biographies Frankie and Johnnie in the Claire De Lune (starring Kathy Bates), I’m Not Rappaport, Shirley Valentine (starring Ellen Burstyn), Steel Magnolias and Pump Boys and Dinettes. She worked on Broadway as associate general manger for the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Carrie, the Tony-nominated Quilters and South Africa’s Market Theatre production of Asinamali. She was production associate for Peter Ustinov’s Beethoven’s 10th, Show Boat (with Donald O’Connor), Anthony Schaffer’s Whodunnit and A Woman of Independent Means.
produced the Grammy Awards™ for the past 17 years and The BET Awards for the past eight. At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Cossette produced 20 nights of shows in Centennial Olympic Park attended by more than 3 million people. In 1999 he produced a concert in Central Park with Sheryl Crow, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and The Dixie Chicks among others. He counts the grand re-opening of Radio City Music Hall among his numerous other credits. The winner of two NAACP Image Awards, Cossette has produced benefits for the House Ear Institute, The Concern Foundation for Cancer Research, MusicCares, The NARAS Marcie Roman (Company Manager) Foundation and the Society of Singers. He is thrilled to be working with the also helps to underwrite the E.J. Jackson amazingly talented group of theater Foundation to feed the homeless in South artists on Million Dollar Quartet. A graduate Central Los Angeles, helping to feed over of Northwestern University, she spent 15,000 on Thanksgiving. many years working in the trenches on film and television productions, including APOLLO THEATER is a lush venue with My Best Friend’s Wedding, Early Edition, a prestigious reputation, located in the Return to Me, and Green Street Hooligans. heart of Chicago’s fashionable Lincoln Love to her family and XO to her two little Park neighborhood. Built in 1978 and rock and rollers, Abby and Ben. twice renovated, the Apollo boasts a three-quarter thrust stage with 440 Relevant Theatricals (Producer) plush seats configured in just eleven is a commercial production company rows, allowing audiences a theatrical headed by Gigi Pritzker and Ted Rawlins, experience unparalleled in intimacy and dedicated to developing new work for accessibility. Acquired by Michael Leavitt the stage. Current projects include: F. and Fox Theatricals in 1991 and then by Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, which producer Rob Kolson and his company premiered at the Guthrie Theatre and is Rob Kolson Creative Productions in 1996, on course to open in London next year; the Apollo has maintained its stellar record Snapshots, a new musical with book of presenting high quality theatrical by David Stern and music and lyrics by entertainment. Recent successes have Stephen Schwartz; and a new musical included Always...Patsy Cline, Buddy...The version of Dennis The Menace. Relevant’s Buddy Holly Story, Robert Dubac’s longsister company, Odd Lot Entertainment, running one man show The Male Intellect: develops and produces outstanding new an oxymoron?, Neil Simon’s timeless film properties. Current productions classic The Odd Couple (Female Version) include the feature “Rabbit Hole,” based on starring Barbara Eden and Rita McKenzie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by David Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, and Lindsay-Abaire, starring Nicole Kidman a three and a half year run of Menopause and Dianne Wiest, and directed by John the Musical. The Apollo is also home Cameron Mitchell. Relevant Theatricals is to the Emerald City Theatre Company, proud to be part of the producing team Chicago’s only theatre solely dedicated to that developed Million Dollar Quartet. family shows; as well as Baby Wants Candy, Chicago’s original improv musical. JOHN COSSETTE PRODUCTIONS (Producer) John Cossette’s 30+ year career in the entertainment and music industry has earned him a respected reputation as an innovative and creative producer of large scale events. John Cossette has Million Dollar Quartet 9