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BERT SOMMER (Woof) just had his own album, The Road to Travel, released on Capitol Records. A native of Westchester, Bert has authored several songs, including And Suddenly, And When It's Over and Ivy, Ivy. Hair marks his Broadway bow, as he repeats a role he first played in the Los Angeles production.

TOM O'HORGAN (Director) has staged most of the acclaimed productions that have emerged from Cafe La Mama; in addition Mr. O'Horgan has directed Tom Paine by Paul Foster at Stage 73 and Rochelle Owens' Futz at Actors Playhouse. He is the recipient of an Obie Award as the best off Broadway director of 1967. He has just received the Brandeis Award for Creative Arts.

GEROME RAGNI & JAMES RADO (Co-authors) wrote the non-book and lyrics of Hair, their first theatre piece. They have started and hope to continue writing another show in the near future once they have liberated themselves. Rado, Ragni and MacDermott have recently formed a love-rock singing group called Hair just to confuse heads.

GALT MacDERMOT (Composer) piano player, organist, choir director, African and love-rock musicologist.

ROBIN WAGNER (Scenic Designer) - Mr. Wagner's designs in New York include The Lincoln Center productions of Galileo and The Condemned of Altona, earlier this season The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald and A Certain Young Man. His off Broadway credits include In White America, A View From the Bridge, Cages, Between Two Thieves, The Prodigal and many others. He has been principal designer for Washington's Arena Stage, and has worked with many regional theatre companies and as a theatre consultant. 

JULIE ARENAL (Dance Director) was assistant to Ann Sokolow on the training program of the Lincoln Center Repertory Theatre. She has choreographed several productions for the Theatre Company of Boston, including Marat/Sade, also choreographed for the Loeb Theatre at Harvard and Atlanta's Municipal Theatre. She has appeared off Broadway in This Side of Paradise. She has danced primarily with Anna Sokolow, Sophie Maslow, John Butler, Jack Cole and Jose Limon. She teaches at the Herbert Berghof Studio and is married to actor Barry Primus. She directed the current Stockholm production and restaged the London edition of Hair.

NANCY POTTS is one of New York's busiest and most highly acclaimed young designers. At 27, she has to her credit over 35 Broadway and Off-Broadway productions and has twice received the coveted Tony Award Nomination. Her costumes for last season's Pantagleize earned both the Maharam Distinguished Design Award and the Saturday Review of Literature Best Costume Award. Miss Potts' designs for Hair recently received the Theatre Yearbook Award for best musical costuming of the 1967/68 season. She is the principal designer for New York's distinguished APA Repertory Theatre and has been most recently represented on Broadway with that company's production of The Misanthrope.

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JULES FISHER (Lighting Designer) - Mr. Fisher's most recent Broadway credits are: Black Comedy, Hail Scrawdyke, You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running and Grand Music Hall of Israel. Off Broadway he was lighting designer for: You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, Eh?, Iphigenia in Aulis and Scuba Duba.

MICHAEL BUTLER (Catalyst) - In his role as the new type of Producer in American theatre, Mr. Butler is adding another dimension to an already staggering variety of interests. As scion of the oldest family firm in Illinois, he is involved in real estate, paper, aviation, banking, electronics, ranching, recreation and spectator sports, and takes an active interest in politics. His motivation for being catalyst is his public declaration and belief in today.

BERTRAND CASTELLI (Executive Producer) - Mr. Castelli is a playwright and director. Among his credits are the ballets, Les Algues, Face To Face, Green Light, Red Light, the play, A Frenchman In New York which was produced as a film by Columbia Pictures, the play, The Umbrella, and the play, The Men's Room. In collaboration with his wife, the playwright Lorees Yerby, Mr. Castelli is the co-author of To Skin A Cat, and The City of Angels.

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