PETER MORGAN (Playwright). Frost/Nixon is Peter Morgan's first
stage play and was developed with producer Matthew Byam Shaw for The Donmar
Warehouse. His film credits include screenplays for The Queen starring
Helen Mirren and Michael Sheen (Academy Award nomination; Golden Globe Winner;);
The Last King of Scotland starring Forest Whitaker (BAFTA Award Winner)
and the upcoming screen adaptation of Frost/Nixon directed by Ron Howard,
starring Frank Langella and Michael Sheen. His TV credits include HBO's multi
Golden-Globe winning "Longford," "The Deal" (BAFTA Award for Best Single Drama),
and "Henry VIII" (International Emmy for Best Drama, 2004).
MICHAEL GRANDAGE (Director). is artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse,
London. His work there has won every major UK Theatre award and includes: The
Chalk Garden, Othello, John Gabriel Borkman, Don Juan in Soho, Frost/Nixon
(also West End), The Cut (also UK tour), The Wild Duck (Critics
Circle Award, Best Director), Grand Hotel (Olivier Award for Outstanding
Musical Production and Evening Standard Award for Best Director),
Pirandello's Henry IV (also UK tour), After Miss Julie, Caligula
(Olivier Award, Best Director), The Vortex, Privates on Parade, Merrily We
Roll Along (Olivier Award for Best Musical and Critics' Circle Award for
Best Director), Passion Play (Critics' Circle and Evening Standard
Awards), Good. In the West End: Guys and Dolls (Olivier Award for
Outstanding Musical Production), Evita (Adelphi). As Artistic Director of
Sheffield Theatres between 1999 and 2005 his work included: Don Carlos
(also West End; Evening Standard, TMA and German British Forum Awards for Best
Director), Suddenly Last Summer (also West End), A Midsummer Night's
Dream, The Tempest (also the Old Vic), Richard III, Don Juan, Edward II,
The Country Wife, As You Like It (also Lyric Hammersmith; Critics Circle and
Evening Standard Awards for Best Director, South Bank Show Award for Theatre),
Twelfth Night, What the Butler Saw. He has been given Honorary Doctorates
by Sheffield Hallam University and Sheffield University where he was also a
visiting professor. He has also been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by The
Central School of Speech and Drama and the 2006 Award for Excellence in
International Theatre by the International Theatre Institute.
SETH SKLAR-HEYN (Associate Director). served as Assistant Director to
Michael Grandage for the Donmar's Broadway run of Frost/Nixon. He also
assisted directors Trevor Nunn and Jack O'Brien on the Broadway productions of
Rock 'n' Roll and The Coast of Utopia, respectively. Additional
Broadway credits: Legally Blonde, The History Boys, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,
Good Vibrations, A Christmas Carol, Taboo, Cabaret, The Producers, Thou Shalt
Not, The Phantom of the Opera and Seussical. National Tour: The
Phantom of the Opera, The Producers, and Parade. Graduate of Vassar
College.
CHRISTOPHER ORAM (Set & Costume Designer). With Michael Grandage at the
Donmar: Don Juan in Soho, Frost/Nixon, Grand Hotel, Henry IV, Caligula
(Evening Standard Award, Best Design), Privates on Parade, Merrily We Roll
Along, Passion Play, Guys and Dolls (Piccadilly), Evita (Adelphi),
Suddenly Last Summer (Critics' Circle Award, Best Design), Don Carlos,
The Tempest (Sheffield/West End). Other: King Lear/The Seagull (RSC),
Parade (Domar), Stuff Happens, Power (Olivier Award, Best Costume
Design), Summerfolk (NT). Currently: Fat Pig (West End). Film:
The Magic Flute (dir. Kenneth Branagh).
NEIL AUSTIN (Lighting Designer). has designed extensively for the Donmar
Warehouse, National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Almeida and in the West
End. Broadway: The Seafarer, Frost/Nixon. His lighting for plays,
musicals, opera and dance has been seen worldwide. He was nominated for the 2007
Olivier Award for Therese Raquin at the National Theatre.
