Emily Mann

Director / Playwright

Emily Mann is a Tony-nominated director and playwright and a Tony Award-winning Artistic Director.  In her 30 years as Artistic Director and Resident Playwright at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey, she wrote 15 new plays and adaptations, directed over 50 productions, produced 180 plays and musicals, and supported and directed the work of emerging and legendary playwrights including Ntozake Shange, Athol Fugard, Edward Albee, Christopher Durang, Nilo Cruz, Joyce Carol Oates, Tarell Alvin McCraney and Danai Gurira and is known for her productions of Williams, Lorca, Chekhov, and Shakespeare.  On Broadway, she directed her own plays Execution of Justice and Having Our Say, Nilo Cruz’s Anna in the Tropics and A Streetcar Named Desire.  Her other plays include: Still Life; Annulla, An Autobiography; Greensboro (A Requiem); Meshugah; Mrs. Packard;  Gloria: A Life which aired on PBS’  Great Performances. and The Pianist, a play with music. Her adaptations include: Baby Doll, Scenes from a Marriage, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, A Seagull in the Hamptons, The House of Bernarda Alba, and Antigone.  She recently premiered On Cedar Street, a new musical co-written with Lucy Simon, Carmel Dean and Susan Birkenhead.  Awards include: Peabody, Guggenheim, Hull Warriner, NAACP, 6 Obies; Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, WGA nominations; Princeton University Honorary Doctorate of Arts; Helen Merrill Distinguished Playwrights’ Award; Margo Jones Award; TCG Visionary Leadership Award; The Lilly Award and Gordon Davidson Awards both for Lifetime Achievement in the Theater.  She has recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award from The Dramatists Guild in Playwriting and is a proud member of The Dramatists Guild Council.  She has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Theater Hall of Fame. She has just completed writing a new play, Code Red, due for production in the coming year.  

Zach Appelman

CTC: Death of a Salesman, Arcadia, The Winter’s Tale, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Broadway: War Horse. Off-Broadway: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (TFANA); Troilus & Cressida (The Public Theater); The Beacon (Irish Repertory Theatre). Regional: Henry V (The Folger Theater); Hamlet (Hartford Stage); Arms & The Man (The Old Globe); Romeo & Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); The Engagement Party (Hartford Stage). TV: “Sleepy Hollow,” “Homeland,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Special Ops: Lioness,” “The Good Fight,” “The Resident,” “Chicago PD,” “Bull,” “Blue Bloods,” “New Amsterdam,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “FBI,” “God Friended Me,” “The Passage,” and “Beauty & The Beast.” Film: “Like Father” and “Kill Your Darlings.” Audiobooks: All the Light We Cannot See, Hamlet and Julius Caesar (The Folger Library). Awards: CT Critics Circle Award (Hamlet, The Engagement Party); Audie Award & Earphones Award (All the Light We Cannot See). Education: BFA UC Santa Barbara; MFA Yale School of Drama.

Matthew Saldívar

CTC: Build, The Light and the Dark. Broadway: Junk, Act One (Lincoln Center Theater), Peter and the Starcatcher, A Streetcar Named Desire, Saint Joan, Bernhardt/Hamlet, Honeymoon in Vegas, The Wedding Singer, Grease. Regional: Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare Theater Company); Guys and Dolls, Spamalot (The Kennedy Center); productions for Hartford Stage, Bay Street Theater, Mark Taper Forum, Long Wharf, Williamstown, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, and six productions for The Guthrie Theater among others. Off-Broadway: The Merchant of Venice (TFANA/The Royal Lyceum Theater, Edinburgh, Scotland); Hadestown, Architecture of Loss (NY Theater Workshop); Hamlet, Massacre (The Public); and productions at MTC, Classic Stage Company, Women’s Project, TFANA, NY Shakespeare Festival, 2nd Stage, Atlantic, Blue Light, New World Stages, Primary Stages, NY City Center, Signature Theater among others. Tour: Luther Billis in LCT’s South Pacific. TV: “Dying for Sex,” “The Other Two,” “Live from Lincoln Center,” “Rent: Live on Fox,” “The Code,” “The Good Cop,” and “Elementary” among others.  Education: M.A./B.A. Middlebury College, MFA NYU. 

Frank Wood

CTC: first season. Broadway: Side Man, Great Society, Network, Iceman Cometh, Clybourne Park, August: Osage County, Born Yesterday, Hollywood Arms. Off-Broadway: Hold on to Me Darling (The Lucille Lortel Theatre), The Meeting: The Interpreter (St. Clement’s), Toros (Second Stage), The Best We Could (MTC), and numerous productions at Signature Theatre, Vineyard Theatre, Lincoln Center, Atlantic Theatre, and Playwrights Horizons. Film: “She Said,” “Joker,” “St. Vincent,” “Changeling,” “Dan in Real Life,” “Thirteen Days,” “In America,” “Down to You,” “Royal Tenenbaums.” TV (select credits): “Billions,” “Blacklist,” “The Night Of,” “Mozart in the Jungle,” “Newsroom,” “Girls,” “Sopranos,” “Flight of the Conchords” and “Law & Order: SVU” (recurring). Regional: McCarter Theatre, ACT, Long Wharf, Goodman Theatre, Arena Stage. Nominations: Drama Desk (Hold on to Me Darling); Lucille Lortel Award (Toros). Awards: Tony Award, Drama League Award (Sideman). Education: B.A. Wesleyan; MFA, NYU Graduate Acting.