Creative

STEPHAN ELLIOTT

STEPHAN ELLIOTT (Book) saw a drag queen's feathered plume rolling down the street like a tumbleweed from a Sergio Leone western. In that single moment he created Priscilla Queen of the Desert. The image still haunts him.

ALLAN SCOTT

ALLAN SCOTT (Book, Producer) Allan Scott has written and/or produced over 20 feature films. From Don't Look Now, recently voted by the BFI one of the ten best of all time, and Regeneration to The Preacher's Wife, with Denzel Washington and Whitney Huston, In Love And War with Sandra Bullock and the cult thriller Shallow Grave, his work has been eclectic. He claims to be the only writer/producer to have chaired a public company (Macallan-Glenlivet plc) and a trades union (The Writers' Guild) at the same time. His next adaptation for the stage is the film Trading Places in which, so far, only one character wears a frock.

SIMON PHILLIPS

SIMON PHILLIPS (Director). During the past thirty years Simon has worked as a director and dramaturge on new works, classics, musicals and operas in Australasia, Japan and Europe. In 2000 he was appointed Artistic Director of the Melbourne Theatre Company, and most recently he has received 'Best Director' awards for his Australian productions of 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, August: Osage County and Richard III.

ROSS COLEMAN

ROSS COLEMAN (Choreographer) is known for his immense contribution as director/choreographer to Australia's musical theatre. Multiple Helpmann Award nominee and winner, his credits include Urinetown, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Rocky Horror Show, Grease, Cabaret and Priscilla. International work includes Hedwig and the Angry Inch, High Society (UK tour), The Demon (Bregenzerfestspiel, Austria), The Demon (Zurich Opernhaus), The Merry Widow (Metropole Theatre and Friedrichstaadtplast, Berlin, St. Petersburg Music Hall) and Pomp, Duck and Circumstance (Berlin and New York). Ross died in 2009 and is greatly missed by everyone involved with Priscilla.

BRIAN THOMSON

BRIAN THOMSON (Scenic Design). Born and educated in Sydney, Australia Brian studied architecture before venturing into theatre design. He was invited to London to design Jesus Christ Superstar at the Palace Theatre then designed the original productions of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and the cult movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show before returning to Sydney as Associate Director of the Sydney Theatre Company. For Broadway he designed The King and I (Tony Award) and Dame Edna Back With A Vengeance. He designed the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games closing Ceremony, designs the Sydney New Years Eve Bridge Effect and was awarded an Order Of Australia (AM) in 2005.

TIM CHAPPEL and LIZZY GARDINER

TIM CHAPPEL and LIZZY GARDINER (Costume Design). Tim began as a ladies cutter at Sydney Theatre Company before meeting Lizzy and moving into film and television. Together they have won an Academy Award, a BAFTA and an Australian Film Industry award for their work on the film version of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Lizzy made Oscar fashion history when she wore a dress made completely of Gold American Express Cards. For Priscilla, the Musical they were awarded the Australian Helpmann, the Green Room Award and an Olivier Award.

NICK SCHLIEPER

NICK SCHLIEPER (Lighting Design). Australian born Nick Schlieper has designed lighting for opera and theatre internationally, across Europe, Canada and the United States, and for all the major companies in Australia. Work in Europe includes productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the State Theatres of Berlin, Hamburg and Munich as well as productions in Vienna, Stuttgart, at the Hamburg State Opera and Theatre Clwyd in Wales. Notable credits include Wagner's Ring Cycle in Adelaide, Hedda Gabler and A Streetcar Named Desire in Washington and New York. His designs have also won four Melbourne Green Room Awards, two Sydney Theatre Critics Awards and two Helpmann Awards.

JONATHAN DEANS

JONATHAN DEANS (Sound Design). Recent Broadway credits include La Cage aux Folles, Young Frankenstein, Pirate Queen, Lestat, Taboo, Follies, Seussical, Music Man, Fosse, Parade. His work with Cirque du Soleil includes Viva Elvis, OVO, Love, Ka, Zumanity, O, Mystere, La Nouba, Corteo. He was nominated for a Tony award in 2010 and has been presented with a USITT award for 'Distinguished Career in Sound Design.'

