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JIM NORTON (Finian McLonergan) won a 2007 Olivier Award and a 2008 Tony Award for The Seafarer. In New York he has appeared in The Weir (Olivier nomination); Juno and the Paycock, Dublin Carol (Obie Award); and Port Authority. National Theatre credits include The Pillowman, Hamlet, Bedroom Farce, Comedians, St. Joan, Way Upstream, Tamberlaine, Playboy of the Western World and Chorus of Disapproval. At the Royal Court he appeared in The Contractor and The Changing Room. Film: Straw Dogs, Hidden Agenda, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Driving Lessons, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Oyster Farmer, and Eclipse. TV includes many dramas and series for the BBC and recently played Stan Laurel, Pirandello and Field Marshall Montgomery. He has recorded many audio books and the complete works of James Joyce for Naxos Audio Book (Sony Award).

KATE BALDWIN (Sharon McLonergan) Broadway: The Full Monty, Thoroughly Modern Millie (original cast), Wonderful Town (Helen). Tour: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Betty Haynes). NY: Opening Doors at Zankel Hall, four Encores! Regional: The Women (Mary Haines) at San Diego’s Old Globe, South Pacific (Nellie-Hayes nom.) at Arena Stage, She Loves Me (Amalia-IRNE nom) at Huntington Theatre and Williamstown Theatre Festival, Henry V (Katharine) at Shakespeare Theatre of NJ. Concerts: Chicago Humanities Festival, NSO, PSO and the American Songbook Series. TV: Law & Order: SVU (guest star). PBS: Live from Lincoln Center: Stephen Sondheim’s Passion. Recording: Let’s See What Happens (PS Classics). Graduate: Northwestern University. www.kate-baldwin.com

CHEYENNE JACKSON (Woody Mahoney) Broadway: Xanadu (Drama Desk and Drama League nominations), All Shook Up (Theatre World Award, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League nominations), Aida, Thoroughly Modern Millie, On the Twentieth Century, and The 24 Hour Plays. Off-Broadway/Workshops: Damn Yankees, Altar Boyz, The Agony and the Agony, The Cartells, The Little Mermaid, Tale of Two Cities, Orpheus, The Great Gatsby, Illyria, Pretty Dead Girl,and Red Eye of Love. Film & TV: Oscar-nominated United 93, Curiosity, Hysteria, Photo Op, Family Practice, “Lipstick Jungle,” “Life on Mars,” and “Ugly Betty.” Cheyenne recently recordedthe album "THE POWER OF TWO" withMichael Feinstein.www.cheyennejackson.com

CHRISTOPHER FITZGERALD (Og) Broadway:  Young Frankenstein (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), Wicked, Amour (Drama Desk nomination).  Off-Broadway:  Gutenberg!  The Musical! (Actor’s Playhouse), Stairway to Paradise, Babes in Arms and Broadway Bash (Encores!), Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Lincoln Center), Fully Committed (Cherry Lane), Saturday Night (Second Stage, Drama Desk nomination), Wise Guys (NYTW), Corpus Christi (Manhattan Theatre Club) and The Cripple of Inishmaan (Public).  Regional:  The Beauty Queen of Lennane (Steppenwolf, Joseph Jefferson nomination), Springtime for Henry (Huntington Theater, IRNE Award), Ahmanson Theater, ACT and 10 seasons with The Williamstown Theater Festival.  TV:  Twins, The Electric Company.  Film:  Dedication, Brooks Project.

CHUCK COOPER (Bill) Tony Award:  The Life; ten other Broadway shows including Caroline, Or Change (Audelco Award), Lennon, Chicago, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me; three national tours, many Off-Broadway shows including Avenue X and Thunder Knocking on the Door (Audelco nomination).  Countless regional credits including Othello, Two Trains Running (San Diego Critics’ Circle Award).  TV:  Gossip Girl, Nurse Jackie, 3lbs, Without a Trace, Law & Order, SVU, 100 Centre Street (recurring), many more.  Film:  Noise, American Gangster, Find Me Guilty, Downtown, Requiem for a Dream, Our Song, The Hurricane, Gloria, The Peacemaker, The Juror and more.  Favorite role:  Eddie, Alex and Lilli’s father.

GUY DAVIS (Sunny) is a blues musician with nine albums on Red House Records. He
dedicates his performance to the late Sonny Terry who originated this role in 1947, and also to Bluesman Kenny Neal, from whom he’s stolen many harmonica secrets. You can find out more online at www.guydavis.com.

ALINA FAYE  (Susan Mahoney) is thrilled to be making her Broadway debut.  She is a NFAA Award winner and former member of American Ballet Theater.  Alina started her training with Diane East at the age of five.  She continues to perform internationally, became a Hellerwork practitioner, and was in the film 2081.  Love to my husband for his endless support.

