
Eric Bogosian (Playwright) In addition to Talk Radio (originally produced at the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1987), is the author of the plays subUrbia (LCT), and Griller (Goodman), both directed by Robert Falls, Red Angel (Williamstown Theater Festival), Humpty Dumpty (McCarter Theatre) and six solo performances (Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll and others), which he starred in Off-Broadway between 1980 and 2000, for which he received three Obie Awards. He adapted and starred in Oliver Stone's film of Talk Radio (Berlin Film Festival – Silver Bear Award), and wrote the screenplay for Richard Linklater's film version of subUrbia. Mr. Bogosian is the author of two novels, Mall and Wasted Beauty and a novella, Notes from Underground. As an actor, Bogosian has appeared in numerous films and television programs, starring in Robert Altman's The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Under Siege 2, Atom Egoyan's Ararat and Wonderland. Currently he stars on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" on NBC. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Eric Bogosian is married to director Jo Bonney. www.ericbogosian.com

Tad Savinar (Co-Creator) was formally trained as a visual artist and had no experience in the theater experience prior to meeting Mr. Bogosian in 1980. Since the original production of Talk Radio in 1982, he has written and had professionally produced four stage plays. A fifth, Cover Shot, a play about architects and developers, was commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and produced by the Portland Repertory Theater in 1994. Mr. Savinar continues to exhibit his visual work in galleries and museums across the country. Since 1991, he has focused most of his time and energy as an urban design consultant for large scale infrastructure projects and inner-city revitalization plans.

Robert Falls (Director) is celebrating his 20th anniversary as artistic director of Chicago's Goodman Theatre, where he most recently directed King Lear, starring Stacy Keach. Previous Broadway and Off-Broadway productions include Frank's Home, Shining City, Death of a Salesman (Tony Awards for Best Director and Best Production), Long Day's Journey into Night (three Tony Awards, Drama Desk for Direction), Aida, The Young Man from Atlanta, The Night of the Iguana, The Rose Tattoo, subUrbia (Obie Award) and The Food Chain. At the Goodman, Mr. Falls has directed world premieres of Arthur Miller's Finishing the Picture, Rebecca Gilman's Dollhouse and Blue Surge, Steve Tesich's The Speed of Darkness, Eric Bogosian's Griller, Louis Rosen and Thom Bishop's Book of the Night and John Logan's Riverview; the American premiere of Alan Ayckbourn's House and Garden; and acclaimed productions of Galileo, The Iceman Cometh, Three Sisters and Pal Joey. His credits also include the award-winning production of Death of a Salesman in London's West End; The Iceman Cometh at Dublin's Abbey Theatre; and various operas for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Metropolitan Opera, the Houston Grand Opera, and Grande Théâtre de Genève.

Mark Wendland (Set Designer) Broadway: Death of a Salesman, with Brian Dennehy, directed by Robert Falls (also Goodman Theatre, national tour, London's West End); An Almost Holy Picture, with Kevin Bacon. New York: Satellites, Fucking A, Pericles, A Dybbuk (Public Theater); The Beauty of the Father, Iron (Manhattan Theatre Club); Hamlet, The False Servant, The Mysteries (Classic Stage Company); Hot ‘n' Throbbing (Signature Theatre Co.); Sabina (Primary Stages); Henry V, Cymbeline, Timon of Athens (Public Theater at the Delacorte in Central Park). Dublin: A View From the Bridge (the Gate Theatre). Regional venues: Alley Theatre, Berkeley Rep., the Guthrie Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Steppenwolf, Trinity Rep. and many others. Upcoming: Some Men, Second Stage Theatre.

Laura Bauer (Costume Designer) Broadway: Glengarry Glen Ross, Frankie and Johnny…, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Off-Broadway plays at MTC, the Vineyard, Playwrights Horizons, the Public, Lincoln Center, Naked Angels, Circle Rep and the Atlantic Theater (company member). Years of work with Steppenwolf, Remains and the Goodman in Chicago. Selected films: High Fidelity, Sweet and Lowdown, Telling Lies in America, Pieces of April and the to-be-released Spinning Into Butter. TV: “Insatiable” for Showtime.

