Makeup design: Frozen, A Bronx Tale, On Your Feet!, Disaster!, It Shoulda Been You, On the Twentieth Century on Broadway. Recent wig, hair & makeup design: The Wolves (Playwrights Realm & Lincoln Center), Mary Page Marlowe (Second Stage Theater), Peter Pan & Demon (Bard SummerScape). Hundreds of designs for American opera companies, recently Fellow Travelers (Prototype Festival); Silent Night (The Atlanta Opera); Guilty Mother (On Site Opera); Lost in the Stars & Candide (Glimmerglass Festival); Dead Man Walking, Appomattox and Wagner's Ring Cycle (Washington National Opera). ... read more
Ben is delighted to be returning for his eighth production at MTC. He has coached over 115 professional productions. Highlights on Broadway include Curious Incident..., Billy Elliot, The Last Ship, Michael Moore..., The Encounter and Matilda. Off-Broadway credits include productions at Barrow St, Atlantic, Roundabout and Signature Theatre. National tours include Curious Incident..., Gentleman's Guide..., Billy Elliot, Spamalot, Mamma Mia! Regional/international includes Williamstown Theatre Festival, Hartford Stage, Guthrie Theater, Two River Theater, Canon (Toronto), Gate (Dublin), Colorado Shakespeare. Film/TV credits include "Lost City of Z," "Elementary," "Vinetalk." Teaching: Juilliard, UNCSA. ... read more
Barry GroveProducer (Executive Producer, Manhattan Theatre Club)
Barry is in his 36th year of partnership with artistic director Lynne Meadow at MTC, where he has produced hundreds of American and world premieres for MTC. He is a member of the LORT Executive, Committee, the Broadway League Board of Governors and the Tony Administration Committee and is a trustee of the Equity-League Pension and Health Trust Funds. In the past, he has served as president of ART/New York. He received the 2000 Edith Oliver Award for Sustained Excellence Off-Broadway, the Arts and Business Council’s 1997 Arts Management Excellence Award and a citation from the New York City Council ... read more
Lindsay Jones is a composer and sound designer for theatre and film. Off-Broadway: Through the Night (Union Square/Westside Theatres), The Brother/Sister Plays (Public Theater), The Burnt Part Boys, (Playwrights Horizons/Vineyard), Top Secret (New York Theatre Workshop), In The Continuum (Primary Stages) and many others. Regional: Guthrie, Center Stage, American Conservatory Theatre, Hartford Stage, South Coast Repertory, Alliance, Goodman, Arena Stage, Yale Repertory, The Old Globe, Chicago Shakespeare, Steppenwolf, Lookingglass and many others. International:: Stratford Shakespeare Festival (Canada), Royal Shakespeare Company (England), as well as productions in Austria, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Scotland. Awards: five Joseph Jefferson Awards and 16 nominations, ... read more
As Artistic Director, Lynne has been the artistic visionary and leader of MTC since 1972, creating work that has put the company at the forefront of the American theatre. She has accepted every major theatre award on behalf of MTC. Directing credits include Margaret Edson’s Wit, Donald Margulies’ Collected Stories (Broadway) and The Loman Family Picnic; Charles Busch’s The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife (Broadway, national tour); Alan Ayckbourn’s Woman in Mind (Drama Desk nomination, Best Director) A Small Family Business (Broadway); David Greig’s The American Pilot; Ron Hutchinson’s Moonlight and Magnolias (MTC, Alliance Theatre); Leslie Ayvazian’s Nine Armenians (Drama ... read more
Broadway: She Loves Me (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards), On the Twentieth Century (Tony nom.), You Can't Take It With You (Tony nom.), Kinky Boots (Tony nom.), Lucky Guy (Tony nom.), Hairspray (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle noms.). Off Broadway: the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park. Founder and president of Rockwell Group, the architecture firm which renovated The Hayes Theater for Second Stage. Honors: AIANY President's Award, Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, Presidential Design Award. ... read more
More than 60 Broadway shows, including The Front Page, The Crucible, Blackbird, The Color Purple, Waitress, The King and I, War Horse, This Is Our Youth, Of Mice and Men, Romeo and Juliet, Lucky Guy, Death of a Salesman, Venus in Fur, A View From the Bridge. He has worked extensively at the Lincoln Center (Disgraced, Blood and Gifts), the Public Theater (Hamlet, King Lear, Mother Courage, Father Comes Home From The Wars), MTC (Ruined, Murder Ballad), NY Theatre Workshop (Red Speedo, Othello), and the Met Opera (Le Nozze di Figaro, Il Trovatore). ... read more
MTC directorial credits include The Little Foxes, The Country House, The Snow Geese, The Columnist, Lost Lake, Accent on Youth, Good People, Time Stands Still, Rabbit Hole, After the Night and the Music, Brooklyn Boy, Sight Unseen, Psycopathia Sexualis, and Proof.
He has directed over 30 Broadway productions and at least as many Off-Broadway, including ten for The Public Theater's Shakespeare in he Park. He served as Artistic Director of Seattle Repertory Theatre from 1981-97. He is the Swanlund Professor of Theatre at University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. ... read more
Justin Townsend received a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award Honour for his work on Moulin Rouge! The Musical. His Broadway credits include Jagged Little Pill, Saint Joan, Present Laughter, The Little Foxes, The Humans (Tony nomination), American Psycho (Tony nomination), Fool for Love, Casa Valentina, A Night with Janis Joplin, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Other Place, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. He served as Creative Director for Drake’s “Boy Meets World” European Tour and OVO Fest 2017. He previously worked with Alex Timbers on Here Lies Love. He is an associate professor at ... read more