Carol Kane made her theatrical debut in the 1966 production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie starring Tammy Grimes. Since then she has appeared on the New York stage both on and off Broadway. Plays include Beth Henley’s Family Week and The Debutante Ball. She co-starred with Gena Rowlands in the John Cassavetes play A Woman of Mystery directed by John Cassavetes. For Joe Papp her performances include The Tempest and Macbeth at Lincoln Center as well as plays at The Public Theater including WASP and Other Plays by Steve Martin. She starred alongside Shelley Winters on Broadway in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds. In addition Kane has been seen on Broadway and in Los Angeles starring as Madame Morrible in Wicked. Recently, she was seen as Gingy in Nora & Delia Ephron’s Off-Broadway hit Love, Loss, and What I Wore; the Broadway production of Harvey at the Roundabout; and Ian Rickson’s West End production of The Children’s Hour with Keira Knightly, Elisabeth Moss and Ellen Burstyn. Kane owes her film debut to Mike Nichols in Carnal Knowledge. Other films include Wedding in White co-starring with Donald Pleasence, The Last Detail for director Hal Ashby, Dog Day Afternoon director Sidney Lumet, Annie Hall directed by Woody Allen, The Lemon Sisters co-starring Diane Keaton and Kathryn Grody, The Princess Bride director Rob Reiner, Scrooged director Dick Donner, My Blue Heaven written by Nora Ephron, as well as Steve Buscemi’s Trees Lounge, Addams Family Values, When a Stranger Calls, Flashback starring Dennis Hopper, The World’s Greatest Lover co-starring Gene Wilder and The Muppet Movie. Most recently Kane performed in Mike Birbiglia’s film Sleepwalk with Me and the soon to be released independent feature Clutter. Kane was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Joan Micklin Silver’s film Hester Street. Television includes Simka, wife of Latka (Andy Kaufman) on the television series “Taxi,” for which she won two Emmy Awards; “Pearl”; “All Is Forgiven”; and “Chicago Hope,” where she garnered another Emmy nomination. She was seen as Richard Belzer’s ex-wife on “Law & Order: SVU” as well as on the television series “Two and a Half Men.” Thank you Scott Landis and Clifford Capone. For Bette Davis.

Mickey Sumner makes her Off-Broadway and Atlantic Theater Company debuts after recently appearing on the New York stage in the Culture Project workshop of The Seagull (directed by Max Stafford-Clark). Other theatre credits include the recent 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, Tomorrow Morning (HB Playwrights Foundation), Hillbilly Women and Rumspringa. London credits include Think Global, F**k Local at The Royal Court. Television includes a recurring role in the Showtime series “The Borgias” (Season 1). Film includes the co-starring role opposite Greta Gerwig in Noah Baumbach’s film Frances Ha (2012 Toronto Film Festival, 2012 New York Film Festival and 2012 Telluride Film Festival) which will be released by IFC in May; a cameo role as iconic rocker Patti Smith in CBGB with Alan Rickman; the lead role in Missed Connections (Winner of the Sarasota Film Festival Audience Award 2012, opening night film of the 2012 Gen Art Film Festival in NYC, winner of Gen Art’s Audience Award, and winner of the Savannah Film Festival Audience Award); Girl Most Likely (2012 Toronto Film Festival) to be released by Lionsgate this summer; I Have No Hold on You; This is not an Umbrella; and We’re Going to the Zoo (Red Bucket Films). Born and raised in England, she currently lives in New York City, having graduated with a B.F.A. from Parsons School of Design in 2007.

