Michael John LaChiusa (Music and Lyrics) is a five-time Tony Award-nominated composer, lyricist, and librettist for his Broadway productions of The Wild Party, Marie Christine, and Chronicle of a Death Foretold. LaChiusa’s acclaimed Off Broadway musicals have been seen at The Public Theater, Lincoln Center Theater, Second Stage Theatre, Transport Group, and Playwrights Horizons and include First Daughter Suite, Giant, Queen of the Mist, See What I Wanna See, Bernarda Alba, Little Fish, Hello Again, First Lady Suite,and Four Short Operas: Break, Agnes, Eulogy for Mr. Hamm, and Lucky Nurse. He has been commissioned by Chicago Lyric Opera, Houston Grand Opera, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival, among others, and has penned Lovers & Friends: Chautauqua Variations for CLO and Send (who are you? I love you),written for Audra McDonald, at HGO. Revues of his work include LaLaLaChiusa (Joe’s Pub), Hotel C’est l’Amour (The Blank Theatre), and most recently Heartbreak Country: Michael John LaChiusa’s Stories of America (Jazz at Lincoln Center). LaChiusa’s awards include an Obie Award, Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Award, and 2008 and 2009 Daytime Emmy Awards. He teaches at New York University and resides in Manhattan.

Barry Edelstein (Director, Old Globe Artistic Director) is a stage director, producer, author, and educator. Widely recognized as one of the leading American authorities on the works of Shakespeare, he has directed nearly half of the Bard’s plays. His Globe directing credits include The Winter’s Tale; Othello; and the West Coast premiere of novelist Nathan Englander’s play The Twenty-seventh Man. He also directed All’s Well That Ends Well as the inaugural production of Globe for All, a new producing platform that tours the works of Shakespeare to diverse communities throughout San Diego County. As Director of the Shakespeare Initiative at The Public Theater (2008-2012), Edelstein oversaw all of the company’s Shakespearean productions, as well as its extensive educational, community outreach, and artist-training programs. At The Public, he staged the world premiere of The Twenty-seventh Man; Julius Caesar; The Merchant of Venice; Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens; and Steve Martin’s WASP and Other Plays.He was also Associate Producer of The Public’s Broadway production of The Merchant of Venice starring Al Pacino. From 1998-2003 he was Artistic Director of Classic Stage Company. Edelstein’s other Shakespearean directorial credits include The Winter’s Tale at Classic Stage Company; As You Like It starring Gwyneth Paltrow, and Richard III starring John Turturro. Additional credits include the Lucille Lortel Award-winning revival of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons; the world premiere of Steve Martin’s The Underpants, which he commissioned; and Molière’s The Misanthrope starring Uma Thurman in her stage debut. Edelstein has taught Shakespearean acting at The Juilliard School, NYU’s Graduate Acting Program, and the University of Southern California. His book Thinking Shakespeare is the standard text on American Shakespearean acting. He is also the author of Bardisms: Shakespeare for All Occasions.(Director, Old Globe Artistic Director) is a stage director, producer, author, and educator. Widely recognized as one of the leading American authorities on the works of Shakespeare, he has directed nearly half of the Bard’s plays. His Globe directing credits include The Winter’s Tale; Othello; and the West Coast premiere of novelist Nathan Englander’s play The Twenty-seventh Man. He also directed All’s Well That Ends Well as the inaugural production of Globe for All, a new producing platform that tours the works of Shakespeare to diverse communities throughout San Diego County. As Director of the Shakespeare Initiative at The Public Theater (2008-2012), Edelstein oversaw all of the company’s Shakespearean productions, as well as its extensive educational, community outreach, and artist-training programs. At The Public, he staged the world premiere of The Twenty-seventh Man; Julius Caesar; The Merchant of Venice; Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens; and Steve Martin’s WASP and Other Plays.He was also Associate Producer of The Public’s Broadway production of The Merchant of Venice starring Al Pacino. From 1998-2003 he was Artistic Director of Classic Stage Company. Edelstein’s other Shakespearean directorial credits include The Winter’s Tale at Classic Stage Company; As You Like It starring Gwyneth Paltrow, and Richard III starring John Turturro. Additional credits include the Lucille Lortel Award-winning revival of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons; the world premiere of Steve Martin’s The Underpants, which he commissioned; and Molière’s The Misanthrope starring Uma Thurman in her stage debut. Edelstein has taught Shakespearean acting at The Juilliard School, NYU’s Graduate Acting Program, and the University of Southern California. His book Thinking Shakespeare is the standard text on American Shakespearean acting. He is also the author of Bardisms: Shakespeare for All Occasions.

