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ALICE WALKER (Original Author)
MARSHA NORMAN (Bookwriter)
BRENDA RUSSELL (Composer/Lyricist)
ALLEE WILLIS (Composer/Lyricist)
STEPHEN BRAY (Composer/Lyricist)
GARY GRIFFIN (Director)
DONALD BYRD (Choreographer)
JOHN LEE BEATTY (Set Design)
PAUL TAZEWELL (Costume Designer)
BRIAN MacDEVITT (Lighting Design)
JON WESTON (Sound Design)
BERNARD TELSEY CASTING, C.S.A. (Casting)
JONATHAN TUNICK (Orchestrations)
KEVIN STITES (Music Supervisor/Incidental Music Arrangements)
JOSEPH JOUBERT (Additional Arrangements)
LINDA TWINE (Music Director)
CHARLES G. LaPOINTE (Hair Design)
ANGELINA AVALLONE (Make-up Design)
DARYL WATERS (Dance Music Arranger)
SEYMOUR RED PRESS (Music Coordinator)
ARTHUR SICCARDI (Production Management)
KRISTEN HARRIS (Production Stage Manager)
GLYNN DAVID TURNER (Stage Manager)
NEVEEN MAHMOUD (Assistant Stage Manager)
NINA LANNAN ASSOCIATES (General Manager)
OPRAH WINFREY (Producer)
SCOTT SANDERS (Lead Producer)
ROY FURMAN (Producer)
QUINCY JONES (Producer)
ANNA FANTACI & CHERYL LACHOWICZ (Producer)
INDEPENDENT PRESENTERS NETWORK (Producer)
DAVID LOWY (Producer)
STEPHANIE P. McCLELLAND (Producer)
GARY WINNICK (Producer)
JAN KALLISH (Producer)
BOB AND HARVEY WEINSTEIN (Producers)
NEDERLANDER PRESENTATIONS, INC. (Producer)
ANDREW ASNES & ADAM ZOTOVICH (Producer)
TODD JOHNSON (Producer)
ALLIANCE THEATRE (Original Production)
Alice Walker (Original Author) won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for her third novel, The Color Purple, which was made into an internationally popular film by Steven Spielberg. Her other best-selling novels, which have been translated into more than two dozen languages, include By the Light of My Father’s Smile, Possessing the Secret of Joy and The Temple of My Familiar. Her most recent fiction work, Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, was published in 2004. Ms. Walker is also the author of several collections of short stories, essays and poems as well as children’s books. Her work has appeared in numerous national and international journals and magazines. An activist and social visionary, Ms. Walker has been a participant in most of the major movements of planetary change, among them the human and civil rights movement in the South, the hands off Cuba movement, the women’s movement, the Native American and indigenous rights movement, the free South Africa movement, the environmental and animal rights movement and the peace movement. Her advocacy on behalf of the dispossessed has, in the words of her biographer, Evelyn C. White, “spanned the globe.” Back to top
Marsha Norman (Bookwriter) won the Pulitzer Prize for her play, ‘night, Mother and a Tony Award for her book of the Broadway musical, The Secret Garden. Ms. Norman is co- chair, with Christopher Durang, of the Playwriting Department of the Juilliard School and vice president of the Dramatists Guild of America. Her other plays include Getting Out, Traveler in the Dark, Sarah and Abraham, Trudy Blue and Last Dance. Her published work includes Four Plays, Vol. I: Collected Plays of Marsha Norman and a novel, The Fortune Teller. She has numerous film and TV credits, Grammy and Emmy nominations, and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the Fellowship of Southern Writers. She is a native of Kentucky who lives in New York City and Long Island with her two children. Back to top
Brenda Russell (Composer/Lyricist). Brooklyn-born singer/songwriter Brenda Russell’s music has touched fans on a global scale through millions of albums sold and songs heard on airwaves around the world. Author of “Piano in the Dark,” “If Only for One Night” and the anthem “Get Here,” Brenda has written for or collaborated with superstars such as Sting; Mary J. Blige; Stevie Wonder; Chaka Khan; Tina Turner; Donna Summer; Michael McDonald; Ray Charles; Earth, Wind & Fire; Luther Vandross; Diana Ross; and Patti LaBelle, among many others. Nominated for three Grammys for 1988’s pop classic “Piano in the Dark,” Brenda’s compositions have also won Grammys for other artists. She has recorded eight solo albums since 1979, with her most recent, Between the Sun and the Moon, released in 2004. Brenda’s songwriting talent has been featured on television and in films such as How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Barry Levinson’s Liberty Heights. www.brendarussell.com Back to top
