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RUPERT HOLMES

Broadway: THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD (Tony Awards to Holmes for book, music and lyrics, Tony to EDWIN DROOD for Best Musical; identical honors New York Drama Desk; Outer Critics Circle, Best Musical), ACCOMPLICE (Edgar Award, Mystery Writers of America), SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, SAY GOODNIGHT, GRACIE (National Broadway Theatre Award, Best Play; Tony nomination, Best Play). Off-Broadway: TWELFTH NIGHT (NYSF, original music). Regional: MARTY (score by Strouse and Adams, Huntington Theatre, Boston), SOLITARY CONFINEMENT(Kennedy Center). Television: created and wrote Emmy award-winning series “Remember WENN.” Novels for Random House: WHERE THE TRUTH LIES (Booklist Top Ten Debut Crime Novel; Best American Mystery Novel 2004, Nero Wolfe nomination), SWING (San Francisco Chronicle Top Ten Fiction). CURTAINS is a 2007 Edgar award nominee. Grateful thanks to Teressa Esposito for all her creative assistance. To Fred and Peter.

PETER STONE

Broadway: TITANIC, 1776, THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES (all Tony Award winners for Best Musical), and WOMAN OF THE YEAR MY ONE AND ONLY, SUGAR, TWO BY TWO, and KEAN. Film: won an Academy Award for his screenplay FATHER GOOSE, the Edgar (Mystery Writers of America) for his film CHARADE and the Christopher Award for the screen adaptation of 1776, other films include THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1-2-3, SWEET CHARITY, WHO’S KILLING THE GREAT CHEFS OF EUROPE? and JUST CAUSE. Television: won the Emmy Award for an episode of “The Defenders”. Mr. Stone is the only writer to ever win the Tony, Oscar, and Emmy.