is a Tony Award-winning actor, author, producer, and host known for both his creative work and his longstanding LGBTQIA+ advocacy. He made his Broadway debut at age 21 in George C. Wolfe’s On the Town and went on to originate the role of “Leaf Coneybear” in the Tony-winning The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. In 2023, he returned to Broadway in Take Me Out, earning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. Ferguson’s acclaimed one-man show Fully Committed earned him a Drama Desk Award. A frequent performer with The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park, he’s appeared in 7 productions, most recently a buzzy, critically praised Twelfth Night. He has also performed in celebrated musical productions at the Hollywood Bowl and recently starred in Stephen Sondheim’s final musical, Here We Are, at the National Theatre in London. On screen, Ferguson played the beloved “Mitchell Pritchett” on ABC’s Modern Family for 11 seasons, earning five Emmy nominations. His film credits include the hit dark comedy Cocaine Bear, and the recent Jonas Brothers Disney+ Christmas film, A Very Jonas Christmas Movie. He currently hosts the podcast Dinner’s On Me with Jesse Tyler Ferguson. A passionate advocate for marriage equality and LGBTQIA+ rights, Ferguson co-founded Pronoun (formerly Tie The Knot), which has raised over $1.5 million in support of LGBTQIA+ organizations nationwide.

has been gracing Broadway stages for decades. Since making her Broadway debut in Cats, Charlotte has been nominated for two Tony Awards for her performances in the Broadway revival of A Chorus Line (Cassie) and Jerome Robbins’ Broadway (multiple roles). She has also won numerous Fred Astaire Awards for her roles in Pippin (Fastrada), Sweet Charity (Charity), and Damn Yankees (Lola).  She was recently seen on Broadway in Chicago, which has earned her the LA Ovation Award, the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award.  Charlotte has also appeared in the Broadway casts of Company, Contact, Carrie, and Song and Dance. Her television and film credits include The In Crowd, American Blue Note, Just Off the Coast, and The Preacher’s Wife, Every Little Step, Frances Ha, Law & Order and One Life to Live.

is a Tony, Olivier, Emmy, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award winning director and choreographer. Broadway theatre credits include Disney’s Frozen, Scarlett Johansson in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof , Evita (Tony nomination), How To Succeed in Business (Tony nominations for Direction & Choreography), Promises, Promises (Tony nomination), Shrek the Musical, John Water’s Cry-Baby (Tony nomination, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle & Fred Astaire Awards), Curtains (Tony nomination), Wedding Singer (Tony nomination), and Thoroughly Modern Millie ( Tony Award for Best Choreography).

London credits include Pete Townsend’s Quadrophenia at Sadlers Wells, The Entertainer, Romeo & Juliet, The Winter’s Tale ( Olivier nomination Best Direction), & Harlequinade, all Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company. Anna Christie (Olivier Award Best Revival), A Streetcar Named Desire (Olivier nomination Best Revival) & Parade (Olivier nominations for Direction & Choreography) all Donmar Warehouse. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way To the Forum (National Theatre).Other credits include King Lear starring Kenneth Branagh (The Shed), Macbeth starring Kenneth Branagh (Park Ave Armory, Manchester International Festival), Carousel (Chicago Lyrics Opera, Houston Grand Opera), Candide ( Theatre Chatelet Paris, La Scala Milan, ENO London), Carmen (Houston Grand Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera), The Barber of Seville (Chicago Lyric Opera, LA Opera).He choreographed and staged the 2015 Academy Awards (Neil Patrick Harris), 2014 Academy Awards (Ellen DeGeneres) , 2013 Academy Awards (Seth MacFarlane). He won the Emmy Award for Best Choreography for Baz Luhrmann’s 2009 Academy Awards production number featuring Hugh Jackman & Beyonce. He choreographed and staged the Tony Awards for 9 years which included hosts Neil Patrick Harris (4), James Corden (2), Sean Hayes, Kevin Spacey, and Josh Groban & Sara Bareilles. He staged tributes for The Kennedy Center Honors for Barbra Streisand, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jerry Herman, Barbara Cook, Tom Hanks, Shirley MacLaine, and Meryl Streep.Films include choreography for Death On The Nile, Murder On The Orient Express, Disney’s Cinderella, Ted 2, A Million Ways to Die In the West, Beyond The Sea, and the upcoming The Deb.