Craig Lucas is author of the plays Missing Persons, Reckless, Blue Window, Prelude to a Kiss, God’s Heart, The Dying Gaul, Stranger, Small Tragedy, Prayer for My Enemy and The Singing Forest. His screenplays include Longtime Companion, The Secret Lives of Dentists and The Dying Gaul (which he also directed). Lucas’ musical books include Three Postcards (music/lyrics by Craig Carnelia), The Light in the Piazza (music/lyrics by Adam Guettel) and King Kong, premiering in Australia this spring. His opera libretti include Orpheus in Love (composer Gerald Busby) and Two Boys (composer Nico Muhly), which premiered at the English National Opera. Lucas directed the world premiere of The Light in the Piazza at the Intiman Theatre in Seattle, the film Birds of America, the play This Thing of Darkness (by Lucas and David Schulner) and Harry Kondoleon’s plays Saved or Destroyed and Play Yourself. His new adaptations include Brecht’s Galileo, Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya and Three Sisters and Strindberg’s Miss Julie. He has just premiered a new scenario for Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella at the Dutch National Ballet

Pam MacKinnon. Recent credits include Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Broadway, Steppenwolf, Arena Stage); Bruce Norris’ Clybourne Park (Broadway, Taper, Playwrights Horizons; Tony and Lortel nominations for direction, Obie Award); Horton Foote’s Harrison, TX (Primary Stages); Itamar Moses’ Completeness (Playwrights Horizons, SCR). She is a frequent interpreter of the plays of Edward Albee, having directed, in addition to Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Peter and Jerry (now called At Home at the Zoo; Second Stage, Hartford); Occupant (Signature); A Delicate Balance (Arena); The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (Alley, Vienna); The Play About the Baby (PTC; Goodman). She is a WP Lab, Drama League and Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab alumna and chair of the board of the downtown company Clubbed Thumb, Inc., dedicated to new American plays.

Neil Patel. Recent work includes Water by the Spoonful at Second Stage, Golden Child at the Signature Theater and Checkers at the Vineyard. Mr. Patel’s work is well known to audiences on and off Broadway, and in many regional theatres and opera houses in the United States and abroad. He is the recipient twice of an Obie for sustained excellence, the Helen Hayes and EDDY award and numerous Drama Desk, Hewes and Lortel nominations. He also designs television and film including HBO’s “In Treatment” and Neil LaBute’s upcoming feature Some Velvet Morning. www.neilpatel.com

Ilona Somogyi. Previously at the Atlantic: Keep Your Pantheon, Almost an Evening, Scarcity, Celebration and The Room and The Beginning of August. Recent New York productions include My Name Is Asher Lev (Westside Theatre); Clybourne Park (Walter Kerr and Playwrights Horizons); Regrets (MTC); Maple and Vine, A Small Fire (Playwrights Horizons); Home (Signature); Jerry Springer: The Opera (Carnegie Hall). Recent regional credits include Julius Caesar (Chicago Shakespeare); Good People (Huntington); Satchmo at the Waldorf (Long Wharf); Tartuffe, Suddenly Last Summer (Westport); The Crucible, Gem of the Ocean, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hartford Stage); Three Sisters, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Passion Play (Yale Rep); also Arena Stage, Guthrie Theater, Denver Center Theater, Berkeley Rep and Mark Taper Forum. Training and faculty: Yale School of Drama.

Russell H. Champa. Current and recent projects: Water by the Spoonful and Modern Terrorism… (Second Stage), Dear Elizabeth (Yale Rep), The Twenty-Seventh Man (The Public Theater), Angels in America (Wilma Theater), Completeness (Playwrights Horizons), The Grand Manner (Lincoln Center Theater). Broadway: In the Next Room or the vibrator play and Julia Sweeney’s God Said “HA!”, both at the Lyceum Theatre. Other New York credits include Manhattan Theatre Club, Classic Stage Company, New York Stage & Film and La MaMa E.T.C. Regionally Mr. Champa has designed for CENTERSTAGE, Berkeley Rep, Mark Taper Forum, Seattle Rep, Trinity Rep, Cal Shakes, McCarter Theatre, Campo Santo, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Actors’ Gang and The Kennedy Center. Thanks J + J. PEACE.

