WENDY WASSERSTEIN received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the New York Drama Critics Circle, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for the Heidi Chronicles, directed by Daniel Sullivan, produced by Playwrights Horizons. Originally produced by Lincoln Center Theatre in 1992, The Sisters Rosensweig was nominated for 5 Tony Awards including Best Play. Wasserstein's Off-Broadway plays include Uncommon Women and Others , Isn't it Romantic (produced by playwrights Horizons and directed by Gerry Guiterrez), and a musical Miami. Other notable productions are American Daughter, Old Money, Psyche in Love, and her most recent play Third which opened in 2005. Her screenplays include House of Husbands (with Christopher Durang), and The Object of My Affection (based on a novel by Stephen McCauley). She is the author of Bachelor Girls, a collection of essays. Ms. Wasserstein was hospitalized with Lymphoma in December of 2005, ultimately leading to her death in January of 2006. (As of November 2008)

GERALD GUTIERREZ (Director) was born and lived in Brooklyn. For Lincoln Center Theater, his productions include The Most Happy Fella, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Playboy of the West Indies, The Heiress, Northeast Local, A Delicate Balance, Ivanov and Ring Round the Moon. He recently directed Tom Donaghy's critically acclaimed Boys and Girls for Playwrights Horizons. For his work, Mr. Gutierrez has been honored with two Tony Awards, two Drama Desk Awards, two Cullman Awards, the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award, the Connecticut Drama Critics Award, the Callaway Award and was honored by the Hispanic Federation of New York. He is a graduate of the Juilliard Preparatory Division (piano) and the Juilliard Drama Division (under John Houseman). (As of June 2009)