Rock of Ages - Off-Broadway Creative Team

Broadway and Off-B'way Original Cast: Once on This Island (Daniel), Five Guys Named Moe (Nomax), Bright Lights, Big City (Tad), The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (Lucas), tick, tick… BOOM! (Michael). Television/Film: "Law & Order," "Everwood," "Peace Maker." Writing: CBS, Comedy Central, Laugh Whore (Broadway & ShowTime). Directing: Show Boat, Bernarda Alba, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Funked Up Fairy Tales. David Gibbs served as the music director and arranger for the original Los Angeles run of Rock of Ages. He has written music for film and TV including Josie and the Pussycats, That Thing You Do, Dumb and Dumber, Alias, The OC, Smallville, What About Brian and many more. He was a founding member of the critically acclaimed Gigolo Aunts and has toured with such artists as Lisa Loeb, Counting Crows and Tom Morello. He is currently performing with the Low Stars and released a solo record as Kid Lightning. Self-reliance, optimism, and a community are key concepts that define Jon Bon Jovi's music and charitable efforts. The front man for the Grammy Award-winning band Bon Jovi has not only written and performed countless rock anthems, he has utilized his spotlight and raised millions of dollars to aid the working poor, the homeless, and the hungry. After selling more than 130 million albums and performing in over 50 countries for more than 37.5 million fans, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018 in recognition of their longevity and impact on popular music for ... read more Bret Michaels is a singer, songwriter and actor that became a rock icon as the lead singer of the metal band Poison. Outside of his musical career, Bret has starred in a variety of reality TV shows including The Celebrity Apprentice and Rock of Love. Bret also hosted Great American Country's Rock My RV, a series that transforms RVs into 21st century mansions. In the 1980s, Bret and three others founded the band Paris - later renamed Poison. In 1986, the band released its first album, Look What the Cat Dragged In. Ten of the band's singles have made it on ... read more Additional credits include: Zelda Flat Rock Playhouse Associate Choreographer, Dance Captain, Ensemble Fosse National/International Tour Trumpet Solo, Cool Hand, Take Off with Us, Dancin' Dan 25 Broadway shows including: Act One (Tony Award), The Scottsboro Boys (Tony Nomination), Therese Raquin (Tony Nomination), Come From Away, Flying Over Sunset, Freestyle Love Supreme, The New One, Meteor Shower, A Bronx Tale, Prince Of Broadway, Hand To God, Sondheim On Sondheim, …Spelling Bee , LoveMusik, Grace. 100 Off- Broadway shows including The Last Five Years, Fiddler On The Roof (in Yiddish), Sleepwalk With Me, and Miss Julie. 2007 OBIE Award for sustained excellence. Two-time Drama Desk award nominee Zachary Borovay is a visual storyteller whose work has been seen all over the globe. He has designed projections for Broadway, Las Vegas spectaculars, circuses, concerts, theme parks, operas, museums, corporate events and art installations. Zak’s recent Broadway credits include the long-running hit musical ROCK OF AGES (also West End, National Tour, Las Vegas, Toronto, Australia and Norwegian Cruise Line), HOLLER IF YA HEAR ME, WAITING FOR GODOT & NO MAN’S LAND with Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen (also Berkeley Rep), ANN (also Kennedy Center DC, Chicago, Austin TX.), EVITA (also National Tour), ELF, LOMBARDI ... read more Graduated with a degree in theatre and media design from the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. Brodie’s Broadway credits include Motown:The Musical and Disney’s Aladdin. He also designed the projections for Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella and The Winter's Tale and has worked regularly with puppeteer Basil Twist. He has also created large-scale video designs for Kanye West, Mariah Carey, and for the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. He has also worked as a guest lecturer at Yale University and New York University. Brodie’s awards include the United States Institute of Theatre Technology’s Rising Star Award ... read more Susanne Brook has been involved in Broadway, Off-Broadway and many community theatre productions. Jeff Davis is the Artistic Director of Agape Theatre in the Austin Texas area. He directed Agape's productions of Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks (BroadwayWorld-Austin Award Nomination, Best Director of a Comedy), Suffer the Long Night (Texas Premiere), Private Lives (BroadwayWorld-Austin Award Nomination, Best Director of a Comedy), Picnic, and Bonhoeffer's Cost (Texas Premiere). He also appeared in AcTAG's production of Over the River and Through the Woods (Nick) and the Georgetown Palace's production of Arsenic and Old Lace. He is also the playwright of a stage adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story The Yellow ... read more Kelly Devine is a theatre choreographer. Her Broadway choreography credits include Rock of Ages, Rocky, Doctor Zhivago, Come from Away, Escape to Margaritaville, and Diana. She was associate choreographer on Memphis and Jersey Boys. In 2018, she choreographed the Off-Broadway musical Clueless, and went on to choreograph the 2025 West End production. She won the 2019 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Choreography for her work on the West End