Lori Smith Bajorek doesn’t understand the meaning of the word, “no,” which is an excellent quality for a first-time theatrical producer. She has managed to attract a highly-regarded, veteran Broadway team for her first project, and is equally adept at attracting investors. Born and raised in upstate New York, Ms. Bajorek trained as a dancer at the University of Buffalo before realizing that she wasn’t cut out to be a starving artist. In her first year as an insurance agent, she generated more than $1,000,000. The following year, she started her own insurance agency, The Bajorek Agency, in Pittsford, NY, where she now resides with her husband, Ronald G. Bajorek, Jr. and her children, Alia and Trip.

In addition to being Executive Producer, Donald C. Farber, Esq. is the attorney for the production. Having made a name for himself with the long-running musical, The Fantasticks, Farber is also the author of ten books on producing theatre and other aspects of the entertainment industry, and the general editor of the ten-volume set, Entertainment Industry Contracts. Mr. Farber has taught Producing Theatre in law schools all over the U.S. and Canada and at the New School for Social Research in New York City.

Michael McGoff has worked with Director Mark Lamos on Broadway as Production Stage Manager and Associate Director on Cymbeline, The Rivals and Seascape. Other Broadway credits include Festen, Butley and Wicked. McGoff has worked extensively Off-Broadway and regionally, as well as with two joyous productions in The Public's Shakespeare In the Park, As You Like It and Romeo & Juliet. He produced the Regional Premiere of PHAMALy's Side Show at the Denver Center.

Jared C. Neff is currently working in the nation’s capital at the Tony Award-winning Arena Stage. Before that, Neff coordinated several concerts and Broadway tours for the Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri, where he also studied Stage Management at the Webster University Conservatory of Theatre Arts.

John Quinlivan is a Theatrical Management and Production professional with more than 25 years of experience in the business. He received his BFA from Purchase College’s Theatre Conservatory in 1987. Quinlivan has worked for various theatre companies including The Tri-Cities Opera, Pepsico Summerfare and a 20-year stint at Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, NY, where he was Managing Director from 2002 – 2007.

Our Casting Director

Tara Rubin has cast more than two dozen Broadway musicals in the last five years, including Spamalot, Jersey Boys, Mary Poppins, The 25^th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee, Mamma Mia! and The Producers (as well as its film version). She also casts for Second Stage Theatre Company, Yale Rep, La Jolla Playhouse and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Most recent work includes Young Frankenstein, Shrek and The Little Mermaid. Rubin is an honors graduate of Boston University and a board member of the Casting Society of America.

Our General Manager

Charlotte Wilcox has managed a number of plays, some of which are: (Broadway)

The Drowsy Chaperone, The Times They Are A-Changin’, The Wedding Singer, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Bombay Dreams, Taboo, By Jeeves, The Full Monty, Jesus Christ Superstar, Ragtime, Chicago, Grease!, Damn Yankees, Play On, On the Waterfront, Fiddler on the Roof and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. (Tours) Sunset Boulevard, Ragtime, Grease!, Damn Yankees, Busker Alley, City of Angels, Oba Oba, Chicago, Steel Magnolias, On Your Toes and La Scala Ballet.

Fred Lassen is currently Associate Conductor for the multiple 2008 Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of South Pacific. He was Conductor for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Assistant Conductor and pianist for 42^nd Street and Assistant Music Director and keyboardist of the Kit Kat Band in Cabaret.

Mark Lamos is a Tony Award-nominated director as well as a manager, producer and actor. During his reign at the Hartford Stage as Artistic Director from 1980 to 1997, the company won the 1989 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. Hartford’s productions of Einstein and the Polar Bear, Is There Life After High School?, Stand-Up Tragedy and Our Country's Good all transferred to Broadway. Lamos himself directed the last (Nederlander), which was nominated for two Tony Awards in 1991: Best Direction of a Play and Best Play. Additional New York directing credits include Cymbeline, Seascape and The Rivals (Lincoln Center), The Deep Blue Sea (Roundabout) and The Gershwins'Fascinating Rhythm (Off Broadway). Lamos also directed Much Ado About Nothing for the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C., Giuseppe Verdi's I Lombardi at the Metropolitan Opera House, and John Harbison's operatic adaptations of Winter’s Tale and The Great Gatsby.

