Gordon Edelstein has been Artistic Director of the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven since 2002. Prior to that he was Artistic Director of ACT Theatre in Seattle, where he revitalized programming for the four-theatre complex and raised the theatre’s annual attendance and subscription rates to record-breaking levels. Edelstein’s directing credits span Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional theatre across the country. Among the more recent are: the American premiere of Martin McDonagh’s A Scull in Connemara at ACT and at the Roundabout Theatre Company in NYC; the world premiere of Lesette Lecat Ross’s Scent of the Roses with Julie Harris at ACT; the world premiere adaptation of Sholom Asch’s God of Vengeance by Donald Margulies; and Christopher Hampton’s The Philanthropist and David Ives’s All in the Timing at Long Wharf, both of which received awards from the Connecticut Critics Circle.

Vivian Matalon has worked extensively in London’s West End, on Broadway, and in regional theatres in the United States. His West End productions include Suite in Three Keys by Noel Coward with Sir Noel, Irene Worth and Lili Palmer, Bus Stop with Lee Remick and Keir Dullea, I Never Sang for My Father with Raymond Massey, and After the Rain with Alec McCowan. He was artistic director for three years at the Hampstead Theatre, where his productions included Clifford Odets’s Awake and Sing! and the European premiere of Small Craft Warnings by Tennessee Williams. Broadway productions include After the Rain with Alec McCowan and Nancy Marchand, Noel Coward in Two Keys with Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, and Anne Baxter in Brigadoon in its last Broadway revival. He received a Tony nomination for his direction of The Tap Dance Kid and Tony and Drama Desk Awards for his revival of Mornings at Seven.

Elaine Stritch has been performing on stage as well as in film and TV for over 60 years. Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1925, Ms. Stritch was educated at a convent and prepared for the stage at the Dramatic Workshop of the New School, where she made her debut in 1944. Her first Broadway appearance was in 1946. She was nominated for a Tony on a number of occasions: as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic) in 1956, for William Inge's Bus Stop; as Best Actress (Musical) in 1962, for Sail Away, and in 1971, for Company; and as Best Actress (Play), in 1996 for a revival of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance. She has also won awards for her performances in Show Boat and Company. Ms. Stritch won Tony, Drama Desk, Obie, Outer Circle Critics and New York Drama Critics awards for her one-woman musical memoir Elaine Stritch: At Liberty in 2002. She has put her indelible stamp on the songs of Rodgers and Hart, Noel Coward, and Stephen Sondheim. In 2003, Ms. Stritch was made a "Living Landmark" of New York City for her contributions to Broadway.

Mark Zeller has appeared on and off Broadway as Tevye and Lazar Wolf in Fiddler on The Roof, Reb Pinchos in Kuni-Leml, Zaide in Lies My Father told Me, Zev in Ari (Exodus), Freud in Freud. A One Man Play, and the title role in Chu-Chem, for which he was nominated by the Outer Critics Circle for Best Actor. Regional appearances include The Portage To San Cristobal at the Hartford Stage, King of Schnorrers in Palm Beach, The Most Happy Fella in New Hampshire and The Cherry Orchard at the John Drew. His directing credits include Dear Liar, Summer of the 17th Doll, The Great Nebula In Orion, Mrs. Dally has a Lover, and Counter Intelligence, which he co-wrote with his wife, Dana Zeller-Alexis, with whom he founded the 78th Street Theatre Lab in 1978 and where they continue as producing directors, having introduced hundreds of developmental theater pieces to New York audiences. The husband and wife team also appeared in New York in his second play, Schmaltz. His teaching credits include long stints at NYU, Brooklyn College, and San Francisco's A.C.T., where, as Director of Training, he developed the conservatory program.