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[[2 pages]] WHO'S WHO IN THE CAST The World 1 Want to Get Off, among others. In addition he has stage managed national tours for Camelot, Fiddler on the Roof, Fences, A Chorus Line, You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running, Sophisticated Ladies and Come Blow Your Horn. For pre-Broadway productions, his credits include The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Chaplin, Medal of Honor Rag, The Prodigal Sister and Engaged. ED DE SHAE (Stage Manager), with a career spanning more than two decades, was last seen on Broadway with the production of Checkmates. Ed is honored to have worked with: McCarter Theater, Mark Taper Forum, the Los Angeles Festival, the Goodman Theater, the Guthrie Theater, the D.C. Black Repertory Co., Smithsonian Institute, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, the Negro Ensemble Co., the 1984 Olympic Arts Festival, FESTAC, the L.A. Theater Center, New Federal Theater, Radio City Music Hall Productions, Inner City Cultural Center and the UCLA Department of Theater, as lecturer and project manager. He gives special thanks to his mentors who fostered an appreciation of, and commitment to excellence, for more than art's sake. CAMILLE O. COSBY (Producer). Parent, education, producer, and philanthropist are just are just some of the hats worn by Camille O. Cosby. In the spring of 1992, Ms. Cosby became Dr. Cosby with the fulfillment of her Doctoral Degree in education at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Dr. Cosby's dissertation addressed the role of education in organizational development and she wrote a book based on her dissertational research titled Television's Imageable Influences: The Self-Perceptions of Young African-Americans (University Press of America, 1994). Recently, Dr. Cosby produced a sociological documentary titled "No Dreams Deferred." Also, Camille Cosby and Judith James are producing a film based on the life of Winnie Mandela. JUDITH RUTHERFORD JAMES (Producer) has produced a number of award-winning plays: Michael Shurtleff's Call Me By My Rightful Name starring Joan Hackett, Robert Duvall and Alvin Ailey, directed by Milton Katselas; William Snyder's The Days and Nights of Beebee Fenstermaker with Rose Gregorio, directed by Ulu Grosbard; Martin Duberman's In White America, starring, among others, Gloria Foster and Moses Gunn, directed by Harold Stone; and Lewis John Carlino's Cages, starring Shelley Winters and Jack Warden. In film production, Judith is partners with Richard Dreyfuss in Dreyfuss/James Productions. Most recently they were producers for Interscope/Disney of the movie Mr. Holland's Opus, and executive producers of Quiz Show. As a partner in C & J Productions, Judith has worked with Camille Cosby to bring the story of Winnie Mandela to the screen. ROBERT COLE (General Manager) provides General Management services for Broadway and Off-Broadway productions. As a producer he made his debut in 1984 with August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Producing and General Management credits include Eric Bogosian's Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll; Bob Berky's and Michael Moschen's The Alchemedians; Joan River's Sally Marr and her Escorts; Lanford Wilson's Redwood Curtain; Tony Kushner's Angels in America. Mr. Cole is a Governor of the League of American Theatres and Producers. He co-founded, with Beatrice Straight, the Michael Chekhov Studio, an acting school in NY. He teaches acting in NY and lives with his wife, Laura, and their children, Josh and Tim. McCARTER THEATRE, recipient of the 1994 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theater, has been New Jersey's leading performing arts center for 65 years, presenting a full range of dance, [[page 2]] theatre and music. For 35 seasons, the cornerstone of its programming has veen. its acclaimed Theater Series. In the 1990s, under the leadership of artistic director Emily Mann and managing director Jeffrey Woodward, McCarter has earned a national reputation for innovative interpretations of classics and new plays. Acclaimed productions include the world premiere of Joyce Carol Oates' The Perfectionist; the East Coast premiere of Anna Deacere Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992; Marriage Play, the first American production in a decade of a new play by Edward Albee; revivals of Hello & Goodbye, written and directed by Athol Fugard, and Tom Stoppard's Rough Crossing; and the 1992 American premiere of Marivaux's The Triumph of Love, which sparked a resurgence of interest in the 18th-century French playwright. Last season, McCarter inaugurated a new play festival, which included premieres by Adrienne Kennedy, Reggie Cheong-Leen, Deborah Tanned and Han Ong. This year's new play festival will feature premieres by Wendy Wasserstein, Thulani Davis, Paul Muldoon and Nilo Cruz. McCarter gratefully acknowledges support from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, the National Endowment for the Arts, Princeton University, and over 150 corporations and foundations and 2,200 McCarter Associates. AMY HILL HEARTH (Co-Author of the book Having Our Say), a native of Massachusetts and a resident of Westchester County, New York, has won numerous awards for her work on Having Our Say. Formerly, she was a journalist who was a regular contributor to the New York Times. Her second collaboration, The Delany Sisters' Book of Everyday Wisdom, was published in November of 1994. ----------------- Information in "Who's Who in the Cast" is provided by the production. Where opinions are expressed, they are those of the players, not necessarily those of PLAYBILL Magazine. ------------------ The Producers thank Chrysler Corporation for making possible a far reaching educational program impacting thousands of students with related materials and underwritten tickets. GENERAL MANAGEMENT ROBERT COLE PRODUCTIONS Robert Cole Jenny Besch ------------------------- GENERAL PRESS REPRESENTATIVE BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN Chris Boneau Andy Shearer Susanne Tighe ------------------------- COMPANY MANAGER......LISA M. POYER ------------------------- MARKETING MANAGER......KAREN ZORNOW ------------------------- MAKE-UP DESIGN......KATE BEST Stage Manager......Martin Gold Stage Manager......Ed De Shae Technical Supervision......Gene O'Donovan Associate Technical Supervisors......Laura Brown, Don Gilmore Hair Design......Denise O'Brien Production Carpenter......Walter Murphy Production Electrician......Donald Beck Production Propertywoman......Clara Sherman Wardrobe Supervisor......Aissatou j. Parks Hair and Make-up Supervisor......Eydie Marie Master Electrician......Jonathan K. Lawson Projectionist......Paul J. Sonnleitner Dresser......Donice Smalls Assistant to Camille o. Cosby......Helena Keohane Assistant to Judith James......Jayne Romyn Comptroller for C & J Theatre Productions, Inc.......Eli Chiu Assistant to the Director......Robert Milazzo Assistant Scenic Designer......Matthew Bills Assistant to Lighting Designer......David J. Lander Production Assistants......Jennifer Alexander, Rose M. Andrzejewski, Thomas Epstein, Joanna Sykes Casting......Elissa Myers CSA/Paul Fouqetcsa Dramaturgy......Janice Paran Sponsorship Consultant......Smookler Communications Educational Outreach......Dr. Jannette L. Dates Assistants to Dr. Dates......Karen E. Dates, Marva D. Belt Educational Outreach Consultant......Jacqueline Stromfield Legal Counsel......Seth Gelblum, Esq., Frankfurt, Garbus, Klein & Selz, P.C. Accounting......Anne Stewart Fitzroy, CPA Advertising......Cynthia Pallotto, Serino Coyne, Inc.
