Christopher Curry (Michael Novack) was last seen at George Street Playhouse in Sight Unseen by Donald Margulies. During his stay in New York, he appeared in the Broadway productions of Dirty Linen, Crucifer of Blood (also at the Ahmanson in Los Angeles), the first Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons (with Richard Kiley), and off-Broadway in numerous shows, among them: the original New York productions of The Foreigner, Kennedy at Colonus, Mecca, Strange Snow, The Promise, Life Class, Isadora Sleeps with the Russian Navy, When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder? and Man.Gov. Regionally he has performed all over the place. He also spent nine summers at the O’Neill Playwrights Conference under Lloyd Richards. Since moving to Los Angeles, he has worked mainly in film (e.g. Flags of Our Fathers, Bullworth, Starship Troopers, City of Ghosts, Home Alone 3) and guest starred in dozens of TV shows. He continues to work in theatre as much as possible. He is an Associate Artist with Circus Theatricals in Los Angeles and has appeared at the Pasadena Playhouse, The Falcon, The Evidence Room, The Blank and most recently, at The Skylight in the highly acclaimed production of Shem Bitterman’s dark comedy Influence directed by Stephen Zuckerman. His passion is working on the development of new plays and he has spent the past six summers both acting and directing at the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference in McCall, Idaho. He will soon (not) appear as the narrator in Jacob Estes’ soon-to-be-released film The Details, starring Toby McGuire and Laura Linney. Christopher currently lives in Venice, CA and is married to the actress and playwright, Mary Portser.

Yasmina Reza (Playwright) is a French playwright and novelist, based in Paris, whose works have all been multi-award-winning, critical and popular international successes, produced worldwide and translated into 35 languages. Her plays include Conversations After a Burial, The Passage of Winter, Art, The Unexpected Man, Life X 3, A Spanish Play and God of Carnage. Her novels include Hammerklavier, Une Desolation (Desolation), Adam Haberberg, Dans la Luge d’Arthur Schopenhauer, Nulle Part and L’Aube, le Soir ou la Nuit (Dawn, Dusk or Night). Her films include Le Pique-Nique de Lulu Kreutz, directed by Didier Martiny, and Chicas, written and directed by the author.

Christopher Hampton (Translations) ‘s plays, musicals, and translations have garnered three Tony Awards, two Olivier Awards, four Evening Standard Awards, and the New York Theatre Critics Circle Award. Prizes for his film and television work include an Academy Award, two BAFTAs, a Writer’s Guild of America Award, the Prix Italian and a Special Jury Award at the Cannes Film Festival. His plays for the Royal Court include Treats, Savages, The Philanthropist, Uncle Vanya, Total Eclipse, Marya and When Did You Last See My Mother? Other plays include Embers, Three Sisters, Art, Sunset Boulevard, The Talking Cure, Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, White Chameleon, Tales From Hollywood, Don Juan Comes Back From the War, Tales From the Vienna Woods, An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, Life X 3, Tartuffe, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Unexpected Man and Conversations After a Burial. Hampton’s plays have been performed at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Almeida, the Royal National Theatre, and both on West End and Broadway. His television credits include The Ginger Tree, Hotel du Lac, The History Man, and Able’s Will. He has written the screenplays for Atonement, Imagining Argentina, The Quiet American, The Secret Agent, Mary Reilly, Carrington, Total Eclipse, Dangerous Liaisons, Wolf at the Door, The Good Father, The Honorary Consul, Tales from the Vienna Woods, and A Doll’s House.

David Saint (Director / Artistic Director) Now in his thirteenth season at George Street Playhouse, Artistic Director David Saint has directed twenty-eight mainstage productions, most recently the world premiere of Joe DiPietro’s Creating Claire, Boyd Gaines, Rachel Dratch, Kathleen McNenny and Stephen De Rosa in A.R. Gurney’s Sylvia, Marlo Thomas and Keith Carradine in Arthur Laurents’ New Year’s Eve, Matthew Arkin in Donald Margulies’ Sight Unseen, Jack Klugman and Paul Dooley in Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys; William Finn’s landmark musical Falsettos, the film noir musical Gunmetal Blues, Inspecting Carol, the world premiere of Arthur Laurents’ 2 Lives, The Last Five Years, Lend Me a Tenor, the world premiere of Charles Evered’s Celadine starring Amy Irving and Jonathan Larson’s tick, tick…BOOM!.  Mr. Saint’s time in New Brunswick has been marked by collaborations with such artists as Uta Hagen, A.R. Gurney, Arthur Laurents, George Grizzard, Chita Rivera, Eli Wallach , Frances Sternhagen, Anne Meara, Dan Lauria, Stephen Sondheim and Jack Klugman.

