Rick Cummins is an author and composer originally from western Pennsylvania. He went to Philadelphia for formal education, earning his B.S. and M.D. degrees at the University of Pennsylvania. He has lived in Marshalls Creek, Pennsylvania, and on the Upper West Side of Manhattan since 1975. He is a member of ASCAP and the Dramatists Guild. Cummins’ favorite work, Half the Sky: True Stories of Women Around the World, is based on the Chinese quote “Women hold up half the sky.” This unusual theater piece is a compilation of true stories from various news media around the world, documenting shocking gender bias still in practice today through song, dance, humor and pathos. This project was chosento headline the Festival of New Musicals at Theatre Building Chicago. As a longtime member of New York’s BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, Cummins had the opportunity to develop his theater craft under the leadership of its founder, Lehman Engel. His music, lyrics and librettosare represented in productions of  The Little Prince (New Victory Theater), That’s Life! (Outer Critics Circle Award nominee), Sherlock Holmes and the Red-Headed League (Promenade Theater, published by Samuel French), Amos & Olga (Playhouse by the River), Tiny Tim’s Christmas Carol (BAM) and Pets! (Theatre East, published by Dramatic Publishing). Cummins has written incidental music for many Shakespeare plays and American classics performed at theaters across the U.S., Canada and Europe. He has written television scripts, movie theme songs, children’s songs and cabarets. 

John Scoullar grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, and began a performing career at age 12, touring with the Bolshoi Ballet in the U.S. He eventually entered seminary but left to pursue acting and dance. Moving to New York City in the early 1970s, he appeared in several original off-Broadway casts (The Hot L Baltimore, The Crazy Locomotive and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater) as well as on Broadway (Candide, Over Here! and King of Hearts). He then turned to playwriting and penned Old Fashioned Bargain Days (Playwrights Horizons), Fitzy and Bucko and Canticle (Hartman Conservatory Theatre). With Rick Cummins, he wrote the various stage adaptations of The Little Prince, many television scripts, cabaret songs and a musical about reincarnation titled Sojourn. At the time of his death in 2011, he was working with Joseph Kavanaugh on The Legend of Finn McCool and Hello, Dears, in which he played an endearing waitress at a Manhattan diner. After moving to New York City, Scoullar married his sweetheart, actor Linda Robbins, who in 1981 appeared on Broadway in Amadeus. Months later, their son, Nicholas, was born and given the middle name Amadeus. Nicholas (joined by his wife, Faryl) continues in Scoullar’s footsteps as a screenwriter under the name Nick Amadeus. 

GUTHRIE Refugia, The Comedy of Errors, Triumph of Love, A Party for Two (tour). THEATER Co-Artistic Director, The Moving Company (selected): Come Hell and High Water, Refugia, Anamnesis; Former Co-Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Theatre de la Jeune Lune, 1978–2008 (selected directing credits): The Kitchen, Lulu, The Bourgeois Gentleman, Romeo and Juliet, Children of Paradise: Shooting a Dream, The Three Musketeers, Queen Elizabeth, Tartuffe, Gulliver, The Seagull, The Miser. OPERA The Magic Flute, Così Fan Tutte, Don Giovanni, Figaro, Carmen, María de Buenos Aires, Mefistofele. AWARDS 2005 Regional Theatre Tony Award (Theatre de la Jeune Lune); American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award and Pulitzer Prize nomination (Children of Paradise: Shooting a Dream); Knighted by the French government in the Order of Arts and Letters in 2003. TRAINING École Jacques Lecoq, Paris 

GUTHRIE What the Constitution Means to Me, Clybourne Park, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. THEATER Broadway: How I Learned to Drive, Hadestown, What the Constitution Means to Me, Latin History for Morons; Recent work: Good Night, Oscar (Goodman Theatre); Sandra (Vineyard Theatre); F*ck7thGrade (Wild Project); Confederates (Signature Theatre); Swept Away (Berkeley Rep); The Wrong Man (MCC Theater); The Garden (Baltimore Center Stage/La Jolla Playhouse); 72 Miles To Go… (Roundabout Theatre Company); Hurricane Diane (NYTW); Othello, Twelfth Night (The Public Theater/Shakespeare in the Park); The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova); You’ll Still Call Me By Name (Sonya Tayeh/Jacob’s Pillow). AWARDS Princess Grace Award; Lilly Award; Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Award nominations; Jeff Award (Good Night Oscar); Obie Award for Sustained Excellence; Tony Award (Hadestown) 

