Green Day's American Idiot

vocalist/ guitarist BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG (Book & Lyrics), bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tré Cool – were kids from working-class backgrounds who came of age in the underground punk scene in Berkeley. Even though they had previously released two records (1039/Smooth Out Slappy Hours and Kerplunk), they announced their arrival with 1994's Dookie, a dynamic blast of exuberant punk-pop that spoke to bored teenagers everywhere. The album eventually sold 15 million copies, earned the band its first Grammy® Award and inspired a raft of imitators. Over the years, Green Day continued to top the charts with their subsequent studio albums Insomniac, Nimrod and Warning, while entertaining millions of fans with their frenetic live shows. But it was their landmark 2004 album American Idiot that launched Green Day into the stratosphere. "Jesus of Suburbia" set the tone by telling a tale of the choice between self-destruction and redemption that resonated with listeners of all ages, nationalities and political persuasions. American Idiot debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard chart, spawned five hit singles, earned seven Grammy® nominations (winning two, including Best Rock Album) and raised the bar for modern rock and roll. Last year, Green Day released its new album 21^st Century Breakdown, which was nominated for three 2010 Grammy® Awards and won Best Rock Album. It also spawned two hit singles: the gold "Know Your Enemy," which was the first song ever to top Billboard's Rock, Alternative and Mainstream Rock charts simultaneously; and the platinum "21 Guns," which earned them three 2009 MTV Video Music Awards including Best Rock Video. Green Day also took home an American Music Award for Favorite Alternative Rock Music Artist. For more about the band, visit www.greenday.com.

Vocalist/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tré Cool – were kids from working-class backgrounds who came of age in the underground punk scene in Berkeley. Even though they had previously released two records (1039/Smooth Out Slappy Hours and Kerplunk), they announced their arrival with 1994's Dookie, a dynamic blast of exuberant punk-pop that spoke to bored teenagers everywhere. The album eventually sold 15 million copies, earned the band its first Grammy® Award and inspired a raft of imitators. Over the years, Green Day continued to top the charts with their subsequent studio albums Insomniac, Nimrod and Warning, while entertaining millions of fans with their frenetic live shows. But it was their landmark 2004 album American Idiot that launched Green Day into the stratosphere. "Jesus of Suburbia" set the tone by telling a tale of the choice between self-destruction and redemption that resonated with listeners of all ages, nationalities and political persuasions. American Idiot debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard chart, spawned five hit singles, earned seven Grammy® nominations (winning two, including Best Rock Album) and raised the bar for modern rock and roll. Last year, Green Day released its new album 21^st Century Breakdown, which was nominated for three 2010 Grammy® Awards and won Best Rock Album. It also spawned two hit singles: the gold "Know Your Enemy," which was the first song ever to top Billboard's Rock, Alternative and Mainstream Rock charts simultaneously; and the platinum "21 Guns," which earned them three 2009 MTV Video Music Awards including Best Rock Video. Green Day also took home an American Music Award for Favorite Alternative Rock Music Artist. For more about the band, visit www.greenday.com.

Michael Mayer received the 2007 Tony Award, as well as Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards, for his production of Spring Awakening, which also played in London, Vienna, Tokyo and Seoul. His other Broadway credits include Side Man (Tony Award/Best Play); Thoroughly Modern Millie (Tony Award/Best Musical); A View From the Bridge (Tony Award/Best Revival); Uncle Vanya; 'night, Mother; After the Fall; You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown; and Triumph of Love. In addition to Spring Awakening at Atlantic Theater Company, his Off-Broadway credits include Everyday Rapture, Our House, 10 Million Miles, Antigone in New York, Baby Anger, The Credeaux Canvas and Stupid Kids. Michael also directed the national tours of Spring Awakening, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Angels in America, winner of Jefferson and Carbonell Awards. Regional work includes plays at Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, McCarter Theatre, Center Stage and Yale Rep. Michael directed the films A Home at the End of the World and Flicka.

is the composer and co-orchestrator of the Broadway musical Next to Normal, for which he received two Tony Awards for Best New Score (with Brian Yorkey) and Best Orchestrations (with Michael Starobin). Tom is also the composer of High Fidelity (Broadway), From Up Here (MTC) and The Retributionists (Playwrights Horizons). As a musical director, conductor, arranger and orchestrator, credits include 13, Debbie Does Dallas, Everyday Rapture, Hair, Laugh Whore and Urban Cowboy. Tom provided string arrangements for Green Day's Grammy-winning album, 21st Century Breakdown. He is the proud leader of the Tom Kitt Band (www.tomkittband.com), whose songs have been featured in film and TV.

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is co-founder and artistic director of Frantic Assembly. Recent credits include Othello (TMA Award, Best Direction), Stockholm, pool (no water), Hymns and Dirty Wonderland. As associate director/movement, Steven worked on the multiaward-winning production Black Watch (National Theatre of Scotland), for which he received the 2009 Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreography. Other choreography and movement director credits include Dido Queen of Carthage, The Hothouse and Market Boy (Royal National Theatre); 365, The Bacchae (National Theatre of Scotland); The Wolves in the Wall (National Theatre of Scotland and Improbable). With Scott Graham, Steven wrote The Frantic Assembly Book of Devising Theatre (Routledge).

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earned a Tony nomination for Spring Awakening, directed by Michael Mayer, and also designed the Broadway production of The Green Bird, directed by Julie Taymor. Her Off-Broadway credits include Coraline, music by Stephin Merritt, and The Book of Longing, by Leonard Cohen with music by Philip Glass. Jones teaches at NYU and is the artistic director of Theatre for One, a space designed for one performer and one audience member, which can be seen at theatreforone.com.

