TERRENCE McNALLY (Book) is the recipient of four Tony Awards: Love! Valour! Compassion!, Master Class, Ragtime and Kiss of the Spider Woman. Other plays include Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, The Lisbon Traviata, Corpus Christi, The Ritz, Some Men, A Perfect Ganesh, It’s Only a Play, Bad Habits, The Stendhal Syndrome, Dedication or the Stuff of Dreams and Duece. His most recent play was Unusual Acts of Devotion at the La Jolla Playhouse and Philadelphia Theatre Company. He has written the books for the musicals The Full Monty, A Man of No Importance and The Visit and the libretto for the opera Dead Man Walking. He won the Emmy Award for Andre’s Mother. There will be a celebration of his work at the Kennedy Center next spring, including the world premiere of Golden Age. MARC SHAIMAN (Music & Lyrics & Orchestrations). For their score to Hairspray, Marc and Scott Wittman won the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Awards. Their next Broadway score for Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me won absolutely nothing. As a composer and arranger, Marc’s film credits include When Harry Met Sally, Beaches, Misery, City Slickers, The Addams Family, A Few Good Men, Sister Act, Sleepless in Seattle, The First Wives Club, Patch Adams, The American President, George of the Jungle, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut and The Bucket List. Marc’s collaboration with Bette Midler on her Emmy Award-winning performance for Johnny Carson’s penultimate Tonight Show will always remain a highlight. He auditioned but was not chosen to play himself on her sitcom. Marc was Emmy nominated for Saturday Night Live (the Sweeney Sisters) and won one for co-writing Billy Crystal’s Oscar Medleys. His arrangements for Harry Connick Jr. were Grammy nominated as was the Hairspray soundtrack, and he has worked with many other artists including Jack Black, Eric Clapton, Will Ferrell, Patti LuPone, John Mayer, and Barbra Streisand. SCOTT WITTMAN (Lyrics). Scott Wittman is delighted to be back at The 5th Avenue Theatre. Recent credits include directing and co-writing Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me on Broadway and on tour. He has created and directed two Broadway shows, three recordings and two Carnegie Hall concerts for Patti LuPone. On television he has conceived and directed performances for Nathan Lane and Sarah Jessica Parker as well as Christine Ebersole's nightclub appearances. He has received Tony, Grammy, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and London's Olivier Awards for his work on Hairspray. He has been partners for more than thirty years on and offstage with Marc Shaiman. JACK O’BRIEN (Director). Broadway: Impressionism; The Coast of Utopia (Tony Award, Best Director and Play); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Tony nomination); Henry IV (Tony Awards, Best Director and Play Revival); Hairspray (Tony and Drama Desk Awards, Best Director and Musical); Imaginary Friends; The Invention of Love (Tony nomination, Drama Desk Award, Best Director); The Full Monty (Tony nomination, Best Director and Musical); More to Love; Getting Away With Murder; Pride’s Crossing; The Little Foxes; Hapgood (Lucille Lortel Award, Best Director); Damn Yankees; Two Shakespearean Actors (Tony nomination.); Porgy and Bess (Tony Award) Metropolitan Opera: Il Trittico. London (and elsewhere): Love Never Dies (sequel to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom) (Spring 2010), Hairspray (Olivier Award, Best Musical; Best Director nomination.); National Theatre: His Girl Friday. Artistic Director of the Old Globe Theatre, 1981-2007. Six movies for PBS’s “American Playhouse.” Awards: 2008 Theatre Hall of Fame Inductee; ArtServe Michigan 2008 International Achievement Award; National Theatre Conference 2007 Person of the Year; 2007 and 2001 Joan Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creativity; 2005 John Houseman Award; 2002 “Mr. Abbott” Award (SDCF); 2001 Joe A. Callaway Award (SDCF); Member, College of Fellows of the American Theatre; Honorary Doctorate, University of San Diego; Honorary Doctorate, University of Michigan. JERRY MITCHELL (Choreographer). Jerry Mitchell is currently making his Broadway debut as Director of Legally Blonde, for which he also served as Choreographer and was nominated for both the Tony and Drama Desks Awards for his choreography and the Drama Desk Award for his direction. Jerry received the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics' Circle Awards for choreographing the 2005 Tony Award-winning Best Revival of La Cage Aux Folles, having also been nominated for the Tony as choreographer of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. For Broadway, Jerry also choreographed Never Gonna Dance and the revivals of Gypsy. The Rocky Horror Show and