Allee Willis (Composer/Lyricist) has sold 50 million records, including Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September” and “Boogie Wonderland,” the Pointer Sisters’ “Neutron Dance” and Pet Shop Boys with Dusty Springfield’s “What Have I Done to Deserve This?” Willis won a Grammy for Best Soundtrack for Beverly Hills Cop and was nominated for an Emmy for “I’ll Be There for You,” the theme from “Friends.” She’s also an award-winning artist, set designer, interactive-multimedia artist, writer and director. With Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner she created lilytomlin.com, a nonlinear exploration of their Tony-winning The Search for Signs…. She’s also consulted for Intel, Microsoft, AOL and Disney and addressed the U.S. House of Representatives on cyberspace. As her alter-ego, Bubbles the artist, Willis has sold more than 1,000 artworks. She co-created and designed two animated series, “Fat Girl” and “Driving While Black,” which contain the only previous scores of Russell, Willis and Bray. Back to top
Stephen Bray (Composer/Lyricist) is thrilled to be making his Broadway debut with The Color Purple. After beginning music studies with private instruction in Detroit, Bray continued training at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Working with Madonna, he wrote and produced many of her top-ten recordings, including “Angel,” “Into the Groove,” “Papa Don’t Preach,” “True Blue” and “Express Yourself.” Performing with Breakfast Club, he earned a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist and a top-ten single. He has composed and produced for multiplatinum artists including The Jets, Gladys Knight and Kylie Minogue. Film and television projects include Beverly Hills Cop II, Who’s That Girl?, All About the Benjamins and the theme for PBS’s “California Connected.” Stephen is developing artists for his Soultone label and looks forward to more musical theatre. He would like to thank his daughter Milena for her eternal patience and his family for their continuing support. Back to top
Gary Griffin (Director) is making his Broadway debut with The Color Purple. He directed the world premiere production at the Alliance Theatre last year. Gary’s production of Pacific Overtures was seen at London’s Donmar Warehouse and received the Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Production. In New York Gary has directed The Apple Tree, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Pardon My English and The New Moon for City Center Encores! and Beautiful Thing at the Cherry Lane Theatre. He is associate artistic director of Chicago Shakespeare Theatre where he has directed A Little Night Music and Sunday in the Park With George. His production of My Fair Lady played both the McCarter Theatre and Hartford Stage last season after its debut at Chicago’s Court Theatre. Gary has received eight Joseph Jefferson Awards for directing and has twice been named a Chicagoan of the Year in the Arts by the Chicago Tribune. Back to top
Donald Byrd (Choreographer) is currently the artistic director of Spectrum Dance Theater in Seattle. Prior, he was the artistic director of Donald Byrd/The Group, a critically acclaimed and highly regarded contemporary dance company based in New York that toured extensively, both nationally and internationally. He is probably best known for his reworking of the Christmas classic, The Nutcracker, into The Harlem Nutcracker, which received critical acclaim and toured nationally for five years. He has also choreographed for numerous stage productions and dance companies including work at the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, San Francisco Opera and New York City Opera, as well as collaborations with contemporary theatre artists Anna Deavere Smith and Peter Sellars and the jazz great Max Roach. Received a 1992 Bessie Award for The Minstrel Show. Back to top
John Lee Beatty (Set Design). Broadway: The Odd Couple, Doubt, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Wonderful Town, The Rivals, Chicago, Tartuffe, Dinner at Eight, Proof, Frankie and Johnny…, Morning’s at Seven, Major Barbara, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, The Little Foxes, Anna Christie, A Delicate Balance, The Heiress, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, The Most Happy Fella, The Sisters Rosensweig, Burn This, Penn & Teller (twice), Ain’t Misbehavin’ (twice), Talley’s Folly, Fifth of July, Loot, Crimes of the Heart, among others. Off-Broadway: The Paris Letter, Sylvia, Substance of Fire, Road to Mecca, Song of Singapore, A Life in the Theatre and many seasons at Lincoln Center, Circle Rep and City Center’s Encores! Tony, Obie, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards; Theatre Hall of Fame. Graduate of Brown and the Yale School of Drama. Back to top
