STEPHEN SCHWARTZ (Music and Lyrics) has contributed music and/or lyrics to Godspell, Pippin; The Magic Show; The Baker's Wife; Working (which he also adapted and directed); Personals; Rags and Children of Eden. For films, he collaborated with Alan Menken on the scores for the Disney animated features Pocahontas and The Hunchback of Notre Dame and wrote the songs for the DreamWorks animated feature The Prince of Egypt. He has released two CDs of new songs entitled Reluctant Pilgrim and Uncharted Territory available at www.stephenschwartz.com. Mr. Schwartz is also the artistic director of the ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshops and a member of the Dramatists Guild Council. Awards include three Academy Awards, five Grammy Awards, four Drama Desk Awards and a tiny handful of tennis trophies.

WINNIE HOLZMAN (Book) received a Tony nomination and a Drama Desk award for her work on Wicked. For television: created "My So-Called Life" (Emmy nomination). Also wrote for "thirtysomething" (WGA Award nomination) and executive produced (again with Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick) "Once and Again" starring Sela Ward. For theatre: Birds of Paradise (with composer David Evans). For features: 'Til There Was You. Ms. Holzman can be seen in Jerry Maguire (if you look really close). She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, actor Paul Dooley. "Thanks, Arthur. This is for Savannah."

JOE MANTELLO (Director) directing credits include Three Days of Rain, The Odd Couple, Glengarry Glen Ross (Tony nomination), Assassins (Tony Award), Wicked, Take Me Out (Tony Award), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, A Man of No Importance, Design for Living, Terrence McNally and Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking for the San Francisco Opera, The Vagina Monologues, bash, Another American: Asking and Telling, Love! Valour! Compassion! (Tony nomination), Proposals, The Mineola Twins, Corpus Christi, Mizlansky/Zilinsky or Schmucks, Blue Window, God’s Heart, The Santaland Diaries, Snakebit, Three Hotels and Imagining Brad.  Mr. Mantello also directed the film Love! Valour! Compassion!.  As an actor he appeared in Angels in America (Tony nomination) and The Baltimore Waltz.  Mr. Mantello is the recipient of the Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Clarence Derwent, Obie and Joe A. Callaway awards.  He is a member of Naked Angels and an associate artist at the Roundabout.

WAYNE CILENTO (Musical Staging). Broadway: Sweet Charity; Aida; The Who's Tommy (Tony, Drama Desk, Astaire awards); How to Succeed… (Tony nom.); Dream: The Johnny Mercer Musical (director and choreographer - Tony nom., Best Choreography); Jerry’s Girls; Baby (Tony nom.). West End: The Who's Tommy (Olivier nom.). Other credits: Off-Broadway’s A Hot Minute and Angry Housewives; the national tour of Spirit (director and choreographer); …Forum at La Jolla (San Diego Drama Critics and Drama-Logue awards). Mr. Cilento’s credits as a performer include A Chorus Line (Mike, original cast), The Act, Seesaw, Perfectly Frank, Irene, Big Deal, Rachel Lily Rosenblum and his Tony-nominated performance in Bob Fosse’s Dancin’. His career as a choreographer was launched by his work in over 100 national commercials. Mr. Cilento has done musical staging for Liza Minnelli, Barry Manilow, Chita Rivera, Billy Joel, Donna Summer and Pete Townshend.

EUGENE LEE (Scenic Designer) has been resident designer at Trinity Rep since 1967. He has a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, an MFA from Yale Drama School and honorary Ph.Ds from DePaul University and Rhode Island College. Mr. Lee has won three Tony Awards for Wicked, Leonard Bernstein's Candide and Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. He was nominated for a Tony for his work on Ragtime. He is the production designer for NBC's "Saturday Night Live." Other New York theatre includes Alice in Wonderland; The Normal Heart; Agnes of God and Uncle Vanya. Film credits include Easy Money; Francis Ford Coppola's Hammett; John Huston's Mr. North and Louis Malle's Vanya on 42nd Street. Recent projects include Stephen Sondheim's Bounce. An adjunct professor at Brown University, he lives in Providence with his wife Brooke and son Teddy.

