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Charles Dickens Playwright
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Solters / Roskin / Friedman, Inc. General Press Representative
Robert Bennett (i) Production Stage Manager
John Caird Director
Caid is a freelance director and writer working in theatre, opera and musical theatre, an Honorary Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Principal Guest Director of the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm (Dramaten) and author of Theatre Craft, published by Faber and Faber. Recent work in England includes: Macbeth (Almeida) and Hamlet (NT), both with Simon Russell Beale. In Stockholm his production of Strindberg’s Dance of Death is currently running at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, and in Japan he has just directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the New National Theatre and his own adaptation of Teru Miyamoto’s novel Kinshu at ... read more
Joshua Ellis General Press Representative
Becky Flora General Press Representative
Sally Greenhut Stage Manager
Dermot Hayes Scenic Designer
David Hersey Lighting Designer
Since his arrival in London from New York many years ago, David Hersey has designed the lighting for hundreds of plays, musicals, operas and ballets. He was lighting consultant to the National Theatre for ten years and is a past chairman and current fellow of the Association of Lighting Designers. In 2002 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Middlesex University. His many awards include Tonys for Best Lighting Design for Evita, Cats and Les Misérables plus the 1996 Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design for Burning Blue, The Glass Menagerie and Twelfth Night. He received Tony nominations for The ... read more
Donald Johnston Musical Director
Conductor
David LeShay General Press Representative
Louise Weiner Ment General Press Representative
John Napier Costume Designer
Scenic Designer
Production Photographer
Nelle Nugent Producer
Nelle Nugent has produced more than 60 Broadway, touring, Off-Broadway and West End productions including: Dracula, The Elephant Man, Morning's at Seven, Mass Appeal (MTC) Amadeus, Nicholas Nickleby, Sly Fox (revival), American Buffalo (revival). She has produced many independent feature films and television movies, most recently completed feature film: Athol Fugard's Master Harold…and the boys. Her productions have received five Tonys, two Obies, two New York Drama Critics Awards, and numerous film and TV awards. She is currently producing Time Stand Stills starring Laura Linney, Brian D'Arcey James, Eric Bogosian and Christina Ricci at Broadway's Cort Theatre. ... read more
Trevor Nunn Director
Trevor Nunn was educated at Downing College, Cambridge, and in 1962 he won an ABC Director’s Scholarship to the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, where, as resident director, his productions included The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Peer Gynt and a musical version of Around the World in Eighty Days. He recently returned to the Belgrade to direct a production of Scenes from a Marriage. In 1964, Trevor joined the RSC, and was made the company’s youngest-ever artistic director in 1968. He was responsible for running the RSC until he retired from his post in 1986. Productions for the RSC included: The Revenger’s Tragedy, The Relapse, ... read more
Brent Peek Production Coordinator
Mel Rodnon Music Contractor
Leon Rubin Assistant Director
Chic Silber Special Effects Designer
Liz Smith Speech Consultant
Robert H. Wallner Company Manager

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Awards and Nominations

1987 Tony Awards
Best Revival: Three Knights, Ltd. was nominated but did not win.

1982 Drama Desk Awards
Special Awards: 0 won.

1982 New York Drama Critics Circle Awards
Best Play: David Edgar won.

1982 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Special Citation: 0 won.

1982 The Hewes Awards
Special Citation: John Napier won.
Special Citation: Neil Peter Jampolis won.
Special Citation: David Hersey won.
Special Citation: Dermot Hayes won.
Special Citation: Beverly Emmons won.

1982 Tony Awards
Best Costume Design: John Napier was nominated but did not win.
Best Direction of a Play: Trevor Nunn won.
Best Direction of a Play: John Caird won.
Best Lighting Design: David Hersey was nominated but did not win.
Best Play: Nelle Nugent won.
Best Play: Elizabeth Ireland McCann won.
Best Play: James M. Nederlander won.
Best Play: David Edgar won.
Best Scenic Design: Dermot Hayes won.
Best Scenic Design: John Napier won.

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