Michael Berresse (Director/Choreographer)
Familiar to New York theatregoers for his work as an actor, [title of show] marks Michael’s directorial debut. As Bill Calhoun in the Broadway and London revivals of Kiss Me, Kate he received Tony, Outer Critics Circle, Olivier and Astaire Award nominations as well as winning the Friends of New York Theatre Award and London’s Musical Stages Award. He recently appeared in The Light in the Piazza, a 6-time 2005 Tony Award winner for which he received another Outer Critics Circle nomination. He is currently starring on Broadway as "Zach" in A Chorus Line. Other Broadway credits include Chicago, Damn Yankees, Fascinating Rhythm, Guys & Dolls, Carousel, and Fiddler on the Roof. Off-Broadway, Michael has appeared in Forever Plaid, The Cocoanuts, Call Me Madam and One Touch of Venus. He is currently developing new works with Christopher d’Amboise, Alfred Uhry, Frances McDormand and Martha Clarke. Film and Television credits include Steven Spielberg’s A.I., The Next Step, Law & Order - SVU and Law & Order - Criminal Intent.

Neil Patel (Scenic Design) Broadway: Ring of Fire, Sideman, ‘Night Mother. Off-Broadway: The Argument, After Ashley, The Long Christmas Ride Home (Vineyard), Here Lies Jenny (Zipper), Dinner With Friends (Variety Arts Theater), Soldier’s Play, Living Out (Second Stage), McReele (Roundabout), Between Us (MTC), The Beard of Avon, Lydie Breeze, Quills, Slavs! (New York Theatre Workshop), Lobster Alice, On The Mountain (Playwrights Horizons), Dirty Tricks, Othello (New York Shakespeare Festival). Regional: Guthrie Theatre, Steppenwolf Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, McCarter Theater, Mark Taper Forum among many others. Opera: New York City Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Minnesota Opera, Opera Theater St. Louis, Nikikai Opera Tokyo. 2000 EDDY Award; 1996, 2000, 2003 Drama Desk Nominations; 1996 and 2001 OBIE for sustained excellence. Upcoming: Salome and Carmen at Santa Fe Opera.

Chase Tyler (Costume Design) Theatrical shows include Blue Man Group at The Venetian, Blue Man Group Berlin, The Complex Rock Tour; Five Women With the Same Dress (Pantheon), Pure Polyester (BCA), MOO (M.T.S.), The Wonder Twins in Sparklevision (PS 122), The Morning Show. Television includes Com Cast Wraparound Show, The Coaches Show, Thrillavision. Many television and print ads for companies that include Filene’s, Macy’s, Milton Bradley, Home Goods, TJ Maxx, Martha Stewart Living, Cosmopolitan, Elle, and Variety. Chase currently designs a line of clothing and accessories for TearWare, and is the Creative Director of Ghastly Greetings, Inc.

Ken Billington (Lighting Design) Ken has over 80 Broadway shows to his credit including such musicals as: Dance of the Vampires, Dream, The Red Shoes, Metro, Late Night Comic, Grind, The Three Musketeers, A Doll’s Life, Copperfield, Perfectly Frank, But Never Jam Today and Happy New Year. Ken has also lit the current Chicago, Lily Tomlin in The Search for Signs…, Footloose, Candide, Annie, Foxfire, Tru, Side by Side by Sondheim, and On the Twentieth Century as well as the original Sweeney Todd. He is the recipient of the Tony, Drama Desk, Los Angeles Drama Critics, and Ace Awards and the Luman for his architectural lighting.

