F. Murray Abraham has appeared in more than 80 films including Amadeus, for which he received the Academy Award for Best Actor as well as Golden Globe and L.A. Film Critics Awards. His film credits also include The Name of the Rose, Finding Forrester, Scarface, The Ritz, Star Trek: Insurrection, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Inside Llewyn Davis, How to Train Your Dragon 3, House of Geraniums, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Where Love Begins, Robin Hood, and Lady and the Tramp, where he sang “This Is the Night, Bella Notte.”

Mr. Abraham recently starred in the second season of HBO’s “The White Lotus,” for which he received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. He can currently be seen in the HBO limited series “The White House Plumbers” as “Judge John Sirica.” Previously, he was a series regular on “Homeland” (two Emmy nominations) and had memorable appearances on “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “The Good Wife,” “The Good Fight,” “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” “Mythic Quest,” “Marco Polo,” “Louie,” “Shakespeare Uncovered,” and “Chimerica” for the BBC. Additionally, he was featured on Guillermo del Toro’s critically acclaimed Netflix anthology series “10 After Midnight” in the role of “Dr. Winters.”

A veteran of the stage, Mr. Abraham has appeared in more than 90 plays, among them Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya (Obie Award), Trumbo; Standup Shakespeare; the Italian tour of Notturno Pirandelliano; Susan Stroman’s A Christmas Carol; the musical Triumph of Love; A Month in the Country; the title roles in Cyrano de Bergerac, King Lear, Macbeth, Richard III, and The Merchant of Venice in rep with The Jew of Malta, which he did at Stratford on Avon with the RSC; The Seagull; Oedipus Rex; Creon; Angels In America (Broadway); Arthur Miller’s last play, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan; Waiting for Godot; The Caretaker; The Ritz; Sexual Perversity in Chicago; Duck Variations; A Life in the Theatre; Paper Doll; The Threepenny Opera; The Mentor; and Terrence McNally’s It’s Only a Play (Drama Desk Award nomination). He made his Los Angeles debut in Ray Bradbury’s The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit and his New York debut as a Macy’s Santa Claus, appearing soon thereafter on Broadway in The Man in the Glass Booth, directed by Harold Pinter.

Mr. Abraham’s book, A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Actors on Shakespeare, is published by Faber & Faber. He is proud to be the spokesman for The MultiFaith Alliance.

Honors include the Moscow Art Theatre Stanislavski Award, the Sir John Gielgud Award for Excellence in Shakespeare, and an Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement. He is also a member of the New York Theater Hall of Fame.

In addition to WICKED, currently in its twenty-second year on Broadway and playing all over the world, Stephen Schwartz has contributed music and/or lyrics to GODSPELL, PIPPIN, THE MAGIC SHOW, THE BAKER’S WIFE, WORKING, RAGS, and CHILDREN OF EDEN.  For film, he collaborated with Alan Menken on the songs for Disney’s POCAHONTAS, THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME and ENCHANTED, wrote the songs for the DreamWorks animated feature THE PRINCE OF EGYPT, and most recently, co-wrote the score for WICKED Part I. Mr. Schwartz has been inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame and has been given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Awards include three Academy Awards, four Grammy Awards, and the Isabelle Stevenson special Tony Award for his support of young theater artists.

Lindsey is a playwright whose work includes The Fear of 13 (Donmar Warehouse; Olivier Award nominations for Best New Play and Best Actor, starring Adrien Brody), The Queen of Versailles (The Colonial Theatre), Ugly Lies the Bone (Roundabout Theatre Company; The National Theatre, UK; NYT Critic’s Pick), Amy and the Orphans (Roundabout Theatre Company), This Flat Earth (Playwrights Horizons), The Year to Come (La Jolla Playhouse), The Artist (Theatre Royal Plymouth).