BRIAN REDDY  (Sheriff) is a veteran actor of film, television, and theatre. Some credit highlights are: Bway: Gypsy, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, and Dinner at Eight. Other Theatre: Othello (Iago), Death Defying Acts, Work at The Guthrie, Arena Stage, and many others. Film:O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Casino, and The Birdcage. Numerous TV appearances, most notably “The High Talker" on Seinfeld.

 DAVID SCHRAMM  (Senator Rawkins) is best known as Roy Biggins from N.B.C’s Wings. B’way: London Assurance, Bedroom Farce, The Robber Bridegroom and The Misanthrope. Off- B’way: King Lear, The Cradle Will Rock and The Beard of Avon. Film: Let it Ride, Ragtime and Johnny Handsome. He also taught at U.C.L.A, University of Missouri and S.U.N.Y Colleges. He is among The Julliard School’s first Drama Division graduates and co-founder of John Houseman’s The Acting Company.

TERRI WHITE  (Dottie) It's so great to be back at The St. James, where I played Joice Heth in Barnum. FINIAN’S has a special place in my life. It is my first show (with my father) when I was 8. Off- Broadway: The Club (OBIE) TV/Film: Liza Live At Radio City, Nunsense I, II, Law and Order: CI. CD: Lady's Got To Sing. Other credits, go to Terriwhite.biz. Thank you universe!

WILLIAM YOUMANS (Buzz Collins, u/s Finian) original Broadway casts: Wicked, Big River, Titanic, Pirate Queen, Baz Luhrmann's La Boheme, The Farnsworth Invention, The Little Foxes (with Elizabeth Taylor). Off-Broadway: Sondheim's Road Show (Public);Coraline (MCC); Tony Kushner's Brundibar; Miracle Brothers (Vineyard); Horton Foote's The Widow Claire (Circle in the Square). Film: Mrs. Soffel, Compromising Positions, A League of Their Own. TV: Little Match Girl, Separate But Equal, Private History of a Campaign that Failed, Roanoak.

AARON BANTUM (u/s Henry, Diana) age 12, hails from Stamford, CT. Student of Stamford Performing Arts Center. Numerous on-camera roles, voiceovers & local theatre productions. Thrilled to be part of FINIAN’S cast making his Broadway debut. Thanks to McDonald/Selznick Associates, Jimmy Locust, Laura Menard. Specialthanks to my fabulous mom, Precious, & sister,Quanafor their support.

TANYA BIRL (Betty) Broadway Debut! Credits include: FINIAN’S RAINBOW, On The Town and The Wiz all at Encores!. West Side Story 50th Anniversary World Tour (West End); Lion King (1st National Tour). Love to Family. TBTG

CHRISTOPHER BORGER(Henry) age 13, from Wantagh, NY. Young Simba Disney’s Lion King Nat’l Tour, Internat’l, and B’way (Understudy). Film/TV: Grown Ups, BubbleGuppies. Performer Broadway Kids Organization. 2009 Long Island Got Talent Winner and Apollo Theatre Winner. Thanks Sinclair Management, Abrams Artists, Way-off-Broadway, Dominique Gizelle, Janine Molinari & Lisa Regina. Love you Mom, Dad and Alexi—thanks for the ENDLESS support! Friends, family, Traci, Orlando & Donna…thanks!

MEGGIE CANSLER (Meg) Broadway: Apple Tree, Wicked Tours: Wicked (u/s Galinda) Off-Broadway: FINIAN’S RAINBOW (Encores!); "Penny" in Hairspray (Muny); Dames At Sea (Ruby) American Heartland. BFA: CCM, Thanks to HC, Binder Casting, FINIAN’S team and family. LTM

BERNARD DOTSON (George, First Gospeleer, u/s Bill) Broadway: Chicago, Imaginary Friends (original cast), Sweet Smell Of Success, (original cast), Jesus Christ Superstar, (original revival) and Ragtime (original cast).

LESLIE DONNA FLESNER (Melinda, u/s Susan) Broadway debut! FSU MT grad c/o 08’. Off Broadway: FINIAN’S RAINBOW (Encores!). Regional: NSMT, Portland Center Stage, Ogunquit Playhouse, Seaside Music Theater, Central Piedmont. Love to Mom, Dad, Warren and Binder Casting!

SARA JEAN FORD (Arlene, u/s Sharon) Broadway: Phantom of the Opera (Christine on National Tour). Off- Broadway: The Fantasticks (Original Cast Recording). Chicago: Wicked. BFA- Carnegie Mellon. Love you family. Love you man.

TAYLOR FREY (Jack, White Geologist, u/s Woody)Broadway Debut! Nat’l Tour: Hairspray (Link Larkin). Regional: High School Musical! (Papermill); West Side Story (VMT). Thanks to the Rainbow Team, my family, and the Big Man upstairs. ETTE.

LISA GAJDA (Rose, u/s Susan) Broadway: Guys and Dolls, Pal Joey (u/s Gladys), Cry Baby (u/s Pepper and Mona), The Times They Are A-Changin’, Spamalot, Movin’ Out, Taboo, Urban Cowboy, Sweet Smell of Success (u/s Rita), Kiss Me Kate, Fosse, How to Succeed in Business, Tommy.

