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RICHARD MALTBY, JR. (Creator/Director) Broadway credits: Conceived/directed Ain't Misbehavin' (1978 Tony®, NY Drama Critics, Outer Critics and Drama Desk Awards. Also Tony Award® for Best Director); Fosse (1999 Tony®, Outer Critics and Drama Desk Awards). Lyricist: Miss Saigon (Evening Standard Award 1990, Tony® nomination for Best Score 1991.) Director and co-lyricist of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Song & Dance, 1986 (Tony Award® for star Bernadette Peters.) With composer David Shire: director/lyricist: Baby, 1983 (book by Sybille Pearson; seven Tony Award® nominations); Lyricist: Big, 1996 (book by John Weidman. Tony® nomination: Best Score). Off-Broadway credits: director/lyricist Starting Here, Starting Now, 1977 (Grammy Award® nomination); Closer Than Ever, 1989 (Outer Critics Circle Awards: Best Musical, Best Score.) Contributes devilish crossword puzzles to Harpers Magazine. Son of well-known orchestra leader; married to Janet Brenner; five children: Nicholas, David, Jordan, Emily and Charlotte.
LISA SHRIVER (Choreographer) Recent credits: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do (Capital Rep.), After The Ball (Irish Rep.), Where's Charley? (Goodspeed), Stephen Sondheim's 75th Birthday Celebration. She directed and choreographed An Evening Of Guys And Dolls with Tony Bennett, Vanessa Williams and Marissa Tomei. Off-Broadway: The Oldest Profession, The Joys Of Sex. Broadway (as Assistant Choreographer): The Producers, Oklahoma!, Amour, Titanic, Into The Woods, Sally Marr, A Christmas Carol, Thou Shalt Not. Film: A Beautiful Mind, Hysterical Blindness, Tony And Tina's Wedding, The House Of D. As Assistant: Center Stage, Mixed Nuts, The Polar Express. Love and thanks to Richard Maltby and to Brian.
JEFF LISENBY (Musical Director) has been conductor and/or keyboardist for Tennessee Repertory Theatre's Grease, Big River, A Chorus Line, Harlem Voices, Fiddler On The Roof, Sound Of Music, 1776; the Tennessee Performing Arts Center's Chicago, Annie Get Your Gun, City Of Angels, Will Rogers' Follies; the Starlight Theatre's Jesus Christ Superstar, Hair, Music Man; the Nashville Children's Theatre's SEUSSICAL; and for Opryland USA. He has toured extensively with the Mills Brothers, Boots Randolph, and Brenda Lee, and has accompanied such singing artists as Luciano Pavarotti, Al Wilson, Mitch Ryder, Mel Torme, Blake Shelton, Roy Clark, Lee Greenwood, Donna Summer, Tricia Yearwood, Dolly Parton, Three-Dog Night, Jamie O’Neil, and David Cassidy. He has twice been the national accordion champion and bronze medalist in international classical competitions. Lisenby has been a faculty member of the School of Music at Belmont University in Nashville for many years, and is active as a recording-session conductor, pianist, accordionist, keyboardist, arranger, and producer.
NEIL PATEL (Scenic Production Designer). Broadway: Sideman, 'Night Mother. Off-Broadway: Here Lies Jenny (Zipper), Dinner With Friends (Variety Arts Theater), Living Out (Second Stage), The Mercy Seat (MCC Theatre), Hurrah At Last, McReele (Roundabout), Between Us, Glimmer Glimmer And Shine (MTC), The Long Christmas Ride Home, The Argument, After Ashley (Vineyard Theatre), A Question Of Mercy, Bob, Quills, Slavs, Score, Unmade Bed (New York Theatre Workshop), Lobster Alice, On The Mountain (Playwrights Horizon), Dirty Tricks, Othello (NYSF). They Wrote That (Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil) Opera: Alcina (NYC Opera), Gloriana (Opera Theatre St. Louis), Madame Mao ( Santa Fe Opera). 2000 EDDY Award; 1996, 2000, 2003 Drama Desk Nominations; 1996 and 2001 OBIE for sustained excellence.
