Book
Kait Kerrigan
Kait Kerrigan is making her Broadway debut with The Great Gatsby. Other musicals include The Time Traveler’s Wife (add'l lyrics) in the West End; and book/lyrics for The Mad Ones and Henry & Mudge off-Broadway. Other recent plays and musicals include Father/Daughter, Indigo, Justice. Enormous gratitude to Bree Lowdermilk for making me write musicals, to Jason Howland for taking a chance on me, to Nathan Tysen for everything. For my daughters Lucy and Tess; and for my mom and grandma who taught me that the best thing a girl can be in this world is brave. @kaitkerrigan
Music
Jason Howland
Grammy and Emmy-winning producer and arranger, and Tony-nominated composer/producer. Composer: Paradise Square (ten Tony nominations), Little Women (three Tony nominations), Ikiru (Tokyo), Tokyo Love Story (Tokyo), Christmas in Connecticut (Goodspeed), Last Days of Summer (KC Rep), The Station (Upcoming, Seoul), A Man (Upcoming, Tokyo). Musical Director/Arranger/Orchestrator on Broadway: Shucked (Tony Nomination), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Grammy Award), Bonnie & Clyde, Wonderland, Jekyll & Hyde, Les Misérables, The Civil War, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Taboo, The Lonesome West (Producer, Tony nomination). TV: “Handel’s Messiah Rocks” (Emmy Award). Proud father of Nina and Noah.
Lyrics
Nathan Tysen
Broadway/West End: Paradise Square (Tony Nomination), Amélie (Olivier & Grammy Nominations), Tuck Everlasting. Off-Broadway: The Burnt Part Boys, Fugitive Songs. Regional: Dreamland (or a musical riff on Shakespeare’s Midsummer set during the declassification of Area 51), Stillwater. TV/Film: “A Killer Party,” “Sesame Street,” “Elmo's World.” Upcoming: Love is Strange, Blown Sideways Through Life, Revival. Awards from the Kleban, Ebb, Rodgers, and Larson foundations. Writer/director for Lovewell Institute, creating original musicals with young adults. MFA NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, BFA Missouri State University. Husband to writer Kait Kerrigan, father to Lucy & Tess. www.nathantysen.com IG: @doctorpickles
Scenic &
Projection Designer
Paul Tate dePoo III
Paul Tate dePoo III is a Cuban American scenic, projection, and production designer originally from Key West, Florida. Recent designs include The Cottage (Broadway); Spamalot (Broadway); resident designer for the Kennedy Center’s Broadway Center Stage: The Music Man, Tommy, Footloose, Next to Normal, 50 Years of Broadway, Guys and Dolls, Sunset Boulevard; Usher’s Las Vegas residency (production design); Così fan tutte (Santa Fe Opera); Turandot (Austria, Vienna); Titanic, Sweeney Todd (OD, Seoul, South Korea); Evita, The Sound of Music, Murder on the Orient Express (Asolo Rep); Beau (TBD Pictures); Angels in America (amfAR); Grand Hotel (Signature Theatre-Helen Hayes Award). www.pauldepoo.com
Costume Designer
Linda Cho
Broadway: Doubt; Harmony; Summer, 1976; Take Me Out; Grand Horizons; Anastasia (Tony nomination); The Great Society; A Gentleman’s Guide… (Tony/Henry Hewes Awards); The Lifespan of a Fact; Velocity of Autumn. Opera: Turandot (Washington National Opera); Samson et Dalila (The MET). This Korean-born designer is on the Advisory Committee of the American Theatre Wing, and teaches at NYU. MFA Yale School of Drama; BA McGill University and Paris American Academy.