PETER FITZGERALD

PETER FITZGERALD (Sound Design). Current: Ghetto Klown, Freckleface Strawberry, Burn The Floor. Noted designs: Your Welcome America, Movin' Out, Paul Simon's The Capeman and 42nd Street. President of Sound Associates. With wife Maritza the proud parent of daughters Lori & Mallori.

STEPHEN 'SPUD' MURPHY

STEPHEN 'SPUD' MURPHY (Orchestrations, Musical Supervision, Arrangements). Green Room Award, Helpmann Award nom. for Priscilla. Other credits: Godspell, Evita, Reg Livermore's Firing Squad and Big Sister (co-composer), Buddy, Shout, Dusty (2006 Helpmann - Best Musical Direction). Film: Thunderstuck. TV: "In Sydney Today," "Starstruck," "The Pam Ann Show." Mo and Rotary Awards for contributions to the Australian music industry. Artistic director - Sydney's CaSPA (Catholic Schools Performing Arts); lecturer at the Australian Institute of Music. Composer/orchestrator for His Holiness Pope Benedict's arrival in Sydney for World Youth Day (2008).

CHARLIE HULL

CHARLIE HULL (Orchestrations). Responsible for orchestrations and synthesizer programming in major musicals and concerts in Australia, USA, UK, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Japan - Priscilla, Burn the Floor, Saturday Night Fever, Fame and more.

JEFFREY KLITZ

JEFFREY KLITZ (Music Director). Broadway: Music Director/Conductor - Guys & Dolls, Lennon, Hot Feet; Conductor/Choral Arranger - Song and Dance, On Your Toes; other: Chicago, Grand Hotel, Stardust. Acts: Judy Collins, Joel Grey, Betty Buckley, Tommy Tune, others. National/regional: Music Director - The House of Martin Guerre (Goodman Theater, Joseph Jefferson Award); Arranger - Best Little Whorehouse (Ann-Margaret tour); others. Studio work: Producer/Arranger - Tony Award-nominee Judy Kuhn's CD, Serious Playground; Arranger/Orchestrator - Tony Award-winner Victoria Clark's CD, Fifteen Seconds of Grace; others. TV/film: Lucas, Dumbo II, "All My Children," others. Arranger/Producer for Paul McCartney's music publishing house, MPL Music Publishing. Degree in music from Yale. Love to Celeste, Isabella, Sophia, Juliette.

JOHN MILLER

JOHN MILLER (Music Coordinator). Broadway (over 100 shows, including): Elf, La Cage aux Folles, Sondheim on Sondheim, A Little Night Music, Rock of Ages, Burn the Floor, Jersey Boys, Ragtime, Hairspray, Young Frankenstein, The Producers, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park..., Tommy, Les Misérables, Nine, Follies, Beauty & the Beast, Movin' Out, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Urinetown, Grey Gardens, Oklahoma!, Smokey Joe's Caf'e, Fosse, Footloose, Titanic. Studio musician (bass): Michael Jackson, Madonna, Peter, Paul and Mary, Eric Clapton, BB King, Sinatra, Carly Simon, Celine Dion, Pete Seeger, NY Philharmonic. His album Stage Door Johnny - John Miller: Takes on Broadway is available on PS Classics Records. www.johnmillerbass.com.

TELSEY + COMPANY

TELSEY + COMPANY (Casting). Broadway/Tours: Elf, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Spiderman Turn Off The Dark, A Life in the Theatre, Million Dollar Quartet, The Addams Family, Memphis, Next to Normal, Rock of Ages, In the Heights, Wicked, 9 to 5, South Pacific, Peepshow in Vegas. Off-Broadway: Atlantic, MCC, Signature. Film: Margin Call, Howl, Sex and the City 1 & 2, Jonah Hex, Main Street, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, I Love You Phillip Morris, Rachel Getting Married, Dan in Real Life, Then She Found Me, Across the Universe, Ira & Abby, Rent, Pieces of April, Camp, The Grey Zone, Finding Forrester, The Bone Collector. TV: "Ugly Betty" (pilot), "Whoopi," HBO's "Undefeated," commercials.

