James Lapine is a playwright and director who first became involved with the theater in the mid-seventies while working as a graphic designer at the Yale School of Drama, where he staged his interpretation of Gertrude Stein’s Photograph. His plays include Table Settings and Twelve Dreams, and he wrote the books for the musicals Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods and Passion, all of which he also directed. He was the director of William Finn’s award-winning musical March of the Falsettos, as well as the director and co-author of its sequel Falsettoland and Finn’s most recent musical, A New Brain. He has directed productions of Merrily We Roll Along (at the La Jolla Playhouse, California), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale (both for the New York Shakespeare Festival), The Diary of Anne Frank, and A Golden Child. In addition to the feature films Impromptu and Life with Mikey, he has directed a television adaptation of Anne Tyler’s Earthly Possessions.
André Bishop is the Artistic Director of Theatre at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. He is the former Artistic Director of Playwrights Horizons in New York City, a theater company devoted to the support and development of American playwrights, composers and lyricists and to the production of their work. Notable plays first produced there by Mr. Bishop include Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All For You by Christopher Durang, The Dining Room by A. R. Gurney, March of the Falsettos by William Finn, among many others, and three Pulitzer Prize Winners—Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry, The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein, and, of course, Sunday in the Park with George.
1 Nominated for the Grammy Award for the Best Original Cast Show Album
2 Winner of the Grammy Award for Best Original Cast Show Album
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