Pride Plays - Off-Broadway Creative Team

McNally has had a remarkably far-ranging career spanning six decades. In 2018 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is a recipient of the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award and the Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award. He has won four Tony Awards for his plays Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class and his musical books for Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime. He has written a number of TV scripts, including "Andre's Mother," for which he won an Emmy Award. He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, four Drama Desk Awards, two ... read more Caroline Prugh writes for the stage. Recent New York productions include the musical PINWHEEL! (random access theatre; 2015 NYIT Nomination for Outstanding Musical), and the plays: IT'S ONLY KICKBALL STUPID (kef productions; The Advocate’s NYC Lesbian Stage Highlights of 2014), NO PROVENANCE (written with Kate Holland & produced by Justin Cornell/FringeNYC 2014), and CLEAR COLD PLACE (vilde chaya collective & David Carpenter). Recent readings/workshops include: NIGHT AT THE BIG CHIEF MOTEL (Holland New Voices Award, 2016 Great Plains Theatre Conference) and TIL DEATH DO US PART (with composer/lyricist Bobby Cronin) part of 2015-16 Overtures Series at The Gallery Players (directed ... read more Regional: TRIBES (Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, dir. Evan Cabnet), TAPE and END DAYS (Vineyard Playhouse, dir. Claudia Weill), SICK (Berkshire Theatre Group, dir. David Auburn), STUPID KIDS (Celebration Theatre, LA Weekly Award and LADCC Nomination). Film: Grantham & Rose (also writer, dir. Kristin Hanggi), He’s Way More Famous Than You (also co-writer, dir. Michael Urie), Shelf Life, Woven (also co-writer). TV: “Ugly Betty,” “Tanner on Tanner,” “Star Trek: Voyager.” Web Series: “What’s Your Emergency” (co-created with Halley Feiffer, Stage17.tv). Recently graduated from Juilliard. Jonathan Tolins is known for his plays BUYER & CELLAR, THE LAST SUNDAY IN JUNE, and THE TWILIGHT OF THE GOLDS. He co-wrote the movies THE TWILIGHT OF THE GOLDS and MARTIAN CHILD. For television, he has written for QUEER AS FOLK, PARTNERS, and BRAINDEAD. Paula Vogel is Playwright in Residence at Yale Repertory Theatre. Indecent was commissioned by Oregon Shakespeare Festival's American Revolutions and Yale Repertory Theatre in close collaboration with director Rebecca Taichman, and co-produced by La Jolla Playhouse. Indecent was developed at the Sundance Theatre Lab in 2013 and has been produced at Yale Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse and the Vineyard Theatre. Her play How I Learned To Drive received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Lortel Prize, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and New York Drama Critics Awards for Best Play, as well as her second Obie Award. Other ... read more Michael Benjamin Washington (Bernard). Broadway: Joe Mantello’s 50th Anniversary revival of The Boys in the Band (also the Netflix film); the Jerry Zaks revival of La Cage Aux Folles; Mamma Mia! (OBC) at the Winter Garden. Off-Broadway: Signature Theatre’s revival of Anna Deavere’s solo show Fire in the Mirror (Outer Critics, Drama League Awards); Stephen Sondheim’s Saturday Night at Second Stage (Nonesuch Records). Television: Mindy Kailing’s “Not Suitable for Work;” ‘James Baldwin’ in “Godfather of Harlem;” “Ratched;” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt;” “American Auto;” “30 Rock;” “Law and Order;” “Glee;” among others. He is co-book writer of Disney’s forthcoming Polly! directed by ... read more é boylan (they/them) is a director/creator/composer developing new work towards trans liberation. Past selected honors include: 2019 Trans Lab Fellow, 2019-20 MTC Directing Fellow, 2020 NAMT Award. Currently: Member of Roundabout Theatre Company’s Directors Group, Resident Artist at Musical Theater Factory and Lincoln Center Theater. Broadway: Be More Chill (Lyceum Theater). Off-Broadway: Be More Chill (Signature and Two River Theaters), The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (Theaterworks USA/National Tour), Buyer & Cellar (Rattlestick and Barrow Street Theaters/National Tour/London’s Menier Chocolate Factory), The Mad Ones (Prospect Theater), Ultimate Beauty Bible (Page 73), Wringer (NYCCT), Carnival Kids (Lesser America), The Correspondent (Rattlestick), After (Partial Comfort), The Material World(Dixon Place), Be A Good Little Widow (Ars Nova), and The Tenant (Woodshed Collective). Regional: Significant Other (Geffen Playhouse), I Now Pronounce (Humana Festival), Le Switch (About Face), The Great Pretender (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley). Upcoming: Fall Springs at Barrington ... read more Sheryl Kaller is an accomplished director and Tony Award nominee known for her work on Broadway and off-Broadway productions. She has directed numerous plays and musicals, and is highly respected in the theater community. Kaller was born in New York City and grew up in a family of artists. Her father was a painter and her mother was a dancer, which gave her an early exposure to the arts. She attended the High School of Performing Arts in New York City and later studied theater at Boston University. Kaller began her career as a director in the 1990s, working on off-Broadway productions. ... read more