WINNER! 2009 Olivier Award – Best Musical Revival
WINNER! 2009 Olivier Award, Best Actor in a Musical – Douglas Hodge
WINNER! 2009 Critics’ Circle Theatre Award – BEST MUSICAL

KELSEY GRAMMER                  DOUGLAS HODGE
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
ANNOUNCES ADDITIONAL CASTING

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SPECIAL WELCOME FROM KELSEY GRAMMER AND THE CAGELLES!

The producers of the critically-acclaimed, Olivier Award-winning Menier Chocolate Factory production of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES are pleased to announce additional casting for the forthcoming Broadway production of the Tony Award-winning musical.
 
Joining five-time Emmy Award-winner Kelsey Grammer as Georges and Olivier Award-winner Douglas Hodge as Albin will be A.J. Shively, a recent University of Michigan graduate, making his Broadway debut as Jean-Michel; Tony nominee Veanne Cox (Company, Caroline, or Change) as Mme. Dindon/Mme. Renaud; Tony-nominee Robin de Jesús (In the Heights) as Jacob; two-time Tony nominee Christine Andreas (My Fair Lady, Oklahoma!, On Your Toes) as Jacqueline; Elena Shaddow (Fiddler on the Roof, The Woman in White, Fanny at Encores!) as Anne; Chris Hoch (Beauty and the Beast, Spamalot, Shrek the Musical) as Francis; Heather Lindell (Hairspray) as Colette; Bill Nolte (The Producers, 1776) as Tabarro and David Nathan Perlow (White Noise) as Etienne.  
 
Also starring as the notorious and dangerous Cagelles will be Nick Adams (A Chorus Line, Guys and Dolls, Chicago), Nicholas Cunningham (La Cage aux Folles/West End), Sean Patrick Doyle (Fiddler on the Roof national tour, Wig Out!), Yurel Echezarreta (West Side Story), Terry Lavell (Hairspray/Las Vegas, Smokey Joe’s Café/national tour) and Logan Keslar (West Side Story/West End, On the Town/Paper Mill Playhouse).   The production also features Christophe Caballero, Todd Lattimore, Dale Hensley and Cheryl Stern.  
 
More casting will be announced soon.  Rehearsals begin Monday, March 1. 
 
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES begins previews on Tuesday, April 6 and opens on Sunday, April 18 at Broadway’s Longacre Theatre (220 West 48th Street).   The production is now on sale through Telecharge.com at 212-239-6200 or at www.telecharge.com/lacage <http://www.telecharge.com/lacage> .   Also visit www.lacage.com <http://www.lacage.com>  for the production’s newly launched website, including a special video introduction from Kelsey Grammer and the Cagelles. 

LA CAGE AUX FOLLES features music and lyrics by Jerry Herman and book by Harvey Fierstein, based on the play by Jean Poiret.  This freshly reconceived production is choreographed by Lynne Page and directed by Terry Johnson. 

Georges (Kelsey Grammer) is the suave owner of a glitzy drag club on the French Riviera. Partnered romantically with his high-strung star performer, Albin (Douglas Hodge), the pair live a charmed life—until Georges’ son announces his engagement to the daughter of a conservative right-wing politician who’s coming to dinner.
 
Douglas Hodge and Nicholas Cunningham are appearing with the permission of Actors’ Equity Association. The producers gratefully acknowledge Actors’ Equity Association for its assistance to this production.
 
The original production of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES was one of Broadway’s biggest hits of the 1980s.  It opened August 21, 1983 at the Palace Theatre, where it played for over four years and 1,761 performances.  The show won six Tony Awards in 1984, including Best Musical, Best Score (Jerry Herman) and Best Book (Harvey Fierstein).       

The new production of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES played from November 23, 2007 to March 8, 2008 at the Menier Chocolate Factory, earning across the board raves and moving to the West End’s Playhouse Theatre on October 30, 2008, where it was nominated for seven 2009 Olivier Awards, winning for Best Musical Revival and Best Actor in a Musical for Douglas Hodge and won the 2009 Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Best Musical. 
 
“A glorious night of showbiz razzle dazzle!” exclaimed Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph.  “At last a musical to sweep away those credit-crunch blues. This joyous show deserves every hurrah and standing ovation it receives.”  “Suddenly, the West End sparkles,” cheered Sam Marlowe, The Times.  “Sew on a sequin, slip into some heels and go.” 
 