Paul Tazewell (Costume Designer). NYC: Caroline, or Change; A Raisin in the Sun; Drowning Crow, Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk (Tony nom.); Elaine Stritch at Liberty; On the Town; McReele (Roundabout); Flesh and Blood (NYTW); Fame on 42nd Street; and Harlem Song. Mr. Tazewell has designed extensively for the Joseph Papp Public Theater and for regional theatre, opera and dance companies around the country. Mr. Tazewell has received many awards for his work including the Lucille Lortel Award, three Helen Hayes Awards and the 2005 Princess Grace Foundation Statue Award. This show dedicated to Mom and Emma. Back to top
Brian MacDevitt (Lighting Design). Broadway: Absurd Person Singular; The Pillowman (Tony Award); Sweet Charity; Good Vibrations; Pacific Overtures; ‘night, Mother; A Raisin in the Sun; Match; Fiddler on the Roof; Henry IV; The Retreat From Moscow; Long Day’s Journey…; Nine; Frankie and Johnny…; Into the Woods (Tony Award); Urinetown the Musical; The Invention of Love; Side Show; The Diary of Anne Frank; Master Class; Love! Valour! Compassion!; True West, et al. Dance: ABT, Tere O’Connor Dance, Lar Lubovitch, Nancy Bannon. Film: Cradle Will Rock. Faculty: Purchase College. Member: Naked Angels. Father: Jake. Back to top
Jon Weston (Sound Design). Broadway: The Glass Menagerie; Caroline, or Change; Nine; Imaginary Friends; Thoroughly Modern Millie; The Green Bird; It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues; On the Town; Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk; Company in concert at Lincoln Center; Man of La Mancha. Off-Broadway, tours and regional: The Boyfriend (directed by Julie Andrews); Princesses; A Little Night Music; Himself & Nora; The Color Purple; The Thing About Men; tick, tick…BOOM!; The Bubbly Black Girl…; Bright Lights, Big City; Blue Man Group. Awards: AUDELCO for Caroline, or Change; L.A. Drama Critics for A Little Night Music. Back to top
Bernard Telsey Casting, C.S.A. (Casting). Bernie, Will, David, Beth, Craig, Tiffany, Stephanie and Betsy thank: S. Bray, D. Cale, D. Clement, C. Columbus, T. Cullman, J. Doyle, H. Foote, M. Greif, G. Griffin, W. Holzman, I. La Frenais, L. Lambert, J. Lane, J. Larson, D. Mamet, J. Mantello, B. Martin, D. McKellar, T. Meehan, A. Menken, G. Morrison, C. Nicholaw, M. Norman, J. O’Brien, M. O’Donnell, N. Pepe, H. Pinter, P. Riegert, B. Royal, B. Russell, S. Schwartz, M. Shaiman, N. Simon, S. Sondheim, J. Taymor, A. Willis, M. Wilson, S. Wittman, D. Yazbek, H. Yulin, J. Zaks, ATC, HSC, MCC and STC, for trusting us. Although we have our pride, we have been known to cast for food. Back to top
Jonathan Tunick (Orchestrations). Broadway: The Frogs, Nine, Elaine Stritch at Liberty, Titanic, Passion, Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, Follies, Company, A Chorus Line. Composer/ arranger/conductor of TV and film music: Fort Apache, the Bronx; Endless Love; Blazing Saddles; Young Frankenstein; The Birdcage; “Murder, She Wrote”; “Columbo.” Arranger/conductor of recordings: Judy Collins, Cleo Laine, Kiri Te Kanawa, Itzhak Perlman, Placido Domingo, Johnny Mathis, Barbra Streisand, Paul McCartney, Bernadette Peters. Conductor: Company, Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration. Awards: Tony, Grammy, Emmy, Oscar (one of only five persons holding all four). Back to top
Kevin Stites (Music Supervisor/Incidental Music Arrangements). Conductor/producer: Children and Art, honoring Stephen Sondheim’s 75th birthday. Orchestral conductor: “Reefer Madness” (Showtime). Music director: Fiddler on the Roof (2004 revival), Nine (2003 Tony), Oklahoma!, Titanic (1997 Tony), On the Town, Sunset Boulevard. Tours: Martin Guerre (U.S. premiere), Miss Saigon, The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables. TV: “Letterman,” “Rosie,” “Oprah,” “Tony Awards.” Albums: Fiddler on the Roof, Nine, Titanic. Chicago: more than 60 productions, winner of six Jefferson Awards for musical direction: Sweeney Todd, Chess, Pal Joey, Sunday in the Park…, Baby, Windy City. Music director: Chicago’s acclaimed Ovations! series. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: choirmaster, Maury Yeston’s An American Cantata: 2000 Voices. Back to top