DEAN BRYANT

DEAN BRYANT (Associate Director). Director: Next to Normal (MTC), Anything Goes (Production Company), The Last Five Years (Helpmann nom), Writer/Director: Virgins: A Musical Threesome (NYMF), Once We Lived Here (Green Room award), Newley Discovered, I’m Every Woman (Best Cabaret), Liza (on an E), Britney Spears: The Cabaret, In Vogue: Songs by Madonna. Writer: Prodigal (York Theatre Company), The Silver Donkey. www.bryantandfrank.com

ANDREW HALLSWORTH

ANDREW HALLSWORTH (Associate Choreographer). Andrew choreographed the MTC's production of The Drowsy Chaperone, the original production of Eurobeat - Almost Eurovision, revived for the West End. Menopause - the Musical. Leader of the Pack, Sideshow Alley, The Merry Widow and Cabaret's Tegrity and Newley Discovered. Television credits "We Can Be Heroes," "Dead Gorgeous" for ABC/BBC TV, "The Librarians" for ABC and "So You Think You Can Dance Australia." For The Production Company, choreographing Carousel, Mame, The Boy Friend, The Boy from Oz and as co-choreographer with Ross Coleman on The Music Man and Bye Bye Birdie.

DAVID BENKEN

DAVID BENKEN (Technical Supervisor). Broadway: Come Fly Away, The Little Mermaid, The Seafarer, Mary Poppins, The Lion King, The History Boys, The Woman in White, Democracy, The Boy From Oz, Jumpers. Tours: Dreamgirls, Mary Poppins, The Lion King. Las Vegas: The Lion King, Phantom Las Vegas.

DAVID HYSLOP

DAVID HYSLOP (Production Stage Manager). Broadway credits include Chicago, La Cage aux Folles (revival), Primo, Democracy, Life (x) 3, Bobbi Boland, The Rocky Horror Show, The Blue Room, Jekyll & Hyde, Sixteen Wounded, The Smell of the Kill, Into the Woods (revival), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Diary of Anne Frank, An Ideal Husband, A Few Good Men, My Fair Lady, On the Waterfront, Grease and Grand Hotel. Off-Broadway: The Cocktail Hour, Marvin's Room and several productions at the Actors Studio and Playwrights Horizons. Most recently: Laurie and Jack Lovefest at Gasbag Players in Tenafly, NJ.

MAHLON KRUSE

MAHLON KRUSE (Stage Manager). Broadway: Original companies of Monty Python's Spamalot, Man of La Mancha (revival), Oklahoma! (revival), The Lion King, Barbara Cook's Broadway, Barbara Cook's Mostly Sondheim and Miss Saigon. Other Broadway credits include Avenue Q, Mamma Mia, A Thousand Clowns, Aida, numerous concerts, benefits, readings and one-offs. National Tours: Miss Saigon, The Phantom of the Opera. International: served as Production Supervisor for original productions of Spamalot in Las Vegas, London and the national tour, as well as the Stuttgart, Manila and Asia tour companies of Miss Saigon.

MEGAN SCHNEID

MEGAN SCHNEID (Assistant Stage Manager). Broadway: A Tale of Two Cities, LoveMusik, Hairspray, All Shook Up. Tours: Twelve Angry Men, Irving Berlin's White Christmas. Off-Broadway & beyond: Paradise Found (Menier Chocolate Factory, London), Falling for Eve (York), Richard III (Public Theater), Debbie Does Dallas (Jane Street), Bad Dates (Playwrights Horizons), Over the River and Through the Woods (John Houseman), plus numerous theatres around the country. Megan is a proud member of AEA. Love to Mark, all her M's, & her parents.

NATHAN K. CLAUS

NATHAN K. CLAUS (Assistant Stage Manager). Broadway: God of Carnage; The Norman Conquests; David Mamet's November. Off-Broadway (selected credits): Shout!; Perfect Harmony; First Breeze of Summer; Grey Gardens; Blackbird; No Foreigners Beyond This Point; Superpowers

B.J. HOLT

B.J. HOLT (General Manager). Broadway, West End and international management credits: Chicago, Sweet Charity, Wonderful Town, Fosse, Seussical, Miss Saigon, Les Misérables, La Cage aux Folles.

