Berlin); the long-running play Life With Father
(which originally starred Lindsay); the Pulitzer
Prize winning State of the Union; and The
Great Sebastians, written for the Lunts. Their
producing credits included The Hasty Heart,
Detective Story, and Arsenic and Old Lace.
JACK O’BRIEN (Original Director).
Upcoming: The Hard Problem at Lincoln
Center. Broadway: Rodgers & Hammerstein’s
Carousel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,
The Front Page, It’s Only a Play, Macbeth,
The Nance, Dead Accounts, Catch Me If You
Can, Impressionism, The Coast of Utopia
(Tony Award), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
(Tony nomination), Henry IV (Tony Award),
Hairspray (Tony Award), Imaginary Friends,
The Invention of Love (Tony nomination,
Drama Desk Award), The Full Monty (Tony
nomination), More to Love, Getting Away
With Murder, Pride’s Crossing, The Little
Foxes, Hapgood (Lucille Lortel Award,),
Damn Yankees, Two Shakespearean Actors
(Tony nomination), Porgy and Bess (Tony
nomination). Metropolitan Opera: Il Trittico.
Carnegie Hall: Guys and Dolls. Public Theater
Central Park: Much Ado About Nothing.
London: Love Never Dies, Hairspray (Olivier
nomination). National Theatre: His Girl Friday.
Artistic Director of the Old Globe Theatre,
1981 – 2007. Six productions for PBS’s
American Playhouse. Books: Jack Be Nimble,
publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
MATT LENZ (Tour Director). Broadway:
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Hairspray,
Catch Me If You Can, The Velocity of Autumn
(Associate Director on original productions),
Beauty and the Beast (Resident Director).
Off-Broadway: Pageant: The Musical (Drama
Desk nomination), The Irish Curse (Soho
Playhouse), Idaho! (NYMF), The Great
Daisy Theory, Fingers and Toes (NYMF) and
Alan Ball’s The Amazing Adventures of Tense
Guy. National Tours: A Christmas Story: The
Musical, Cheers! Live On Stage, Catch Me
If You Can and Lenz also directed
productions of Hairspray in South Africa, U.K.,
Toronto, Las Vegas and Germany. Regional:
Paper Mill Playhouse, George Street Playhouse,
St. Louis MUNY, Ogunquit Playhouse, Cape
Playhouse, North Carolina Theatre, Maltz
Jupiter Theater, Zach Theatre, Gulfshore
Playhouse, Casa Manana, Gateway Playhouse,
Short North Stage, Forestburgh Playhouse and
Stamford Center for the Arts. Lenz is a member
of SDC and a teaching artist with the Broadway
Dreams Foundation. mattlenzdirector.com
DANNY MEFFORD ( O r i g i n a l
Choreographer). Broadway: Dear Evan Hansen
(Tony Award, Best Musical), Fun Home (Tony
Award, Best Musical), Bloody Bloody Andrew
Jackson and
TV: NBC’s Rise. Other New York credits: Miss
You Like Hell, Venus, Love’s Labour Lost, Good
Person of Szechwan, Much Ado About Nothing,
Pump Boys and Dinettes, Melancholy Play and
Dance Dance Revolution. Directing: Becoming
Liv Ullmann, Wasted and The Maids. Danny
has been nominated for Drama Desk, Astaire
and Lortel Awards for choreography. Education:
University of Evansville and Brown University.
JONATHAN WARREN ( To u r
Choreographer). Broadway: Dear Evan
Hansen (Associate Choreographer), Wicked
(Dance Captain). National Tour: A Night with
Janis Joplin (Dance Supervisor). International:
Wicked Mexico City (Asst. Dance Supervisor).
Regional: A Night with Janis Joplin (A.C.T.,
The 5th Ave, and McCarter), La Cage Aux
Folles (Goodspeed). Film/Television: Outside
Providence. Performing Credits: Wicked, Peter
Pan, We Will Rock You, West Side Story, Cats,
ANDY EINHORN (Music Supervisor).
Broadway (music director/conductor): Carousel
(OBCR), Hello, Dolly! (OBCR, Grammy nom),
Bullets Over Broadway (OBCR), Rodgers
+ Hammerstein’s Cinderella (OBCR), Brief
Encounter, Sondheim on Sondheim (OBCR,
Grammy nom.) Tours: Sweeney Todd, Rodgers
& Hammerstein’s South Pacific, The Light
in the Piazza, Mamma Mia!, The Lion King.
Regional: 92nd Street Y, Bay Street Theatre,
Houston Grand Opera, Goodspeed Opera
House, Signature Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare
Festival, Paper Mill Playhouse. Audra
McDonald’s music director (including Carnegie
Hall, San Francisco Symphony, Sydney Opera
House, albums: Sing Happy and Go Back
Home) TV: Six by Sondheim (HBO, Peabody
Award), Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy
(Great Performances, Peabody Award). Honors
graduate Rice University.
DOUGLAS W. SCHMIDT (Scenic Designer)
has designed more than 200 productions over
the past 50 years. Highlights: New York Drama
Desk Awards for the Andrews Sisters’ musical
Over Here and Ira Levin’s Veronica’s Room,
Neil Simon’s They’re Playing Our Song,
Bernard Slade’s Romantic Comedy, Howard
Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch’s musical Smile,
the original production of Grease, and the
now legendary multi-million dollar spectacle
Frankenstein, which closed on opening night.
In 1983 he designed Jack O’Brien’s spectacular
production of Porgy and Bess at Radio City
Music Hall, which also toured in America and
Europe. Broadway: 2001 revival of 42nd Street
and this year’s remounting currently playing
The Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London
(Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics’ Circle
Award nominations) and the 2002 revival of
Into the Woods (Tony nomination, Drama Desk
and L.A. Ovation Awards). Other recent projects
include the Broadway production of The Front
Page, for which he was also nominated for a
Tony Award. The Sound of Music and The Front
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