KEARRAN GIOVANNI ( Suzanne) Broadway: Chitty…Bang, Sweet Charity (Helene) Tarzan (Kala u/s) Guys/Dolls (Carmen). Tours: The Lion King (Nala u/s), Stormy Weather (Lena Horne) NYC: BARE, 3 Penny, Crybaby, Havana. Currently: ”Dr. Vivian Wright“ on One Life To Live. CCM Grad,to BRS,Philip, and Jordan.

TIM HARTMAN (Mr. Shears, John, u/s Finian) Broadway: Tale of Two Cities. Regional: LaMancha, Annie, Sound of Music, Les Miserable, Into the Woods, Henry IV, Shadowlands, Funny Girl, Beauty and the Beast. Film: Silence of the Lambs, the Piano Lesson, The Mothman Prophecies and The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. Tim is an award- winning storyteller and political cartoonist. www.timhartman.com

LAUREN LIM JACKSON (Swing, u/s Dottie) Off-Broadway: The Wiz (Encores!). Regional: Memphis (La Jolla, 5th Avenue), HSM2 (TOTS). West Side Story World Tour. Film/TV: Mrs. Santa Claus, Kidsongs. Harvard graduate! Thanks to Meg and family.

GRASAN KINGSBERRY (Swing, Asst. Dance Captain, u/s Sunny)Broadway: Aida, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Color Purple.Regional: White Noise (Le Petit Théâtre). Tour: The Color Purple. TV: Oprah Winfrey Show, David Letterman, GMA, All My Children. Film: I Am Legend. BFA from The Juilliard School. www.grasankingsberry.com

KEVIN LIGON (George, Mr. Robust, u/s Buzz Collins, Sheriff, Senator Rawkins) Broadway: Young Frankenstein, The Producers, Kiss Me, Kate, 1776, The Secret Garden. Off-B’way: Forbidden Broadway.National Tours: The Producers, Guys And Dolls.Three Encores! productions.

MONICA L. PATTON (Charlotte) Broadway:Abby's Song, original production of Ragtime. Off-B’way: Langston Hughes’ Jazzical, Little Ham. Encores!: Purlie, Applause, On The Town and FINIAN’S RAINBOW. Other: 30th anniversary nat’l tour of Annie, Joseph…, Cinderella, Ain't Misbehavin, Bubblin' Brown Sugar, Smokey Joes Café, Can Can. Many thanks to Harvey and Milla!

JOE AARON REID (Jesse, Black Geologist) Broadway: Curtains, Chicago. Off-Broadway: Tin Pan Alley Rag, Kismet, Finian's Rainbow. Regional: Paper Mill, NSMT, Ahmanson. Workshops: Legally Blonde. Television: Guiding Light, Tony Awards.

STEVE SCHEPIS (Sam, Deputy, u/s Og) Broadway Debut! On the Town (Encores!), West Side Story (Euro. Tour), Seven Brides (Sacramento), Oklahoma (Papermill). Thanks to friends and family.For Mom and Dad.

DEVIN RICHARDS (Eugene, Third Gospeleer, u/s Sunny) 11th Broadway Show. Appeared on TV, in many voiceovers & concerts. Just released his debut CD: My Own Voice. Always grateful to be working! www.devinrichards.com

RASHIDRA SCOTT (Dolores, u/s Dottie) Broadway: Avenue Q. Theatre: FINIAN’S RAINBOW (Encores!); Godspell (Muny); Little Shop…(STAGES); Hair (ATC); Walt Disney Ent. TV: Rescue Me (Sony/FX). BM Music Bus/Mgmt, Berklee College of Music. Thank God, Leading Artists and family.

BRIAN SEARS (u/s Woody/Og/Buzz/Sheriff) Broadway: Grease, All Shook Up. 1st Nat'l:All Shook Up (Dean). Regional/Workshops: Paper Mill, Marriott Lincolnshire, MTC, and the Vineyard. Love to J. For MG.

PAIGE SIMUNOVICH (Diana), 12 years old. Broadway debut.  Favorites:  Annie, The Wizard of Oz (MSG), Sound of Music, Children of Eden, Rugrats.  Film:  The Rebound, The Best and the Brightest.  Media:  The Letter Makers, Wonderpets.  Paige thanks Abrams Artists, Professional Children’s School, Janine, Amelia, Trapper, Yuka, Tammy, Ann, Orlando, Mom, Dad, Chelsea, Rachel, Anna and Smokey!

JAMES STOVALL (Willie, Preacher,Second Gospeleer, u/s Bill) Broadway: lead roles in Ragtime; The Life; Rocky Horror; Dreamgirls (Concert); Once…Island,  Sweet Charity; Big Deal. Off-Broadway: Dessa Rose (LCT); Stars in your Eyes (Cherry Lane); Romance in Hard Times (Public).