ALECIA PARKER

ALECIA PARKER (Executive Producer) serves as executive producer of La Cage aux Folles, The Scottsboro Boys, worldwide productions of Chicago and international productions of Rock of Ages. Other credits, spanning over 30 years include: Executive Producer of Sweet Charity, Wonderful Town, Seussical; Associate Producer of Annie Get Your Gun, My Thing of Love, Grease, My Fair Lady, Falsettos, Fiddler on the Roof, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Cabaret; Zorba starring Anthony Quinn; General Manager for Othello, Medea, Your Arms Too Short to Box With God, the international tours of My One and Only, Gypsy, Bye Bye Birdie and Macbeth. She is the proud mother of Michael, a freshman at Washington University in St. Louis, MO.

KEN SUNSHINE

KEN SUNSHINE (Associate Producer). Longtime public relations and political consultant Ken Sunshine is making his Broadway producing debut. Sunshine is founder and President of Sunshine, Sachs and Associates, a New York and Los Angeles based consulting firm that represents many of the nation's most prominent entertainment personalities and organizations, media companies, nonprofits and health care institutions. He formerly served as Chief of Staff to the Mayor of New York and as a consultant to many national and local political campaigns.

BETTE MIDLER

BETTE MIDLER (Producer). Bette Midler made her Broadway debut in Fiddler on the Roof, and even then, she understood the importance of doing matinees. Her remarkable career started while singing in New York bathhouses, where she was given the name, "The Divine Miss M." Her record debut, "The Divine Miss M," earned her a Grammy Award for Best New Artist. In 1979, Bette made her film debut in portraying a doomed and self destructive rock & roll singer in The Rose, for which she earned the Golden Globe for Best Actress, Academy Award nomination, and Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal performance. In 1988 Bette starred in Beaches, and received her third Grammy Award, Record of the Year, for the film's title song, "Wind Beneath My Wings." Midler garnered her second Best Actress Golden Globe and Academy Award nomination for Mark Rydell's For The Boys. Additional film credits include: Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Ruthless People, Big Business, Scene's From a Mall, Hocus Pocus, The First Wives Club, The Stepford Wives, Then She Found Me and The Women. This past January she concluded her critically acclaimed Vegas extravaganza The Showgirl Must Go On at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, with over 200 performances that were seen by over a half-million people in two years. Forty years, four Grammys, four Golden Globes, three Emmys, a Tony Award and tons of record-breaking performances since she hit the scene, the "Divine Miss M" is still going strong.

JAMES L. NEDERLANDER

JAMES L. NEDERLANDER (Producer). President of the Nederlander Organization son of James M. Nederlander (Chairman). He is the third generation of a family known for owning and operating theatres around the world as well as theatrical productions, cultural presentations and popular music attractions. Among Mr. Nederlander's producing credits are Peter Brook's The Tragedy of Carmen (special Tony Award), Billy Joel and Twyla Tharp's Movin' Out and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf starring Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin. Current productions on Broadway include West Side Story, Million Dollar Quartet, Next to Normal, The Addams Family and Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.

GARRY McQUINN and LIZ KOOPS

GARRY McQUINN and LIZ KOOPS (Producers). Garry and Liz are the Managing Directors of Back Row Productions. Back Row has successfully developed and presented innovative productions throughout the world, beginning in Australia over fifteen years ago. Past productions have included Slava's Snowshow, Cats, Chicago, Bounce, Circus Oz, Gumboots, Lady Salsa, Fosse and Mum's the Word. Back Row is presently touring Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake, the longest-running contemporary ballet on both Broadway and the West End. Following a sell-out season in London's prestigious Sadler's Wells theatre, the 15th anniversary tour has included Europe, Asia, Australia and North America. Back Row is currently producing the hit Australian show Tap Dogs throughout the world, and productions of Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical at the Palace Theatre in London's West End and on Broadway (after a season at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto). Further productions are planned for Brazil, Germany, Scandinavia and Singapore. Forthcoming plans include the stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's Through A Glass Darkly.

