Agatha Christie was an extraordinary woman with a remarkable mind. She wrote her first mystery novel when she was 26, and it was published four years later as The Mysterious Affair at Styles. There followed a prolific writing career spanning five decades, with over 80 novels and short story collections, including Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, and the genre-defining And Then There Were None. She wrote over 19 plays, of which the most famous, The Mousetrap, is the longest running play in the world.

With more than two billion books published, Agatha Christie is outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her works have been widely adapted and produced across most media platforms around the world, including TV, film, radio, publishing, stage, games and digital. Easily translatable, her books have been published in over 100 languages, making her the most translated writer of all time.

Darko Tresnjak won the 2014 Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle awards for his direction of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, starring Jefferson Mays. He won an Obie Award in 2015 for his direction of The Killer, starring Michael Shannon. Since opening on Broadway in 2017, his production of Anastasia has been presented in the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, and Japan. Darko was the Artistic Director of Hartford Stage from 2011 to 2019. As a director of plays, musicals, and operas, he has worked at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, Theater for a New Audience, Old Globe, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Royal Shakespeare Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Chicago Shakespeare Festival, Vineyard Theatre Company, Atlantic Theater Company, Geffen Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Huntington Theatre Company, Long Wharf Theatre Company, Goodspeed Musicals, Westport County Playhouse, Blue Light Theater Company, Metropolitan Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and Los Angeles Opera. His favorite productions include Cyrano de Bergerac, with Patrick Page; The Merchant of Venice, with F. Murray Abraham; The Skin of Our Teeth, with Marian Seldes; Rear Window, with Kevin Bacon; Der zwerg, with Rodrick Dixon; and the Grammy Award-winning production of The Ghosts of Versailles, with Patti LuPone.