FRANK OZ (Director) first achieved fame as one of the major creative
forces behind The Muppets. He made his feature film directorial debut with
Jim Henson on "The Dark Crystal." His subsequent directing credits
include "The Muppets Take Manhattan," "Little Shop of Horrors,"
"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," "What About Bob?," "Housesitter"
and "The Indian in the Cupboard."
SCOTT RUDIN (Producer) films include "Ransom," "Mother,"
"Marvin's Room," "The First Wives Club," "Clueless,"
"Sabrina," "Nobody's Fool," "The Firm," "Searching
for Bobby Fischer," "Sister Act," "The Addams Family"
and "Addams Family Values," "Little Man Tate," "Regarding
Henry," "Pacific Heights," "Flatliners," "Jennifer
Eight," "Mrs. Soffel," and the Academy Award®-winning
"He Makes Me Feel Like Dancing." Currently in production are Peter
Weir's "The Truman Show," the upcoming Robert Benton feature,
Steve Zaillian's "A Civil Action" and John Singleton's "Shaft."
On Broadway, Rudin has produced "Passion" (1994 Tony Award for
Best Musical), "Indiscretions," "Hamlet," "Seven
Guitars," "Skylight," "A Funny Thing Happened on the
Way to the Forum" and "On the Town" (New York Shakespeare
Festival). Upcoming are "Wise Guys" (Stephen Sondheim/John Weidman),
"The Cripple of Inishmaan" (Martin McDonagh/Nicholas Hytner) "The
Judas Kiss" (David Hare/Richard Eyre) and "Amy's View" (David
Hare/Richard Eyre).
ADAM SCHROEDER (Executive Producer), co-produced "Clueless,"
"Ransom," "Marvin's Room," and "Mother." Last
year, he executive produced the blockbuster comedy, "The First Wives
Club" and is co-producer of the soon-to-be-released Peter Weir film,
"The Truman Show," starring Jim Carrey. Upcoming productions include
John Boorman's, "A Simple Plan," starring Bill Paxton and Billy
Bob Thornton and Trey Parker's "Fuzzies." He continues to co-produce
the "Clueless" series for Paramount Television.
G. MAC BROWN (Co-Producer) began his career as production manager
on the horror films "Amityville: The Posession" and "Amityville
3-D." From l982 to l986, he served as production manager of several
films, including "Jumpin' Jack Flash," "Miracles," "Who's
That Girl?' "Baby Boom," "Ishtar" and "The Pick-Up
Artist." With "Hello Again" in l987, he became a co-producer.
Subsequently Brown joined Germany's leading film group, Neue Constantin
Film, and served as line producer for Doris Dorrie's "Me and Him' and
Ulli Edel's "Last Exit to Brooklyn."
Next he co-produced "She-Devil" and served as executive producer
on "Once Around." He produced "Urban Anxiety" for Propaganda
Films/Fox TV, followed by "Light Sleeper" (co-producer), "Scent
of a Woman" (associate producer), "Flesh and Bone" (co-producer),
"With Honors" (co-producer), "The Cowboy Way" (executive
producer), "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar"
(producer) and "Michael" (co-producer).
PAUL RUDNICK (Screenwriter) has enjoyed success as an author, playwright
and screenwriter. For his hit play, "Jeffrey," he won an Obie
award and an Outer Critics Circle award.
Rudnick's other plays include "I Hate Hamlet" and "The Naked
Eye." He is the author of the novels "Social Disease" and
"I'll Take It," as well as articles and essays for Esquire, Vogue,
Vanity Fair, Time, Newsweek and The New York Times. He is rumored to be
disturbingly close to Libby Gelman-Waxner, America's most beloved and irresponsible
film critic, whose column appears monthly in Premiere, and whose reviews
have been collected in If You Ask Me.
Rudnick wrote the screenplay for "Addams Family Values" and the
screen adaptation of "Jeffrey." He was born and raised in New
Jersey and graduated from Yale.
ROB HAHN (Director of Photography) made his bow as a Director of
Photography with "Life With Mikey." Prior to this he was Camera
Operator for many notable films including "The First Wives Club,"
"Marvin's Room," "Midnight Run," "The Addams Family,"
"I Love You to Death," "Grand Canyon," "French
Kiss," "Batman Returns," "Havana," and "Searching
for Bobby Fischer."
Hahn was second unit DP and did additional photography on "Searching
for Bobby Fischer" and "Sabrina." He worked with Owen Roizman
("The French Connection," "The Exorcist," "Tootsie")
for almost twenty years before making his move to DP.
Born in Paris, Hahn came to the U.S. with his family at the age of three
months and grew up in New York City. He was educated at NYU Film School
and then at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. He now resides in
Weston, Connecticut with his wife and two daughters.