ELISA VAN DUYNE (Swing, u/s Sharon) Broadway: 42nd Street, Beauty and the Beast, 110 in the Shade. Regional: Ragtime (Kennedy Center); Grey Gardens (Theatreworks); Papermill, Walnut Street, Fulton Opera. Boston Conservatory graduate.

TYRICK WILTEZ JONES (Howard) credits include  Broadway's Hairspray, FINIAN'S RAINBOW (Encores), Seussical The Musical (1st. Natl.), Fosse (1st Internatl.), Show Boat (US Tour), & many others. Thanks to Binder Casting, HartigHilepo. Mom & Dad, I Love You!

BURTON LANE (Music) (1912-1997) began his career-in the 1920's. He had music in three Broadway shows when he was 17 years old.  When he was 21, Irving Berlin sent him to Hollywood to see if he could place a song in a movie. His collabarator then was Harold Adamson. It happened quickly. The song was "Everything I Have Is Yours" for a film starring Joan Crawford;  it was a big hit and he was signed by MGM. He stayed in Hollywood for many years and wrote with a notable collection of lyricists, including Frank Loesser, Yip Harburg. Alan Jay Lerner and Ira Gershwin. He wrote songs for more than 45 films, to become one of America's most distinguished composers of popular music. In the movie Royal Wedding, Fred Astaire famously dances on the ceiling to his "You're All The World To Me.”  He is also credited with discovering the 11 year-old Frances Gumm,  later to be known as Judy Garland. In addition to FINIAN’S RAINBOW , his Broadway scores include Earl Carroll's Vanities (1931), Hold On To Your Hats, Laffing RoomOnly, Carmelina and On A Clear Day You Can See Forever.

YIP HARBURG (Book & Lyrics) (1896–1981) One of America's greatest lyricists for stage and screen, Harburg was the son of poor Russian–Jewish immigrants and attended CCNY. Also a bookwriter (usually with Fred Saidy), director and poet, Harburg wrote lyrics for over 550 songs, including “It’s Only a Paper Moon” (with Harold Arlen), “April in Paris” (with Vernon Duke), and “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” (with Jay Gorney). His landmark musicals were Bloomer Girl (with Arlen) and FINIAN’S RAINBOW (with Burton Lane). Yip was final editor and wrote lyrics and continuity for the universally beloved film, The Wizard of Oz.

FRED SAIDY (Book) (1907–1982) was born in Los Angeles and educated in New York where he studied journalism at NYU. He began his theatrical career writing screenplays, including Star Spangled Rhythm, Meet the People and the Red Skelton comedy, I Dood It. With Yip Harburg, Mr. Saidy also wrote the books for the Broadway musicals Bloomer Girl, Flahooley, Jamaica and The Happiest Girl in the World. In 1968 he wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of FINIAN’S RAINBOW.

WARREN CARLYLE (Director and Choreographer) most recently directed and choreographed the highly acclaimed Encores! revival of FINIAN’S RAINBOW in March 2009. Selected additional New York credits: directed and choreographed A Tale of Two Cities (Broadway), choreographed On the Town, Juno, Stairway to Paradise (all Encores!); You Again (NY Fringe), Working (Zipper), The 24 Hour Musicals (Public Theater). Regional: Lucky Guy (Goodspeed), Mame (Kennedy Center), The Pirates of Penzance (Papermill; Goodspeed; Best Choreography, CT Critics Circle Award), The Baker’s Wife (Goodspeed). West End: Pageant. London: Sondheim’s Moving On. UK national tours of Me and My Girl (director/choreographer; Best Production 2007 Theater Goers Choice Award) and The Goodbye Girl; European tour of Scrooge. Film/television: Deception starring Hugh Jackman, Hope and Faith, An Evening at the Boston Pops (PBS), and Elton John’s Made in England video. Resident director and choreographer: Jolson (London, Toronto), Fosse (London), and Oklahoma! (London). Associate choreographer: The Producers (worldwide/film), Oklahoma! (Broadway), and Center Stage (film).

ROB BERMAN (Music Director) is currently in his third season as music director of Encores! where he has conducted productions of Music in the Air, Applause, Stairway to Paradise and the Summer Stars production of Damn Yankees. He is music supervisor of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, which he recently conducted on Broadway. Other Broadway credits include The Pajama Game and Wonderful Town. Last year he supervised and arranged the world premiere of The Gershwins’ An American in Paris. Rob won a Helen Hayes Award for his music direction of The Kennedy Center’s production of Sunday in the Park with George. He is also music director of the Kennedy Center Honors Orchestra.

