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Malcolm Gets (Kemp) New York theatre: The Story of My Life; Amour (Tony and Drama Desk nominations); A New Brain; The Molière Comedies; Merrily We Roll Along (Drama Desk nomination, Obie Award); The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Obie); Hello Again; Boys and Girls; Finian’s Rainbow; Polish Joke; Juno; and The Boys From Syracuse and The Apple Tree, both for the Encores! series. Regional credits include Williamstown, Yale Rep, Hartford Stage, ACT, Goodspeed and Westport Playhouse. He was Richard, the tortured artist, on NBC’s “Caroline in the City.” Films include Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, Love in the Time of Money, Adam and Steve, Sex and the City and HBO’s Grey Gardens. Gets sings on many original cast CDs, including Barbara Cook’s Mostly Sondheim, his Carnegie Hall debut. His first solo CD, The Journey Home, was released in June 2009 for PS Classics with John McDaniel as conductor. He is a graduate of the University of Florida and Yale School of Drama. Helen Stenborg (Grace) Appeared on Broadway in with Liam Neeson and Laura Linney, Waiting in the Wings (Tony Nomination) with Lauren Bacall and Rosemary Harris, A Month in the Country with Helen Mirren and A Life. She and her husband, Barnard Hughes, toured the country in DA. They were honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Drama Desk in 2000. Off Broadway; the Pullitzer Prize winning Wit with Kathleen Chalfant, many plays at Circle Rep, including the original productions of Lanford Wilson’s Hot L Baltimore, The Fifth of July and Talley and Son (Obie Award). Film work includes Academy Award winning short, Her Mother Dreams, On the Hook with Frank Langella and Elliot Gould, and Doubt. Extensive work in television on 16 seasons at the O’Neill Playwrights Conference. Morris Panych (Writer) A native of Edmonton, Alberta, Morris Panych is arguably Canada’s most celebrated playwright and director. His plays have garnered countless awards including two Governor General’s Literary Awards for Drama (for The Ends of the Earth and most recently, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl) Canada’s most prestigious literary honour, fourteen Jessie Richardson Awards, three Sidney Riske Writing Awards and five Dora Mavor Moore Awards. Productions of the much lauded Vigil (Auntie and Me), Girl in the Goldfish Bowl and Lawrence and Holloman are currently being mounted throughout Canada, the US, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. In celebration of its 20th anniversary, 7 Stories will be staged in Toronto at The Canadian Stage Company in early 2010. His groundbreaking work The Overcoat is currently touring worldwide to great acclaim and its film version, which Mr. Panych also directed, won an honourable mention at the Prix Italia. His plays have been produced in over a dozen languages; he has written twenty-five works for the stage. Mr. Panych has directed over 90 productions across Canada including Art, Take Me Out, Vigil, Amadeus, Sweeney Todd, Hysteria (Canadian Stage Company), A Little Night Music, Nothing Sacred, You Can Never Tell, Design For Living (Shaw Festival), Parfumerie, The Government Inspector, Blythe Spirit (Soulpepper), Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, The Dishwashers (Tarragon Theatre). Acting credits include guest starring roles on Just Cause, Davinci's Inquest, Beggars and Choosers, Cold Squad and a recurring role on the hit series X-Files as well as over fifty stage productions. He starred in a highly successful production of Vigil at Vancouver Playhouse recently and was recently featured in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot for Birdland Theatre in Toronto. In 2008 Mr. Panych made his Stratford Shakespeare Festival directorial debut with his highly successful adaptation of Moby Dick. In the same year he premiered two new works, Benevolence at Tarragon Theatre in Toronto and The Amorous Adventures of Antelope at The Vancouver Playhouse. He returns to The Stratford Festival in 2009 to direct the premiere of his latest work The Trespassers. Mr. Panych is thrilled to be directing Olympia Dukakis in Vigil at The American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco in the spring of 2010. Mr. Panych makes his home in Toronto. His website address is 2x2ltd.com. Stephen DiMenna (Director) is the Artistic Director of The MCC Theater Youth Company, an ensemble of NYC youth that creates original productions within a professional Off-Broadway theatre. He is on the faculty at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, Program in Educational Theatre. He is the co-founder of The International Theatre and Literacy Project which conducts playwriting and