Lighting Designer
Cory Pattak
Broadway: Spamalot, A Wonderful World (upcoming). Off Broadway: The Lucky Star, Final Follies, Stalking the Bogeyman, Handle with Care, Skippyjon Jones, Unlock’d. Regional: Ten shows as the resident lighting designer for Broadway Center Stage at the Kennedy Center, shows for The Old Globe, Weston Playhouse, Portland Stage, Ordway Theatre, Goodspeed, Kansas City Rep, Everyman Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Asolo Rep, Miami New Drama, Alabama Shakespeare, Tuacahn, Ogunquit Playhouse. Other: In the Heights in Puerto Rico, shows for Norwegian Cruise Line, MSC Cruises. National Tour: Flashdance. International: Sunset Boulevard, Singin’ in the Rain, Pretty Woman (Brazil). corypattak.com, @corypattak
Sound Designer
Brian Ronan
Brian has designed the sound for over forty Broadway shows. They include Some Like It Hot, Funny Girl, Mean Girls, Springsteen on Broadway, The Last Ship, Beautiful, The Book of Mormon, Anything Goes, American Idiot, Next to Normal, Spring Awakening, and Cabaret. Brian is the recipient of the Obie, Lucille Lortel, two Drama Desks, London’s Olivier and two Tony Awards.
Hair and Wig Designers
Charles G. LaPointe
Rachael Geier
Rachael Geier
Award-winning Designer who maintains a highly successful career on stages throughout the US and abroad. Numerous Broadway, Touring, Regional Theatre, International productions including Hamilton (Make-Up Artists/Hair Stylist Guild Award), MJ, Tommy, SIX, Doubt, Suffs, Beetlejuice, The Cher Show (Drama Desk Award), SpongeBob SquarePants ( Drama Desk Award). Television: Emmy Nominations for The Wiz Live! and Jesus Christ Superstar Live!
Stoked to be Co-Designing with Charles LaPointe! Other credits include Wig/Hair Design: The Wanderer (Co-Design with Charles LaPointe), Belfast Girls, Irish Rep; Describe the Night, The Wilma; Benny and Joon, Paper Mill Playhouse. BroadwayAssociate Wig/Hair Design: Hamilton (Production Supervisor), Tommy, The Wiz, The Outsiders, The Cher Show, Torch Song, Lifespan of a Fact, The Band’s Visit, Anastasia.
Makeup Designer
Ashley Ryan
Broadway: An American in Paris; The Elephant Man; The Bridges of Madison County; A Time to Kill; Picnic; Dead Accounts; Annie; The Heiress; On a Clear Day…; Bonnie and Clyde; Godspell; Born Yesterday; How to Succeed in Business…; Promises, Promises. Television: “Blue Bloods.”
Orchestrations
Jason Howland
Kim Scharnberg
Kim Scharnberg
Grammy and Emmy-winning producer and arranger, and Tony-nominated composer/producer. Composer: Paradise Square (ten Tony nominations), Little Women (three Tony nominations), Ikiru (Tokyo), Tokyo Love Story (Tokyo), Christmas in Connecticut (Goodspeed), Last Days of Summer (KC Rep), The Station (Upcoming, Seoul), A Man (Upcoming, Tokyo). Musical Director/Arranger/Orchestrator on Broadway: Shucked (Tony Nomination), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Grammy Award), Bonnie & Clyde, Wonderland, Jekyll & Hyde, Les Misérables, The Civil War, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Taboo, The Lonesome West (Producer, Tony nomination). TV: “Handel’s Messiah Rocks” (Emmy Award). Proud father of Nina and Noah.
Broadway: Jekyll & Hyde, Scarlet Pimpernel, Civil War, Little Women (Drama Desk Award nomination), Wonderland, Jekyll & Hyde revival. International: No Longer Human, Carmen, Rudolf, Monte Cristo, Phantom (Yeston/Kopit). Other: Ragtime (MTI 9-piece orchestration), Ragtime: The Symphonic Concert. Rocktopia & Wonderland (music supervisor). Associate Artist at Ford's Theatre (Washington, D.C.) Much more at www.KimScharnberg.com For Gwynn and Will.
