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Strut at Ford's Theatre, has directed at The Ballroom, and served as comedy consultant to the Yale Repertory Theatre. A native of Dayton, Ohio, and a graduate of Kenyon College, he is currently working on a revue of original comedy material.

HANK JONES (Pianist and Conductor) is one of the most active and versatile jazz musicians, playing modern jazz, ragtime and pop music. He has worked on countless recordings, films, and television shows with such artists as Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson, Art Tatum, Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Ron Carter, Artie Shaw, Stan Getz, Sammy Davis, Harry Belafonte, Barbra Streisand, Carol Burnett, as well as his younger brothers, Elvin Jones and Thad Jones.

WILLIAM ELLIOTT (Vocal Arranger) received his training at Juilliard and the Manhattan School of Music. For the New York Shakespeare Festival he has composed music for Henry V, Summer Evening and the upcoming production of The Taming of the Shrew. He composed and conducted the off-Broadway musical C.O.R.F.A.X., for which he won the Obie Award for Best Musical Score. From 1971-78 he was the musical director of the La Mama Theatre and he also conducted the Italian version of Hair. He has twice been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and was the recipient of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Foundation Award. Currently he is composing a new musical, City Junket and will create the vocal arrangements for next season's Broadway revival of Oh, Kay!.

JOHN LEE BEATTY (Set Designer) has been represented on Broadway by Jules Feiffer's Knock, Knock, The Innocents directed by Harold Pinter, and David Mamet's The Water Engine. His scenery for Mamet's A Life in the Theatre is currently on view at the Theatre de Lys. His settings for Ashes and Rebel Women have been seen at the New York Shakespeare Festival. His many designs for Circle Repertory have won him an Obie Award as well as the opportunity to design premieres of plays by Tennessee Williams, Lanford Wilson, David Storey and Corinne Jacker. For the musical stage he has designed for the Goodspeed Opera House, The Los Angeles Civic Light Opera and the San Francisco Spring Opera. Mr. Beatty is a graduate of Brown U. and Yale School of Drama.

RANDY BARCELO (Costume Designer).  His design credits include The Magic

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Show, Jesus Christ Superstar (for which he received a Tony Award nomination), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Leaf People and Lenny. For the Vienna State Opera Les Troyen, for New York City Opera, Salome and Lily (a world premiere). In the dance world for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, The Mooche and Crosswords (for which he also designed the scenery), for Jeniffer Muller's The Works, Mondrian, Predicaments For Five and Lovers (all premiered in Europe). His work has also been seen at the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, in Richard III and other leading regional theatres around the country as well as Europe, South America and Australia. In other areas he has designed to the posters for off-off Broadway productions of Caligula, Carmencita and The Tempest and his paintings and other works of art have been exhibited both here and abroad.

PAT COLLINS (Lighting Designer) was educated at Brown University and Yale School of Drama. She spent her early career as a stage manager with the New York City Ballet and later as a production assistant to Jean Rosenthal at Stratford and on Broadway. Subsequently and for 10 years she worked exclusively in opera – as designer with companies in New York, Boston, Washington, St. Paul and Minneapolis, as producer of Opera Today, a company she founded in 1969. In 1974 she returned to theatre and in 1975 won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for lighting The Dybbuk. In 1977 she was nominated for a Tony Award for lighting The Threepenny Opera. This season she is represented off-Broadway with David Mamet's A Life in the Theatre.

EMANUEL AZENBERG (Producer) has presented the following Broadway productions: James Goldman's The Lion in Winter, Hal Holbrook's Mark Twain Tonight!, Peter Weiss' The Investigation, Carl Reiner's Something Different, Melvin Van Peebles' Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death, Scapino, and The Poison Tree. Chapter Two is his fifth Neil Simon production, following The Good Doctor, The Sunshine Boys, God's Favorite, and California Suite.

DASHA EPSTEIN (Producer) began in the theatre as production assistant to Jule Styne, Lillian Hellman and Lester Osterman, and worked on such Broadway fare as Mr. Wonderful, Toys in the Attic and Miss Lonelyhearts. After taking time out to raise a family, she returned to the 

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and After (The Theatre).
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