ADAM CORK(Composer & Sound Designer). read music at Cambridge University.
Theatre: Don Carlos (Gielgud), Caligula (Donmar), The Glass
Menagerie (Apollo), The Tempest (RSC), The Last Days of Judas
Iscariot (Almeida). Adam was nominated for the 2008 Tony Award "Best Sound
Design of a Play" for Macbeth (BAM/Lyceum), and for the 2005 Olivier
Award "Best Sound Design" for Suddenly Last Summer (Albery). Film/TV:
Frances Tuesday (ITV1), Imprints (Channel 4). Radio: "Losing
Rosalind" (BBC Radio 4).
JON DRISCOLL (Video Designer). Broadway: Frost/Nixon. London:
Her Naked Skin, Fram, The Reporter, A Matter of Life and Death (National
Theatre), Midnight's Children (RSC), Whistling Psyche, The Lightning
Play (Almeida). West End: Dirty Dancing (and Internationally),
Brief Encounter, Heroes, Our House, Glorious, Jerry Springer the Opera, On the
Third Day, When Harry Met Sally, Dance of Death, Eurydice. The Hiker
(Druid), The Ha'penny Bridge (Dublin). Opera: A Midsummer Night's
Dream (Royal Opera). Ballet: Arthur I & II (Birmingham Royal Ballet).
RICHARD MAWBEY (Hair & Wig Designer). Owns Wig Specialities in London. Theatre includes: Hairspray, Zorro the Musical, Evita, The Producers, Frost/Nixon, Guys & Dolls, Kiss Me, Kate, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Contact, White Christmas, Starlight Express and La Cage Aux Folles. For Television: "Little Britain," "Poirot", "Jane Eyre", HBO's "House of Saddam" and Madonna. Personal Wigmaker to Dame Edna Everage, Kylie Minogue and Sean Connery. Films include: Titanic, The Santa Clause, It's De-Lovely, Star Wars, Mask of Zorro, Closer, Richard Harris as 'Dumbledore' in Harry Potter. Please visit
www.wigspecialities.co.uk
DANIEL SWEE, CSA (Casting). For Lincoln Center Theater, more than 50
productions including The Coast of Utopia, Awake and Sing!, Henry IV, The
Invention of Love, Contact, The Heiress, Arcadia, Carousel, The Sisters
Rosensweig. Additional Broadway: Frost/Nixon, The Vertical Hour, Julius
Caesar (2005), The Retreat From Moscow, The Crucible (2002), Art,
Amy's View, The Heidi Chronicles. Films include The Hours, The Great New
Wonderful, Center Stage, The Object of My Affection and The Crucible.
ALLIED LIVE, LLP. (Tour Marketing and Public Relations) is a full-service
entertainment marketing and advertising agency representing numerous Broadway
shows, national tours, performing arts institutions and experiential
entertainment entities. Current clients include: Avenue Q, Mamma Mia!, RENT,
The Drowsy Chaperone, JUMP, Sweeney Todd, Annie, Hairspray, Dirty Dancing,
Legally Blonde the Musical, Billy Elliot, Nerds, STOMP, KOOZA and Corteo
from Cirque du Soleil and their portfolio of properties in Las Vegas,
Roundabout Theatre Company, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Theatre Communications
Group. www.alliedlive.com
AURORA PRODUCTIONS. (Production Manager). Recent projects: Boeing-Boeing,
The 39 Steps, The Country Girl, Jerry Springer the Opera, Is He Dead, Rock'n
Roll, and A Bronx Tale. Other Projects include Spamalot
(Broadway, Tour, London, Las Vegas & Australia), The Seagull and the
tours of Frost/Nixon and A Bronx Tale. Aurora is Gene O'Donovan,
Ben Heller, Bethany Weinstein, Melissa Mazdra, and Asia Evans.
