MARION McCLINTON has directed August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom ,King Hedley II (Broadway, Tony nomination), Two Trains Running (Center Stage), Fences (Indiana Rep, Pittsburgh Public), The Piano Lesson (Penumbra Theatre), Seven Guitars (Pittsburgh Public, Center Stage), Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Missouri Rep) and Jitney (Pittsburgh Public, Center Stage, Studio Arena, Geva, Goodman Theatre, Mark Taper, Second Stage and The Royal National Theatre in London). Recent Center Stage: Les Blancs and Splash Hatch on the E Going Down. Other directing: Thunder Knocking on the Door (Guthrie, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Center Stage, Dallas Theater Center); The Coming of the Hurricane (Arena Stage); A Midsummer Night's Dream (La Jolla); Death and the King's Horseman (Syracuse Stage); East Texas Hot Links (Public Theater); TALK (Foundry Theatre); A Raisin in the Sun (Center Stage); Breath, Boom! (Playwrights Horizons); Carson McCullers (Historically Inaccurate) (Playwrights Horizons/Women's Project). Playwrighting: Police Boys (Center Stage, Playwrights Horizons, Pittsburgh Public),Walkers (Off-Broadway), Stones and Bones (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Who Causes the Darkness? (Penumbra). Awards: two Audelcos, Obie, Ira Aldredge, Joseph Calloway, Kesselring Prize, NEA/TCG Pew Charitable Trust Grant; Drama Desk and Evening Standard nominations. Alumnus, New Dramatists; company member, Penumbra Theatre; associate artist, Center Stage. (As of June 2007)

Donald Douglass most recently directed I Am a Man at Arena Stage and Spunk at Penumbra Theatre Company. Other directing credits include the workshop production of Marion McClinton’s Police Boys at Playwrights Horizons; the Off-Broadway production of Freefall for the Weissberger Foundation, which was nominated for seven Audelco Awards; Fences for Baltimore’s Center Stage; and The Piano Lesson for New American Theater in Rockford, Illinois. He directed and choreographed George C. Wolfe’s The Colored Museum for Yale Repertory Theatre, which won Best Play in Connecticut; and Spunk for The Goodman Theatre, which won four Joseph Jefferson Awards, including Best Director. In 1973 he joined Chicago’s Free Street Theater as an artistic associate and later became the acting artistic director. During his tenure he staged over 50 plays, including the hit musical Project! His additional directing credits include Fences at Rockford’s New American Theater, and Chicago’s Theatre Company’s productions of That Serious He Man Ball and Po’. He also directed and choreographed Po’ at the South Dallas Cultural Center. He choreographed and was a featured actor in Robert Townsend’s movie The Hollywood Shuffle and was dance director of the award-winning PBS film The Killing Floor. Mr. Douglass is currently directing and producing a feature film titled Policy.