THE CREATIVE TEAM - The Bluest Eye LYDIA DIAMOND Plays include The Gift Horse, The Goodman (Theadore Ward 1st Place, Kesselring Prize 2nd Place); The Bluest Eye, Steppenwolf (World Premiere, Black Arts Alliance Image Award - Best New Play), New Vic, Theatre Alliance, Plowshares, Playmakers Rep, Horizon Theatre Co., Freedom Theatre, Providence Black Rep, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, Long Wharf/Hartford Stage, and Company One; Voyeurs de Venus, Chicago Dramatists ('06 Joseph Jefferson Award - Best New Work, Ô06 Black Theatre Alliance Award - Best Writing); Stick Fly ('08 Susan Smith Blackburn Finalist), Congo Square (World Premiere, '06 BTAA - Best Play, '06 Joseph Jeff Nomination - Best New Work), True Colors, The McCarter, and L.A. Theatre Works; Harriet Jacobs, Steppenwolf (World Premiere), Staged Readings at Old Vic, U.K., and The Kennedy Center; Stage Black, Cincinnati Arts Consortium; and The Inside, MPAACT Theatre Co. and Nat'l Tour. Lydia is currently working on commissions for The McCarter and Huntington Theatre Company. The Bluest Eye, The Gift Horse, and Stage Black are published by Dramatic Publishing. The Gift Horse is anthologized in Northwestern University Press' 7 Black Plays, ed. Chuck Smith. Stick Fly, published 2009, Northwestern University Press. Lydia holds a B.S. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, is a resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists, a Huntington Playwright Fellow, an '07/'08 TCG/NEA playwright in residence at The Steppenwolf, and is on faculty at Boston University. ERIC TING Mr. Ting is the Associate Artistic Director at Long Wharf Theatre. His recent credits include - as director - Underneath the Lintel (Long Wharf, 05/06 Connecticut Critics Circle awards for Best Director and Best Production of a Play) and The Little Prince (Round House Theatre); also, puppet design and puppet direction for Opera Boston's production of Bizet's The Pearl Fishers. Co - founder of Company Ajar, a provocative physical theatre mingling puppetry, mask, and music with original and found text, Ting's work has been presented internationally, including France, Canada, Romania, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Bali. Ting has assisted such esteemed directors as Bartlett Sher (Singing Forest), Liviu Ciulei, Lou Bellamy (Darker Face of the Earth), Henryk Baranowksi (Oresteia), Carey Perloff, Gordon Edelstein and Loy Arcenas (The Romance of Magno Rubio). His awards and grants include a 2004 - 2006 TCG New Generations Future Leaders fellowship and a Jerome & Roslyn Milstein Meyer Career Development Prize. SCOTT BRADLEY Mr. Bradley's scenic designs have been seen on Broadway in Joe Turner's Come and Gone and Seven Guitars. He has worked Off-Broadway on Eurydice, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Second Stage); Picasso at the Lapin Agile, An Unfinished Song (Promenade). He has also done Fences, A Raisin in the Sun, Electra, Oedipus, and Dutchman (Hartford Stage); Akhnaten (Boston Lyric Opera); Ivanov and The Idiots Karamatsov (A.R.T); Picnic and The Rainmaker (Center Stage); The Dreams of Sarah Breedlove, Silk, I Am a Man, Journey to the West, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Goodman Theatre); King Lear (Chicago Shakespeare); The Tempest, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); The Sea of Tranquility, Smash, Enter the Guardsman (Old Globe); Topdog/Underdog, The Piano Lesson (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Passion Play, The Great White Hope, Gem of the Ocean (Arena Stage); The Glass Menagerie (Berkeley Rep); Ah, Wilderness! (Huntington Theatre); An Ideal Husband, Servant of Two Masters (Milwaukee Rep); Intimate Apparel (The Guthrie); The Velvet Sky (Woolly Mammoth). Film: Ang Lee's Pushing Hands. Television: "Late Night with David Letterman." TONI-LESLIE JAMES Ms. James has designed costumes for Broadway productions of Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, One Mo' Time, King Hedley II, The Wild Party (Fany Award), Marie Christine, Footloose, The Tempest (Drama Desk nomination), Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, Angels in America, Chronicle of a Death Foretold and Jelly's Last Jam (Tony and Drama Desk nominations, Hewes Design Award and LA Drama - Logue Award). Her Off-Broadway credits include Bernarda Alba, Dessa Rose, Elegies, A New Brain, God's Heart and Hello Again for Lincoln Center Theater; Macbeth, Henry VIII, Dancing on Her Knees, Insurrection, Measure for Measure, East Texas Hot Links, Dog Opera, The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Drama Desk and American Theatre Wing nominations) and Spunk for the New York Shakespeare