production of Come from Away. He other Off-Broadway credits include Breaking the Story, Rock of Ages, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Verso, and Fat Camp. Broadway: Cyrano de Bergerac, Tony nomination, Henry Hewes Design Award nomination. Also seen on PBS Great Performances; The Wedding Singer, Drama Desk nomination; Urinetown, Lucille Lortel nomination; Band in Berlin. Off-Broadway: The Voysey Inheritance, Lucille Lortel Award, Henry Hewes nomination (Atlantic); The Milliner, Lucille Lortel nomination (CSC); Rock of Ages; The Third Story (MCC); Country Club, Drama Desk nomination; The Torch-Bearers; Uncle Tom’s Cabin; As Thousands Cheer (Drama Dept.); Mary Stuart; The Infernal Machine; Night of the Tribades (Jean Cocteau). Regional: Rich and Famous (A.C.T.); A Flea in Her Ear, Williamstown; High Button Shoes, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and ... read more David Gibbs served as the music director and arranger for the original Los Angeles run of Rock of Ages. He has written music for film and TV including Josie and the Pussycats, That Thing You Do, Dumb and Dumber, Alias, The OC, Smallville, What About Brian and many more. He was a founding member of the critically acclaimed Gigolo Aunts and has toured with such artists as Lisa Loeb, Counting Crows and Tom Morello. He is currently performing with the Low Stars and released a solo record as Kid Lightning. Credits: Rock of Ages (Broadway, Off- Broadway and L.A. productions.) She also directed the NY and L.A. productions of the hit musical Bare (Ovation, L.A. Weekly Award); Pussycat Dolls Live at the Roxy with Gwen Stefani, Christina Aguilera and Charlize Theron; 2007 NY Fringe Best Play Winner, Catch the Fish; the L.A. premiere of Corpus Christi (Ticketholder Award); and the L.A. and NY productions of Ann E. Wrecksick. Other L.A. theatre: 12th Premise; 40 Days; Crane, Mississippi; Greystone; Wayside. Also a film director and screenwriter, Hanggi is currently writing the musical movie Dear Dumb Diary for Zucker Productions. MA from ... read more Director with The Araca Group currently involved with a variety of Broadway and West End shows. Producer of Sundance hit film Pretty Persuasion and Executive Producer of upcoming Barry Munday. Broadway: Rock of Ages, The Threepenny Opera, Barefoot in the Park, Good Vibrations. Recent: Uncle Vanya (CSC), Rock of Ages, Clay (LCT3), Scarcity (Atlantic), The Piano Teacher (South Coast Rep), Vigils (Goodman), Evil Dead the Musical (NYC and Toronto), Shout! The Mod Musical, Sive, The Field (Irish Rep), Once Around the Sun, Kiki & Herb: Coup de Theatre. The New Group: Mourning Becomes Electra, Rafta Rafta, Two Thousand Years, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Abigail’s Party, Hurlyburly, Aunt Dan and Lemon, Comedians. Faculty: Purchase College. Recent Broadway: Lennon, Sweeney Todd, The Producers, Beauty & the Beast, Hairspray, Movin’ Out, Sweet Charity, Good Vibrations, Dracula, Caroline or Change, Little Shop…, Thoroughly Modern Millie, 42nd St, Urinetown, Nine, La Boheme, Big River, Boys From Syracuse, Look of Love, Urban Cowboy, Never Gonna Dance, Thou Shalt Not, By Jeeves, Follies, Oklahoma!, Jekyll and Hyde, Rocky Horror Show, Seussical, The Music Man, Fosse, Swing!, Parade, Footloose, Kat and the Kings, Civil War, Triumph of Love. Studio Musician (bass): Michael Jackson, Madonna, Portishead, Eric Clapton, BB King, Sinatra, Carly Simon, Celine Dion, Smashing Pumpkins, Pete Seeger, NY Philharmonic. Ethan is a Grammy Award nominated music producer and Tony Award nominated orchestrator. With a career spanning over the last twenty years, his work as a music supervisor, arranger, orchestrator, and music producer has been seen and heard worldwide. Since 2013, Ethan has served as the music supervisor, arranger and orchestrator for Broadway’s Motown the Musical, which earned him a 2013 Tony Award nomination for Best Orchestration (along with co-orchestrator Bryan Crook) and can currently be seen on tour throughout the United Kingdom. Motown also earned Ethan a 2014 Grammy Award nomination for Best Musical Theater Album (as music producer of ... read more Broadway credits: Rock of Ages, Legally Blonde, Brooklyn the Musical, Bombay Dreams. Scott’s film credits include Sympathy for Delicious (Mark Ruffalo, Orlando Bloom), Barry Munday (Patrick Wilson) and the upcoming Natalie Portman film Hesher. Broadway: The Farnsworth Invention, Cymbeline. As a Partner in SCK Sound Design, his Credits include: Doctor Zhivago and The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, and Ain't Too Proud. Other Designs: Queen of the Mist, I Am Anne Hutchinson/I Am Harvey Milk, The Man in the Ceiling, The Tin Pan Alley Rag, Becky Shaw, Measure for Pleasure, Farragut North, I Love You Because, Love, Loss, and What I Wore, and Mr. Marmalade. Associate Sound Designs: Catch Me If You Can, Billy Crystal's 700 Sundays, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill (Tony Award), Jesus Christ Superstar, Hands on a Hardbody (Drama Desk ... 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. Hillary Weaver has produced 14 plays that have been nominated for numerous awards in seven years in Los Angeles. Notably: Pussycat Dolls Live at the Roxy with Christina Applegate, Carmen Electra and special guests Gwen Stefani, Christina Aguilera and Charlize Theron; Happy Birthday Wanda June directed by Emmy winner Robert Weide; Margaret directed by Mark Ruffalo.