ARIELLE TEPPER MADOVER (Producer). Broadway: Frost/Nixon, Monty
Python's Spamalot, The Pillowman, Democracy, A Raisin in the Sun, Jumpers,
Hollywood Arms, James Joyce's The Dead, Sandra Bernhard's I'm
Still Here…Damn It! John Leguizamo's Freak, London's West End:
Frost/Nixon, Guys and Dolls, Monty Python's Spamalot, Mary Stuart, A
Voyage Round My Father, Sunday in the Park With George. She also produced
Bounce by Stephen Sondheim. Off-Broadway includes De La Guarda "Villa
Villa," The Last Five Years and Goodnight Children Everywhere.
Madover founded the Summer Play Festival for emerging writers, now in its
fifth year at The Public Theater. In 2001 she created the Tepper Center for
Careers in Theatre at Syracuse University, which provides opportunities for
students to develop specific strategies for pursuing their career goals in the
entertainment industry.
INDEPENDENT PRESENTERS NETWORK (IPN) (Producer). IPN is an association of
promoters, theatres and performing arts centers. Its members bring Broadway
productions to more than 110 cities throughout North America and Japan. Recent
Broadway, London, US and international tours include Legally Blonde the
Musical, The Color Purple, Monty Python's Spamalot, Thoroughly Modern Millie,
Bombay Dreams, Matthew Bourne's Edward Scissorhands and The Car
Man, Starlight Express, and the upcoming Broadway production of 9 to 5.
BROADWAY ACROSS AMERICA (Producer). Owned and operated by British theatre
producer John Gore (CEO) and led by Thomas B. McGrath (Chairman), Broadway
Across America presents first-class touring Broadway musicals and plays, family
productions and other live events throughout a network of 42 North American
cities, and is also dedicated to the development and production of new and
diverse productions for live theatre. For more information or to purchase
tickets through an authorized agent visit
BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com.
FOX THEATRICALS (Producer). Headed by Kristin Caskey and Mike Isaacson,
Broadway credits include Legally Blonde the Musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie
(Six Tony Awards); ‘night, Mother; Caroline, or Change; One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest (Tony Award); Death of a Salesman (Tony Award);
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown; Jekyll & Hyde. Fox Theatricals is a
division of Fox Associates & is led by President Richard Baker and owners Robert
Baudendistel, Mary Strauss, and Harvey Harris.
MARY LU ROFFE (Producer). Boeing-Boeing (Tony Award); The
Country Girl; Spamalot (Tony Award), on Broadway, London, US Tour, Las
Vegas, Australia. Talk Radio (Tony nominee); Man Of La Mancha (Tony
nominee); The Retreat From Moscow (Tony nominee); Hedda Gabler; Angels
In America (National Tour, Chicago Jeff Award); Sexual Perversity In
Chicago (London); Desperately Seeking Susan (London); Woman Before
A Glass; Fully Committed (Outer Critics Circle Award); String Of Pearls;
Robbers; The Bomb-Itty Of Errors (Chicago Jeff Award, Edinburgh Fringe
Award).
101 PRODUCTIONS, LTD (Executive Producer). Wendy Orshan and Jeffrey M.
Wilson founded their company in 1994, after having first worked together at
Gatchell & Neufeld, Ltd. Dave Auster joined as their associate in 1998. Current
productions: Monty Python's Spamalot (also North American tour and
London), 13, Minsky's, Impressionism, Mary Stuart.
THE DONMAR WAREHOUSE (Original Producer). One of London's leading
producing theatres, a subsidized (not-for-profit) theatre located in the West
End. Under the artistic leadership of Michael Grandage and previously Sam
Mendes, the theatre has garnered critical acclaim at home and abroad. The
theatre produces at least 6 productions a year and a touring programme.
Donmar-generated productions have received 29 Olivier Awards, 17 Critics' Circle
Awards, 13 Evening Standard Awards, and 12 Tony Awards from 8 Broadway
productions.