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Jedermann (Salzburg Festival, Austria); Off-Broadway/Regional: God’s Ear (Vineyard Theatre); Ocean Filibuster (A.R.T.); Pig Iron Theatre Company; Talking Band; PearlDamour; Restless Productions; The Lake Lucille Project (14 seasons); The Juilliard School (15 seasons); Company XIV (seven seasons); Arden Theatre Company (10 seasons); Trinity Rep (10 seasons); Berkshire Theatre Festival (14 seasons); Long Wharf Theatre; Two River Theater; PlayMakers Repertory Company; Cal Shakes; Santa Cruz Shakespeare; Folger Theatre; Huntington Theatre Company; Shakespeare Theatre Company; Cleveland Play House; Barrington Stage Company; Chautauqua Theater Company. FILM/TELEVISION I Am a Seagull (The Chekhov Project). OTHER Member of Local USA 829; U.S. National Exhibit at the Prague Quadrennial; Curtain Call: Celebrating a Century of Women Designing for Live Performance; Costume at the Turn of the Century; Vesuario a Scena; SENA-OISTAT (Morocco). AWARDS NEA/TCG Career Development Program; TDF/Irene Sharaff Young Master Award; IT Award; Barrymore Award; Bessie Award for Outstanding Costume Design. TRAINING Academy of Applied Arts (Belgrade, Serbia); University of Connecticut. www.oliveragajic.com 

GUTHRIE A Christmas Carol, Twelfth Night, The Bluest Eye. THEATER Broadway: The Skin of Our Teeth (Tony Award nomination); New York: Greater Clements, Pipeline (Lincoln Center Theater); Fabulation, In the Blood, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (Signature Theatre); Dreaming Zenzile, The House That Will Not Stand, Red Speedo (NYTW); Thunderbodies, Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again., FUTURITY (Soho Rep); Actually (Manhattan Theatre Club); Regional: Yale Repertory Theatre; Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Mark Taper Forum; Dallas Theater Center; Wilma Theater; A.C.T.; Berkeley Rep; Huntington Theatre Company; McCarter Theatre Center; International: Theaternatur Festival (Germany). OPERA Norwegian National Opera; Detroit Opera; Opera Omaha; ArtsEmerson; Curtis Institute of Music; Prototype Festival; Hong Kong Arts Festival. DANCE Sasha Waltz & Guests (Germany); Ballet de Lorraine (France). UPCOMING Lyric Opera of Chicago; Opera Philadelphia; Opera Colorado. AWARDS 2019 Henry Hewes Design Award; 2016 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Theatre. www.yi-zhao.com 

GUTHRIE What the Constitution Means to Me, Noura. THEATER Broadway: What the Constitution Means to Me; National Tours: What the Constitution Means to Me, What To Send Up When It Goes Down; Off-Broadway: Which Way to the Stage, To All the Natalie Portmans (MCC Theater); Cullud Wattah, The Vagrant Trilogy (The Public Theater); English, Shhhh (Atlantic Theater Company); Wish You Were Here, What To Send Up... (Playwrights Horizons); To My Girls (Second Stage Theater); Montag (Soho Rep); Letters From Max (Signature Theatre); What the Constitution Means to Me (NYTW/Clubbed Thumb); Novenas for a Lost Hospital (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); What To Send Up…, And She Would Stand Like This (The Movement Theatre Company); Hamlet (Waterwell); Intelligence (Next Door at NYTW); Richard in 9 Poses (Clubbed Thumb); Regional: The Kennedy Center; Yale Repertory Theatre; Berkeley Rep; Williamstown Theatre Festival; Mark Taper Forum; Geva Theatre Center; TheatreWorks Silicon Valley; PlayMakers Repertory Company; Weston Playhouse; Dorset Theatre Festival; Two River Theater; TheatreSquared. TRAINING M.F.A., Yale School of Drama. www.sinanzafar.com 

GUTHRIE More than 75 productions since 1996, including The Little Prince, A Christmas Carol, Sally & Tom, Sweat, The Tempest, Noura, Cyrano de Bergerac, As You Like It, Frankenstein – Playing With Fire, West Side Story, Familiar, Sunday in the Park With George, King Lear, The Lion in Winter, Disgraced, The 39 Steps, Peer Gynt, His Girl Friday and Sweeney Todd. THEATER Dramaturgy for The Acting Company (The Comedy of Errors, Henry V); University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Acting Program; Hammerstein Center; NYU Tisch School of the Arts; Augsburg University (Cymbeline directed by Darcey Engen). PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Member of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA). TRAINING M.F.A., Columbia University; B.A., Augsburg University

GUTHRIE Refugia, The Parchman Hour and more than 80 productions since the 1990–1991 Season. THEATER Voice, Text and Dialect Coach: Next Wave Festival (BAM); Theatre de la Jeune Lune; Jungle Theater; Theater Mu; Children’s Theatre Company; Minnesota Opera; North Star Opera; Numerous productions at area colleges; Multimedia theater pieces: Co-Director, Composer and Performer: Labyrinth (Space-Space); Circling (Guthrie Lab). FILM/TELEVISION Dialect Consultant: Sugar & Spice, The Naked Man, The Parent Trap, The Mighty Ducks. OTHER Several recordings, numerous concerts and workshops throughout the U.S. and Brazil; Co-Director, Arts on Lafond. TEACHING University of Minnesota; Hamline University; The University of Utah; Guthrie Theater; Private studio teaching for voice, dialects, text and acting 

