A Tale of Two Cities - Broadway Creative Team

Michael Arden is a Tony-nominated director for his revival of Spring Awakening. The acclaimed production transferred from Deaf West Theater in Los Angeles to Broadway in fall 2015. He also won the Outer Critics Circle for Outstanding Director of a Musical and was nominated for a Drama Desk award for the production. Michael made his Broadway debut in Deaf West Theater and the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Big River. Other directing credits include My Fair Lady at Bay Street Theater; Merrily We Roll Along at the Wallis Annenberg Center in Los Angeles, where he is currently the Artist in ... read more David Bryant is an actor, producer and investor who divides his time between the Bay Area and New York City. WARREN CARLYLE is a Tony Award winning Director/Choreographer: Most recently choreographed the Tony Award winning revival of Hello, Dolly! starring Bette Midler at The Shubert Theater. Directed and choreographed the Tony nominated Broadway musical After Midnight at the Brooks Atkinson Theater, Chaplin at the Barrymore Theater, Hugh Jackman: Back On Broadway at the Broadhurst Theater, the critically acclaimed, Tony nominated revival of Finian's Rainbow at the St James Theater and A Tale of Two Cities at the Al Hirschfeld Theater; Choreographed She Loves Me (Studio 54), On The 20th Century (American Airlines Theater), The Mystery Of Edwin Drood, (Studio 54), ... read more Parker Esse Guys and Dolls [Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada ( Shaw Festival Theater), 2013] Choreographer Carousel [East Haddam, CT (Goodspeed - Regional), 2012] Choreographer Music Man [Washington, DC (Arena Stage - Regional), 2012] Choreographer Buddy- The Buddy Holly Story [Flat Rock, NC (Flat Rock Playhouse - Regional), 2011] Choreographer Oklahoma! (Revival) [Washington, DC (Arena Stage - Regional) 2011] Choreographer Oklahoma! [Washington, DC (Arena Stage - Regional), 2010] Choreographer Winner Helen Hayes Award Best Choreography The Light In the Piazza [Washington, DC (Arena Stage - Regional), 2010] Choreographer Mystery of Irma Vep [Washington, DC (Arena Stage - Regional), 2008] Choreographer The Brand New Kid [Washington, DC (The Kennedy Center - Regional), 2006] Choreographer Associate/Assistant Choreographer Broadway/Off-Broadway: Finian's Rainbow [Broadway, 2009] Associate Choreographer A Tale of Two Cities [Broadway, 2008] Associate Choreographer Rated P for ... read more JORDAN SCOTT GILBERT became one of the youngest Award Winning Broadway Producers and Performers in Broadway Theatrical history, being the first ever recipient of the BROADWAY PRODUCER OF THE YEAR AWARD. He has worked alongside some of the most successful actors, singers, writers, composers, directors, and producers in the world and has been the President of his own independent production and casting companies. Jordan Co-Produced the 3-TIME TONY® AWARD nominated and DRAMA DESK AWARD winning Broadway production of GHOST THE MUSICAL, for which he was named the first ever BROADWAY PRODUCER OF THE YEAR by Broadway Global. GHOST was directed ... read more Broadway/national tours: Les Misérables. Regional: Annie, Sisters of Swing, My Fair Lady, Mame, Kismet, Pump Boys and Dinettes and The Oil City Symphony. Concerts: New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, the Mantovani Orchestra. Recordings: Disney, Warner Bros. and Universal. Mr. Grano is Chairman/CEO of Centurion Holdings LLC, an advisor to private and public companies. From 2001-2004, Mr. Grano was Chairman of UBS Financial Services Inc. (formerly PaineWebber). While at PaineWebber, Mr. Grano chaired the Board of Governors of the National Association of Security Dealers (NASD). In 2002, Mr. Grano was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as the Chairman of the Homeland Security Advisory Council. He proudly served his country as a Captain in the U.S. Special Forces (Green Berets). Due to his commitment to education, Mr. Grano received the Corporate Leadership Award from the Thurgood Marshall ... read more Broadway: War Paint, Groundhog Day, Fool for Love, Act One, Venus in Fur, God of Carnage, Long Day's Journey Into Night (with Redgrave and Hoffman), Exit the King, numerous others. Off-Broadway: Public, LCT3, Signature, Playwrights Horizons, others. Regional/international: Goodman, Westport, Two River Theater, Williamstown, others. Royal National, Royal Shakespeare Company. Film/TV: numerous. Faculty: Juilliard. Gregory Meeh designs special effects for theatre, opera and film. Credits: Kà, Cirque du Soleil. Broadway: An Act of God, Misery, Doctor Zhivago, The Last Ship, The Addams Family, Spamalot, Twelfth Night (Lincoln Center, Eddy Award), An Inspector Calls (Drama Desk Award), The Phantom of the Opera. Robert Nolan, an ATPAM Manager since 1989 and former President, died on Wednesday December 27th.   