

EVE
ENSLER (Playwright/Performer/Activist), award-winning author of The
Vagina Monologues, most recently performed her new play The Good Body
on Broadway in NYC, at ACT in San Francisco, and in a workshop production
at Seattle Repertory Theatre. Ensler is founder and artistic director of V-Day,
a global movement to end violence against women and girls. The Vagina Monologues
has been translated into more than 35 languages and has run in theaters worldwide,
including sold-out runs at Off-Broadway's Westside Theater and on London's West
End (2002 Olivier Award nom., Best Entertainment). Her play Necessary Targets,
set in a Bosnian refugee camp, opened Off-Broadway at the Variety Arts Theatre
in February 2002, following a hit run at Hartford Stage Company. Ensler's other
plays include Conviction, Lemonade, The Depot, Floating Rhoda and the Glue
Man and Extraordinary Measures. The Good Body, The Vagina Monologues, and
Necessary Targets have been published by Villard/ Random House, who will
also publish Ms. Ensler's upcoming books I Am an Emotional Creature and V-World.
Ensler is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship Award in playwriting, the 2002
Amnesty International Media Spotlight Award for leadership, and the Matrix Award
(2002). She is an executive producer of 'What I Want My Words to Do to You,'
a documentary about the writing group she has led since 1998 at the Bedford Hills
Correctional Facility for Women. The film had its world premiere at the 2003 Sundance
Film Festival, where it received the Freedom of Expression Award; the film premiered
nationally on PBS's 'P.O.V.' PETER ASKIN (Director).
Recent NY credits: Eve Ensler's The Good Body on Broadway; Privilege
by Paul Weitz; Trumbo, starring Nathan Lane followed by a rotating
cast, including Paul Newman and Brian Dennehy; Mike O'Malley's Searching For
Certainty; John Leguizamo's Sexaholix, Spic-O-Rama, and Mambo
Mouth. He also directed the New York, London and Los Angeles productions
of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and Dael Orlandersmith's Monster, Beauty's
Daughter and The Gimmick. Past New York credits include: Dinner With
Demons; How It Hangs; Linda Her; Beauty Marks; Ourselves Alone; Reno; Reality
Ranch; and Down An Alley Filled With Cats. Film: Peter has written
(and co-written) a number of screenplays including Smithereens and Paramount
Classic's Company Man (which he also co-directed with Doug McGrath),
with Sigourney Weaver, John Turturro and Woody Allen. He recently finished adapting
Martin Millar's Good Fairies of New York, and is currently adapting Someone
Else's Child by Nancy Woodruff. Television: Peter directed the HBO production
of Spic-O-Rama for which he won a Cable Ace. He was the Supervising Producer
for John Leguizamo's HBO/Fox comedy series 'House of Buggin'.' 
ROBERT
BRILL (Set Designer).
His designs include the Broadway revival of Assassins (Tony nomination) as well
as the set and club design for the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of Cabaret
at both the KitKatKlub and the legendary Studio 54 in New York and for all
US and International Tours. His other designs for Broadway include A Streetcar
Named Desire, The Good Body, Laugh Whore, Anna in the Tropics, Design For Living,
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Buried Child, The Rehearsal and the
upcoming Broadway revival of The Wiz. His other credits include On The Record
for Disney Theatrical, Monsters, Inc for Feld Entertainment, Sinatra
for Radio City Music Hall, An American In Paris for Boston Ballet,
A Clockwork Orange for Steppenwolf Theatre, The Laramie Project (New
York, Denver, Berkeley, La Jolla), L'incoronazione Di Poppea for Chicago
Opera Theatre and The House of Martin Guerre for the Goodman Theatre.
A founding member of Sledgehammer Theatre, he has designed for The Whitney Museum
of American Art, Lincoln Center Theatre, NYSF/Public Theatre, Manhattan Theatre
Club, Roundabout, Atlantic, New York Stage and Film, New York Theatre Workshop,
McCarter Theatre, The Goodman, Steppenwolf, The Guthrie, Denver Center Theatre,
Berkeley Repertory, Mark Taper Forum, La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe, Oregon Shakespeare
Festival, South Coast Repertory, American Conservatory Theater and for numerous
other theaters around the country. SUSAN
HILFERTY (Costume Designer).
Recent Broadway credits include Wicked (2004 Tony, Outer Critics Circle
and Drama Desk awards), Assassins, Into the Woods (Tony and Drama Desk
noms.; Hewes Award), Dirty Blonde and Jitney. Off-Broadway includes
the premiere of Eve Ensler's Necessary Targets and sets and costumes
for the upcoming Rodney's Wife at Playwrights Horizons. She has designed
more than 300 productions here and abroad with such directors as Athol Fugard
(with whom she has worked as co-director and/or set and costume designer since
1980), Joe Mantello, James Lapine, Robert Falls, Tony Kushner, Robert Woodruff,
JoAnne Akalaitis, the late Garland Wright, Mark Lamos, Frank Galati, Des McAnuff,
Sharon Ott, David Petrarca, Chris Ashley, David Warren, Marion McClinton, Laurie
Anderson, Carole Rothman, Garry Hynes, David Jones, Gordon Edelstein, Emily Mann
and Judith Jamison. Chair of the department of design at NYU's Tisch School of
the Arts, Hilferty also designs for opera, film, TV and dance. Her many awards
include a 2000 Obie for sustained excellence. KEVIN
ADAMS (Lighting Design).
