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MARGARET EDSON (Playwright) was born in Washington, DC in 1961. Between earning degrees in history and literature, she worked in the cancer and AIDS inpatient unit of a research hospital. Wit, her first and only play, was written in 1991. It received its first production in 1995 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999. The HBO production won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Made for Television Movie in 2001. The play has received hundreds of productions in dozens of languages and is taught in classes ranging from high-school English to medical ethics. Edson is in her 19th year as a public school teacher. After many years teaching kindergarten, she currently teaches sixth grade social studies at Inman Middle School in Atlanta. She and her partner Linda Merrill are the proud parents of two sons, Tim, 11, and Pete, 9.
LYNNE MEADOW (Director) has been the visionary and artistic leader of Manhattan Theatre Club since 1972, creating work that has put the company at the forefront of the American theatre. Lynne has overseen hundreds of world, US and New York premieres; directed dozens of new plays on and off Broadway by America's and England's finest playwrights; and accepted every major theatre award (Tonys, Drama Desks, Obies, etc.) on behalf of the company.

Her shows as a director include: Donald Margulies' Collected Stories on Broadway; the 2001 Tony Award-nominated production of The Tale of the Allergist's Wife on Broadway, at MTC; the Broadway production of A Small Family Business; Donald Margulies' The Loman Family Picnic, Off-Broadway; Alan Ayckbourn's award-winning Woman in Mind and Absent Friends; the Obie Award-winning Ashes by David Rudkin; Charles Busch's Our Leading Lady; David Greig's The American Pilot; Ron Hutchinson's Moonlight and Magnolias; Marsha Norman's Last Dance; David Edgar's The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs; Principia Scriptoriae; Lee Blessing's Eleemosynary; Biography; Simon Gray's Close of Play and Sally and Marsha.

Some of the world and New York premieres produced under her artistic direction include, the Fats Waller musical, Ain't Misbehavin'; Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart (Pulitzer Prize) and The Miss Firecracker Contest; Richard Greenberg's Eastern Standard; Stephen Sondheim's Putting It Together; Athol Fugard's Playland; Charlayne Woodard's Pretty Fire; Terrence McNally's Love! Valour! Compassion! (Tony Award for Best Play) and Lisbon Traviata; A.R. Gurney's Sylvia; David Lindsay-Abaire's Fuddy Meers, Rabbit Hole (Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award nomination for Best Play) and Good People; August Wilson's King Hedley II; David Auburn's Proof (Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play); Donald Margulies' Sight Unseen (Pulitzer Prize finalist) and Time Stands Still; John Patrick Shanley's Doubt (Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play); Alfred Uhry's LoveMusik suggested by the letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, Lynn Nottage's Ruined (Pulitzer Prize); George S. Kaufman's and Edna Ferber's The Royal Family; Lee Hall's The Pitmen Painters.

Lynne is a graduate of Bryn Mawr, and attended the Yale School of Drama. She has taught at Yale, Fordham, NYU, etc. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lee Reynolds Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women, the Manhattan Award from Manhattan Magazine, the Person of the Year from National Theatre Conference, the Margo Jones Award, the 2003 Mr. Abbott Award, and this past spring The Lucille Lortel Award for lifetime achievement and The Lilly Award for Lifetime Achievement.
SANTO LOQUASTO (Scenic Design) designs for theatre, film, dance and opera. He has received three Tony Awards and has been nominated 15 times. Recent NY theatre designs include Waiting for Godot, Fences and The Cherry Orchard. He received the Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration in 2002, was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2004, received the Pennsylvania Governor’s Award for the Arts in 2006 and the Robert L.B. Tobin Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2007.
JENNIFER VON MAYRHAUSER (Costume Design) has designed costumes for more than 20 Broadway shows and many Off-Broadway plays and was awarded an Obie for Sustained Excellence. Plays for MTC include Rabbit Hole and Come Back, Little Sheba. She is currently designing the new CBS series “Unforgettable.” Her work on “Law & Order” received an Emmy nomination. Feature films include The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Pippa Lee, Mystic Pizza, Lean on Me and I’m Not Rappaport. Jennifervonmayrhauser.com
PETER KACZOROWSKI (Lighting Design). MTC: Venus in Fur, Time Stands Still, After the Night and the Music, A Small Family Business, The Loman Family Picnic, Italian American Reconciliation, Bad Habits, The Years. Broadway: more than 40 plays and musicals including The Road to Mecca; Nice Work If You Can Get It; Born Yesterday; Anything Goes; That Championship Season; Driving Miss Daisy; A View From the Bridge; Waiting for Godot; Curtains; Grey Gardens; Contact; The Producers; Kiss Me, Kate; Steel Pier. Extensive Off-Broadway, resident and regional credits. Opera: the Met, NYCO, San Francisco, Houston Grand, Santa Fe, LAMCO, Seattle. Abroad: Royal Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera/North, Maggio Florence, L’Arena di Verona, La Fenice, Bonn, Lisbon. Recipient of Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Drama League and Hewes Design Awards.
JILL BC Du BOFF (Sound Design). MTC: Good People, Close Up Space, From Up Here, The Whipping Man, Cradle and All. Broadway:Other Desert Cities, Good People, The Constant Wife, The Good Body, Bill Maher: Victory…. Off-Broadway includes Atlantic, Vineyard, MCC, Playwrights Horizons, the Public, Second Stage, NYTW, WP, New Georges, Flea, Cherry Lane, Signature, Clubbed Thumb (Affiliate Artist), the New Group. Regional: Bay Street, La Jolla, Cincinnati Playhouse, Westport Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, Portland Stage, Long Wharf, the Alley, NYS&F, Humana, Williamstown, ATF. Radio: Studio 360. Nominations: Drama Desk, Henry Hewes Awards; Ruth Morley Design Award; 2011 Obie for Sustained Excellence. Adjunct professor at Sarah Lawrence College. Love to Adam.
BARCLAY STIFF (Production Stage Manager). Broadway: The House of Blue Leaves, Elling, Enron, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Mary Stuart, The Country Girl, The Seafarer, Inherit the Wind, Losing Louie, Shining City, Whoopi, Hedda Gabler, The Price. Off-Broadway: Gruesome Playground Injuries, Farragut North, Beauty of the Father, A Picasso, House/Garden, From Door to Door, Juvenilia, Frank’s Home, Debbie Does Dallas, Fully Committed. Williamstown: eight seasons. Thanks to a great team with Kelly, Aaron and McKenzie.