GARY GULMAN (Writer, Performer) has established himself as an eminent performer and peerless writer. A product of Boston, Gulman has been a scholarship college football player, an accountant, and a high school teacher. He has made countless television appearances as both a comedian and an actor. Gulman has made five masterful TV specials including his most recent universally acclaimed stand-up specials for Max, “Born On 3rd Base”, lending his meticulous comedic craft to the current Tale of Two Cities-esque wealth gap, and HBO's “The Great Depresh”, a tour de force look at mental illness, which is equal parts hilarious and inspiring. In 2019, he appeared in the international blockbuster “Joker”. He can most recently be seen co-starring with Amy Schumer in the hit Hulu comedy series, “Life & Beth”. Gary's first book published by Flatiron Books is titled “Misfit: Growing Up Awkward in the '80s”, a memoir based on his life from Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade. It was released in September of 2023. Amy Schumer called the book “laugh out loud funny and heartfelt” and MacArthur Fellowship recipient Adrian Nicole LeBlanc found it “exquisite, love-affirming and generous”. Today, Gulman is one of the most popular touring comics, selling out theaters around the country including the prestigious Carnegie Hall in New York City. Gary is currently touring with "Misfit: A Gary Gulman Stand Up & Book Tour", which features material based on his book, but not a repeat of the book. Gary lives in Harlem with his wife.

MORITZ VON STUELPNAGEL (Director) is a director and dramaturg based in New York City. His production of Hand to God on Broadway received five Tony nominations including Best Play and Best Director. Other Broadway productions include Theresa Rebeck’s I Need That starring Danny Devito, Bernhardt/Hamlet starring Janet McTeer, and Noel Coward’s Present Laughter starring Kevin Kline. In London’s West End, he directed Theresa Rebeck’s Mad House starring David Harbour and Bill Pullman, and Hand to God. Off-Broadway credits include Seared (MCC), The Thanksgiving Play (Playwrights Horizons), Teenage Dick (Ma-Yi/Public Theater), Important Hats of the Twentieth Century (MTC), Verité (LCT3), Bike America (Ma-Yi), Trevor(Lesser America), Love Song of the Albanian Sous Chef (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Mel & El (Ars Nova), Spacebar and My Baseand Scurvy Heart (Studio 42). Regionally, he has worked at the Huntington, Geffen Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Alliance, Denver Center, Chicago Shakespeare, South Coast Rep, Williamstown, Olney, Woolly Mammoth, Barrington Stage, Chautauqua, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, and more. He is the former artistic director of Studio 42, NYC’s producer of “unproducible” plays. Visit moritzvs.com for more info.

BEOWULF BORITT (Scenic Design) 33 Broadway designs include the Tony Award winning sets for New York, New York and Act One, the Tony nominated sets for The Scottsboro Boys, POTUS, Therese Raquin, and Flying Over Sunset. Also on Broadway, Left On Tenth, Our Town, The Piano Lesson, Ohio State Murders. The Old Man and the Pool, Come From Away, Freestyle Love Supreme, Be More Chill, The New One, Bernhardt/Hamlet, Harmony, Meteor Shower, A Bronx Tale, Prince Of Broadway, Hand To God, Sondheim On Sondheim, …Spelling Bee , LoveMusik, Rock Of Ages, Chaplin, On The Town (’14), Sunday In the Park… (’17),Bronx Bombers, Grace, and The Two And Only. 100 Off- Broadway shows include Shakespeare in the Park (Hamlet, Much Ado, Merry Wives,Coriolanus), TheLast Five Years, The Connector, Fiddler On The Roof (in Yiddish), Sleepwalk With Me, and Miss Julie. He has designed for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and designed around the world in England, Russia, China, Australia, and Japan. He received a 2007 OBIE Award for sustained excellence. Author: Transforming Space Over Time, about Broadway set design. Founder of The 1/52 Project which provides grants to early career designers from historically excluded groups.