Robert began his career as personal assistant to Carol Channing and her husband Charles Lowe during tours of Hello, Dolly! and Jerry’s Girls.  This led to his first show as a Company Manager: the tour of My One and Only.  On Broadway, he worked on Cabaret with Joel Grey, Starlight Express, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, A Tale of Two Cities and a long stint for Cameron Mackintosh including Oklahoma!, Putting it Together, Les Miserables, and The Phantom of the Opera. At the time of his death he was employed at 101 Productions, Ltd.   Robert’s love for the theater and the community runs ... read more Broadway: Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: The Musical, A Tale of Two Cities, LoveMusik, Hairspray, All Shook Up. Tours: Twelve Angry Men, Irving Berlin's White Christmas. Off-Broadway & beyond: Paradise Found (Menier Chocolate Factory, London), Falling for Eve (York), Richard III (Public Theater), Debbie Does Dallas (Jane Street), Bad Dates (Playwrights Horizons), Over the River and Through the Woods (John Houseman), plus numerous theatres around the country. RON SHARPE was first actor to have played both male leads of "Marius" and "Jean Valjean" in ("Les Miserables") on Broadway. Other Broadway credits include the original productions of ("The Scarlet Pimpernel") Lord Hal, "The Civil War" Private Conrad Bock, and with Sir Tim Rice and Alan Menken in Disney's ("King David"). One of his favorite roles was as "the stoker" Fred Barret in ("Titanic"). Ron's television credits include several appearances on "The Rosie O'Donnel Show", "The Tony Awards" on CBS, and at the "NBA All Star Game" in Madison Square Garden. Ron reprised his role of Jean Valjean in ... read more Credits include: EVita, Catch Me If You Can, Elf, Wonderland, Behanding in Spokane, Tale of Two Cities, Xanadu Japan, Times They Are A Changin’, Soccer Mom, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, August: Osage County, Legally Blonde, All Shook Up tour, On Golden Pond, Scoundrels, Brooklyn, Thoroughly Modern Millie, AIDA, Imaginary Friends, Def Poetry Jam, Disney’s Berlin Hunchback, Capeman, Show Boat, Spider Woman. Kevin Stites is currently serving as Principal Conductor at Radio City Music Hall for their new show Heart And Lights. Most recently he was Music Director/Conductor for The 25th Anniversary Concert Performance of Crazy For You, with members of the original Broadway cast, and a 250 voice choir with the New York City Chamber Orchestra at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall. Last fall he served as Music Director/Pianist for Deborah Voigt’s Voigt Lessons, presented by the Celebrity Series in Boston. He also conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in concert with Kristin Chenoweth, as well ... read more Tony Walton is a director and designer, honored with 16 Tony Award nominations for his Broadway sets and/or costumes. Pippin, House of Blue Leaves and Guys and Dolls won him Tonys. Among his 20 films, Mary Poppins, The Boy Friend, The Wiz and Murder on the Orient Express earned him five Academy Award nominations. All That Jazz won him the Oscar and "Death of a Salesman" the Emmy. Previous designs for the world of Dickens include those for ten years of annual presentations of A Christmas Carol at Madison Square Garden. In 1991 he was elected to the Theatre Hall ... read more Tom Watson is head of the wig and makeup department at the Metropolitan Opera. He has designed wigs for more than 45 Broadway productions. Current and recent Broadway designs include The Addams Family; Promises, Promises; Elling; Million Dollar Quartet; Mrs. Warren's Profession; Wicked; Rock of Ages; South Pacific; Sondheim on Sondheim; A View from the Bridge; and Sunday in the Park with George.