AUSTIN PENDLETON has been seen on Broadway in The Diary of Anne Frank and Grand Hotel. He has appeared in the first New York productions of Oh Dad, Poor Dad..., Fiddler on the Roof, Hail Scrawdyke (Derwent Award), The Last Sweet Days of Isaac (Obie Award), The Sorrows of Frederick, Doubles, The Imposter, The Loop and Sophistry, and in the title roles of Off-Broadway productions of Hamlet, Richard III, Uncle Vanya, Keats and Jeremy Rudge. He is a playwright (Orson's Shadow, Booth and Uncle Bob), director (Spoils of War, The Runner Stumbles andElizabeth Taylor in The Little Foxes), teacher (HB Studio), and member of Chicago's Steppenwolf Ensemble. His film credits include What's Up Doc?, Trial and Error, The Associate, The Mirror Has Two Faces, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, The Proprietor, Guarding Tess, The Fifteen Minute Hamlet, Catch-22 and Amistad. TV includes Fired Up, Frasier and Tracey Takes On. He began his career, and has acted and directed many times, at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

Bio as of January, 2009.

Jonathan Marc Sherman is a contemporary American playwright. He submitted plays for several years Young Playwrights Inc.'s National Playwrights Competition before they did a staged reading of his one-act, Serendipity and Serenity in 1987, followed by a full production of his next play, Women and Wallace (1988). His plays have since been widely produced.

Broadway credits include The Lyons, After Miss Julie, Grey Gardens (Tony/Drama Desk Nominations, Henry Hewes Award), Thurgood, The Little Dog Laughed, and Twelve Angry Men, among others. Off-Broadway credits include productions for the Public Theater, Second Stage, Lincoln Center Theater, Roundabout Theater, Signature Theater Company, Playwrights Horizons, New Group/Second Stage, and the Drama Dept. Regional credits include productions for the Dallas Theatre Center, Huntington Theater, Guthrie Theater, The Goodman, Yale Rep, Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf, Steppenwolf, Baltimore’s Center Stage, LA’s Center Theater Group, and Pittsburgh Public Theater. His extensive opera credits include work for the Metropolitan Opera (Orfeo ed Euridice, directed by Mark Morris), New York City Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, San Francisco Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Boston Lyric Opera, Scottish Opera, and the Wexford Festival (Ireland). He also worked with Mark Morris on Sylvia for San Francisco Ballet, and Romeo and Juliet, on Motifs of Shakespeare for MMDG. He received the 2006 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence. For more information, visit allenmoyerdesign.com.