Broadway includes Take Me Out, John Leguizamo's Sexaholix, Hedda
Gabler, A Class Act and An Almost Holy Picture with Kevin Bacon.
For his work Off-Broadway, which includes the original productions of Hedwig
and the Angry Inch and Rinde Eckert's And God Created Whales, he
received an Obie for Sustained Excellence in Lighting. Other Off-Broadway productions
include the Public Theater, MTC, the Roundabout, Playwrights Horizons, CSC, P.S.
122, Second Stage and the Foundry Theatre. Recent opera: The Mines of Sulfur
(Glimmerglass Opera) and Osvaldo Goligov's Ainadamar featuring Dawn
Upshaw (Tanglewood and Disney Hall). Other productions include Steppenwolf Theatre,
Donmar Warehouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Kennedy Center, Atlanta Ballet,
Canadian Opera Co. and concerts by Audra McDonald, the Indigo Girls and The Magnetic
Fields. Solo artists he has designed for include Anna Deavere Smith, Eric Bogosian,
Sandra Bernhard, Rachel Rosenthal and John Fleck, one of the 'NEA 4.' DAVID
VAN TIEGHEM (Original Music and Sound Design). Broadway: Doubt; A Touch
of The Poet; A Naked Girl on the Appian Way; Frozen; Reckless; The Constant Wife;
The Crucible; Judgment at Nuremberg; The Best Man; Uncle Vanya; Night Must Fall;
Twyla Tharp on Broadway. Off-Broadway: The Paris Letter; Woman Before A Glass;
The Beard of Avon; The Long Christmas Ride Home; The Baltimore Waltz; Wit; How
I Learned to Drive; The Grey Zone; A Question of Mercy; Stop Kiss; Cellini; The
Dying Gaul; The Glory of Living; A Few Stout Individuals; The Late Henry Moss;
Flesh and Blood; The Stendhal Syndrome; The Mercy Seat; The Mineola Twins; Corpus
Christi; As Bees in Honey Drown. Film: Eye of God; Working Girls; Penn & Teller;
The Wooster Group. Dance: Twyla Tharp; Doug Varone; Michael Moschen; Boston Ballet;
Pennsylvania Ballet; Dawn Saito; Hilary Easton. Percussionist: Laurie Anderson;
Talking Heads; Brian Eno; Steve Reich; Ryuichi Sakamoto. Solo performances: Carnegie
Hall; Lincoln Center; BAM; 'Late Night With David Letterman;' The Kitchen; P.S.
122; Beacon Theatre. Awards/nominations: Obie; Bessie; Lortel; Drama Desk; Eddy.
CDs: Strange Cargo; Safety in Numbers; These Things Happen. Internet: www.vantieghem.com JILL
BC DU BOFF (Co-Sound Design). Broadway: The Constant Wife; The Good
Body; Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home. Off-Broadway: Well (Public); Memory
House; Spatter Pattern (Drama Desk Nom.) (Playwrights Horizons); Birdy (WPP);
Where Do We Live (Vineyard); The Architecture of Loss (NYTW);
Elephant; (Andhow!); Miss Julie (Cherry Lane) (Drama Desk Nom.); Jimmy
Carter Was a Democrat (P.S. 122); The Late Henry Moss, The Baltimore
Waltz (Signature); Poona The F#@kdog (adobe). Regional: Top
Girls (Williamstown); 2005 Powerhouse Season (NYS&F) Moot The Messenger;
A Nervous Smile (Humana); Jump/Cut (Woolly Mammoth); Two Days
(Long Wharf). Television: 'Comedy Central Presents: Slovin & Allen;'
'NBC Late Fridays.' 321
THEATRICAL MANAGEMENT (General Management). Nina Essman, Nancy Nagel
Gibbs and Associates Marcia Goldberg and Lawrence Anderson's Broadway, Off-Broadway
and National Tour management credits include: Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman's
Wicked directed by Joe Mantello (Tony nominee, Best Musical); The 25th Annual
Putnam County Spelling Bee (Tony nominee, Best Musical); the revival of Man
of La Mancha directed by Jonathan Kent (Tony nominee, Best Revival of a Musical);
The Graduate starring Kathleen Turner, Jason Biggs and Alicia Silverstone
on Broadway and the National Tour starring Jerry Hall, Lorraine Bracco, Linda
Gray, Kelly McGillis and Morgan Fairchild; Lily Tomlin in The Search for Signs
of Intelligent Life in the Universe (Tony nominee, Best Revival of a Play);
Taller Than A Dwarf starring Matthew Broderick and Parker Posey; The
Lion King (Tony Award, Best Musical); the new adaptation of The Diary of
Anne Frank starring Natalie Portman and directed by James Lapine (Tony nominee,
Best Revival of a Play); Rent (Tony Award, Best Musical); Guys and Dolls
directed by Jerry Zaks (Tony Award, Best Revival of a Musical); How to Succeed
in Business Without Really Trying starring Matthew Broderick (Tony nominee,
Best Revival of a Musical); A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
starring Nathan Lane (Tony nominee, Best Revival of a Musical); Smokey Joe's
Cafe(Tony nominee, Best Musical); and the original production of 42nd Street
produced by David Merrick and directed by Gower Champion (Tony Award, Best Musical).
