served the theater for over 50 years. In earlier days he roamed America as a hobo, riding freight trains and thereby avoiding any formal education whatsoever. At nineteen, he gravitated into the theater where he cut his teeth on every conceivable job -- stage manager, lighting designer, director and producer among them. At age 33, he walked off the Broadway musical he was directing, abruptly deciding to become a writer. Since then, he produced a continuous body of work for the theater, film and television. Visiting Spain in the late 1950s, the press incorrectly reported that he was researching Don Quixote. Intrigued, he did just that, becoming more interested in Miguel de Cervantes than in his famous protagonist. The result was I, Don Quixote, a TV drama which in turn became Man of La Mancha, a multiple Tony-winner and among the longest-running Broadway musicals of all time. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, also a multiple Tony-winner, was initially a flop on Broadway, but later played to packed houses for 4 years in New York and 5 years in San Francisco before being adapted for the famous film. Other credits include screenplays for The Vikings, Cleopatra, and A Walk with Love and Death as well as countless TV dramas. Recently, his play about Haiti, An Enchanted Land, had its premiere in London. Currently he has no less than three new musicals: Western Star, a look at the shady side of American "pioneers"; A Walk In the Sky, about the power of art to reach the primitive heart; and a revised version of Duke Ellington's masterpiece, Beggar's Holiday. The Rubicon Theatre has presented an entire season of Mr. Wasserman's works. Players in the Game, which Mr. Wasserman considered his most trenchant writing, has just been published. In addition, he had a newly-finished comedy called Premiere!, slated for Off-Broadway. Mr. Wasserman held Honorary Doctorates from several universities, and in terms of awards, guessed that he had "maybe a couple dozen," but since he avoided awards ceremonies, he was simply not sure.

He was born Irwin Michnick in Brooklyn, NY and is an American musical theatre composer and theatrical producer best known for the show Man of La Mancha. He graduated from Yale with a Bachelor’s and Master’s of Music and began as a jazz musician writing commercials for radio and television. In 1965, he teamed up with Joe Darion and Dale Wasserman to write Man of La Mancha, based on Wasserman’s 1959 television play, I, Don Quixote. Among Leigh's awards are the Drama Critic's Circle Award, the Contemporary Classics Award from the Songwriter's Hall of Fame for "The Impossible Dream," and the first Yale Arts Award for Outstanding Achievement in Musical Composition. In 1957, Leigh formed Music Makers, Inc., a radio and television commercial production house where he served as creative director. He won every major award within the advertising industry. His most recent honor came in September 2001, when Yale University named their new School of Music building after him and his wife, Abby.

He left a legacy of musicals, cantatas, pop songs, operas, librettos, and masses when he died in June 2001 at eighty-four. His lyrics for "To Dream the Impossible Dream" in Man of La Mancha won Darion the Tony award for best lyrics. He sold tens of millions of records for his popular lyric-writing. His opera based on the characters Archy and Mehitabel was turned into the Broadway Musical Shinbone Alley. His work with composer Ezra Laderman includes the oratorio operas Galileo, And David Wept, and the cantatas A Handful of Souls and The Questions of Abraham. He has received a variety of awards including the Drama Critics Circle Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Gabriel Award, the Ohio State Award, and the International Broadcasting Award. Like his Man of La Mancha colleagues, his talent reached into every aspect of written music. In the past eighty-four years, he has touched all of us with his poetry. His point of view about the responsibility of the lyric writer offered the following advice: "Write a lyric with beautiful words but with open vowels in the wrong places, and you won't live to hear the applause, because if the composer doesn't kill you, the singer will."

is happy to return to Reprise after directing last season’s Li’l Abner. He is the Co-Artistic Director of The Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena where he has directed Jason Grote’s 1001, the world premiere of Eric Whitacre’s musical Paradise Lost: Shadows & Wings (10 Ovation Award Nominations), Carlos Murillo’s Dark Play or Stories For Boys (Two L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award including Direction), his own adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s A Picture of Dorian Gray (Two L.A.D.C.C. Awards including Direction), Sinan Ünel’s Pera Palas (Four L.A.D.C.C. Awards including Production and Direction), Charles L. Mee’s Summertime, and Romeo and Juliet: Antebellum New Orleans, 1836.  A director of plays and musicals, new works and classics, his diverse credits include: Hamlet, Don Juan and As You Like It (Ovation Nomination for Best Play) at A Noise Within; Stephen Sondheim’s Anyone Can Whistle at the Matrix Theatre; Amy’s View starring Carol Lawrence at Florida Rep; A Life in the Theatre starring Hal Holbrook at the Pasadena Playhouse; the world premiere of Ouroboros (LA Weekly Award - Production of the Year); acclaimed productions of Brecht’s rarely staged Edward II and Aphra Behn’s restoration comedy The Rover, both for Circle X; and the Ovation-Nominated productions of Titanic for Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities and Sweeney Todd starring Amanda McBroom and George Ball.  He is a double Ovation Award-winner for his production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, set in British colonized India.

is Artistic Director of the critically-acclaimed Los Angeles-based Hysterica Dance Co. Recent credits include La Rondine, Don Carlo and La Traviata at LA Opera, Margaret Cho's Off -Broadway hit Sensuous Woman, The L-Word (Showtime), Symphony Fantastique and Wing on Wing (LA Phil) at Disney Hall and the world premiere musical Gulls. Her choreography has been seen in DanceBreak, The Ovation Awards, Roméo et Juliette at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Sondheim’s 75th at the Hollywood Bowl, Roméo et Juliette at LA Opera, Mother Courage at Boston Court, Songs for a New World at the Rubicon, Pick of the Fringe (BBC), Holiday Celebration (PBS), Happy Birthday Elizabeth Taylor (ABC) and Moscow (Best Musical, Edinburgh Fringe 2001). Her highly original works for Hysterica Dance Co. have been performed at REDCAT, LACMA, dancenow/NYC Festival at Joyce Soho, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Manhattan School of Music, d.u.m.b.o. dance festival, Dance Umbrella, Austin, TX, WHITE WAVE Performance Space in NY, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Ford Amphitheatre, Alex Theater, and the Edinburgh Fringe.