KEN BILLINGTON (Lighting Designer) Ken started his career with the off-Broadway hit Fortune And Men's Eyes. Since then he has designed over 80 Broadway and 70 Off-Broadway shows including Chicago, Fame, Lily Tomlin in The Search For Signs…, Footloose, Candide, Annie, Foxfire, Tru, Sweeney Todd, Side By Side By Sondheim, On The Twentieth Century, Annie Warbucks, Sylvia, London Suite and Snoopy. Other projects include Fantasmic! At Disneyland, Jubilee! At Bally's Las Vegas supervising Riverdance and for 26 years the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular. Ken is the recipient of the Tony, Drama Desk, Los Angeles Drama Critics, and Ace Awards and the Luman for his architectural lighting.
DAVID C. WOOLARD (Costume Designer) Broadway credits include All Shook Up, 700 Sundays, The Smell Of The Kill, The Rocky Horror Show (2001 Tony Award nominations), Voices In The Dark, The Who's Tommy (1993 Tony and Olivier Award nominations), Bells Are Ringing, Marlene, Wait Until Dark, Horton Foote's The Young Man From Atlanta, Damn Yankees and A Few Good Men. He has designed for numerous Off-Broadway and regional theatres including Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout theatre, Playwrights Horizon, Primary Stages, The Old Globe Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Goodman Theatre and Seattle Repertory Theatre. Recent credits include Gloriana at Opera Theatre of St. Louis and Be My Baby at the Alley Theatre.
PETER FITZGERALD (Co-Sound Designer) Current designs include Movin' Out, My Fair Lady (Theater of the Stars Tour), Off-Broadway productions of The Beast On The Moon and Manuscript. Mr. Fitzgerald's designs include Victor/Victoria with Julie Andrews, City Of Angels, Gypsy, Falsettos. Paul Simon's The Capeman, The Will Rogers Follies, M. Butterfly, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil's They Wrote That, Swing, Minelli On Minelli with Liza, Big, Dream (National Tour), The Life, Singin' In The Rain, Rags, Threepenny Opera with Sting, The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, Stones In His Pockets, The Beauty Queen Of Leenane and A Thousand Clowns. He is president of Sound Associates, Inc., premier supplier of sound and video systems.
CARL CASELLA (Co-Sound Designer) Twenty-plus years as an audio/video designer. Carl is a member of Sound Associates, Inc. Recent credits include Once Around The Sun, Sly Fox, They Wrote That, Little Shop Of Horrors (Broadway and National Tour), Showstoppers at Avery Fisher Hall, The Joys Of Sex, Raisin In The Sun, Sexaholix, Adult Entertainment. Consulted on The Ten Commandments, Bare, Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks and The Roots at Webster Hall. Upcoming: Leap Of Faith, Mother Daughter And A Gun. Love to Karen, Andy, Chelsea and Kylie.
MICHAEL CLARK (Projection Designer) Michael designs film and video for live events. Credits include Jersey Boys (Broadway and La Jolla Playhouse), 700 SUNDAYS (Broadway and La Jolla), Dracula The Musical (Broadway and La Jolla), The Elephant Man (Broadway), Manon Lescaut (Washington Opera), Allegro, One Red Flower and Hedwig…(Signature Theatre), Last Five Years (Philadelphia Theater Company), Company, Sunday In The Park With George and Merrily We Roll Along (Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration), Spiderman Live (National Tour), Music From A Sparkling Planet (Drama Dept.), Aeros (National Tour) and Dinner With Friends (ACT).
