Democracy - Broadway Creative Team

Broadway: Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Come Fly Away, The Little Mermaid, The Seafarer, Mary Poppins, The Lion King, The History Boys, The Woman in White, Democracy, The Boy From Oz, Jumpers. Tours: Dreamgirls, Mary Poppins, The Lion King. Las Vegas: The Lion King, Phantom Las Vegas. Michael Blakemore is an accomplished actor, director, and writer with a long and distinguished career in both the theater and film industries. Born in Sydney, Australia in 1928, Blakemore began his career as an actor before transitioning to directing in the 1960s. He has since become one of the most respected directors in the industry, with numerous awards and accolades to his name. Blakemore's early career was marked by his work as an actor in Australia and the UK. He made his West End debut in 1950 in a production of The Heiress, and went on to appear in numerous productions ... read more Roundabout’s director of artistic development. Shows cast for Roundabout: Anything Goes, The Road to Mecca, Man and Boy, The Importance of Being Earnest, Sondheim on Sondheim, Bye Bye Birdie, Sunday in the Park…, 110 in the Shade, The Pajama Game, Twelve Angry Men, Assassins, Twentieth Century, Nine, Big River, Cabaret. Other Broadway: The Mountaintop, On a Clear Day…, Jerusalem, Arcadia, The Scottsboro Boys, La Bête, American Idiot, The Seagull, Spring Awakening, Boeing-Boeing, Curtains, The Pillowman, La Cage, Chitty…, Democracy, Fiddler on the Roof, …Millie. Film: A Home at the End of the World, Flicka. TV: “Glee” (Emmy nom). Credits: Driving Miss Daisy, Your Welcome America, God of Carnage, The Vertical Hour, Faith Healer, Bridge and Tunnel, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Life (x) 3, The Graduate, Prune Danish, and Much Ado about Everything. US Associate: Hamlet, Enron, Red, Boeing Boeing, Rock and Roll, Macbeth, Frost/Nixon, Festen, Primo, The Pillowman, Democracy, Jumpers, Def Poetry Jam, and Noises Off. International: Spongebob Squarepants(Asian Tour), Reel to Real (China) and The Opera Show(European Tour). Doumanian produces theatre, film and television. Recent credits include: The Book of Mormon, The House of Blue Leaves; August: Osage County (Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize); Our Town (Lortel and Obie Awards); Superior Donuts; When the Rain Stops Falling (Lortel Award); Mistakes Were Made. Upcoming productions include: The House of Blue Leaves and The Mountaintop (Olivier Award), as well as film adaptations of August: Osage County, Blackbird and Galveston. Credits include Evita, The Book of Mormon, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Seminar. Recent productions: House of Blue Leaves, West Side Story, La Bete, Come Fly Away, Ragtime, Gypsy, The Color Purple, Spamalot. Co-founded the investment firm Furman Selz, currently vice chairman Jeffries & Company. Vice chairman of Lincoln Center, Chairman emeritus of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, vice president NY City Opera. Mark was the recipient of the 1992, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2010 and 2016 Laurence Olivier Awards for Lighting Design, was awarded a Tony award in 2006 for The History Boys. Has lit extensively for all the major theatre, opera and dance companies in the UK including over 60 productions for the National Theatre and over 70 in the West End together with over 20 Broadway productions. Broadway credits include Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: The Musical, Chicago, La Cage aux Folles (revival), Primo, Democracy, Life (x) 3, Bobbi Boland, The Rocky Horror Show, The Blue Room, Jekyll & Hyde, Sixteen Wounded, The Smell of the Kill, Into the Woods (revival), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Diary of Anne Frank, An Ideal Husband, A Few Good Men, My Fair Lady, On the Waterfront, Grease and Grand Hotel. Off-Broadway: The Cocktail Hour, Marvin's Room and several productions at the Actors Studio and Playwrights Horizons. Most recently: Laurie and Jack Lovefest at Gasbag Players in Tenafly, NJ. The Nederlander Organization is a company prominent for three generations in the ownership of theatres and the production of distinguished theatrical and concert presentations. Founded in 1912 by David T. Nederlander in Detroit, Michigan, the company is one of the largest and most experienced managers of legitimate venues and entertainment properties in America today. Arielle Tepper Madover is a Tony Award-winning Theater & Film Producer, native New Yorker, and founder of premier concierge service, WhatShouldWeDo?! She also serves as the Board Chair for The Public Theater in New York. In 1998, after graduating from Syracuse University, Madover founded Arielle Tepper Madover Productions, a theatrical production company to develop and produce plays and musicals both on and off Broadway. Her first production was John Leguizamo's Freak, a semi-autobiographical one-person play that ran for six months at the Cort Theater in New York. Arielle’s producing credits include the film Genius and many acclaimed Broadway and Off-Broadway shows ... read more