The production features set design by Tim Shortall, costume design by Matthew Wright, lighting design by Nick Richings and wig and makeup design by Richard Mawbey.  Orchestrations and Musical Supervision are by Jason Carr. 
 
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES will be produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, David Babani, Fran and Barry Weissler and Edwin W. Schloss, Robert G. Bartner, Broadway Across America, Matthew Mitchell, Raise the Roof 4/Richard Winkler/Bensinger Taylor, Jerry Frankel, Independent Presenters Network, Olympus Theatricals, Allen Spivak.

Tickets ($132.50 – $36.50; Premium $251.50) are currently on sale through Telecharge.com at 212-239-6200 or online at www.telecharge.com/lacage <http://www.telecharge.com/lacage> .  Performances will be Tuesday through Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 7:00 PM, with matinees Wednesday and Saturday at 2:30 PM.

BIOGRAPHIES

Kelsey Grammer (Georges) Broadway: Macbeth, Othello.  Concerts: Sweeney Todd at LA’s Reprise Series, Henry Higgins in the New York Philharmonic’s My Fair Lady.  Off-Broadway: Sunday in the Park with George (Playwrights Horizons), Plenty (Public), A Month in the Country (Roundabout) and Quartermaine’s Terms.  Regional: Lucio in Measure for Measure, Richard II at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.  TV: An initial six-episode role as Dr. Frasier Crane on “Cheers” developed into the cornerstone of Grammer’s career.  He continued playing the celebrated character in two additional TV series (“Wings” and “Frasier”) over a span of 20 years, tying the record for longest-running television character.  For the role, Grammer won four Emmy Awards, two Golden Globes and received an unparalleled 16 Emmy nominations, eight Golden Globe nominations and 16 SAG nominations.   Fifth Emmy for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for Sideshow Bob on “The Simpsons”.  He has also lent his voice to the films Toy Story 2, Anastasia and Teacher’s Pet and “Father of the Pride,” “Gary the Rat” and the Emmy-nominated “Animal Farm”. Film: X-Men: The Last Stand, Fifteen Minutes, Down Periscope, Even Money, Fame, Crazy on the Outside and Bunyan and Babe, among others.   Other TV credits include “Hank,” “Back to You,” “A Christmas Carol,” “Benedict Arnold,” “Mr. St. Nick,” “Kennedy,” and “George Washington”.  With his TV production company, Grammnet, he has produced such hit television shows as the Emmy-winning “Medium” for NBC and “The Game” and “Girlfriends” for CW.  He has directed single episodes of “Everybody Hates Chris,” “My Ex Life” and “Out of Practice”.  He directed several episodes of “Frasier,” earning a DGA nomination. 
 
Douglas Hodge (Albin) will make his Broadway debut with La Cage aux Folles, for which he won the 2009 Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical.  National Theatre: A Matter of Life and Death, Betrayal, Blinded by the Sun, Pericles, King Lear.  West End: La Cage aux Folles (Playhouse), Guys and Dolls (Donmar/Piccadilly –Olivier nomination), Dumb Show (Royal Court – Evening Standard nomination), The Caretaker (Olivier nomination), Titus Andronicus (Globe),  Three Sisters, No Man’s Land (Almeida), Moonlight (Almeida / Comedy), The Collection/The Lover (Donmar), A Winter’s Tale (RSC / Roundhouse), Coriolanus (Almeida), Hamlet (Bolton Octagon), Romeo and Juliet (Birmingham Rep), The Norman Conquests (Nottingham Playhouse).  TV: “Outnumbered,” “Skins” (series 4), “Unforgiven,” “Whistleblowers,” “Spooks,” “Lift,” “Mansfield Park,” “Redcap,” “The Way We Live Now,” “The Russian Bride,” “Only Fools and Horses,” “Dance,” “Bliss,” “Open Fire,” “The Scold’s Bridle,” “It Could Be You,” “True Love,” “Men of the Month,” “Middlemarch,” “Anglo Saxon Attitudes,” “A Fatal Inversion,” “Capital City,” “Behaving Badly”.   Film: Ridley Scott’s new (as yet untitled) Robin Hood adventure, The Descent 2, Scenes of a Sexual Nature, Vanity Fair, Diamond Skulls, The Trial, Salome’s Last Dance and Saigon Baby.