MICHAEL HAMLYN

MICHAEL HAMLYN (Producer) has been a film producer for longer than he cares to remember. In 1990 he met Australian director Stephan Elliott and became involved in his project The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert. The film was made three years later. The rest is history.

ROY FURMAN

ROY FURMAN (Producer). Recent productions include The Addams Family, West Side Story, La Bête, Come Fly Away, Ragtime, Next Fall, Gypsy, Spamalot (Tony Award), The Color Purple, Legally Blonde, History Boys (Tony Award) and All My Sons. Co-founded investment firm Furman Selz, Vice Chairman Jefferies & Company, Vice Chairman Lincoln Center, Chairman Emeritus Film Society of Lincoln Center.

RICHARD WILLIS

RICHARD WILLIS (Producer) operates The Wadsworth and Brentwood Theatres in Los Angeles. Producer credits include: Next Fall, 33 Variations, Souvenir, Golda's Balcony, Jay Johnson: The Two and Only and Def Poetry Jam.

TERRY ALLEN KRAMER

TERRY ALLEN KRAMER (Producer). Incomplete listing: I Love My Wife, A Meeting by the River, The Crucifier of Blood, Frankenstien, Sugar Babies, Me and My Girl, Shadowlands, Nick & Nora, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Royal Shakespeare Company's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Tony 2002: The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, Tony 2003: Movin' Out, Fiddler on the Roof, La Cage aux Folles, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Grease, Cyrano, Passing Strange, 9 to 5, Dirty Dancing, West Side Story, Irena's Vow, The Addams Family, Come Fly Away, Race, Promises, Promises, Life in the Theatre, Priscilla, Merchant of Venice, Spiderman, Evita.

TERRI and TIMOTHY CHILDS

TERRI and TIMOTHY CHILDS (Producers). We're grateful that after 20 years producing and (Tim) directing more than 35 productions on and Off-Broadway, in London's West End, and in over 350 tour cities, we're still standing (and smiling)! For specific bio information, please go to iBlogBroadway.com, and click on the "About" tab.

KEN GREINER

KEN GREINER (Producer) is founder and partner in the Art Meets Commerce companies. He has been investing in theatrical productions for over 20 years. His producing credits include Arjie Shaw's Magic Hands Freddy, Martin McDonagh's Lieutenant of Inishmore, Ethan Coen's Almost an Evening and the current Broadway hit FELA! as well as Timothy Haskell's Nightmare: New York's Most Horrifying Haunted House, now in its seventh year. He also serves on the boards of the Vineyard Theatre and TADA! Youth Theater.

RUTH HENDEL

RUTH HENDEL (Producer). Broadway: FELA! (Broadway and London's National Theatre); American Idiot; Driving Miss Daisy; In the Heights (assoc); Red; A View from the Bridge; Hamlet; Mary Stuart; All My Sons; 33 Variations; Passing Strange; Legally Blonde; Lieutenant of Inishmore; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Caroline, Or Change; Raisin in the Sun; Golda's Balcony; Frozen; Metamorphoses. Off-Broadway: Altar Boyz; Red Light Winter; Our Lady of 121st Street; The Exonerated; tick tick...Boom!. Theater affiliations: Eugene O'Neill Theater Center (vice-chair); LAByrinth Theater, Play Company and YSD. Love to family!

MICHAEL CHUGG

MICHAEL CHUGG (Producer) has been a pioneer in the Australian music industry for over 40 years, promoting some of the biggest international concerts in Australia including Robbie Williams, Coldplay, Simon and Garfunkel and AC/DC. He also tirelessly promotes Australian music to the rest of the world. Almost every year, Michael and the Chugg Entertainment team are recognized with internationally renowned awards such as Pollstar's "International Promoter of the Year," ILMC's "Promoter's Promoter," CMA's "International Talent Buyer/Promoter" award, Helpmann Awards, the Jack Award's, "Gentlemen Jack" and APRA's prestigious "Ted Albert Award" for a lifetime of services to the Australian Music Industry.

