DOUG HUGHES (Director) was recently represented in Los Angeles by two productions; Oleanna by David Mamet starring Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles at The Mark Taper Forum and Farragut North starring Chris Pine and Chris Noth at The Geffen Playhouse. Oleanna will be transferring to Broadway this October shortly after Mr. Hughes’ production of The Royal Family opens there in September.

Recent Broadway productions have included A Man for All Seasons starring Frank Langella, Mauritius starring Bobby Cannevale, Alison Pill and F. Murray Abraham, the Tony-nominated revival of Inherit the Wind starring Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy, A Touch of the Poet starring Gabriel Byrne, Frozen starring Brian F. O’Byrne and Swoosie Kurtz for which Hughes was nominated for The Tony Award as best director and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Doubt by John Patrick Shanley starring Cherry Jones and Brian F. O’Byrne for which Hughes won the Tony Award.

Hughes has worked extensively Off-Broadway and will return there this November with his production of Rebecca Gilman’s adaptation of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Off-Broadway highlights include Othello with Keith David and Liev Schreiber for The Public Theater, Flesh and Blood, David Rabe’s A Question of Mercy, John Patrick Shanley’s Defiance, John Guare’s Lake Hollywood, Stephen Belber’s McReele, The Grey Zone, Jon Robin Baitz’ The Paris Letter, Engaged, The Beard of Avon, and Henry V starring Andre Braugher for The Public Theater’s Delacorte Theater in Central Park.

In addition to the Tony, he has been awarded the Drama Desk Award, The Outer Critics’ Circle Award, The Lortel Award, The Obie Award (twice), The Callaway Award (twice) and The Governor of Connecticut’s Arts Award for his productions.

From 1997-2001, Mr. Hughes served as Artistic Director of The Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven where he produced Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit, transferring the production to New York, onto a National tour and to London. Other posts in the American Theater include Associate Artistic Director of Manhattan Theatre Club (1980-1983), Associate Artistic Director of The Seattle Repertory Theater, (1984-1996), and Director of Artistic Planning for The Guthrie Theatre (1997). Hughes currently serves as Resident Director of The Roundabout Theater in New York City. He was distinguished artist in residence at The New School for Drama (2007-08) and was an adjunct professor in the directing program at The Yale School of Drama (2002-04). Hughes is a graduate of Harvard College.

JOHN LEE BEATTY (Scenic Design) designed this summer’s Twelfth Night in Central Park. Broadway credits: The Color Purple, Doubt, Rabbit Hole, Chicago, Dinner at Eight, Proof, The 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, Fifth of July, Crimes of the Heart, among others. Off- B’way: Defiance, The Substance of Fire, Sylvia, A Life in the Theatre, Encores! musicals. Tony, Obie, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards; Theatre Hall of Fame. Graduate of Brown and Yale School of Drama.

CATHERINE ZUBER (Costume Design). Credits include South Pacific (Tony Award), Coast of Utopia (Tony, OCC Awards), Awake and Sing! (Tony Award), Edward Albee’s Seascape, (Tony nom.), The Light in the Piazza (Tony Award, OCC nom.), Dinner at Eight, Twelfth Night (Tony nom.) and Ivanov, all at Lincoln Center. Also A Man for All Seasons, Cry-Baby, Doubt, Frozen, Dracula, The Sound of Music, Triumph of Love. 2003, 2004 and 2007 Hewes Award for Design; 2004, 2005 Lortel Award; 2004 Ovation Award; 1997 and 2005 Obie Award for Sustained Achievement.

KENNETH POSNER (Lighting Design). Broadway: The Coast of Utopia (Shipwreck; Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards); Wicked, Hairspray, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Tony nominations); Legally Blonde; The Homecoming; The Pirate Queen; The Odd Couple; Glengarry Glen Ross; Little Women; The Frogs; Imaginary Friends; Swing!; …Charlie Brown; The Goat; Uncle Vanya; Side Man; The Lion in Winter; Little Me; A View From the Bridge; The Last Night of Ballyhoo; The Little Foxes; and The Rose Tattoo. 2003 Obie for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design.