ANN ROTH (Costume Designer), began her theatrical career as a scenery
painter for the Pittsburgh Opera Company. She soon moved to New York, and
assisted such costume designers as Irene Sharaff and Miles White. Among
her Broadway credits are "Purlie," "The Women," "Play
it Again, Sam," "They're Playing Our Song" and "The
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,""The Odd Couple" and "The
Real Thing."
This year, Ms. Roth won the Academy Award® for Best Costume Design for
"The English Patient." Her first motion picture was "The
World of Henry Orient" in l964, and her first solo film credit was
"Midnight Cowboy" in l969. Among her many films are "Klute,"
"The Day of the Locust" (for which she won a British Academy Award®
in l975), "The Goodbye Girl," "Coming Home," "Hair,"
"Dressed to Kill," "The World According to Garp," "Places
in the Heart," "Sweet Dreams," "Working Girl,"
"Regarding Henry," "Pacific Heights," "Wolf,"
"Just Cause," "Sabrina" and "The English Patient."
KEN ADAM (Production Designer) won an Academy Award® in l975
for his work on Stanley Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon." He has also
received three Oscar nominations: "Around the World in Eighty Days"
(1956), "The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977) and "Addams Family
Values" (1993). For "Dr. Strangelove" and "The Ipcress
File," he received British Academy Awards.
Born in Berlin, Mr. Adam was educated at London University, where he studied
architecture. He enterd the film industry as a draughtsman in 1947. The
first film on which he received an art direction credit was "The Devil's
Pass" in l953. His subsequent films have included "Dr. No,"
"Goldfinger," "Thunderball," "You Only Live Twice,"
"Funeral in Berlin," "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," "Goodbye
Mr. Chips," "The Owl and the Pussycat," "Diamonds are
Forever," "Sleuth," "The Last of Sheila," "The
Seven Percent Solution," "Moonraker," "Pennies from
Heaven," "Agnes of God," "Crimes of the Heart,"
"Dead Bang," "The Freshman," "The Doctor,"
"Undercover Blues," "Boys on the Side," "The Madness
of King George" and "Bogus."
JOHN JYMPSON (Editor) has enjoyed a long and prolific career in the
British and American cinema. Born and raised in London, he was educated
at Dulwich College.
"In & Out" is his third film for director Frank Oz; the others
were "The Little Shop of Horrors" and "Housesitter."
His other films include "A Fish Called Wanda" (for which he won
the Guild of British Film editors award), "Kelly's Heroes," "Where
Eagles Dare," "A Hard Day's Night," "Zulu," "Frenzy"
(for Alfred Hitchcock), "The Bobo" and "The Bedford Incident."
He also edited the miniseries "The Martian Chronicles" and "The
Far Pavilions."
DAN HANLEY (Editor) was born and raised in Sherman Oaks, California.
He began work in the film industry at Paramount Pictures in the film shipping
department in 1975. He soon became an assistant editor on the hit sitcom
"Laverne and Shirley." Next he edited three TV movies for director
Ron Howard: "Cotton Candy," "Skyward" and "Inside
the Magic Pyramid."
Hanley has remained associated with Howard ever since. He has edited all
of Howard's films from "Night Shift" through "Ransom"
(including "Cocoon," "The Paper," "Parenthood"
and "Far and Away") and received an Academy Award® for "Apollo
13."
MARC SHAIMAN (Music) was nominated for three Academy Awards®
("An American President," "The First Wives Club," and
the song "A Wink and a Smile" from "Sleepless in Seattle").
He has also been nominated for two Grammies and won an Emmy for his participation
in writing the 1992 Academy Awards® telecast.
In addition to "In & Out" and "The First Wives Club,"
Shaiman's other films for Scott Rudin include "Mother," "The
Addams Family," "Addams Family Values," "Sister Act
I and II," and "Life with Mikey." He also wrote the scores
for "George of the Jungle," "The Ghosts of Mississippi,"
"City Slickers I and II," "Mr. Saturday Night," "A
Few Good Men," and Stephen King's "Misery," among many others.
Marc Shaiman began his career as an arranger for Bette Midler and as a writer/arranger
for "Saturday Night Live." His television credits include the
1989, 1990 and 1991 Academy Awards®, "The Tracey Ullman Show,"
Ann Magnuson's "Vandemonium," and the Billy Crystal HBO specials
"Don't Get Me Started" and "The Lost Minutes." On the
Broadway stage, he was the vocal arranger for "Leader of the Pack"
and Bette Midler's "Divine Madness," dance arranger for "The
Tap Dance Kid" and musical director for "Peter Allen--Up in One."
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