Andrew Long* (Frank) has Off Broadway credits that include The Misanthrope and Swansong. Mr. Long is a company member at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC where he has performed in Coriolanus, Antony — Cleopatra, Hamlet, Richard II, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Don Carlos, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, Richard III, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, and many others. He has also appeared in My Fair Lady, Saving Aimee, The Fox on the Fairway, and I Am My Own Wife (Signature Theatre); Frozen (Studio Theatre); Enrico IV, Metamorphoses, Copenhagen, and Amadeus (The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); M. Butterfly and Gross Indecency (Guthrie Theater); Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Pioneer Theatre Company; Chautauqua Theater Company; Olney Theater Center; Arena Stage; the Oregon, Illinois, and Alabama Shakespeare Festivals; and The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. His work has been recognized with a Helen Hayes Award, two Helen Hayes nominations, two Kevin Kline Award nominations, the 2007 Will Shakespeare Award, and the 2010 Lunt Fontanne Fellowship.

Jane Pfitsch* (Rita) was most recently seen in Barefoot in the Park at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Her Broadway credits include John Doyle's revival of Company (2007 Tony Award for Best Revival) and Les Liaisons Dangereuses (2008 Tony nominee for Best Revival). She has appeared Off Broadway in Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (New World Stages), Pumpgirl (Manhattan Theatre Club), and Little Duck (Ensemble Studio Theatre). Regional credits include the world premiere of Alive and Well (Virginia Stage Company) and Mrs. Warren's Profession (Alley Theatre). Other theatre credits include To Paint the Earth (New York Musical Theatre Festival) and A Mouthful of Birds (Brown/Trinity Rep). She has appeared on film in 27 Dresses and on television in "All My Children." Ms. Pfitsch studied at the Brown University/Trinity Rep M.F.A. program.

Willy Russell (Playwright) was born in Whiston, near Liverpool and left school at fifteen. He began writing as a songwriter and transitioned to playwriting in the late '60s. His plays include Keep Your Eyes Down, John Paul George Ringo and Bert (1974, Evening Standard and London's Critics Awards for Best Musical), One For The Road, Stags and Hens, Educating Rita and its screenplay, Blood Brothers, Shirley Valentine (Olivier Award for Best Comedy) and its screenplay, South Bank Show, Our Day Out — The Musical, and numerous screen and radio plays. The Wrong Boy, his first novel, was published by Transworld in October 2000.

Maria Aitken (Director) has credits that include the Olivier and Tony Award-winning production of Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps which she directed at the Huntington Theatre Company before its Broadway run, As You Like It (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Quartermaine's Terms (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Japes (Bay Street Theatre), Rattigan's Man and Boy (Duchess Theatre), Noël Coward's Easy Virtue (Chichester Festival Theatre), Vita and Virginia (Sphinx Theatre Company), Lady Bracknell's Confinement (Vineyard Theatre), School for Scandal (Clwyd Theatr Cymru), As You Like It (Regent's Park), and many others. As a leading actress in London at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, and in the West End her roles have included Blithe Spirit, Bedroom Farce, Travesties, Waste, Private Lives, and The Vortex, among others. Her film credits include A Fish Called Wanda and others. Ms. Aitken is a visiting teacher at the British American Drama Academy, The Juilliard School, Yale School of Drama, New York University, The Actors Center in New York, and the Academy for Classical Acting. She is the author of two books, A Girdle Round The Earth and Style: Acting in High Comedy.

Allen Moyer (Scenic Design) has Broadway credits that include After Miss Julie, Grey Gardens (Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations, Henry Hewes Award), Thurgood, The Little Dog Laughed, The Constant Wife, Twelve Angry Men, In My Life, Reckless, The Man Who Had All The Luck, and A Thousand Clowns. He has numerous Off Broadway credits and has worked in regional theatre on Passion Play (Goodman Theatre and Yale Repertory Theatre) and productions for the Guthrie Theater (most recently M. Butterfly), The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Baltimore's CenterStage, and Center Theater Group. Extensive opera credits include work for the Metropolitan Opera (Orfeo Ed Euridice, directed by Mark Morris), New York City Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, San Francisco Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Boston Lyric Opera, Scottish Opera, and the Wexford Festival Opera (Ireland). He is the recipient of the 2006 OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence.