Katherine Roth (Costume Design) previously designed the Globe productions of The Twenty-seventh Man, Othello, The Rainmaker, and Dracula. She designed the Broadway and international tour productions of Twyla Tharp’s Come Fly Away and the recent New York production of The Twenty-seventh Man directed by Barry Edelstein at The Public Theater. She has designed costumes for many regional and New York theaters. Roth’s film credits include Neil LaBute’s Some Velvet Morning, and her television credits include “All My Children” (two Daytime Emmy Awards). She received her M.F.A. from Yale University School of Drama.

Ken Travis (Sound Design) previously designed The Last Goodbye for The Old Globe. His Broadway credits include Aladdin, Jekyll & Hyde, A Christmas Story The Musical, Scandalous, Newsies, Memphis, Threepenny Opera, Barefoot in the Park, and Steel Magnolias. His New York and regional credits include productions at The 5th Avenue Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, Seattle Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Center Theatre Group, A Contemporary Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Playwrights Horizons, The New Group, New York Shakespeare Festival at The Public Theater, Classic Stage Company, Signature Theatre Company, Soho Repertory Theater, Vineyard Theatre, The Civilians, and Mabou Mines. ken-travis.squarespace.com.

J. Oconer Navarro (Music Director) was most recently conductor of Michael John LaChiusa’s First Daughter Suite at The Public Theater. His select New York credits include Adding Machine, Avenue Q, Curtains, The House of Blue Leaves, Iowa, Mary Poppins, Next to Normal, We the People, and five seasons with Lincoln Center Theater. His regional credits include Barrington Stage Company, Hangar Theatre, The Kennedy Center, New York Stage and Film, Theatreworks Silicon Valley, three national tours for Theatreworks USA, Two River Theater, and Westport Country Playhouse. He is part of the founding faculty of the New Studio on Broadway at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, as well as the Musical Theatre Conservatory at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, and he is music supervisor at Camp Broadway. He is also a composer, lyricist, and writer whose works have been seen Off Broadway. He was a finalist at The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Music Theater Conference, and he won an American Theatre Wing Jonathan Larson Grant. joconernavarro.com, @joconernavarro on Twitter and Instagram.

Telsey + Company (Casting) cast the Broadway and touring productions of Tuck Everlasting, Waitress, Nerds, American Psycho, Fiddler on the Roof, China Doll, Misery, Allegiance, On Your Feet!, Hamilton, Something Rotten!, An American in Paris, Finding Neverland, The King and I, Kinky Boots, Wicked, If/Then, The Sound of Music, Newsies, Pippin, Motown, and Rock of Ages. Their Off Broadway credits include shows with Atlantic Theater Company, MCC Theater, Second Stage Theatre, and Signature Theatre Company. Their regional credits include Goodman Theatre, Humana Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, New York Stage and Film, Paper Mill Playhouse, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. They have cast the films Aardvark, Fun House, Rupture, Tallulah, Ithaca, and The Intern. Their television credits include “The Family,” Grease: Live, The Wiz Live!, “Flesh and Bone,” “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” “Billy & Billie,” “Masters of Sex,” and numerous commercials. telseyandco.com.

Amanda Salmons (Assistant Stage Manager) has worked previously at The Old Globe on Much Ado About Nothing and All’s Well That Ends Well (Globe for All), The Metromaniacs, Kiss Me, Kate, The White Snake, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Last Goodbye, the Summer Shakespeare Festival (2011-2013), Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Somewhere, Lost in Yonkers, I Do! I Do!, and The Price. Her other credits include Blueprints to Freedom: An Ode to Bayard Rustin (La Jolla Playhouse), Kiss Me, Kate (Hartford Stage), The Foreigner, miXtape, See How They Run, The Music Man,and The Rivalry (Lamb’s Players Theatre), The Gondoliers, The Pirates of Penzance, Candide, and Trial by Jury (Lyric Opera San Diego), and SummerFest (La Jolla Music Society). Salmons holds a B.A. in Theatre from UC San Diego.