Oscar-nominated screenwriter Jay Presson Allen (1922-2006), was born Jacqueline Presson in San Angelo, Texas on March 3, 1922. At the age of 18, she decided to become an actress in New York City. The charms of the profession soon paled and she married in the early 1940s, moving to southern California. Disenchanted with acting, she saw writing as a way of becoming financially independent and enabling to leave her unhappy marriage. Her first novel, Spring Riot, was published in 1948. She moved back to New York, where she performed in cabaret and on the radio, but she was as disenchanted with performing as she had been before. She eventually divorced her husband and in 1955, she married Lewis Allen, a reader at the office of Broadway producer Bob Whitehead. Allen initially rejected a play she had sent Whitehead that later was optioned but never produced.She eventually wrote another play, The First Wife, that was turned into the 1963 film Wives and Lovers. She optioned Muriel Spark’s novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and wrote a dramatization, which was produced in London in 1966 and was a success, making the transfer to both Broadway and the silver screen. Maggie Smith won her first Oscar playing Jean Brodie. Allen had another success on Broadway with her play Forty Carats, which she adapted from a French comedy. The great Julie Harris won a Tony Award for her performance as a 42-year-old woman who seduces a man twenty years her junior.

The same year that her next play, Travels With My Aunt, was released and failed, Allen was engaged to adapt the Broadway hit Cabaret for film director Bob Fosse. Under the direction of the producers, Allen went back to Christopher Isherwood’s source material, the 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin, the basis of his I Am a Camera, which itself was the genesis of Cabaret. Allen had to give structure to the story for the movie, but she clashed with Fosse, whom she found a depressive who drained the script of humor. She eventually quit, but she retained credit for the script, for which she earned an Academy Award nomination.

Other projects that Presson worked on were Funny Lady, the 1974 sequel to Funny Girl, and the TV series Family. She adapted her 1969 novel Just Tell Me What Your Want for movie director Sidney Lumet, which was the first of four projects on which they collaborated. She was nominated for an Oscar for her adaptation of Robert Daley’s novel Prince of the City, directed by Lumet. Her third collaboration with Lumet was an adaptation of Ira Levin’s play Deathtrap. She also worked uncredited on Lumet’s The Verdict, rewriting David Mamet’s script. She worked on the adaptations of A Little Family Business and La Cage Aux Folles on Broadway and on the TV series Hothouse. She wrote a biographical play about Truman Capote, Tru, which premiered on Broadway in 1991.

In an interview with The New York Times in 1972, Allen said that the key to a successful adaptation is to not “muck around with the essence” of the original work. Jay Presson Allen died on May 1, 2006 in New York City. She was 84 years old.

Sam Spector is the Costume Designers Guild-nominated stylist and designer most recently known for his work with Alan Cumming on The Traitors. Television: Hasan Minhaj for Netflix’s Patriot Act; Neil Patrick Harris for Drag Me to Dinner, Genius Junior, Best Time Ever; Ryan Seacrest for American Idol and Live with Kelly and Ryan; Kevin Jonas for Claim to Fame. He is responsible for red carpet looks for some of Hollywood’s leading men, including Daniel Radcliffe, Andy Samberg, Brendan Fraser, Andy Cohen, Patrick Wilson and THE Jesse Tyler Ferguson. Education:  B.A., University of Michigan, and A.A.S. Parsons School of Design.

Off-Broadway (select): The Antiquities, Amusements (Playwrights Horizons),The Counter (Roundabout), Caroline, Table 17 (MCC) (Geffen Playhouse), Six Characters (LCT3), Grangeville, A Bright New Boise, A Case For The Existence Of God (Signature NYC), The Apiary, Camp Siegfried, Patience (2ST), I’m Almost There (Audible @ Minetta Lane/Francesca Moody Productions @ Edinburgh Fringe), This Beautiful Future (Cherry Lane), the UNCLE VANYA in a loft, Heaux Church, PS, Heaux Church (Ars Nova), Black Exhibition, Demons (Bushwick Starr), and work at Petzel Gallery, The Goodman Theater, The Alliance Theater, Playmakers Rep, Indiana Rep, The Brooklyn Museum, The Studio Museum and more.

Theater: Dog Day Afternoon, Fallen Angels, Becky Shaw, You Got Older, Chess, Oedipus, This World of Tomorrow, Angry Alan, Call Me Izzy, Purpose, Dorian Gray, Pirates!, Gypsy, Hills of California, Our Town, McNeal, Enemy of the People, Mary Jane, Patriots, Doubt, Appropriate, Leopoldstadt, Topdog/Underdog, Take Me Out, Fully Committed. Faculty: Juilliard.

