Once Around the City - Off-Broadway Creative Team

Donald Holder has worked extensively in Theatre, Opera, Dance, Architectural and Television lighting in the US and abroad for over 30 years. He has designed 58 Broadway productions and has been nominated for 13 Tony Awards, winning the Tony for Best Lighting Design for The Lion King in 1998, and for the 2008 revival of South Pacific. Recent Broadway productions include: Tootsie, Kiss Me Kate, Anastasia, Oslo, Straight White Men, She Loves Me, Fiddler on the Roof, The King and I, On the Twentieth Century, The Bridges of Madison County, Bullets Over Broadway and many others. Projects at the NY ... read more Mark Linn-Baker began his professional career in New York theater in the early 1980s, developing and performing the two-man comedy show The Laundry Hour with Lewis Black. His stage credits include Doonesbury (1983), Laughter on the 23rd Floor (1993), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1996), A Flea in Her Ear (1998), A Year with Frog and Toad (2003), Losing Louie (2006), Relatively Speaking (2011), and The School for Scandal (2016). In 2019, he played Mayor George Shinn in the Kennedy Center production of The Music Man and reprised the role in the 2022 Broadway revival ... read more Rothman co-founded Second Stage in 1979 with the goal to create an open, creative space that served to introduce the community to new, emerging talent and to produce new plays by living American Playwrights. Over the past 45 years, Rothman has produced more than 250 inspiring plays and musicals, introducing the world to bold and diverse voices. Her taste as an artistic director, which the New York Times once called, “eclectic and unpredictable,” has resulted in a wide range of premieres and new interpretations of some of America’s best contemporary theater, as well as catapulted shows to hundreds of productions ... 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. Costume designer Paul Tazewell's recent achievements include winning an Academy Award for Best Costume Design for his work on Wicked, directed by Jon M. Chu and featuring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. This accolade was accompanied by a BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design, a Critics Choice Award, the Costume Designers Guild's Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film award, NAACP Image Award and the Innovator Award from the African American Film Critics Association, underscoring his critical role in bringing the fantastical world of Oz to life. Additional accolades include an Academy Award nomination for West Side Story in 2021, an Emmy for ... read more