Joseph Joubert (Additional Arrangements) Orchestrations: Caroline, or Change, Orchestrator/musical director,“Three Mo’ Tenors” (PBS). Accompanist/arranger, Patti Labelle, Kathleen Battle, Judy Collins, Ashford & Simpson, Diana Ross, George Benson, Nnenna Freelon and Jennifer Holiday. With Twine, score, We Shall Not Be Moved (Emmy nomination). Orchestrator, (Drama Desk nomination), Violet, and co-producer CD, Beautiful Star (Grammy nomination). Orchestrator, “Great Joy”, (Broadway Inspirational Voices CD- grammy nomination) Composer/arranger/co-producer, “Making Music”, Silver Burdett. Publications: Hal Leonard, Hinshaw Music, and GIA. Back to top
Linda Twine (Music Director). Music director and/or conductor: Caroline, or Change; A Year with Frog and Toad; Jelly’s Last Jam; Big River; Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music; Ain’t Misbehavin’; and The Wiz. Guest conductor, Purlie (City Center Encores!). Off-Broadway: Music supervisor, Crowns and Thunder Knocking on the Door. Concerts/national tours: On Broadway (Ben Vereen, Leslie Uggams), Colors of Christmas (Al Jarreau), Roberta Flack, Jeffrey Osborne, Dreamgirls (Jennifer Holliday) and Shirley Horn and the Harlem Festival Orchestra. Vocal producer/arranger for Silver Burdett-Making Music. Composer of Changed My Name and A Band of Angels: The Story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, based on a children’s book by Deborah Hopkinson. Back to top
Charles G. LaPointe (Hair Design). B’way: Jersey Boys, A Raisin in the Sun, The Rivals, Henry IV, Good Vibrations and associate designer to Tom Watson on Wicked. Many Off- Broadway and regional credits including Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf, Alliance Theatre, ART, Huntington, Public Theater, La Jolla and Pasadena Playhouses and MET. Opera: St. Louis and Philadelphia, Minnesota and Santa Fe, the Cleveland Opera and Opera Omaha. James, here’s to many more years. I love you! Back to top
Angelina Avallone (Make-up Design). Broadway credits include Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Light in the Piazza, In My Life, Sweeney Todd, The Odd Couple with Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane, All Shook Up, Lennon, Seascape, Sweet Charity, The Pillowman, Wonderful Town, Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Gypsy, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Little Shop of Horrors, The Rivals, Belle Epoque, Henry IV and The Scarlet Pimpernel. Back to top
Daryl Waters (Dance Music Arranger). For Broadway, Daryl wrote dance music arrangements for Jelly’s Last Jam; Street Corner Symphony; and Bring in ’da Noise, Bring in ’da Funk. He received Tony and Grammy nominations for his work as a composer on Noise/Funk and has composed music for many other shows, including Harlem Song, Crowns, Drowning Crow and In Real Life. He is Eartha Kitt’s longtime music director. Mr. Waters is a graduate of Livingstone College in Salisbury, NC. Back to top
Seymour Red Press (Music Coordinator). Credits include more than 100 Broadway shows, including Gypsy, Mame, Dreamgirls, Nine, Guys and Dolls, Forum, Noise/Funk, Elaine Stritch at Liberty, Wonderful Town. Associations include Lincoln Center, Second Stage, the Public Theater, City Center’s Encores! Screen credits include Crossing Delancey, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Birdcage and In & Out. TV: “100 Centre Street,” “Tattingers,” “The Rodgers & Hart Story.” This season on Broadway: The Light in the Piazza, Pajama Game, Chicago. Back to top
Arthur Siccardi (Production Management) has been involved in more than 200 Broadway shows including Sweet Charity; Mamma Mia!; Chicago; Sunset Boulevard; A Chorus Line; Cats; Dreamgirls; Kiss Me, Kate; Ballroom; Annie; Wonderful Town; Hello, Dolly!; Fiddler on the Roof; Grease!; My One and Only; The Real Thing; Jerome Robbins’ Broadway; Lost in Yonkers; Nine; I Am My Own Wife; Annie Get Your Gun; The Grapes of Wrath; Camelot; Ain’t Misbehavin’; Sweeney Todd; I Do! I Do!; Saturday Night Fever; The Sunshine Boys; Gypsy. Back to top
Kristen Harris (Production Stage Manager). Broadway: Wicked, Never Gonna Dance, Annie Get Your Gun, The Green Bird, The Rainmaker. Tours: Mamma Mia!, Annie Get Your Gun, Rent (1st and 2nd nationals), Robert Wilson’s Hamlet: A Monologue. Off-Broadway includes Fucking A, In the Blood, The Chang Fragments, Him (NYSF), Songs for a New World (WPA). Regional: American Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse. Back to top