literacy workshops for children in developing countries particularly Tanzania and Ethiopia. He has conducted artist-in-the-schools residencies for 30 years working with diverse populations of students and teachers. In New York he is currently a senior teaching artist for Theatre Development Fund, MCC Theatre, and City Center He is the director of The Hennepin County Home School Drama Project where he conducts workshops with incarcerated juvenile felons in a detention facility in Minneapolis. He was the founder and Artistic Director of The Fuller Young People’s Theatre in Minneapolis for ten years where he created over 60 original plays, musicals and operas for young people. He was the director of Advanced Theatre studies at the the Perpich Center for Arts Education in Minneapolis, a statewide residential arts high school. He appeared as Glen in the movie CAMP produced by Danny DeVito. He is a member of SSDC and The Drama League. Directing credits include: NEW YORK: Vigil, Westport Playhouse; When We Were Singing, The Harold Clurman Theatre; The Messenger (with Amy Redford and Troy Gariety) and Timekeepers (with Alan Cumming and Ron Rifkin) Rattlestick Theatre; The Grabelski Concertos, Mint Theatre; Breathing Under Water, MCC Theater; Delerious, Forbidden Love, Ten Days, Beneath My Feet, The Stand, and UnCensored, MCC Youth Theater Company; Gone Missing, HB Playwrights foundation; September and The Saintly Sinner, Young Playwrights Inc.; A Silver Throne, The Drama League; Prometheus Bound (by Steven Sater), Ensemble Studio Theatre; Timor Mortis (with John Heard), The Players Club; Incidents in the Life of a Slave, NYU/Tisch School of the Arts. In 1996 he assistant directed Robert Wilson on the opera Time Rocker at The Thalia Theatre in Hamburg, Germany. Prior to moving to New York he lived in Minneapolis where he was the Artistic Director of InitialStage Theatre where he directed Wendy Hammond’s Jersey City, David Freeman’s Creeps and other new plays. He directed Tiny Island by Michael Hollinger at The Guthrie Theater as well as plays at The Cricket Theatre, The Playwright’s Center, The Minnesota Opera, The Children’s Theatre Company, The Minnesota Shakespeare Company and Gemini, Woman in Mind, A Perfect Ganesh and Ten November at Theatre-in-the-Round. He was Associate Director of The History Theatre where he directed The Kentucky Cycle, Hauptmann, The Great Gatsby, Small Town Triumphs, Scott and Zelda, and Through The Wheat. He was the Artistic Director of The Fuller Young People’s Theatre from 1977-1987 in Minneapolis where he produced and directed over 60 new plays and musicals for young people. He was a director at Princeton University where he stages the Princeton Triangle Club annual musical at the McCarter Theatre. He appeared as Glen in Todd Graff’s film CAMP in 2003. Andromache Chalfant (Scenic Design) New York: Inked Baby (Playwrights Horizons), Brooklyn at Eye Level (Brooklyn Lyceum), School of the Americas (Henry Hewes Nomination), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (LAByrinth and The Public Theater), The Internationalist (The Vineyard Theater) Regionally: Six Degrees of Separation (The Old Globe), Endgame (The American Repertory Theatre), Awake and Sing! (Arena Stage), The Clean House (Cleveland Playhouse), Faust (Minnesota Opera), Semele (Opera Boston), The Abduction From the Seraglio (Opera Omaha), Postcard From Morocco (The Curtis Institute). Andromache is an Associate Artist of The Civilians and a LAByrinth Theater Company member. Ilona Somogyi (Costume Design) Recent New York credits include Home, Jerry Springer: The Opera, Almost an Evening by Ethan Coen, The Piano Teacher, Celebration and The Room, The American Pilot, Fever Chart, Controversy at Valladolid and F---ing A at The Public. She also served as Associate Designer for Spamalot, and Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus. She has worked regionally at Yale Rep, Hartford Stage, Westport Country Playhouse, Arena Stage, South Coast Rep, Williamstown Theater Festival, Long Wharf Theater, and Dallas Theater Center among others. Ms. Somogyi is on faculty at Yale School of Drama. Ed McCarthy (Lighting Design) Broadway: Adaptation of Coram Boy, which received a 2007 Tony nomination for Best Lighting of a Play; the BC/EFA Benefit production of Once on This Island. Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular 2005. Over 30 Off and Off-off Bway shows. Concerts include Florence Henderson, Judy Collins. Associate LD for all companies of Mamma Mia! in the US, Canada and Mexico, White Christmas, many others. Television: Lighting Director for Grammys, Tony Awards, more. Greg Pliska (Original Music/Sound Design) Most recently: Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in the Park; music supervisor, arranger). Film/TV: Blood in the Water (Composer; Discovery Channel “Shark Week” premiere); The Wildest Dream (orchestrator); Dominick Dunne: Power, Privilege and Justice (various episodes); various shorts. Off-Broadway, as composer: Songs from an Unmade Bed (NYTW), Pericles (Red Bull), Window Man (Creation Productions), A Prince Inside (Henry St. Settlement). Orchestrator for recordings by REM, Carly Simon, Michael Stipe, Cat Power and Karen Elson, etc. Angela Allen (Stage Manager) Broadway: 15th Anniversary Reunion Benefit of The Who’s Tommy (SM, August Wilson Theatre). Off-Broadway: both productions of Flamingo Court (ASM, NWS); The Tales of Custard the Dragon (PSM, DR2); Die Mommie Die! (PA, NWS). BFA in Stage Management, Hofstra University. Angela is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. Angelo Fraboni (Producer) Currently is the lead producer and General Manager of the critically acclaimed off-broadway sensation Celebrity Autobiography: In their Own Words, winner of the 2009 Drama Desk Award for Best Unique Theatrical Experience. He is in association with Carl Moellenberg on the Broadway productions of Speed the Plow, Hair, and Mary Stuart. He was the General Manager of the Off Broadway production of Burleigh Grime$ starring Mark Moses and Wendie Malick at New World Stages in NY. On stage, he produced the weekly comedy series Campaign ‘04, Unzipped starring Judy Gold at the Zipper Theater in New York, co-produced and general managed the highly successful children’s show It’s Magic Al’s World at Playwrights Horizon’s Peter Sharp Theater, and the critically acclaimed Off Broadway series Singular Sensations with Carol Channing, at the Village Theater in New York City. Fraboni produced the music and the Holiday CD for Fox TV’s Rankin/Bass Christmas Animated Feature, Santa Baby starring the voices of Patti LaBelle, Eartha Kitt, Vanessa Williams, and Gregory Hines. He was the executive producer for the inaugural season of MLCPA. Fraboni produces corporate rollout shows for Ford, Saab, GM, Chrysler and Delphi’s Roady 2 with Studio Creative out of Detroit and does event planning and production. He managed the national concert tour for two time Tony and Emmy Award winner Bebe Neuwirth and was Associate producer on an the Independent Film, Moving Mike, with St. Jude Pictures that is currently in at festivals. He currently has 3 projects in development. Daryl Roth (Producer) Daryl Roth is an independent theatrical producer working in New York. She is proud to hold the singular distinction of producing six Pulitzer Prize winning plays: August: Osage County by Tracy Letts (Tony Award Best Play); Proof by David Auburn (Tony Award Best Play); Wit by Margaret Edson; How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel; Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz; and Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women. Through her company, Daryl Roth Productions, she has produced over 50 Broadway and off-Broadway plays and musicals since her first production in 1988. Her name has become synonymous with high-quality, intelligent and challenging theatre. Her multiple award winning productions include August: Osage County; Irena’s Vow; Mary Stuart; Desire Under the Elms; Dear Edwina; Thurgood; A Catered Affair; Curtains; Is He Dead?; The Year of Magical Thinking; Coram Boy; Inherit the Wind; Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf; Caroline, or Change; Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (Tony Award Best Play); The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife; Salome; Medea; and Anna Deavere Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. Off-Broadway productions include Love, Loss and What I Wore; The Temperamentals; Die, Mommie, Die!; Indoor Outdoor; Esoterica; Manuscript; Thom Pain (based on nothing); Our Lady of 121st Street; Tea at Five; Talking Heads; Harlem Song; The Play About the Baby; Beckett/Albee; Snakebit; Defying Gravity; Camping with Henry and Tom; Old Wicked Songs; The Baby Dance; and Closer Than Ever. De La Guarda ran for seven years as the inaugural production at the Daryl Roth Theatre, the landmarked former Union Square Savings Bank. In addition to the 299-seat mainstage, the complex also features the DR2, a 99-seat theatre that welcomes new plays as well as programming for young audiences, and the D-Lounge cabaret. Ms. Roth made her film debut with the Emmy-nominated HBO feature, Dinner with Friends, based on Donald Margulies’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Other films include The Lady in Question is Charles Busch and A Very Serious Person. Upcoming projects include the documentary, Stories My Dog Told Me, and a feature film based on the upcoming novel Apologize, Apologize. In 1996 