SUSAN HILFERTY (Costume Designer) has designed over 200 productions for theatres across America and internationally. Her directorial collaborators include Athol Fugard (set, costumes, co-director), James Lapine, Robert Falls, Robert Woodruff, Joe Mantello, JoAnne Akalaitis, the late Garland Wright, Mark Lamos, Frank Galati, Des McAnuff, Sharon Ott, David Petrarca, Richard Nelson, Chris Ashley, Marion McClinton, Laurie Anderson, Tony Kushner, Carole Rothman, Mark Linn-Baker, Garry Hynes, and Emily Mann. Recent work: Assassins, Into the Woods (Hewes Award,Tony nomination) Lapine's Fran's Bed, Jitney, Dirty Blonde, Alvin Ailey Love Stories and Rodney's Wife. Currently: Elton John's Lestat, Manon LA Opera, and August Wilson's new play Radio Golf. She designs opera, film, TV and dance and chairs the Department of Design for Stage/Film at NYU Tisch. Her numerous awards include 2004 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for Wicked.

KENNETH POSNER (Lighting Designer) Broadway: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Little Women; The Frogs; Hairspray (Tony nom.); Imaginary Friends; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle noms.); Swing!; You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown; The Goat; Uncle Vanya; Side Man (Lortel Award); The Lion in Winter; Little Me; A View from the Bridge (Drama Desk nom.); The Last Night of Ballyhoo; The Little Foxes and The Rose Tattoo. Off-Broadway: The Wild Party (Lortel Award, Drama Desk and Outer Circle Critics noms.), The Play About the Baby, tick, tick. . .BOOM!, The Waverly Gallery, Pride's Crossing (Lortel Award), As Bees in Honey Drown, Cowgirls and The Food Chain. Opera includes: New York City Opera and Chicago Symphony Orchestra. OBIE award for sustained excellence in lighting design.

TONY MEOLA (Sound Designer). Broadway includes: Laugh Whore; Man of La Mancha; Sweet Smell of Success; Copenhagen; Kiss Me, Kate; Footloose; The Lion King (Drama Desk Award); The Sound of Music; Juan Darien; A Christmas Carol (MSG); Steel Pier; Forum; The King and I; Moon Over Buffalo; Smokey Joe's Café; Guys and Dolls; Five Guys Named Moe; She Loves Me; The Red Shoes and Anything Goes. London includes: Kiss Me, Kate; The Lion King; Smokey Joe's Café and Anything Goes. National and international include: The Lion King; Les Misérables; Mozart; Der Gloeckner von Notre Dame. Off-Broadway includes Here Lies Jenny and The Normal Heart. Tony is a graduate of Ithaca College's Department of Theatre Arts. Thanks, Dick.

ELAINE J. McCARTHY (Projection Designer) Recent designs include Broadway: Spamalot, Good Vibrations, After the Fall, Assassins, Man of La Mancha, Into the Woods, Judgement at Nuremberg, The Green Bird. Off-Broadway: Embedded, The Stendhal Syndrome, Suitcase, The Thing About Men, Speaking In Tongues, The It Girl, Goodbye My Friduchita. Regional: Limonade tous les Jours, Fran's Bed, Once in a Lifetime, Hair, Blue Man Group: Tubes (Chicago). National tours: Forgiveness, Spirit. Opera: Dead Man Walking (NYC Opera), War and Peace (Kirov and Metropolitan Opera), Tan Dun's The Gate, Peter Sellar's The Peony Pavilion. Dance: Remote (White Oak), Philip Glass and Susan Marshall's Les Enfants Terribles. Awards: 2003 Eddy Award.

TOM WATSON (Wig and Hair Designer) is head of the wig department at the Metropolitan Opera. He designs hair and wigs for many theatres including Santa Fe Opera, Opera Theatre St. Louis, New York Theatre Workshop and the Goodman in Chicago. He has also designed wigs for the Broadway productions of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; The Violet Hour; Anna in the Tropics; Dirty Blonde; Jane Eyre; Into the Woods and Amour.

