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Most recently: Hate Mail with Monday Morning productions. Broadway: A Year With Frog and Toad (coming soon on DVD), The Crucible and A Little Hotel on the Side (National Actors Theater), Into the Woods (original cast, Theatre World Award and Drama Desk nom.), Sunday in the Park with George. A Little Night Music (New York City Opera). Off-Broadway includes She Stoops to Conquer (Irish Rep), Engaged (Theatre for a New Audience), The Streets of New York (Irish Rep. and Westport Country Playhouse), Tartuffe (New York Shakespeare Festival), How I Learned to Drive (Century and Vineyard Theatres), Uncommon Women and Others (Lucille Lortel). Regional includes The School for Husbands (Westport), Baltimore Center Stage, The McCarter, The Huntington, and The Old Globe in San Diego. Film: “Slippery Slope”, “Sam the Man”, “Mighty Aphrodite” (Woody Allen, dir.) and “Radio Days” (Woody Allen, dir.) Television: “Rescue Me” (FX), “The Education of Max Bickford” (CBS). BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Broadway: High Fidelity; Off-Broadway: The Black Eyed (New York Theatre Workshop); Measure for Pleasure, King Lear (Workshop with Kevin Kline), Much Ado About Nothing (Public Theater/NYSF); Orange Lemon Egg Canary (PS 122); Regional: Metamorphoses (Pioneer Theatre); Enchanted April (San Jose Rep); Sweeney Todd (Heritage Rep). Film: The Return (upcoming); Lull. TV: Flight of the Conchords; Jericho; Guiding Light. Training: MFA from NYU/Tisch.

Broadway: High Fidelity; White Liars/Black Comedy; Off-B’way: Debbie Does Dallas; Compleat Wrks Of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged); Civil Sex; Nebraska. NYSAF: The Boy Who Heard Music, Dangerous Beauty. Regional: Williamstown, Papermill, Huntington, Old Globe, Milwaukee Rep. Film: Company Retreat, Secret Lives of Dentists; Substance of Fire. TV: Leading roles on Fighting Fitzgeralds (NBC), and Holding The Baby (FOX), plus guest appearances on Sex And The City, Bull, Melrose Place, Empty Nest and Loving.

Mr. Kaplan has had plays produced at the McCarter Theatre, The Neighborhood Playhouse, HOME for Contemporary Theatre and Art, St. Peters Church at Citicorp, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, the William Redfield Theatre, Limbo, the Key West Theatre Festival and the Lost Studio and Hudson Theatre in Los Angeles. His work as a playwright has been supported by grants from the Drama League, New York State Council on the Arts and, through New Dramatists, the Frederick Loewe Foundation and the Cameron Mackintosh Foundation. He is the recipient of the Joe Calloway Award from New Dramatists and the Whitfield Cooke Best Play award for Bananas and Water; A workshop production under the auspices of The Actor's Studio starred Estelle Parsons. A Beautiful White Room was produced in workshop at the ASK Theatre Project in Los Angeles. His musical Rock and Roy (with composer Stephen Weinstock) received workshop productions at New Dramatists and at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, both directed by Simon Callow.. His short stories have appeared in Descant, Bryant Literary Review, Upstreet, Brink, Apple Valley Review, Central Park, Appearances and the Northern New England Review. He is the author of two best selling historical novels: Black Orchid (with Nicholas Meyer) and Biscayne, as well as the interview book Actors at Work (with Rosemarie Tichler).

Recently wrote and produced the music for The Little Dog Laughed on Broadway and “The Power of 10” with Drew Carey for CBS and Sony. Other musical projects include Lysistrata Jones , with book by Douglas Carter Beane; On Girl, with book/ lyrics by Steven Sater and featuring Jennifer Holliday; Down There, with book/lyrics by Brian Crawley; and The Winner, with book/ lyrics by Joe Sutton, which recently completed a successful run at the Lyric Stage in Dallas, Texas.
He has also composed numerous scores for plays at theaters in New York and regionally, including Second Stage Theater, Playwright’s Horizons, Drama Dept., Lincoln Center Theatre, The Vineyard Theater, Geffen Playhouse (LA), Hartford Stage, Cleveland Play House, Old Globe (San Diego), Primary Stages, adobe theatre co, and the Acting Company among others.
His he composed scores for commercials (recent campaigns include Microsoft, Life Cereal, SAAB, and the AFL-CIO), film and fashion. A CD of his runway music for designer Zang Toi was recently released under the pseudonym “Flash”. He was lead singer and songwriter for the 90’s jazz/rock band Acoustic Blue. He is graduate of Princeton University and Phillips Exeter Academy. www.lewisflinn.com

