MARK O'DONNELL's Book received the 2003 Tony Award for Hairspray. Plays include That's It, Folks!; Fables for Friends; The Nice and the Nasty (all at Playwrights Horizons); Strangers on Earth; Vertigo Park; and the book and lyrics for the musical Tots in Tinseltown. He collaborated with Bill Irwin on an adaptation of Moliere's Scapin and co-authored a translation of Feydeau's A Flea in Her Ear, both for the Roundabout. For MTC he translated Jean Claude Carriere's La Terrasse. His books include Elementary Education and Vertigo Park and Other Tall Tales, as well as two novels, Getting Over Homer and Let Nothing You Dismay (both in Vintage paperback). His humor has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic and Spy, among others. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lecomte du Nuoy Prize and the George S. Kaufman Award.

Bio as of June, 2007.

Douglas Hughes is a prolific theatre director. His recent Broadway work includes The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Mauritius, A touch of the Poet, Inherit the Wind (Tony nomination Best Revival, Drama Desk nomination, Best Director), Frozen (Tony nomination, Best Director), and John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt for which he won Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lortel and Callway awards as Best Director.

Recent Off-Broadway credits includeFarragut North, The House in Town, Defiance, Scattergood, Last Easter, The Paris Letter, and McReele  In 2005, Hughes won an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Direction. 

He has directed over 50 productions at most of the country’s leading resident theaters. 

From 1997-2001, Mr. Hughes served as Artistic Director of the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, originating and then co-producing the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Mr. Hughes was the Distinguished Artist in Residence at the New School for Drama (2007-2008) and served as adjunct professor in the directing program of The Yale School of Drama (2002-2004).  He is a graduate of Harvard College.