The Passion of George W. Bush - bios

Heather Prince, Production Stage Manager

Wed, 4 Aug 2004 10:45:10 -0700

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

Wed, 4 Aug 2004 08:47:39 -0700

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

Wed, 4 Aug 2004 08:06:30 -0700

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

Wed, 11 Aug 2004 07:33:39 -0700

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

Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:53:03 -0700

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

Fri, 16 Jul 2004 12:03:42 -0700

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

Fri, 16 Jul 2004 08:48:55 -0700

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

Wed, 4 Aug 2004 10:53:16 -0700

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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

Mon, 12 Jul 2004 13:02:52 -0700

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

Mon, 12 Jul 2004 13:02:17 -0700

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.

Simon Hammerstein, director

Mon, 12 Jul 2004 13:01:55 -0700

Simon is Founder and Artistic Director of Last Minute Productions Inc. His recent productions include the world premieres of Matt Pepper's St. Crispin's Day (TONY CRITICS PICK) and Adam Rapp's Trueblinka (TONY CRITICS PICK), and his revivals of Sartre's Men Without Shadows and O'Neill's Moon of the Caribees. Other credits include Neena Beber's Jump/Cut (nominated for an I.R.N.E- best new play), The Dew Point, Search and Destroy by Howard Korder and First Love by Richard Vetere. His work has been presented by The Rattlestick Theater, Soho Rep, The Flea, Gloucester Stage Co., Joe's Pub, Ensemble Studio Theater, La MaMa and others. He is a member of the Actors' Studio Writers & Directors Unit and the Lincoln Center Directors Lab.

Christine Hale, producer

Mon, 12 Jul 2004 13:00:49 -0700

This is Christine's first production since relocating to New York from Chicago in August 2003. Chicago production credits include: Production Manager for Any Someone at All, a new musical workshop at the Second City Skybox, Substitute Company Manager for I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, Marketing Director for Hogtown Horrors and An Enemy of the People (Keyhole Players), Box office/House Manager for The Cold Side of the Pillow and VDAY DePaul. Since moving to New York Christine has worked for the Broadway Musical Avenue Q, was Personal Assistant to composer Jason Robert Brown and has volunteered for the FringeNYC box office. Currently, Christine is Assistant to the General Managers at 101 Productions, which manages the Broadway productions of Jumpers, Fiddler on the Roof and the upcoming Democracy and Spamalot. Christine received her B.F.A. in Theatre Management from The Theatre School, DePaul University.

Alden Terry, composer

Mon, 12 Jul 2004 13:01:19 -0700

A native of Utah, Alden moved to Manhattan in 1997 to attend the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University where he earned an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing. Alden has been a freelance musician for many years, performing for ballet, theater, opera and dance. His compositions have been commissioned and performed by the Intermountain Chamber Orchestra, the Salt Lake Men's Choir, Contemporary Music Consortium, Utah Flute Association and various theater companies. His film work includes additional music for the video Seasons of the Heart, the feature film Mercy Street and the short Three Things I’ve Learned, which played at Sundance in 1994. Since moving to New York, he has composed music for the Second Avenue Dance Company and for the Design and Choreographers concert at the Tisch School of the Arts. His one-act musical, CindeRelativity (with book and lyrics by John Herin) was performed at The Hudson Guild Theater and at Dixon Place as part of the "Not for Broadway" festival. He has done orchestrations for the benefit Nothing Like a Dame 2000 on Broadway, for Seduction (conceived and directed by Chet Walker) and for Paul Newman’s Hole in the Wall Gang Camp gala benefits. His orchestrations were also featured in Theatre Virginia’s production of A Wonderful Life and the Barkesdale Theatre Company’s production of Carousel, directed by Jack Cummings III. Alden has performed for several off-Broadway shows, including After the Fair, Stars In Your Eyes and Godspell, as well as for The Harlot’s Progress, a puppet show which was featured in the Jim Henson festival in New York and the Fin du Ciecle festival in Nantes, France. He is currently the bass player and assistant musical director for Menopause, The Musical.

John Herin, librettist

Tue, 27 Jul 2004 08:50:04 -0700

John wrote the book and lyrics for the one-act musical CindeRelativity (music by Alden Terry) which was performed at Dixon Place and the Hudson Guild Theater as part of Prospect Theatre Company’s Cinderella Project. He also provided book and lyrics for Spirit Child, a children’s musical based on Nigerian folklore, which premiered last fall at Thomas Pullen School of the Arts in Landover, Maryland (music by Joel Derfner). His musical compositions for the theater include Ilion (libretto by Carol Jordan) and The Open Boat (book and lyrics by Tim McCanna and Josh Kant). He is currently writing the libretto for Ethan Frome, an opera to be composed by Alden Terry. John attended Brown University and the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at N.Y.U./Tisch.

Adam B. Mathias, librettist

Tue, 3 Aug 2004 10:33:45 -0700

Most recently, Adam's What Ho, Horatio (music by Bobby Nafarrete) was presented as part of Hamlet Sings by Prospect Theatre Company. Other musicals include Another?, Bloomsbury'd, The People Could Fly (one-act, music by Matt Marks), and A Normal Life (music by Dianne Perogine). Currently, Adam is penning the family musical The Adventures of Johnny Appleseed and a musical adaptation of Calderon de la Barca's Life Is A Dream. Adam has an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from N.Y.U. Tisch and a BFA in Playwriting from The Theatre School, DePaul University and is a member of the BMI Lehman Engle Musical Theatre Librettists' Workshop.