Creative Team

Marshall Brickman
Book
Films: (author or co-author) Sleeper, Annie Hall (AA), Manhattan, Manhattan Murder Mystery; (writer/director) Simon, Lovesick, The Manhattan Project, Sister Mary Explains it All. Television: The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (head writer), The Dick Cavett ABC late night show (head writer/co-producer). Mr. Brickman entered show business as a musician, first as a member of the folk group the Tarriers and then, along with John and Michelle Phillips, as one of the New Journeymen, which re-emerged a year later (Brickman having moved onto saner pursuits) as The Mamas and the Papas. Brickman’s recording (with Eric Weissberg) of the soundtrack of Deliverance, recorded in 1963, achieved gold status twice and remains a healthy seller around the world forty years later. Mr. Brickman has published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Playboy, and other periodicals. Jersey Boys is his first venture into the musical theater.

Rick Elice
Book
Jersey Boys, Rick’s first Broadway credit, won the Tony, Olivier, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, and Grammy awards for Best Musical. From 1982-1999, as creative director at Serino Coyne Inc., he produced ad campaigns for some 300 Broadway shows, from A Chorus Line to The Lion King. From 1999-2009, he served as creative consultant for The Walt Disney Studio. Also on Broadway, a new play that's a prequel to Peter Pan, called Peter and the Starcatcher, directed by Roger Rees and Alex Timbers. With Marshall Brickman and Andrew Lippa, he wrote The Addams Family, now on National Tour. Rick saw his first Broadway show when he was three. His mother said he was very well-behaved. From that day, he dreamed of working in the theatre. From the age of 19, he has. Heartfelt thanks to those he’s been lucky enough to know, whose work makes him grateful for the day he was born: Sondheim, Stoppard, Bennett, Prince, Fosse, Robbins, Nichols, Tune, Nunn, Laurents, Stone, Kushner, Taymor, Papp, Schumacher, Schneider, Coyne, Brickman and Rees. Rick thinks about them a lot. He never thought about Jersey much. He does now.

Bob Gaudio
Music
Bob wrote his first hit, "Who Wears Short Shorts," at 15, for the Royal Teens then went on to become a founding member of the Four Seasons and the band’s principal songwriter. He also produced the hit "You Don’t Bring Me Flowers" for Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand (Grammy nomination, Record of the Year), as well as six albums for Diamond, including The Jazz Singer. Other producing credits include albums for Frank Sinatra, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, and the soundtrack for the film of Little Shop of Horrors. Several songs co-written with Bob Crewe have been cover hits for such artists as the Tremeloes ("Silence Is Golden") and the Walker Brothers ("The Sun Ain`t Gonna Shine Anymore") Lauren Hill ("Can’t Take My Eyes Off You"). With his wife, Judy Parker, Gaudio produced and co-wrote the Who Loves You album for the Four Seasons, and one of Billboard’s longest-charted singles (54 weeks), "Oh, What A Night." A highpoint in his career came in 1990, when, as a member of the original Four Seasons, Gaudio was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. In 1995, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, which hailed him as "a quintessential music-maker." To this day, Bob Gaudio and Frankie Valli still maintain their partnership…on a handshake.

Bob Crewe
Lyrics
"New York was pregnant in the fifties," says Bob Crewe, "gestating with possibilities." Crewe and music partner Frank Slay became independent writer-producers when the category hadn’t yet been invented. In 1957 they wrote and produced "Silhouettes" for The Rays, skyrocketing to #1. Suddenly, producers in demand, they launched Freddie Cannon’s "Tallahassee Lassie" and Billy & Lillie’s "Lah Dee Da." Crewe’s 1960’s solo unprecedented producing success with The Four Seasons birthed a new sound, striking a major chord in American Pop. "Sherry," "Big Girls Don’t Cry," "Walk Like a Man," "Candy Girl," "Ronnie" – all smashes! When lead Frankie Valli demanded a solo turn, Crewe & Bob Gaudio wrote and Crewe produced "Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You," eventually becoming the century’s fifth most played song. Crewe ran hot with artists from Vicki Carr, Oliver, Lesley Gore to Mitch Ryder, co-writing with Charles Fox the soundtrack for Jane Fonda’s film, "Barbarella". Then his own Bob Crewe Generation exploded with Music To Watch Girls By. In 1972 Bob was in L.A., where he revived Frankie Valli with "My Eyes Adored You" by Crewe & Kenny Nolan. They also co-wrote Patti LaBelle’s "Lady Marmalade" (#1, July ’75) – to re-hit again from the soundtrack of Moulin Rouge (#1, June ’01). Credit: David Ritz.

