(HALSTON)

Broadway: Fun Home, Wonderful Town, The Green Bird. 

Off-Broadway: The forthcoming new musical, The Gorgeous Nothings; Novenas for a Lost Hospital(Rattlestick); The Cradle Will Rock (Classic Stage); America Is Hard To See(HERE); The Light Years(Playwrights' Horizons); Plenty, Fortress of Solitude, February House (Public Theater); Too Much Sun (Vineyard); La Ronde  (HERE--Best Actor, Fringe Award); Debbie Does Dallas (Jane Street); The Whore of Sheridan Square(La Mama—NYIT Award nomination).  Regional credits include The Waves, Private Lives, True West,Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder(CT Critic's Circle Award/San Diego Critics Circle Nomination), February House (CT Critics Circle Award), Next Fall,Burn This, and Merrily We Roll Along. 

TV/Film: The Housemaid, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, Godfather of Harlem, The Good Fight, American Crime Story: Versace, Christophe on Mozart in the Jungle, House of Cards, Lavender  (Sundance & SXSW 2019, acquired by Fox Searchlight), Save the Date, Radio Killer, Admission, Ira & Abby, Friends With Kids, People Like Us, Puccini for Beginnersand others.

In addition to performing, Ken is a teacher and coach specializing in Dreamwork for artists. www.dreamwork.nyc & @dreamwork_nyc

*Equity Member appearing with permission of Actor’s Equity Association.

PLAYWRIGHT

Raffaele Pacitti (Member, DGA) is a playwright, producer and performer whose plays have received stagings and readings in both New York and Canada. His latest play, Mister Halston, explores the life and times of famed American fashion designer, Halston, set against the vibrant, tumultuous New York of the 1970’s and 1980’s. Mister Halston has received awards for Outstanding Script, Outstanding Actor, and the Audience Award at New York's United Solo Festival. 

Select NY/Regional Theatre: The Tempest (Mill Mountain Stage), The Heiress (Shadow Lawn Stage), A Casual Gathering (Theatre for a New Audience).

Select Toronto Theatre: Pterodactyls (Mercury Theatre), Digging for Fire (Factory Theatre), Hamlet (Canadian Stage), Count Dracula(Rainbow Theatre).

Select Concerts: Bright Lights, Big City (Greenroom 42); Body and Soul (54 Below); Uninvited (The Metropolitan Room) SpringFling, Don’tMisunderstand, EveningLounge (Etc Etc Piano Room).

With years of experience as New York-based Art Director in the advertising, PR and media spaces, along with a varied background in both magazine design and publishing, Pacitti reveres the power of words and how they can affect perception. A passion for theatre, music and fashion, combined with these professional skills has proved to be a natural transition into the world of playwriting.

Raffaele holds a BFA in theatre from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson Theatre School) and has studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

DIRECTOR

Michael Wilson (SDC, DGA) is a Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle award-winning director working on Broadway, off-Broadway, and at major theaters across the country.

On Broadway, he directed the 2013 revival of Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Condola Rashad, Vanessa Williams and Cicely Tyson, who won the Tony® Award for Best Actress. Other Broadway productions include the 2012 Tony Award nominated revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man (starring Candice Bergen, James Earl Jones, John Larroquette, Angela Lansbury, Eric McCormack, Michael McKean and John Stamos); the Tony® Award-nominated Best Plays Dividing the Estate (starring Elizabeth Ashley, Hallie Foote and Gerald McRaney); and Enchanted April (starring Jayne Atkinson and Molly Ringwald), for which he earned his first of two Outer Critics Circle nominations.

Wilson made his screen directoral debut with the 2014 Lifetime/Ostar television film adaptation of The Trip to Bountiful, which was nominated for two 2014 Emmy Awards — including Outstanding Television Movie, as well as a DGA Award for Outstanding Direction of a Movie or Mini-Series for Television. Among the film's many awards are the 2015 NAACP/Image Awards for Outstanding Actor (Blair Underwood) and Outstanding TV Movie, and the Gracie Allen Award for Outstanding Ensemble Cast, which included Keke Palmer and Clancy Brown.

His first indie film, the award-winning Showing Roots (produced by Michael Mailer Films in association with Bill Haber, starring Uzo Aduba, Maggie Grace, and Elizabeth McGovern) was acquired by Lifetime where it had its television premiere in 2016. 

Off-Broadway, his production include Signature Theater Company's revival of Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy starring Richard Thomas, which was subsequently filmed by BroadwayHD (2015); Desire, the Acting Company's premiere bill of plays by Elizabeth Egloff, Marcus Gardley, Rebecca Gilman, David Grimm, John Guare, and Beth Henley based on short stories by Tennessee Williams; Roundabout's revivals of Landford Wilson's Talley's Folly starring Danny Burstein and Sarah Paulson (2013) and Tennessee Williams' The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore starring Olympia Dukakis (2011); and the epic three-part, nine-hour Orphans' Home Cycle. 

Internationally, he directed both parts of Tony Kushner's Angels in America for the 1995 Venice Biennale. 

Recent projects including the American Repertory Theatre revival of The Night of the Iguana starring Bill Heck, Dana Delaney, James Earl Jones, and Amanda Plummer (2017); CTG/Ahmanson Theater's Los Angeles premiere of Grey Gardens: The Musical starring Betty Buckley and Rachel York (2016); and the Alley Theatre workshop of the new musical Tender Mercies (2018).

Treasurer of SDC since 2015, Wilson was Artistic Director from 1998-2011 of Hartford Stage, where he commissioned and developed the Pulitzer Prize winning Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegria Hudes. mwilsonproductions.com

LEAD PRODUCER—SUNNYSPOT PRODUCTIONS

Bruce Robert Harris is a multi-award winning producer, executive producer and entertainment industry consultant who has presented over sixty plays and musicals for Broadway, London, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Sydney, Melbourne, Berlin, Off-Broadway, regional Theaters, national and international tours and festivals, plus many private and corporate events over the past twenty-three years.  He is a recipients of Tony® Awards for the Broadway productions of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Clybourne Park, and the musical revival of Pippin. 

His most recent shows include The Roommate starring Mia Farrow and Patti Lupone, New York, New York  (which brought him this thirteenth Tony® Award nomination), Good Night and Good Luck (Broadway) starring George Clooney, John Proctor is the Villian, (Broadway) with Sadie Sink, The Who’s Tommy (soon to begin  a US tour), plus Magic Mike Live (now in its sixth year in London and Las Vegas) and Magic Mike Live opening in July in New York City.  Also Criss Angel Mindfreak (six years years and going strong in Las Vegas), and Titanic the Musical (UK tour and film). This past season off Broadway, Heathers currently running at New World Stages, and Drag The Musical. 

Upcoming: Dog Day Afternoon (Broadway), Starring Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Broadway), Hank & Jim Build A Plane a new play to be directed by John Rando (Broadway), a new comedy Puck’d (Broadway), Angel of Arkansas (a new musical for Broadway to be directed by Susan Stroman) and Mister Halston, coming soon. 

Bruce has also produced five Original Broadway Cast albums and was the Executive Producer of Gerald McCullouch’s award- winning film Daddy. His productions have received hundreds of accolades including Tony®, Olivier, London Critics Circle, London Evening Standard, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, Theatre World, Los Angeles Critics Circle, Ovation, plus Grammy and Chita Rivera Awards and Nominations. SunnySpotProductions.com

PRODUCING CONSULTANT

Sue is a Tony Award®-winning producer of Broadway’s CLYBOURNE PARK. She also produced the Tony Award®-nominated NEW YORK NEW YORK with Lin Manuel Miranda, John Kander & Fred Ebb on Broadway, as well as the critically acclaimed revival of SMOKEY JOE’S CAFE in London. Sue is currently a consultant on two Off-Broadway shows and serves as producer of HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES which is now performing globally.

Sue Vaccaro is a well-regarded and renowned Theater Producer nominated for International Producer of the Year, three years in a row. Sue worked as a teacher, and special event organizer/fundraiser for twenty five years before entering the entertainment field in 2003 and managing Emmy Award®-winning GOLDEN GIRLS actress Rue McClanahan. Sue was Producing Rue’s musical MY FIRST FIVE HUSBANDS when Rue was forced to retire from acting.

Sue believes in blunt honesty and handling every situation, good or bad, with a smile on her face. Her warm, demeanor is well-respected by everyone in the industry from the theater owners to bartenders including celebrities like Wendell Pierce, Kristin Chenoweth, Tracey Bregman and Bryan Batt.

Sue’s expertise is in building personal connections through fundraising, marketing, public relations and artist relations.