Glynn David Turner (Stage Manager). Broadway/National Tours: Mamma Mia!, The Full Monty, Annie Get Your Gun, Macbeth, Victor/Victoria, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Off-Broadway: Jar the Floor, When Pigs Fly. Regional: the Huntington Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, 5th Avenue Playhouse, the Old Globe. Currently in the works: Michael West’s Almost Live. Back to top
Neveen Mahmoud (Assistant Stage Manager). Credits: August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean, The Graduate (Broadway and national tour), The Seagull (directed by Mike Nichols), August Wilson’s Jitney and Tabletop. Ms. Mahmoud has also worked on productions at the NYSF/Public Theater, Classic Stage Company, Lincoln Center Festival and City Center. Back to top
Nina Lannan Associates (General Manager) is celebrating more than 25 years in theatre management and over 50 Broadway shows. Current productions: Mamma Mia! on Broadway, in Las Vegas and on tour as well as the new Broadway musical In My Life. Recent Broadway productions include Gypsy, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Pillowman. Amy Jacobs has worked with Nina Lannan since 1994 and currently also manages the Las Vegas company of Mamma Mia! Back to top
Oprah Winfrey (Producer). Through the power of media, she has created an unparalleled connection with people around the world. As supervising producer/host of the top-rated, award-winning “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” she has entertained, enlightened and uplifted millions of people for the past two decades. Her commitment to use her life to make a difference in the lives of others has extended beyond the realm of television into philanthropy, education, publishing, film and now theatre. Having first read Alice Walker’s novel in 1982, Oprah loved it so much she would give copies to strangers. In 1985 she was nominated for an Oscar for her breakout role as Sofia in the film. Twenty years later, Oprah is proud to be a part of the team bringing The Color Purple to Broadway - it’s a full-circle moment in her life. Back to top
Scott Sanders (Lead Producer) is one of the entertainment industry’s most creative and prolific entrepreneurs with a proven track record of producing quality entertainment properties for a variety of media. In addition to his role as lead producer of the 11 Tony Award-nominated hit Broadway musical The Color Purple, he is widely credited with the historic turnaround of Radio City Music Hall. Additional credits include Elaine Stritch at Liberty, which won the 2002 Tony Award, and the HBO special of “Elaine Stritch at Liberty,” which won two Emmy Awards, including one for Sanders for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special. Sanders collaborated with Queen Latifah in a groundbreaking music partnership to record and produce her first vocal album, The Dana Owens Album, which is approaching Platinum sales status and received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album. He produced the Tony Award-nominated Broadway sensation Dame Edna: Back With A Vengeance and pop star Josh Groban's Broadway debut in a concert version of Chess at the New Amsterdam Theater. Sanders also launched film and television powerhouse Mandalay Entertainment with partner and Chairman Peter Guber and served as president of Mandalay Television, executive producing six network series in association with Columbia TriStar, including ABC’s “Cupid” with Jeremy Piven and the WB’s “Young Americans” with Kate Bosworth. He is the President/CEO of Scott Sanders Productions, a New York based feature film and live theater production company, which has a first look motion picture deal with Walt Disney Studios. scottsandersproductions.com Back to top
Roy Furman (Producer) is also co-producing The Odd Couple and The Wedding Singer this season. Last year, he was co-producer of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Spamalot, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Pillowman and Democracy. Other recent productions include Sly Fox, Fortune’s Fool, Sweet Smell of Success and The Crucible. In the 1999 season, he oversaw the production of Fosse, which won the Tony Award for Best Musical. Mr. Furman co-founded the investment firm Furman Selz and is currently vice chairman of Jefferies & Company and chairman of Jefferies Capital Partners, its private-equity division. He is vice chairman of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, chairman emeritus of the Film Society of Lincoln Center and vice president of the New York City Opera. Back to top