Des McAnuff
Director
Des is a Tony Award-winning director and writer and the Artistic Director of La Jolla Playhouse. Under his leadership, La Jolla Playhouse has won more than 200 theatre awards including the 1993 Tony Award as America's Outstanding Regional Theatre. Recent productions directed at the Playhouse include Zhivago (2005); Palm Beach, The Screwball Musical (2005); Private Fittings (2005); Tom Donaghy's Eden Lane (2003); Molière's Tartuffe (2002); and The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (2001). Playhouse to Broadway Credits: Jersey Boys; Billy Crystal's 700 Sundays (Playhouse 2004; Broadway 2004, Tony Award for Special Theatrical Event); and Dracula, The Musical (Playhouse 2001; Broadway 2004); How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Playhouse 1994, Broadway 1995), The Who's Tommy (director/co-author with Pete Townshend; Playhouse 1992, Broadway 1993, Tony Award Best Director of a Musical, London Olivier Award Best Director 1994), A Walk in the Woods (Playhouse 1987, Broadway 1988, Moscow and Lithuania 1989-90) and Big River (Playhouse 1984, Broadway 1985, seven Tony Awards including Best Director of a Musical and Best Musical). Film credits include Cousin Bette (director), Iron Giant (Producer), The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (director), Quills (Executive Producer).

Sergio Trujillo
Choreographer
Broadway: Hands on a Hardbody, Tony Award winning Best Musical Memphis, Leap of Faith, The Addams Family, Next to Normal, All Shook Up, Guys and Dolls. Director/Choreographer: Flashdance. Off-Broadway: Saved, The Capeman, Romeo & Juliet (Public), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Kismet (Encores!), Salome (NYC Opera). Regional: White Noise (director/choreographer), The Wiz, Zhivago (La Jolla), Mambo Kings, The Marriage of Figaro (L.A. Opera), Chita and All That Jazz. International: Disney’s Tarzan; West Side Story; The Sound of Music (Stratford); Peggy Sue Got Married (West End); Kiss Me, Kate (Japan). TV: Judging/choreographing on “So You Think You Can Dance: Canada,” “Broadway: The American Musical” (PBS).

Ron Melrose
Music Direction, Vocal Arrangements & Incidental Music
Music Direction: Imaginary Friends, Scarlet Pimpernel, Radio City Sinatra, upcoming Caraboo and Waiting for the Moon. Dance/Vocal Arranging: Sweet Smell of Success, Jekyll & Hyde, Perfectly Frank, The Act, Marilyn: An American Fable, Woman of the Year, Cabaret. Composing: Superdimensional Microbabes (upcoming anime-based musical), Fourtune (Off-Broadway), The Silver Swan (NEA Fellowship), three theatrical CDs (The Missing Peace, Early One Morning, Songs I Won’t Be Singing), two Harvard Hasty Pudding shows (Tots in Tinseltown, Bewitched Bayou), a gospel-based Requiem, and songs for church, choir, cabaret, and "Saturday Night Live." Harvard (philosophy), Westminster (choral conducting).  Thanks and love to Alexandra.

Klara Zieglerova
Set Design
Broadway: The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, Off-Broadway: Controversy (Public Theatre), Yellowman (MTC), First Love (New York Theater Workshop), Irish Repertory Theater, and others. Regional: La Jolla Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Dallas Theater Center, Portland Center Stage, Seattle Rep, Florida Stage, McCarter Theater, Wilma Theatre, Williamstown, Old Globe Theatre, Ahmanson Theater, and others. International: Saturday Night Fever (Holland), Eden (Cork, Ireland). Interior Architecture design: Dodger Stages, New York. Awards: 2003 Drammy Award for Best Set Design, 2000 Carbonell Award for Best Set Design; sets for the Best touring production - 2003 L.A. Ovation Award. Graduate of Yale School of Drama.

