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Edward Albee (Playwright) Edward Albee was born on March 12, 1928 and began writing plays 30 years later. His plays include The Zoo Story (1958), The Death of Bessie Smith (1959), The Sandbox (1959), The American Dream (1960), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1961-62, Tony Award), Tiny Alice (1964), A Delicate Balance (1966, Pulitzer Prize; 1996, Tony Award), All Over (1971), Seascape (1974, Pulitzer Prize), Listening (1975), Counting the Ways (1975), The Lady from Dubuque (1977-78), The Man Who Had Three Arms (1981), Finding the Sun (1982), Marriage Play (1986-87), Three Tall Women (1991, Pulitzer Prize), Fragments (1993), The Play about the Baby (1997), The Goat or, Who is Silvia? (2000, 2002 Tony Award), Occupant (2001), Peter and Jerry: (ACT 1, Homelife. ACT 2, The Zoo Story.) (2004), and Me, Myself, and I (2007). He is a member of the Dramatists Guild Council, and President of The Edward F. Albee Foundation. Mr. Albee was awarded the Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1980. In 1996 he received the Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of Arts. In 2005, he was awarded a special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement.
 Mercedes Ruehl (Louise Nevelson) came to prominence in Jonathan Demme's Married to the Mob. She earned an Academy Award, Golden Globe, L.A. and Chicago Film Critics Society Awards for her role in The Fisher King. Other films include: Warriors, Big, Heartburn, Slaves of New York, Another You, Last Action Hero, Lost in Yonkers, What's Cooking, The Amati Girls, For Rosanna, and The Minus Man. Her career was launched in regional repertories in the works of Shakespeare, Moliere, Shaw, Chekov and Euripides, and she went on to receive Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and the Helen Hayes Awards for her role in Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers, later reprising her role in the film. Other Broadway credits include: The Goat or Who Is Sylvia (Outer Critics Circle Award, Tony nomination), The Rose Tattoo, Shadowbox (Tony nomination) and I'm Not Rappaport. Off-Broadway includes: Woman Before A Glass (Obie Award), Other Peoples' Money (Clarence Derwent Award), The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Obie Award), Coming of Age In Soho, The Vagina Monologues and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf at the Gutherie Theatre. She recently completed an acclaimed run of Viva La Vida! at the Bay Street Theatre. Among her television credits are the Emmy Award winning "Indictment: The McMartin Trial", HBO's "Gia," Hallmark's "The Lost Child," Court T.V.'s "Guilt by Association," and Showtime's "North Shore Fish." Television guest appearances include: "Entourage," "Frasier," "Law and Order" and "The Cosby Show." For Lifetime T.V. she starred in last year's Mom At Sixteen and this year's A Girl Like Me.
 Larry Bryggman (The Man) Broadway: Festen, Twelve Angry Men, Proof (Tony nom.), Picnic (Tony nom.), Prelude to a Kiss, Richard III, The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel. Off-Broadway: includes Romance (Obie), Hothouse, Once in a Lifetime (all Atlantic), Proof, New England (MTC), Prelude and Liebestod (MCC), A Bad Friend, Bodies Rest and Motion (LCT), Henry VIII, The Tempest, As You Like It, Henry IV Parts I and II, Rum and Coke, The Ballad of Soapy Smith, Museum, Marco Polo Sings a Solo, Mod Donna (all The Public). Film: Spy Game, Die Hard with a Vengeance, And Justice for All, Looking for Richard, My Side of the Story, Side By Each. An Obie for Sustained Excellence, two Daytime Emmys for Outstanding Actor. Mr. Bryggman is a member of the Atlantic Theatre Company.
 Pam MacKinnon (Director) As a frequent collaborator with Edward Albee, Pam has directed Peter and Jerry (Second Stage and Hartford Stage); The Goat Or, Who is Silvia? (Alley and Vienna); and The Play about the Baby (Philadelphia and Goodman). Other recent productions include The Four of Us (MTC and The Old Globe) and Bach at Leipzig (NYTW and Milwaukee Rep) both by Itamar Moses; Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's Good Boys and True (Steppenwolf); Bruce Norris' The Unmentionables (Woolly Mammoth); John Fugelsang's All the Wrong Reasons (NYTW); and David Mamet's Romance (Goodman). Next season she will direct the world premiere of Jason Grote's Maria/Stuart (Woolly Mammoth); Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance (Arena Stage); and Adrian Hall's adaptation of William Penn Warren's All the King's Men (Intiman). She is an Affiliated Artist with the downtown company Clubbed Thumb.