A.J. Shively (Jean-Michel) is excited to be making his Broadway debut in La Cage aux Folles.  A recent graduate of the University of Michigan’s Musical Theatre program, his theatre credits include A Contemporary American’s Guide to a Successful Marriage © 1959 (Fringe NYC 2009), To Paint the Earth (NYMF), The Sound of Music (national tour), Things to Ruin: The Songs of Joe Iconis (Second Stage), and Rewrite (Urban Stages), as well as the readings Vera Laughed (Playwrights Horizons) and Rockwell (Manhattan Theatre Club).

Veanne Cox (Mme. Dindon/Mme. Renaud) Broadway: Caroline, or Change; The Dinner Party; Company (Tony and Drama Desk nominations); Smile. Off-Broadway: Blind (Rattlestick); Paradise Park (Signature); Spain, Last Easter (Drama Desk nomination), The Wooden Breeks (MCC); House and Garden, Labor Day (MTC); The Altruists, The Batting Cage, The Waiting Room, Flora, the Red Menace (Vineyard); Freedomland (Playwrights Horizons); A Question of Mercy (NYTW); A Mother, a Daughter and a Gun; The Vagina Monologues; The Food Chain. Regional: Private Lives (Guthrie), The Beaux’ Stratagem (Shakespeare Theatre, Helen Hayes nomination), The Boyfriend (Bay Street), The Imaginary Invalid (Yale Rep), The Importance of Being Earnest (La Jolla), A Flea in Her Ear (Long Wharf), The Heidi Chronicles (Actors Theatre of Louisville).
 
Robin de Jesús (Jacob) hails from Broadway’s In the Heights where his work earned him a Tony nomination and a Drama Desk for Best Ensemble. Broadway/NY credits include Rent; Lonnie/Jake; Kingdom; Kander, Ebb and Stein’s All About Us; Stephen Schwartz’ Captain Louie; Zorba; Mask.  Regional: Godspell, Nilo Cruz’ A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings and countless readings. Also the Public, the York, NYTW, NAMT, Barrow Group, McCarter, Paper Mill, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ. Film and TV: Camp, Pet the Goat, Fat Girls, “How to Make it in America” and coming soon, Elliot Loves. 

Christine Andreas (Jacqueline) is a two-time Tony Award nominee as Laurey in Oklahoma! and Frankie Frayne in On Your Toes, directed by George Abbott. She starred as Eliza Doolittle in the 20th anniversary production of My Fair Lady, garnering a Theatre World Award. Other Broadway: The Scarlet Pimpernel, Words and Music, Angel Street, Rags and as the “short-lived” Alice in the short-lived Legs Diamond. Regional: Tartuffe (Kennedy Center), Alaska Rep’s Twelfth Night (Alaska Rep), Sarah and Abraham (George St.)  TV: “The Cosby Show,” “Another World,” “PBS’ Musical Comedy Tonite” and as Ava Gardner in “Mia, Child of Hollywood.”  Concerts: White House and worldwide. Collaboration with composer Martin Silvestri led to U.S. premiere and London West End production and recording of The Fields of Ambrosia and Ms. Andreas’ first solo CD Love is Good on Touchwood Records.

Elena Shaddow (Anne) Broadway: The Woman in White, Fiddler on the Roof, Nine, Sweet Smell of Success, Les Miserables.  She is currently playing the title role in Fanny at Encores!  Off Broadway: The Bacchae (Public Theater).  London:  Showboat at the Royal Albert Hall.  National Tours: First National of The Light in the Piazza (2007 Helen Hayes Best Actress Nomination).  Regional: Carnival! (Papermill Playhouse), Twelfth Night, The Importance of Being Earnest and Illyria (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), Señor Discretion Himself (Arena Stage – 2005 Helen Hayes Best Actress Nomination).  Recent readings/workshops: The Unsinkable Molly Brown at the Denver Center Theater (Kathleen Marshall dir.) and Love Never Dies by Andrew Lloyd Weber (Jack O’Brien dir.).  Elena is currently pursuing her MM at the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University.  
 