Jess Goldstein
Costume Design
Jess received the 2005 Tony Award for Lincoln Center's The Rivals. Other selected New York credits include Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington, Henry IV; Take Me Out; Enchanted April; Proof; Love! Valour! Compassion! ; The Most Happy Fella; Dinner With Friends; How I Learned To Drive; NYSF's Much Ado About Nothing; Buried Child and The Mineola Twins (Lortel and Hewes Awards). He will make his Met debut with Jack O'Brien's 2007 production of Il Trittico. Designs for film include A Walk On The Moon; Love! Valour! Compassion! and The Substance Of Fire.  He is an Associate Professor at the Yale School of Drama.

Howell Binkley
Lighting Design
B’way: Steel Magnolias, Dracula, Ave Q, Golda’s Balcony, The Look of Love, Hollywood Arms, The Full Monty, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, Minnelli on Minnelli, Parade, Kiss of the Spider Woman, My Thing of Love, Sacrilege, Taking Sides, High Society, How to Succeed…, Grease, Sinatra at Radio City. Off- B’way: Radiant Baby, Batboy: The Musical, NYSF, Playwrights, Horizons, City Center Encores. Regional: La Jolla, Shakespeare Theater DC, Old Globe, the Guthrie, the Goodman, Hartford Stage, Sondheim Celebration at the Kennedy Center. Dance: ABT, Parsons Dance Company (co-founder), Joffrey Ballet (Billboards), Alvin Ailey, Houston Ballet. Opera: Metropolitan Opera, Dallas Opera. Awards: 1993 Sir Laurence Olivier Award.

Steve Canyon Kennedy
Sound Design
Steve was the production engineer on such Broadway shows as Cats, Starlight Express, Song & Dance, The Phantom of the Opera, Carrie and Aspects of Love. His Broadway sound design credits include Jesus Christ Superstar, Catch Me If You Can, Guys and Dolls, Mary Poppins, The Lion King, Jersey Boys (Drama Desk Award), Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays, Hairspray, The Producers, Aida, Titanic, Big, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Carousel and The Who’s Tommy (Drama Desk Award). Steve is married to actress Loni Ackerman and together have two sons, Jack and George.

Michael Clark
Projection Design
Designs film and video for live events. Credits include Ring of Fire (Studio Arena Theater); 700 Sundays (Broadway and La Jolla); Dracula, The Musical (Broadway and La Jolla); The Elephant Man (Broadway); Manon Lescaut (Washington Opera); Allegro; One Red Flower and Hedwig (Signature Theater); Last Five Years (Philadelphia Theater Company) Company; Sunday in the Park With George and Merrily We Roll Along (Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration), Spider-Man Live (national tour), Music From a Sparkling Planet (Drama Dept), Aeros (national tour) and Dinner with Friends (ACT).

Charles LaPointe
Wig/Hair Design
B’way: A Raisin in the Sun, Good Vibrations, Henry IV, The Rivals, Julius Caesar. Upcoming: The Color Purple. Assisted Tom Watson on Into the Woods and Wicked. Numerous regional and operatic credits including McCarter, Alliance, American Repertory Theater, Huntington Theater, Williamstown Theater Festival, Hartford Stage and original Jersey Boys production at the La Jolla Playhouse. Opera credits include Opera Theater of St. Louis, Santa Fe Opera, Minnesota Opera, Opera Omaha and Philadelphia Opera Company. Love to James.

Steve Rankin
Fight Director
Steve received wide critical praise, as both Fight Director and Actor, in the Tony Award-winning Lincoln Center Theatre’s Henry IV directed by Jack O’Brien. Other Broadway: Dracula the Musical (Des McAnuff, director), Twelfth Night, Two Shakespearean Actors (LCT), Anna Christie, The Real Inspector Hound (Roundabout), Getting Away With Murder, The Who’s Tommy. Off-Broadway: The Night Hank Williams Died, Below The Belt. New York audiences last saw Mr. Rankin’s work in the Metropolitan Opera Company’s production of Handel’s Rodelinda starring Rene Fleming.

