GEROME RAGNI was born and raised in Pittsburgh and came from a large Italian family. After a stint in the Air Force, as a young actor he won the Barter Theatre Award. He appeared on Broadway in the John Gielgud/Richard Burton Hamlet, starred in The Knack Off-Broadway and studied acting and new experimental theatre techniques with Nola Chilton and Joseph Chaikin and the Open Theater. An unusual stage presence, he created the role of Berger in Hair. Movie: Lions Love. He wrote the Broadway musical Dude, with music by Galt MacDermot, and coauthored the yet-to-be-seen Sun.