Gordon Edelstein (Director)  is entering his 15th season as Artistic Director of Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, where he has directed dozens of plays and musicals including award-winning productions of Picasso at the Lapin Agile and The Underpants both by Steve Martin. His other productions include Disgraced, The Second Mrs. Wilson (transferring to London in 2017), Our Town, The Front Page, Uncle Vanya (also adapted), A Doll’s House (also adapted), The Glass Menagerie with Judith Ivey, Mourning Becomes Electra with Jane Alexander and Mireille Enos, The Philanthropist with Gillian Anderson, Anna Christie, Curse of the Starving Class, and many others. During his tenure, Long Wharf has become an artistic home for internationally renowned playwright Athol Fugard, and Mr. Edelstein has directed world premieres of Mr. Fugard’s Coming Home, Have You Seen Us? starring Sam Waterston, Train Driver, Shadow of a Hummingbird starring Mr. Fugard, and the Broadway production of The Road to Mecca starring Rosemary Harris, Jim Dale, and Carla Gugino. His New York credits include two Long Wharf transfers—the award-winning Satchmo at the Waldorf (Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Outstanding Solo Performance) and My Name Is Asher Lev (Outer Critic Circle Award for New Off-Broadway Play)—as well as The Homecoming by Harold Pinter (Roundabout Theatre Company). Mr. Edelstein’s acclaimed Long Wharf production of The Glass Menagerie played Roundabout and Mark Taper Forum and was the recipient of the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Revival. Last summer, Mr. Edelstein directed six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald in A Moon for the Misbegotten at Williamstown Theatre Festival, a production that is transferring to Roundabout. He has directed regionally, from Washington, DC’s Arena Stage to Alaska’s Perseverance Theatre. Before Long Wharf, Mr. Edelstein served for five years as Artistic Director of A Contemporary Theatre in Seattle. He directed Abby, My Love for CBS (Emmy Award nomination), Notes for My Daughter for ABC, and Street Smarts for HBO. Later this season he will direct the world premiere of Napoli Brooklyn by Meghan Kennedy at Long Wharf and Roundabout; Endgame with Brian Dennehy; and the world premiere of Table, a new musical by Adam Gopnik and David Shire.

Jess Goldstein (Costume Design) designed last year’s Globe production of In Your Arms as well as Compleat Female Stage Beauty (Craig Noel and Garland Awards). He has designed, among many others, On the Town, Jersey Boys, Newsies, The Rivals (2005 Tony Award), The Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino (Tony Award nomination), Henry IV with Kevin Kline (Tony Award nomination), The Apple Tree with Kristin Chenoweth, Orphans with Alec Baldwin, Buried Child, Proof, Take Me Out, Love! Valour! Compassion!, How I Learned to Drive, Dinner with Friends, The Mineola Twins (Lucille Lortel and Henry Hewes Design Awards), Il Trittico for Metropolitan Opera, and Tony Goldwyn’s film A Walk on the Moon. Mr. Goldstein is a graduate of the Yale University School of Drama and has taught design there since 1990. He was the 2015 recipient of the Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award. jess-goldstein.com.

John Gromada (Original Music and Sound Design) has composed scores and designed sound for more than 35 Broadway productions, including The Elephant Man with Bradley Cooper, The Trip to Bountiful (Tony Award nomination), Gore Vidal’s The Best Man (Drama Desk Award), Clybourne Park, Seminar, The Columnist, Next Fall, A Bronx Tale, Prelude to a Kiss, Proof, Rabbit Hole, A Streetcar Named Desire, Twelve Angry Men, and A Few Good Men. His other New York credits include Dada Woof Papa Hot, Incident at Vichy, Ripcord, Old Hats, My Name Is Asher Lev, Measure for Measure at the Delacorte Theater, The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Drama Desk and Henry Hewes Design Awards), Shipwrecked! An Entertainment (Lucille Lortel Award), Julius Caesar, The Skriker (Drama Desk Award), Machinal (Obie Award), and many more. His television and film credits include a score for the Emmy Award-nominated The Trip to Bountiful as well as Showing Roots. johngromada.com.

Kathy Snyder (Production Stage Manager) is thrilled to be making her Globe debut with Meteor Shower. Her New York credits include Women Without Men, The New Morality, and A Picture of Autumn (Mint Theater Company), Wolfpit and The Lifeblood (Phoenix Theatre Ensemble), Belize and Delicious Rivers (Talking Band at La MaMa), and others. Her regional credits include 4000 Miles, brownsville song (b-side for tray), and Love Letters (Long Wharf Theatre). She has worked 11 seasons with The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey on 23 productions, including The Alchemist, The Guardsman, No Man’s Land, Hamlet, The Bald Soprano, and the world premiere of A Most Dangerous Woman. Ms. Snyder’s other credits include the national tour of ‘Art’ and Romeo and Juliet, as well as Party Time at the Napoli Scena Internationale Festival in Naples, Italy.

Long Wharf Theatre (Co-Producer) was founded in 1965 by Jon Jory and Harlan Kleiman and is currently led by Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein and Managing Director Joshua Borenstein. Long Wharf Theatre is an organization of international renown and has been a leader in American theatre, producing fresh and imaginative revivals of classic and modern plays, rediscoveries of neglected works, and a variety of world and American premieres. Under the artistic leadership of Arvin Brown for over 30 years, Long Wharf Theatre established itself as an important force in the regional theatre movement. Following Brown’s leadership, Doug Hughes served as Artistic Director for four seasons. Throughout its history, Long Wharf Theatre has created a unique home in New Haven for theatre artists from around the world, resulting in the transfer of over 30 productions to Broadway or Off Broadway, including Satchmo at the Waldorf, My Name is Asher Lev, The Glass Menagerie, Durango, BFE, Sixteen Wounded, Wit (Pulitzer Prize), Hughie, American Buffalo, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Quartermaine’s Terms (Obie Award for Best Play), The Gin Game (Pulitzer Prize), The Shadow Box (Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play), The Changing Room, The Contractor (New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play), and Streamers, among many others now in the American theatre canon. In 1978, Long Wharf Theatre was honored with a Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. Currently in its 51st season, Long Wharf Theatre produces an annual season of six plays on its two stages, along with children’s programming, new play workshops, and a variety of special events.