The Swan - Off-Broadway Creative Team

John Gromada (Composer/Sound Designer) has composed music or designed sound for more 40 Broadway productions, including All My Sons, Torch Song, The Elephant Man, The Trip to Bountiful with Cicely Tyson (Tony nomination), Gore Vidal's The Best Man (Drama Desk Award), Clybourne Park, Seminar, Man and Boy, The Columnist, Next Fall, A Bronx Tale, Prelude to a Kiss, Proof, A Streetcar Named Desire, Twelve Angry Men, and the original A Few Good Men. His other New York credits include Amy and the Orphans, Bruce Norris' Domesticated, Old Hats, Measure for Measure (Delacorte Theater), The Orphans? Home Cycle (Drama Desk ... read more Kline won a scholarship to the Juilliard School’s drama division in 1970. In 1972, he co-founded the City Center Acting Company (now The Acting Company), touring nationally in classical repertory productions and The Robber Bridegroom. He appeared on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow (1976) and returned to the stage in Dance on a Country Grave (1977). He won his first Tony Award for On the Twentieth Century (1978) and a second Tony for The Pirates of Penzance (1980), later reprising the role in the film version (1983). His New York Shakespeare Festival credits included Richard III (1983), Henry V ... read more Kenneth Posner designs extensively on Broadway, off-Broadway, for resident theatres, and touring productions throughout the United States as well as internationally. Some of his Broadway work includes Pretty Woman, Mean Girls, War Paint, Tuck Everlasting, On Your Feet, If/Then, Kinky Boots, Pippin, Cinderella, Hairspray, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Legally Blonde, The Coast of Utopia-Shipwrecked, and Wicked. He is the recipient of the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics’ Circle and OBIE Awards. THE PUBLIC is theater of, by, and for all people. Artist-driven, radically inclusive, and fundamentally democratic, The Public continues the work of its visionary founder Joe Papp as a civic institution engaging, both on-stage and off, with some of the most important ideas and social issues of today. Conceived over 60 years ago as one of the nation's first nonprofit theaters, The Public has long operated on the principles that theater is an essential cultural force and that art and culture belong to everyone. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Patrick Willingham, The Public's wide ... read more Waters is currently working as a freelance director. From 2012-2018, he served as the Artistic Director of the Actors Theatre of Louisville. At Actors Theatre, Waters’ directing credits included the world premieres of Mark Schultz's "Evocation to Visible Appearance", Anne Washburn's and Dave Malloy's "Little Bunny Foo Foo", Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas’ Recent Alien Abductions, Sarah Ruhl’s For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday, Chuck Mee’s The Glory of the World, Naomi Iizuka’s At the Vanishing Point, Lucas Hnath’s The Christians, and Will Eno’s Gnit. Additional directing credits at Actors Theatre include Macbeth, Luna Gale, Our Town, Girlfriend and Long Day’s Journey ... read more Theatre directing credits include The Iceman Cometh, Shuffle Along, or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (NY Drama Critics' Circle Award and Drama Desk Award for Best Musical); Lucky Guy; The Normal Heart (Drama Desk); Jelly's Last Jam (Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award); Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (Tony Award and Drama Desk) and Perestroika (Drama Desk); Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk (Tony and Drama League Award); Topdog/Underdog (Obie Award); Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (Drama Desk); Elaine Stritch at Liberty (Tony for Special Theatrical Event); The Tempest; Caroline, or ... read more David C. Woolard has designed costumes at most of the major theatres in America as well as productions all over the world. He has dressed many personalities including Jane Fonda, Betty Buckley, Liz Mikel, Quentin Tarantino and Billy Crystal among others. Broadway credits include BRONX BOMBERS, FIRST DATE, LYSISTRATA JONES, WEST SIDE STORY, Jane Fonda’s clothing for 33 VARIATIONS, DIVIDING THE ESTATE, THE FARNSWORTH INVENTION, RING OF FIRE, ALL SHOOK UP, THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW (2001 Tony Award nomination) VOICES IN THE DARK, THE WHO’S TOMMY (1993 Tony and Olivier Award nominations) BELLS ARE RINGING, MARLENE, WAIT UNTIL DARK, Horton Foote’s ... read more