Christopher Akerlind (Lighting Designer) Broadway: Shining City; Well; Awake and Sing! (Tony nomination); Rabbit Hole; A Touch of the Poet; In My Life; The Light in the Piazza (Tony, Drama Desk,Outer Critics Awards); Reckless; The Tale of the Allergist's Wife; Seven Guitars (Tonynomination); Philadelphia, Here I Come!; The Piano Lesson. Recent: Howard Katz (Roundabout), A Spanish Play (CSC), Kaos (NYTW), Wrecks (Public). Awards: Obiefor Sustained Excellence; numerous nominationsfor Tony, Drama Desk, Lortel, Outer Critics awards.

Richard Woodbury (Sound Designer) New York credits include music and sound design for the Tony Award-winning productions of Long Day's Journey Into Night, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Death of a Salesman and others. Other credits include productions at the Goodman, Steppenwolf, Alley, Geffen, Ahmanson and Trinity Repertory theatres. Richard has received Helen Hayes and Ruth Page awards and numerous nominations for Drama Desk, “Jeff,” and Ovation awards. Richard is a faculty member at Columbia College Chicago.

Kathy Fabian/Propstar (Properties Coordinator) Broadway credits include Prelude to a Kiss, Spring Awakening, High Fidelity, Barefoot in the Park, Souvenir, Steel Magnolias, Sweet Charity, Match, Fiddler on the Roof, Bobbi Boland, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Golda's Balcony. Off-Broadway/regional: Dog Sees God, CenturyCenter; Altar Boyz, Dodger Stages; NineParts of Desire, MET; Romance, Atlantic Theater Co.; The Foreigner, Roundabout Theatre Co.; Hank Williams: Lost Highway, Little Schubert; The Play About the Baby, Union Square Theatre; and The Vineyard Theatre's production of Avenue Q. Fabian has served as resident props designer for Manhattan Ensemble Theatre, Bay Street Theatre Festival and the Big Apple Circus.

Jane Grey (Production Stage Manager) Broadway: Faith Healer; A Streetcar Named Desire; Long Day's Journey Into Night; Death of a Salesman; Fortune's Fool; A Thousand Clowns; Gore Vidal's The Best Man; In My Life; Taller Than a Dwarf; Titanic; Twilight: L.A., 1992; The Big Love; Tru. National tours: The King and I, Sunset Boulevard, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Blood Brothers, Tru. Off-Broadway: Fame on 42nd St., Elaine May, Neil LaBute, Sam Shepard, Joe Chaikin, A.R. Gurney, Tommy Tune, Caryl Churchill, Joe Papp, etc. School: Sarah Lawrence. Home: Binny and Buster.

Matthew Farrell (Stage Manager) Broadway: Gore Vidal's The Best Man, Enchanted April. National tour: Mrs. Klein with Uta Hagen. Off-Broadway he has worked at the John Houseman Theater, Lucille Lortel Theatre, American Place Theatre, York Theatre, Circle Rep and the New York Theatre Workshop. Farrell has also written and produced numerous projects for some of the most trusted names in educational media, including PBS, PBS Kids, “Dragon Tales” and “Sesame Street.”

Telsey + Company (Casting) Broadway/tours: Deuce, Legally Blonde, Company, Grey Gardens, Tarzan, The Drowsy Chaperone, The Color Purple, Wicked, Hairspray, Rent, Sweeney Todd, All Shook Up, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Off-Broadway: In the Heights, The Fantasticks, Atlantic, MCC, Signature. Film: Dan in Real Life, Then She Found Me, Across the Universe, Ira and Abby, Rent, Pieces of April, Camp, The Grey Zone, Finding Forrester, The Bone Collector.

Neil A. Mazzella (Technical Supervisor) is the CEO of Hudson Scenic and Hudson Sound and Light. Broadway credits for these companies include Mary Poppins, Monty Python's Spamalot, The Producers, Mamma Mia!, The Lion King and Chicago.As technical supervisor: Spring Awakening, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Boy From Oz and Angels in America. Graduate, Yale School of Drama.