Nancy Brennan (Costume Designer) is the Costume Director of the Huntington Theatre Company where she has overseen the production of costumes for dozens of Huntington productions and was the assistant costume designer for last season's production of Becky Shaw. Broadway credits as costume director include Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (Huntington Theatre Company) and Long Days' Journey Into Night; Ah, Wilderness; The Piano Lesson; and Fences (Yale Repertory Theatre). Costume coordinator credits include The Radio City Christmas Spectacular (Radio City Music Hall) and The Statue Of Liberty Centennial (TV-Don Mischer Productions). She worked on the film Speed. She served as costume director at Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre and at South Coast Repertory Theatre. Ms. Brennan is a graduate of California State University, Long Beach and is an instructor in the College of Fine Arts at Boston University.

Joel E. Silver (Lighting Designer) has previous design credits that include Aida (Opera Memphis), Swimming Upstream (V-Day at the Apollo Theater), It Must Be Him (Peter J. Sharp Theater), The World Goes 'Round (Prince Music Theater/Gettysburg Festival), Art Tatum: Piano Starts Here (Apollo Theater), Damn Yankees, Run For Your Wife, and Little Shop of Horrors (Engeman Theater), Caucasian Chalk Circle (The New School), The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe and Damascus (Northern Stage), F#@king Up Everything (Off the Leash Productions), A Chorus Line, My Way, The Producers, and Ain't Misbehavin' (Theatre By The Sea), Zombie (Razor's Edge Productions), Candide and Sweeney Todd (New York University), Ain't Misbehavin' (White Plains Performing Arts Center), Lunch Hour (Heiress), Big Bang, Gripped, and other works (Cleo Mack Dance Company), Homefront (La Mama, ETC), and Different Drums National Tour (Trinity Irish Dance Company). Mr. Silver's industrial work includes projects for JKLD, Calvin Klein, Connecticut College, Xplore Productions, and SAP Software. jesld.com

John Gromada (Composer/Sound Designer) previously designed and composed original music for the Huntington's productions of All My Sons, Well, Rabbit Hole, and Carol Mulroney. He has composed music for the Broadway productions of Next Fall, Dividing the Estate, A Bronx Tale, Prelude to a Kiss, Well, Twelve Angry Men, Heartbreak House, Rabbit Hole, A Streetcar Named Desire, Proof, The Retreat from Moscow, Enchanted April, Summer and Smoke, Holiday, and A Few Good Men. As a sound designer, his Broadway credits include Hedda Gabler, Butley, Wrong Mountain, and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. Other New York credits include The Orphans' Home Cycle, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, Shipwrecked, Secrets of the Trade, The Grand Manner, as well as The Singing Forest, Henry V, Julius Caesar, Tartuffe, The Skriker, Machinal, and The Swan at The Public Theater/NYSF Regionally, his credits include more than 200 productions at scores of theatres in the U.S. and abroad. johngromada.com

Seághan McKay III (Projection Design) has designed projections in the Boston area for Nine, Striking 12, [title of show], and Jerry Springer: The Opera (SpeakEasy Stage Company); Light Up The Sky (Emerson Stage); Rent (The Boston Conservatory); Hecuba and As You Like It (Brandeis Theater Company); The Threepenny Opera (Boston College); and Godspell (Gordon College). He recently assisted projection designer Peter Nigrini on the PBS documentary Becoming Helen Keller. His lighting designs include Eric Chasalow's The Puzzle Master and Jazz harpist Debra Henson-Conant's Maquette performance of her Grammy-nominated Invention & Alchemy. Mr. McKay performs as a live visualist (VJ) at the popular Thunderdome series of club events in Boston. He is a lighting supervisor at Brandeis University, where he also serves as a lecturer in Theater Arts. seaghanmckay.com