JOE DULUDE II (Makeup Designer). Inspired by monster makeup as a kid, he is the designer for Wicked productions. Broadway: The Wedding  Singer, Assassins, Into the Woods (key makeup Vanessa Williams). Off Bway: Birdie, Broadway Bares (design and body-painting). Film and Television: E!, Style, Lifetime, PBS, Access Hollywood, MTV. Print and Runway: Vanity Fair, Marie Claire, Vibe, Rolling Stone, Diesel, Enyce, and more. Other: Artist Relations and consultant for MAC Cosmetics.

STEPHEN OREMUS (Music Supervisor/Arrangements). Music supervisor/arranger of all Wicked companies; music supervisor/vocal arranger/orchestrator of Avenue Q (Broadway; Las Vegas; London) and All Shook Up (Broadway, nat’l tour); music supervisor/vocal arranger/orchestrator of tick, tick...BOOM! (NYC; Seoul, Korea; nat'l tour); music director of Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party at MTC and Rent (nat'l Tour); music director/conductor for Rufus Wainwright (singing Judy Garland’s 1961 concert) at Carnegie Hall; vocal arranger/music supervisor of Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Music of Stevie Wonder starring Chaka Khan (Las Vegas), The Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular in Myrtle Beach and Nashville. Graduate of Berklee College of Music, Boston.

WILLIAM DAVID BROHN (Orchestrations) received the 1998 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations for Ragtime. Other credits include Miss Saigon; The Secret Garden; Show Boat; Crazy for You; Carousel; Sweet Smell of Success; Oklahoma! (B'way); Mary Poppins; Oliver!; The Witches of Eastwick; My Fair Lady and South Pacific (London). He has provided arrangements for Marilyn Horne, James Galway, Placido Domingo and Joshua Bell's recording of Bernstein's West Side Story Suite for Violin and Orchestra.

ALEX LACAMOIRE (Music Arrangements) served as orchestrator and musical supervisor for High Fidelity and music director and arranger/orchestrator for In the Heights and Bat Boy: The Musical (Off-B’way) and the 2001 tour of Godspell (DRG Records). After working with Stephen Schwartz on regional productions of Working (Long Wharf) and Pippin (Paper Mill), he is proud to be collaborating with him on Broadway. As always, love to Mom, Dad and Little Sis.

BOKO SUZUKI (Musical Director). Boko music directed Rent on Broadway and the first national tours of Mamma Mia! and Swing! (L.A. Drama Critic's Circle Award nomination). Other credits include Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, The Who's Tommy and Sunset Boulevard.

JAMES LYNN ABBOTT (Dance Arrangements). Broadway: Aida; Bombay Dreams; Rent; Footloose; Joseph...; Cats; Sunset Boulevard and Miss Saigon. National tours include Starlight Express; Kiss of the Spider Woman; The Who's Tommy and Jesus Christ Superstar. He has performed with Aretha Franklin, Dennis DeYoung of Styx, Shirley Bassey, Bob Hope, Vanessa Williams and Elton John. Clients include Dr. Pepper, Frito Lay, American Airlines and General Electric.

MICHAEL KELLER (Music Coordinator) is conductor and drummer for Marvin Hamlisch. Music Coordinator for Spamalot; All Shook Up; Avenue Q; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Fiddler on the Roof; La Cage Aux Folles; The Boy From Oz; Mamma Mia!; The Lion King; Barbra Streisand concerts (1994 and 2001). Life is complete with wife Pamela Sousa and children Zach and Alexis.

TELSEY + COMPANY, CSA (Casting).  Bernie, Will, David, Beth, Craig, Tiffany, Stephanie, Carrie, Justin, and Joe’s casting credits include… Broadway/National Tours:  High Fidelity, Company, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Grey Gardens, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, Tarzan, The Drowsy Chaperone, The Wedding Singer, The Color Purple, Sweeney Todd, All Shook Up, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Wicked, Hairspray, Rent, Three Days of Rain, The Odd Couple.  Off-Broadway:  The Fantasticks, plays at Atlantic, MCC, Signature; Film:  Across the Universe, Ira and Abby, Rent, Pieces of April, Camp, The Grey Zone, Finding Forrester, The Bone Collector; TV:  Whoopi, HBO’s Undefeated, various pilots, over 1,000 commercials.

