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Playwright: Douglas Carter Beane received a 2007 Tony Award Best Play nomination for The Little Dog Laughed, which premiered at Second Stage Theatre before moving to Broadway. He wrote the book for the current Broadway production of Xanadu and for the new musical Dancing in the Dark, a stage adaptation of the classic MGM musical The Band Wagon, written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green with music and lyric by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz, which will premiere at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre in March. His plays include As Bees in Honey Drown (Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Playwriting Award, Drama Desk Best Play nomination); The Country Club (LA Times Critics’ Choice and Dramalogue Awards); Advice from a Caterpillar (Outer Critics Circle Award nomination); The Big Time (with music and lyrics by Douglas J. Cohen); Music from a Sparkling Planet; White Lies; Devil May Care and Old Money. He has written the screenplays for To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar; Advice from a Caterpillar (Best Film, Aspen Comedy Festival; Best Feature, Toyota Comedy Festival) and the upcoming Skinner’s Eddy. He is a founding member of Drama Dept. and member of the Dramatist Guild.
Director: Fracaswell Hyman returns to Intiman, where he directed last season’s American Cycle production of To Kill a Mockingbird. He is a writer, producer and director with extensive credits in original programming for children’s television. He was the creator and executive producer (along with Thomas W. Lynch & Master P) of Nickelodeon’s sitcom Romeo, for which he wrote the pilot and directed eight episodes. He was also executive producer of Nickelodeon’s sitcom Taina, developing the series alongside its creator, Maria Perez-Brown, and writing the pilot; he also co-wrote the theme song and directed episodes. Taina received a 2002 American Latino Media Arts Award (ALMA) and Mr. Hyman received an ALMA nomination for writing the episode “Quincinera.” He was creator and executive producer of The Famous Jett Jackson, the first Disney Channel fictional original series. He adapted Bill Cosby’s Little Bill books for television, and was head writer/producer for the first two seasons. Little Bill received a 2002 Literacy Network Award, 2003 Emmy Award and 2004 Humanitas Prize. Other television credits include writing and directing Harambee!, a movie about a neighborhood terrorized by violence that pulls together to celebrate Kwanzaa, and serving as executive story editor/co-producer and writer for Nickelodeon’s Gullah Gullah Island. The series received a Parents’ Choice Golden Award and a Parents’ Choice Golden Award for its first home video, “Sing Along with Binyah Binyah,” also written by Mr. Hyman. He began writing for television on the Children’s Television Workshop series Ghostwriter. His first book, Just in Time, was adapted from the Ghostwriter series and published by Bantam Doubleday Dell. Simon & Schuster published Little Bill’s Adventure with Captain Brainstorm. Other writing credits include four one-act plays produced at Ensemble Studio Theatre. As an actor, he appeared in David Merrick’s Broadway revival of Oh, Kay!, Spike Lee’s Malcolm X and the ABC mini-series Separate But Equal starring Sidney Poitier. For five years Mr. Hyman was a member of the Living Stage Theater Company in Washington, D.C., and he has taught improvisation workshops to adults, teens and at-risk youth, and in prisons. He received his B.F.A. from City College of New York.
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