has been represented on Broadway by Come Blow Your Horn; Little Me; Barefoot in the Park; The Odd Couple; Sweet Charity; Star Spangled Girl; Plaza Suite; Promises, Promises; Last of the Red Hoy Lovers; The Gingerbread Lady; The Prisoner of Second Avenue; The Sunshine Boys; The Good Doctor; God’s Favorite; California Suite; Chapter Two; They’re Playing Our Song; I Ought To Be in Pictures; Fools; Brighton Beach Memoirs; Biloxi Blues (Tony Award); the new version of The Odd Couple; Broadway Bound; Rumors; Lost in Yonkers (1991 Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award); Jake’s Women; The Goodbye Girl; and Laughter on the 23rd Floor. Films include Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, The Out-of-Towners, Plaza Suite, The Heartbreak Kid, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Murder by Death, The Sunshine Boys, The Goodbye Girl, The Cheap Detective, California Suite, Chapter Two, Seems Like old Times, Only When I Laugh, I Ought To Be in Pictures, Max Dugan Returns, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues and Lost in Yonkers.
One of contemporary songwriting’s most successful composers, won three Academy Awards and four Grammys: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Oscar, Grammy-Best Score); “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” (Oscar-Best Song); “Arthur’s Theme” (Oscar-Best Song); “Alfie” (Grammy-Best Instrumental Arrangement); “That’s What Friends Are For” (Grammy-Song of the Year); and for his only Broadway musical, Promises, Promises (Grammy-Best Original Show Album). Other credits include well-known songs “Walk on By,” “Close to You,” “I Say a Little Prayer For You,” “The Look of Love,” “What’s New Pussycat?” “Do You Know the Way to San Jose?”
“Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head” (Academy Award), “What’s New Pussycat?,” “Alfie” and “The Look of Love” (all Oscar nominated), “What the World Needs Now is Love,” “Do You Know the Way to San Jose?” and “Close to You” are just a few of his standards. Promises, Promises received a Grammy and was nominated for a Tony Award. Honors: 20 gold records; a Grammy; B’Nai B’rith Creative Achievement Award; ASCAP Founder’s Award; elected to the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame; The Johnny Mercer Award; NARAS Trustees Award; Doctor of Music Degree, Lincoln College; member, Board of Directors of ASCAP (formerly served as President).
is best known to Los Angeles audiences for creating the record-breaking musical Forever Plaid (which he wrote and directed). He directed the original New York production as well as subsequent productions across the United States, Japan, Canada and Britain. On Broadway, he co-authored the Tony nominated musical Starmites and Radio City Music Hall Easter Show. Off-Broadway he wrote The Heebie Jeebies, Not-So-Few Faces, and Fun With Dick and Jane: The Musical (Playwrights Horizons). As a director, his work includes Michael Cristofer’s breaking Up (starring Matthew Modine and Allison Janney), Nasty Little Secrets, Conrac, Creeps, The Lunch Girls, It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Superman among others. He has worked at most of America’s prestigious regional theaters including: The Manhattan Theatre Club; Playwrights Horizons; San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre and The Goodspeed Opera House. For the past six seasons he has been a director for The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center National Music Theatre Conference. This past year he directed his new play with music Tea With Bea (based on the life and art of Beatrice Lillie) at Chicago’s Royal George Theatre and The Boswell Sisters, which he co-wrote with Mark Hampton, at the O’Neill center National Music Theatre Conference. He staged and created special material for the PBS Great Performances, “An Evening at the Pops” starring Jason Alexander as well as staging four productions for HBO’s “New Writers Project.” He created and wrote the sitcom pilot for CBS television, We’ll Take Manhattan. Stuart was the recipient of the State Department Grant for Cultural Exchange, and the Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Director of a Musical. Forever Plaid received the NBC New Voices in the Theater Grant.
has worked on over twenty-five films in the last five years including The Flintstones (for which he received a Fosse Award nomination), Casper, Don Juan DeMarco, George of the Jungle and the upcoming releases A Life Less Ordinary, Anastasia, Ants, Boogie Nights, Edwards and Hunt, and Traveller. He won the 1996 Fosse Award for his choreography on a commercial spot for SAP America. He also won awards for his Rubbermaid and Energizer commercials in which he appeared as well. On stage Adam proudly worked with Director Scott Wittman on Patti Lupone on Broadway in 1995 as well as local productions of Eating Raoul. His two US tours for Barry White, which he conceived, directed and choreographed, were awarded by Performance magazine. Adam has worked on many Aids fundraisers including The Commitment To Life Awards, creating numbers for such artists as Julie Andrews, Ru Paul, Kathy Najimy, Dennis Rodman, and Sandra Bernhard, to name a few. The pride of Adam’s life is the short film Cosmos Tale, which he recently directed, choreographed and produced in partnership with banner Entertainment. Adam is about to direct his first feature film for Fine Line Pictures, entitled The Wedding Planner.
