How display other fields besides title in featured item

The only field that shows up next to the image of the featured item includes only the Title field. Is there a way to include the Creator field?

Sort of, with a modification to the theme. In your theme's item directory, see if there is a file called single.php. If not follow these instructions on copying the default single.php file.

Then, adding code like

<?php
echo metadata($item, array('Dublin Core', 'Creator'));

?>

will show the Creator.

The trick is, this will apply not only to the featured item, but also to things like the list of recent items.

Thank you, it worked like a charm. I also added the date and format fields to the display. This is the resulting modified single.php
<div class="item record">
( <?php
$title = metadata($item, array('Dublin Core', 'Title'));
$creator = metadata($item, array('Dublin Core', 'Creator'));
$date = metadata($item, array('Dublin Core', 'Date'));
$Format = metadata($item, array('Dublin Core', 'Format'));
$description = metadata($item, array('Dublin Core', 'Description'), array('snippet' => 150));
?>
<h2><?php echo link_to($item, 'show', strip_formatting($title)); ?></h2>
<h2><?php
echo metadata($item, array('Dublin Core', 'Creator'));

?></h2>
<b><?php
echo metadata($item, array('Dublin Core', 'Date'));

?></b>,
<b><?php
echo metadata($item, array('Dublin Core', 'Format'));

?></b>
<?php if (metadata($item, 'has files')) {
echo link_to_item(
item_image('square_thumbnail', array(), 0, $item),
array('class' => 'image'), 'show', $item
);
}
?>
<?php if ($description): ?>
<p class="item-description"><?php echo $description; ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
)

If I also want to add the collection to which the item belongs?

Something like this should do it.

<?php echo link_to_collection_for_item(); ?>