JOHN LEE BEATTY (Set Design) has designed all 48 City Center Encores! presentations. His many Broadway designs include Doubt, The Color Purple, Proof, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Rabbit Hole, Sisters Rosensweig, Crimes of the Heart, Talley’s Folly, Fifth of July, How The Grinch Stole Christmas and the revivals of Chicago, The Heiress, A Delicate Balance, Dinner at Eight, Frankie and Johnny. A Tony®, Obie, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle award winner, he is a graduate of Brown University and Yale School of Drama, and is a member of the Theater Hall of Fame.

TONI-LESLIE JAMES (Costume Design) LCT: Bernarda Alba, Dessa Rose, Elegies, Marie Christine, A New Brain, God’s Heart, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Hello Again. Broadway: Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life; Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; One Mo’ Time; King Hedley II; Footloose; The Tempest (Drama Desk nomination); Twilight . . . Los Angeles 1992; Angels in America; Jelly’s Last Jam (American Theatre Wing Award, Tony® and Drama Desk nominations). Other venues: The Public Theater, Second Stage, City Center Encores!, Circle Rep., Hartford Stage, The Goodman Theater, The Mark Taper Forum, Seattle Rep., Berkley Rep., The Long Wharf Theatre, Center Stage, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera and The Huntington Theatre. Television and film: Whoopi, As the World Turns, The Huey P. Newton Story and A Tale of Two Pizzas.

KEN BILLINGTON (Lighting Design) has designed over 80 Broadway shows, including the current Chicago and the recent Sunday in the Park with George; the U.S. touring productions of Chicago, The Drowsy Chaperone, Disney’s High School Musical, Annie, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas and Riverdance, for which he is the lighting supervisor. Other projects include Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular for 26 seasons, Disneyland’s nighttime extravaganza Fantasmic! and Shamu Rocks at Sea World of Florida and San Diego. Among his many awards are the Tony®, Drama Desk, Los Angeles Drama Critics awards, as well as the Lumen for his architectural lighting.

SCOTT LEHRER (Sound Design) Broadway includes revivals of South Pacific (1st Tony for sound), Joe Turner… (Tony nom), Chicago, The Caretaker, Frankie and Johnny…, The Most Happy Fella and A Streetcar Named Desire; James Joyce’s The Dead, Angels in America, The Invention of Love, Prelude to a Kiss, Once on This Island, The Heidi Chronicles; and 30 Encores! Off B’way: Sondheim’s Saturday Night, Assassins, Sunday in the Park and Putting It Together, Franny’s Way (2002 Lortel Award), Isn’t It Romantic?, Falsettoland, Little Fish, A Perfect Ganesh, and Geniuses. Music production includes Hazmat Modine (Barbes), Last Forever (Nonesuch), Meredith Monk’s mercy (ECM) and Geoff Muldaur’s Private Astronomy (DG). Faculty: Bennington College.

WENDY PARSON (Hair, Wig and Make Up Design) Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors, Glengarry Glen Ross, Play What I Wrote, Long Day’s Journey, Ma Rainey, Our Town, Hollywood Arms, Elephant Man. Off-Broadway: Wig Out!, The Clean House, Bernard Alba, Dessa Rose, Little Fish, Second Hand Memory, Encores! Atlantic Theater Company, Ford’s Theatre, Bay Street, Hartford, Yale, Long Wharf.

ARTHUR PERLMAN (Book Adaptation) has been a Yip-o-phile since graduate school at NYU where he served as head of the Harburg Archive. With composer Jeff Lunden, he has written Wings (Goodman Theater, Joseph Papp Public Theater), which won the Lucille Lortel Award, Another Midsummer Night (Goodman Theater, Prince Music Theater) and Once on a Summer's Day (Ensemble Studio Theater), among others. They have also written several family musicals for Theatreworks, USA. Current projects include adaptations of Laura Esquivel's Swift as Desire and John Steinbeck's The Pearl (with composer Louis Rosen). Honors include the Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Award, Richard Rodgers Award and Jonathan Larson Theater Award. His favorite productions, with co-conceiver Claire Gutekunst, are Jason and Jeremy.

NEW YORK CITY CENTER one of New York City’s preeminent performing arts institutions, produces the Tony-honored Encores! series, Encores! Summer Stars, which was introduced with Gypsy starring Patti LuPone, and the acclaimed Fall for Dance Festival, and is home to some of the country’s leading companies, including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company and Manhattan Theatre Club.

JAY BINDER/NIKOLE VALLINS (Associate Producer, Casting)Jack Bowdan C.S.A., Mark Brandon & Sara Schatz C.S.A. have cast over 70 Broadway shows including Brighton Beach/Broadway Bound, A Chorus Line, Grease, Gypsy, 39 Steps, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Is He Dead?, Inherit The Wind, Journey’s End, Butley,Virginia Woolf, Sweet Charity, Wonderful Town, Movin’ Out, 42nd Street, Music Man, Iceman Cometh, The Lion King, Beauty & the Beast, Last Night of Ballyhoo, Chicago, King and I, Damn Yankees, Lost in Yonkers, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, Goodbye Girl and every City Center Encores! production since its inception in 1994. Film: Hairspray, Dreamgirls, Chicago, upcoming Nine. Eight–time Artios Award winner.

