ALFRED UHRY is distinguished as the only American playwright to have won a Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award and two Tony Awards. A graduate of Brown University, Uhry began his professional career as a lyric writer under contract to the late Frank Loesser. In that capacity, he made his Broadway debut in 1968 with Here's Where I Belong. His first major success came when he collaborated with Robert Waldman on a musical adaptation of Eudora Welty's The Robber Bridegroom, which opened at the Mark Taper Forum in 1976 and went on to Broadway, winning Mr. Uhry his first Tony nomination. He followed that with five re-created musicals at the Goodspeed Opera House. His first play, Driving Miss Daisy opened at Playwrights Horizons Theatre in New York in 1987. It moved subsequently to the John Houseman Theatre where it ran for three years and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. The film version, starring Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy, won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1990. The film also won the Best Picture Award. His next play, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, was commissioned by the Cultural Olympiad for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. It opened on Broadway the next year where it ran for over 500 performances and won Uhry the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Drama League Award and the 1997 Tony Award for Best Play. His book for the musical, Parade, directed by Harold Prince with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, won the Tony Award in 1999. A revised production at the Donmar Theatre in London won Mr. Uhry an Olivier Award Nomination and went on to Los Angeles where it opened to rave reviews in October, 2009. His play, Without Walls, starring Laurence Fishburne, opened at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in June of 2006. His next play, Edgardo Mine, played the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis in 2006 and the book for Lovemusik, a musical about Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya ran on Broadway in 2007. It was directed by Harold Prince. For this, Mr. Uhry won another Drama Desk nomination. He is currently finishing a play commissioned by the Manhattan Theatre Club.

Bio as of October, 2010.

RON LAGOMARSINO most recently directed Alfred Uhry's Tony Award-winning play The Last Night of Ballyhoo at the Helen Hayes Theatre (Outer Critics Circle nomination), reuniting him with Mr. Uhry and actress Dana Ivey after their success with Driving Miss Daisy (Drama Desk nomination). Prior to its New York engagement, Ballyhoo premiered at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta as part of the Olympic Arts Festival. Broadway: My Favorite Year. Off-Broadway: Joseph Dougherty's Digby (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations), Beth Henley's Abundance, John Patrick Shanley'sWomen of Manhattan, and for the Young Playwrights Festival, Evan Smith's Remedial English. Mr. Lagomarsino is a recipient of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Driving Miss Daisy, Christopher Durang's Laughing Wild (Playwrights Horizons), and Timothy Mason's Only You. He directed the Daisy national tour, as well as the Chicago and West End productions. Regional credits includeNoises Off at Seattle Rep, Hay Fever at Kenyon Festival, and the premiere of Martin Sherman's Passing By at Hartford Stage, where he served as resident director for two seasons. Mr. Lagomarsino spent several somewhat blissful summers at the National Playwrights Conference and the Berkshire Theatre Festival as associate director. Television pilots include Picket Fences (Directors Guild Award), Homefront (Emmy nomination), The Trials of Rosie O'Neill, Courthouse,Grapevine, and most recently, Homestead starring Ann-Margret and Sonia Braga. TV movies include Dinner at Eight (TNT), The Counterfeit Contessa (Fox) and Sweet Temptation (CBS). Other TV credits include episodes of thirtysomething and My So-Called Life. A recipient of an NEA Directing Fellowship, he is a graduate of Santa Clara University (valedictorian) and New York University School of the Arts (Seidman Award Graduate in Directing). (As of July 2007)