MICHAEL BUCKLEY

MICHAEL BUCKLEY (Producer) has been involved in a number of activities, including television broadcasting, program production, movie theatre development and online gaming. Early in his career he acquired most of the Falkland Islands, and also owned a factory making stockings and tights - a good grounding for Priscilla! He expects to collaborate with Allan Scott on a stage production of Trading Places.

STEWART F. LANE/BONNIE COMLEY

STEWART F. LANE/BONNIE COMLEY (Producers). This dynamic duo has collectively won five Tony Awards and produced over 40 Broadway productions. Current: Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, The 39 Steps. Recent: Come Fly Away, Enron, Superior Donuts, Legally Blonde. They also produced NY Philharmonic Salutes Sondheim's 80th Birthday for "Great Moments" on PBS. In development: A Moment in Time, a new musical written by Mr. Lane featuring John Denver's music. Mr. Lane's book Let's Put on a Show! is now available on DVD, and his forthcoming 20th Century Broadway: Volume 1, The Jewish Contribution is being published by McFarland Publishing. www.MrBroadway.com, www.BonnieComley.com.

BRUCE DAVEY

BRUCE DAVEY (Producer). Veteran film and television producer winning an Oscar for Braveheart and a BAFTA for Fairytale, a True Story. Other credits include What Women Want, Immortal Beloved, Payback, We Were Soldiers, Apocalypto and Maverick.

Thierry Suc/TS3

Thierry Suc/TS3 (Producer). For the past 30 years, Thierry Suc has been one of the top leading concert producers in France. He presented thousands of major concerts including those of Jean-Jacques Goldman (composer and producer of Céline Dion's French albums), Myléne Farmer (Top 1 French female pop singer). In 2000, Thierry Suc started producing international theatrical shows, including Gumboots, Les Choristes (from the Oscar nominee "The Chorus") and Carmina Burana with Chinese star Jin Xing. Thierry Suc also produced Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake and Edward Scissorhands. In 2011, Thierry Suc will produce the musical Dracula, Love Stronger than Death from director Kamel Ouali.

ROBERT G. BARTNER

ROBERT G. BARTNER (Producer). Robert G. Bartner has produced on Broadway: Elling, La Bête, La Cage aux Folles (Tony), Memphis (Tony), Norman Conquests (Tony), Boeing-Boeing (Tony), Company (Tony) revival, Anna in the Tropics (Pulitzer). West End: Onassis, Flashdance, Legally Blonde, The Mountaintop (Olivier), La Cage aux Folles (Olivier), Guys and Dolls (Olivier). Upcoming: An Ideal Husband. Mr. Bartner would like to thank his family, especially his wife M. Beverly, for their love and support.

MICHAEL JENKINS

MICHAEL JENKINS (Producer). Michael Jenkins is President/Managing Director of Dallas Summer Musicals which offers over 20 productions annually. Broadway: Guys and Dolls, Boeing-Boeing (Tony), Legally Blonde, Jay Johnson: The Two and Only (Tony), Brooklyn, Sixteen Wounded, Flower Drum Song. Upcoming: Bonnie and Clyde.

BROADWAY ACROSS AMERICA

BROADWAY ACROSS AMERICA (Producer), part of the Key Brand Entertainment family of companies which includes Broadway.com, is owned and operated by British theatre producer John Gore (CEO) and entertainment industry veteran Thomas B. McGrath (Chairman). Broadway Across America presents first-class touring musicals and plays across 40 North American cities. Broadway.com is the premier theater website for news, exclusive content and ticket sales. Under the supervision of Beth Williams (COO and Head of Production), Broadway Across America is also dedicated to the development and production of new and diverse theatre. Current Broadway productions include How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying starring Daniel Radcliffe and John Larroquette, Million Dollar Quartet, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Jerusalem, Memphis, La Cage Aux Folles, the West End production of Million Dollar Quartet and the touring production of Dreamworks' Madagascar Live!. For more information, please visit BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com and Broadway.com.

HENI KOENIGSBERG

HENI KOENIGSBERG (Producer). Current projects include: The 2010 Tony award winning Memphis; Miss Abigail's Guide To Dating, Mating, & Marriage; Peter Pan with Cathy Rigby and the fall 2011 American Repertory Theatre production of Porgy and Bess. Heni thanks her family and friends for their ongoing love and support.