Albert Poland (General Manager) is currently the general manager of Bill W. and Dr. Bob and has served in that capacity for more than 90 New York productions, including The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Boy From Oz starring Hugh Jackman, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Gore Vidal's The Best Man, Dirty Blonde, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, The Grapes of Wrath, As Is, Little Shop of Horrors, Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Uta Hagen in Mrs. Klein, Eileen Heckart in The Waverly Gallery, Always…Patsy Cline, Steel Magnolias, Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind, Vanities, David Mamet's A Life in the Theatre, One Mo' Time, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), The Neon Woman, Tommy Tune Atop the Village Gate, Let My People Come, Stephen Sondheim's Marry Me a Little and Tom Lehrer's Tomfoolery.

Jeffrey Richards (Producer) Broadway: Spring Awakening; The Pajama Game (Tony Award) starring Harry Connick Jr.; David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross (Tony Award); Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial; Matthew Barber's Enchanted April; A Thousand Clowns, starring Tom Selleck; Gore Vidal's The Best Man (Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards). Off-Broadway: John Logan's Never the Sinner: The Leopold and Loeb Story (Outer Critics Circle Award), David Ives' Mere Mortals, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Peter Ackerman's Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight. Upcoming: August Wilson's Radio Golf at the Cort Theatre.

Jerry Frankel (Producer) Currently on Broadway: Spring Awakening. Recently: The Little Dog Laughed; Glengarry Glen Ross (winner 2005 Tony Award for Best Revival); Death of a Salesman (Tony Award); Matthew Barber's Enchanted April (winner Outer Critics Circle Award and Tony-nominated for Best Play); Gore Vidal's The Best Man (winner Outer Critics Circle Award and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play); The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial with David Schwimmer; Jekyll & Hyde; You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Drama Desk Award). Mr. Frankel operated the Park Cities Playhouse in Dallas where he presented numerous productions including Love Letters with Charlton Heston and Shakespeare for My Father with Lynn Redgrave. Upcoming: August Wilson's Radio Golf at the Cort Theatre.

Jam Theatricals (Producer) is a Chicago-based entertainment company founded by Arny Granat, Jerry Mickelson and Steve Traxler. Broadway producing credits include The History Boys (2006 Tony Award for Best Play), Monty Python's Spamalot (2005 Tony Award for Best Musical), Glengarry Glen Ross (2005 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play), The Wedding Singer, The Retreat From Moscow and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. Jam also manages more than 30 subscription-series markets throughout North America and has presented shows including Cats, The Producers, STOMP, Les Misérables, Mamma Mia!, Hairspray, Miss Saigon and Riverdance.

Francis Finlay (Producer) is a British-born financier and philanthropist with a strong interest in Theater. Previous production credits include revivals of Gore Vidal's The Best Man on Broadway and three new plays in London, Terry Johnson's Hitchcock Blonde and Christopher Shinn's "Other People", both at the Royal Court, and Carl Djerassi's Oxygen at the Riverside Theater.

Ronald Frankel (Producer) Producing credits include Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical and The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. He also produced Glengarry Glen Ross, the 2005 Tony Award winner for Best Revival of a Play. Ronald is the founder of Rafaella Apparel Group. Love to Alex, Sammy and Nicole.

James Fuld Jr. (Producer) In association with Roundabout Theatre and Jeffrey
Richards, producer of The Pajama Game (2006 Tony Award, Best Musical Revival) starring Harry Connick Jr. Co-producer of A Thousand Clowns starring Tom Selleck.
Future productions include a national tour of The Pajama Game.

Steven Green (Producer) and Altacliff Entertainment have produced the award-winning documentary WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception and the recently completed In Debt We Trust: America Before the Bubble Bursts. Stage projects include Party Come Here presented at the 2006 New York Musical Theatre Festival, the Broadway boundrevival of Ira Levin's Deathtrap and this production of Talk Radio.