Chris Hoch (Francis) Broadway: Shrek the Musical, Monty Python’s Spamalot, Dracula, Beauty and the Beast. Off-Broadway: Die, Mommie, Die!; Face the Music (Encores!). Regional: Dracula, Zhivago, Palm Beach, Private Fittings (all at La Jolla Playhouse); Candide (Prince Music Theater); Picasso at the Lapin Agile (City Theatre); Caraboo (Goodspeed). Television: “30 Rock,” “Third Watch,” “Guiding Light,” “All My Children.”
 
Heather Lindell (Colette) A Los Angeles native, she trained and received her B.A. from the Ray Bolger Musical Theater program at UCLA, incorporating the Stanislavski and Meisner techniques. While in college, she was cast in the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Hairspray.   Upon returning from New York, she landed the contract role of Jan Spears on “Days of Our Lives”.  Her portrayal of this character won her a Soap Digest Award for Best Young Actress.  She then went on to star in Garry Marshall’s adaptation of his hit TV series Happy Days at The Falcon Theater; and in a recurring role on “As The World Turns.” Other credits include the films, Getting There opposite the Olsen twins and Scrambled Eggs, a comedy also featuring Michael Rappaport and Dennis Farina.  
 
Bill Nolte (Tabarro) Broadway: The Producers (Franz Liebkind), Amour (Boss), Jane Eyre (Mason), 1776 (McKean), King David (Goliath), A Christmas Carol (Gravedigger), Joseph…Dreamcoat (the Baker), The Secret Garden, Me and My Girl and Cats (Old Deuteronomy). Regionally, he has been seen at Goodspeed Opera (Sweeney Todd, Man of La Mancha), Pittsburgh Public (Pirates of Penzance, HMS Pinafore), Alley Theatre (Jekyll & Hyde), Grand Teton Music Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse (A Tuna Christmas).  Bill is a “distinguished alumnus” from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

David Nathan Perlow (Etienne) Broadway debut!  Regional credits include roles at North Shore Music Theater, Long Wharf Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Westchester Broadway Theater, and Le Petit Theater – New Orleans.
 
Nick Adams (Cagelle) Broadway: A Chorus Line (Larry), Chicago (Mary Sunshine standby), Guys and Dolls (Liver Lips Louie), The Pirate Queen (original cast).  Film: Sex and the City 2, An Englishman in New York. TV: “Guiding Light,” “Rosie Live,” “Kennedy Center Honors,” “Tony Awards,” “Dancing with the Stars”. Concerts: Birdland, Erie Philharmonic, Boston Pops, Cincinnati Pops. Training: Boston Conservatory.

Nicholas Cunningham (Cagelle/Associate Choreographer/Dance Captain) Broadway Debut. Australian born.  Training: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.  Awarded the Marten Bequest Traveling Scholarship for Dance 2005/2006. Moved to Paris in 2005 to dance at the Bal du Moulin Rouge. Associate Choreographer and played Hanna from Hamburg in La Cage aux Folles in London 2008-2010.  West End: Movin’ Out, directed and choreographed by Twyla Tharp.  International: Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake.  Commercial work: McCains, Orangina, Toyota.  Film: Featured dancer in Nine (dir. Rob Marshall).  Assistant Choreographer for Pet Shop Boys World Tour “Pandemonium” 2009-2010 and The Boat That Rocked (dir. Richard Curtis). 

Sean Patrick Doyle (Cagelle) National tour: Fruma-Sarah in Fiddler on the Roof, opposite Chaim Topol, Harvey Fierstein, and Theodore Bikel.  Off-Broadway: Loki in Tarell McCraney’s Wig Out! at the Vineyard Theatre, directed by Tina Landau.  International: Baby John in the Asian and European tours of West Side Story, Asian tour of Fame: the Musical. Regional: Emcee in Cabaret, Carmen Ghia in The Producers, Mr. Mistoffelees in Cats, Starkey in Peter Pan, numerous operas and concerts at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.  TV: “Law and Order,” “Young Lincoln: The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1816-1830,” and “The Kennedy Center Honors”.    Sean Patrick is also a published playwright (Smith and Kraus) and travel photographer (Lonely Planet).