According to The New York Times, Lindsey writes with “a muscular empathy, which seeks to enter the minds of people for whom life is often a struggle of heroic proportions.” Whether writing about a female burn survivor or the first leading role for a person with Down syndrome, she has been called “a brave playwright of dauntless conviction, whose unflinching portraits are hard to come by outside of journalism,” and she possesses “a moral compass second to none among her generation of playwrights” (Variety).

Lindsey is also an accomplished screenwriter with various projects in development. Most recently announced, she is writing and directing a film adaptation of her celebrated play Amy and the Orphans (Aggregate Pictures), writing a project based on Hugh Hefner’s Playboy empire (Sony), and adapting Rebecca Yarros’ beloved novel In the Likely Event (Netflix).

Lindsey is the recipient of the 2016 Kesselring Prize, a Laurents/Hatcher Citation of Excellence, the ASCAP Cole Porter Playwriting Prize, the Catalyst Award for Entertainment Industry Excellence, the Paul Newman Drama Award, the NYU Distinguished Young Alumna Award. BFA, NYU; MFA, Hunter; and the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.

Mary-Mitchell Campbell is a Grammy Award–winning musician and currently the Musical Director for Encores! at City Center. She has been the Music Supervisor or Music Director for multiple Broadway shows, including Some Like It Hot, Mean Girls, The Prom, Tuck Everlasting, Finding Neverland, Big Fish, The Addams Family, Company, and Sweeney Todd. She has conducted the Chicago Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, and the Nashville Symphony, and she was recently named an Imagination Artist and conductor for the Colorado Symphony. Mary-Mitchell is passionate about arts education and access to arts education for marginalized communities. She is the Founder of Arts Ignite (artsignite.org), which recruits and trains high-level artists to teach young people health education and life skills through the arts. She is very active in Maestra (maestramusic.org) and MUSE: Musicians United for Social Equity.

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Christopher and Lauren are NYC-based choreographers, performers, and teachers. Christopher grew up in Mississippi, backyard tumbling and imitating music videos. He received his BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from the University of Southern Mississippi. Lauren, a native New Yorker, was born a mover and grew up studying ballet, jazz, and modern dance. She received her BFA in Dance with honors from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Their worlds collided when they began dancing professionally with Pilobolus Dance Theater. There they fell in love and toured the world for eight years. They also helped create and performed the internationally acclaimed hit Shadowland. After leaving the company, they performed both on and off-Broadway, in a wide range of immersive theater, music videos, TV, and film.

Christopher and Lauren carry a collaborative spirit of play and creation throughout the work that they do, both as performers and choreographers. Their passion is bringing stories to life through imaginative movement, athleticism, and partnership. Upcoming + Recent Choreography Highlights Include: Tony Award Winning Parade (Broadway), associate directing/choreographing a new immersive show from the producers of Sleep No More; Ragtime (Bay Street Theater).

Performance credits include Alien/Nation (Williamstown Theatre Festival); King Kong, Alive on Broadway; Apple’s holiday spot, “Sway”; Virgin Galactic/Under Armour Spacewear reveal; Spike Jonze’s Changers, A Dance Story; Advil PM’s “Dancing Around Pain”; Seeing You; Fuerza Bruta Wayra; Queen of the Night; “The Royal Variety Performance for the Queen of England”; and “The Conan O’Brien Show.” They also host Vanity Fair’s YouTube series “Movies in Motion.”

Michael Arden (director) received the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry’s Parade, which also received the Tony for Best Revival of a Musical. He was previously nominated for his Tony Winning Broadway revival of Once on This Island, and Deaf West Theatre’s Spring Awakening. His production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, starring Jefferson Mays, played the Nederlander Theatre and the film version is available on streaming platforms. He is currently represented on Broadway with the new musical Maybe Happy Ending by Will Aronson and Hue Park, playing the Belasco Theater. Other directing credits include Merrily We Roll Along at the Wallis Annenberg, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Geffen Hall, and the site-specific works American Dream Study, and ALIEN/NATION. He will also direct the upcoming musical The Lost Boys, opening Spring 2026 at The Palace Theater.