Sam Shepard
(Playwright) has written 45 plays, 11 of which have won Obie Awards, and has appeared as an actor in 16 films. In 1979 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Buried Child,  which premiered at Magic Theatre, and in 1984 he gained an Oscar nomination for his performance in The Right Stuff. His screenplay for Paris, Texas won the Golden Palm Award at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, and he wrote and directed the film Far North in 1988. Other plays by Sam Shepard include Simpatico, Curse of the Starving Class, True West, Fool for Love and A Lie of the Mind. In 1986 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1992 he received the Gold Medal for Drama from the Academy. In 1994 he was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame. From 1975 to 1983, Mr. Shepard was Playwright-in-Residence at the Magic.

Amy Glazer
(Director) has directed world, American and West Coast premieres at Magic Theatre including Rebecca Gilman’s The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, Blue Surge and The American in Me, Steven Belber’s Drifting Elegant and Tape and Barry Gifford’s Wyoming. For Marin Theatre Company she has directed Displaced, Life X 3, My Old Lady, The Music Lesson, Misalliance, Candida and Indiscretions. For Eureka Theatre, Trust and Stonewall Jackson’s House and for TheatreWorks, Spinning Into Butter, Pride’s Crossing, An American Daughter, Conversations With My Father, Marvin’s Room and Mrs. Klein. The recipient of Dean Goodman, Drama-logue, and Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards and finalist for TCG’s 2003 Alan Schneider Director Award, Amy is an associate artist at the Magic and is a theatre and film professor at San Jose State University. Her short film, Ball Lightning, premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival, and her feature film, Drifting Elegant, is scheduled for release in 2006. Most recently, she directed Wesley Moore's /Finder's Fee/ at the Assembly Theater for the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Anne Darragh*
(Emma) Magic performances: The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, The Sex Habits of American Women, Ted Kaczynksi Killed People with Bombs, The American in Me, Wyoming, A Common Vision, Speaking in Tongues. Recent performances: Summerland (AlterTheatre),  The Master Builder (Aurora Theatre), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (A.C.T.), Charlie Cox Runs with Scissors (Marin Theatre Company). Other work:  Angels in America (Eureka Theatre), Berkeley Rep, San Jose Rep, Campo Santo, Encore, Brava.

Jackson Davis*
(Hanes) has worked closely with TheatreWorks in Palo Alto for many years, most recently as the Baker in its production of Into the Woods and Mr. Marks in Intimate Apparel. He has previously worked with Amy Glazer on her productions of Conversations With My Father, Marvin's Room and Lost in Yonkers. He performed in Happy End earlier this year at ACT. Other Bay Area credits include Mizlansky/Zilinsky at San Jose Repertory Theater, Company at Marin Theatre Company, Neena Beeber’s Tomorrowland with Signal Theater of San Francisco, Pipe Dream at 42nd Street Moon and new play workshops with the Magic, TheatreWorks and the PlayGround. Regionally he has worked with Villanova Shakespeare Festival, Missouri Summer Repertory, Philadelphia Actors Theater and Moving Target in NYC.

John Flanagan*
(Frank) is pleased to be back at the Magic having previously been seen in Blue Surge, Summertime and A Common Vision. He’s also performed at such venues as San Jose Rep (Sideman), Marin Theatre Company (The Hairy Ape, Lady in the Dark), San Jose Stage (God’s Country), Center Rep (The Pavilion), Encore Theatre (Dreams of the Salthorse), Shotgun Players (Swimming in the Shallows), Campo Santo (Hurricane) and The Eureka (Marisol). As a company member of the Fifth Floor, John was the Dog in Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights, David Koresh in Bake Sale and John in the BATCC and Drama-Logue Award-winner Orestes.

Michael Santo*
(Welch) Recent roles include The Interviewer in Love, Janis (Marines Memorial) and Andre Said in Said Said (Alliance Theatre Company). Other roles include Matty in Many Happy Returns (B Street Theatre), Walter in The Price (Aurora Theatre), Matt in Talley's Folly for (Pasadena Playhouse), Oliver in Pentecost (The Old Globe), Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare Theatre, Washington DC), the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac (Marin Shakespeare Company), Einstein in Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Arizona Theatre Company).  Regional theatre credits include ACT, San Jose Rep, Magic Theatre, Seattle Rep, Intiman Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Empty Space, Alaska Rep, Theatre On The Square, Cleveland Play-House, Hartford Stage Company and Portland Stage Company.

Angela Nostrand*
(Stage Manager) is thrilled to return to the Magic.  Recent credits: The Long Christmas Ride Home (Magic); Restoration Comedy (Stanford Summer Theatre); Charlie Cox Runs with Scissors and The Pavilion (Marin Theatre Company); The Price (Aurora); Family Alchemy (Traveling Jewish Theatre); The Wonderful Story of Zaal, The Killing Blanket and The Master Maid (Word for Word’s School and Library Tour); Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse, The Laramie Project, The Last Train to Nibroc, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife and others (The B Street Theatre) and The People’s Temple (Berkeley Rep).

Erik Flatmo
(Set Design) recently designed the set The Hopper Collection at The Magic Theatre. Locally he has worked with choreographer Joe Goode on the opera Transformations for San Francisco Opera Center and Stay Together, Goode's collaboration with composer Michael Tilson Thomas. In New York, his work includes world premiere plays and dance pieces at Danspace, The Kitchen, The Play Company and The Culture Project. Upcoming projects include Frozen at Marin Theatre Company and Stay, a new play by Lucy Thurber at The Rattlestick Theater in New York City. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and teaches set design at Stanford University.

Kurt Landisman+
(Light Design) is pleased to return to the Magic where he designed lighting for Family Butchers, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball and Triptych, which received the Bay Area Theatre Critics’ Circle Award for Best Lighting. He designed lighting for many Sam Shepard premieres at the Magic in the 80’s including True West, Seduced, Curse of the Starving Class, Fool for Love, Angel City. His lighting designs have been seen at most Bay Area theatres and have received numerous Bay Area Critics’ Circle and Drama-Logue Awards. Nationally, his designs have been seen in practically every state in the Union, as well as Off-Broadway in New York. Internationally his designs have been seen in Tokyo, Singapore and Shanghai.

Fumiko Bielefeldt+
(Costume Design) Past works for the Magic include The Right Kind of People, Drifting Elegant, Dr. Faustus and The Lonesome West among others. Her designs have also appeared in numerous TheatreWorks productions, as well as at ACT, Aurora Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, California Shakespeare Festival, Marin Theatre Company, Post Street Theatre, Missouri Rep and Tokyo Shitamachi Engekisai. She has received many awards for her designs, including Bay Area Theatre Critics’ Circle, Drama-Logue, Dean Goodman Choice and Back Stage West Garland Awards.

Don Seaver
(Sound Design) started songwriting with a country/ western band in Dallas in 1982. He has been composing and sound designing for theatre for the last 14 years. Most recently, he scored and performed in Sex & Mayhem at the New Conservatory Theatre with Donald Currie. Other credits: San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Marin Theatre Company, Theatre Rhinoceros, Aurora Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Encore Theatre, Exit Theatre, Phoenix II Theatre, Shotgun Players and Genesius. He has also composed scores for cable TV, video games, and ballet and is working on an opera about Leonard Bernstein. He has been nominated for several Bay Area Theatre Critics’ Circle Awards and won in 1999 with his jazz score for Mere Mortals.

Scott Walecka
(Assistant Director) has produced numerous developmental workshops and readings at the Magic over the past three years in addition to helping out in the Literary Department.  Before becoming happily immersed in theatre at the beginning of this century, Scott managed several large software organizations in Silicon Valley for the previous quarter of a century and continues to raise his three daughters, Amy, Hilary and Sallie.