Quincy Jones (Producer). His career has encompassed every facet of the entertainment industry. He has received an Emmy Award, seven Academy Award nominations, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and 27 Grammy Awards and is the all-time most-nominated Grammy artist, with a total of 79 nominations. Recently, he was inducted as a Kennedy Center honoree, the United States’ most prestigious artistic award, for his lifetime contributions to the culture of the country. He co-produced The Color Purple, which garnered 11 Oscar nominations, and served as executive producer of TV shows such as “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air,” “Mad TV” and HBO’s “An American Reunion Concert” in honor of the 1992 presidential inauguration. His 1995 recording, Q’s Jook Joint, garnered seven Grammy nominations, and in 1996 he executive produced the most-watched award show in the world, “The 68th Annual Academy Awards.” In 2001, his autobiography, Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones, entered The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal best-seller lists. Back to top
Anna Fantaci & Cheryl Lachowicz (Producer). Anna, a longtime admirer and student of the arts, looks forward to her first adventure in theatrical production. Cheryl is an award-winning commercial illustrator. She made her Broadway debut as a co-producer of the Sly Fox revival, directed by Arthur Penn. She is also a financial supporter of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, which opened October 2005 in London. Ms. Lachowicz is married and has two beautiful daughters, Dani and Tia. Back to top
Independant Presenters Network (Producer). IPN is an association of presenters, theatres and performing arts centers. These members bring Broadway productions to more than 110 cities throughout North America and Japan. Recent Broadway productions include Spamalot, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Bombay Dreams. National tours include Spamalot, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Starlight Express and this season’s Dr. Doolittle starring Tommy Tune. London productions include Thoroughly Modern Millie and the upcoming Matthew Bourne’s Edward Scissorhands. Back to top
David Lowy (Producer) is the chief executive of LFG Holdings, a global private investment group based in Sydney, Australia. He is also a non-executive deputy chairman of Westfield Group, one of the world’s largest shopping center companies. His father, Frank Lowy, is founder and executive chairman. In addition to the involvement in The Color Purple, investments have been made in other Broadway productions, including most recently Spamalot. David’s non-business interests include music – he is a songwriter, guitarist and member of the Australian rock group MINK. David also has a keen interest in aviation. He is a stunt pilot and regular air show performer as well as being the founder and president of the Temora Aviation Museum, an institution that is dedicated to the preservation of historic military aircraft. Back to top
Stephanie P. McClelland (Producer). Green Curtain Productions (GCP). Broadway credits: Glengarry Glen Ross (Tony Award, Best Play Revival), Spamalot (Tony Award, Best Musical; Drama Desk Award, Best Musical), Democracy, Jumpers, Flower Drum Song. GCP’s New York/London commercial interests include Little Shop of Horrors, Gypsy, Man of La Mancha, The Producers, The Lonesome West, Guys and Dolls, Brand, Mrs. Warren’s Profession. Board memberships: the Juilliard School, London’s Donmar Warehouse, American Associates of the National Theatre. Thanks, ever, to Carter, Cary and Spencer. Back to top
Gary Winnick (Producer), an international financier and philanthropist with a global investment career spanning three decades, maintains a strong commitment to local, national and international civic and philanthropic activities in the arts and sciences, education, healthcare and world tolerance. He serves on numerous boards including the Museum of Modern Art, United States Chamber of Commerce and the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Mr. Winnick and his wife Karen, author and illustrator of children’s books, reside in Los Angeles and New York. Back to top
