More Than You Deserve

MICHAEL WELLER (Playwright) attended Stockbridge School. He has a B.A. in music composition from Brandeis University and he received a diploma in playwriting from Manchester University in England. Mr. Weller has resided in London for the past seven years, and most of his plays have been produced in Europe. Last season “Moonchildren” was presented on Broadway and “Now There’s Just the Three of Us” was presented at the Chelsea Theatre Center.

JIM STEINMAN (Composer, Lyricist, Pianist) has played in a gaggle of rock and roll bands and has written book, music and lyrics for a rock theatre spectacle called “Dream Engine” which Joseph Papp has under option for production next season. The work was written for David Bowie and Bowie will hopefully star in it. Jim loves the music of Wagner and The Beach Boys more than any other kind.

KIM FRIEDMAN (Director) was born in Atlantic City. She has studied with Robert Rabinowitz, worked with Mel Shapiro and John Guare on “Two Gentlemen of Verona” and was fed in New York by Herb and Dolores Danska. In New York she has directed “Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner” and “The Wicked Woman Revue.”

MIGUEL ROMERO (Set Designer) assisted New York Shakespeare Festival designer Ming Cho Lee last summer at the Delacorte Theater. He studied under Oliver Smith at N.Y.U. where he recently designed Machiavelli’s “Mandragola” directed by Carl Weber.

IAN CALDERON (Lighting Designer) received a Tony Nomination this season as lighting designer of Jason Miller’s Tony-Award-winning play “That Championship Season,” and also designed the lighting for “Sticks and Bones,” which won the Tony Award last year. His other work for the Shakespeare Festival includes “Subject to Fits,” “Underground,” “Slaughterhouse Play,” “The Corner” and the recent production of “The Cherry Orchard.” He designed the R.F.K. Theater’s “Ballet Brave” on Broadway, “The Moondreamers” off-Broadway, some twenty productions for Cafe La Mama and he has also done concert lighting for Duke Ellingtn, Odetta and Dizzy Gillespie. Mr. Calderon is a graduate of Hunter College, where he studied with Charles Elson and while at Yale designed the American premier of Ionesco’a “Macbeth.”

LINDSAY ANN CROUSE (Choreographer) joined the New York Shakespeare Festival for the Broadway production of “Much Ado About Nothing.” This is her first project at the Public Theater. She likes it here.

STEVE MARGOSHES (Musical Director and Arranger) is a graduate of Julliard School of Music where he studied piano and composition. He is the founder of the Hamilton Face Band, a rock group he composed songs for and traveled with. More recently he was Music Director and Arranger for James Rado’s “Rainbow.”