Bios

Heather Prince, Production Stage Manager

Production stage management credits include: The world premiere of A.R. Gurney’s O Jerusalem at The Flea Theatre; the premiere of American Storage at Theatre Row. She has PSM’ed the past two seasons with Joe Brancato at Penguin Repertory Co. Productions include James Sherman’s Door to Door, Michael Healy’s The Drawer Boy, Sally Deering’s Chewing Mother’s Bones, and Alan Knee’s
Syncopation. Stage management credits include: CSC and Big Dance Theatre’s co-production of Antigone; EST’s Thicker Than Water and Marathon of One Acts.

Jana Zielonka, Music Director

Broadway and Off-Broadway credits include: James Joyce's The Dead (piano), Stars in Your Eyes (piano/conductor), Menopause the Musical (piano/conductor), Appelemando's Dreams (Music Director). Other credits include: Music Director: The Fantasticks (NJSF), The Streets of New York (Westport Country Playhouse), City of Angels (CAP 21); Piano: My Fair Lady (Berkshire Theatre Festival), A Saint She Ain't (Westport Country Playhouse), My One and Only (Cape Playhouse). Jana is on the faculty at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. BA in music: Yale University.

Richard Kimmel

Vice President of Last Minute Productions.  He associate produced Simon Hammerstein's Men Without Shadows and Trueblinka.  Directing/producing credits include: Puss (The Performing Garage), Witches' Macbeth, Three Sisters, Pleasure Blister monthly cabaret series, Pleasuredome I & II,  The Tooth of the Crime (London), Endgame (Boston), American Buffalo, Twelth Night, and The Comedy of Errors (Atlanta).  Richard is Assistant Director of The Wooster Group's rep production To you, the Birdie! (Phadre), with which he has toured to Paris, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, and Istanbul, and will visit Barcelona this summer.  As a producer, Richard has worked with many notable artists including Spalding Gray, Richard Schechner, and Theodora Skipitares. He is Artistic Director of Cannon Company, founder of PleasuredomeNYC, and a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab.  Awards: New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Award, Princess Grace Award.  MFA-Directing, Columbia.  His current projects include an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

Shannon Polly - Barbara Bush

had the pleasure of meeting First Lady Barbara Bush as a teen when she performed her one-woman show about Eisenhower at the Library of Congress. She's hoping that Babs will be out of town for this performance. National Tour: Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes. New York: Gretchen in Transport Group's Requiem for William; Dr. Chase in Normal with Barbara Walsh, Nurse in Romeo and Juliet; and Lady MacDuff in Macbeth. Regional: Maggie Cutler in The Man Who Came to Dinner; Liz Larsen's U/S in Christopher Durang's musical Adrift in Macao at New York Stage and Film; Carrie Pipperidge in Carousel; Grace in Honk!; and Anita in West Side Story. Television/Film: As the World Turns, Ed, Law and Order, and the upcoming indie feature Company K. Degrees: Yale University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Thanks to Jim, Tom, the fabulous team behind POGWB, and new hubby Garry.

Tom Alberg, Casting

Theatre: Has cast for Classic Stage Company, New York Stage and Film, The Play Company, Humana Festival, MET, Worth Street Theater … Film: "Brother To Brother," "Revolution #9," Ordinary Sinner," "My Angel Is A Centerfold," and "Company K"… TV: Many lust driven characters on As The World Turns,… Currently employed at Robert Boyett Theatricals. For John Kerry.

Dale Knoth, Lighting Design

Joe Cocker-One Night Only. Well (workshop) The Public. New Work Now! The Public. Eye Sling Shot Lions; The Performing Garage. Puss; The Performing Garage. The Three Sisters; 28th Street Theater. Pleasuredome. Dance: Design for Larry Keigwin, Mark Dendy, Doug Varone, Zvi Gotheiner, Noche Flamenca, Ice Theater of NY. Architecture: Binghamton University Sports Complex, Bearcat Den. Fashion: Juan Anon Menswear. Additional work for Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Ensemble Theater, McCarter Theater, Playwrights Horizons, The Public, The Roundabout, Yale Repertory Theater, Denver Opera, Portland Opera. Holds an MFA in Theater Design from New York University.

Michael V. Moore, scenic design

Michael V. Moore is pleased to be working with Simon again.  His shows include: Aloha Flight 243, Kingdom of Lost Songs, Public Relations, (Lincoln Center Director's Lab,) The Volunteer (Theatre for a New City,) Men Without Shadows (Horizon Theatre Rep,)  St. Crispin's Day (Rattlestick Theatre,)  Keith Reddin's Almost Blue (The Actor's Playground,) Greater Messapia (Queens Theater in the Park,)  Michael John Garces' Caught (Peculiar Works Project).

Credits

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Book & Lyrics
John Herin
Adam B. Mathias

Music
Alden Terry


Direction
Simon Hammerstein

Music Direction
Jana Zielonka

Production Stage Management
Heather Prince


Scenic Design
Michael V. Moore

Costume Design
Charlene Alexis Gross

Lighting Design
Dale Knoth

Sound Design
Greg Reif


Choreography
Dontee Kiehn


Produced by
Christine Hale
Richard Kimmel

Casting
Tom Alberg

Graphic Design
Jessie Glass

Website Design and Hosting
Mathias Technology


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Charlene Alexis Gross, costume design

Previous productions with Simon Hammerstein include Men Without Shadows (Flea Theatre) & St. Crispins’ Day (Rattlestick Theatre).  Other Costume Designs include: The Gamesters’ Manhattan Magic (Sands Casino, Atlantic City),   George M. Cohan:  In His own Words (Chip Deffaa, Chashama Theatre), & Where Everything Is Everything (Stephen Spoonamore, CBT Prodcutions).  Broadway Assistant on:  A Class Act (Lonny Price) & TopDog/Underdog (George C Wolfe).  Dance credits include pieces with the Juilliard School, Each Other (Mariah Maloney,  BRIC Studio & featured on ABC News), &  four pieces for Breezy Berryman including 1,2,3,5,8 (The Yard).  Ms. Gross’s fine artist work is currently in two Gallery Shows:  The Water Show @ BWAC in Redhook & Warp Designs in Williamsburg.  Contact, Samples & information at www.charlenegross.com

Dontee Kiehn, choreographer

Broadway: Performed in original revival casts of Gypsy, starring Bernadette Peters, and 42nd Street. National Tour: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Regional: George M!, Goodspeed Opera House; No No Nanette, Papermill Playhouse; Hansel and Gretel, Houston Grand Opera; Radio City Rockette. BPA , Oklahoma City University.