JAKE BELL (Technical Supervisor) has been a stage manager and technical production manager on Broadway for more than 20 years. Broadway, national and international credits include The Phantom of the Opera; Les Misérables; Miss Saigon; Swan Lake; Putting It Together; Oklahoma!; Dreamgirls; Cats; Chess; Shirley Valentine and Five Guys Named Moe. Jake has consulted on theatre renovations all over the U.S. and served as a guest speaker for university theatre arts classes.

THOM WIDMANN (Production Supervisor). Ten productions for Lincoln Center Theater including The Light in the Piazza, The Frogs and Contact. Other credits include The Sound of Music, The King and I, Amy’s View, Skylight and the national tour of An Inspector Calls. Graduate of SUNY Purchase. Adjunct faculty at Fordham University.

MARK MYARS (Dance Supervisor) Broadway: Wicked (original dance captain), Footloose (original assistant dance captain and assistant choreographer of the Japan production). Assistant to and choreographer of numerous industrials worldwide. National: Copacabana (Bolero Specialty). Others: PaperMill's Carousel (Carnival Boy), La Scala's West Side Story (Snowboy), Urban Cowboy (workshop), and NYCO's Carmina Burana. TV/Film: "Saturday Night Live," "As the World Turns," Centerstage, The Producers, and in the national West Side Story themed GAP ads. "Thanks to 321, Marc, Joe, and Wayne."

LISA LEGUILLOU (Associate Director) worked with Joe Mantello on Frankie and Johnny...; Take Me Out and The Vagina Monologues. She appeared in eight Broadway shows; on TV in "Sex and the City," "NYPD Blue" and "NY Undercover"; and in the films Changing Lanes; Center Stage; Everyone Says I Love You and HBO's "Angels in America."

EDWARD PIERCE (Associate Scenic Designer). Select designs: A Number (lighting); Two Cities (scenery/lighting); Hughie (lighting); A Few Good Men Dancin' (lighting); Tell Me on a Sunday (scenery/lighting) - Kennedy Center; The Who's Tommy national tour (scenery); Blessing in Disguise (lighting), Prodigal (lighting), Big Cactus (lighting), The Tales of the Lost Formicans (scenery); Follies B'way revival (projections); Gypsy of the Year 2000-2003. Collaborated on the Broadway, national and international designs of Wicked, Aida, Ragtime, Cabaret, Noise/Funk, The Tempest and Cy Colemans's GRACE - The Musical. www.edwardpierce.com.

CHIC SILBER (Special Effects). Broadway: Sherlock Holmes; Edward Gorey's Dracula; The Elephant Man; Amadeus; Nicholas Nickleby; Tintypes; Working; The Dresser; Alice in Wonderland; Grand Hotel; Piaf; Orpheus Descending; Moon Over Buffalo; Footloose; The Civil War; Aida; Kiss Me, Kate; Annie Get Your Gun; Dance of Death; Brooklyn; La Cage Aux Folles; Lennon. Circus: Monte Carlo Circus Spectacular, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros.

ZFX FLYING ILLUSIONS (Flying Effects) is the new standard in the flying industry. Broadway: Peter Pan with Cathy Rigby; The Green Bird; Kiss Me, Kate; Dance of the Vampires; and Saturday Night Fever. National tours: Seussical the Musical; Blues Clues Live; Spiderman Live and Dora the Explorer. Television: A&E's "Peter Pan," CNN, the Tony Awards and "The Rosie O'Donnell Show." www.zfxflying.com.

GREGORY MAGUIRE (Author of Original Novel) had written a dozen novels for children before launching his first adult novel, Wicked. A devotee of children’s fantasy, Maguire’s subsequent novels for adults are variations-on- a-theme: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister considers Cinderella as a seventeenth-century maid from Haarlem; Lost evokes the ghost of Charles Dickens’s Scrooge; and Mirror Mirror concerns a High Renaissance Snow White trapped in a household governed by the scheming Borgias. Maguire's latest novel is Son of a Witch, a sequel to Wicked. Originally from Albany, N.Y., Maguire lives outside Boston with his husband, the painter Andy Newman and their three children.

