Call Me Izzy Cast & Creative

A Tony Award nominee for The Man Who Came to Dinner, Ms. Smart has garnered: six Emmys; five Critics Choice Awards; three SAG awards; a Grammy nomination; as well as a Drama Desk nomination for Last Summer at Bluefish Cove. After receiving a BFA in Theatre from the University of Washington, she began her professional career with The Oregon Shakespeare Festival where she performed in Much Ado About Nothing, Long Day’s Journey into Night, and A Moon for the Misbegotten, among others. Select regional theater: The Three Sisters, Dance of Death, School for Scandal and Tartuffe (Intiman Theatre); Equus and Fallen Angels (Seattle Rep); A Christmas Carol (ACT); Macbeth (Pittsburgh Public Theater); A History of the American Film (Alliance Theatre); and a season at Hartford Stage including The Isle is Full of Noises and The Greeks. Her Broadway debut was Marlene Dietrich in Piaf. Select Film: Babylon, Wildflower, A Simple Favor, The Accountant, Hope Springs, I Heart Huckabees, Garden State, Sweet Home Alabama, The Kid, Guinevere (Independent Spirit Award nomination), The Odd Couple II, and Flashpoint. Recent television: Hacks and Mare of Easttown. Additional select television: Watchmen, Legion, Fargo, Samantha Who?, 24, Designing Women, Frasier, Style & Substance, HBO’s Maximum Security, and High Society.

Two-time Tony Award nominee. Broadway: How I Learned to Drive, The Nap, Sweat (Tony nomination), You Can’t Take It With You, August: Osage County, Lombardi, Proof (Tony nomination). Theatre: Scene Partners (Vineyard), Des Moines (TFANA), Peter and Jerry (Second Stage – Drama Desk Nomination), Appropriate (Signature – Obie Award), The Realistic Joneses (Yale Rep), The Rainmaker (Arena – Helen Hayes). Television: Bull, Good Fight, Madam Secretary, For Life, The Blacklist, The Knick, The Americans. Film: Worth, The Post, Breatharian.

Jamie Wax began his diverse career by touring as a stand-up comic in his teens. He went on to perform his acclaimed solo shows throughout the country. With composer Paul Taranto he created the musical Evangeline, seen nationally on PBS. They received an NEA grant to create Passages, which also became an award-winning special. Acting roles include Puck for director Barry Kyle of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Charles Thompson in Wine Lovers in New York and on tour, Toy in Guns for the Mark Taper Forum, and creative consulting and acting in Soul Doctor at NY Theatre Workshop. An Emmy-winning journalist, he has been a contributing correspondent for CBS News for over a decade. He and his family live in New York and New Orleans. For Shirley and Isola.

Sarna Lapine is delighted to return to Studio 54 where she was assistant director on Sondheim on Sondheim (Roundabout). Broadway: Sunday in the Park with George (ATG). Additional: Dracula (Classic Stage Company); Little Women (Primary Stages); Annie Get Your Gun (Bay Street); Sweeney Todd (Signature Theatre); Into the Woods (Guthrie). Opera & International: The Rape of Lucretia (BLO); Photograph 51 and 4-Stars (Umeda Arts Theater). Tours: War Horse (North American/Japan); South Pacific (North America). Concerts: Fiddler on the Roof (The Philadelphia Orchestra); Sondheim on Sondheim (LA Philharmonic). Associate/Assit. Director (LCT): Women on the Verge…; South Pacific; The Light in the Piazza; Awake and Sing!  Teaching Artist: Norwalk Conservatory of the Arts; Juilliard; Fordham; NYU/Lee Strasberg; and Hartt School of Music. Proud member of SDC.

West End: Clueless. Off Broadway: Second Stage, The Shed, Primary Stages, Working Theater, Epic Theater Ensemble, INTAR Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and the National Asian American Theatre Company. Other: Guthrie, Arena Stage, Berkeley Rep., The Old Globe, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Rep., Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Universal Studios Japan and more. Currently, she teaches at the Drama School at Yale. mikikosmacadams.com 

TV: SNL, House of Cards, 30 Rock, The Comeback, Tales of the City, The Big C, Zelda. Film: Eleanor the Great, Mean Girls (the musical), Bros. The MET. Theatre: Little Shop of Horrors, Side Man, Race, Everyday Rapture, Our Mother’s Brief Affair, Playwrights Horizons, The Public, Second Stage, MTC, The New Group, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Hartford Stage, McCarter, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Center Stage, Shakespeare Theatre DC. Yale School of Drama. 2 Peabodys, 2 CDG Awards (12 noms), 6 Emmys (19 noms).

Over 60 Broadway productions, fourteen Tony nominations and two Tony Awards, for The Lion King in 1998, and the 2008 revival of South Pacific. Recent Broadway: McNeal; Pirates: The Penzance Musical; Paradise Square; Tootsie; Kiss Me, Kate; Anastasia; Oslo; She Loves Me; Fiddler on The Roof; The King and I; The Bridges of Madison County; Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark; many others. Television and Film: Smash (NBC), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon), Gossip Girl (HBO), Spirited (Apple Studios), Ocean’s 8 (Warner Brothers).

Broadway: McNeal (with Justin Ellington), Uncle Vanya (with Mikhail Fiksel), Camelot (with Marc Salzberg). Off-Broadway: Death, Let Me Do My Show; Russian Troll Farm (with Darron L. West); for colored girls...; The Play That Goes Wrong. Regional: JOAN (South Coast Repertory), Into the Woods (Guthrie), A Little Night Music (Pasadena Playhouse), Kinky Boots (Bucks County), Ghosts (Williamstown Theater Company), The Revolutionists, An Iliad, The Price (Gulfshore Playhouse). Member USA829, IATSE.

T Bone Burnett has earned an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, and 13 Grammys. He served as Executive Music Producer on Cold Mountain, The Hunger Games, Walk the Line, and Crazy Heart—the latter two featuring his original scores. Burnett also collaborated notably with the Coen Brothers on The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Ladykillers, and Inside Llewyn Davis. His stage credits range from Twyla Tharp’s recent How Long Blues to Sam Shepard’s Tooth of Crime.

David Mansfield’s first score was for Michael Cimino’s epic western Heaven’s Gate, followed by the Golden Globe–nominated Year of the Dragon. Profundo Carmesí, the first of his six scores for Arturo Ripstein, won awards at the Venice and Havana Film Festivals. His score for the miniseries Broken Trail was nominated for an Emmy. Other film credits include Transamerica, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Songcatcher, and The Apostle. His television work includes the limited series George & Tammy and two seasons of Audible’s The Big Lie. His stage credits include Twyla Tharp’s How Long Blues. A world-renowned musician, his credits range from Bob Dylan to Bobby McFerrin to Ringo Starr.