ALEXIS DISTLER (Associate Scenic Design) Recent credits include Broadway: Harry Connick Jr.— A Celebration of Cole Porter (Nederlander Theatre, co-design with Beowulf Boritt). Off-Broadway/Regional: The Tempest (The Delacorte Theater for Public Works), The Government Inspector (New World Stages), Toast (The Public Theater), The Piano Lesson (Hartford Stage), The Turn of the Screw (Juilliard Opera), The Christians/Tartuffe (Playmakers Repertory Company), Daddy Long Legs (George Street Playhouse), Nureyev’s Eyes (George Street Playhouse), Native Gardens (Merrimack Repertory Theatre), Il Turco in Italia (Juilliard Opera). Winner of the Barrymore Award for her work on In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play (The Wilma Theater). Broadway Associate Designer for 18+ shows including New York, New York (Tony Award for Best Scenic Design), Act One (Tony Award for Best Scenic Design), The Old Man and the Pool and The New One by Mike Birbiglia

JESSICA CANCINO (Associate Scenic Design) Jessica is a Venezuelan multidisciplinary artist with a background in scenic design, scenic art, sculpture, and art installation. Select design credits: Amid Falling Walls [National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene - OFF BROADWAY - WINNER of Drama Desk Award Outstanding Revue] Homeland [Ballet Tech – Joyce Theater] Uncovered [City Lyric Opera at H.E.R.E.] On Your Feet! [The John W. Engeman Theater] Laughs in Spanish [1st Stage] Disney’s Beauty and the Beast [American Stage] The Last Match [1st Stage] A Chorus Within Her [Theatre Alliance] Daddy Long legs [Monumental Theatre Co. - Helen Hayes nominated] Once on this Island [Constellation Theatre Company] Associate Designer to Beowulf Boritt: Left on Tenth [BROADWAY - James Earl Jones] Avaaz [Olney Theatre Center & South Coast Rep] Another Shot [Signature Theatre] Murder on the Orient Express [Paper Mill Playhouse] Fiddler on the Roof, in Yiddish [New World Stages - Off-Broadway] Assistant Designer: Our Town [BROADWAY - Barrymore] Harmony [BROADWAY - Barrymore] Upcoming: Hair [American Stage] Pirates of Penzance [BROADWAY Todd Haimes Theatre - Design Associate to David Rockwell] Inaugural recipient of the 1/52 Project grant. Former Scenic Design Kenan Fellow at the Kennedy Center. USA829 scenic designer and scenic artist based in NYC. www.jessicacancino.com

‍ADAM HONORÉ (Lighting Design) is a Harlem based designer for the stage. Featured Designs: Purlie Victorious (Broadway), Ain’t No Mo’ (Broadway), Cats: The Jellicle Ball (PAC NYC), Jelly's Last Jam (Encores! City Center). @itsadamhonore

UPTOWNWORKS MEDIA (Sound Design) is a collaborative design team specializing in theater, film, podcasts installations and other media. Select sound design highlights include Franklinland (EST); I’m Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (DCPA); Blood of the Lamb (59E59); Ghost of John MaCain (SoHo Playhouse); Pipe Dream (Berkshire Theatre Group); Tiny Father (Geffen Playhouse); Problems Between Sisters (Studio Theatre DC); Dangerous Days (Miami New Drama); Las Borinqueñas (EST); Importance of Being Earnest (Pittsburgh Public Theatre/Baltimore Center Stage); Murder on the Orient Express (Syracuse Stage); FIVE The Parody Musical (Visceral Entertainment); Hotel Happy (Houses on the Moon); Munich Medea (WP/PlayCO); To The Ends of the Earth (JACK); Lady Day (Baltimore Center Stage); Working: A Musical (CUBoulder); Tiny Father (Barrington Stage/Chautauqua); bloodwork, BMLD (NBT); Avaaz (South Coast Rep); Singularity Play (HarvardTDM); Black Odyssey (Classic Stage); Espejos:Clean (Hartford Stage/Syracuse Stage); Which Way To The Stage (Signature DC); the ripple, the wave...(Berkeley Rep/Goodman); Complicity Island (Audible); Blues Clues & You! (Round Room Live); Queen (Long Wharf Theater/A.R.T.NY); Choir Boy, Today is my Birthday (Yale Rep); Fires in the Mirror (Baltimore Center Stage/Long Wharf Theatre); already there (The REACH at the Kennedy Center); First Down (59E59). This design was led by Bailey Trierweiler (btsounddesign.com), Daniela Hart (uptownworksnyc.com) and Noel Nichols (noelnicholsdesign.com). Bailey, Daniela & Noel received their MFAs in Sound Design from the Yale School of Drama.