Dialect Coach
Deborah Hecht
Broadway: Ninety-nine productions including Sweeney Todd. Off-Broadway: Hundreds of shows, also regionally. England: Harry Clarke, RSC, National. Film/TV: We Were the Lucky Ones; upcoming: Moana, Tokyo Vice, IMDb.
Casting
C12 Casting
Stephen Kopel
Jillian Cimini
Stephen Kopel
Jillian Cimini
C12 Casting is Carrie Gardner, Stephen Kopel, Jillian Cimini, Neal Buckley, and Sujotta Pace. Broadway: Gutenberg! The Musical!; I Need That; & Juliet; Shucked; Moulin Rouge!; A Christmas Carol; Good Night, Oscar; Jagged Little Pill; 1776; Peter Pan Goes Wrong; Trouble in Mind; Caroline, or Change; Birthday Candles; The Book of Mormon; The Play That Goes Wrong; Sunday in the Park with George; Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. Off Broadway: The Refuge Plays, Primary Trust, The Wanderers, English, Exception to the Rule, the bandaged place, Usual Girls, Merrily We Roll Along, Kingdom Come.
Music Producer
Billy Jay Stein
Music Director and Additional Arrangements
Daniel Edmonds
Broadway: Shucked, Paradise Square. West End: Wild About You, The Showgirl Within. Australia: Beautiful, world premieres of King Kong, Strictly Ballroom (with Baz Luhrmann) and Dream Lover. Composer/lyricist: Broadway-aimed Silk; Wind In The Willows; film scores. Other highlights: MD for Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken; piano for Lea Salonga’s PBS Special, and songwriter of her latest single “Dream Again.”
Music Coordinator
John Miller
Associate Director
David Ruttura
As Associate, Broadway: Moulin Rouge!, Beautiful, Network, School of Rock, Spider-Man, Follies, Lombardi, Million Dollar Quartet, White Christmas, A Man for All Seasons. Directing credits include projects with La Mirada, Alabama Shakes, Norwegian Cruise Line, Pittsburgh CLO, Gateway Playhouse, Ogunquit Playhouse, Ars Nova. @davidruttura
Associate Choreographer
Cedric Dodd
Broadway Debut! BFA Dance Theatre (AMDA). Credits: Rudolph… National Tour (Assoc. Dir/Chor), The Great Gatsby (Assoc. Chor - Paper Mill), Evita (Assoc. Chor - The Rev). Mariah Carey (Asst. Chor). Love and thanks to family, Dom, Katie Webber and CESD/GTA. @cedricdodd_
Marketing Supervision
Brand-Nexus
Michele Groner
Michele Groner
Advertising
SpotCo
SpotCo has played a leading role in developing Broadway’s most iconic brands, from the stenciled typography of Rent to the strikingly bold star of Hamilton. We are a team of storytellers and research nerds, digital experts and media-buying mavens — all driven by both brains and guts. We take laughter seriously and leave our egos at the door. We celebrate diversity because we know it makes us stronger. We are passionate about what we do, and compassionate in how we do it. We believe our end goal is to enrich the lives of audiences from all around the world. And that is what motivates us.
Press Representative
Vivacity Media Group
Vivacity Media Group is a boutique public relations agency founded upon – and named for – our team’s core principle of infusing every facet of a press campaign or partnership with verve and vitality. Based in the media capital of the world, New York City, our company’s dynamic team of publicists have a passion for creative storytelling through layered press campaigns, strengthened by decades of industry knowledge and media relationships.
Social Media
Katharine Quinn
Katharine Quinn helms And That’s Showbiz , a multi-faceted Broadway media company. Taking a digital-first and fan-forward approach, ATS specializes in amplifying the magic of Broadway beyond the four walls of the theatre. From viral TikToks, to photography and video production, to fan and influencer events, ATS advances the power of each Broadway brand in the spaces where audiences most frequently engage and interact. www.andthatsshow.biz
Production Management
Juniper Street Productions
Juniper Street Productions is a New York City-based production management firm. Formed in 1998, JSP has managed more than 100 Broadway, Off-Broadway, national tours and events. Opening this season: An Enemy of the People, Death Becomes Her, Heart of Rock ’N’ Roll, Hell’s Kitchen, Lempicka, The Outsiders, Stereophonic, Water for Elephants. www.juniperstreet.com.
