James Prideaux is an American playwright whose plays have been produced on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regionally. His plays include Mixed Couples, The Last of Mrs. Lincoln (Drama Desk Award- Most Promising Playwright), Grin and Bear It, Under MacDougal (PH), Abraham Lincoln Dies At Versailles, Ain't It Awful About Marie Antoinette, An American Sunset, The Autograph Hound, The Bench, Elephants, The Housekeeper, and Postcards. 

Robert Moss is an American director and founder of Playwrights Horizons. From 1971 to 1981 he founded and ran Playwrights Horizons, The Queens Theater in the Park, and helped develop Theater Row on West 42^nd Street.  In 1982, he became the Artistic Director of the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca and ran it until he took over Syracuse Stage from 1996 to 2008.  He served on the board of OOBA (now ART/NY) for five years and during the same time period sat on the Equity Showcase Code Committee.  He has been a Board Member of the SDC Foundation, TCG, the Drama League Directors Project, and a panelist for both the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.  His extensive directing contracts include LORT, SPT and University.  His teaching credits include initiating the undergraduate directing program at Playwrights Horizons Theatre School (affiliated with NYU) and The Lab Company at the Hangar.  Prior to all this, he culminated an active stage manager career as PSM with the touring APA Repertory Company in residence for four years in L.A., Toronto, Ann Arbor, and at the Lyceum on Broadway.