Jason Kantrowitz (Lighting Design) Jason’s eclectic career highlights include designs for Broadway productions Dame Edna-The Royal Tour, Tru, Starmites, and The Radio City Christmas Spectacular; National Tours of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera (Associate Designer for 36 major American cities), Ann-Margret in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, and the Olympic figure skating show Stars On Ice; Off-Broadway productions of The Syringa Tree, Ministry of Progress, Dutch Heart of Man, The Flame Keeper, and A Good Swift Kick. International productions of Fiddler On The Roof, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and The Syringa Tree; the Las Vegas spectacular Jubilee!; major Theme Park attractions Fantasmic! (Disneyland), Playhouse Disney Live and Voyage of the Little Mermaid (Disney-MGM Studios), Festival of the Lion King (Disney’s Animal Kingdom), Animazement (Disneyland), and the Journey to Atlantis watercoaster ride (SeaWorld Orlando). As Creative Producer of dazzling special events, Jason has created live shows for The National Geographic Society, The Walt Disney Company, Anheuser- Busch, Six Flags Great Adventure, Universal Studios, Pepsi Cola, Taco Bell, Alta Vista, RCA Records, Yamaha, Sega Genesis, Opera Pacific and PBS.

ACME Sound Partners (Sound Design) Vineyard Theatre debut! Broadway: The Light in the Piazza, Spamalot, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Dracula the Musical, On the Twentieth Century, Fiddler on the Roof, Never Gonna Dance, The Boy From Oz, Avenue Q, Gypsy, La Bohème (Drama Desk Award), Flower Drum Song, Elaine Stritch At Liberty, Bells Are Ringing, A Class Act, Jane Eyre, The Full Monty. Off-Broadway: See What I Wanna See (Public), Thunder Knocking on the Door. National: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Disney’s On the Record. Numerous theatrical concerts and special events with renowned orchestras at world-famous venues indoors and out, and five summers in Central Park with the New York Shakespeare Festival. The partners are: Tom Clark, Mark Menard and Nevin Steinberg.

Martha Donaldson (Production Stage Manager) Off-Broadway credits include Oedipus at Palm Springs, A Number, Hedda Gabler, Far Away, Homebody/Kabul, Alice in Bed, A Streetcar Named Desire, Bright Lights Big City, More Stately Mansions, all for the New York Theatre Workshop; Theatre of the New Ear at St. Ann’s Warehouse and also at Royal Festival Hall in London; Well at the Public Theater and at ACT in San Francisco; Mabou Mines’ Dollhouse at St. Ann’s Warehouse, also at the Ibsen Festival in Oslo, Norway, and at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC; Five Course Love, Talking Heads both at the Minetta Lane Theatre; In the Penal Colony for the Classic Stage Co.; Julius Caesar at the New York Shakespeare Festival; Trojan Women A Love Story, JP Morgan Saves the Nation for En Garde Arts; and Cloud Tectonics at Playwrights Horizons. National Tour: The Vagina Monologues.

Tom Reynolds (ASM) Off-Broadway: Five Course Love (Minetta Lane/Roy Gabay), Eye Witness Blues (NYTW), The Immigrant (Dodger Stages/Hello Ent.), Golf, The Musical (Eric Krebs Ent.), Right You Are (National Actors Theatre), Hank Williams: Lost Highway (MET/NJNG Productions), Faster and Finders Fee (Rattlestick). Tours: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (The Acting Company), Anything Goes (Circa 21). Regional: Jitney, How I Learned to Drive (Studio Arena) and six summer seasons at Little Theatre on the Square.

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Douglas Aibel (Artistic Director - Vineyard Theatre) has been active in NY theatre as a producer, director and dramaturg. He was the first recipient of the Ross Wetzsteon OBIE award for his work with the Vineyard, and was pleased to accept special Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel awards for the Vineyard’s body of work. Mr. Aibel is also widely known in the film world as a casting director, with credits including The Squid And The Whale, The Royal Tenenbaums, Signs, the Academy Award-winning Dead Man Walking, Kinsey, The Village, The Life Aquatic, Little Odessa, Cradle Will Rock, Fresh, The Myth Of Fingerprints, Unbreakable, The Yards, Bob Roberts, A Price Above Rubies, Five Corners, Soldier's Girl, The Dying Gaul, Little Manhattan. Upcoming films: Trust The Man, Lady In The Water, Failure To Launch, and Margaret.