Young Playwrights Festival (1987) - Off-Broadway Creative Team

Pamela Mshana, PhD Author, Educator and Inspirational Speaker, Pamela Mshana is a multitalented visionary who is a servant leader. She obtained a BFA in dramatic writing at New York University's TISCH school of the Arts, an MFA in Education at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, California and a PHD in Urban Leadership at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. As an author and writer she is currently planning the debut of her first novel, Girls in Search of Cover. She has been recognized as an award winning playwright by The Dramatists Guild in ... read more Broadway: Tony nominations for Noises Off, Machinal and The Constant Wife; plus Charlie Brown, Twelve Angry Men, Heisenberg, new plays by Joe di Pietro, Stephen Belber, Nicky Silver and Elaine May; and the current What the Constitution Means to Me. Off-Broadway: Premieres by Edward Albee, Christopher Durang, John Guare, Teresa Rebeck, Sarah Treem, John Kander/Greg Pierce, Will Eno, Lauren Yee, Lisa Loom-er, Donald Marguilies, and many more. He teaches in the graduate program at Brown University. Derek McLane received a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award Honour for his work on Moulin Rouge! The Musical. He has designed over 350 productions for Broadway, Off-Broadway, internationally and for TV. His over 40 credits include Burn This, The Parisian Woman, Anything Goes, The Price, Fully Committed, Beautiful, Ragtime, I Am My Own Wife and 33 Variations (Tony Award). He has designed the Academy Awards for six years (Emmy Award) and has designed four live musicals for NBC, including “Hairspray” (Emmy Award).