PARKER ESSE (Associate Choreographer) World Premiers:The Brand New Kid(Kennedy Center); andChristmas Carol 1941, Mystery of Irma Vep,A Light In the Piazza(Arena Stage).Associate/Assistant- Director/Choreographer:Tale Of Two Cities(Broadway);101 Dalmatians(National Tour);Stairway To Paradise, Juno, On The Town(Encores!);LuckyGuy(Goodspeed); Mame(Kennedy Center); Dancing In The Dark(Old Globe); Mack & Mabel(Shaw Festival); South Pacific, Camelot, Damn Yankees(ArenaStage); Film: Deception. Maria and Jaden- You are my rock!

SETH SKLAR-HEYN (Associate Director) has been associated with directors Michael Grandage, Phyllida Lloyd, Jack O’Brien, and Trevor Nunn on Broadway productions including Frost/Nixon (Broadway and US Tour), Mary Stuart, The Coast of Utopia and Rock’n’Roll, respectively. Graduate of Vassar College.

TRIPP PHILLIPS (Production Stage Manager). Credits include Pal Joey, Passing Strange, The Ritz, 42nd Street, Jersey Boys, White Christmas, Princesses, Swing!, Ring Round the Moon, Dream, The King and I, How to Succeed…, and A Christmas Carol on Broadway or the road; Purlie; Kismet; 70, Girls, 70; Of Thee I Sing and FINIAN’S RAINBOWfor Encores!; The Tin Pan Alley Rag, The Paris Letter, Lone Star Love, Oedipus and Once in a Lifetime off-Broadway. In memory of my father Norwood Phillips (1932-2008) and with much love to Mom, Suzanne and PCW.

JASON HINDELANG (Stage Manager) Broadway:Pal Joey, Passing Strange,The Ritz,The Coast of Utopia,Awake and Sing!. Off-Broadway:Apartment3A, Ivanov,Fat Pig. Regional:A Man for All Seasons,One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,The Night of the Iguana, Amadeus,It Goes Without Saying..., The Who's Tommy(all forBerkshire Theatre Festival).

THOMAS J. GATES (Assistant Stage Manager) Broadway: Hairspray, High Fidelity, Brooklyn-The Musical, Noises Off. Tours: White Christmas (Boston), Chicago, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Brooklyn – The Musical, Grease! Off-Broadway includes: Departure Lounge, Hamlet, Guardians, The Normal Heart. The Exonerated and The Irish…Got That Way! BFA: Niagara University. Thanks Tripp and Jason.

ROBERT RUSSELL BENNETT (Original Orchestrations) (1894-1981) arranged more than 300 Broadway musical scores. Among his credits were Show Boat; No, No, Nanette; Of Thee I Sing; Carmen Jones; Finian’s Rainbow; Kiss Me, Kate; My Fair Lady; and Camelot. He orchestrated seven of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s musicals, including Oklahoma!, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music; his arrangements for the 1955 film version of Oklahoma! earned him an Academy Award. He also arranged the orchestrated Rodgers’ 13-hour television documentary score for Victory At Sea. A classically trained composer, Bennett’s prolific output of original compositions includes symphonies, sonatas, a ballet, a concerto and an opera.

DON WALKER (Original Orchestrations) (1908-1989). In a remarkable career spanning six decades, Don Walker created orchestrations for over 90 Broadway musicals including On the Town, Carousel, Finian’s Rainbow, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Call Me Madam, Pal Joey, Wonderful Town, The Pajama Game, 70, Girls, 70, The Most Happy Fella, The Music Man, She Loves Me, Anyone Can Whistle, Fiddler on the Roof, Shenandoah, Damn Yankees, Flora, The Red Menace, Cabaret, The Happy Time and Zorba.

SEYMOUR RED PRESS (Music Coordinator)Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theater. Credits: over 100 shows from the original Gypsy through Dreamgirls, Nine, Noise/Funk, Elaine Stritch at Liberty, Anything Goes, Guys and Dolls, Carousel, Forum, Flower Drum Song, Passing Strange, The Color Purple. Screen credits include Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Birdcage and Paramount’s In and Out. An ASCAP composer, his playing career has segued from Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman to Leonard Bernstein. This season: Chicago, White Christmas, Hair, City Center’s Encores!

FRANKEL GREEN THEATRICAL MANAGEMENT (General Management) is currently general managing A Little Night Music, Burn the Floor and Rock of Agesin New York, Stomp in New York and ontour, Young Frankenstein on tourand The Rat Pack Live at the Sands on tour.Richard Frankel and Laura Greenhave managed more than 90 productions over the past 20 years in New York and ontour in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Previousproductions: Smokey Joe’s Cafe, The Sound of Music, The Weir, Swing!, The Producers, Hairspray, Little Shop of Horrors, Sweeney Todd, Company, Young Frankenstein, Gypsy and The Norman Conquests.