Steve Orich
Orchestrations
Steve has worked as a successful Composer, Orchestrator, Musical Director and Conductor in N.Y. and L.A. for over twenty-five years, with numerous credits in film, television and theatre.  Most recently, he orchestrated Paint Your Wagon at the Geffen Playhouse and the original production of Jersey Boys at the La Jolla Playhouse. He has orchestrated and conducted albums for artists including Helen Reddy, Judy Kaye, Debbie Gravitte, Petula Clark and Deborah Gibson.  His orchestrations have been performed by the Boston Pops, the Pasadena Pops, at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center and around the world.  He currently resides in Los Angeles.

John Miller
Music Coordinator
Recent Broadway: Lennon, Sweeney Todd, The Producers, Beauty & the Beast, Hairspray, Movin’ Out, Sweet Charity, Good Vibrations, Dracula, Caroline or Change, Little Shop…, Thoroughly Modern Millie, 42nd St, Urinetown, Nine, La Boheme, Big River, Boys From Syracuse, Look of Love, Urban Cowboy, Never Gonna Dance, Thou Shalt Not, By Jeeves, Follies, Oklahoma!, Jekyll and Hyde, Rocky Horror Show, Seussical, The Music Man, Fosse, Swing!, Parade, Footloose, Kat and the Kings, Civil War, Triumph of Love. Studio Musician (bass): Michael Jackson, Madonna, Portishead, Eric Clapton, BB King, Sinatra, Carly Simon, Celine Dion, Smashing Pumpkins, Pete Seeger, NY Philharmonic.

Peter Fulbright/Tech Production Services
Technical Supervision
Recent Broadway Productions and National Tours include Hairspray, Bombay Dreams, 42nd Street, Urinetown, Into The Woods, Vampires, Dame Edna, Sixteen Wounded, Anna …Tropics, Enchanted April, Frog & Toad, Life X3, Ma Rainey's, Elephant Man, TopDog, and Blast!. Peter has supervised over 70 Broadway Productions and National Tours. Some favorites include Joseph…, Guys & Dolls, Starlight Express, Drood, Crazy for You, SWING!, Rocky Horror, Real Thing, Amadeus, The Sound of Music, On The Town, Mattress, Forum, Smokey Joe’s, Moon Over Buffalo, Secret Garden, Singin’ in the Rain and Foxfire.

Tara Rubin Casting
East Coast casting
Broadway: Spamalot; …Spelling Bee; The Producers; Mamma Mia!; Phantom…; Good Vibrations; Bombay Dreams; Oklahoma!; Flower Drum Song; Imaginary Friends; Metamorphoses. Nat’l tour: Disney’s On the Record; Les Miserables. Lincoln Center: The Frogs; Contact; Thou Shalt Not; A Man of No Importance; Anything Goes (concert). Off-Broadway: Second Stage. Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival; Kennedy Center; La Jolla Playhouse; Yale Rep. Film: The Producers The Musical. Ms. Rubin is a member of the Casting Society of America.

Sharon Bialy/Sherry Thomas
West Coast Casting
Theatre: Broadway; A Walk in The Woods, Regional: La Jolla Playhouse (1985-1990,2002-2006), Seattle, Goodman, Denver Center, The Globe, Hartford Stage, Geffen, Lincoln Center, Guthrie. Film: Upcoming Man About Town, Rock Star, Mr. Holland's Opus, Drugstore Cowboy, Gas Food Lodging, Indian Summer, Rudy, Point Break, The Scout. Television: Upcoming "The Unit," "Bones," "Mind Of The Married Man," "Picket Fences," "The Pretender," James Brady Story (HBO Movie). Members of CSA, Recipients of 2003 Artios Award for Tartuffe (Des McAnuff, dir).

Sandy Carlson
Company Manager

Stephen Gabis
Dialect Coach
Broadway: Doubt, Steel Magnolias, Dracula, Taboo, The Boy From Oz, Joe Egg, Master Harold And The Boys, Present Laughter, A Doll's House. Venues: Roundabout, M.T.C., Playwrights, Atlantic, The New Group, M.C.C., The Public, Second Stage, Williamstown, Yale Rep., McCarter, Hartford Stage, Primary Stages, Lincoln Center, Long Wharf, Westport. Film Contributions: Million Dollar Baby, Ballad Of Bettie Page, Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind, Boy's Don't Cry.