Ms. Roth launched the Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award, an annual honor presented to gifted theatre artists providing them with support as they develop new work in an artistic residency. Since its inception, it has been awarded to Mark Brokaw, Sinan Unel, Steven Williford, Sybille Pearson, G.W. Mercier, Edwin Sanchez, Debra Monk, Kia Corthron, Michael Wilson, Karen Hartman, Musical Theatre Works, The LABrinth Theatre, and New Dramatists. Ms. Roth serves on the Board of Directors of Lincoln Center Theatre, New York State Council on the Arts, and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She was profiled in The New Yorker and twice included in Crain’s “100 Most Influential Women in Business.” She is married to real estate developer Steven Roth and together they have two children and four grandchildren. Carl Moellenberg (The Watchful Group) Broadway credits : Hair (Tony award for Best Revival of a Musical), Spring Awakening (Tony award for Best Musical), Mary Stuart, Speed-The-Plow, and 13. Upcoming season: Hamlet, The Addams Family Thomas Lombardi (The Watchful Group) Vigil is Tom's first involvement in producing theatre. He's grateful to be associated with the other members of The Watchful Group. Andy Sandberg (The Watchful Group) Andy made his Broadway producing debut with Hair (Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle Awards). Upcoming: The Last Smoker in America, a new musical by Tony nominee Bill Russell and Drama Desk nominee Peter Melnick; A Perfect Future, a new play by David Hay. Andy also works as a director and actor. He assisted Hal Prince on the Broadway production of LoveMusik (SSDC Fellowship). B.A. Yale University. Proud member of AEA and the SDC. www.AndySandberg.com Lorenzo Thione (The Watchful Group) Producer credits: Slava's Snowshow on Broadway (Assoc. Prod), Xanadu (National Tour, Assoc. Prod.). Additional positions: [title of show], West Side Story, Little House on the Prairie, Catch Me If You Can, Addams Family. Lorenzo is producing two new, original musicals: Allegiance, a story of love, loss and heroism during the Japanese American internment (with Lea Salonga and George Takei) and Worlds Apart, both by composer/lyricist Jay Kuo. Lorenzo is the Managing Director of the San Francisco New Theatre Workshop and a founder of Powerset, a natural language search engine company acquired in 2008 by Microsoft and integrated into its recently launched search engine, Bing. Alexander Fraser (Associate Producer) Alexander joins Daryl Roth Productions after working as a producer, general manager and nonprofit executive on over 75 Broadway, Off-Broadway, West End and touring shows. Broadway: Irena’s Vow, Bombay Dreams, Topdog/Underdog, Crazy for You; Off-Broadway: Dear Edwina, What’s That Smell, Jitney, Saturday Night, Jar the Floor. Executive Director, Second Stage Theatre (1996–2001). Kristine Lewis (Associate Producer) Kristine Lewis was managing producer on Burleigh Grime$ and associate producer on Enchanted April. She’s founder and artistic director of Theatre Arts Center (since 1987), producing the premier productions of MTI's Jr. shows (Drowsy Chaperone, Thorougly Modern Millie to name a few) Along with casting partner, Jamie Fox she is producing That’s What Kids Do, a new musical opening regionally this fall. The two are investors on Spring Awakening, now touring. Jodi Schoenbrun Carter (Producer) Jodi has served as Managing Director of Westport Country Playhouse (A.D. Joanne Woodward & Anne Keefe), General Manager of Signature, Vineyard and MCC Theatres, and a nonprofit theater consultant. Off-Broadway credits include original productions of Wit, Fully Committed, Avenue Q and revivals of The Trip to Bountiful and Seven Guitars. www.off-stage-right.com Adam Hess (General Manager) Adam manages the Daryl Roth Theatre, DR2 Theatre and D-Lounge Cabaret. General Management credits include Love, Loss And What I Wore, Dear Edwina, What’s That Smell: The Music of Jacob Sterling, Die Mommie Die, Sandra Bernhard: Everything Bad & Beautiful, and Thom Pain (based on nothing). Hailing from Toronto, Adam holds a M.F.A. in Theatre Management and Producing (Columbia University) and a B.F.A. in Musical Theatre (University of Michigan). Lewis & Fox Casting (Casting) Kristine Lewis and Jamie Fox- MindGame (w/Keith Carradine) Burleigh Grime$ (w/Wendie Malick), Timor Mortis (w/ John Heard), Vigil (Westport), Film: Open Air (short w/Lynn Cohen) currently winning awards on the festival circuit, Love Ludlow (Sundance Selection), upcoming: The Fix, House of Last Things and feature about 2004 Ukrainian election. Numerous readings for Nuyorican Fifth-Night Series, Olympic Torch Services (celebrity casting).
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