DAVID GREIG (Playwright). Plays include Europe, The Architect, The Speculator, Victoria, The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union, Outlying Islands, San Diego, When the Bulbul Stopped Singing and most recently Pyrenees, The American Pilot. His work with the theatre company Suspect Culture includes One Way Street, Airport, Timeless, Mainstream, Casanova, Lament and 8000 Miles. He has adapted Caligula for the Donmar Warehouse and Tintin for The Young Vic. David’s work for young people includes Yellow Moon, Gobbo, Dr. Korczak’s Example. He is currently under commission to the Royal National Theatre, The Scottish National Theatre, Out of Joint Theatre Company and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

LYNNE MEADOW (Director/Artistic Director, Manhattan Theatre Club, Inc.) hasbeen responsible for directing and producingmore than 400 New York and world premieresfor MTC since 1972. Her directingcredits include Charles Busch’s The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife (Broadway, MTC, U.S.national tour), Leslie Ayvazian’s Nine Armenians (Drama Desk nomination, BestDirector), Donald Margulies’ The Loman Family Picnic, Alan Ayckbourn’s Woman in Mind (Drama Desk nomination, BestDirector), the Broadway production of A Small Family Business, David Rudkin’s Ashes (Obie Award), Ron Hutchinson’s Moonlight and Magnolias (MTC, Alliance Theatre) and NY premieres of plays by Marsha Norman, Simon Gray, Lee Blessing, Sybille Pearson and Israel Horowitz as well as productions for the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Spoleto Festival and the O’Neill Theatre Center. Under her artistic leadership, MTC has been honored with every prestigious theatre award including multiple Tony® Awards, Drama Desk Awards and Pulitzer Prizes. She attended the Yale School of Drama and Bryn Mawr College, where she served on the Board of Trustees. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Lee Reynolds Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women, the Manhattan Award from Manhattan magazine, the Person of the Year from the National Theatre Conference and the Margo Jones Award. She has taught at Circle in the Square Theatre School, Stony Brook University, Yale University, Fordham University and New York University. In 2003, Ms. Meadow received the Mr. Abbott Award for lifetime achievement.

DEREK McLANE (Set Design). B’way: The Pajama Game (Tony nom.); The Threepenny Opera; Little Women; I Am MyOwn Wife; Barefoot in the Park; The Women; Present Laughter. Off-B’way: Macbeth, Hurlyburly, Abigail’s Party, …Trailer Park Musical, Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Creadeux Canvas, East is East, subUrbia, The Waverly Gallery, Hello Again, Saturday Night. Entire Sondheim Celebration at the Kennedy Center. Awards: two Obie Awards, Drama-Logue Award (Harmony, 1997, La Jolla Playhouse), Michael Merritt Award (2003), two Lucille Lortel Awards.

ILONA SOMOGYI (Costume Design). NY: Celebration and The Room, Hot n’ Throbbing, God of Hell, Controversy of Valladolid, Fucking A, Savannah Bay, Wit, Swimming with Watermelons, Unwrap Your Candy, Tabletop and Hard Times; Associate Designer for Spamalot, The Crucible and Art. Also: Princess Wishes, Disney on Ice. Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival incl. Sweet Bird of Youth, Top Girls and On the Razzle. Europe: Norwegian National Ballet and Saturday Night Fever. Graduate/faculty member of the Yale School of Drama.

CHRISTOPHER AKERLIND (Lighting Design). MTC: Shining City, Rabbit Hole, Reckless, Between Us, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife (also B’way), Day Standing on Its Head, Mad Forest. Broadway: The Light in the Piazza (Tony, Drama Desk,Outer Critics awards); Awake and Sing! (Tony nom.); Well; A Touch of the Poet; In My Life; Seven Guitars (Tony nom.); Philadelphia, Here I Come!; The Piano Lesson. Awards: Obie for Sustained Excellence; numerous nominations for Tony, Drama Desk, Lortel, Outer Critics awards.

OBADIAH EAVES (Sound Design) recently designed sound for MTC’s Shining City and for The Lieutenant of Inishmore on Broadway, and has created sound and music for world premieres of works by such playwrights as David Mamet (Romance), Woody Allen (Second Hand Memory), Suzan Lori Parks (Fucking A) and Jon Robin Baitz (Chinese Friends). He won a Lortel Award for Nine Parts of Desire and a Viv for Fucking A. Television: HBO, Nickelodeon, Discovery and TLC.

DONALD FRIED (Production Stage Manager). Broadway: Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays, A Raisin in the Sun, The Producers, Sandra Bernhard’s I’m Still Here… Off-Broadway: Manuscript and Addicted directed by Bob Balaban, JohnLeguizamo’s Freak, Atlantic, MTC,Roundabout, Public, Playwrights Horizonsand Signature. National tours: Blast!, Scooby-Doo, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story. M.F.A.: Yale School of Drama.

HILARY ADAMS (Assistant Director) Hilary is delighted to be on her fourth MTC show, and is honored to be working with Lynne Meadow again. See www.HilaryAdams.com