THE CREATIVE TYPES
SCOTT BROWN (Author) has appeared in several shows at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. He originated the role of 'Bud Davenport' in the original NY performances and London premiere of Gutenberg! The Musical!. He was nominated for a 2007 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical for Gutenberg! Offstage, he writes articles, reviews, and cheapshots for Entertainment Weekly and Time. If you watch a lot of E!, you've probably seen Scott discussing the life of Demi Moore on "The E! True Hollywood Story." He's pretty proud of that.
ANTHONY KING (Author) lives in NYC where he writes, directs, and performs. Performance credits include his solo shows Chosen (NYC International Fringe Festival) and DAY 8: Take Complete Control (UCBT), as well as other stage projects, including the original NY and London runs of Gutenberg! The Musical! as 'Doug Simon'. He was nominated for a 2007 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical for Gutenberg! On TV, Anthony has been featured on "Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn" and will be seen on MTV's upcoming "Human Giant." He also played an appropriately middle-ages type in the Comedy Central Motherload show "All Access: Middle Ages." Anthony's regional and NYC directing credits include: 1940s Radio Hour, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, A Chorus Line, and many new shows including The Patriots (HBO Aspen Comedy Festival), Who's Your Daddy? (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), God's Pottery (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Listen Kid (NYMF 2005) and Mister (starring Anthony Rapp). He has also written for GQ and Entertainment Weekly. Anthony is currently the Artistic Director of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in NY where he also performs every Saturday night in the improvised comedy show REUBEN WILLIAMS: As Seen on TV. www.theanthonyking.com
Alex Timbers (Director) Recent credits include Hell House (St. Ann's Warehouse), underground with David Dorfman Dance (BAM Next Wave and US tour), A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant (New York Theatre Workshop; OBIE Award-NYC; Garland Award, Best Director-LA), Marge (Summer Play Festival), Boozy (Culture Project; "10 Best of 2005" Daily News and Time Out), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Williamstown Theater Festival), and Heddatron (HERE). Alex is a Williamstown Directing Fellow, a Drama League Directing Fellow, and the Artistic Director of award-winning theater company Les Freres Corbusier. He was nominated for a 2007 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical for Gutenberg!
T.O. Sterrett (Original Musical Direction/Arrangements) Broadway: Pianist / Keyboards / Assistant Conductor for Wicked, Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar (Revival), and the world-renowned Dance of the Vampires. Conductor / Music Director for Mos Def, Tommy Tune, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Liz Callaway, Katey Sagal, S. Epatha Merkerson, Stephanie Pope, Bobby Cannavale, and many more. Numerous performances in Carnegie Hall with Shirley Bassey. Composer for PBS series "Great Projects: The Building of America," "The Trial of Adolf Eichmann," many other films, and currently composing a musical theatre show with producer / writer Brian Hargrove. www.yourbestaudition.com
KRIS KUKUL (Musical Director/Accompanist) is the musical director for many various facets of the Williamstown Theatre Festival, including the Late-Night Cabarets. He has worked as Elizabeth Swados’ Musical Director/Arranger for over five years.. Projects together include; Kaspar Hauser, The Three Gods, Waiting for Lefty, The Journey To Benares, The Violence Project and Judith. Recent work in New York City, Mental Missiles (The Culture Project), The Nitpicker (Joe’s Pub), Jabu and Ashley Montana with Bebe Neuwirth (The Flea), Pretty Dead Girl (Pre-Broadway workshop; The Araca Group), Red Tide Blooming (P.S. 122), Much Ado About Nothing (Public Theatre/Shakespeare in the Park) and The Ladies (The Civilians). International work; Midsummer Night’s Dream (Composer, National Theatre of Greece), Heracles (dir. Andre Serban), Bocan (Festival Iberoamericano in Bogota) and The Frogs for the Epidauros festival.He is adjunct faculty at New York University/Tisch and The New School (M.F.A. program). Graduate of NYU/TSOA
Tyler Micoleau (Lighting Designer). Off-Broadway: Hell House (Les Freres Corbusier/St. Ann's Warehouse); Orson's Shadow, BUG (OBIE and Lortel Awards), Eat The Taste (Barrow Street Theater); Underneath The Lintel, Carnival Knowledge (SoHo Playhouse); Hiroshima Maiden (Dan Hurlin/St. Ann's Warehouse); The Intelligent Design Of Jenny Chow, The Night Heron, Dublin Carol, Mojo (Atlantic Theater), The Timekeepers (Barrow Group, The God Committee (Lambs Theater), The Mistakes Madeline Made (Naked Angels), Heddatron (Les Freres). Regional: NJ Shakespeare, Syracuse Stage, Portland Stage, Delaware Theater Co., Hangar Theater, Shakespeare Theater, Long Wharf. Faculty: Sarah Lawrence College Dept. of Dance.