NEIL A. MAZZELLA/ HUDSON THEATRICAL ASSOCIATES (Technical Supervision)Recent: Superior Donuts, The Neil Simon Plays, reasons to be pretty, 9 to 5: The Musical, You’re Welcome America, Young Frankenstein, November, The Homecoming, and the Papal Visit: Mass at Yankee Stadium. HTA is a member of Neil’s Hudson family which includes Hudson Scenic Studio and Hudson/Christie Lighting. Joining Neil on the HTA team is Sam Ellis, Pat Sullivan and Irene Wang.

RICHARD KORNBERG & ASSOCIATES (Press Representative) represents FINIAN’S RAINBOW, FELA!, New York Theatre Workshop, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, PS 122, Les Freres Corbusier, KEEN Company, The Joyce Theater, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet and MOMIX. Past productions include Hairspray, Rent, American Buffalo, Little Dog Laughed, I Am My Own Wife, Death of a Salesman..

DAVID RICHENTHAL (Producer) On Broadway: I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright, directed by Moises Kaufman, starring Jefferson Mays (Tony®, Pulitzer and Drama Desk Awards for Best New Play); Marc Salem’s Mind Games on Broadway; Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day's Journey Into Night, directed by Robert Falls, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Dennehy, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robert Sean Leonard (Tony® and Drama Desk Awards for Best Revival of a Play); Arthur Miller's The Crucible, directed by Richard Eyre, starring Liam Neeson and Laura Linney; Arthur Miller's The Price, directed by James Naughton, starring Harris Yulin and Jeffrey DeMunn; Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, directed by Robert Falls, starring Brian Dennehy (Tony® and Drama Desk Awards for Best Revival of a Play); Noel Coward's Present Laughter, starring Frank Langella; The Young Man From Atlanta by Horton Foote, directed by Robert Falls, starring Rip Torn and Shirley Knight (Pulitzer Prize for Best Play); The Kentucky Cycle, directed by Warner Shook, starring Stacy Keach (Pulitzer Prize for Best Play); Mrs. Klein by Nicholas Wright, starring Uta Hagen; Remembrance, starring Milo O'Shea and Frances Sternhagen; and Conor McPherson's Dublin Carol by special arrangement with the Atlantic Theater Company. On the West End: The Female of the Species by Joanna Murray-Smith, directed by Roger Michell, starring Eileen Atkins; Death of a Salesman starring Brian Dennehy and Clare Higgins; I Am My Own Wife starring Jefferson Mays; and co-produced the world premiere of David Mamet's The Cryptogram and Katherine Burger's Morphic Resonance. Motion pictures include The Other Man, co-written and directed by Richard Eyre, starring Liam Neeson, Laura Linney and Antonio Banderas; Tape, directed by Richard Linklater, starring Uma Thurman, Ethan Hawke and Robert Sean Leonard; and Death of a Salesman, starring Brian Dennehy for the Showtime Network.

JACK VIERTEL (Producer) has been creative director of Jujamcyn Theaters since 1987, overseeing the development of new projects for the company's five Broadway theaters. Beginning with the original production of Into The Woods, M Butterfly, he has been instrumental in bringing many new plays, musicals and revivals to Jujamcyn’s theaters, including Angels In America, Jerry Zaks’s legendary production of Guys And Dolls, Grand Hotel, City Of Angels, Jelly's Last Jam, the Brian Dennehy production of Death Of A Salesman, The Beauty Queen Of Leenane, Proof, Doubt, and six plays of August Wilson’s ten-play Century Cycle . He is a co-producer and co-conceiver of the longest running musical revue in Broadway history, Smokey Joe's Cafe, and served as the dramaturg for Hairspray. Since 2000 he has also been the Artistic Director of the City Center Encores! series of great American musicals in concert, which recently produced FINIAN’S RAINBOW, On The Town, Follies, Face The Music, Stairway To Paradise, and Gypsy with Patti LuPone. He is also the author of the book for the musical Time And Again, based on Jack Finney's novel. He began his career playing National steel-bodied bottleneck guitar behind Bonnie Raitt, the Pointer Sisters, and Son House, spent two years as the dramaturg of the Mark Taper Forum, in Los Angeles, and was the chief theater critic and arts editor of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner.

ALAN D. MARKS (Producer) is the Chairman of the Proscenium Group, producers and backers of theatre in New York and London. Broadway: Desire Under the Elms, directed by Robert Falls; Blithe Spirit, with Angela Lansbury, directed by Michael Blakemore; Speed-the-Plow, directed by Neil Pepe. Off-Broadway: Tina Howe's Chasing Manet, directed by Michael Wilson; Buffalo Gal by A.R. Gurney; and Donald Margulies’ Shipwrecked! An Entertainment/The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougement (As Told by Himself). Regional: Unusual Acts of Devotion by Terrence McNally. West End: Fat Pig by Neil LaBute. Alan is also the Treasurer and a trustee of Primary Stages, a major off-Broadway theater company, now celebrating its 25th anniversary season. Prior to launching his theatre career, Alan was a senior executive on Wall Street, running a major global capital markets operation. Presently, Alan is also the managing partner of Proscenium Partners, a New York-based real estate development company. Alan and his wife, Barbara, a theatre actress, co-founded the Proscenium Players to produce cutting-edge play readings in Westchester and Connecticut.