Jan Kallish (Producer) is an independent producer involved in a diverse set of projects that includes The Color Purple; APG Entertainment, a new production company in the forefront of independent filmmaking (feature and documentary); and consultant to Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures (including his upcoming production of Edward Scissorhands). Ms. Kallish is currently teaching commercial theatre management at DePaul University’s Theatre School. Formerly the executive director of Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre, Jan led a $14 million renovation and created a home for the Joffrey Ballet and an acclaimed international dance series. As executive producer of Ovations! Concert Celebrations of Great American Musicals, Ms. Kallish produced Strike Up the Band; One Touch of Venus; Babes in Arms; Promises, Promises; and Call Me Madam. Back to top
Bob and Harvey Weinstein (Producers), co-founders of Miramax Films, are co-chairmen of The Weinstein Company which launched in 2005. The Weinsteins have produced several award-winning Broadway and West End shows, including The Real Thing, 2000 Tony Award winner for Best Revival of a Play; Mel Brooks’ The Producers, winner of the most Tonys ever; the Broadway revival of Gypsy; the London production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; the revival of Wonderful Town; Baz Luhrmann’s production of La Bohème; and New York productions of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and All Shook Up. Back to top
Nederlander Presentations, Inc. (Producer) is a producing arm of a family company prominent for three generations in the management and operation of theatres and productions of distinguished entertainment. In addition to producing innumerable plays and musicals, operas, ballets and concerts and presenting artists ranging from Nureyev to Sinatra to U2, the Nederlander Organization owns a notable chain of legitimate theatres on Broadway, across the U.S. and in London. The Woman in White, Movin’ Out and Fiddler on the Roof are recent Broadway presentations. Back to top
Andrew Asnes & Adam Zotovich (Producer). The Color Purple marks the first producing venture for Andrew Asnes and Adam Zotovich. As a team, they strive to embody a new generation of artist-producers who bring their expansive inside knowledge of theatre to each production they nurture. Andrew’s credits: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Jumpers, Contact, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Twyla Tharp Dance. Adam’s credits: The Wedding Singer, Fiddler on the Roof, Contact, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (Memoria). They thank Roy Furman for taking them under his wing. Back to top
Todd Johnson (Producer) has overseen the creation of The Color Purple for four years. Former senior producer, Creative Battery. Film: producer, Noah’s Ark: The Untold Story (Walden Media). Television: writer, “An Impossible Christmas” (adapted from Madeleine L’Engle); consultant, “’Twas the Night” (HBO). 2006: writer, The Little Drummer Boy musical (Classic Media); writer, Peep Show (Clear Channel) for Vegas. Session singer: Garth Brooks, Celine Dion, Tony Bennett, Barry Manilow, many others. Alum: Chapel Hill and Yale. Thanks: Michael, family, Susan Weaving and Laurie Pozmantier at WMA. Back to top
Alliance Theatre (Original Production). Now in its 37th season, the Alliance Theatre is the leading professional resident theatre of the Southeast, creating the powerful experience of shared theatre for diverse people through 11 annual productions for youth and adult audiences. Under the leadership of artistic director Susan V. Booth and managing director Thomas Pechar, the Alliance employs more than 200 professional artists, technicians and staff while serving more than 255,000 patrons yearly. The Alliance has premiered works including adaptations of Carson McCullers’ The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, Pearl Cleage’s Blues for an Alabama Sky, Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida and Alfred Uhry’s The Last Night of Ballyhoo. In 2005, the Alliance furthered its commitment to new work with the launch of the Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition, a national program introducing student playwrights to professional networks while producing the world premiere of the winning student’s work. Back to top |
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