WILLIAM MEADE (Conceiver/Producer) William Meade began his career as a musician attending Eastman School of Music, The Julliard School and Manhattan School of Music. He has been a featured soloist with numerous orchestras including the Zurich Philharmonic, The Suisse Romande Orchestra, The Cologne Symphony, The Prague Philharmonic, and The Jacksonville Symphony. In the popular music world he has worked with such artists as Stevie Wonder, David Bowie, Bob Hope, Yanni and Aretha Franklin. He has Produced concerts through out the US and Europe with wide variety of artists ranging from Arlo Guthrie to BB King. In television; The Miss America Pageant, The Super Bowl Half Time Show, Sex and the City, A Current Affair, Time After Time, and Sesame Street. On Broadway he has been involved with over 50 Musicals and numerous National and International Tours. He is currently working with Twyla Tharp and Bob Dylan on the upcoming Broadway musical “The Times They are a Changin”. He is a Grammy Nominated Record Producer with a wide range theatrical releases to his credit from "Hello Dolly" with Carol Channing to "Elegies" by William Finn.
JAMES B. FREYDBERG (Producer) In the 2003/2004 season James Freydberg produced the Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil catalogue musical They Wrote That? and the Obie award-winning play The Tricky Part by Martin Moran Off-Broadway. For the 2004/2005 season he developed the new play Fran’s Bed written and directed by Pulitzer prize winner James Lapine, starring Mia Farrow and Julia Stiles, which was presented jointly with Playrwrights’ Horizons. He is currently developing the new musical Mask, (based on the motion picture starring Cher and Eric Stoltz) directed by Tony award winner Richard Maltby, Jr. with book by Anna Hamilton Phelan, music by Barry Mann, and lyrics by Cynthia Weil.This is James Freydberg’s 32nd year producing theatre. The last 20 years have been spent producing and developing new original works for the New York stage, his specialty. Mr. Freydberg has produced over sixty productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and in regional theatres combined. His Broadway productions have received over forty-eight Tony award nominations and in 1998 the smash hit Fool Moon starring Bill Irwin, David Shiner, and The Red Clay Ramblers in it’s third Broadway turn won a Special Tony Award. He also produced Fool Moon in Los Angeles, San Francisco, The Kennedy Center, Seattle Vienna, Munich, and Frankfurt.
Other Broadway productions include: Paul Rudnick’s I Hate Hamlet; Lanford Wilson’s Burn This starring John Malkovich (Also produced the box office record breaking London production); Bill Irwin and Friends in Largely New York; Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Song & Dance starring Bernadette Peters; Athol Fugard’s Blood Knot and ‘Master Harold’… and the Boys, which received the New York and Outer Critic’s Circle Award for Best Play; the Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire musicals Baby and Big; Hugh Leonard’s critically acclaimed play A Life.
Off-Broadway he produced Athol Fugard’s New York Drama Critics Circle and Helen Hayes Award winning – Best Foreign Play, The Road To Mecca and was Executive Producer of the Off-Broadway hit comedy Kathy & Mo: Parallel Lives, starring Kathy Najimy & Mo Gaffney. He also co-produced the Outer Critics Circle award and Obie award-winning musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch and produced the musical Three Guys Naked From The Waist Down. Other Off-Broadway productions include: Claudia Shear’s award-winning play Blown Sideways Through Life (Off-Broadway and Los Angeles), Wrong Turn At Lungfish written by Garry Marshall; Chesapeake by Lee Blessing; Athol Fugard’s My Children, My Africa; Reno In Rage and Rehab; The Maltby & Shire musical Starting Here, Starting Now; David Rabe’s Those The River Keeps; The Day Room by Don Delillo.
Regional productions include: the box office record-breaking Los Angeles production of The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, which ran for nearly two years; Fully committed by Becky Mode (Los Angeles); Other People’s Money (Chicago); ART by Yasmina Reza (Chicago).
In addition to theatre, he also produced the award-winning film Zooman written by Pulitzer Prize-winner writer Charles Fuller for Showtime, starring Academy Award winner Lou Gossett, Jr., as well as the award –winning film The Trial of Bernhard Goetz for PBS American Playhouse, and was the co-creator and producer of NBC Theatre, which commissioned playwrights to write dramatic films for television. He has served as an advisor to the National Endowment’s Opera-Musical Theatre Development Program, the Pennsylvania Arts Council and created the American Playwrights’ Project with Jujamcyn Theatres, which commissioned new works for the American theatre. He also serves as President of Fremont Associates, Inc., a theatrical general management firm.