TILLY GRIMES (Costume Design) is an English theatre designer based in New York and a third generation theatre artist - hailing from Irish, English and Greek actors and musicians. Awards include The Balsamo Grant for Emerging Immigrant Artists, The Irish Arts Design Award, Irish Times Theatre Award Nomination, Drama Desk nominations, Lucille Lortel nominations and The Onstage Critics Award. In New York she has worked with Roundabout Theatre Company, Lincoln Center, The Atlantic, Playwrights Horizons, MCC, Ars Nova, WP Theatre, Red Bull Theater Company, Clubbed Thumb, Here Arts Centre,  The Barrow Group, New Georges and La Mama Theatre.

CAITY MULKEARNS (Associate Costume Design) Caity is an Associate Costume Designer in New York City. Broadway: SHUCKED, I Need That, Lackawanna Blues. International: RENT JAPAN (Toho Stage), RENT JAPAN TOUR(Kyodo Tokyo), Mad House (West End). Off Broadway: A Raisin in the Sun (Public Theater), The Alchemist, The Government Inspector (Red Bull Theater), The Headlands (LTC3), The Thanksgiving Play, Noura (Playwrights Horizons). Tour: SHUCKED, RENT National US Tour, Small Mouth Sounds, Underground Railroad Game. Regional: Destiny of Desire, Judgement Day, Other World: A New Musical; Two River Theater, New York City Dance Alliance. MFA from Rutgers University and avid self taught baker.

‍LIBBY J'VERA she/her (Production Manager) Recent Productions: Hannah Gadsby's Woof!, someone spectacular, Isabel, Oh Mary!, Rachel Bloom's Death, Let Me Do My Show, KATE, Alison Leiby:Oh God, A Show About Abortion, Just For Us, Mike Birbiglia:The New One, Turn Me Loose, and Rinse, Repeat. Resident Production Manager at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. www.libbyjvera.com

MIKAYLA BUMP(Company Manager) Mikayla is thrilled to be joining the Grandiloquent team! Broadway credits: Tammy Faye; A Beautiful Noise - The Neil Diamond Musical; A Doll's House. Regional/Tour: Sugar Hill, The Ellington Strayhorn Nutcracker; Williamstown Theatre Festival. Love and gratitude to my friends, family, Aidan and Harper.

MADISON LANE she/her (Production Coordinator) is a New York-based stage manager and production manager. She has most recently worked with Mike & Carlee Productions on Hannah Gadsby: Woof!; Rachel Bloom: Death, Let Me Do My Show; Colin Quinn: Small Talk; Alison Leiby: Oh God, A Show About Abortion; and KATE. Other select credits include: someone spectacular (Signature Theatre); Pericles (Classic Stage/Fiasco Theater Company); Coco Live-to-Film North American Tour (AMP Worldwide); Richard III (New York Classical Theatre); Corsicana (Playwrights Horizons); Wolf Play (Soho Rep); Terminus (New York Theatre Workshop). She creates art because it has the power to change the world.

SINE DIGITAL (Digital Advertising) Founded in 2017, SINE Digital has become a leading performance marketing agency for entertainment, sports and attractions; powered by our exceptional people and data science. Select current clients include: All In; Dead Outlaw; Good Night, and Good Luck; The Last Five Years; Operation Mincemeat; Romeo + Juliet; among others. sinedigital.com

VIVACITY MEDIA GROUP (Press Representative) has led the PR campaigns for over fifty theater productions. Select Broadway credits include: The Great Gatsby, Once Upon a Mattress, Elf: The Musical, Alex Edelman’s Just For Us, Mike Birbiglia’s The Old Man & The Pool, Melissa Etheridge: My Window, POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, Jagged Little Pill, On Your Feet!, Rock of Ages, How to Dance in Ohio, Once Upon A One More Time, Slava’s SnowShow, Chicken & Biscuits. Off-Broadway highlights: Titanique, Little Shop of Horrors, Dungeons & Dragons: The Twenty-Sided Tavern, Teeth, Liz Kingsman’s One Woman Show; Derek DelGaudio’s In & Of Itself; Leo Reich’s Literally Who Cares?!, Heathers: The Musical; Cruel Intentions; Accidentally Brave; and A Clockwork Orange. Theatrical Institutions: American Theatre Wing, The Drama League, Outer Critics Circle, WP Theater.