Recent directing credits include Ah, Wilderness! for Chautauqua Theatre Company, Twelfth Night for Seaside Shakesepare on Nantucket, productions for the Summer Play Festival (Split Wide Open by Christina Gorman & Anatomy 1968 by Karen Hartman), Milwaukee Shakespeare Company, Tony Randall's National Actors Theatre, The Public Theatre, Culture Project, the independent short film, Contemplating Emily (chosen for LA Outfest last summer), and the world premiere of Amy Kohn’s radio-opera, One Plum Square for WNYC's "Spinning on Air". Last summer, she spent a month in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she created a theater piece with 40 HIV+ orphans at Ahope Orphanage with theatre artists Antoinette LaVecchia, James Hallett and James Haven, that culminated in a performance at the National Theatre of Ethiopia. Currently, she is working on a song cycle based on the women of the Odyssey (working title: Penelope), with playwright/performer Ellen McLaughlin and composer Sarah Snider Kirkland, commissioned by the Getty in LA. She also received an EST/Sloan grant to create a musical based on the life of Ada Byron, working with composer Kim Sherman and librettist Margaret Vandenburg. Lisa is a graduate of NYU's Graduate Acting Program and Director’s Lab, as well as a Drama League alum, Fox Fellow, and member of the Women’s Project Director’s Lab. Lisa regularly directs at NYU’s Graduate Acting Program & Yale School of Drama, and is on faculty at NYU.

An actor,singer, pianist, musical director,
and composer. NY credits include Sunday in the Park with George (Actors
Studio), A Kiss from Alexander (The Barrow Group), The Ticket (Sage
Theatre). Regional credits include Big River, Evita, A Chorus Line, And the
World Goes ‘Round, Jerry’s Girls, Godspell, Company, Big, Children of Eden,
Cinderella, Little Me, Starting Here, Starting Now (w/ Maltby & Shire),
Forever Plaid, The Big Bang!, Merrily We Roll Along, The Music Man, Jesus
Christ Superstar, Violet, The Sound of Music, Howard Crabtree's When Pigs
Fly! Compositions include A Kiss from Alexander (4 time Chicago Jeff Award
nominated, Off-Broadway)and A Dickens of a Carol (both with writing partner
Stephan deGhelder). NYC recognizes him most as The Pianist in the cult film
CAMP. Brad has been a featured performer with The Alabama Symphony and The
Indianapolis Symphony starring Sandi Patty. He now happily resides in New
York City, but while living in Alabama he led the Brad Simmons Band, writing
and producing 3 CDs. Check them out at cdbaby.com and ITunes! Proud AEA and
AFM member.

Sean's career began in Dallas, Texas, and now spans from Santa Fe, to New York City, to the Czech Republic working in opera, theatre and film. Most recently designing the sets and costumes for Illuminating Veronica, directed by Michael Sexton, he also designed the costumes for Dancing at Lughnasa, directed by Michael Sexton and the set for Working, directed by Victor Papas. He is pleased to be working with Lisa Rothe again after having designed the set for Ah, Wilderness! in a production they did at Tisch. His MFA in set and costume design is from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

New York: Perfect Harmony (the Essentials) and New Bohemia (NYC Fringe). San Francisco: productions for The New Conservatory Theater Center, Actors Theater of SF, Palo Alto Players, Paducah Mining Company, others. Dance includes choreographers Charlotte Boye-Christensen, Kelley Donnovan, Larry Keigwin, Amy Seiwert, Kate Weare; work seen at Jacob's Pillow (with Chet Walker), Yuerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF) and the Cowell Theater (SF). MFA from NYU / Tisch School of the Arts.