Mr. Freydberg serves on the board of governors of The League of American Theatres and Producers, The Theatre Development Fund’s 50 Cent fund Committee, and is also a member of The Tony Awards Administration Committee.
CTM PRODUCTIONS (Producer) CTM Productions (David Weil, Mark Kaufman and Cricket Hooper Jiranek) Broadway: Tony Award winning Fool Moon, the Tony-nominated musical, It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blue, and the Tony-nominated Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home. Off-Broadway: Obie award-winning The Tricky Part by Martin Moran, and They Wrote That? The Songs of Mann & Weil.
Mr. Weil began producing in 1981 when, with John Houseman, he co-produced Curse of an Aching Heart, starring Faye Dunaway. In 1982 he co-produced David Mamet’s Edmond with his good friend and partner, the late David Jiranek, which won two Obie Awards. Weil and Jiranek then turned to marketing and formed CTM Brochure Display, created a team, which included Cricket Hooper and Mark Kaufman, and became a standard line-item for almost all Broadway and off-Broadway marketing campaigns. The brochure company was sold in 2000 at which time Weil turned his attention to CTM Productions.
Mr. Kaufman’s producing career began in 1979 when he founded Merrimack Repertory Theatre where he served as its first Producing Artistic Director and was responsible for 21 main-stage productions. He then became the Executive Director of the Copley Square Ballet in Boston and later Executive Director of Connecticut Stage, where he first met David Weil. This led to 17 years as Executive Vice President of Operations for CTM Brochure Display. He retired at the end of 2002 to devote full time to CTM Productions and handles the daily operations.
Cricket Hooper Jiranek was a founding partner of CTM Productions along with David Weil and her late husband, David Jiranek. She has been the driving force in the growth of CTM Brochure Display’s theatrical marketing division and continues to serve as their Executive Vice President of sales.
Recently, CTM Productions worked with James Freydberg and Barbara Whitman on Fran's Bed, written by James Lapine and performed at Playwright's Horizons.
Along with Ring of Fire, CTM Productions is also working with James Freydberg on the musical Mask, (based on the motion picture starring Cher and Eric Stolz) directed by Richard Maltby, Jr. (who also serves as the Vice President of Artistic Development for CTM Productions) with book by Anna Hamilton Phelan, music by Barry Mann, and lyrics by Cynthia Weil.
GFOUR PRODUCTIONS (Producer) Sandra & Kenneth Greenblatt and Kathi & Alan Glist hold the corners of GFour Productions, rounded out by Taryn Glist and Seth Greenleaf they are proud to welcome the newest members of their GFour family, Neal Gardner and John Poland.
They began producing in 1981 with Nine The Musical which won the 1982 Tony award for Best Musical. Among their favorite productions are My One And Only, Zorba The Greek starring Anthony Quinn, Baby, The Rink, Grand Hotel, Grind, Big, True West, Catskills On Broadway, I Love You're Perfect Now Change, Men, Perfect Harmony - The Barry Sisters' Story and both the original and revival of La Cage Aux Folles, which won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1983 and the Tony Award for Best Revival in 2004.
Their combined shows have been nominated for seventy-two Tony Awards winning thirty. Thirty-eight Drama Desk Awards winning twenty-two, and ten Outer Critic Awards winning nine. They have never been more excited about a show then they are about Ring Of Fire. Since first seeing it in workshop form in Nashville Tennessee, they have all said that waiting has been the hardest part.
They currently have Menopause The Musical running in 14 national and international cities, and are deeply excited about 2006 with Ring Of Fire and the opening of their Off-Broadway musical I Love You Because at the Village Theatre. |
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