August: Osage County - Broadway Creative Team

Black was born Debra Ressler to New York lawyer Ira Ressler. She is the sister of Tony Ressler, who co-founded Apollo Global Management with Leon Black. She graduated from Barnard College in 1976. Black is a Broadway producer who has been nominated for ten Tony Awards, winning two in the Tony Award for Best Play category for The History Boys (2006) and The Pillow Man (2008). Black and her husband co-founded the Melanoma Research Alliance, which funds melanoma research worldwide. Black is a melanoma survivor herself. She was elected a trustee of the Rockefeller University in 2010. In 2015, She was elected a ... read more Tamar Climan, founder of Climan Producing LLC (CPL), is a Tony Award®-winning theatre producer with almost three decades of experience producing and general managing on Broadway. Currently, Tamar is producing the national tour of A Soldier’s Play along with Roundabout Theatre Company. She is on the producing team of 1776 for the American Repertory Theater and serves as the Consulting Producer for the Tony Award® and Grammy-winning Jagged Little Pill on the West End and for its North American and Australian tours as well as the North American tour of the Tony Award®-winning revival of Oklahoma!. Previous producing credits ... read more Before joining Victory Gardens Theater as Executive Director, Erica Daniels was President of Second City Theatricals where she shepherded the remount of The Art of Falling with Hubbard Street Dance Company, as well as Black Side of the Moon with Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Second City’s collaboration with Slate on Unelectable You The Second City’s Completely Unbiased Political Revue, and The Second City’s Guide to America at The Kennedy Center. Previously, Erica was The Associate Artistic Director at Steppenwolf Theatre Company.She joined the company in 2001 as the casting director and director of the School at Steppenwolf. Erica did the original casting ... read more Doumanian produces theatre, film and television. Recent credits include: The Book of Mormon, The House of Blue Leaves; August: Osage County (Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize); Our Town (Lortel and Obie Awards); Superior Donuts; When the Rain Stops Falling (Lortel Award); Mistakes Were Made. Upcoming productions include: The House of Blue Leaves and The Mountaintop (Olivier Award), as well as film adaptations of August: Osage County, Blackbird and Galveston. ... read more Received Tony Awards for August: Osage County and Glengarry Glen Ross. Other Broadway shows include: Blithe Spirit, Race, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, China Doll, The Last Ship, Matilda and Something Rotten. Upcoming production: Come From Away. ... read more Hardt Casting, LLC ... read more Noah Himmelstein is a New York based theatre director. Recent work includes Chelsea Marcantel's Everything is Wonderful (Philadelphia Theatre Company); Andrew Lippa's I Am Anne Hutchinson (Strathmore) and I Am Harvey Milk (Lincoln Center, Stathmore, San Francisco, LA & Denver); Jonathan Tolins's The Forgotten Woman (Bay Street Theatre); Heather McDonald's An Almost Holy Picture; Karen Hartman's The Book of Joseph; Michael John LaChiusa & Ellen Fitzhugh's Los Otros; and JB Priestley's An Inspector Calls (Everyman Theatre); Daniel Zaitchik's The Costume (Inner Voices/The Barrow Group); Bleeding Love (Fredericia Theatre, Denmark); Loving Leo (Weston Playhouse); and a site specific Into the Woods ... read more Tracy Letts is a multifaceted award-winning actor and playwright. Letts received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play August: Osage County and a Tony Award for his portrayal of George in the revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. He has written the screenplays of three films adapted from his own plays: BUG and Killer Joe, both directed by William Friedkin, and August: Osage County directed by John Wells. In 2019, Letts was seen portraying Henry Ford II in James Mangold’s Academy Award-nominated racing drama “Ford v Ferrari,” which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. He also ... read more LCT: Oslo, Dada Woof Papa Hot, Domesticated. Broadway includes This Is Our Youth, Of Mice and Men, Lucky Guy, That Championship Season, August: Osage County (also national tour). Off-Broadway includes Smart People, Guards at the Taj, My Name Is Asher Lev, Rated P for Parenthood, Make Me a Song, Opus, Crazy Mary, A Spanish Play, Satellites. Regional includes Steppenwolf, Center Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival. ... read more Jeffrey has produced more than 50 shows on and off Broadway and has done press for more than 200 productions. The theatre remains his SO. ... read more Todd Rosenthal is a Chicago based theater/ museum exhibition designer. Broadway: August Osage County (Tony Award), The Motherfucker with the Hat (Tony Award Nomination), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Tony Award Best Revival), Of Mice and Men, This is Our Youth, and Fish in the Dark. Off Broadway: Premiere of Red Light Winter at the Barrow Street, Domesticated at Lincoln Center, Qualms at Playwrights Horizons. Todd has designed six seasons for the Big Apple Circus. International credits include: August Osage County (National Theatre, London, Sydney Theater, Australia), The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Theatre Royal, Ireland). Regional: Steppenwolf (33 productions), Goodman ... read more Daryl Roth is a Tony Award-winning Broadway producer who has been a driving force in the theater industry for over 30 years. She is known for her innovative productions, which often tackle challenging and thought-provoking subject matter. Born in 1945 in Lakewood, New Jersey, Roth grew up in a family that was deeply involved in the arts. Her father was a musician and her mother was a painter, and they encouraged their daughter to pursue her own creative interests. Roth attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied history and literature. After college, Roth moved to New York City and began ... read more Anna D. Shapiro joined the Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble in 2005 and became Artistic Director in 2015. She was awarded the 2008 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for August: Osage County (Steppenwolf, Broadway, London), and was nominated in 2011 in the same category for The Motherf**ker with the Hat (Public Theatre, Labyrinth Theater). Other directing credits at Steppenwolf include Visiting Edna, Mary Page Marlowe, Three Sisters, A Parallelogram, Up, The Crucible, The Unmentionables (also at Yale Repertory Theatre), The Pain and the Itch (also in New York), I Never Sang for My Father, Man from Nebraska, Purple ... read more Credits include: EVita, Catch Me If You Can, Elf, Wonderland, Behanding in Spokane, Tale of Two Cities, Xanadu Japan, Times They Are A Changin’, Soccer Mom, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, August: Osage County, Legally Blonde, All Shook Up tour, On Golden Pond, Scoundrels, Brooklyn, Thoroughly Modern Millie, AIDA, Imaginary Friends, Def Poetry Jam, Disney’s Berlin Hunchback, Capeman, Show Boat, Spider Woman. ... read more