Mart Crowley's
The Boys in the Band
Production Staff
| Playwright | Mart Crowley |
| Director | Jack Cummings III |
| Associate Director | Gregg Wiggans |
| Production Stage Manager | Wendy Patten |
| Stage Manager | Donald Butchko |
| Production Assistants | Michelle Beige |
| Karen Stern | |
| General Manager | Michael Coglan |
| Dramaturg | Kristina Corcoran Williams |
| Technical Director | Joe Cairo |
| Set Designer | Sandra Goldmark |
| Asst. Set Designer | Peiyi Wong |
| Props Designer | Tessa Dunning |
| Lighting Designer | Dane Laffrey |
| Costume Designer | Kathryn Rohe |
| Costume Design Assistant | Ricardo Fernandez |
| Costume Assistant | Steve Cozzi |
| Hair | Thom Gonzalez |
| Wardrobe Supervisor | Jillian Tulley |
| Casting Director | Alan Filderman |
| Fight Choreographer | Monica Blaze Leavitt |
Jack Cummings III (Director) Jack is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Transport Group. For Transport Group, he has directed Our Town, Requiem for William, First Lady Suite (Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Revivial), The Audience (Drama Desk nominations for Outstanding Director and Outstanding Musical), Normal, cul-de-sac, All The Way Home, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, Crossing Brooklyn, Marcy in the Galaxy, and Being Audrey. Other favorite credits include 1,000 Words Come to Mind, See Rock City, and for television, A Tale of Two Cities broadcast on PBS. Regional credits include Violet, Carousel, The Young Man From Atlanta, She Loves Me, The Illusion, and A Streetcar Named Desire (starring his wife, Barbara Walsh, as Blanche). Jack received his MFA in Directing from the University of Virginia and his Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the College of William and Mary. For DD.
Mart Crowley (Playwright) Mart Crowley was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi and graduated from the Drama Department of the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.. He was Production Assistant to the acclaimed director Elia Kazan before writing his groundbreaking first play, The Boys in the Band (1968). He adapted and produce the film version of Boys (1970), directed by Academy Award winner William Friedkin. Crowley's other works for the theatre include the autobiographical A Breeze From the Gulf (1973), which earned a New York Drama Critics Circle nomination for Best Play. The Collected Plays of Mart Crowley was published by Alyson Books (2009). In addition, Crowley produced the long-runnin ABC Television series "Hart to Hart" (1979-1985) and co-authored the children's book Kay Thompson's Eloise Takes a Bawth (2002).
Wendy Patten (Production Stage Manager) This is Wendy's eighth show with Transport Group having previously stage managed Being Audrey, Bury the Dead, Marcy in the Galaxy, Crossing Brooklyn, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, The Audience, and First Lady Suite. She has stage managed over 30 productions including Something Cloudy, Something Clear, The Last Starfighter, Spokesong and The Ninth Circle. Wendy is a proud member of AEA.
Donald Butchko (Stage Manager) Previously with Transport Group: The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, Marcy in the Galaxy, Bury the Dead. Donald also lends, or has lent, his Stage Management (among other) skills to: Barrington Stage Company, Clubbed Thumb, The Eugene O'Neill Theater Company, LAVA, New York Stage and Film, Polybe + Seats, and Prospect Theater Company. Graduate, Skidmore College. Resident, Brooklyn.
Sandra Goldmark (Set Designer) has designed the sets for all of Transport Group's productions since 2006. Favorites include All the Way Home, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, Crossing Brooklyn, and Bury the Dead. Sandra has designed sets and costumes for numerous productions in New York and regionally, and teaches design at Barnard College.
Kathryn Rohe (Costume Designer) has been with Transport Group since its inception in 2002, designing or co-designing nearly every show. She first collaborated with Artistic Director Jack Cummings III, Lighting Designer Lee Kennedy, and the late scenic designer John Story, on a 1993 production of The Crucible at the University of Virginia where she served as Head of the Costume Technology program for ten years. She is thrilled to be a part of this important revival, and to help develop a new voice for Transport Group.
Alan Filderman (Casting Director) Broadway: 33 Variations,Grey Gardens, Marie Christine, Master Class, Once On This Island. Off-Broadway: Dessa Rose, Here Lies Jenny, Listen to My Heart, Miss Evers Boys, A New Brain, A Beautiful Thing, Three Tall Women, From the Mississippi Delta, Song of Singapore, The Sum of Us. Many Regional Theatres across the United States. Film: Ice Age, Broadway Damage, Anastasia.
Gregg Wiggans (Associate Director) For Transport Group he has Associate Directed: Being Audrey, Normal, cul-de-sac, All The Way Home, Dark at the Top of the Stairs, Marcy in the Galaxy. New York: Promises, Promises (Broadway - SDC Ockrent Fellowship), Kristin Chenoweth: This One's Personal, Deathbed (Apparition Productions), Ripcords (Two Cookies Productions, FringeNYC). Regionally: Gregg has worked at And Tell Sad Stories Of the Death of Queens, A Nervous Smile, The Tiny Closet (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Master Class (Paper Mill Playhouse). Gregg also serves as Assistant Artistic Director with Wendy Goldberg at the O'Neill Theatre Institute's National Playwrighting Conference. 2008 member of Lincoln Center Theater's Directors Lab, Associate Member of SSDC and a proud graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.
Michael Coglan (General Manager) is currently the Associate General Manager at the Tony Award-winning Williamstown Theatre Festival. Prior to a soujourn at University in England for his degree, he had a 10-year career as an Independent Financial Advisor and Mortgage Arranger for a major British bank.
Kristina Corcoran Williams (Dramaturg) is the resident Dramaturg and Literary Manager for Transport Group. Recent dramaturgy credits include the world premiere of José Rivera's Boleros for the Disenchanted and Bruce Norris' The Unmentionables at Yale Repertory Theatre where she served as Literary Associate from 2007-2009. She has previously worked with Madison Repertory Theatre (world premiere of Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice), the LARK (Lloyd Suh's American Hwangap), TCG and Primary Stages. She recently served as a research assistant for Paula Vogel's A Civil War Christmas. She is on the summer theatre faculty at Interlochen Center for the Arts and holds an MFA in Dramaturgy from Yale School of Drama.
Monica Blaze Leavitt (Fight Choreographer) Award-winning member of the Society of American Fight Directors, some of her credits include The Royal Shakespeare Company's Broadway production of The Herbal Bed, Transport Group's First Lady Suite and The Boys in the Band, The Lark's Den of Thieves, Heritage Repertory Theatre's Shop at Sly Corner, The Salon's production of Othello, The Hudson River Theater Company's Macbeth, several shows at Barnard University including What of the Night, Dissident Acts, and Tartuffe and over 75 other shows and films credited in New York City.