Emily Rebholz (Costume Designer) Emily is delighted to be designing Gutenberg! The Musical! after recently graduating from the Yale School of Drama. Recent Design Credits: Expecting Isabel (Asolo Repertory Theatre), I (heart) Kant (The Committee Theater), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Demon Dreams, Polaroid Stories, Twelfth Night (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Safe in Hell (Yale Repertory Theatre), Three Sisters, The Real Thing, Measure for Measure (Yale School of Drama), Request Concert, Pulp, Tuesdays and Sundays, The Drum, and Fefu and Her Friends (Yale Cabaret). Emily has also designed costumes for photographer Gregory Crewdson, including The Dream House, published by the New York Times Magazine.
Ian Unterman (Assistant Director). Ian is also assisting Alex Timbers on A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pagent. Past New York Directing credits: Shrug Like You Mean It (Kraine), Happily Ever After, The Trivial Revolutionary and many others for Third Man's long-running Bar Hopper series. Ian is an Artistic Associate of Les Freres Corbusier and a founding member of Third Man Productions.
WESLEY APFEL (Production Stage Manager). has been with Gutenberg! The Musical! since its American premiere at NYMF. Broadway: Festen, Sly Fox, The Boys from Syracuse, The Graduate. Off-Broadway: Transatlantic Liaison, Cycling Past the Matterhorn, The Musical of Musicals-The Musical!, The Thing About Men, Bat Boy, three seasons with SPF, and various productions and workshops for Keen, Lincoln Center, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, and MTC.
THE SPLINTER GROUP (General Manager) was formed by Seth A. Goldstein to produce works of singular vision for the stage and screen. The company produced Shakespeare's R&J (UK premiere, West End), US and European productions of Christine Jorgensen Reveals (Drama Desk Award), and will produce Ilan Hatsor's Masked in the spring of 2007. Management clients include The Man Himself, Confessions of a Mormon Boy, Apparition, Absolutely Fascinating, Pugilist Specialist, A Tale of a Tiger, the 2006 New York Musical Theatre Festival and NAMT's 2005 and 2006 Festival of New Musicals. Upcoming: Candy & Dorothy, The Intergalactic Nemesis, Masked, and Jay Alan Zimmerman's Incredibly Deaf Musical, www.splintergroupproductions.com.
TREVOR BROWN (Producer) presented the world premiere of Gutenberg! The Musical! at London's Jermyn Street Theatre in January 2006. Other London productions include And All The Children Cried (BAC, dir. Annie Castledine), Vanbrugh's The Provoked Wife (Southwark Playhouse, dir. Paul Jepson), and Between The Crosses (Jermyn Street Theatre). Forthcoming productions include The Split by Frank Strausser (dir. Matt Peover), The Swansong by David Greig (dir. Lucy Jameson, developed at the National Theatre Studio) and new plays by Whit Stillman, Stephen Pollard and Cari Rosen. He was recently awarded the New Producer's Bursary by The Society of London Theatre.
RON KASTNER (Producer) London West End productions include: The Real Thing, Sideman, Jesus Hopped The A Train; Broadway: Gypsy, The Retreat From Moscow, Life x 3, The Real Thing (Tony Award, Best Revival), True West, Side Man (Tony Award, Best Play), Angels In America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, (Tony Awards, Best Play), Honour, Death And The Maiden. Off-Broadway and regional: Talking Heads by Alan Bennett, Jesus Hopped The A Train, Beautiful Thing, The Hairy Ape, Olleana, Pounding Nails, Three Hotels, Marvin's Room, Aven'U Boys. Film: Personal Velocity, Santitos, Substance Of Fire, Angela, Federal Hill. Mr. Kastner is also the Chairman, CEO and founder of Capital Printing Systems, the President of the Board of the Karen Horney Clinic in New York.
TERRY ALLEN KRAMER (Producer) has an extensive background in the financial world and the theatre. Her directorships include the Foundation for Italian Art & Culture. She is President of Remark Theatrical Productions Inc. Mrs. Kramer has produced Good News, Knock Knock, I Love My Wife, A Meeting By The River, The Crucifer Of Blood (which received London's Society of the West End Theatre Award for Best Play of 1979), Frankenstein, Gorey Stories, Sugar Babies, Me And My Girl, Shadowlands, Nick & Nora, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Supporting Cast, The Royal Shakespeare Company's A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Play About The Baby, 2002 Tony winner The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?, 2003 Tony winner Movin' Out, Fiddler On The Roof, La Cage Aux Folles, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? and The Times They Are A-Changin'. Off-Broadway productions include Reefer Madness and Beckett/Albee. National tours include Jesus Christ Superstar, Saturday Night Fever, Sugar Babies, Me And My Girl, and Movin' Out. Mrs. Kramer is a partner with James M. Nederlander in the ownership of the Marquis Theater in New York and the Aldwych and Adelphia Theatres in England. She is an active member of the Board of Trustees of New York Presbyterian Hospital.
