The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, where his grandfather was the Episcopal clergyman. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St. Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered college during The Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years, spending the evenings writing. He entered the University of Iowa in 1938 and completed his course, at the same time holding a large number of part-time jobs of great diversity. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955. His many plays include Summer and Smoke, The Rose Tattoo, Camino Real, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Baby Doll, The Glass Menagerie, Orpheus Descending, Something Unspoken, Suddenly Last Summer, Period of Adjustment, The Night of the Iguana, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, and Small Craft Warnings. Tennessee Williams died in 1983.

Tiffany’s recent credits include Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in the West End and Broadway, Pinocchio for the National Theatre, and Road for the Royal Court. He directed the musical Once for which he was the recipient of multiple awards both in the West End and on Broadway. As Associate Director of the Royal Court, his work also includes The Twits, Hope, and The Pass. He was the director of Let The Right One In for the National Theatre of Scotland, which transferred to the Royal Court, West End, and St. Ann’s Warehouse.

Hoggett has previously collaborated with John Tiffany on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in the West End and Broadway, The Twits for the Royal Court, Let The Right One In and Black Watch for the National Theatre of Scotland, The Glass Menagerie at A.R.T. and on Broadway, and Once on Broadway and in the West End. Other recent credits include American Idiot, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Last Ship, Rocky the Musical, and The Crucible on Broadway; St Joan at The Public; Close to You at NYTW and the Criterion; The Light Princess for the National Theatre; Dr. Dee for the Manchester International Festival; and Rigoletto for the Metropolitan Opera. Hoggett was a founding co-artistic director of Frantic Assembly for which his credits include The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Lovesong, Othello, Little Dogs, Beautiful Burnout, Stockholm, pool (no water), and Dirty Wonderland. His film credits include How to Train Your Dragon 2 for Dreamworks and Freak Show for Maven Pictures. With Scott Graham, Steven co-wrote The Frantic Assembly Book of Devising Theatre (Routledge).

A.R.T.: Once. Broadway: Once (Tony Award), The History Boys (Tony Award), Mary Poppins (Tony Award), Aida (Tony Award), Tarzan (which he also directed), The Year of Magical Thinking, The Coast of Utopia (Tony Award), Carousel (Tony Award). Numerous credits for National Theatre, including: People; Juno & the Paycock, Fram (which he also co-directed with Tony Harrison), The History Boys, His Girl Friday, Mourning Becomes Electra. More than twenty-five productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company, including: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Plantagenets (Olivier Award). Other theater includes: Into the Woods, Orpheus Descending, Donmar Warehouse; The Seagull, Public Theatre. Opera/dance: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Royal Opera House, National Ballet of Canada; Don Carlos, The Met. Film: Othello; Tales of Hollywood; Suddenly Last Summer, BBC; The Crucible (costume design). He is the recipient of the Royal Designer for Industry Award and Robert L. B. Tobin Award for Lifetime Achievement in Theatrical Design at the TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards in New York. 

A.R.T: Once, Hedda Gabler, King Lear, Mastergate, The Servant of Two Masters. Recent Broadway: Once (Tony Award), Sister Act, Follies, The Addams Family, The Little Mermaid, The Coast of Utopia: Salvage (Tony Award), A Chorus Line (revival), Spelling Bee, Tarzan, Aida (Tony Award), Beauty and the Beast. Other designs: Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland, Royal Opera House, National Ballet of Canada; Cinderella, The Dutch National Ballet; Buried Child, National Theatre, London; Cyrano, The Met; Carnival of the Animals, NYCB; Don Quixote, ABT; EFX, Las Vegas; concert acts for Shirley MacLaine, Ann-Margret, and Tommy Tune. Extensive work Off-Broadway and for American regional theaters. 

A.R.T.: Pippin, The Lily’s Revenge, As You Like It, Once, Prometheus Bound, The Blue Flower (IRNE and Elliot Norton Award), Cabaret, Alice vs. Wonderland, Paradise Lost. Sound Design credits: Broadway: Once (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award nomination). New York: Soul Doctor, Once (Lucille Lortel Award nomination), New York Theatre Workshop. London: BBC: “Dancing With The Stars,” “Later with Jools Holland,” “The Sound of Musicals,” “Friday Night with Jonathan Ross.” ITV: “Parkinson.” Music: Radiohead, Jamiroquai, Paolo Nutini, Orbital, Sparks, The Waterboys, Glastonbury Festival, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal College of Music. Woodhouse Players: The Dresser, Wyrd Sisters, Dracula—The Vampire Strikes Back. He has worked on numerous shows including work at: Brooklyn Academy of Music, Hollywood Bowl, Madison Square Garden, Royal Festival Hall, Avignon Festival.

