JASON GROTE’s (Playwright) work has been developed at The 92nd Street Y’s Makor/Steinhardt Center, Baltimore Centerstage, Boston Court, The Brick, CalARts, chashama, Circle X, Clubbed Thumb, CUNY’s Prelude 06 Festival, The Edmonton Fringe, The Eugene O’Neill Playwrights’ Conference, The Fire Department’s Salon Series, The Flea, The Glej Theater (Ljubljana, Slovenia), HERE, The Lark, The Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab, The NY Fringe, New York Theatre Workshop, The Orchard Project, Page 73, The Playwrights’ Foundation, Portland Center Stage, Rorschach Theater, Salvage Vanguard, Soho Rep, Theater J, Theater of NOTE, The Williamstown Theater Festival workshop, and the Working Theater, and published in various anothologies. Honors include: Nominations for the Kesselring Prize and the Weissberger Award; an NEA Grant via Soho Rep; a Sloan Commission from E.S.T; the 2006 P73 Playwriting Fellowship; and “Best Play” (for 1001) from Denver’s alternative weekly, Westword. Current and upcoming projects include a commission from the Denver Center and a collaboration with the performance group Radiohole. 1001 received its world premiere in January 2007 at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and was presented in the summer of 2007 as part of the Contemporary American Theater Festival. He teaches playwriting and screenwriting at Rutgers University, is a member of New Dramatists and PEN, and a contributor to Comedy Central’s “Indecision 2008″ blog. This is Mr. Grote’s first New York City production.

ETHAN MCSWEENY (Director). In New York City, Mr. McSweeny’s direction includes Gore Vidal’s The Best Man (Tony Award nomination, Outer Critics and Drama Desk Awards for Best Revival), 100 Saints You Should Know by Kate Fodor at Playwrights Horizons, John Logan’s Never the Sinner (Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Play), Aeschylus’s The Persians in a new translation by Ellen McLaughlin for the National Actors Theatre and Willy Holtzman’s Sabina for Primary Stages. Recent national highlights include: the world premiere of Jason Grote’s 1001 at the Denver Center Theatre, the west coast premiere of Lee Blessing’s A Body of Water at the Old Globe (San Diego Critics Circle Awards for Outstanding Director, Play and Ensemble), the world premiere of the same play at The Guthrie Theatre (Star-Tribune Award for Outstanding Play), a revival of his production of The Persians for the Shakespeare Theatre Company, the new musical Chasing Nicolette for the Prince Musical Theatre (Barrymore Award nominations for Best Director and Best Musical), the world premiere of Noah Haidle’s Mr. Marmalade at South Coast Rep (Ocie Award for Best Play), the east coast premiere of Anthony Clarvoe’s Ctrl+Alt+Delete (Star-Ledger “Best of” Award), and the regional premiere of Wit for the Pittsburgh Public Theatre (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Award for Best Production). Upcoming work includes a revival of Shaw’s Major Barbara for Shakespeare Theatre Company. Mr. McSweeny is Co-Artistic Director of Chautauqua Theater Company with Vivienne Benesch.

RACHEL HAUCK (Set Designer). New York: 100 Saints You Should Know (Playwrights Horizons); The Cataract (Women’s Project); Where Do We Live, The Fourth Sister (Vineyard); Talking Heads (Minnetta Lane); Tongue of a Bird (Public); The Square (Ma-Yi). Recent reginonal works: 1001 (DCPA); Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner (Hartford Stage); Water and Power and Chavez Ravine, Electricidad, The House of Bernarda Alba (Mark Taper Forum); Mother Courage (Berkley Rep and La Jolla Playhouse); Cherry Orchard, Winter’s Tale, Richard III and Hedda Gabler (OSF); Carol Mulroney (Huntington); The Clean House, Mr. Marmalade (South Coast Rep); The Glass Menagerie (ATL); Casino Paradise (Prince Music Theater). Tokyo: Mary Stuart and The Dresser (Parco Theater). Rachel has been a resident designer for the O’Neill Playwrights Conference since 2005. Rachel was an NEA/TCG Design Fellow and received the Princess Grace Award for Theater.

