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DONALD MARGULIES (Playwright) received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Dinner with Friends (Variety Arts Theatre (New York), Comedie des Champs-Elysees (Paris), Hampstead Theatre (London), Actors Theatre of Louisville, South Coast Repertory (Costa Mesa, CA); American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, Dramatists Guild/Hull-Warriner Award, Lucille Lortel Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama Desk nominee).
His many plays include Time Stands Still (Geffen Playhouse (Los Angeles), Manhattan Theatre Club/Friedman Theatre, Comedie des Champs-Elysees); Shipwrecked! An Entertainment – The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as told by himself), (South Coast Repertory, Long Wharf Theatre (New Haven), Geffen Playhouse, Primary Stages; Outer Critics Circle Award nomination); Brooklyn Boy (Manhattan Theatre Club/Biltmore Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Comedie des Champs-Elysees; American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award finalist, Outer Critics Circle nominee); Sight Unseen (Manhattan Theatre Club/Biltmore Theatre [Broadway, 2004], Manhattan Theatre Club/Orpheum Theatre [1992], South Coast Repertory, Comedie des Champs-Elysees; OBIE Award, Dramatists Guild/Hull-Warriner Award, Drama Desk nominee, Pulitzer Prize finalist); Collected Stories (Theatre Royal Haymarket (London), South Coast Repertory, Manhattan Theatre Club [1996], HB Studio/Lucille Lortel Theatre, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle/Ted Schmitt Awards, L.A. Ovation Award, Drama Desk nominee, Dramatists Guild/Hull-Warriner Award finalist, Pulitzer Prize finalist, Drama Desk nominee; MTC/Friedman [Broadway, 2010]); God of Vengeance (based on the Yiddish classic by Sholem Asch), ACT Theatre (Seattle), Williamstown (MA) Theatre Festival; Two Days (Long Wharf Theatre); The Model Apartment (Los Angeles Theatre Center, Primary Stages (New York), La Jolla (CA) Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre; OBIE Award, Drama-Logue Award, Dramatists Guild/Hull-Warriner Award finalist, Drama Desk nominee); The Lowman Family Picnic (Manhattan Theatre Club, Drama Desk nominee); What’s Wrong With This Picture? (Manhattan Theatre Club, Jewish Repertory Theatre (New York), Brooks Atkinson Theatre); Broken Sleep: Three Plays (Williamstown Theatre Festival); JULY 7, 1994 (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Found A Peanut (Joseph Papp/New York Shakespeare Festival); Pitching to the Star (West Bank Café); Resting Place (Theatre for the New City); Gifted Children, Zimmer and Luna Park (Jewish Repertory Theatre).
His plays have been performed at major theatres across the United States and around the world. Theatre Communications Group has published seven volumes of his work. Dinner with Friends was made into an Emmy Award-nominated film for HBO, and Collected Stories was presented on PBS. Currently, he is adapting the novel Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides into an HBO series.
Mr. Margulies has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He was the recipient of the 2000 Sidney Kingsley Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Theatre by a playwright. In 2005 he was honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters with an Award in Literature and by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture with its Award in Literary Arts. Mr. Margulies is an alumnus of New Dramatists and serves on the council of The Dramatists Guild of America. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1954, Mr. Margulies now lives with his wife, Lynn Street, a physician, and their son, Miles, in New Haven, Connecticut, where he is an adjunct professor of English and Theatre Studies at Yale University.
DANIEL SULLIVAN (Director)
For MTC, Mr. Sullivan directed Rabbit Hole, Brooklyn Boy, Sight Unseen, After the Night and the Music, Proof, In Real Life and Psychopathia Sexualis. Among his Broadway credits are The Homecoming; Prelude to a Kiss; Julius Caesar; Morning’s at Seven; I’m Not Rappaport; A Moon for the Misbegotten; The Heidi Chronicles; Conversations With My Father, Ah, Wilderness!; and The Sisters Rosenweig. Among his Off-Broadway credits are A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Intimate Apparel, Stuff Happens, Far East, Spinning into Butter, Dinner with Friends and The Substance of Fire. From 1981 to 1997, he served as Artistic Director of Seattle Repertory Theatre. Mr. Sullivan is the Swanlund Professor of Theatre at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
JOHN LEE BEATTY (Scenic Design). Broadway: A View From the Bridge, The Royal Family, Accent on Youth, The Color Purple, Doubt, Chicago, Dinner at Eight, Proof, Rabbit Hole, 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, Crimes of the Heart, Morning’s at Seven, among others. Off-B’way: The Substance of Fire, Road to Mecca, House and Garden, The Miss Firecracker Contest, A Life in the Theatre. Thirty-six seasons with MTC, Lincoln Center, Circle Rep, City Center Encores!. Tony, Obie, DD, OCC awards; Theatre Hall of Fame. Graduate of Brown and Yale School of Drama.
