production biographies ESOSA (Costume Designer) Broadway: Porgy and Bess (Tony nomination), Topdog/Underdog. Off Broadway: Second Stage: By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (Lucille Lortel Award), Trust, Crowns; MCC: The Break of Noon (Geffen Playhouse); Delacorte: The Capeman; Public Theater: Juan and John, Father Comes Home from the Wars, Romeo and Juliet; NYTW: The Misanthrope, All That I Will Ever Be. Regional: La Jolla/Center Theatre Group: American Night; Arena Stage: Ruined, Cuttin’ Up, Señor Discretion Himself (Helen Hayes Award nominee); Alliance: Twist; Pasadena Playhouse: Twist (2011 Ovation Award); A.R.T.: Best of Both Worlds; Geva Theatre: Fences; Berkeley Rep: The Blue Door; Bay Street Theatre: Turandot: The Rumble for the Ring, Ain’t Misbehavin’; Centerstage: Once on This Island, Gleam. For more visit, www.esosadesign.com JEFF CROITER (Lighting Designer) Broadway: Newsies; Peter and the Starcatcher (Tony Award); Next Fall; The Peewee Herman Show; Kiki and Herb. Other NYC includes: Silence! The Musical; Old Jews Telling Jokes; A Lie of the Mind; Love, Loss, and What I Wore; Ordinary Days; Streamers; Family Guys Sings; Jerry Springer: The Opera; Rufus Wainwright’s Judy Garland Concert at Carnegie Hall; Adrift in Macao; The Voysey Inheritance; The Internationalist; Jacques Brel; Almost, Maine; The Dazzle; and Jennifer Muller The Works. Regional: The Shakespeare Theatre, Dallas Theatre Center, Williamstown P10 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINe
Theatre Festival, McCarter Theatre, Kennedy Center, The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, Center Theatre Group, The Huntington, Paper Mill Playhouse, George Street Playhouse, Trinity Rep, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse, Ford’s Theatre, Goodspeed Opera House, and NY Stage and Film. JOHN GROMADA (Sound Designer) John Gromada has composed music or designed sound for more than 30 Broadway productions including last season’s The Best Man (Drama Desk Award), Clybourne Park, Seminar, Man and Boy, The Road to Mecca and The Columnist, in addition to Next Fall, A Bronx Tale, Prelude to a Kiss, Proof, Sight Unseen, Well, Rabbit Hole, A Streetcar Named Desire, Twelve Angry Men and A Few Good Men. His other New York credits include Measure for Measure in Central Park, The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Drama Desk and Henry Hewes Awards), By the Way Meet Vera Stark, The Screwtape Letters, Shipwrecked! (Lucille Lortel Award), The Singing Forest, Julius Caesar, The Skriker (Drama Desk Award), Machinal (Obie Award) and many more. His regional theater credits number more than 300, including the Geffen Playhouse production of Next Fall, Divine Rivalry at the Old Globe, and A Dram of Drummhicit at the La Jolla Playhouse. Music and more info at www.johngromada.com. SHAWN SAGADY (Projection Designer) Broadway: Leap of Faith, Memphis (2010 Best Musical). Off-Broadway: By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (Second Stage Theater), Father Comes Home from the
War (The Public Theater). National Tour: Memphis, Julius Caesar (The Acting Company) Regional: The White Snake (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Measure for Measure (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), American Night (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Back Back Back (The Old Globe), Carmen (La Jolla Playhouse), Cowboy vs. Samurai (Mo’ollelo). Events: Kaufman Performing Arts Center Opening Gala, Honors Gala (La Jolla Playhouse), Women in the World conference (The Daily Beast). J. Jared Janas & Rob Greene (Wig, Hair & Makeup Design) Recent Broadway designs and consultations include The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Peter and the Starcatcher, All About Me, and Next to Normal. Other productions include By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (world premiere at Second Stage), Twist at the Alliance Theatre, The 39 Steps at George Street, Curtains and Peter Pan at Paper Mill Playhouse, Meet Me in St. Louis at TUTS, NEWSical, Beebo Brinker Chronicles, Shout!, Smokey Joe’s Café, Speech and Debate, Oroonoko, Ohio State Murders, M. Butterfly, Tea and Sympathy, Accomplices, Dinah Was, Silence! the Musical, Trouble in Paradise, The Supreme Court (PBS Documentary) and The Full Monty (National Tour). They have also built wigs currently seen in Wicked, Jersey Boys and at The Metropolitan Opera. MARY MICHELE MINER (Production Stage Manager) Previous credits at the Geffen include Red Hot Patriot, Superior Donuts, Nightmare
Alley, Wrecks, By the Waters of Babylon, Some Girl(s), Heroes, Wishful Drinking, God of Hell and Boston Marriage. Other local credits include Medea at UCLA Live, and Back to Bacharach & David at the Music Box in Hollywood; Stuff Happens, The Goat, The Talking Cure, Like Jazz, Living Out, Flower Drum Song, The Dinner Party and Putting It Together (among many others) at the Mark Taper; Romeo and Juliet, The Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure, The Heiress and Candide at the Ahmanson. Regional theaters include La Jolla Playhouse, Magic Theatre, Kennedy Center, Guthrie, McCarter, Steppenwolf, NY Public, Circle Repertory and the Montreal International Theatre Festival. Tours include Love, Sweet Love, around the Southwest, Jesus Christ, Superstar around the states and Terra Nova around Japan. In New York she has PSM’d both on and off Broadway. Proud member of Actors’ Equity. Miner and her husband, Paul Perri, have two children, Giacomo and Justine. SUSIE WALSH (Assistant Stage Manager) In Los Angeles Susie has stage managed over 100 shows at theaters such as the Mark Taper Forum, the Ahmanson Theatre, the Geffen Playhouse, and LATC. Her favorites include: The Royal Family, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Nights’ Dream, Measure for Measure, The Heiress, Flower Drum Song, Living Out, Stuff Happens, Arcadia, The Drowsy Chaperone and Leap of Faith. In New York, Susie stage managed Putting it Together with Carol Burnett. Love to Ken.