Production The Play The Principals The Talent The Company

 

 

TAWNI O’DELL (Author)

  • Author of multiple New York Times bestsellers.
  • Critically acclaimed novelist.
  • Oprah Winfrey Book Club selection.
  • Her first play, When It Happens to You, received rave reviews during its off-Broadway run in 2019.

  SHELDON EPPS (Director)

  • Director of seven Broadway productions, including the Tony and Olivier-nominated Blues in the Night and Play On!.
  • Director of more than 150 television episodes including Friends, Frasier, and Everybody Loves Raymond.
  • Director of multiple Netflix series. His longstanding relationship with Netflix continues with the current hit series, The Upshaws, starring Wanda Sykes.
  • Artistic Director of the Pasadena Playhouse for more than twenty years and now Artistic Director Emeritus.
  • Senior Artistic Advisor at Ford’s Theatre.

MITCHELL MAXWELL (Producer)

  • Producer, Director, Author, Entrepreneur
  • Pulitzer Prize Winner.
  • His productions have been nominated for multiple Tonys, Oliviers, Drama Desk Awards, and Outer Critics Circle Awards.
  • He has won such honors in every iteration.
  • Produced over fifty Broadway / off-Broadway and West End shows, including regional, domestic, and international touring productions.

DON FRANTZ (Management)

  • Associate producer of Beauty and the Beast and Lion King on Broadway.
  • Producer of Disenchanted! Off-Broadway, Latin America, and China.
  • General manager of Broadway’s A Class Act, Tale of Two Cities, and Soul of Shaolin, as well as off-Broadway and touring productions.
  • 15 years producing, managing and directing theater in China, as well as faculty positions at Central Academy of Drama and Peking University.
  • Creative producer of IAAPA Best Show awards at Disney, Seaworld, and Busch Gardens.