321 THEATRICAL MANAGEMENT (General Management). Nina Essman, Nancy Nagel Gibbs, and Marcia Goldberg's current productions include William Finn and Rachel Shinkin's The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and Wicked. Other management credits include The Graduate National Tour; Man of La Mancha; The Vagina Monologues; Bat Boy; Fully Committed; The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe; Lifegame; Taller Than a Dwarf; James Naughton: Street of Dreams; The Lion King; De La Guarda; Hank Williams: Lost Highway; Rent; Guys and Dolls; How to Succeed…; A Funny Thing Happened…; 42nd Street (original production), Over the River…; I Love You, You're Perfect…; Visiting Mr. Green; Full Gallop; Smoke on the Mountain; The Santaland Diaries; Smokey Joe's Café; and Family Secrets.

MARC PLATT (Producer). Theatre: Wicked (Broadway, Chicago, North American tour, London, Los Angeles); Three Days of Rain (Broadway); and Matthew Bourne’s ballet Edward Scissorhands. Films:  Legally Blonde; Legally Blonde 2; Honey; Josie and the Pussycats and The Perfect Man. Television: HBO’s Empire Falls; Once Upon A Mattress (ABC); The Path To 9/11 (ABC). Mr. Platt has served as president for three movie studios (Orion, TriStar and Universal) where he developed and guided the production of such films as Silence of the Lambs; Sleepless In Seattle; Philadelphia; As Good As It Gets; My Best Friend's Wedding and Jerry Maguire.

UNIVERSAL PICTURES (Producer) is a world leader in the production, marketing and distribution of motion pictures, including such franchises as The Mummy, American Pie, The Fast and the Furious, Meet The Parents and the Oscar® winners Shakespeare in Love, Gladiator, Erin Brockovich, A Beautiful Mind, Ray and King Kong. Universal’s recent films include The Good Shepherd, a drama directed by Robert DeNiro and starring Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie and upcoming films include The Kingdom, starring Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner and Chris Cooper; Evan Almighty, starring Steve Carrell and Morgan Freeman; the comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, starring Adam Sandler and Kevin James; The Bourne Ultimatum, in which Matt Damon reprises the role of Jason Bourne; and Academy Award-winning director Ridley Scott’s drama American Gangster, starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe.

THE ARACA GROUP (Producer). Matthew Rego, Michael Rego and Hank Unger are principals of The Araca Group, LLC, a theatrical and film Production Company formed in 1997. Currently they are represented on Broadway by Wicked. Recent Broadway includes: 'night, Mother; Eve Ensler's The Good Body, Urinetown The Musical, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune and Match; Off-Broadway: Debbie Does Dallas, The Vagina Monologues, The Laramie Project and David Auburn's Skyscraper; and the film 30 Days. Upcoming projects include the musical film versions of Urinetown and Debbie Does Dallas.

JON B. PLATT (Producer). Tony Awards: Copenhagen; Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (Pulitzer Prize for Drama); Perestroika. Tony Award nominations: Damn Yankees; Peter Pan; Hello, Dolly!; The Diary of Anne Frank; Lonesome West; Man of LaMancha; Wicked. National: The Sound of Music; Sunset Boulevard; Hair; Jesus Christ Superstar; Fiddler On The Roof; Best Little Whorehouse in Texas; A Chorus Line; The Graduate; Blue Man Group "Tubes". Off Broadway: Forbidden Broadway: SVU Special Victims Unit.

DAVID STONE (Producer) is currently represented on Broadway by Wicked and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.  He has produced Three Days of Rain, Man of La Mancha, The Vagina Monologues, Fully Committed, Lifegame, The Diary of Anne Frank, Full Gallop, The Santaland Diaries and Family Secrets.  David serves on the Board of Governors of the League of American Theatres and Producers as well as the Board of Directors of the League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers.  He has lectured on theatre at the Julliard School, NYU, Yale, Columbia and his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania.