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The Pillowman
Billy Crudup (Katurian). Broadway: The Elephant Man (Tony nomination), Three Sisters (Roundabout), Bus Stop (Circle in the Square), Arcadia (LCT). Off-Broadway: Measure for Measure (Public Theater/NYSF), Oedipus (Blue Light), American Dreaming (Vineyard). Film: Grind, Sleepers, Everyone Says I Love You, Inventing the Abbotts, Monument Avenue, Without Limits, HiLo Country, Princess Mononoke, Waking the Dead, Jesus' Son, Almost Famous, World Traveler, Charlotte Gray, Big Fish, Stage Beauty. B.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; M.F.A. NYU and a member of the Drama Department.

Jeff Goldblum (Tupolski) has starred in three of the 20 highest grossing films of all time worldwide: Jurassic Park, Independence Day and The Lost World. Other films: Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Igby Goes Down, Annie Hall, The Big Chill, Silverado, The Fly, Deep Cover, Next Stop Greenwich Village, The Right Stuff, The Player, Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Tall Guy, Earth Girls are Easy, Nashville, and Death Wish. Recent stage appearances include The Exonerated (Off Broadway). Beyond acting, Mr. Goldblum was nominated for an Academy Award for directing the live action short film Little Surprises. He will be featured in a recurring role on "Will & Grace" this spring.

Zeljko Ivanek (Ariel). Broadway: The Glass Menagerie, Two Shakespearean Actors (Tony nomination), Loot, Brighton Beach Memoirs (Tony nomination), The Survivor. London: Bash. Off-Broadway: The Cherry Orchard (dir. Peter Brook), A Map of the World, Cloud 9 (Drama Desk Award). Regional: Hello and Goodbye, It's Only a Play, Hamlet, 'Master Harold' and the boys (premiere). Film: The Manchurian Candidate, Dogville, Unfaithful, Black Hawk Down, Hannibal, Dancer in the Dark, A Civil Action, Donnie Brasco, Courage Under Fire, White Squall, School Ties, Mass Appeal. Television includes "Oz" (recurring), "Homicide: Life on the Street" (recurring), "24," "The Practice," "Crossing Jordan," "The Job," "E.R.," "The Rat Pack," "Ally McBeal," "Frasier," "Ellen Foster," "Truman," "My Brother's Keeper," "The X-Files," "Law & Order," "Our Sons." Mr. Ivanek is a graduate of Yale University and The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Michael Stuhlbarg (Michal). Broadway:The Invention of Love, Cabaret, Taking Sides, Saint Joan, Timon of Athens, The Government Inspector. Off-Broadway: The Persians; eight plays with The Public/NY Shakespeare Festival including Twelfth Night (Sir Andrew), The Winter's Tale (Clown), title role in Richard II, A Dybbuk (Khonen); Cymbeline (TFANA/RSC/Lortel); Old Wicked Songs (Drama League Award). Regional: Travesties (Williamstown); Edmund in Long Day's Journey Into Night (American Repertory Theatre-Boston Theatre Award). Film: The Grey Zone, The Hunley, A Price Above Rubies.

Martin McDonagh (Playwright). McDonagh's first play, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, premiered in Dublin in 1996, transferred to London's Royal Court Theatre, and then to Broadway where it won four 1998 Tony Awards. The play is the first in his Connemara Trilogy, which also includes A Skull in Connemara and The Lonesome West. The Cripple of Inishmaan, the first of his trilogy of Aran Island plays (which also includes the Lieutenant of Inishmore and The Banshees of Inisheer), opened at The National Theatre, also transferred to New York, and received productions in several U.S. cities including Los Angeles and Philadelphia. McDonagh has been resident playwright at the National Theatre, and recipient of numerous awards including The Evening Standard and George Devine awards for Most Promising Playwright.

John Crowley (Director) is Associate Director at the Donmar Warehouse. He has directed the following productions at the Donmar: Juno and the Paycock, The Maids, How I Learned to Drive, and Into the Woods. Other credits include One for the Road, The Crucible, Double Helix, Six Characters in Search of an Author (Abbey Theatre), Asylum, Asylum (Abbey Theatre), Fair Ladies at A Game of Poem Cards (National Theatre), The Match Seller Girl (TPT, Tokyo), Macbeth (West End), and Shadows (RSC).

Scott Pask (Set Design). Broadway: La Cage aux Folles, Nine (2003 revival, Outer Critics Circle nomination), Take Me Out (Drama Desk nomination). Also Donmar Warehouse and NYSF; Little Shop of Horrors; Amour (Drama Desk nomination, Hewes nomination); Urinetown (Lucille Lortel nomination; NY, Toronto, national tour); Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman (Royal National Theatre, upcoming Broadway); On an Average Day (West End); Tales From Hollywood (Donmar Warehouse); Benjamin Britten's Albert Herring (Opera North U.K.). Off-Broadway: Bash (also London, L.A., Showtime Network), The Underpants, The Bomb-itty of Errors, The Donkey Show (NY, London, Edinburgh Festival), Slanguage, The Gimmick, Love's Fowl, The Beginning of August, Refuge.... Recipient of a 1999 Lucille Lortel Award and ATW Henry Hewes Award for his work on The Mineola Twins; 2001 Bessie for Verge.

Paul Arditti (Sound Designer) has been designing sound for the theatre since 1983. Amongst his credits are many productions for the Royal Court, Royal National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, and West End. Broadway: Four Baboons Adoring the Sun (Drama Desk Award), The Chairs (Drama Desk nomination), The Steward of Christendom, Orpheus Descending, The Merchant of Venice. Off-Broadway: Shopping and Fing. Other: Doctor Dolittle, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Weir* (West End), Toast, Lift Off (Royal Court), The Tempest (RSC), Via Dolorosa, Blue Heart (Broadway).

Paddy Cunneen (Music). Broadway: Private Lives, The Lonesome West, Iceman Cometh, Closer, The Blue Room, The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Work includes Angels in America (I and II), The Cripple of Inishmaan, Fuente Ovejuna (Royal National Theatre); Othello (RNT/world tour), Closer (RNT/West End); The Alchemist, Richard III (Royal Shakespeare Co.); The Leenane Trilogy, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Maids (Donmar Warehouse); Portia Coughlan (Abbey, Dublin/Royal Court); The Iceman Cometh (Almeida/West End); Yam (Almeida/West End). As Music Director: Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music (RNT); Company, Cabaret (Donmar). As Producer: Cast recordings of A Little Night Music (String), Company (First Night Records-Music Industry Award). Film/TV scores include "The Big Fish" (Ch. Four), "Golden Wedding" (BBC Scotland), "The Pan Loaf" (Ch. Four/Chicago Film Festival), "The Maitlands" (BBC Two), and Unfinished Business (Alomo Productions).

Bob Boyett (Producer) has been represented on Broadway as a producer of Democracy; The Frogs; Tom Stoppard's Jumpers; Fiddler on the Roof; Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, which won the 2002 Tony Award for Best Play; Topdog/Underdog, which won the Pulitzer Prize for 2002; Dance of the Vampires; Hedda Gabler; Sweet Smell of Success; The Crucible; The Elephant Man; Fortune's Fool; and A Year With Frog and Toad. In London: David Mamet's Boston Marriage, Kenneth Lonergan's Lobby Hero, Fuddy Meers and the West End production of Jumpers.

OSTAR Enterprises (Producer). OSTAR Enterprises has produced Democracy, Jumpers, Proof, The Scarlet Pimpernel, High Society, The Green Bird, Freak, Dirty Blonde, Bea Arthur, The Smell of the Kill, Amour, Imaginary Friends, and the acclaimed revivals of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, 1776, The Iceman Cometh, Hedda Gabler, Dance of Death, Noises Off, Man of La Mancha. London: The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Hay Fever, Madame Melville. Off-Broadway: The Shape of Things, If Love Were All, If Memory Serves, Madame Melville.

Robert Fox (Producer). In New York: The Boy from Oz, Salome, Gypsy, Skylight, Amy's View, Closer, The Judas Kiss, Chess, Lettice & Lovage, Vita and Virginia, The Blue Room. In London: Another Country, Goosepimples, Crystal Clear, The Seagull, Torch Song Trilogy, Interpreters, Chess, Lettice & Lovage, Anything Goes, A Madhouse in Goa, When She Danced, Burn This, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, The Importance of Being Earnest, Vita and Virginia, 3 Tall Women, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Delicate Balance, Skylight, Amy's View, Closer, Little Malcolm, The Lady in the Van, The Caretaker, The Breath of Life. Film: Another Country, A Month by the Lake, Iris, The Hours, Closer.

The National Theatre is central to the creative life of the UK. In its three theatres on the South Bank in London, it presents an eclectic mix of new plays and classics, with seven or eight productions in repertory at any one time. It aims constantly to re-energise the great traditions of the British stage and to expand the horizons of audiences and artists alike. It aspires to reflect in its repertoire the diversity of the culture. By touring, the National shares its work with audiences in the UK and abroad. Recent work from the NT which has been seen in the US includes: Othello, Carousel, Arcadia, An Inspector Calls, Indiscretions, Racing Demon, Skylight, Stanley, An Enemy of the People, Amy's View, Closer, Not About Nightingales, Hamlet, Copenhagen, Noises Off, Oklahoma!, and Vincent in Brixton.

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