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Broadway: American Idiot (debut). Off-Broadway: Or (Women's Project), The Butcher of Baraboo (Second Stage Uptown). NYC: Elephant Dreams (Joyce Soho), Status Entropus (NYC, Greece). Regional: American Idiot (Berkeley Rep), costume design resident (Alley Theatre), Soccer Moms (Fleetwood Stage). Stylist: bands, video, Delirious Hair Designs (a roving sculpture project). Recent: Trey McIntyre Project's Ten Pin Episodes. Interactive designs published in Fashionable Technology (2008, Sabine Seymour). Current project: "torsolovely": a touch sensor storytelling jacket. MFA: Tisch (Baryshnikov Fellow).

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Broadway includes Spring Awakening (Tony Award), Next to Normal (Tony nom.), Passing Strange, Hair (Tony nom.), The 39 Steps (Tony and Drama Desk Awards), Take Me Out and John Leguizamo's Sexaholix. Other credits: the original Off-Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Itch, Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs, NY City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Houston Grand Opera, Kennedy Center, Guthrie Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre and Donmar Warehouse. 2002 Obie for Sustained Excellence. www.ambermylar.com

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Promises, Promises; Next to Normal (Tony nomination); Grease; Curtains; Spring Awakening; Grey Gardens; Pajama Game; All Shook Up; Twelve Angry Men; The Look of Love; "Master Harold"...and the boys; The Boys From Syracuse; Fortune's Fool; The Tale of the Allergist's Wife; The Rainmaker; Little Me; Charlie Brown; Cabaret; Triumph of Love; 1776; and State Fair. Off-Broadway: Bug, for which he won an Obie and Lucille Lortel Award.

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has designed motion graphics for broadcast, commercials, film and theatre. His projection and video designs include The Elephant Man at the Minnesota Opera and Everyday Rapture at Second Stage Theatre. He has also designed sets and/or lighting for numerous New York, European and regional theatres, including Deliverance at the Institute for Contemporary Arts in London, Four Scenes in a Harsh Life at Los Angeles Theatre Center and Richard III at Hartford Stage. Darrel holds an MFA in set and lighting design from NYU.

hails from Perth, Australia, and after coming to the U.S. on a Fulbright scholarship graduated from NYU's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program in 2003. Broadway: The 25th Annual Putnam Count Spelling Bee (Vocal Arranger/Assoc. Conductor). Additional productions: Everyday Rapture, Vanities, Elegies: A Song Cycle. Co-composer of Songs of Innocence and Experience with William Finn. Carmel has also served as Chita Rivera's musical director. She is thrilled to be making her Broadway music directing debut with American Idiot.

choreographed Encores! Fanny at City Center (dir. Marc Bruni), Cy Coleman's Best Yet to Come at the Rubicon (dir. David Zippel), Hansel and Gretel (PBS's "Live From Lincoln Center"), Lysistrata (Avery Fisher), Broadway by the Year (Town Hall), Jerusalem Syndrome (NYMF), How to Succeed..., Love of Three Oranges, Magic Flute (Juilliard Opera), Erotic Broadway and works for Momix, Williamstown, Broadway Bares, NAMT,Dancebreak and NBC's "Grease" (assoc). Lorin performed in 13 Broadway shows and garnered two Top 40 dance singles (Atlantic Records). BFA, Juilliard. Latarro.com

Assoc. Director: Grey Gardens (Broadway). Asst. Director: Rent (National Tour). Directing credits include I Have Loved Strangers (Clubbed Thumb), Schmoozy Togetherness (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Semi-Permanent (NY Fringe Festival Award, Outstanding Solo Show), Functional Drunk (Ontological-Hysteric Theater). Guest Faculty: Bard College. Fellowships: Drama League, Boris Sagal and Fulbright. MFA, UT Austin.

Rock of Ages, Jason Robert Brown's 13. Vocal consultant: Wicked, Next to Normal, In the Heights, Cry-Baby, Vanities. Recording artists: Natasha Bedingfield, James Blunt, Lily Allen, Goo Goo Dolls, The Darkness, Morningwood, The Donnas. Lizcaplan.com

Producing: Spring Awakening (Tony Award, Best Musical), Alan Bennett's Talking Heads (Obie Award, Drama Desk, New York Drama Critics Award, Best Play), A Home at the End of the World (feature film directed by Michael Mayer). Directing: John Irving's The Cider House Rules (Seattle Rep, Mark Taper, Atlantic Theater Company in NY). Acting: Equus and A Few Good Men (Broadway), The Normal Heart (London), Eastern Standard (Seattle Rep), Hamlet (DC Shakespeare Theatre); films include Amadeus, Dominick and Eugene, Parenthood, Animal House, Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame I and II. Awards: nominated for an Academy Award, a Tony Award, four Golden Globes and two Emmys (winning for "The Heidi Chronicles.")

In 2007, Ira was the lead producer, along with Tom Hulce, of Spring Awakening, which won eight Tony Awards including Best Musical. In 2002, he won his first Tony Award for Private Lives starring Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan, and in that same year coproduced Topdog/Underdog, which went onto win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His other Broadway credits include the acclaimed revival of The Iceman Cometh starring Kevin Spacey, Baz Luhrmann's production of La Bohéme, Stones in His Pockets, Neil Simon's The Dinner Party starring Henry Winkler and John Ritter and the hit revival of The Odd Couple starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. During his 30-year career in the music industry he's worked with artists as diverse as Placido Domingo, John Denver, Loretta Lynn, Johnny Mathis, Smokey Robinson and Ringo Starr.