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Charlayne Woodard's Pretty Fire, Richard II, Advice from a Caterpillar, A Life in the Theatre, and Ira Levin's Cantorial (Outer Critics Circle nomination Best Design). Regional credits include A Comedy of Errors (Actors' Theatre of Louisville), As You Like It (Long Wharf), A Raising in the Sin (George Street Playhouse, Ford Theatre, D.C.), The Plough and the Stars (The Annenberg Center), A Moon for the Misbegotten (Studio Arena) and O' Pioneers! (Huntington Theatre). Mr. Nason's TV and film credits include "Great Performances: Live from Carnegie Hall," "Spirituals" featuring Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle, American Playhouse Presents "O' Pioneers!" (featuring Mary McDonnell), and the Tri-Star feature Sing.

FABIAN OBISPO (Original Music and Sound Designer). MTC debut. Mr. Obispo recently composed the score for Cymbeline at Playmakers Repertory Company, Ma Rose at Indiana Repertory Theatre and MaYi Theatre's production of Flipzoids at Theatre for the New City. New York theatre credits include The Dispute and Nothing Forever at NY Theatre Workshop (Rockefeller Foundation award); Kape Barako at The Public Theatre; Asiad at La MaMa E.T.C.; NATCO's production of Our Town at the Vineyard Theatre; Pinaytok and Woman from the Other Side of the World for Ma Yi Theatre Ensemble. He also wrote the music for Black Starline at the Goodman Theatre, Caucasian Chalk Circle and Yerma at Arena Stage, Iphigenia at Huntington Theatre, Children of the Sun at Kennedy Center; Muybridge Frames at the American Dance Festival and Salamisim at Lincoln Center. He is now working on The Rover for the Juilliard Drama Division and As You Like It for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

KATE BRODERICK (Production Stage Manager) most recently stage managed Bunny Bunny at the Philadelphia Theatre Company. Other stage management credits include The Slow Drag at The American Place Theatre, Claudia Shear's Blown Sideways Through Life, Lypsinka! A Day in the Life at the Cherry Lane Theatre, Watbanaland at the WPA Theatre, Tony Kushner's Slavs, the Obie Award-winning Quills by Doug Wright at the New York Theatre Workshop and Andre Gregory's Uncle Vanya. Kate has also stage managed at The Vineyard Theatre, Dorset Theatre Festival, Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Kate is a Founding Member and Associate Producer of the Adirondack Theatre Festival.

LYNNE MEADOW (Artistic Director) is currently directing Leslie Ayvazian's Nine Armenians at MTC's Stage I. Other recent directing credits for MTC include Donald Margulies' The Loman Family Picnic; NY premieres of Alan Ayckbourn's A Small Family Business (Broadway); Absent Friends; Woman in Mind; Lee Blessing's Eleemosynary, also at Spoleto Festival; Sally and Marsha by Sybille Pearson, also at Pepsico Summer Theatre; The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs by David Edgar; Catsplay by Istvan Orkeny, also at Promenade Theatre; the award-winning Askes by David Rudkin (MTC/NY Shakespeare Festival). Recipient of Lee Reynolds Award from National Theatre Conference, Distinguished Women's Award from Northwood Institute, Drama Desk for Outstanding Achievement, Torch of Hope and Margo Jones Awards, Prism Award from Central Synagogue. Served on Board of TCG, advisory panels of NEA, NYSCA, Fund for New American Plays. Taught at Circle in the Square, Yale, NYU, and SUNY Stony Brook. Graduate of Bryn Mawr and served on Board of Trsutees, attended Yale School of Drama. Married to Ronald Shechtman, a partner in the law firm Pryor, Cashman, Sherman and Flynn. 

BARRY GROVE (Executive Producer) is in his 22nd year in partnership with Artistic Director Lynne Meadow. Mr. Grove is president of the League of Off-Broadway Theatres, on the Board of Governors for the League of American Theatres and Producers, a trustee of the Equity-League Pension and Health Trust funds, on the board of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and the Non-Profit Coordinating Committee, and

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an adjunct professor in theatre management at Columbia University. He recently served the National Endowment for the Arts as chairman of the Professional Theatre Companies panel, is past chairman of the theatre panel for the New York State Council on the Arts and has served on the New York Department of Cultural Affairs advisory committee. He was president of the board of Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, treasurer of the board of Theatre Communications Group, and a consultant for The Foundation for the Extension and Development of the American Professional Theatre. He currently serves on the Board of Overseers of the Hopkins Center/Hood Museum of Art and is the past president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of New York. He is marries to Maggie Grove, Director of Planning and Development at Ballet Hispanice.

SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE. Founded in 1963, the Seattle Repertory Theatre presents six mainstage productions annually at the 856-seat Bagley Wright Theatre, as well as three productions and two to four New Play Workshops in the 286-sear Leo K. Theatre each year. The Rep serves approximately 200,000 audience members annually, including more than 30,000 students. Under the leadership of artistic director Daniel Sullivan and Managing Director Benjamin Moore, The Rep has achieved international acclaim for its leadership role in developing some of the most important new works in recent memory, including Neil Simon's London Suite, Herb Gardner's Conversations with My Father, Wendy Wasserstein's The Sisters Rosensweig, Lanford Wilson's Redwood Curtain and Bill Irwin's Largely/New York. The Rep received the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre in 1990.

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