MICHAEL SPEYER (Producer) is co-founder and co-president of StageVentures Inc., a leading Canadian financier of Broadway shows.  Credits include: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Chita Rivera: the Dancer’s Life, Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, and Peepshow. In addition he has successfully produced and financed motion pictures and television shows for over twenty years.

BERNARD ABRAMS (Producer) As co-founder and co-president of Stageventures Inc., an innovative Broadway financier, he has producing credits that include the Broadway productions of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Chita Rivera: The Dancers Life, Dr. Seuss: The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.  Producer credits also include Peep Show Las Vegas.  In addition to the Broadway production credits, he was involved in a myriad of production financing of television and film in Canada over the last 20 years. 

DAVID MILCH (Producer) is a 1980 graduate of Harvard Medical School and a venture capitalist. He is a trustee of The New Group theater and has invested in Avenue Q, In The Heights and West Side Story. FINIAN'S RAINBOW is his first producing credit on Broadway.      

STEPHEN MOORE (Producer) credits as a performer include Bob Fosse's Dancin (Broadway), A Chorus Line, Cats, Phantom of the Opera, and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (film). FINIAN'S RAINBOW is Mr. Moore's Broadway producing debut. 

DEBBIE BISNO (Producer) B'way: Hair, Speed the Plow, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Crucible; Off-B'way: Family Secrets.  Co-Founder-Producing Dir., Roadworks Productions in Chicago '92-99. Film: BBC’s Inside the Nazi State, Michael Jordan to the Max; PULSE: A STOMP Odyssey. Co-Producer of Steppenwolf Theatre’s 25th Anniversary, The Moth, Joshua Bell in Warsaw. Board of Directors, Yale Cabaret. 

MYLA LERNER (Producer) FINIAN'S RAINBOW is Myla's first foray into Broadway producing though she has been a fan and supporter of numerous theaters and non-profits on both coasts.  She was co-owner of an event planning firm in San Francisco and president of an educational consulting firm.

MELLY GARCIA (Associate Producer) a product of New York’s High School of Performing Arts and SUNY Purchase as a theatre major, Melly is also a producer with Jeff Ash of the new play by Kelly Masterson, Against the Rising Sea.  Follow your dream. 

JON BIERMAN (Associate Producer) makes his producing debut after a 27 year run in theatre advertising, representing such Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning plays as Proof, Driving Miss Daisy, The Last Night of Ballyhoo and Journey’s End, among others.

JUJAMCYN THEATERS (Producer) owns and operates the St. James, Al Hirschfeld, August Wilson, Eugene O'Neill and Walter Kerr theatres. The company is currently represented on Broadway by Hair, Jersey Boys, FELA! and A Little Night Music.  Jujamcyn is owned by Rocco Landesman and Jordan Roth. Visit www.jujamcyn.com  and www.givenik.com

KEVIN SPIRTAS (Associate Producer) is a 25 year veteran of acting on Broadway, in films, and on television, FINIAN'S RAINBOW marks Mr. Spirtas’s Broadway debut as a producer.

JAMIE DEROY (Associate Producer) Credits include: Ragtime, Norman Conquests  (TONY), Blithe Spirit, Impressionism, Speed-the-Plow, All My Sons, The Seagull, Thurgood, Country Girl, November, Coram Boy, Chita Rivera,  Buffalo Gal, Beebo Brinker, Make Me a Song, Dividing the Estate, Opus, Spalding Gray, Indian Blood, Dedication, Complete Works…, Broadway: The Golden Age. 

RICHARD DRIEHAUS (Associate Producer) is founder of Driehaus Capital Management and Chairman of Driehaus Securities. He has focused his attention on a variety of philanthropic and community-service projects through the The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation which sponsors awards for excellence in community and non-profit housing design. He founded the Richard H. Driehaus Museum, preserving Chicago’s historic Nickerson Mansion. www.driehausmuseum.org 

ANDREW HARTMAN (Associate Producer) makes his Broadway producing debut with FINIAN'S RAINBOW. Currently a student at Duke University, he is a graduate of Saint Ann’s School (NYC), where he studied play production for seven years. Member of Second Stage Theatre’s 2009 Summer Leadership Forum. Off-Broadway: Everyday Rapture and Vanities (both at 2ST). 

NICOLE KASTRINOS (Executive Producer) Broadway: A Bronx Tale, August Wilson’s Radio Golf. Nicole is the associate creative director of Jujamcyn Theaters, which owns and operates five theaters on Broadway.