LYNN REDGRAVE was born in London into a family of actors and has enjoyed a remarkable career on stage, screen and beyond spanning four decades. She has been nominated for 3 Tony Awards, 2 Oscars, 2 Emmys, a Grammy and most recently was the recipient of a 2008 New York Emmy. Film highlights include Georgy Girl (Oscar nomination, Golden Globe, New York Film Critics awards), Gods and Monsters (1999 Golden Globe, Independent Spirit Award, Oscar nomination), Shine (BAFTA and SAG nominations) and Kinsey. She was a founding member of The Royal National Theatre and is the author of four plays, Shakespeare For My Father (which examines her relationship with Sir Michael Redgrave), The Mandrake Root (loosely based on her mother, the actress Rachel Kempson) and Nightingale (a fictional meditation on the life of her maternal grandmother, Beatrice Kempson, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Solo Performance). She recently performed her newest work, Rachel and Juliet, at Washington, D.C.’s Folger Theatre and appeared Off Broadway in MCC Theater’s Grace, under the direction of Joseph Hardy. She has also written the text for Journal, A Mother and Daughter’s Recovery From Breast Cancer, featuring photographs by her daughter, Annabel Clark, currently in its third printing from Umbrage Editions. Recent film credits include The Jane Austen Book Club and the final Merchant / Ivory production, The White Countess, acting alongside sister Vanessa and her niece, the late Natasha Richardson. Recent television credits include ABC’s “Desperate Housewives,” "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" and this fall appearing with America Ferrera in the season premiere of "Ugly Betty." She can also be heard as the voice of Nanny in the animated film series of Me, Eloise and in the animated feature My Dog Tulip, which is premiering in September at the Toronto International Film Festival. Ms. Redgrave is a prolific “voice on tape” and her latest audio book release is Roald Dahl's The Witches (Grammy nomination).

JOSEPH HARDY (Director) previously directed the American premiere of Nightingale at Los Angeles’ Mark Taper Forum and Connecticut’s Hartford Stage. Nightingale marks his third collaboration with Ms. Redgrave, which began with the TV movie “The Seduction of Miss Leona” and continued with MCC’s production of Grace. For many years, Mr. Hardy has worked extensively in theatre, film and television throughout the United States and abroad, from eight years with a production company in Paris to acting as Executive Producer for such iconic television programs as “General Hospital” and “Knots Landing,” to name a few. A Tony Award winner for Child’s Play, Mr. Hardy is also the recipient of two Drama Desk Awards and a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award. East Coast directing highlights include the original Broadway productions of Gigi and Play It Again, Sam with Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, the revival of Night of the Iguana with Richard Chamberlin and Dorothy McGuire, and the original Off-Broadway production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. He is an associate artist of The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego and has worked there since 1982. Mr. Hardy currently resides in New York and is Artistic Advisor for the Red Bull Theater.

TOBIN OST (Set Design). Broadway: The Philanthropist (costume and associate set design); Brooklyn the Musical (costume and associate set design). Off-Broadway: Grace for MCC Theater (set design); The Overwhelming for Roundabout Theatre Company (Costume Design and associate set design); Zanna, Don’t! (co-set and costume design); Almost Heaven (costume design); and Fighting Words (set design). Selected regional: Pippin for the Mark Taper Forum; The Civil War and Shenandoah for Ford’s Theatre; Nightingale for the Mark Taper Forum and Hartford Stage Company; Sleeping Beauty Wakes for the Kirk Douglas Theatre; Elegies for Barrington Stage Company; Himself and Nora for the Old Globe. Current: Bonnie & Clyde for La Jolla Playhouse.

ALEJO VIETTI (Costume Design). New York: Rooms, Grace (MCC), Make Me a Song, Tryst, Roulette, The Last Sunday in June, 16 Wounded, 2 X Tennessee, The Wau Wau Sisters, Servicemen, Five Flights, Of a White Christmas. Regional: Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, Arizona Theatre, Asolo Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Play House, Colorado Ballet, Florida Stage, Ford’s Theatre, Goodspeed, Guthrie Theater, Hangar Theatre, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf, NY Stage & Film, Northlight, Pasadena Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Co., Pittsburgh Public, San Diego Rep, Saint Louis Rep, Signature Theatre VA, Westport Country Playhouse and Williamstown Theatre Festival, among others. Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Donetsk Opera Ukraine. Ringling Bros Barnum & Bailey Gold Unit 08/09. Currently: Stephen Schwartz’s Séance on a Wet Afternoon.

RUI RITA (Lighting Design). Broadway: Dividing the Estate, Old Acquaintance, Enchanted April, The Price, A Thousand Clowns. Off-Broadway new play premieres: Signature Theatre Company: Horton Foote’s The Orphans’ Home Cycle; TFANA: Engaged (Obie Award); Manhattan Theatre Club: Moonlight and Magnolias; Lincoln Center Theater: Big Bill, The Carpetbagger’s Children, Far East, Ancestral Voices; Variety Arts: Dinner with Friends. Additional Off-Broadway/regional: Second Stage, The Public Theater, Alley Theatre, Alliance, American Conservatory Theater, CenterStage, Goodman Theatre, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre, Kennedy Center, Mark Taper Forum, Williamstown Theatre Festival and Lynn Redgrave’s The Mandrake Root at the Long Wharf & San Jose Rep.

JOHN GROMADA (Original Music & Sound Design). Broadway: Music for Dividing the Estate, Prelude to a Kiss, A Bronx Tale, Well, Rabbit Hole, Streetcar…, Twelve Angry Men, Proof, Sight Unseen, The Retreat from Moscow, A Few Good Men, others. Other NY: The Orphans’ Home Cycle, Shipwrecked!…, Streamers, Regrets Only, Pig Farm, Bach at Leipzig, Oedipus at Palm Springs, Small Tragedy, many others. Public Theater: Conversations in Tusculum, Henry V, Julius Caesar, The Skriker, Machinal, The Swan, many others. Regional: over 200 productions. Television: The Interrogators. Awards: Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, Obie, Eddy, Drama-Logue, NEA Opera/Music Theatre Fellowship, ASCAP awards. www.johngromada.com

C.A. CLARK (Production Stage Manager). Broadway: Lynn Redgrave’s Shakespeare for My Father, The Royal Shakespeare Company’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Take Me Out. Off-Broadway: Second Stage Theatre, Peter & Jerry; New York Theatre Workshop, Bach at Leipzig; Public Theater, Take Me Out, Helen, One Flea Spare; Playwrights Horizons, Fit to Be Tied. Regional: Hartford Stage Company, Nightingale; La Jolla Playhouse, The Cherry Orchard with Lynn Redgrave, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing; Long Wharf Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Berkshire Theatre Festival.