Production Staff
Playwright
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
Director
Broadway: The Music Man (Mayor Shinn), On the Twentieth Century, You Can't Take it With You, Relatively Speaking, