George Sikowski

Broadway: Pal Joey, Twelve Angry Men. Rounding Third (Houseman Theatre); A Streetcar Named Desire (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); Heaven (Yale Repertory Theatre); Frankie and Johnnie (Hartford Stage); Bad Habits (Manhattan Theatre Club); Wild Goose (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Golden Boy, The Homecoming (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Film: The Interpreter, One Night, Across the Universe, Crimson Mask. Currently shooting Boardwalk Empire, HBO Pilot with Martin Scorsese. Many productions with director Walt Witcover at MLT-Television: series regular on "Hill Street Blues," "O’Hara," "Laurie Hill," "One of the Boys" and "Oz." Guest-starred on 40 other shows and pilots.

Coach

John appeared last year in Unconditional (The Public Theater, NYC). Previous stage work includes Glengarry Glen Ross (Dallas Theater Center), Honour (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Cymbeline (Hartford Stage, McCarter Theatre), Robbers (American Place Theatre, NYC), True West (Producers Club, NYC). Film: Gracie, Mystic River, Lonely Hearts, Sniper 3, Noel, City by the Sea, Cop Land, Claire Dolan, Little Boy Blue, Stonewall. Soon to be released: All Good Things. Just completed: Blue Valentine, The Company Men. Television: "Without a Trace," "NCIS," "CSI," "ER," "OZ," "NYPD Blue," "Hack," "The Practice," the "Law & Order" shows. He was Alter Kendrick on "Damages" (FX) and played Bill Rawls on HBO’s The Wire.

James Daley

Westport Playhouse debut. A veteran of over 25 years in the entertainment industry, Lou has appeared on stage, television and in film in various projects. Broadway: Burn This (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award nominations) and As Is. He’s also appeared Off-Broadway, at regional theaters, and in London. Film/TV: It’s My Party, "Sex and the City," "Law & Order," "Tales of the City." Founder, Jersey Shore Writer’s Studio; Literary Director/Board Member, ReVision Theatre (www.revisiontheatre.org); Board Member, ArtsCAP (www.artscap.org), all based in Asbury Park, NJ. Education/Training: Fordham University at Lincoln Center, Circle Repertory Company and William Esper.

Tom Daley

Broadway: Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Aida. Off-Broadway: Most recently Road Show (The Public Theater). Also appearances at: New York Shakespeare Festival; Signature Theatre; New York Theatre Workshop; Manhattan Theatre Club; Playwrights Horizons; Theatre for a New Audience; En Garde Arts; The Talking Band; Brooklyn Academy of Music; New York City Opera; Minetta Lane Theatre. With SITI Company: Antigone; Under Construction; bobrauschenbergamerica; Score; War of the Worlds; Radio Play; The Medium; Going, Going, Gone; Freshwater. Also: Laurie Anderson’s Songs and Stories From Moby Dick; Richard Foreman’s Pearls for Pigs; Dionysus with the Suzuki Company of Toga. Awards: OBIE Award (The Medium); Drama League Award Nomination (Score); San Diego Critics Award-Ensemble (Wintertime); Barrymore Award Nomination (Candide). MFA-UC San Diego.

Phil Romano

Broadway: South Pacific, 12th Night (Lincoln Center Theater); The Iceman Cometh; The Grapes of Wrath (Steppenwolf Theatre Company). Off-Broadway: Prayer for My Enemy (Playwrights Horizons); Writer's Block and 10 Million Miles (Atlantic Theater Company); The Big Funk and Marisol (The Public Theater). Film: Ronin, Flawless, Money Train, Drunkboat (TBR). TV Directing: "ER," "Third Watch," "Criminal Minds." TV: "Third Watch," "Law & Order" (original, "SVU" and "Criminal Intent").

Playwright

Jason Miller (1939 – 2001) won the Pulitzer Prize, the Tony Award, the Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics’ Circle Award for his play That Championship Season. He has also authored three one-act plays, Circus Lady, Lou Gehrig Did Not Die of Cancer and It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie. His most recent work, Barrymore’s Ghost, premiered at the Empty Space in Seattle, Washington. He won an Emmy Award and the prestigious Christopher Award for his teleplay Mary Thomas: A Mother’s Courage, the story of basketball player Isaiah Thomas’ mother. Jason was nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of Father Karras in The Exorcist. Other notable film credits include F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood, for which he received an Emmy Award nomination, and Arthur Miller in Marilyn: The Untold Story. Jason’s acting credits include Edmund in Long Day’s Journey into Night with Helen Hayes at the Hartke Theatre in Washington, D. C., and Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind with Malachy McCourt. Inherit the Wind premiered in Scranton, Pennsylvania at the Lackawanna County Courthouse and then moved to Philadelphia’s City Hall where it enjoyed a critically acclaimed six-month run, winning the distinction of being the longest-running drama in Philadelphia in a quarter century. Jason, a Pennsylvania Gold Medal recipient, was the Artistic Director of the Scranton Public Theatre, its Pennsylvania Summer Theatre Festival and the Public Theatre of Pennsylvania. His full-length heritage play, Nobody Hears a Broken Drum, was chosen as the millennium play for the State of Pennsylvania.

Director/Artistic Director

Mark Lamos is a director of plays, musicals and opera. He was named Westport Country Playhouse artistic director in February 2009. His first official season of artistic programming will be for the Playhouse’s 80th anniversary year in 2010. The New York Times called him "a poet of the theater," and his work receives a chapter in Samuel L. Leiter’s The Great Stage Directors: 100 Distinguished Careers of the Theater, along with legendary directors of the twentieth century.  Born and raised in Chicago, educated at Northwestern University, Lamos began his career in the theater as an actor, first in Chicago and then on Broadway and in regional theater. He made his film acting debut in Longtime Companion. Lamos spent 17 seasons as artistic director of Connecticut's Hartford Stage, for which he accepted the Tony Award in 1989.  Lamos received the 1989 Connecticut Medal for the Arts and three honorary doctorates for his work at Hartford.  He made his Broadway directing debut with a transfer from Hartford Stage of Our Country's Good, for which he received a Tony Award nomination as Best Director.  His other Broadway credits include Cymbeline, Edward Albee’s Seascape (Tony Award nomination for Best Revival), The Rivals, The Gershwins’ Fascinating Rhythm and The Deep Blue Sea. Off-Broadway credits include Love’s Fire (Public Theater), Edward Albee’s Tiny Alice (Lortel Award, Drama Desk Award nomination) and Measure for Measure (Lortel Award). Lamos was guest director at Canada's Stratford Festival and many U.S. theaters.  Last fall, he directed Of Mice and Men at Westport Country Playhouse. Opera productions he has guided include Central Park (Emmy Award nomination for Best Direction, televised for PBS’ "Great Performances") and The Aspern Papers (PBS’ "Great Performances"). New York City Opera won an Emmy Award for the Lamos-directed Madama Butterfly, televised on PBS’ "Great Performances." He has directed four productions for the Metropolitan Opera, most recently Adriana Lecouvreur with Placido Domingo. Lamos was named a Beinecke Fellow at Yale School of Drama in 2007.