TYLER MICOLEAU (Lighting Designer) has designed the lighting for over 250 live productions including plays, dance, movement-theatre, multi-media performance and puppetry. He is the recipient of an Off-Broadway Lucille Lortel Award, a Village Voice OBIE, the NEA/TCG Career Development Program and holds a B.A. from Bowdoin College. Off-Broadway credits: God’s Ear (New Georges), A Very Common Procedure (MCC), Gutenberg! The Musical! (59E59), Hell House, Hiroshima Maiden (St. Ann’s Warehouse), The God Committee (Lamb’s Theatre), Orson’s Shadow, Eat The Taste, Bug (Barrow Street Theater); Ladies of the Corridor, Counsellor-At-Law (Peccadillo); Carnival Knowledge, Underneath the Lintel (Soho Playhouse); The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, The Night Heron, Dublin Carol, Mojo (Atlantic Theater); Refuge (Playwrights Horizons). Regional designs for Wilma Theater, Delaware Theater Co., Prince Music Theater, Hangar Theatre, Syracuse Stage Co., Portland Center Stage, Portland Stage Co., Madison Rep, Shakespeare Theater, Cornerstone Theater and Long Wharf Theater.

MURELL HORTON (Costume Designer) Regional: Lorenzaccio, The Silent Woman, Richard III, Hamlet, Hedda Gabler, Camino Real (Shakespeare Theater Company); 1001 (Denver Center Theater); The Clean House (Cleveland Playhouse); The Goat, After Ashley, A Question of Mercy, (Philadelphia Theatre Company); Night of the Iguana, Woman In Mind, The Visting Mr. Green, Transit of Venus, Mad Forest, Desire Under the Elms, The Illusion, The Game of Love and Chance (The Berkshire Theatre Festival); A Tale of Two Cities (Jeffrey Finn Productions); O’ Pioneers! (The Acting Company); A Christmas Carol (The Indians Repertory Theatre); The Cherry Orchard, A Question of Mercy, A Doll’s House (The Julliard School of Drama); When Ladies Battle, Richard III (Sets and Costumes), The Miser (Sets and Costumes), Cymbeline, Venice Preserved (The Pearl Theatre Company). Opera: Lysistrata (world premiere) at Houston Grande Opera and New York City Opera. Awards: 2007 Irene Sharaffe Young Master’s Award, three Helen Hayes Award Nominations for Outstanding Costume Design. Upcoming projects: Titus Andronicus and Hamlet (Shakespeare Theatre Company) and Love, Valor, Compassion! (The Berkshire Theatre Festival).

LINDSAY JONES (Sound Designer). Off-Broadway: The God of Hell (Actors Studio); Dedication or the Stuff of Dreams, In the Continuum, String of Pearls, Boy (Primary Stages); Beautiful Thing (Cherry Lane); John Ferguson (Mint); O Jerusalem (Flea) and Closet Land (NYPW). Regional: Center Stage, American Conservatory Theatre, South Coast Rep, Guthrie, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Arena Stage, The Old Globe, Hartford Stage, Pasadena Playhouse, Ford’s Theatre, Alliance, Goodman, Steppenwolf, Geva, Lookingglass and many others. International credits include productions in Austria, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Scotland and with the Royal Shakespeare Company in England. He is the recipient of four Jeff Awards and 11 nominations, an Ovation Award and two ASCAP Plus Awards and was the first sound designer to win the Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award. His most recent film score for A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin (2006 Academy Award winner, Best Documentary, Short Subject) for HBO Films.

Bonnie Brady ( Production Stage Manager).  Credits include: Evil Dead, The Musical, Burleigh Grimes (New World Stages), Almost Heaven, The Songs of John Denver (Promenade), Twelve Angry Men, The Constant Wife (Roundabout), Broadway Bash (Encores), Guantánamo (Culture Project), Boy, Going to St. Ives, Strictly Academic (Primary Stages), Intrigue With Faye, Scattergood, A Letter From Ethel Kennedy (MCC), The Molly Maguires (Kirby Center). Thanks to family and friends for their continued love and support.