CHRISTINE JONES (Set designer) Spring Awakening (Tony Nomination), The Green Bird, with director Julie Taymor. Other credits include: The Book of Longing, music by Philip Glass based on poems by Leonard Cohen, The Onion Cellar, with music by The Dresden Dolls, Much Ado about Nothing (Shakespeare in the Park), Flesh and Blood, Nocturne (New York Theatre Workshop), Burn This, starring Ed Norton, Catherine Keener, Dallas Roberts, and Ty Burrell (Signature Theatre), Debbie Does Dallas (Jane Street Theatre), True Love (The Zipper). Opera: The Elephant Man (Minnesota Opera), Lucia de Lammermoor (New York City Opera), Guilio Cesare (Houston Grand Opera). She is the creator of THEATRE FOR ONE, a booth designed for one actor and one audience member that can be seen at theatreforone.com.
JANE GREENWOOD (Costume Designer) More than 100 Broadway/Off-Broadway credits including 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: Dialogue of the Carmelites, The Great Gatsby. 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.
DAVID LANDER (Lighting Designer) Broadway: I Am My Own Wife (also National Tour, London, Dublin, Venezuela, Australia); Dirty Blonde (also National Tour, London ); Golden Child. Off Broadway: New York Theatre Workshop, New World Stages, Playwrights Horizons, Primary Stages, The Public Theatre and Shakespeare in the Park, Signature Theatre, Soho Playhouse, Vineyard Theatre. Regional: ACT, Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, Berkeley Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Geffen Playhouse, George Street Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Co, South Coast Rep, St. Louis MUNY, The Old Globe.
LLOYD DAVIS, JR. (Production Stage Manager) Favorite credits include: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Sweeney Todd, and Mister Roberts at the Kennedy Center; Joseph Papp's Shakespeare on Broadway directed by Estelle Parsons, Mrs. Klein and Collected Stories both with Uta Hagen and directed by William Carden; The Waverly Gallery with Eileen Heckart; The Gypsy and the Yellow Canary with Irene Worth directed by George Wolfe; The War in Heaven and Struck Dumb both with Joseph Chaikin; Sam Shepard's States of Shock; Edward Albee's Tiny Alice and The Play About The Baby, and the national tours of: Dance Theatre of Harlem, Tommy and The Wiz. For his work with the NYC Public School Repertory Company, Lloyd was recognized by the NYC Board of Education and Pace University's Promise of Learning for Excellence in Arts Education.
CHANDRA LAVIOLETTE (Assistant Stage Manager) Off-Broadway: Paradise Park, Queens Boulevard (the musical), Iphigenia 2.0, King Hedley II (Signature Theatre Company), Pretty Chin Up (LAByrinth Theater Company), Spring Awakening (Atlantic Theater Company), Windows (INTAR), The Great American Trailer Park Musical. Off-Off Broadway: The Female Heart, Equality Playwrights Festival (Diverse City Theater Company), The Bus to Buenos Aires (EST Marathon 2006, Series C), screwmachine/eyecandy (Clancy Productions). Regional: All My Sons (Emerge Theater Company). Chandra holds a BA in theater from The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and an MFA in stage management from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
Andrew K. Russell (Assistant Director) Directing: Grace by Jesse Cameron Alick (Freedom Train Productions), Sylvia by A.R. Gurney (The Dorset Theater Festival), Scream Queen by Ashley-Nicole Sherman (Carnegie Mellon University). Assistant Directing: Beau Willimon's Lower Ninth at The Flea Theater (dir. Daniel Goldstein), The Man Who by Peter Brook (dir. Aine Donnelly) and Fzzn Grrl by Mojie Crigler (dir. Jed Allen Harris) at CMU. Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, The Orchard Project, Old Vic New Voices. Andrew is Tony Kushner's assistant and works in creative development with Stone Productions. BFA, Carnegie Mellon University.
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