Creative Team

Annie Baker’s (Playwright) plays have been developed and performed at the Soho Rep, Atlantic Theater Company, Playwrights Horizons, the Ontological-Hysteric, the Magic Theatre (New Voices West), the Brick, EST, and the 2007 Bay Area Playwrights Festival. She is the recipient of a Sloan Foundation Grant for screenwriting and a Michener Fellowship in playwriting. She graduated from the Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and was a member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab.

Anders Cato (Director) feels honored to beback at George Street Playhouse, where he directed I Am My Own Wife, Doubt, Souvenir,and The Seafarer. He has worked extensively at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, where he recently directed Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years and a new adaptation of Ibsen’s Ghosts. Other directing credits include War, and Craig Lucas’ adaptation of Miss Julie at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in New York, When the World Was Green at American Repertory Theater and Moscow Art Theatre, Blood Orange at Cherry Lane Theatre, A Dream Play at Westbeth Theatre, The War in Heaven at La Jolla Playhouse, All My Sons, Tango Palace, and In Berlin at 7 Stages, an adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment at Cleveland Playhouse, Mrs. Warren’s Profession at The Alley Theatre in Houston, and Texts for Nothing at The Royal Court Theatre in London

R. Michael Miller (Scenic Design) For George Street Playhouse, Mr. Miller most recently designed the acclaimed production of The Seafarer. Previous designs have included Roger Is Dead; The Sunshine Boys; The Value of Names; Inspecting Carol; Lend Me a Tenor; Lips Together, Teeth Apart; Proof; The Sisters Rosensweig; Public Ghosts – Private Stories; The Taming of the Shrew; Of Mice and Men; The Mousetrap; Shirley Valentine; The Council of Thirty and Loot. Mr. Miller designed the Broadway, off-Broadway, Los Angeles, and six other regional productions of Stephen Temperley’s Souvenir, directed by Vivian Matalon. He hasdesigned for regional theatres across the country and has a long-term relationship with The Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge, MA. He was the American Associate Set Designer for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Broadway musical Aspects of Love, designed by Maria Bjornson .Mr. Miller has an MFA degree from the University of Washington and is a member of United Scenic Artists. He is currently Head of Design and Production for the Department of Theater Arts, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.

Joe Saint (Lighting Design). Other GSP designs include: Creating Claire, New Year’s Eve, The Seafarer, Celadine, Attacks on the Heart, Agnes of God, Talley’s Folley, Ancestral Voices, Wit, and After-Play. Off-Broadway: Lake Hollywood, Cotton Patch Gospel, Pledge of Allegiance and Dates and Nuts. Regional credits include plays at Seattle Rep, Virginia Stage Co, Worcester Foothills Theatre and North Shore Music Theatre, and operas at Nashville Opera, the Brevard Music Center, the Boston Center for the Arts and Boston Musica Viva. Joe is the founder and President of IMCD Lighting, Inc., (www.imcdlighting.com) a lighting design company providing lighting design and production services to the private and corporate event markets. Since incorporating in 2006, IMCD has provided the lighting for over 200 events for such clients as IMG Fashion (New York Fashion Week), Hugo Boss, Prada, Calvin Klein, MLB.com, Nokia, American Express, Playboy, Project Runway, the Guggenheim and many more.

Jennifer Moeller (Costume Design) Most recently, Ms. Moeller created the costumes for GSP’s The Seafarer. Recent credits include Six Degrees of Separation for the WilliamstownTheatre Festival, Sweeney Todd for Barrington Stage,Happy Now? for Primary Stages, Richard II, Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesarand Tamburlaine (Helen Hayes Award nomination)and Richard III for the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Crooked (sets) and Aliens With Extraordinary Skills for The Women’s Project, Waiting for Godot for The Berkshire Theatre Festival (directed by Anders Cato), Dance of the Holy Ghosts for Yale Rep. She holds a BA from Dartmouth College and a MFA from Yale School of Drama.

Christopher J. Bailey (Sound Design) This season marks Mr. Bailey’s thirteenth at George Street Playhouse, and seventh as Production Manager, having previously served the Playhouse as Technical Coordinator and Sound and Lighting Manager. He was the Sound Designer for the off-Broadway productions of The Fourth Wall at Primary Stages, Down The Garden Paths at the Minetta Lane Theatre, and numerous productions at the Pearl Theatre. His designs at GSP include scenic and sound design for the touring productions IRL: In Real Life; Wasted, Tomato Plant Girl, Tomboy, The Last Bridge, and the sound design for And Then They Came For Me, Hip-Hop Shakespeare. Mainstage designs include the sound design for Creating Claire; Come Back, Come Back, Wherever You Are; New Year’s Eve; The Devil’s Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith; The Seafarer and Doubt ; lighting and sound design for Sight Unseen, The Sunshine Boys, The Things You Least Expect, Inspecting Carol and Lend Me a Tenor. Previous season’s designs include sound design for The Value of Names, Souvenir, The Pillowman, 2 Lives, Wilderness of Mirrors, Attacks on the Heart, A Walk in the Woods, Agnes of God, The Seagull, Down The Garden Paths, Master Class, Loot, Ancestral Voices, Wit, Human Events, Venecia,Harold Pinter’s Old Times, Arthur Laurents’ Claudia Lazlo, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, Talley’s Folly, A Night in Tunisia, Double Play and The Last Bridge as well as the lighting design for Oscar and the Pink Lady; Falsettos; Gunmetal Blues; The Last Five Years; tick, tick…BOOM!; Proof; Lips Together, Teeth Apart; The Sisters Rosensweig and Public Ghosts –Private Stories. Mr. Bailey is a member of United Scenic Artists.

Thomas Clewell (Production Stage Manager) Off-Broadway, Mr. Clewell has stage managed The Spitfire Grill, The Last Session, Smoke On the Mountain, The Film Society, De La Guarda Villa Villa, and Anne Meara’s Down the Garden Paths with Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach. For Westport Country Playhouse, he stage managed Don’t Make Me Laugh with Gene Wilder and Carol Kane. His regional credits include productions for the Kennedy Center, Huntington Theatre Company, Long Wharf Theatre and Arena Stage. This year is Mr. Clewell’s ninteenth year as resident Stage Manager for George Street Playhouse.