PAGE 73 PRODUCTIONS (Producer). Founded in 1997 by Nicole Fix, Liz Jones, Asher Richelli and Dan Shiffman, Page 73 is a non-profit theater company that produces and develops the work of early-career playwrights who have yet to receive wide public acknowledgment or substantial production opportunities in New York City. Page 73’s signature program is the P73 Playwriting Fellowship, an annual fellowship awarded to one early-career playwright each year wherein Page 73 acts as that writer’s advocate and producer. Past fellows are Kirsten Greenidge, Quiara Alegria Hudes and Jason Grote. Krista Knight is the current fellow. Each year, Page 73 offers a week-long summer residency on the Yale campus for three to four playwrights and the New York City or world premiere of a new play by an early-career playwright. This past year, Page 73 established “Interstate 73″, a writing group that consists of playwrights Andy Bragen, Kara Lee Corthron, J. Holtham, Krista Knight, Kenneth Lin and Kirsten Palmer. Page 73 has worked with, among others, Peter Ackerman, Janet Allard, Michael Friedman, Karen Hartman, Julia Jordan, Dan LeFranc, Heather Lynn MacDonald, Peter Morris, Dave Mowers, Dan O’Brien, Micah Schraft, Victoria Stewart, Gary Sunshine, C. Denby Swanson, Lauren Weedman and Ken Weitzman. Plays developed and produced by Page 73 have moved to subsequent productions at the Alliance Theatre (Atlanta, GA), Denver Center for the Performing Arts (Denver, CO), Magic Theater (San Francisco, CA), Primary Stages (NY, NY), Steppenwolf Garage (Chicago, IL) and Women’s Project and Productions (NY, NY). In 2001, Page 73 received a Jonathan Larson Foundation award for its work on The Unknown, a musical by Janet Allard, Jean Randich and Shane Rettig. Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue by Quiara Alegria Hudes, which Page 73 developed in 2005 and produced in 2006, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in drama in 2007.

DOUG NEVIN (Producer) made his Broadway producing debut last season with Douglas Carter Beane’s The Little Dog Laughed (2007 Tony Award nomination for Best Play; GLAAD Media Award). As the Producing Associate of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, his credits include Craig Lucas’ Miss Julie and Chris Denham’s Cagelove, directed by Adam Rapp. Doug serves on the Board of Directors of Rattlestick and is an associate member of the League of American Theaters and Producers. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin and Emory University School of Law, Doug practices law with Baker & Hostetler LLP in New York City.

CAROLINE PRUGH (Producer) is currently an Associate with Stuart Thompson Productions, a Broadway and Off-Broadway General Management and Producing office, where she has worked on the productions of over 40 plays since her arrival there in 1998, including Proof, Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, The Shape of Things, Take Me Out, Doubt, Red Light Winter, Caroline, or Change, Deuce and The Year of Magical Thinking. She served as general manager on the NYMF production of But I’m A Cheerleader! She is a graduate of Amherst College.

ERICA LYNN SCHWARTZ (Producer). Most recently, Erica was the Associate Producer on the critically-acclaimed Off-Broadway musical Striking 12 (2006-07 Lucille Lortel Outstanding Musical Award nomination). Other NY producing credits: 2005 World AIDS Day Concert - The Secret Garden (named by Playbill.com as one of the “Top Ten Theatrical Events of 2005″) and a “Night with Northwestern”. Currently, she is a Producing Associate with 321 Theatrical Management, whose management and producing credits include Wicked, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. Prior to 321, Erica developed sponsorship and promotions for Movin’ Out, Doubt (Broadway), MTC, Hairspray, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Modern Orthodox. She served as the Artistic Services Associate for Chicago Shakespeare Theater and is a script reader for the Public Theater’s Emerging Artists Program. Erica is a proud graduate of Northwestern University and serves on the Board of the NUEA (Northwestern University Entertainment Alliance).