Broadway: I Need That. Off-Broadway: The Laramie Project, How To Survive Menopause, Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares, CRAY, Audible Theater; Jordans, Plays For The Plague Year, Fat Ham, The Visitor, A Bright Room Called Day, Mojada, White Noise, The Low Road, The Public Theater; The Endlings, NYTW. Regional: The Folks At Home (Baltimore Center Stage) Diary of a Tap Dancer (A.R.T). Education: Northwestern University.

Broadway: Wicked, The Book of Mormon, The Queen of Versailles, How To Succeed, Promises, Promises. Director: Albert Herring (Chicago Opera Theatre), Pippin (Pittsburgh Playhouse) Shrek (National Tour) Crossroads (NCL), Something Rotten (Cape Repertory Theatre) NBCUniversal Upfront (Radio City Music Hall), Live events for: The Robin Hood Foundation, Target, The American Theatre Wing, The Obie Awards. Graduate: The University of Michigan.

Over 100 Broadway productions and tours. Recent: Proof, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, The Rocky Horror Show , Maybe Happy Ending, Oh, Mary!, Hadestown, Hamilton, Aladdin. HTA is led by Stephen M. Kaus, and includes Hudson Scenic Studios, Sam Ellis, Anastasia Olowin, Sean Gorski, Brianna Stankiewicz, Franklin Swann, Brianne Tabak, Bridget Van Dyke, and Irene Wang.

Seaview is a Tony, Olivier, and Peabody Award-winning theater and film company. This Spring: The Fear of 13 starring Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson, Every Brilliant Thing starring Daniel Radcliffe, The Unknown starring Sean Hayes, Kenrex starring Jack Holden, and All Out: Comedy About Ambition. Recent: The Queen of Versailles starring Kristin Chenoweth, Prince Faggot, The Ziegfeld Files starring Jesse Eisenberg, The Least Problematic Woman in The World starring Dylan Mulvaney, Gruesome Playground Injuries starring Nicholas Braun and Kara Young, Good Night, and Good Luck starring George Clooney, The Last Five Years starring Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren, Angry Alan starring John Krasinski, My Master Builder starring Ewan McGregor and Elizabeth Debicki, Romeo + Juliet starring Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler, All In: Comedy About Love, Hold On To Me Darling starring Adam Driver, Once Upon a Mattress starring Sutton Foster, the Tony Award-winning Stereophonic, Sam Gold’s An Enemy of The People starring Jeremy Strong, Justin Peck and Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Illinoise, Lempicka directed by Rachel Chavkin, Stress Positions (NEON), and Reality (HBO). Past Credits: Danny and the Deep Blue Sea starring Aubrey Plaza and Christopher Abbott, Michael Arden’s Tony Award-winning revival of Parade, Alex Edelman’s Emmy Award-winning Just For Us, Lorraine Hansberry’s The Sign In Sidney Brustein’s Window,The Old Man & The Pool, POTUS, Slave Play, Sea Wall / A Life, and Sweeney Todd at the Barrow Street Theatre. @ThisIsSeaview @StudioSeaview

OHenry Productions is a Tony and Olivier Award-winning production company founded by Oliver Roth. Known for its focus on intimate, emotionally resonant storytelling, OHenry Productions has produced work across Broadway, Off-Broadway, and the West End. Producing credits include – Broadway: Sunset Blvd., Merrily We Roll Along, Parade, The Inheritance (Tony Awards); Romeo + Juliet, An Enemy of the People, A Doll’s House, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, Slave Play, Burn This, Sea Wall/A Life (Tony Noms); Every Brilliant Thing; The Fear of 13; Good Night, and Good Luck; Derren Brown: Secret; All In: Comedy About Love; Lempicka. Off-Broadway: Kramer/Fauci; Uncle Vanya (Drama Desk Nom); Pre-Existing Condition; This Beautiful Future; Little Shop of Horrors (Drama Desk Award); Angry Alan; Hold On To Me Darling; Danny and the Deep Blue Sea. London: Sunset Blvd., The Inheritance (Olivier Awards); All My Sons (Olivier Nomination); Clarkston; A Streetcar Named Desire; A Little Life; People, Places and Things; Herding Cats. www.ohenryproductions.com

Mickey Liddell & Pete Shilaimon are the CEO and President of LD Entertainment, a five-time Tony Award-winning entertainment studio at the forefront of live theatre and film. The company has produced over 30 stage productions in New York and the West End, including Dear Evan Hansen, Hadestown, and Little Shop of Horrors. Shows on Broadway this season include The Fear of 13, Dog Day Afternoon, and Every Brilliant Thing starring Daniel Radcliffe. They are founding partners in the Off-Broadway venue Studio Seaview. LD has produced over 40 feature films and documentaries, including Judy starring Renee Zellweger and Jackie starring Natalie Portman.