You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown. Jerry was nominated for an Emmy Award for choreographing The Drew Carey Show and was featured as host of Step It Up And Dance and as Director/Choreographer of Legally Blonde-The Search for Elle Woods. Jerry conceived and now produces Broadway Cares’ annual Broadway Bares. Most recently, he directed, choreographed and co-produced Peepshow, a Las Vegas extravaganza production show, currently playing at the Planet Hollywood Hotel. JOHN McDANIEL (Music Director). Conductor, composer, orchestrator, record producer, Grammy and two-time Emmy Award-winner John McDaniel has enjoyed a lively career on Broadway and on television. His Broadway shows as arranger and music director include Annie Get Your Gun, Brooklyn, Taboo and Grease. John is most widely known as the bandleader on The Rosie O'Donnell Show, where he received 5 Emmy Nominations for best music direction. He recently orchestrated, conducted and produced a CD for Malcolm Gets, The Journey Home, and most recently orchestrated and conducted Tyne Daly’s critically acclaimed nightclub debut in New York City. His arrangements and orchestrations are currently touring with Garry Marshall’s HAPPY DAYS, for which he also produced the cast recording. He produced The Maury Yeston Songbook on CD and has recorded three solo CD's, John McDaniel at the Piano: Broadway, Christmas, and Compositions as well as John McDaniel Live at Joe's Pub. John has conducted symphony orchestras including the San Francisco Symphony and The Baltimore Symphony. Please visit JohnMcDaniel.com DAVID ROCKWELL (Scenic Designer) designed the sets for Hairspray (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations), Legally Blonde The Musical (Drama Desk nomination), The Rocky Horror Show (Drama Desk Nomination), All Shook Up (Drama Desk Nomination), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Armed and Naked in America, Omnium Gatherum, and, for film, Team America. He is the founder of Rockwell Group, a New York-based architecture and design firm. Projects include the Kodak Theatre, set design for the 2009 Academy Awards; Adour Alain Ducasse at The St. Regis New York, JetBlue’s Terminal 5 at the JFK International Airport; “Hall of Fragments” at the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale; Imagination Playground; the Elinor Bunin-Munroe Film Center at Lincoln Center; W New York and Union Square; Aloft hotels; Nobu Fifty Seven and Nobu Dubai. Rockwell was honored with the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt’s 2008 National Design Award for Interior Design. BOB MACKIE (Costume Designer). Bob Mackie's contributions to film, theatre and television are considerable. He received Oscar nominations for Pennies From Heaven starring Bernadette Peters and Steve Martin, Funny Lady starring Barbra Streisand and Lady Sings the Blues starring Diana Ross. His theatrical credits include Lorelei, On the Town, Platinum, The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public, Moon Over Buffalo and Putting it Together and Minnelli on Minnelli. He has also designed ballet costumes and scenery for the world premiere of Blue Suede Shoes, and costumes for the San Francisco Opera's production of Alban Berg's Lulu. Among the musicals for television he has designed: Carousel, Brigadoon, Kismet, Of Thee I Sing, Mrs. Santa Claus and Gypsy. He received his ninth Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes for a Variety or Music television program for Cher-The Farewell Tour. He is the only costume designer to be inducted into the Television Hall of Fame. KENNETH POSNER (Lighting Designer) has designed more than 30 Broadway plays and musicals including The Coast of Utopia (Shipwreck; Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards); Wicked, Hairspray, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Tony nominations); Legally Blonde, 9 to 5, Grease 2008 Revival, The Homecoming, The Pirate Queen; The Odd Couple; Glengarry Glen Ross; Little Woman; The Frogs; Imaginary Friends; Swing!; Charlie Brown; The Goat; Uncle Vanya; Side Man; The Lion in Winter; Little Me; A View From the Bridge; The Last Night of Ballyhoo; The Little Foxes; and The Rose Tattoo. Recipient of the 2003 Obie for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design. WALTER TRARBACH (Sound Designer). Broadway: The Farnsworth Invention and Cymbeline. Off Broadway: The Tin Pan Alley Rag, Becky Shaw, Measure for Pleasure, Satellites, Farragut North, Sandra Berhnard's Everything Bad and Beautiful, I Love You Because, Mr. Marmalade. Regional: La Jolla Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Bay Street Theatre. Walter is the production sound engineer for the Mary Poppins national tour and the assistant sound designer for the Jersey Boys national tours. He is married to photographer Kimberly Witham.