Richard Hester
Production Supervisor
Supervisor for all productions of Jersey Boys internationally (New York, both US Tours, Las Vegas, London, Australia and South Africa/Asia.) Broadway: Gypsy, Sweet Smell of Success, Cabaret, Annie Get Your Gun, Patti LuPone's Matters of the Heart, A Delicate Balance, The Old Neighborhood, Titanic, The Phantom of the Opera, The Red Shoes, The Secret Garden. US National tours: Wicked, The Phantom of the Opera, West Side Story. US Regional: Jersey Boys (La Jolla Playhouse). Ten years with Patti LuPone on the road. Cofounder/ producer with Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore of Broadway Barks! an annual animal adoption event in NY since 1999.

Michelle Bosch
Production Stage Manager
Broadway: Hairspray, Little Women, Avenue Q, Wicked, A Year With Frog and Toad, Dance Of the Vampires, Sweet Smell of Success, Into the Woods, Rent, Annie Get Your Gun, Not About Nightingales, The Old Neighborhood. Several Off-Broadway and Off Off-Broadway productions.

Brendan M. Fay
Stage Manager
Jersey Boys (Chicago). Off-Broadway/National Tours: Forbidden Broadway; I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change; The American Pilot (MTC); Forbidden Hollywood; Mr. President. Regional: Princesses (Goodspeed & 5th Avenue), Little Shop of Horrors, Wait Until Dark, 1776. AEA.

Pamela Remler
Assistant Stage Manager
Pamela is a former dancer and a recent convert to stage managing. She has stage managed Where’s Charley (Encores); Venus Flytrap off-Broadway; Yank, Rocky and Honeymooners workshops. In her former life, she was Associate Choreographer and/or Dance Captain for five Broadway shows. Thank you Richard & Michelle.

The Dodgers
Producer
Dodger Theatricals is a producing partnership hatched at BAM in 1978 by Michael David, Edward Strong, Rocco Landesman, Des McAnuff, Doug Johnson and Sherman Warner. From the initial foothold in Brooklyn, the Dodgers grew, migrated to the NY Shakespeare Festival, then to off and on Broadway, where their productions have garnered a host of national (Tony, Drama Critics Circle, Obie) and international (Olivier, Helpmann and Dora) awards. Current Broadway: Matilda, Jersey Boys. Other Broadway: The Farnsworth Invention, 42nd Street, Urinetown, Dracula, Jesus Christ Superstar, Into the Woods (’87 and ’02), The Music Man, Titanic, Wrong Mountain, Footloose, Mandy Patinkin, High Society, 1776, …Forum, The King and I, The Who’s Tommy, Ralph Fiennes’ Hamlet, Guys and Dolls, Once Upon A Mattress, How to Succeed…, Jelly’s Last Jam, The Secret Garden, Prelude to a Kiss, The Gospel at Colonus, Big River, Pump Boys and Dinettes. In addition to Jersey Boys on Broadway, the Dodgers are producers of current Jersey Boys productions in London, Las Vegas, Australia, South Africa and two touring companies in North America.

Joseph J. Grano
Producer
Mr. Grano is Chairman/CEO of Centurion Holdings LLC, an advisor to private and public companies. From 2001-2004, Mr. Grano was Chairman of UBS Financial Services Inc. (formerly PaineWebber). While at PaineWebber, Mr. Grano chaired the Board of Governors of the National Association of Security Dealers (NASD). In 2002, Mr. Grano was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as the Chairman of the Homeland Security Advisory Council. He proudly served his country as a Captain in the U.S. Special Forces (Green Berets). Due to his commitment to education, Mr. Grano received the Corporate Leadership Award from the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund. Other awards include the USO Gold Medal for Distinguished Service, and The Ellis Island Medal of Honor. He is also a member of the Council for the United States and Italy, a member of both the City University of New York’s Business Leadership Council and the Board of Directors at Lenox Hill Hospital.