Creative Team

Set Design: Michael Yeargan LCT: South Pacific (Tony and Outer Critics Circle Award noms., Drama Desk Award), Cymbeline, Awake and Sing! (Drama Desk Award, Tony nomination), Edward Albee's Seascape, The Light in the Piazza (Tony and Drama Desk Awards, Outer Critics Circle Award nom.). Broadway: The Ritz (original production); Hay Fever with Rosemary Harris; Ah, Wilderness! with Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhurst; A Lesson From Aloes; as well as many credits Off-Broadway and in regional theatre. London: Becket, Cyrano de Bergerac. Opera: Metropolitan Opera (Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Otello, Ariadne auf Naxos, Cos� fan Tutte, Don Giovanni, Susanna, The Great Gatsby), NY City Opera (Norma, Madama Butterfly, Tosca, La Finta Giardiniera, Central Park) as well as work at major opera companies throughout the United States, Europe and Australia.

Costunes: Jane Greenwood has designed costumes for many Broadway musicals including Once Upon a Mattress, The Little Foxes, An American Daughter, Psychopathia Sexualis, Master Class, Passion, She Loves Me, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Burton's Hamlet, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Same Time, Next Year, California Suite, Medea, Plenty, Heartbreak House, The Iceman Cometh, Ah, Wilderness!, Long Days Journey Into Night, Our Town. She has also worked extensively at Lincoln Center Theater and the worlds of Opera, Dance and Film. She is on the faculty of Yale Drama School. Born in Dallas, Texas, John Arnone began his theatrical career as an actor and switched to design in 1976. His designs for Broadway include Turgenyev's Fortune's Fool, The Full Monty, Edward Albee's The Goat, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying directed by Des McAnuff, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, Sacrilege with Ellen Burstyn, The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public, Grease! for Tommy Tune, Sex and Longing directed by Garland Wright, The Deep Blue Sea with Blythe Danner, Patio/Porch, Lone Star/Pvt. Wars, Marlene, Minnelli on Minnelli. Gore Vidal's The Best Man and Arthur Miller's The Ride Down Mt. Morgan. He received two Obies for outstanding excellence and sustained achievement in set designs and the Los Angeles Theater Critics, Dora Mavor Moore, Outer Critics Circle, American Theater Wing, Drama Desk and Tony Awards for The Who's Tommy. The Who's Tommy also was nominated for an Olivier award. Arnone's work has been seen at the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Guthrie, ACT, the Globe and La Jolla Playhouse as well as in productions in London, Vienna, Frankfurt, Berlin and Prague. He also designed the recent productions of Albee's The Play About the Baby and Tiny Alice.

Sound: Scott Stauffer Broadway Credits: The Rivals, Contact, Marie Christine, Twelfth Night, Jekyll And Hyde.  Children and Art-Steven Sondheim’s 75^th birthday celebration.  The Actors Fund concerts of Hair and On the Twentieth Century.  Off Broadway: Seth’s Broadway 101, The Glorious Ones, Bernarda Alba, Third, Belle Epoque, Big Bill, Elegies, Hello Again, The Spitfire Grill, Dancing On Her Knees, Cowgirls, Pageant, Theda Bara, Hedwig And The Angry Inch, Lincoln Center’s American Songbook (last ten seasons), Live From Lincoln Center with Audra McDonald and The New York Philharmonic.  Regional: Centerstage, The Berkshire Theater Festival, Chicago Shakespeare, Alley Theater.  As Sound Engineer: The Lion King, Juan Darien, Chronicle Of A Death Foretold, Carousel, Once On This Island, Conversations With MY Father, Little Shop of Horrors.