Yurel Echezarreta (Cagelle) is so excited to glam it up in this fierce revival of La Cage Aux Folles! He recently left his previous show, the 2009 Broadway revival of West Side Story, where he played a very serious/scary Shark gang member named Tio. Yurel started theatre in a performing arts high school in Central Florida and from there went on to attend the University of Michigan for Musical Theatre. Other credits include the 2008 summer season at the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera.

Logan Keslar (Cagelle) Broadway debut! Credits include West Side Story (West End/U.S. & International Tours); On the Town (Papermill Playhouse); La Cage Aux Folles (Riverside Theatre, Maltz Jupiter Theatre); A Chorus Line (dir. Baayork Lee), Dreamgirls (Dave & the Sweethearts – Theatre Under the Stars); Footloose (Kansas City Starlight); Aida(Westchester Broadway Theatre).
 
Terry Lavell (Cagelle), a native of New Orleans, is excited about his Broadway debut in La Cage. Broadway tours: Hairspray Las Vegas (Seaweed), Smokey Joe’s Café (Adrian). Regional: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Protean) Denver Arts Center; Boys from Syracuse (Seress/Tailor) Baltimore Center Stage; Aida,  FCLO, Pippin (Leading Player), Assassins (Proprietor). TV/Film: “Happy Life,” “Sex in the City” and “The Dave Chapelle Show”. Terry has also been seen in the NYMF as well as Fringe Festivals in Castronauts (Amazona) and Look What a Wonder Jesus Has Done and as a top finalist in NYMF Broadway Idol competition and in Scandalous People (Trixie).  Some workshops include Dillinger The Musical (Youngblood), Invisible Life (Kyle Alexander Benton) and was a featured guest with Ashford & Simpson at Feinsteins. Terry also received his Bachelors degree from Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA.
 
Christophe Caballero (Swing) Broadway credits include Jerome Robbins’ Broadway (original company), A Christmas Carol (original company) and Beauty & the Beast.  Christophe has performed in Chicago from the Far East to the Middle East, passing though Paris with the national tours and Paris companies. Regional/International favorites include: Titanic, Kiss Me Kate, Guys & Dolls, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Christophe has also performed on both the Metropolitan Opera and Paris Opera stages. He was a cast member of the international TV hit “Fame” for three seasons and is the original voice of Odd on “Code Lyoko”.
 
Dale Hensley (Swing) Broadway: The Drowsy Chaperone, La Cage (2005), Sunset Blvd., Guys and Dolls, Cats and Anything Goes. National tours: The Drowsy Chaperone, Hairspray (Vegas), The Full Monty, Big, The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sugar Babies.  Other NY:  9 City Center Encores!, Sweeney Todd (w/ New York Philharmonic), Time and Again (MTC), Patti LuPone in Concert (Carnegie Hall).  Regional: The Producers (Pioneer Theatre), 1776 (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Immigrant (Westport Playhouse), Candide (Connecticut Rep.), 42nd St. (Goodspeed), Victor/Victoria (Papermill Playhouse).  TV/Radio:  “Law and Order: SVU,” “All My Children,” “The Guiding Light” and NPR’s “A Prairie Home Companion”.
 
Todd Lattimore (Swing/Cagelle) was in the original Broadway revival company of 42nd Street where he understudied Billy Lawlor and eventually became a swing. He also was in the original Boston company of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. He was in Face the Music, Of Thee I Sing and No, No, Nanette at City Center Encores!  Regionally, Todd has played Bobbie in A Chorus Line, Hannah in La Cage and Billy Lawlor in 42nd Street, to name a few of his favorites. Todd judges and teaches master classes with Dancers Inc.

Cheryl Stern (Swing) has appeared in The Women (Roundabout; filmed for PBS), Candide (NY City Opera) and in Laughing Room Only. Off Broadway: Being Audrey, Alice B. Toklas in 27 Rue de Fleurus, Mamie Eisenhower in First Lady Suite (Transport Group), Requiem for William (also at Transport Group), I Love You, You’re Perfect, Game Show, That’s Life!, The Immigrant, Don’t Leave It All to Your Children.  National Tours:  A Grand Night for Singing, Les Miserables, Evita, Fiddler on the Roof.  Regional:  Created the leading role of Maryanne in Hats! at the New Denver Civic Theatre, Sisters Rosensweig (Geva/Studio Arena), Lost in Yonkers (Tennessee Rep), Light Up the Sky (Seattle Rep.), Falsettos (Barrington Stage), No Way to Treat a Lady (Theatreworks Hartford), The Times (Long Wharf), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Cape Playhouse).  TV: “Guiding Light,” “All My Children,” “As the World Turns,” “Law and Order-Criminal Intent,” “Sondheim; a Celebration at Carnegie Hall” (PBS).  Film: Brooklyn Lobster with Jane Curtin and Danny Aiello.  

