(Ms. Nina) Broadway: The Lion King (Simba); Wicked (Fiyero). Off-Broadway: Miracle Brothers (Vineyard Theatre). LA/1st National Tour: Rent (Benny, Australian Tour); Grease (Teen Angel); Smokey Joe`s Café (Victor); Regional: Godspell (North Shore, “Judas”); Ragtime (MUNY); Pippin (Papermill). TV&Film: Law & Order; Making The Band Season 1; The Oprah Winfrey Show; The Tonight Show; Side Effects; Whirlwind. Upcoming recording. www.myspace.com/cliftonolivermusic.

(Stage Manager) Off-Broadway Stage Management credits: People Are Wrong!, Beautiful Child, Funky Ceili workshop (Vineyard Theatre), Hot ‘N’ Throbbing (Signature Theatre), Savannah Bay (Classic Stage Company), Light Years (Playwrights Horizons). Other SM credits: Peter Pan, Oliver Twist, The Mystery of King Tut (Theatreworks USA). Other New York production credits include Beckett/Albee (Century Center), The Argument, Where Do We Live (Vineyard Theatre), The Winters Tale (Classic Stage Company), Chinese Friends, Juvenilia, I Am My Own Wife, Franny’s Way, Breath Boom!, Lobster Alice (Playwrights Horizons). Regional credits include Goodspeed Opera House and five seasons with the Georgia Shakespeare Festival.

(Production Stage Manager) National Tours: Proof, The Phantom of the Opera. West Coast Tours: Take Me Out (directed by Joe Mantello), Topdog/Underdog (George C. Wolfe, director). Regional: seven seasons at Seattle Repertory Theatre including The Constant Wife, The Time of Your Life (directed by Tina Landau), The Triumph of Love (Stephen Wadsworth, director), When Grace Comes In, Spinning Into Butter, In Real Life (World Premiere directed by Daniel Sullivan), Jar the Floor, Wit, Sisters Matsumoto (World Premiere directed by Sharon Ott), and Nixon’s Nixon. Also, American Conservatory Theatre, Alley Theatre, Missouri Repertory Theatre, ACT Theatre (Seattle), Pittsburgh Public Theatre and Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Industrials: Microsoft, Seattle Mariners and Apple Computer.

(Lighting Design) New York: Topdog/Underdog (Broadway), Lincoln Center, Public Theater, Theater for a New Audience, Manhattan Theater Club, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theater Workshop, Signature, Classic Stage Company, among others. He has also designed extensively at Regional theaters throughout the U.S. International: includes productions in London, Edinburgh, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Berlin, Zurich, Vienna, Adelaide, Singapore, Luang Prabang, and Fukuoka. Dance: includes The Joyce, Kennedy Center, American Dance Festival, American Ballet Theatre, National Ballet of Canada, San Francisco, Boston and Kansas City Ballets. Opera: New York City, Houston, Minnesota, Toronto, Pittsburgh, Arizona, and Berkshire Operas, Opera Colorado, Spoleto USA, Brooklyn Academy of Music, among others.

(Costume Design) Recently designed costumes for: Beast On The Moon (Century Center Theatre), Raw Boys (Wilma), Coriolanus and Svejk (TFANA). Tibet Through a Red Box (SCT), Anna in the Tropics (Broadway), Aladdin for Disneyland, Steve Reich’s Three Tales International tour, Orphan of Chao Lincoln Center, Snow in June (ART), and Peach Blossom Fan (Frank Gehry Museum Center). Opera: Les Troyens and Cyrano (MET), Fidelio And Die Walkure (Washington Opera), Arsace II (San Francisco Opera); Madame Butterfly (Houston Grand Opera and Grand Theatre de Geneve); Ainadamar (Tanglewood), Der Fliegende Hollander, and The Silver River (Spoleto Festival). Upcoming: Der Ring Des Nibelungen at Washington Opera and San Francisco Opera, The Gambler at Opera Zuid, Holland.

(Set Design) G.W. Mercier is privileged to work at the Vineyard where previous shows include: People Are Wrong!, Eli’s Comin’, Dream True (Drama Desk Nomination), True History and Real Adventures, You Don’t Miss the Water, The Waiting Room, Bed & Sofa (Drama Desk Nomination), Por’ Knockers, Lady Bracknell’s Confinement, The Pary, and Hannah,1939. For Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass at the Vivian Beaumont, he was honored to receive a Tony Nomination for Scenery; as well as two Drama Desk Nominations for Scenery and Costumes. Current NY work includes Five Course Love at the Minetta Lane. Regionally, A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Long Wharf in Connecticut, Measure for Measure at the Denver Center, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chao for Portland Stage and San Jose Rep, Vigil and Splitting Infinity for Geva Theatre, A Christmas Carol at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, and Flock which he wrote and directed for Dell’Arte in Blue Lake, CA. While working in film, television, opera, dance, musical theatre, as well as plays, over 350 of his set, costume, and puppet designs have been realized. He thrives in collaboration with significant writers, composers, directors, partner designers, and actors creating original work or making established shows seem new. G.W. Mercier and his family live in Connecticut.