Lighting:Robert Wierzel (born July 1, 1956) is an American lighting designer.
Mr. Wierzel is well known for his work in the American regional theatre, with national and international opera companies, museum installations, and dance. For twenty-three years he has been a collaborator with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and Bill T. Jones Dance Company. Mr. Wierzel's work has been seen with the following companiesGlimmerglass Opera, New York City Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Candian Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, Florida Grand Opera, Folk Opera of Sweden, Gotham Chamber Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Lincoln Center Great Performances, Lyric Opera of Chicago, L'Operade of Montreal, Manhattan School of Music, Minnesota Opera, Nashville Opera, Opera Cleveland, Opera Columbus, Opera Omaha, Pittsburgh Opera, Portland Opera, San Diego Opera, San Francisco Opera, Seattle Opera, Toyko Opera, Utah Opera and Symphony, Vancouver Opera, Virginia Opera,Washington Opera, Doug Varone and Dancers, Donna Uchizono Dance Company, Trisha Brown Dance Company, Sean Curran Dance Company, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Diversions Dance Company, Alonzo's King's Ballet, Lyon Opera Ballet, Larry Goldhuber Dance, Boston Ballet, London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Berlin Opera Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Company, Connecticut Ballet, Paul Hall Contemporary Dance Theatre, Alliance Theatre Company, A Contemporary Theatre of Seattle, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, A.C.T. American Conservatory Theatre, Alley Theatre, A.R.T. American Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, Asolo Theatre Company, Berkley Repertory Theatre, California Shakespeare Festival, Center Stage, Center Theatre Group Los Angeles, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Minneapolis Children's Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, Dallas Theatre Center, Delaware Theatre Company, Georgestreet Playhouse, Geva Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, The Guthrie Theatre, Hartford Stage Company, Huntington Theatre Company, Indiana Repertory Theatre Company]], Long Wharf Theatre, Los Angeles Theatre, The Magic Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Merrimack Theatre Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, New Mexico Repertory Theatre, Old Globe Theatre, People's Light and Theatre Company, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Pittsburgh City Theatre, Playmakers Repertory Theatre, Portland Stage Company, Royal Alexander Theatre, Toronto, Canada]], St. Louis Repertory Theatre, Santa Fe Stages, Shakespeare Theater Washington D.C., Signature Theatre Company, Syracuse Stage, Virginia Stage Company, Westport Country Playhouse, and Yale Repertory Theater. Robert Wierzel is a multiple award winner. He has earned the Primetime Emmy Award, Obie Award, and Bessie Award along with several nominations for his work including multiple Audelco Award nominations, Joseph Jefferson Award nomination, Barrymore Award nomination, Helen Hayes Design Award nomination, and LA Theatre Ovation Award. In 1991 Mr. Wierzel was the recipient of the American Theatre Wing Lighting Design Award for his work with Philip Glass on Hydrogen Jukebox.
He teaches in the graduate lighting design program at New York University Tisch School of the Arts Department of Design for Stage and Film. Mr. Wierzel resides in the New York City metropolitan area with his family.
 

Choreography: Chase Brock: Broadway Credits: Wonderful Town as Assistant to the Choreographer, Kathleen Marshall; The Look of Love as Assistant to the Choreographer, Ann Reinking; and in the original cast of Susan Stroman’s revival of The Music Man.  Off Broadway; Assistant Director, Miracle Brothers, directed by Tina Landau.  New York Direction/Choreography: Second Generation’s Concert of Excellence honoring Pat Morita (Jazz at Lincoln Center); GlaxoSmithKline Marketing Excellence Awards (Copacabana Club).  New York Choreography: Nothing Like a Dame 2005 Opening Number starring Paife Davis and Lea DeLaria; Broadway in Bryant Park 2004 opening Number starring Karen Ziemba; Nothing Like a Dame 2004 Opening Number starring Sutton Foster and Kren Ziemba; Season of Pride and Absolutely 80’s (Skirball center for the Performing Arts); and original works for The Remember Project, New York City Festival of Dance, and The Elan Awards honoring Ann Reinking.  Film Choreography: Love, Mom, starring Tonya Pinkins; The Mostly Unbelievable, Nearly Inconceivable, Facial Liberation of Mask Guy.   Regional Choreography: Aida (Gateway Playhouse), Yank! A New WWII Musical (Arcadia Stage/Arden Theatre), Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (also conceived/co-adapted).  Assistant Direction: Robert Wilson’s workshops for Manzanar, Carmen, and The Temptation of St Anthony; Beauty and the Beast (Fox Theatre, North Carolina Theatre).  Corporate Choreography: Vaseline Intensive Care, NYC & Company, laxoSmithKline.  Choreographer, New York City Gay Men’s Chorus.  Recipient of the 2004 DRA Award for Fundraising and Advocacy from Dancers Responding to AIDS.  Completed a residency at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, 2002.  Alumnus, Anne Reinking’s Broadway.