Most recently designed costumes for the Yale Repertory production of Lulu directed by Mark Lamos. Costume design for Yale School of Drama productions includes The Seagull, the premiere of Tarell McCraney's In The Red and Brown Water, and The Duchess of Malfi. Costume design for Yale Cabaret productions includes Tarell McCraney's premiere of Run, Mourner, Run; The Love Suicides at Sonezaki, Crave, the premiere of Blake Hackler's The Boss in the Satin Kimono, Putting it Together, the premiere of Victor Kaufold's The Death of Milton Hubbell, and Two Sisters and a Piano. Southern Methodist University credits include Curse of the Starving Class and Dark Ride. She holds a BFA with Honors in Art History and a BA with Honors in Costume Design from Southern Methodist University and an MFA in Design from the Yale School of Drama where she was the recipient of the Leo Lerman Award for costume design.

BROADWAY: the Pulitzer and multi-“Tony” Award winning Angels in America by Tony Kushner, Directed by George C. Wolfe, Sally Marr...and her Escorts starring Joan Rivers (“Tony” Nomination), Director Lonny Price, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (winner of London's Evening Standard Award), Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Frank Gilroy's Any Given Day starring Sada Thompson, Directed by Paul Benedict; the “Tony” Award nominated The High Rollers starring Vivian Reed, and Tom Stoppard's Artist Descending a Staircase.
OFF-BROADWAY: Fanny Hill starring Nancy Anderson and Tony Yazbeck, the 1994 Outer Critics Circle Award-winning Annie Warbucks and the 1989 Outer Critics Circle Award-winner Other People's Money and its national tour starring Tony LoBianco. Grace & Glorie starring Estelle Parsons and Lucie Arnaz, Burning Blue (London's Olivier Award winner) starring Chad Lowe, Party and the revival of The Boys in the Band co-starring Christopher Sieber. Mr. Grimaldi was Associate to the Producers on A. R. Gurney's Broadway production, Sweet Sue, starring Mary Tyler Moore and Lynn Redgrave; and has been associated with producer Emanuel Azenberg on Neil Simon's London Suite starring Carole Shelley and Jeffery Jones as well as the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play, Lost in Yonkers which starred Kevin Spacey and Irene Worth and with The Producer’s Circle on Chita, A Dancer’s Life. In addition; the Off-Broadway productions of David Mamet's The Cryptogram starring Felicity Huffman and Ed Begley, Jr., John Epperson’s Lypsinka! A Day in the Life and Oblivion Postponed by Ron Nyswaner directed by Nicholas Martin and starring John Glover and Mary Beth Hurt. As well as producing the workshop productions A Kiss From Alexander by Stephan DeGhelder and Brad Simmons,of Elegy by Ron Hirsen, the David Arthur and Jeffery Lodin musical; About Face, suggested by Shakespeare’s Much Ado, and was Co-Producer on the Concept CD Album of the musical, “Z”, The Legend of Zorro featuring Deborah Gibson, Roberto Blades and Ruben Gomez. LONDON’S WEST END: The Boys in the Band and John Lahr’s The Diary of a Somebody, about the Legendary Joe Orton; Based on the book Prick Up Your Ears .
Mr. Grimaldi also has had a successful career as a director and/or choreographer both on Broadway and Off-Broadway, London’s West End, Leading Regional Theatres, Night Club and for Television; including entertainment specials for HBO, ABC and NBC including choreography and musical staging for the original company of NBC’s SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE! The Las Vegas, Atlantic City and New York Club appearances for Carol Lawrence and Larry Kert and others;The West End productions of Look to the Rainbow, starring Jack Gilford and Stephen Sondheim’s Marry Me A Little; The Off Broadway revival of Wonderful Town, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the George Abbott Revival production of Broadway starring Gilda Radner, Teri Garr and Chris Sarandon as well as several National Touring Companies; including productions of Hello, Dolly!, Man of La Mancha, Gigi, and The Pajama Game, among others. Upon graduating, on scholarship, from the Goodman School/ De Paul University in Chicago, as a performer, Mr. Grimaldi began his career working for such Theater legends as Michael Bennett, Jack Cole, Gower Champion and Jose Ferrer. He was Producer as well as Director of Development and Special Events for Candid Productions, Inc., a television production company, for 15 years and is the recipient of the 1994 Robert Whitehead Award for Outstanding Commercial Theatre Producing, The Carbonell Award and Chicago Theatre's JEFF Award for Choreography and two Gold medals from The International Film and Television for direction and Choreography. Mr. Grimaldi has also served on the board of The Acting Company founded by John Houseman.