Judith Hansen (Producer) marks her Broadway debut. As past president and current trustee of the Milwaukee Rep., she has been associated with productions of Gem of the Ocean, The Seagull, Angels in America and Frozen. Produced The Jammer for Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where it won a Fringe First. A trustee for the O'Neill Theatre Center, Ms. Hansen attended the Yale School of Drama.

Patty Ann Lacerte (Producer) Talk Radio is her first Broadway production. She happily makes memories with her children and grandchildren in Long Beach, Aspen and Dallas. She would like to send a heartfelt thanks to her family and friends for their love and support in "making all memories". It is a pleasure to help bring this exciting play to Broadway. I love New York City.

James Riley (Producer) spent his career developing advertising and media companies. He sold his businesses in 1998 and since then has been having a good time and investing in various ventures. His lifelong love of theater eventually lured him to Broadway.

Mary Lu Roffe (Producer) Current shows: Spamalot (Tony Award Best Musical 2005); Spamalot (London); Spamalot (National Tour). Other credits include: Man Of La Mancha (Tony nominee, Best Musical Revival 2003); The Retreat From Moscow (Tony nominee, Best Play 2004), Hedda Gabler, Angels in America (national tour), Sexual Perversity in Chicago (London), Woman Before a Glass, Fully Committed, String of Pearls, Robbers, The Bomb-itty of Errors.

Mort Swinsky (Producer) Broadway: Spring Awakening, Grey Gardens, The History Boys (Tony), The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Pillowman,
Spamalot, Avenue Q (Tony), Frozen, Wonderful Town, The Boy From Oz, Hairspray (Tony), Chicago (Tony), La Bohème, The Crucible, Elaine Stritch (Tony), Annie Get Your Gun (Tony). Films: Dark Days, Boys Don't Cry, You Can Count On Me. TV:
"Sweeney Todd" and "Candide".

Sheldon Stein (Producer) Producing credits include Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical and The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. He is a senior managing director at Bear Stearns & Co. and is a graduate of Brandeis University and Harvard Law School. He lives with his wife, Barbara, in Dallas and New York, and thanks his children, Shane, Tracey, Kyle and Reid.

Irving Welzer (Producer) presented Judy Garland and Sammy Davis at Mosque Theater in Newark. Co-produced the Tony Winners Raisin and Annie Get Your Gun starring Bernadette Peters, The Primary English Class, A Thousand Clowns, and Enchanted April. Off-Broadway: High Rollers and Professionally Speaking. Selected Friar of The Year in 1987 by the New York Friars Club. Thanks to Joyce, Nicole, Brielle, and my son Steve for lighting up my life.

Herb Blodgett (Producer) His New York and London credits include Annie Get Your Gun (Tony), Enchanted April, The Weir, Old Wicked Songs, High Rollers and Say Goodnight, Gracie. He is on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Players and the Drama League, and a member of the Friars Club.

Terri and Timothy Childs (Producer) Broadway/London: Patrick Stewart in A Christmas Carol, Arthur Miller's Broken Glass, The Flying Karamazov Brothers, Annie; Off-Broadway: Mnemonic, Cupid and Psyche. Other productions include Jeffrey in Los Angeles, national tours of Swing! and Annie, and U.K. productions of BFG and Carmen, the latter complete with a dancing horse.

Stylefour Productions (Producer) John Styles and Dave Clemmons credits include Broadway: Spring Awakening, Talk Radio; Off-Broadway: 25 Questions. Other New York credits: An Intimate Evening With Frank Wildhorn and Friends and the critically acclaimed Bat Boy: The Musical. StyleFour is a founder and partner in Off Broadway Booking.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Andrew D.
Hamingson, Managing Director) is the Off-Broadway theatre that produces great stories simply and truthfully, utilizing an artistic ensemble. Atlantic has produced more than 100 plays, including the world premiere of the musical Spring Awakening now at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, The Lieutenant of Inishmore and The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh, David Mamet's Romance, Harold Pinter's The Room and Celebration and Woody Allen's Writer's Block.
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