DEBBIE BISNO, REBECCA GOLD, MYLA LERNER and KIT SEIDEL

DEBBIE BISNO, REBECCA GOLD, MYLA LERNER and KIT SEIDEL (Producers). Producers Debbie Bisno, Rebecca Gold, Myla Lerner & Kit Seidel, jumped aboard the pink bus while they were grounded during London's 2010 Volcanic Ash drama, attending the London opening of Hair. Collectively, they've produced over 15 Broadway shows, including: Merchant of Venice, Lombardi, A Life in the Theater, Hair, Finian's Rainbow, Accent on Youth, Superior Donuts, Enron, Race, Blithe Spirit, reasons to be pretty, Speed-the-Plow, Talk Radio, November, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and The Crucible. They've earned several Tony nominations & awards, have been involved in numerous national and international not-for-profit productions, and sit on several theater boards.

PAUL BOSKIND and MARTIAN ENTERTAINMENT

PAUL BOSKIND and MARTIAN ENTERTAINMENT (Producer). The NYC-based production and general management firm was founded by Carl D. White in 1997. Paul joined Martian in 2008 as co-owner after producing BASH'd! with Carl. Paul is a psychologist and CEO of a nation-wide behavioral health organization, a gay activist and philanthropist, and serves on pro-equality national and state Boards. Martian credits include: The Temperamentals, BASH'd!, Naked Boys Singing!, and the upcoming rock musical Bare. Our mission is to use the theatrical arts to educate, inspire and touch lives, and to promote gay rights advocacy awareness, which Priscilla does fabulously! www.MartianEntertainment.com.

SPIRTAS-MAURO PRODUCTIONS

SPIRTAS-MAURO PRODUCTIONS (Producer). Priscilla marks Spirtas-Mauro Productions' second Broadway collaboration. Kevin Spirtas is a 25 year veteran actor of Broadway, film and television. He is most recognized around the world as Dr. Craig Wesley from television's "Days of Our Lives." His Broadway acting credits include: A Chorus Line and The Boy from Oz. Kevin made his debut as a Broadway producer with the critically acclaimed revival of Finian's Rainbow. Scott Mauro is an award-winning producer of live events and television specials. A Broadway marketing veteran, his producing credits include 40th, 50th, 51st and 52nd Annual "Tony Awards" (CBS); "Night of 100 Stars" (NBC); "Soap Update Awards" (Lifetime); "Cher Live at the Mirage"; "Rosemary Clooney: An All-Star Tribute" (A&E); "Palm Springs Film Festival Awards"; "Princess Grace Awards"; "Richard Rodgers Centennial"; "Dreamgirls - 20th Anniversary Reunion"; "20th Anniversary of Hair" and numerous Broadway tributes.

MAS MUSIC, ARTS & SHOW

MAS MUSIC, ARTS & SHOW (Producer). Founded by Daniele Luppino in 1995, MAS Music, Arts & Show is a leader in performing arts training in Italy. Based on the expertise built up in theatre education a brand new production company was founded in 2005. Since then MAS has launched and produced a range of successful family shows and innovative productions, touring with them all over Europe. In the last couple of years MAS has undergone an impressive expansion and has also presented some of the most important international shows. MAS is the first Italian company to co-produce a Broadway musical with Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, and is currently producing the hit musical for Italy, Spain and Portugal.

DAVID MIRVISH, C.M.

DAVID MIRVISH, C.M. (Producer) Mirvish Productions was founded in Toronto, Ontario, in 1987 by David Mirvish. The company has since grown to become Canada's leading commercial theatre producer. Mirvish Productions now owns and operates the Royal Alexandra, the Canon, the Princess of Wales and the Panasonic theatres in Toronto and acts as a producing partner with regional theatres all across Canada. Its production, co-production and presentation credits have included such long-running Canadian hits as Crazy for You, Les Misérables, The Lion King, The Sound of Music, We Will Rock You, the world premiere of Jane Eyre and the North American premiere of Mamma Mia!.