Jerry Herman (Music and Lyrics). There is never an evening when, somewhere in the world, the music and lyrics of Jerry Herman are not being sung by a lady in a red headdress, or a lady with a bugle, or a middle-aged man in a wig and a boa. Hello, Dolly!, Mame and La Cage are home to some of the most popular, most-often performed and most successful musical heroines of all time and have given Jerry the distinction of being the only composer-lyricist in history to have had three musicals that ran more than 1,500 consecutive performances on Broadway. His first Broadway show was Milk and Honey (1961), followed by Hello, Dolly! (1964), Mame (1966), Dear World (1969), Mack & Mabel (1974), The Grand Tour (1979), La Cage (1983), Jerry’s Girls (1985) and “Mrs. Santa Claus” (1996), a CBS TV special starring Angela Lansbury. Showtune, a revue of his life’s work, is performing in regional theatres around the country. His string of awards and honors includes Tonys, Grammys, Drama Desk Awards, the Johnny Mercer Award, the Richard Rodgers Award, the Oscar Hammerstein Award, the Frederick Loewe Award, the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Theatre Hall of Fame.

Harvey Fierstein (Book) is a four-time Tony Award-winning writer and actor.  His plays include Torch Song Trilogy (Tony, Drama Desk winner and Olivier Award nomination); A Catered Affair (Drama League and San Diego Theater Critics’ Best Musical winner); Legs Diamond and Spookhouse.   He won the Humanitas Award for his HBO animated special, “The Sissy Duckling,” which is also available as a children’s book.  His acting credits include such films as Mrs. Doubtfire and Independence Day, as well as stage work including Hairspray, Fiddler on the Roof and Safe Sex.  Recipient of numerous awards on behalf of the gay and lesbian community, Mr. Fierstein was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 2008.  

Lynne Page (Choreography) Credits include: A Little Night Music (Menier Chocolate Factory, West End and Broadway), Never So Good (National Theatre), Little Shop of Horrors (Menier Chocolate Factory and West End), Bad Girls the Musical (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Assassins (Crucible, Sheffield), There Came a Gypsy Riding and The Late Henry Moss (Almeida), Fabulation (Tricycle Theatre), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (RSC), Bat Boy – the Musical (West End), Blonde Bombshells of 1943 (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Tell Me on a Sunday (West End), The Merchant of Venice (National Theatre), Meat (Theatre Royal, Plymouth) and Jesus Christ Superstar (European tour).  Film: Hippie Hippie Shake (Working Title), Fred Claus (Warner Brothers).  TV: “Phoo Action,” “Billy Goat,” “Brazen Hussies,” “The History of Tom Jones” (BBC), “The Last Detective” (ITV), “That’s So Graham Norton” (Channel Four). 

Terry Johnson (Director) is a multi-award winning playwright and director and is Literary Associate at the Royal Court Theatre.  He has been honored with nine major British Theatre awards, including two Olivier Awards and two Evening Standard Theatre Awards. In recent years, he has had 12 productions running in London’s West End: La Cage aux Folles, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Rain Man, Whipping It Up, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Hitchcock Blonde, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, The Graduate, Dead Funny, Hysteria, Elton John’s Glasses and The Memory of Water. He has worked with Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, directing John Malkovich in The Libertine (nominated for five Jeff Awards, including Best Production) and Lost Land, both plays by Stephen Jeffries.  He has written and directed for international television, most recently “The Man Who Lost His Head” for ITV and “Not Only But Always” for Channel Four, which won five International Award nominations, Best Film at Banff and a BAFTA for Rhys Ifans. He wrote and directed “‘Cor Blimey!” for ITV.

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