Festival; Face The Music, Of Thee I Sing, Can-Can, House of Flowers, The Boys From Syracuse, Babes in Arms, Bloomer Girl and A Connecticut Yankee for Encores. Regional credits include productions for Arena Stage, Second Stage, Circle Rep, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, The Huntington Theatre Company, The Mark Taper Forum, The Shakespeare Theatre, Berkeley Rep, The Houston Grand Opera, Center Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Lyric Opera of Chicago, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Ballet Hispanico. Television work includes three specials for WNET/13 Great Performances series, the soap opera "As the World Turns", and "Whoopi" on NBC. She has worked on the films The Huey P. Newton Story and A Tale of Two Pizzas. Ms. James is a recipient of the Connecticut Critics Circle Award and the Irene Sharaff Young Masters Award for Costume Design Excellence. RUSSELL H. CHAMPA Mr. Champa's current and recent projects include The 4 Of Us (Manhattan Theater Club); The Slugbeares Of Kayrol Island (Vineyard Theater); and Age Of Arousal (Wilma Theater). On Broadway he worked on Julia Sweeney's God Said "Ha!" Mr. Champa designed for theatres including 2nd Stage, the Promenade Theater, the Union Square Theater, Classic Stage Company, New York Stage & Film, Primary Stages and La MaMa etc. He has also designed for ACT in San Francisco; Seattle Rep; Trinity Rep; Yale Rep; McCarter Theater; Berkeley Rep; Campo Santo; Williamstown Theatre Festival; The Actors' Gang; The Kennedy Center. ROB MILBURN & MICHAEL BODEEN Broadway credits include music composition and sound for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Speed of Darkness, music for My Thing of Love and sound for A Year with Frog and Toad, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Hollywood Arms, King Hedley II, Buried Child, The Song of Jacob Zulu and The Grapes of Wrath. Off Broadway credits include music and sound for After Ashley, Boy Gets Girl, Red, Space, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci and Marvin's Room. Recent projects include original music and sound for The Pillowman at Steppenwolf Theatre, Mrs. Packard at the McCarter Theatre and the Kennedy Center, Mirror of the Invisible World and Vigils at the Goodman, Mrs. Warren's Profession at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, King Lear at Milwaukee Rep, sound for Anne Frank and The Unmentionables at Steppenwolf, The Pain and the Itch at Playwrights Horizons in NYC, The Birthday Party at the McCarter Theatre, Maurice Sendak and Tony Kushner's Comedy on the Bridge and Brundibar, and original music, music direction and sound for Life is a Dream, the Cameri Theatre in Tel Aviv, the Subaru Acting Company in Japan, and festivals in Toronto, Dublin, Galway, Perth and Sydney. M. AKIL DAVIS Training: Thai Classical (Patravaadi Theatre, Bangkok, Thailand), Balinese Mask/Topeng (Purnarti Arts Center, Bali, Indonesia), Krumping (Krump Kings & Jamm Dance Group, NYU), Masked Drama, Classical Clown, Modern, African (NYU). Innovations and Explorations: Will Dancing, Guerilla Modern, Contact Improv, Classical Mime, AcroYoga, Movement Analysis, Chakra and Healing Studies. DEBORAH HECHT Broadway credits include Mary Poppins, Suddenly Last Summer, The Clean House, Festen, 'night Mother, A Streetcar Named Desire, After the Fall, Long Day's Journey into Night, The Crucible, Dirty Blonde, Titanic, The King and I, Cabaret, Carousel, Angels in America, many others. Off-Broadway includes LCT, NYTW, MTC, Roundabout, Signature, Second Stage. Regional includes Guthrie, Long Wharf Theatre, Hartford Stage, Yale Rep, Seattle Rep. England: RSC, National. Film: Spinning into Butter (upcoming), Kinsey, Stage Beauty, others. Faculty: NYU Grad Acting. MARK OLSEN Hartford Stage: Fences, Summer & Smoke, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Camino Real, Dutchman, Seascape, Macbeth, A Streetcar Named Desire, Enchanted April, among others. Regional: Theatreworks, The Dallas Theatre Center, The Alley Theatre, Houston Shakespeare Festival, Pennsylvania Center Stage, the New York Shakespeare Festival, and New York's Public Theater. Faculty: Nationally recognized authority on stage movement and a certified teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors. A professor of acting and movement with the Penn State School of Theatre. As a performer Mr. Olsen appeared on Broadway and toured internationally with the famed mime/mask group Mummenschanz, and in many productions with the Cincinnati Ensemble Theatre, the Human Race Theatre, and Pennsylvania Center Stage. He has written the newly revised The Golden Buddha Changing Masks, The Actor with a Thousand