who returns to Reprise after last year's Flora, The Red Menace, has conducted over 6,000 performances of more than 400 different musicals in NY, LA, and internationally, and has played and conducted for Angela Lansbury, Scott Bakula, Kristin Chenoweth, John Raitt, Marisa Tomei, and Jason Alexander (for Reprise’s Forbidden Broadway). He orchestrates frequently for the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the LA Philharmonic, and for stars including Billy Joel, Rod Stewart, Patti LuPone, Andrea Marcovicci, John Lithgow, Peter Nero, and Scarlett Johansson. He has composed the original songs for Tin Pan Alley Rag and Plaid Tidings, and the off-Broadway shows The Truth About Ruth and Jekyll In Chamber. He has been the leader on 35 albums on RCA, DRG, and Varese Sarabande, including three jazz discs with “The Brad Ellis Little Big Band.” In Hollywood, he's worked on several films including Chicago, Delovely, and Beauty and The Beast, and on TV, where he has appeared as an onscreen pianist in Close To Home, Instant Beauty Pageant, The View, and The Girls Next Door, as well as eight appearances on The Gilmore Girls, for which he has also written music. He is currently working on the new Paramount show, Glee, from Ryan Murphy, about a High School glee club, premiering in March after America Idol on Fox.

has designed over 150 productions for Theatres such as: South Coast Repertory, Geffen Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Denver Center Theatre Company, Laguna Playhouse, Arizona Theatre Company, Theatre @ Boston Court, Rubicon Theatre, I.C.T., Colony Theatre, P.C.P.A. Theaterfest, Riverside Theater and A Noise Within among many others. Tom has been honored with 3 L.A. Drama Critics Circle Awards, including the 2005 career achievement award for Scenic Design, and 3 L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Awards. For Television, Tom has designed specials and series for every major broadcast and cable network and has been Emmy nominated twice. Tom dedicates this design to Howard Bay, the designer of the original Broadway production of Man of La Mancha, who was his teacher, mentor and friend.

is a Los Angeles-based costume designer who has most recently designed the Reprise production of Flora the Red Menace.  He also designed costumes for the Alan Mencken musical, Sister Act, directed by Peter Schneider, at Pasadena Playhouse and The Alliance Theater.  He also collaborated with Peter Schneider on Mark Blizstein’s opera, Regina, at Bard Summerscape and Grand Hotel at the Colony Theater.  He also designed costumes for Dr Faustus at Independent Shakespeare Company this past summer.  His work has also been seen across the country at Utah Musical Theater, Mixed Blood Theater, Dallas Children’s Theater, International City Theater, Contemporary American Theater Festival, and the Undermain Theater.  Originally from Philadelphia, Garry received Ovation nominations for Grand Hotel and ICT’s Dinah Was. He also works with the award-winning Cornerstone Theater Company and designed the world premieres of Los Illegals, Beyond the Beyond, Waking Up in Lost Hills, and Mary Shelley’s Santa Claus. Garry is a member of USA Local 829 and is a Professor at California State University Northridge. 

New York: New York Theatre Workshop, Public Theater, Dance Theater Workshop, PS 122, The Kitchen. Regional: Mark Taper Forum, Geffen Playhouse, South Coast Rep, Boston Court, The Evidence Room, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Hartford Stage, Arena Stage, San Jose Rep, Dallas Theater Center, Portland Center Stage, Pittsburgh Public, Indiana Rep, Intiman Theater. Winner of three “Bay Area Theatre Critics” Awards and a “Drammy” for Best Lighting. Training: Northwestern University, New York University. Lighting Design Faculty: California Institute of the Arts.

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks on Broadway; the 2002 to 2005 national tour of Jesus Christ Superstar; The Ten Commandments starring Val Kilmer at the Kodak Theatre; Measure for Measure, Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Cinderella at the Ahmanson; Pippin, The House of Blue Leaves, The Talking Cure, Like Jazz, Big River, Flower Drum Song and First Picture Show at the Taper; and all of the past eleven seasons of Reprise. Other design work includes Paint Your Wagon, Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks and Ain’t Nothin' But the Blues at the Geffen; Play On and Blame it on the Movies at the Pasadena Playhouse; Masada at the Shubert Theatre in LA; Forever Plaid and Blues in the Night at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami; and the US workshop productions of the current West End musical Zorro with music by John Cameron and the Gipsy Kings. On Broadway, he assisted long-time design partner Jon Gottlieb on 2001’s If You Ever Leave Me I'm Coming With You. He served as Production Sound Engineer for Jason Robert Brown’s 13 at the Taper, Thoroughly Modern Millie at La Jolla Playhouse, and was the head soundman for the national tours of Titanic, Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Man of La Mancha. He won the 2003 NAACP award for Sound Design for Jesus Christ Superstar, the 2001 Ovation Award for Flower Drum Song, and the 1999 LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Cinderella, as well as five LA Dramalogue Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design, and two Ovation Award nominations for Best Sound Design. Mr. Allen currently teaches Sound Design for Theatre at the USC School of Theatre and at Cal Arts.