-Broadway: MTC, LCT, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage and Circle Rep (company member). Regional: Hartford Stage, Arizona Theatre Company, Long Wharf and Bay Street.