JOSEPH SMITH (Producer) is currently Executive Producer of Old Vic Productions in London. Previous to that, he was Associate Producer for Ron Kastner (RJK Productions) in New York where credits include Gypsy, Life x3, Retreat From Moscow and Alan Bennett's Talking Heads. He produced Deborah Grimberg's Cycling Past The Matterhorn, starring Shirley Knight, Off-Broadway in 2005 as well as three new plays, Mayhem by Kelly Stuart, Sweetness by Gary Sunshine and Map Makers Sorrow by Chris Lee for the Summer Play Festival at Theatre Row. He was also an Associate Producer at the Royal National Theatre in London for ten years, where he produced plays both nationally and internationally including the Olivier Award winning Play Without Words by Matthew Bourne.
THE UPRIGHT CITZENS BRIGADE THEATRE (Original Production) The Upright Citizens Brigade (Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh) came to New York, from Chicago, in 1996. After staging their award winning sketch comedy show and introducing their critically acclaimed brand of cutting-edge improvised comedy to New York audiences they founded the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, now located at 307 W. 26th Street in Chelsea. Last year the UCB Theatre opened a second venue in Los Angeles located at 5919 Franklin Avenue in Hollywood. UCB Theatre features some of the best comedy through both venues seven nights a week. In addition to the popular live entertainment UCB Theatre is also the operates one of the largest comedy Training Centers in the world with students appearing on and writing for stage, television and major motion picture productions and the Internet. For more information, please visit www.ucbtheatre.com.
New York Musical Theatre Festival (American Premiere Production). Hailed as "the Sundance for musical theatre," The New York Musical Theatre Festival (Kris Stewart, Executive Director; Isaac Robert Hurwitz, Executive Producer) has premiered 99 new musicals since its 2004 inception. Aiming to revitalize the musical theatre and to smash the developmental glass ceiling beneath which so many new musicals get trapped, NYMF takes over midtown each fall with a slate of more than 30 full productions and nearly 100 more readings, workshops, concerts, seminars and master classes. The festival is the flagship program of the National Music Theater Network and the largest musical theatre event in the world. In 2005, NYMF received the $100,000 Jujamcyn Theaters Prize and was dubbed the theatrical "rookie of the year" by The New York Times. NYMF shows run the theatrical gamut from hip hop and freestyle rap to dance musicals, from traditional musical comedies to edgy satires to epic dramas. Numerous festival alumni have gone on to further production, including Altar Boyz, [title of show], The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Shout!, The Big Voice: God or Merman?, Meet John Doe and Nerds://A Musical Software Satire.
THE ACTORS' PLAYHOUSE was a pioneer in the Off-Broadway movement that began after World War II in New York's Greenwich Village and has been presenting plays at 100 7th Avenue South between Christopher and Bleecker Streets for over 55 years. The Playhouse presented the original New York productions of the hit comedy, The Marijuana-Logues, the long-running musical sensation, Naked Boys Singing, Seth Rudetsky's Rhapsody in Seth, Anthony Wilkinson's My Big Gay Italian Wedding, Ronnie Larsen's Making Porn and Peepshow, Howard Crabtree's Whoop-De-Doo, Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy, Steven Sondheim's Marry Me a Little, Eric Bogosian's Funhouse, the Ridiculous Theatre Company's Murder at Mincing Manor (starring Everett Quinton), Reno in Rage and Rehab, An Evening with Quentin Crisp, John Herbert's Fortune and Men's Eyes, and the adobe theatre company's DUET! A Romantic Fable. The Actors' Playhouse is owned and operated by Peter Breger and all inquiries concerning the theatre may be addressed to peterb@theactorsplayhouse.com.
OFF-BROADWAY An intimate New York experience, Off-Broadway audiences were the first to be up close to see such hits as A Chorus Line, Godspell, Rent and Driving Miss Daisy. Off-Broadway is the home of such long running shows as Stomp, Blue Man Group and the world's longest running musical The Fantasticks. Of the last 11 Pulitzer Prize winning Dramas, 10 were born Off-Broadway. Discover more at www.Off-Broadway.com.
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