Off-Broadway: Eve Ensler's Obie Award-winning The Vagina Monologues at
the Westside Theatre and two simultaneous National Touring productions; De
La Guarda; Bat Boy: The Musical (Lucille Lortel Award, Best Musical); Fully
Committed; The Improbable Theatre's Lifegame; James Naughton: Street of Dreams
presented by Mike Nichols; If Love Were All starring Twiggy; Over
the River; I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change'(now in its 9th year);
Visiting Mr. Green; The Last Session; Mary Louise Wilson in Full Gallop
directed by Nicholas Martin; Smoke on the Mountain; David Sedaris' The
Santaland Diaries directed by Joe Mantello; and Sherry Glaser's Family
Secrets. 
HARRIET
NEWMAN LEVE (Producer). Broadway: Eve Ensler's The Good Body, The
Crucible starring Liam Neeson and Laura Linney, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
starring Whoopi Goldberg, Hedda Gabler starring Kate Burton, Kat
and the Kings, The Diary of Anne Frank starring Natalie Portman
and Linda Lavin, and Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight Los Angeles 1992.
Off-Broadway: STOMP, Shockheaded Peter, Eve Ensler's Necessary Targets
starring Shirley Knight and Diane Venora, Communicating Doors starring
Mary Louise Parker, and Bunny Bunny. Los Angeles productions: The Normal Heart
starring Richard Dreyfuss and Kathy Bates, Sheri Glaser's Family Secrets,
The Curse of the Starving Class, Isn't It Romantic, and Why We Have a
Body. South Africa: C. MichËle Kaplan's Jocasta Rising. Ms. Leve
is a partner in 37 Arts which is a new theatre complex of three Off-Broadway theatres.
She is also a producer of the award winning film Pulse: a STOMP Odyssey. RON
NICYNSKI (Producer).
New York: Working with Leve Productions on Eve Ensler's The Good Body, STOMP,
Shockheaded Peter, and a special presentation of At Her Feet by
South African playwright Nadia Davids. Boston productions: Hirson's La BÍte;
Auburn's Proof; McNally's Love!
Valour! Compassion!; Stoppard's Old Times; Durang's Beyond Therapy;
West Side Story; Oliver; Into the Woods; Annie; The Wizard of Oz. Las
Vegas: Wild Time starring Kat and the Kings. Positions held: Director/Executive
Producer of CPBS: South Shore Regional Theatre; Outreach Committee Chairman for
Boston College's Theatre Arts Council; Financial Director for The Dramatics Society
in Boston. MARK
A. KAPLAN (Producer) is a
founder and co-owner of an e-learning company that creates, scripts and animates
on-line training for Fortune 1000 corporations. A former actor, The Good Body
tour is his first venture as a producer and marks his enthusiastic return to the
world of theatre after a long (and not to be repeated) hiatus.
MICHELE
CROWLEY (Producer) has had a varied career spanning the fields of land
use planning, public administration, and arts administration. She spent a wonderful
year as Grants Manager of The O'Neill Theater Center and is the founder of Triple
Threat Productions, a theatrical production company. She is thrilled to be associated
with The Good Body, which marks her debut as a producer. Special thanks
to Mackensie and T.V. for their support and encouragement. ALLISON
PROUTY (Associate Producer) is the Associate Artistic Director for V-Day.
Allison has worked with Hartford Stage Company, Hangar Theatre, Williamstown Theatre
Festival, Icarus Theatre Ensemble, Stillpoint Productions and Chicago Shakespeare
Theater. She is a graduate of Skidmore College. LAURA
WAGNER (Associate Producer). Recent projects include the Broadway production
of The Good Body, Eve Ensler's Necessary Targets, How Love
is Spelt by Chloe Moss, The Name of This Play is Talking Heads by
Marc Spitz, John Walker: The Musical by Jean Strong and John McCloskey,
Jocasta Rising by C. Michele Kaplan, and the award-winning film Pulse:
a STOMP Odyssey. V-DAY
is a global movement to end violence against women and girls inspired by Eve Ensler's
The Vagina Monologues. V-Day
generates broader attention for the fight to stop worldwide violence against women,
including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation and sexual slavery.
Each year, local volunteers and college students produce annual benefit performances
of The Vagina Monologues to raise awareness and funds for anti-violence groups
within their own communities. In 2005, over 2500 V-Day benefit events were presented
by volunteer activists in the U.S. and around the world, educating millions of
people about the reality of violence against women and girls. V-Day events have
been held in 76 countries to date. In eight years, the V-Day movement has raised
more than $30 million for over over 5,000 grassroots groups, staged multimedia
and communications campaigns, and funded safe houses in Kenya, the U.S., India,
Egypt and Iraq. www.vday.org
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