Michael Bunce
Harry Hawk
Ford’s Theatre: A Christmas Carol, Meet John Doe, One Destiny. Signature: Urinetown, Pacific Overtures; Olney: 1776, Anything Goes; Geva: Camelot; Barrington: South Pacific. Kennedy Center: Regina with Patti Lupone. National Tours: The Scarlet Pimpernel, Victor/Victoria with Toni Tennille. International: 42nd Street Troika Moscow. Cumberland: HayFever, The Full Monty,Camping with Henry and Tom, The Odd Couple, Big River, Christmas Carol, Sweeney Todd. Training: BA University of Maryland.

Stephen F. Schmidt
Harry Ford
Ford’s Theatre: One Destiny, Shenandoah and 1776. Regional: Olney: Stuff Happens; Arena: Death of a Salesman, Noises Off; Center Stage: Arsenic and Old Lace, The Winter’s Tale, As You Like It. Awards: Helen Hayes award for Lockstock in Urinetown; Helen Hayes nominations for Wonka in Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka, George in Wonderful Life and Brad in The Rocky Horror Show. Film: My One and Only, The Invasion, La Bamba. TV: The Wire, The District, Homicide.

Christopher Bloch
Understudy
Ford’s Theatre: A Christmas Carol, Shenandoah, Meet John Doe, State of the Union, Big River,1776, Recent: Rabbit Hole, Les Misérables,(Helen Hayes), ART, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Christmas Carol 1941 (Helen Hayes Nomination), Regional: Arena, Guthrie, ACT (Seattle), Indiana Rep, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Shakespeare Theatre, Everyman, Virginia Stage. National tour: Buddy Holly Story, Film/TV; West Wing (Final Episode), Butler MN,WCBDC!, Star Wars audiocassettes.

Mark Ramont
Director
Ford’s Theatre: The Rivalry;Director of Theatre Programming. Round House: Midwives; Circle Repertory Company: Dalton’s Back, The Colorado Catechism,Walking the Dead; Alley: How I Learned to Drive; Stages Repertory Theatre: Souvenir,Good Boys, Nixon’s Nixon, Syncopation, Old Wicked Songs. Past positions: Associate Artistic Director, Circle Rep, NYC; Artistic Director, Hangar Theatre, Ithaca, NY; Artistic Director, Capitol City Playhouse, Austin, TX; Director of Theatre/Lecturer, English, Rice University, Houston. Visiting Lecturer, American University. Awards: Princess Grace Foundation USA Statuette Award; three-time Austin Critics Circle, Best Director; threetime Austin Circle of Theatres, Outstanding Direction. Training: MFA, University of Texas at Austin.

Richard Hellesen
Playwright
Hellesen is the author of One Destiny, The Road From Appomattox, and the Ford’s Theatre walking tour Investigation: Detective McDevitt. Hellesen’s other plays include Kingdom, Once In Arden, Moonshadow, a widely-produced musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol (with composer David DeBerry), and adaptations of Johnny Tremain, The Emperor’s New Clothes and The Twelve Dancing Princesses. His two-dozen short plays include five finalists in the Actors Theatre of Louisville Ten-Minute Play Contest, including Dos Corazones which appears in Best Ten-Minute Plays for Two Actors, 2004. With composer Michael Silversher he has written a musical version of The Wind in the Willows, 11 educational touring shows for South Coast Repertory, and an adaptation of the Lois Lowry novel Gathering Blue. A member of the Dramatists Guild, Hellesen is the recipient of writing awards from the National Theatre Conference, PEN USA West and the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild, and was Playwright in Residence at the William Inge Center for the Arts in 2009. He makes his home in Sacramento, California.