Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam - Broadway Creative Team

Beau Sia is the son of Chinese immigrants from the Philippines. Raised in Oklahoma CIty, he received his BFA in dramatic writing from New York University’s Tisch School of The Arts. While living in New York City, Sia became a member of the 1996 Nuyorican Poets Cafe National Poetry Slam team, which is featured in the award- winning documentary SlamNation (1998). Sia went on to be a part of two National Poetry Slam championship teams, before being featured on all six seasons of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. In 2002, he became an original cast member of the Tony Award-winning Def Poetry ... read more 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). Producing credits include: The Little Dog Laughed; Metamorphoses; Frozen; A View From the Bridge (Tony® Award); How I Learned to Drive (Pulitzer Prize); Wit (Pulitzer Prize); Three Tall Women (Pulitzer Prize). Upcoming: Behind the Limelight; Cassandra’s Angel. Seasoned marketing professional with a background in arts and entertainment that includes Broadway and off-Broadway productions, musicals and dramatic plays, jazz, dance and visual arts. Ms. Mendelsohn is also an expert in small business and non-profit development. 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. In addition to winning an Oscar for work on the Wicked films, Tazewell also recently won a Tony Award for 'Best Costume Design of a Musical' for Death Becomes Her. His other Broadway credits include Hamilton (Tony Award), Doctor Zhivago, Side Show, A Streetcar Named Desire (Tony nomination), Magic/Bird; Lombardi; Memphis (Tony nom.); In the Heights (Tony nom.); The Color Purple (Tony nom.); Caroline, or Change; A Raisin in the Sun; Elaine Strich; At Liberty; Bring in ’Da Noise, Bring in ’Da Funk. Emmy Award for “The Wiz Live!” (NBC). Featured in both the web series and the Phaidon book ... read more