DARRON L WEST (Sound Design). His work has been heard in more than 400 Broadway, Off-Broadway, national and international productions. Recipient of Lortel, AUDELCO, Hewes Design Award, Princess Grace, Obie and Entertainment Design Magazine EDDY Awards. Former resident sound designer for Actors Theatre of Louisville. Directing credits: Kid Simple (2004 Humana New Play Festival), Big Love (Austin’s Rude Mechs, Austin Critics Table Award Best Director) and SITI’s War of the Worlds Radio Play and RadioMacbeth the national tours. Founding member of Anne Bogart’s SITI Company.

MAURY YESTON (Original Music). Broadway: Titanic (Tony Award, Best Score), Nine (Tony Award, Best Score; two Drama Desk Awards: Best Music, Best Lyrics), Grand Hotel (Tony and Drama Desk noms.). Off-Broadway: Cloud 9 (songs, incidental music), In the Beginning. National: Phantom. Concert: An American Cantata: 2000 Voices (Kennedy Center commission, National Symphony Orchestra), December Songs (song cycle, Carnegie Hall centennial year commission), Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (premiere, Yo-Yo Ma). Film: Nine, produced by Harvey Weinstein, directed by Rob Marshall.

TOM WATSON (Hair & Wig Design) is head of the wig department at the Metropolitan Opera. He has designed wigs for more than 30 Broadway productions. Current and recent Broadway designs Include Wicked, Waiting for Godot, The American Plan, Accent on Youth, Impressionism, Rock of Ages, South Pacific, A Man for All Seasons, Sunday in the Park With George, Cyrano de Bergerac and A Tale of Two Cities.

RICK SORDELET (Fight Director). Forty-four Broadway shows, including The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Curtains; 44 first-class productions all over the world; Cyrano the opera starring Placido Domingo. Film: The Game Plan, Dan in Real Life, head stunt coordinator for “Guiding Light.” Received the 2007 Edith Oliver Award for Sustained Excellence by the Lucille Lortel Foundation. Trustee for Shakespeare Festival NJ; instructor, Yale School of Drama, the New School, the Neighborhood Playhouse.

WILLIAM BERLONI (Animals). More than 20 Broadway shows including Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Legally Blonde, Annie (original Sandy and revivals), Camelot, Alice in Wonderland, Oliver!, Anything Goes, Nick & Nora, The Wiz, The Wizard of Oz, Dinner at Eight, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Awake and Sing! and The Lieutenant of Inishmore. Hundreds of Off-Broadway and regional productions, tours, movies and television shows. Author of Broadway Tails. Director of animal behavior at the Humane Society of New York. www.theatricalanimals.com

DAVID CAPARELLIOTIS, CSA (Casting). MTC/NYC credits include Doubt, Mauritius, Rabbit Hole, Sight Unseen, From Up Here, Blackbird, My Name Is Rachel Corrie, Shockheaded Peter, Altar Boyz. Other theatre: Atlantic, Second Stage, Wlliamstown Theatre Festival, ARS NOVA, Goodman, Arena, Ford’s, Humana. David runs MelCap with business partner Mele Nagler.

RICK STEIGER (Production Stage Manager). Broadway: 13; Rock ‘n’ Roll; Frost/Nixon; Spring Awakening; The Woman in White; Caroline, or Change; Topdog/Underdog; Elaine Stritch: At Liberty; Annie Get Your Gun; The Wild Party; Epic Proportions; The Civil War; Titanic; Bring in ’da Noise, Bring in ’da Funk; The Sisters Rosensweig. Off-Broadway: The Singing Forest, Mother Courage and Her Children, This Is How It Goes, Radiant Baby, On the Town.

ELIZABETH MOLONEY (Stage Manager). Broadway: Will Ferrell’s You’re Welcome America, To Be or Not to Be, Mauritius, Doubt, Frozen, Enchanted April. National tour: Doubt. Off-Broadway: Doubt, Much Ado About Nothing, Frozen, Scattergood, Flesh and Blood. Other credits include productions at Roundabout Theatre Company, Public Theater, Hartford Stage, Market Theater, Alice B. Theatre, and the live HBO telecast of You’re Welcome America. For B.