The harder I try to be smart, the dumber I look. Right on TC.

received numerous awards for theater on and Off Broadway (Maybe Happy Ending, Oklahoma! ,Sleep No More), as well as film (presently Bookends) and Emmy nominations. Rebecca is a champion supporter of not for profit theater.

A production company from Jesse Tyler Ferguson founded in 2020. TV/Film: Welcome To Chechnya, It’s Okay, Broadway Rising, Kiloran Bay. Podcast: Gay Pride & Prejudice, Dinner’s On Me, Aunties. Theater: Tru @KidNamedBeckettProductions

The House of the Redeemer is a landmarked building in Manhattan’s Carnegie Hill Historic District. Rooted in the Episcopal tradition and open to all, it serves as a place apart for hospitality, spiritual renewal, and cultural events. The House hosts retreats, theatrical performances, and concerts, including the Fabbri Chamber Concert Series, and offers guest rooms for clergy, nonprofit professionals, and those in the city for medical care.

Special thanks to my friends (and Swans) Jane, Sandra and Kristin for lending their iconic voices to Truman’s answering machine. 

I recall stage-dooring the 1995 revival of Company and meeting Tony and Olivier Award winner Jane Krakowski, who insisted we’d met before. Days later, she walked into the Starbucks on 84th and Broadway where I was working—finally placing me. We’ve been friends ever since.

I first met Tony & Emmy winner Kristin Chenoweth in 1998 while I was working retail at the Theater Circle gift shop on 44th Street. She wandered in, I admitted I was a fan—and just like that, our story began.

I had been a fan of Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG Award winner Sandra Oh for decades before we finally conquered Shakespeare together in last summer’s production of Twelfth Night at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park—an encounter that was destined to turn admiration into friendship.

Chief Executive Officer – Greg Nobile
Executive Assistant to Greg Nobile – Devyn Itula
Chief Operating Officer – Nate Koch
Producer – Anna Mack Pardee
Associate Producer – Emily Bergquist
Assistant Producer – Chase Parker
Creative Executive – Lizzie Stern
Head of Film – Brad Becker-Parton
Head of Television – Jess Lubben
Head of Capital Partnerships – Valerie Novakoff Britten
General Manager – Jonathan Whitton
Associate General Manager – Christophe Desorbay
Head of Operations – Jenna Ready
Co-Founder – Jana Shea

Oliver Roth
Daniel Neale, Mikayla Kibel

Mickey Liddell, Pete Shilaimon
Beau Ward, Ryan Miller
Michael Glassman, Kooper Hartsock
Jacob Yakob, Mehrdod Heydari
Joseph Yakob, Emily Lowe
Natalia Shilaimon, Nathan Shilaimon
Kim Wright, Renee Wyer
Ashley Secrets, Ebony Sinclair

James Dale, Scott Lupi, Sam Wightman, Max Miller, Luke Territt

Oliver Roth, Daniel Neale, Bill Wetherbee
Simon de Carvalho, Thomas Laub

Doug Nevin, Sahil Solankee
Edward Klaris

Stephen M. Kaus Sam Ellis Anastasia Olowin
Sean Gorski Brianna Stankiewicz Franklin Swann
Brianne Tabak Bridget Van Dyke Irene Wang

Rebecca LaFazia, Kaylee McNitt

Natasha Donnelly – Executive Director
Moumen Haffar – Operations Manager
Suzanne Martinucci – Office Administrator
Susan Ridgeway, Christine Treuhold, Attaa Haffar

The production would like to thank: Alex Donnelly, Universe Antiques, Madison Cox, Kevin Ryan, Tangier Charity Plays, Brian Saltzman, Jamie Creel, Marco Scarani, David Manella, Brian Fenty, Tracy Geltman, Phil Haas, Adam Stepansky, Jaimal Odedra, Creel and Gow.