NICK WHITBY Nick Whitby’s first play, Dirty Dishes, was performed at the Edinburgh festival and afterwards in more than 20 productions across Europe. He has since worked extensively in film and TV in England, including contributing sketches for Channel 4’s Emmy Award-winning series “Smack the Pony” and most recently the drama documentary “Last Flight to Kuwait” for the BBC. He returned to writing plays in 2000 with To the Green Fields Beyond, directed by Sam Mendes at the Donmar, London. He lives in Cornwall in the west of England from where he runs his own touring theatre company, True West.
CASEY NICHOLAW (Director) received 2006 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for his work on The Drowsy Chaperone and 2005 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Choreography for Monty Python’s Spamalot. Additional New York credits include direction and choreography for Follies (Encores!); choreography for Bye Bye Birdie (Encores!); Candide (NY Philharmonic, “PBS Great Performances”); South Pacific (Carnegie Hall, “PBS Great Performances”); musical staging for Can-Can (Encores!); Sinatra: His Voice. His World. His Way (Radio City Music Hall). Other choreography: Lucky Duck (Old Globe), The Road to Hollywood (Goodspeed). His next project is directing and choreographing Minsky’s, a new musical premiering at the Ahmanson in Los Angeles in January.