CARLEE BRIGLIA (Producer) is one half of Mike & Carlee Productions. Selected credits include Oh, Mary!, Hannah Gadsby's WOOF!, Kate Berlant’s KATE, Rachel Bloom: Death, Let Me Do My Show, Alison Leiby: Oh God, A Show About Abortion, Alex Edelman: Just For Us, Colin Quinn's Small Talk, The Last Best Hope, Red State Blue State and Unconstitutional; Jacqueline Novak: Get On Your Knees, Nick Kroll and John Mulaney’s Oh Hello On (Off) Broadway, Jes Tom: Less Lonely, Chris Gethard: Career Suicide, Mike Birbiglia: My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend. Carlee lives in East Williamsburg (a real neighborhood) with her girlfriend and has recently weaned one of her two perfect cats off of anti-anxiety medication.

MIKE LAVOIE (Producer) is the remainder of Mike & Carlee Productions. Mike & Carlee were described as the people with “The Power To Propel Comedians to Netflix” in New York Magazine’s “The Most Powerful New Yorkers You’ve Never Heard Of” 2023 cover story and were featured in Variety’s 10 Broadway Stars to Watch for 2024. Mike enjoys PG Tips, pastries, Advil and lying down. mikeandcarlee.com

NELSON & TAO (Co-Producer) Benjamin Nelson and David Thomas Tao will give you a goddamn show. Bway: All In, Oh, Mary!, Illinoise, Lempicka. Downtown: Hold on to Me Darling, Invasive Species. Thanks to Gary, Moritz, and Mike & Carlee @benjnelson11/@davidthomastao

NATHAN MARDIS (Co-Producer) is a producer and financier, acting as co-producer on Off-Broadway plays (Kate, Death, Let Me Do My Show) and executive producer on feature films (Dead Man's Wire).  He is also founder of the production services company 2801 Productions.

THE LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE (Co-Producer) Lucille Lortel Theatre’s mission is to foster both new and established artists, increase awareness and appreciation of Off-Broadway, and uphold fair and equitable business and artistic practices in service of creating a larger, more diverse community of theatre makers and audiences. The Company builds on the legacy of its founder, Lucille Lortel (1900–1999) who was a champion of work by Samuel Beckett, Caryl Churchill, Athol Fugard, Jean Genet, Adrienne Kennedy, Larry Kramer, Terrence McNally, Marsha Norman, Sam Shepard, and Wendy Wasserstein. In addition to its Off-Broadway theatre, which has been in continuous operation since 1955, the Company is renovating a three-story carriage house in Chelsea that will act as the Company’s new headquarters. Its programs include The Alcove at the Lortel, a commissioning and development program for early and mid-career playwrights; the 121 Project, a bespoke development program for new musicals; NYC Public High School Playwriting Fellowship, Fellowships in NYC Theatre at Bennington College, the New York Emmy-Winning Dangerous Acts: A Series Uplifting Black Writers from Our Past (in partnership with HBCUs), Lucille Lortel Awards and Playwrights’ Sidewalk, Internet Off-Broadway Database (IOBDB.com), and Non-Profit Theatre Strategic and Management Services. For more information, please visit www.lortel.org.

BRIAN STERN (Executive Producer) is a partner at AGI Entertainment Media & Management, where he manages talent and produces TV, film and theatre. Prior to that, he was a manager/producer at Brillstein Entertainment Partners and started his career at the William Morris Agency, where he served as a senior comedy agent. Theatre credits as a producer include: Colin Quinn: Red State Blue State (Minetta Lane Theatre), Chris Gethard: Career Suicide (Lynn Redgrave Theatre), Colin Quinn: The New York Story (Cherry Lane Theatre), Colin Quinn: Unconstitutional (Barrow StreetTheatre/Cherry Lane Theatre). Executive Producer TV credits include: Tires (Netflix), Gary Gulman: Born on 3rd Base and The Great Depresh (HBO), Dan Soder: Son of a Gary (HBO), Colin Quinn The New York Story (Netflix) The Chris Gethard Show (TruTV), and Big Time in Hollywood, FL (Comedy Central). ‍