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Open Eye Theatre: The Red Shoes, To the Moon, My Life as a Fairytale; Ten Thousand Things: Artist Core member since 2008; Selected productions: Dirt Sticks, My Fair Lady, As You Like It, Othello; Illusion Theater: A Play by Barb and Carl; Children’s Theatre Company: Cinderella; Sod House Theater: The Hoopla Train; Jungle Theater: Noises Off; History Theatre: Stewardess!; Live Action Set: Please Don’t Blow Up Mr. Boban. CHOREOGRAPHY TigerLion Arts: Nature (national tour); Ten Thousand Things: The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Dear World, Park and Lake; Sod House Theater: Table. FILM/TELEVISION E.G. Bailey's New Neighbors (Sundance Film Festival). TEACHING University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Acting Program; Upstream Arts. AWARDS Sage Award for Dance Performance; McKnight Theater Artist Fellowship. TRAINING B.F.A., Modern Dance, The University of Utah 

GUTHRIE Born With Teeth, Blues for an Alabama Sky, The Little Prince, Vietgone, Sweat, Emma, Twelfth Night, Noura, Floyd’s, Guys and Dolls, Metamorphoses, As You Like It, Noises Off, Frankenstein – Playing With Fire, Indecent, Watch on the Rhine, Native Gardens, Refugia, The Bluest Eye, The Royal Family, The Parchman Hour. THEATER Ordway: Jesus Christ Superstar, The Pirates of Penzance; Minnesota Opera: Carmen; Park Square Theatre: Hamlet; Commonweal Theatre Company: The Three Musketeers; St. Paul Ballet: Carmen; Red Bird Theatre: A Bright Room Called Day, Buried Child, Time To Burn; Gremlin Theatre: Dial M for Murder; Theatre Pro Rata: The Illusion, Henry V; Lyric Arts: The Girl on the Train, Superior Donuts, Leading Ladies; Theatre in the Round: The Three Musketeers; Old Log Theatre: The Play That Goes Wrong. FILM/TELEVISION Stunt Coordinator: Bitcon, Profile of a Killer; Utility Stunts: Marmalade, Body Language, Christmas Break-In, Thin Ice. TRAINING Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre; London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art; Society of American Fight Directors. www.fakefighting.com

GUTHRIE Stage Manager: Vietgone, Guys and Dolls; Assistant Stage Manager: A Raisin in the Sun.  THEATER Broadway: Fosse, The Best Man, Holiday; Off-Broadway: Head of Passes with Phylicia Rashad (The Public Theater); Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theatre for a New Audience); The Legend of Georgia McBride (MCC Theater); Gloria (Vineyard Theatre); Incident at Vichy, Big Love (Signature Theatre); Into the Woods, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Shakespeare in the Park); Fiction, Talley’s Folly (Roundabout Theatre Company); The Shaggs, The Burnt Part Boys (Playwrights Horizons); The Good Times Are Killing Me (Second Stage Theater/Minetta Lane Theatre); A Civil War Christmas (New York Theatre Workshop/Long Wharf Theatre); The Wolves (New York Stage and Film/The Playwrights Realm); Regional: The Age of Innocence (Hartford Stage/McCarter Theatre Center); Sousatzka (Toronto); Joseph… (Ordway); Alley Theatre; Trinity Rep; Kansas City Repertory Theatre. OPERA Minnesota Opera; Indianapolis Opera; Opera Memphis; New York City Opera (two seasons). TRAINING B.A./B.S., Bemidji State University

GUTHRIE Stage Manager: A Raisin in the Sun; Assistant Stage Manager: The Little Prince. THEATER Park Square Theatre: More than 20 productions, including Holmes and Watson, The Rocky Horror Show, Jefferson Township Sparkling Junior Talent Pageant, Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Diary of Anne Frank; Yellow Tree Theatre: A Streetcar Named Desire, Another Miracle on Christmas Lake, Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood; History Theatre: Diesel Heart, Parks: A Portrait of a Young Artist, Not for Sale; Collide Theatrical Dance Company: Romeo and Juliet; Theater Latté Da: Candide, Beautiful Thing; Artistry: Follies. TRAINING B.A., Theatre Arts, University of Minnesota

GUTHRIE Member of the Artistic Team since 2003; More than 60 productions, workshops and readings since 2015, including Hamlet, Blues for an Alabama Sky, The Little Prince, Sally & Tom, Vietgone, Sweat, Emma, A Raisin in the Sun, The Tempest, A Christmas Carol, History Plays Workshop, Dickens’ Holiday Classic, Twelfth Night, Noura, Floyd’s, West Side Story, BAD NEWS! i was there…, Familiar (with Seattle Rep), Watch on the Rhine (with Berkeley Rep), Native Gardens (with Arena Stage) and Disgraced (with McCarter Theatre Center/Milwaukee Rep). FILM/TELEVISION Master Servant (Casting Consultant). TEACHING Audition master classes for the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Acting Program; Macalester College; SMU; Other universities in Minnesota and the U.S. TRAINING B.A., Theatre, Minnesota State University Moorhead