was orchestrator/conductor on Broadway for Noel Coward’s Sail Away and Richard Rodgers’ No Strings; he created orchestrations for Jule Styne’s Halellujah, Baby and more recently Tommy Tune’s Grand Hotel; on records Matz has arranged, conducted and produced albums for Rosemary Clooney, Tony Bennett, Dionne Warwick, Melissa Manchester, Kiri te Kanawa, Nancy LaMott, Barbra Streisand and most recently he arranged Barbara Cook’s recording of songs with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein. On TV, Peter was arranger/conductor for Carol Burnett’s long-running series, and composed scores for more than 50 TV movies, as well as many feature films (Sidney Lumet’s Bye Bye Braverman is still his favorite). Peter and his wife, actress/singer/psychotherapist, Marilynn Lovell are active fundraisers for APLA, Shanti Foundation, Aid for AIDS and other local AIDS organizations, as well as the GMHC in New York.
Recent set designs include The Homecoming at the Matrix (LA Drama Critics’ Set and Lighting Nominee), New England at South Coast Rep (1996 Dramalogue Award), A Doll’s House for the Guthrie and Atlantic Theatre Festival, the tour of The Sound of music, and over 40 productions of Forever Plaid. His dozens of Broadway designed have earned four Tony Nominations, including his Tony-winning lighting for the RSC’s Sherlock Holmes, the musical revue Black and Blue (designed with Jane Reisman), The Innocents, and Orpheus Descending. His design of the Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe won the LADC Award. His dance designs are in the repertory of Pilobolus and Feld Ballets/NY. With over 200 opera designs to his credit, he now directs as well, most recently with la Clemenza di Tito and Falstaff for Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Elektra and Werther in Seattle. He serves as Professor of Theatre at UCLA.
got her start designing costumes for Andre Gregory’s historic production of Alice in Wonderland, for which she won an Obie Award. She has designed many off and on Broadway productions with such directors as James Lapine, David lynch, Joe Layton and Peter Brook, and also for Harold Prince’s productions of Candide and Sweeney Todd, winning Tony Awards for both. Her TV work includes the first five years of Saturday Night Live, and most recently two pilots for ABC and Fox. Ms. Lee is enjoying her second year in sunny California especially when she can continue working in the theatre.
A 1989 Tony and Drama Desk Nominee with Neil Peter Jampolis for their lighting of Black and Blue and a 1994 Los Angeles Drama Critics’ Award Nominee and Ovation Award nominee for her lighting of The Tavern at Hollywood’s Matrix Theatre (1994 Production Award). Jane Reisman designed the lighting for South Coast Repertory’s 1996 production of Richard Nelson’s New England, which earned Jane the current Dramalogue Award, their 1994 A Streetcar Named Desire, and for their West Coast Premiere of Nicky Silver’s Pterodactyls (1995 Dramalogue Lighting Award). She designed the lighting for the musical hit Forever Plaid in some 40+ cities including New York, Tokyo, London, San Diego, Beverly Hills and Toronto (Canada’s 1993 Dora Lighting Nomination). Past Broadway credits include the musical Inner City and Warp. Other recent Off Broadway designs include Dael Orlandersmiths’ 1995 Obie Award winning Beauty’s Daughter and the 1996 jazz musical Slow Drag at American Place Theatre for which she is a current Lortel Award Nominee. Designer of over 50 operas in the US and abroad, recent opera designs include The Postman Always Rings Twice at Boston Lyric, The Turn of the Screw in New York, and Rigoletto at Seattle Opera. For six seasons the Lighting Designer for Canada’s Banff Dance Festival, Jane’s recent Dance designs include six pieces introduced by Pilobolus during their last four seasons. Jane Reisman has been on the Drama and Dance faculties of Bennington College, Emerson College, and The Banff Centre for the Arts.
is currently the Mark Taper Forum’s resident sound designer. He has been heard on and Off Broadway, as well as at most regional theatres throughout the country. He designed the sound for the Taper production of Angels in America, Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 and The Waiting Room. Other recent credits include The Seagull at the Matrix, Women Warrior at the Doolittle, Light Sensitive at Actors Alley and South Pacific at Long Beach CLO. John has received 6 LADCC Awards, and was recently presented with the Distinguished Artist Award from the Los Angeles Music Center Club 100. He served for 5 years as the resident sound designer at the Los Angeles Theatre Center. For Disney Imagineering, he created original sound effects and designs for two attractions at Walt Disney World in Florida.
has designed over 60 theatrical shows, including the hit production of Forbidden Hollywood at the Coronet Theatre in Los Angeles, Forever Plaid, Blues in the Night, and Sweet & Hot at the coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami, The King and I, South Pacific, Company and Into the Woods for the Long Beach Civic Light Opera, as well as numerous local and regional shows. He just finished two national touring productions, Man of La Mancha with Robert Goulet and Ain’t Misbehavin starring the Pointer Sisters, and the gala production Saturday Night at the Summit attended by Bill Clinton and the leaders of the G-7 countries, which featured performances by Michael Bolton, Amy Grant, Crystal Gayle, Chuck Berry, Kool and the Gang, and Ronnie Spector.