(Orchestration) orchestrated and co-composed George C. Wolfe’s musicals Bring in ‘Da Noise/Bring in ‘Da Funk and Harlem Song. He composed the music for Charlayne Woodard’s one-woman show, In Real Life and Regina Taylor’s productions, Drowning Crow and The Dreams of Sarah Breedlove. He is Eartha Kitt’s music director. Mr. Waters is a music graduate of Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina.

(Choreography) Artistic Director of Mark Dendy Dance and Theater from 1983 to 2000, touring the world and performing in NYC at The Joyce Theater, Lincoln Center, Dance Theater Workshop and Performance Space 122. Recipient of the 2000 Alpert Award in the Arts, numerous National Endowment, NYSCA and foundation fellowships, and the 1997 New York Dance and Performance Award, “The Bessie” for sustained achievement with his company. Broadway: Taboo, The Pirate Queen (upcoming). Off-Broadway: The Wild Party (Lippa, MTC), 2000 Obie Award, Joseph Calloway Award, Drama Desk Nomination, best choreography. Regional: Baptiste, The Dybbuk, Hartford Stage. Camille, Goodspeed. Carnivale at Radio City Music Hall (Graciella Danielle). The Magic Flute at The Metropolitan Opera (Julie Taymor).

Kirsten Childs (Playwright/Composer) is the award-winning writer of the musicals The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin, Miracle Brothers, Fly (with Rajiv Joseph and Bill Sherman), Funked Up Fairy Tales, The Edge of Night (a Playwrights Horizons SoundStage musical podcast, directed by Awoye Timpo) and Bella: An American Tall Tale (directed by Robert O’Hara). Bella received its world premiere in the 2016-2017 season at Dallas Theater Center, with a co-production at Playwrights Horizons. Bubbly Black Girl was recently produced at Theatre Royal Stratford East in the UK and at City Centers Encores! Off-Broadway. For her work, Kirsten has received Obie, Kleban, Larson, Richard Rodgers, Audelco and Gilman/Gonzalez-Falla awards, as well as Lortel and Drama Desk nominations. Kirsten has written for Disney Theatricals, the American Songbook series at Lincoln Center, the New Electric Company, City Center Encores!, Works and Process @ Guggenheim Museum, and Premieres/Inner Voices. She is an adjunct professor in NYU’s Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program and a member of the Dramatists Guild Council.

(Rancor) Broadway Original Casts: Wicked – Dr. Dillamond, Baz Luhrmann’s La Boheme – Alcindoro, Titanic, Big River, Little Foxes (with Elizabeth Taylor). Off-Broadway: Henry V (NYSF), Widow Claire (by Horton Foote), Weird Romance (by Alan Menken), Flux (Public Theatre), Orphan of Zhao (Lincoln Center Theater), Bombs Over Baghdad (Lincoln Center at HERE). Film: Mrs. Soffel (Diane Keaton, Mel Gibson), Nadine (Robert Benton), Compromising Positions, Fresh Horses, A League of Their Own. TV: Little Match Girl, Separate But Equal, Private History of a Campaign…, NYPD Blue, Law and Order, Law and Order SVU, and others.

(Maroto) Gregory Treco, originally from Nassau, Bahamas, is most excited to be back on stage. (You have no idea!) Gregory created the role of Zanna in Zanna, Don’t! and made his Broadway debut last season in Rosie O’Donnell’s Taboo in which he played the Producer and understudied Boy George. Most recently, Gregory played Che in Evita at the Gateway Playhouse; starring the wonderful Lisa Brescia. He would like to thank his family: (Dad, Mom, Eb, Math and Danielle; Hero for everything, Mark Dendy, Kirsten Childs, and Tina Landau for their inspiring vision). Enjoy the show. Really.

(Henrique) Broadway: The Life, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Carousel, Victor/Victoria, Seussical, Jesus Christ Superstar, Wonderful Town. Tour: Starlight Express, Joseph and the Amazing….. Regional: Dracula, Sound of Music, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Orphans, Hamlet. TV: Jamie Kennedy Experiment, Law and Order, Another World, Passion (by Stephen Sondheim): Live at Lincoln Center, Great Performances. More info: www.devinrichards.com

(Jeca) Broadway: Brooklyn the Musical, Rent. Regional: Children of Eden (Ford’s Theatre). TV: All My Children, As The World Turns. This is for Matthew. Nil Magnum Nisi Bonum.

A recipient of the Princess Grace Choreography Fellowship Award, Moultrie’s select credits include SUGAR IN OUR WOUNDS (MTC), INVISIBLE THREAD (Second Stage Theater), EVITA (Kansas City Rep), WITNESS UGANDA (American Repertory Theatre), EL PUBLICO (Teatro Real; Madrid, Spain). Darrell’s work has been performed by ballet and modern companies throughout the United States and around the world. Moultrie was selected by Grammy Award winning artist Beyoncé as a choreographer on her record-breaking Mrs. Carter Show world tour. A proud New Yorker, born and raised in Harlem, Moultrie is a graduate of LaGuardia High School and The Juilliard School.