Production Stage Manager
Brian Bogin
Over 30 Broadway Shows & National Tours including The Old Man and the Pool; Hello, Dolly!; Frankie and Johnny…; The Book of Mormon; …Great Comet; Wicked; and Phantom. Thanks to Michael, Katie, Sophia, Lauren & Lynn for being “10s!” Love to Colin.
Company Manager
Elizabeth M. Talmadge
Broadway: Funny Girl; POTUS; To Kill a Mockingbird; The Curious Incident…; Love Letters; The Trip To Bountiful; The Performers; One Man Two Guvnors; Once; Chinglish; The Scottsboro Boys; Cat On A Hot Tin Roof; Wicked; The Color Purple; The Drowsy Chaperone; The Pirate Queen. Thank you, Eric & Brian.
General Management
Foresight Theatrical
Mark Shacket
Andrew Joy
Mark Shacket
Andrew Joy
Foresight Theatrical is comprised of partners Allan Williams, Aaron Lustbader, and Mark Shacket and Director of Operations Lane Marsh who oversee and supervise Moulin Rouge! The Musical (Broadway and N. American Tour), Water for Elephants, The Wiz and Hell’s Kitchen on Broadway, the National Tour of Girl From the North Country; as well as the worldwide management of Kinky Boots.
Music Supervision & Arrangements
Jason Howland
Grammy and Emmy-winning producer and arranger, and Tony-nominated composer/producer. Composer: Paradise Square (ten Tony nominations), Little Women (three Tony nominations), Ikiru (Tokyo), Tokyo Love Story (Tokyo), Christmas in Connecticut (Goodspeed), Last Days of Summer (KC Rep), The Station (Upcoming, Seoul), A Man (Upcoming, Tokyo). Musical Director/Arranger/Orchestrator on Broadway: Shucked (Tony Nomination), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Grammy Award), Bonnie & Clyde, Wonderland, Jekyll & Hyde, Les Misérables, The Civil War, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Taboo, The Lonesome West (Producer, Tony nomination). TV: “Handel’s Messiah Rocks” (Emmy Award). Proud father of Nina and Noah.
Choreographer
Dominique Kelley
Musical Theatre: After Midnight (PMP), The Great Gatsby (PMP), Oklahoma! (DCPA), Sophisticated Ladies (ZACH), Indecent (DCPA), Ain’t Misbehavin’ (EbonyRep), Rattlesnake Kate (DCPA), Singin’ in the Rain (ZACH). TV: “Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas Special,” “SYTYCD,” “Dancing with the Stars,” “Perry Mason,” “The Masked Singer,” “American Music Awards,” “Bar Rescue,” “James Corden.” Recording Artist Choreography: Beyoncé, Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Usher, P!nk, FKA Twigs. Film: Gone with the Bullets. Live Show: Volta (Cirque du Soleil).
Director
Marc Bruni
Marc Bruni directed Beautiful: The Carole King Musical on Broadway, West End, US and UK Tours, and in Australia (Helpmann Award - Best Direction); Trevor: The Musical (Stage 42, Disney+); Guys and Dolls; The Music Man; How to Succeed..; 50 Years of Broadway (Kennedy Center); Hey, Look Me Over!; Paint Your Wagon; Pipe Dream; and Fanny (Encores!); Love All (La Jolla); Tale of Despereaux (with PigPen - Old Globe, Berkeley Rep); The Explorers Club (MTC); Sound of Music (Chicago Lyric Opera); Old Jews Telling Jokes (Westside); Ordinary Days (Roundabout); A Killer Party; 9 MUNY shows. Dartmouth graduate, SDC member.