An ardent advocate for new work, Mr. Saint created the Next Stage Festival of New Plays at George Street where the recent Broadway hit and Tony Award-winner Proof by David Auburn was developed before moving on to Manhattan Theatre Club and Broadway, becoming the longest-running play in two decades and the most produced play in the nation during the 2002-03 season.  Another success story emerging from the Festival is The Spitfire Grill, which won the prestigious Richard Rodgers Award for New American Musicals and was produced under Mr. Saint’s direction at Playwrights Horizons in New York, winning Drama Desk, Drama-League and Outer Critics Circle award nominations, before becoming one of the most produced plays in the nation during the 2004-05 season, generating more than 100 productions across the country.  Another new work which began its life at George Street Playhouse is The Toxic Avenger, the musical by Joe DiPietro and David Bryan that moved to New York, won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best New Musical, and has gone on to multiple productions worldwide.

Mr. Saint was recently a panelist for the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative for the Pew Charitable Trust, has taught at Bennington College, and directed the short film Celebrity. He is the recipient of the Alan Schneider Award, Helen Hayes Award, Los Angeles Drama Critics Award, and several Drama-Logue Awards.

James Youmans (Set Design) Broadway: West Side Story, Gypsy (Patti Lupone); Swinging on a Star. Off-Broadway: Matt and Ben; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Jeffrey; Sight Unseen; After Play; The Petrified Prince (dir: Harold Prince), The Swan (Public Theater); Raised in Captivity (Nicky Silver). Other: Randy Newman’s Faust (La Jolla Playhouse); The Bozwell Sisters (The Old Globe); Cinderella (National Tour); 1776 (The Guthrie). Upcoming: Creature from the Black Lagoon (Universal Studios Hollywood). Love to Liz and the kids.

Michael McDonald (Costume Design) Broadway & London West End: Hair (Tony, Drama Desk and Hewes Award nominations). The Public: Hair (Delacorte Theater). For George Street Playhouse: [title of show]. Off-Broadway: The Irish Curse (Soho Rep), A Perfect Future (Cherry Lane Theater), Tartuffe (Tribeca Playhouse), Amahl and the Night Visitors (Lincoln Center), Measure for Measure (Expanded Arts). Regional: Take Me Out (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Johnny Baseball, (A.R.T.) IRNE Nomination, Dirty Blonde, Omnium Gatherum and Crowns (Zachary Scott Theatre); Amadeus, Sweeney Todd, The Laramie Project, Angels in America (Chatham Playhouse). Broadway Assistant Designer for two Tony Award-winning Best Plays: The Goat and Take Me Out, as well as Arthur Miller’s The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, Blood Brothers. Five years as Assistant Costume Master for the Public Theater: The Seagull; Mother Courage and Her Children starring Meryl Streep; Radiant Baby; Caroline, or Change; Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson; The Merchant of Venice; Topdog/Underdog; Twelfth Night.

Joe Saint (Lighting Design) Other GSP designs include: Circle Mirror Transformation, Creating Claire, New Year’s Eve, The Seafarer, Celadine, Attacks on the Heart, Agnes of God, Talley’s Folley, Ancestral Voices, Wit and After-Play. Off-Broadway: Lake Hollywood, Cotton Patch Gospel, Pledge of Allegiance and Dates and Nuts. Regional credits include plays at Seattle Rep, Virginia Stage Company, Worcester Foothills Theatre and North Shore Music Theatre, and operas at Nashville Opera, the Brevard Music Center, the Boston Center for the Arts and Boston Musica Viva. Joe is the founder and President of IMCD Lighting, Inc., (www.imcdlighting.com)a lighting design company providing lighting design and production services to the private and corporate event markets. Since incorporating in 2006, IMCD has provided the lighting for over 300 events for such clients as IMG Fashion (New York Fashion Week), Marc Jacobs, Hugo Boss, Prada, Calvin Klein, MLB.com, Nokia, American Express, Playboy, Project Runway, the Guggenheim and many more.

Thomas Clewell (Production Stage Manager) Off-Broadway, Mr. Clewell has stage managed The Spitfire Grill, The Last Session, Smoke On the Mountain, The Film Society, De La Guarda Villa Villa, and Anne Meara’s Down the Garden Paths with Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach. For Westport Country Playhouse, he stage managed Don’t Make Me Laugh with Gene Wilder and Carol Kane. His regional credits include productions for the Kennedy Center, Huntington Theatre Company, Long Wharf Theatre and Arena Stage. This year is Mr. Clewell’s ninteenth year as resident Stage Manager for George Street Playhouse.