(Fernando) Tyler Maynard hails from New Carlisle, Ohio… a far cry from Brazil. Tyler recently played Mark in Altar Boyz where he received nominations for the Drama Desk Award, the Lucille Lortel Award and won a Theater World Award. Other New York credits include Mamma Mia, Bye Bye Birdie (Encores), and the National Tour of Disney’s On the Record. Tyler also can be seen in Palindromes, a new Todd Solondz film and Red Doors. He would like to thank his home-dog, Washington, for pushing him, and his Miracle Sisters, Ashley and Brooke.

(Ginga) Broadway: Dangerous Games. Off-Broadway: Carmen in Fame, Princess Katherine/Boy in Henry V (starring Liev Schreiber)/NYSF, Ukimwi/EST, Crumbs from the Table of Joy/Second Stage, Bring in the Morning/Variety Arts. Regional: Nefertiti (starring)/Parker Playhouse, Limonade Tous Les Jours (w/Alan Alda)/Bay Street, Betsey Brown/Crossroads, Conrack/Fords Theatre. TV: Shining Time Station (w/Ringo Star), The Babysitter’s Club/HBO-Disney series, MOW: The Vernon Johns Story and Summertime Switch, Guest & recurring roles: Law & Order: Trial by Jury & SVU, Third Watch, NYPD Blue, The Cosby Show, Clarissa Explains it All. Film: Tales From the Darkside, The Life, Someone Like You. Education: Brown University, BA in Linguistic Anthropology.

(Juan) Anika Larsen comes to the Vineyard from the cast of All Shook Up. She created the role of Roberta in the Off-Broadway musical Zanna, Don’t!, for which she was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award. She has performed with the Broadway and touring companies of Rent. Anika continues to develop her one-woman show, Shafrika, The White Girl, about growing up with 9 brothers and sisters of different races and nationalities. She majored in theater at Yale University, and she is a proud member of Actor’s Equity.

(Lascivio/Xavier) Broadway: A Year with Frog and Toad, Angels in America, The Play’s the Thing, Sex and Longing. Off-Broadway: A Letter from Ethel Kennedy (MCC Theater), The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Gross Indecency, and Shopping and Fucking (NYTW) and at PUBLIC/NYSF: Pericles, Othello, The Merchant of Venice. National Tour: “Cliff” in Roundabout’s Cabaret. Regional: The Dying Gaul, The Singing Forest, Three Sisters (Intiman). Other: The Shakespeare Theatre/D.C, Williamstown Theatre Festival and Ghosts opposite Joanne Woodward (Woodstock River Arts). Film/TV: A Year with Frog and Toad (PBS), 54, Girl 6, Ethan Frome, Breaking and Entering, Over Here (BBC), Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and One Life to Live. Jay is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and Yale School of Drama.

(Felicidade) Original Broadway Cast: The Who’s Tommy (Acid Queen), Play On (Vy), The Civil War (Bessie – Drama Desk & Outer Critics Circle Nominations). Off–Broadway: Fame on 42nd Street (Ms. Sherman), Living in the Wind (Sarah) – American Place Theater. Regional: A Night in Tunisia (George Street Playhouse) Constant Star (Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Hartford Arena Stage), Slide Glide the Slippery Slope (ATL Humana Festival). Film & TV: Disney’s Animated Feature & Cartoon Series Hercules (Muse-Melpomere), Fresh, Dead Presidents, Dear Diary (Oscar for Best Short), New York Undercover, Prince Street, One Life to Live, Miracle Boys, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

(Isabel) Broadway: Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors (Outer Critics Nom), Penny in Hairspray (Clarence Derwent Award, Outer Critics and Drama Desk Nom.), Belle in Beauty and the Beast (Dora Nom.), Eponine in Les Miserables, Ms. Jones in Blood Brothers. Off-Broadway: Shelley in BatBoy, Maddy in Prodigal, EST marathon, workshops of The Man in the White Suit, Amore, and Bright Lights, Big City. Television: Fox pilot Twins, Second Honeymoon (CBS movie), One Life to Live. Film: Borough of Kings, and Campfire Stories. Cast recordings: Little Shop (revival), Hairspray, BatBoy, Prodigal.

(Director) Tina Landau is a writer/director whose original pieces include Theatrical Essays (Steppenwolf), Beauty (La Jolla Playhouse), Space (NYSF/Public, Taper, Steppenwolf), Floyd Collins (Playwrights Horizons, Goodman, Old Globe, AMTF), Dream True (Vineyard Theatre), States of Independence (AMTF), Stonewall (En Garde Arts) and 1969 (Humana Festival).  Other productions include Midsummer Night’s Dream (McCarter/Papermill), Miracle Brothers (Vineyard), Bells are Ringing (B’way), Saturn Returns (Public), Orestes and Trojan Women (En Garde), as well as Cherry Orchard, Time of Your Life, and many other productions at Steppenwolf theater in Chicago where she is an ensemble member.  Tina has written, with Anne Bogart, The Viewpoints Book.