A.R.T.: Debut. Nico Muhly has composed a wide scope of work for ensembles, soloists, and organizations including the American Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, Carnegie Hall, Chicago Symphony, countertenor Iestyn Davies, violinist Hilary Hahn, choreographer Benjamin Millepied, New York City Ballet, New York Philharmonic, Paris Opéra Ballet, soprano Jessica Rivera, and designer/illustrator Maira Kalman. Among Muhly’s most frequent collaborators are his colleagues at Bedroom Community, an artist-run label headed by Icelandic musician Valgeir Sigurosson. Bedroom Community was inaugurated in 2007 with the release of Muhly’s first album, Speaks Volumes. In spring 2012, Bedroom Community released Muhly’s three-part Drones & Music, in collaboration with pianist Bruce Brubaker, violinist Pekka Kuusisto, and violist Nadia Sirota. Muhly graduated from Columbia University with a degree in English Literature. He has a Masters in Music from the Juilliard School, where he studied under Christopher Rouse and John Corigliano. nicomuhly.com. Nico Muhly’s music © St Rose Music (ASCAP)

A.R.T.: Resident vocal coach since 1997; 70 productions, most recently dialect design for Once, Pippin, and Glass Menagerie. Regional theater coaching: A.C.T., Guthrie. Has worked with directors Diane Paulus, John Tiffany, Sarah Benson, Bill T. Jones, Andrei Serban, David Mamet, Robert Woodruff, among others. A.R.T. Institute Head of Voice & Speech: vocal production, dialects, Shakespeare; heads M.F.A. program in voice pedagogy. National workshops on public speaking and storytelling; Harvard’s Bok Center filmed her work with Harvard faculty: “The Act of Teaching.” Performance credits: A.C.T., California Shakespeare Festival, Denver Center Theater, San Jose Rep, Alaska Rep & Joyce Theater. B.A. Stanford, M.F.A. American Conservatory Theater, Master Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework.

A.R.T: thirty productions in fifteen years at A.R.T. as Artistic Coordinator/​​Resident Stage Manager. Broadway: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Misery, It’s Only a Play, The Glass Menagerie. Off-Broadway: Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven; The Hard Problem, Pride’s Crossing, Lincoln Center; Much Ado About Nothing, NYSF/​Delacorte; The Total Bent, Public Theater; Parable of the Sower, Public Theater Under the Radar Festival; Oliver Twist, TFNA. For Esch, Tommy, Jeremy, and Jan.

A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: End of the Rainbow. Recent credits: Aida, Theatre Latte Da; Bunnicula, TheatreWorksUSA; End of the Rainbow, Guthrie Theatre; Jeffrey Hatcher’s Turn of the Screw, Merchant’s House Museum (NYC’s oldest preserved home), Two Turns Theatre Company. Benjamin spent three years as the Executive Assistant to the president at Disney Theatrical. B.A. from Muhlenberg College. Originally from Pittsburgh.

A.R.T.: Stage Manager: HEAR WORD!; Burn All Night; Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education; 1984; O.P.C.; The Shape She Makes; The Donkey Show. Assistant Stage Manager: Bedlam's Sense & Sensibility; The Night of the Iguana; Fingersmith; RoosevElvis; Kansas City Choir Boy; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812; The Heart of Robin Hood; All the Way; The Glass Menagerie; The Lily’s Revenge; Once. Production Associate: Prometheus Bound; The Blue Flower; Cabaret. Education/Training: Graduate of Boston University (Summa cum laude) College of Fine Arts.

A.R.T.: Debut. Associate to Bob Crowley: Disney’s Alladin (for 2014), Mary Poppins. Other shows as associate include: La Cage Aux Folles (2010 Tony Award-winning revival); Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Original Set Designer: Bat Boy, the Musical (Drama Desk nomination). Television Set Designer: “Person of Interest,” CBS; “All My Children” (2000 Emmy Award), ABC.