MICHAEL BONFIGLIO (Executive Producer) is a three-time Emmy-winning filmmaker.  His recent project, George Carlin’s American Dream (co-directed and executive produced with Judd Apatow), was one of the year’s most acclaimed films, receiving thePrimetime Emmy for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special. It was also nominated for a Peabody award, four additional Emmys including OutstandingDirecting, and numerous other accolades. In 2021, Bonfiglio directed, co-wrote and executive produced Who Are You, Charlie Brown?, a documentary/scripted animation special about Charles Schulz and Peanuts. The film won the Children’s & Family Emmy for Outstanding Nonfiction Program, as well as nominations for Bonfiglio’s writing and directing. The special was also shortlisted as one of the IDA’s Best Documentaries of 2021. Other recent work includes Patrice O’Neal:Killing is Easy, about the late comic, and the SXSW-winning May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers (co-directed with Apatow). Bonfiglio and Apatow also directed 2016’s Doc & Darryl, anEmmy-nominated installment of ESPN’s acclaimed 30 for 30 series. Bonfiglio had previously directed the 30 for 30 film YouDon’t Know Bo, which to this day stands as the highest-rated stand-alone documentary in ESPN history. Bonfiglio has also directed stand-up comedy specials, including Gary Gulman’s landmark The Great Depresh and Jerry Before Seinfeld, which garnered him a Primetime Emmy nomination for directing. He was the director of theEmmy-nominated inaugural season of David Letterman’s My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, as well as five seasons of theEmmy-nominated Oprah’s Master Class, Visionaries: Inside the Creative Mind, Iconoclasts, and the Nat Geo environmental films Paris to Pittsburgh and From the Ashes, which premiered at the 2017 TriBeCa Film Festival. His producing credits include Apatow’s Emmy-winning The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling, Gary Gulman’s Born on Third Base, the Oscar-nominated Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory the Sundance hit Crude and Paradise Lost 2: Revelations.

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grandiloquent staff

Lighting Studio Associate / Programmer
Shannon Clarke

Technical Director
Steven Brenman

Assistant Production Manager
‍Sophie Larin

Production Electricians
John Anselmo, Dan Mullins, Emily Darone

Production Audio
Jamie Davis

Tailor
‍Ellen Bredehoft

Vocal Coach
Liz Hayes

Production Assistants
Sam Lane, Uladis Bautista, Austin Kimbrell, Luis Rueda

‍Graphic Design
Charlene Kaye - Sunqueen Designs

‍Website and Additional Graphic Design
Stephen Gilewski

Production Photography
Michaelah Reynolds

‍Production Counsel
David Manella / Loeb + Loeb

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DIGITAL ADVERTISING
SINE Digital
James Dale    Scott Lupi   Beth Watson
  Max Miller   Tim Milne
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PRESS REPRESENTATIVE
VIVACITY MEDIA GROUP
Leslie Papa      Whitney Holden Gore
Caitlin Brightman     Danaley Silan     Elizabeth Erb

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‍MIKE & CARLEE PRODUCTIONS
Carlee Briglia   Mike Lavoie
Liv Rhodes

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Scenic Shop
BNG Industries

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Lighting Rentals Provided by
PRG

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‍Audio Rentals Provided by
One Dream Productions

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THE LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE STAFF

Executive Director
George Forbes

Artistic Director of New Play Development
Caridad Svich

Artistic Director of New Musical Development
Michael Heitzman

Artistic Director of High School Playwriting Fellowship
Kimille Howard

Senior Directors
Nancy Elaine Hurvitz and Jeffrey Shubart

General Managers
Alana Canty-Samuel, Karla Liriano, Maura Le Viness

Marketing and Administrative Associate
‍Rascher Alcasid

Operations Manager
Zebulon Brown

‍House Manager
Graeme Cohen

House Staff
Kyle Becker, Caden Cristiano, Claire Gaylor, Ruby Griffin, NaFis, Brooke Perkins, Mariana Ramos Ortiz, Achille Vann Ricca, Maranda Rossi

‍Head Treasurer
Maya McCullough

Concessions Manager
Sam Rodriguez

Digital Designer
John Hayek

Assistant House Manager
Claire Gaylor

Press
‍John Wyszniewski, Everyman Agency

Development
Lynn Stirrup, Stirrup Executive Advisory Services

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SPECIAL THANKS

Matt Kelly & Union Hall, Brooklyn
Markie Fisher, Andrew Mumm & Bellhouse, Brooklyn
Alex Brizel
Anna Bianco
Amol Gundeti
Scott Morfee and all the friends we made at the legendary Barrow Street Theater

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