Fresh from the Fringe Festival’s John Goldfarb, Please Come Home, Taylor’s is so happy to be working with another talented group of people. Other credits: PSM with Woodshed Collective on Never The Sinner , with Askew Theatre on I Google Myself and as an ASM/Rehearsal SM for Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Marathon. Other credits include: The Crack Free Handyman (PSM/ Cornerstone Productions),BFF (Women’s Expressive Theater), The Tempest (Long Wharf Theatre), Southern Comforts (Primary Stages), and A Marriage Minuet and The Drawer Boy (Westport Country Playhouse).

Recent stage management credits include the ‘Musicals in Mufti’ Series and Triumphant Baby at the York Theatre. She was also recently a production assistant for Coram Boy and Xanadu on Broadway. Other credits: She assisted with the production management of the Broadway productions of Spamalot, Doubt and Julius Caesar (for Aurora Productions). Proud member of Actors Equity.

Theatrical productions â€" Current productions include the national tour of HATS! The Musical, My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish and I’m in Therapy! at the Westside Theatre, Forbidden Broadway at the 47th Street Theatre and The Pan Asian Repertory Theatre. Upcoming shows include the Broadway production of Palm Beach. Long-term current clients include 13 years representing Chicago City Limits and 20 years with the York Theatre Company. KSA has represented more than 200 Broadway, Off-Broadway and touring productions.

Films â€" Current films include the national release of ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (Regent Releasing). KSA recently completed the unit publicity for Spinning Into Butter starring Sarah Jessica Parker, the national release of The Aryan Couple starring Martin Landau, Wah-Wah (Roadside Attractions) starring Gabriel Byrne and Emily Watson and the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Charles Busch’s A Very Serious Person.

KSA has worked on releases, units, special promotions and festival campaigns for a number of studio and independent films, including: Ladies in Lavender (Roadside Attractions), starring Maggie Smith and Judi Dench, as well as the Tribeca Film Festival release of Aurora Borealis, starring Joshua Jackson, Donald Sutherland, Juliette Lewis and Louise Fletcher; The Emperor’s Club (Universal Pictures); The Big Kahuna (Lions Gate Films); Coming Soon (Unipix Films); Rough Magic (Rysher Entertainment); Macbeth in Manhattan (Plus Films); Broadway Damage (Village Art Pictures) and Jeffrey (Orion), among others.

Focus Features â€" KSA worked on the campaigns for: The Pianist (2003 Academy Award winner), Far From Heaven, Robert Altman’s Gosford Park, Mike Leigh’s Topsy-Turvy, Nurse Betty, Being John Malkovitch, Stanley Tucci’s Joe Gould’s Secret, Up at the Villa, Where the Money Is (Paul Newman), Angelica Houston’s Agnes Browne, Condo Painting and Lars von Trier’s The Idiots.

Tony Awards â€" KSA represented the Tonys, Broadway’s most prestigious honor, for 18 years.

Television productions â€" KSA represented the PBS broadcast of Broadway’s Lost Treasures in 2003, 2004 and 2005. For BRAVO, we launched The It Factor’s series and ran a number of special events. We were retained by Bristol-Meyers Squibb to promote A&E Network’s special Stop the World, I Want to Get Off. The San Francisco PBS station, KQED, retained us to promote two specials, The Fillmore, and Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeny Todd starring Patti LuPone.

Artistic Associate at Epic Theatre Ensemble. He is a director and co-founder of The Co-op. NY credits include Suzan Lori Parks' 365 Days/365 Plays (The Public Theater), Radio Play (Dixon Place), and Ruby Red (Dixon Place). Selected regional credits include Venus by Suzan Lori Parks,The Princess and the Golden Yam by Cynthia Stephens, Edward Albees' Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Proof by David Auburn, and the premiere of Brooks Reeves' The City That Cried Wolf!. He has been fortunate enough to assist and observe such notable directors as Leigh Silverman, Hal Brooks,
Lisa Rothe, Will Pomerantz and Peter Dubois. A resident of New York City, he is the recipient of the Hampshire College Innovation Award for Directing, and A Greg Prince Presidential Scholarship
for Continuing Education.