RITA RYACK (Costume Design) is happy to be designing Time Stands Still for Dan Sullivan and Donald Margulies a second time, and very happy to return to MTC and the NY theatre. MTC: The Loman Family Picnic, What’s Wrong With This Picture? It’s Only a Play, Hunting Cockroaches. Broadway: My One and Only (Tony nom.). Feature films include Casino, Hairspray, Cape Fear, Wag the Dog, Apollo 13, Ransom, A Bronx Tale, How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Oscar nom.), A Beautiful Mind, Rush Hour 2. Award: Obie for Sustained Excellence in Costume Design. Off-B’way: A Lie of the Mind, Anteroom, The Foreigner, The Vampires, etc. Regional: ART, Goodman, Yale Rep, Williamstown. Video: Michael Jackson’s Bad.
PETER KACZOROWSKI (Lighting Design). Previously for MTC: Ruined, A Small Family Business, The Loman Family Picnic, Italian American Reconciliation, Bad Habits. Broadway: more than 35 plays and musicals including A View From the Bridge; Waiting for Godot; Is He Dead?; Young Frankenstein; Curtains; Grey Gardens; The Producers; Kiss Me, Kate; Steel Pier. Extensive credits for most leading resident and regional theaters in the U.S. Opera: the Met, NYCO, San Francisco, Houston Grand, Santa Fe, Seattle. Abroad: Royal Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera/North, Maggio Festival Florence, L’Arena di Verona, La Fenice, Bonn, Lisbon. Awards: Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Drama-Logue and Hewes Design awards.
DARRON L WEST (Sound Design). His work for theatre and dance has been heard in more than 400 Broadway, Off-Broadway, national and international productions. Recipient of 2006 Lortel and AUDELCO Awards, 2004 and 2005 Henry Hewes Awards, Princess Grace, Obie and the Entertainment Design Magazine EDDY Award. Fifteen-year member of Anne Bogart’s SITI Company.
PETER GOLUB (Original Music). Broadway: Come Back, Little Sheba (MTC); Hedda Gabler. Recent Off-Broadway: Suddenly Last Summer (Roundabout), Macbeth (Delacorte), Measure for Pleasure (NYSF). Composer-in-residence at Charles Ludlam’s legendary Ridiculous Theatrical Company. Scores for NYSF, Williamstown, Playwrights Horizon, ART, Mark Taper Forum, Seattle Rep, Denver Center Theatre, Globe, Huntington and others. Musicals: Amphigorey with Edward Gorey and The Idiots Karamazov with Christopher Durang. Films include Frozen River, The Great Debaters, Outrage, Wordplay, The Laramie Project. Numerous concert works and ballets. Director of the Sundance FilmMusic Program. Currently at work on a musical based on Chekhov’s Platonov with Richard Nelson.
THOMAS SCHALL (Fight Director). Broadway: A View From the Bridge, After Miss Julie, Waiting for Godot, Mary Stuart, The Seafarer, 13, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Coram Boy, Journey’s End, The Woman in White, Wicked, Sixteen Wounded, Noises Off, Awake and Sing!, Life (x) 3, Art, The Women, The Iceman Cometh, Macbeth, etc. Off-Broadway: The Good Negro, Why Torture Is Wrong…, The Singing Forest, Hamlet, Mother Courage (Public Theater); Bernarda Alba, Dessa Rose, Belle Epoque, A Man of No Importance (Lincoln Center); Ruined (MTC); Beast (NY Theatre Workshop); Homebody/Kabul (BAM); First Breeze of Summer (Signature).
ROBERT BENNETT (Production Stage Manager). University of Michigan. Nicholas Nickleby (RSC), The Cherry Orchard (NYC, Moscow, Tbslisi, St. Petersburg, Tokyo). Broadway: I Remember Mama: The Musical, Bent, I Love My Wife, Dancing at Lughnasa, Nick & Nora, Awake and Sing!, American Buffalo, Desire Under the Elms, The Coast of Utopia. L.A.: La Cage aux Folles. Tour: Sugar Babies, Evita, My Fat Friend, Grease, Shenandoah, Guys and Dolls. Off-Broadway: Inner Voices, Groucho, Gertrude Stein and a Companion. Served as general manager at BAM and vice president of stage operations for Radio City Music Hall.
SHANNA SPINELLO (Stage Manager). Manhattan Theatre Club: After the Night and the Music and Brooklyn Boy. Off-Broadway productions include Still Life and Grace (both for Manhattan Class Company); The Fantasticks (currently at the Jerry Orbach Theater); Boy’s Life, The Scene and The Water’s Edge (all at Second Stage Theatre); Inner Voices (Premieres); Third (Lincoln Center Theater); Bingo! The Musical (sub); and Perfect Crime (sub). National tour: Monty Python’s Spamalot.