Kevin and Tamara Kinsella
Producers
Kevin Kinsella has been investing in early-stage technology companies for thirty years, primarily through his firm Avalon Ventures. Avalon companies have been responsible for bringing to market several multi-billion dollar life-saving drugs, the iPhone touch-screen, and the fastest growing revenue company in the history of the Internet. Mr. Kinsella is a Life Sustaining Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a member of Johns Hopkins SAIS Dean’s Advisory Counsel and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Both outdoor enthusiasts, Kevin and Tamara met in Alaska during the Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup. The Kinsellas’ vineyard in Healdsburg, California will release the first Kinsella Estate Dry Creek Valley cabernet in 2011. Jersey Boys is their first Broadway show. Mr. Kinsella’s father, Walter A. Kinsella, was a career actor on Broadway, radio, television and cinema. He first appeared on Broadway in 1924 in What Price Glory?

The Pelican Group
Producer
A San Diego production company, is enthusiastic about supporting the Broadway production of Jersey Boys. The Group, assembled by Ivor and Colette Royston, consists of Todd and Debby Buchholz, Edward and Martha Dennis, Eric and Marsi Gardiner, Cam and Wanda Garner, Richard and Patricia Harmetz, Irwin and Joan Jacobs, Hal and Debby Jacobs, Paul and Stacy Jacobs, Jeff and Deni Jacobs, John and Angie Longenecker, Rao Makineni, Nevins and Margaret McBride, Ray Mirra, Shearn Platt, Edward Richard, Drew and Noni Senyei, and Steven and Lyse Strauss. Mr. Royston was a co-producer of the TV film Dreams of Gold: The Mel Fisher Story (Starring Cliff Robertson and Loretta Swit, 1986) and the feature film Soultaker (1990).

Latitude Link
Producer
Latitude Link is currently represented on Broadway by Jersey Boys (Tony Award), Memphis, and American Idiot.  Additionally, six productions running worldwide: Jersey Boys National Tour, Las Vegas, London, Toronto, Australia and the Xanadu National Tour.  Past productions include: 33 Variations (Tony Nomination), Cry Baby (Tony Nomination), and Farnsworth Invention. 

Rick Steiner/Osher/Staton/Bell/Mayerson Group
Associate Producers
Rick has co-produced eight Broadway musicals; Big River, The Producers and Hairspray won the Tony for Best Musical. Rick lives in Cincinnati with his children Ace and Duke. John and Bonnie Osher won first Tony for Hairspray. They founded Cap Toys, Inc and the Crest Spinbrush, which was sold to Procter & Gamble. Their greatest productions: Jay, Jill, Zachary, Jordan and Jesse. Dan Staton was Associate Producer of Hairspray. Former president of Duke Realty, he resides in Florida with wife Maria, children Arianna and George. Marc Bell makes his producing debut with Jersey Boys. He was Chairman/CEO of Globix; a private equity investor, he resides in Florida with wife Ruti, twins Rachel and David. Frederic H. Mayerson co-produced four Broadway musicals winning first Tony with Hairspray. Chairman of The Walnut Group he lives in Cincinnati. All the above are co-producers of The Wedding Singer.

Lauren Mitchell
Associate Producer
As producer, on Broadway: Urinetown, Into the Woods ('02 revival), Wrong Mountain, High Society. Off Broadway: Barbra’s Wedding, Bare. As actress, on Broadway: The Boys from Syracuse, Me and My Girl, Nine, Annie, City of Angels (LA), Into the Woods (original cast and PBS American Playhouse); and numerous Off Broadway, regional, television and concert appearances.

Rhoda Mayerson
Associate Producer
Rhoda has been an associate producer of seven Broadway musicals and thanks her husband Manuel for affording her the privilege and joy of being involved in Jersey Boys.

La Jolla Playhouse
Original Producer
La Jolla Playhouse has received more than 300 awards for theatre excellence, including the 1993 Tony® Award as America’s Outstanding Regional Theatre.  Located in La Jolla, California, the Playhouse is nationally acclaimed for its innovative productions of classics, new plays and musicals. Led by two-time Tony Award-winner Des McAnuff, artistic director; Steven Libman, managing director; and Shirley Fishman, associate artistic director, the Playhouse was founded in 1947 by Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire and Mel Ferrer. More than 30 Playhouse productions have moved to Broadway, garnering 23 Tony Awards, including Big River, The Who’s Tommy, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, A Walk in the Woods, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Dracula the Musical, Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays and the Pulitzer Prize-winning I Am My Own Wife, fostered as part of the Playhouse’s Page To Stage New Play Development Program. Visit www.LaJollaPlayhouse.org.