Plays:  SCENES FROM AMERICAN LIFE, CHILDREN, THE DINING ROOM, THE MIDDLE AGES, RICHARD CORY, THE GOLDEN AGE, WHAT I DID LAST SUMMER, THE WAYSIDE MOTOR INN, SWEET SUE, THE PERFECT PARTY, ANOTHER ANTIGONE, THE COCKTAIL HOUR, LOVE LETTERS, THE SNOW BALL (adapted from his novel), THE OLD BOY, THE FOURTH WALL, LATER LIFE, A CHEEVER EVENING, SYLVIA, OVERTIME, LET'S DO IT (a Cole Porter musical), LABOR DAY, FAR EAST, DARLENE AND THE GUEST LECTURER, ANCESTRAL VOICES, BUFFALO GAL, O JERUSALEM, STRICTLY ACADEMIC, BIG BILL, MRS. FARNSWORTH. Opera: Wrote libretto for "Strawberry Fields" with music by Michael Torke, part of the Central Park Opera trilogy presented by the New York City Opera in the Fall of 1999.  Novels:  THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOE, ENTERTAINING STRANGERS and THE SNOW BALL.  Awards:  Drama Desk, N.E.A., Rockefeller Foundation, New England Theatre Conference, Lucille Lortel, American Association of Community Theatres, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Honorary degrees:  Williams College and Buffalo State University.  Gurney was on the faculty of M.I.T. until 1996.  He is the husband of one, father of four, and grandfather of eight. (2012)

JOHN TILLINGER is one of the leading directors on the Broadway stage. He spent his early years on Broadway as an actor, appearing in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1968), Othello (1970), Hay Fever (1970), and The Changing Room (1973). Tillinger's first Broadway directing credit wasSolomon's Child in 1982. Since then he has helmed Love Letters (1989) with Colleen Dewhurst and Jason Robards, The Price (1992) with Eli Wallach, Three Men on a Horse (1993) and The Sunshine Boys (1997), both with Jack Klugman and Tony Randall, Inherit the Wind (1996) with George C. Scott and Charles Durning, Night Must Fall (1999) with Matthew Broderick, Judgment at Nuremberg(2001) with George Grizzard and Maximilian Schell, Say Goodnight, Gracie (2002) with Frank Gorshin, and Absurd Person Singular (2005) with Paxton Whitehead and Sam Robards. Tillinger's many off-Broadway directing credits include Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1981), After the Fall (1984),Loot (1986), What the Butler Saw (1989), The Lisbon Traviata (1989), Lips Together, Teeth Apart(1991), Sylvia (1995), and Jewtopia (2004). He also has directed numerous regional theatre productions.

Bio as of July, 2007.