Broken Chord composes and designs music and sound for theatre. The design for The Lying Lesson was created by Daniel Baker and Aaron Meicht. New York: Atlantic Theater Company, Cherry Lane Theatre, Classic Stage Company, Incubator Arts Project, Juilliard, Keen Company, La MaMa E.T.C., Manhattan Theatre Club, Primary Stages, The Public, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Second Stage, Signature and Women’s Project. Regional: Actors Theatre of Louisville, Arena Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Baltimore CENTERSTAGE, Dallas Theater Center, Geva Theatre Center, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Kansas City Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Weston Playhouse, Westport Country Playhouse and Portland Center Stage. www.brokenchordcollective.com.

Charles LaPointe. Broadway: Clybourne Park, Newsies, The Columnist, Magic/Bird, Bonnie and Clyde, The Mountaintop, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, The Merchant of Venice, Memphis, Henry IV, The Rivals, Cymbeline, Lombardi, Fences, Looped, The Miracle Worker, Superior Donuts, 33 Variations, Guys and Dolls, In the Heights, Jersey Boys, The Color Purple, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, Good Vibrations, The Apple Tree, A Raisin in the Sun, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Radio Golf, Sight Unseen, High Fidelity, Xanadu, The Mountaintop.

Kate Wilson. Broadway: The Trip to Bountiful, Talley’s Folly, Picnic, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Heiress, Cyrano de Bergerac, End of the Rainbow, War Horse, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, Stick Fly, The Mountaintop, Master Class, Driving Miss Daisy, The Merchant of Venice, Red, The Seafarer, Sunday in the Park with George, Curtains, Nine, others. Off-Broadway: Giant, Hurt Village, Cock, How I Learned to Drive, The Whipping Man, Burn This, others. Film & TV: The Harvest, Inside Llewyn Davis, Grand Street, Rubicon, Salt, Ceremony, Notorious, The Rebound, Pride and Glory, Fur. Faculty: Juilliard.

J. David Brimmer. Fight Master, SAFD. David has choreographed some stuff (Broadway: An Enemy of the People; Grace; Wit; Born Yesterday; A Life in the Theatre; Speed-thePlow; Come Back, Little Sheba; Spring Awakening; The Lieutenant of Inishmore; NY premieres: Blasted, The Whipping Man, Bethany, We Are Proud to Present…, Ages of the Moon, The American Pilot, Blackbird, Bug, Killer Joe), worked at some wonderful venues (The Public Theater, Metropolitan Opera, MTC, Atlantic, LCT3, Women’s Project, Soho Rep, MCC, Signature Theatre, TFANA, Roundabout, Dallas Theater Center, Hartford Center Stage, NSMT, A.R.T., Baltimore CENTERSTAGE, Guthrie), and with some great folks (David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Ethan Coen, Martin McDonagh, Tracy Letts, Kenneth Lonergan, Ken Russell, Franco Zeffirelli). “Walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone.” —G. Fox.

Charles M. Turner III. Atlantic Theater Company: debut. Broadway: The Performers (Longacre), Golda’s Balcony (Helen Hayes) and Metamorphoses (Circle in the Square). OffBroadway: The Public Theater, Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Roundabout Theatre Company, Vineyard Theatre, Naked Angels, Actors’ Playhouse, Classic Stage Company, Second Stage, Culture Project, Manhattan Ensemble Theater, Cherry Lane Theatre, MTC and New York Theatre Workshop. Regional: Long Wharf Theatre, Hartford Stage, Paper Mill Playhouse, NYS&F, Wadsworth Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, A.C.T., Shakespeare Santa Cruz, City Theatre and Actors Theatre of Louisville.

Courtney James. Broadway: The Performers (Longacre); Jesus Christ Superstar (Neil Simon). Off-Broadway: Outside People (Vineyard Theatre/Naked Angels); All-American (LCT3); Unnatural Acts (Classic Stage Company); The Dream of the Burning Boy (Roundabout Underground); Middletown (Vineyard Theatre); Oliver Parker! (the stageFARM); Some Americans Abroad (Second Stage); Essential Self-Defense (Playwrights Horizons/Edge Theater Company). Regional: Two River Theater Company, Long Wharf Theatre, Hartford Stage.