Faces and The Conception Mandala (co-authored with Samuel Avital). BEATRICE BASSO Beatrice Basso is a theatre artist from Italy. She spent three full seasons as Long Wharf's Dramaturg and Literary Manager, where she has collaborated on classics such as A Moon for the Misbegotten, Travesties and Uncle Vanya, and on new plays including Singing Forest, Aphrodisiac and Durango. Prior to her work at Long Wharf, she has worked at A.C.T. San Francisco, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Theatre Calgary in Canada, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, and ACT Seattle, as well as new play festivals, like SPF in NYC and the O'Neill. Her articles have appeared in Primafila, Tradurre and Theatre Topics; her translations have been work - shopped at A.C.T, produced at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and one is in the works for the Old Globe in San Diego. In 2002, she was selected as emerging dramaturg by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and was later awarded a grant by the Italian government to explore new plays in her home country. Also an actor, Ms. Basso has also appeared in several staged readings and shows in Italy, the Bay Area and at Long Wharf. She studied at Royal Holloway University of London, completed her thesis at UC Berkeley and graduated summa cum laude in Classics and Drama from the University of Padova, Italy. HARRIET BASS Harriet Bass has been an independent New York casting director since 1989, casting for theatre, film and television. In New York City Harriet has cast for ABC/TV, Fox Television Studios, Joseph Papps's Public Theatre: NEW WORK NOW, The Minetta Lane Theatre, The Women's Project, La MaMa E.T.C., New York Women in Film and Television, and The Jewish Repertory Theatre. She has cast the last three of the late August Wilson's 10-part play series: the original and touring productions of Radio Golf, the Broadway production of Gem of the Ocean, and the Off-Broadway production of Jitney. Selected regional credits include: Mark Taper Forum, Hartford Stage, Arena Stage, Trinity Repertory Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, GeVa, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Pittsburgh Public, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Alliance Theatre Company, The Goodman Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Virginia Stage Company, Dallas Theatre Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, and Playmaker's Repertory Theatre. Feature films credits include: Pushing Hands directed by Ang Lee, Underheat, starring Lee Grant, First We Take Manhattan, produced by Golden Harvest Inc., and Graves End, directed by Sal Stabile. Harriet has guest taught acting and auditioning at conservatory and university programs nationally and is presently an adjunct professor in the theatre arts department at Fordham University at Lincoln Center. CHARLES M. TURNER III Long Wharf Theatre: The Price and The Santaland Diaries. Broadway: Golda's Balcony (Helen Hayes) and Metamorphoses (Circle in the Square). Off Broadway: Playwrights Horizons, Edge Theatre Company, Actors Playhouse, New World Stages, Manhattan Ensemble Theater, Soho Playhouse, Cherry Lane Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club and New York Theatre Workshop. Regional: Pasadena Playhouse, A.C.T., New York Stage & Film, Wadsworth Theatre, Hartford Stage, City Theatre and Actors Theatre of Louisville (six seasons). Additional: 52nd Street Project, EST, Classic Stage Company, The Public Theater, Clubbed Thumb, Summer Play Festival, Roundabout Theatre Company Playreading Series, Lucille Lortel Awards (five seasons), Ravinia Festival, New York Philharmonic, Juilliard School, among others. AMY PATRICIA STERN Amy Stern's Production Stage Manager credits include Mary Stuart (Pearl Theatre Company); Adam Baum and the Jew Movie and The Pitchfork Disney (Blue Light Theatre); Waiting For Godot, Therese Raquin and Another Part of the House (Classic Stage Company); and The Dying Gaul (Vineyard Theatre). Her Assistant Stage Manager credits include Let Me Down Easy, The Price, Uncle Vanya, Man of La Mancha, The Cocktail Hour and Rocket to the Moon, Travesties (Long Wharf Theatre); A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, Intimate Apparel and The Foreigner (Roundabout Theatre Company); Sorrows and Rejoicings, Crimes of the Heart and Tiny Alice (Second Stage); The Tale of the Allergist's Wife (Manhattan Theatre Club); Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Amphitryon and Endgame (Classic Stage Company); The Waiting Room (Vineyard Theatre); and Golden Boy (Blue Light Theatre Company).
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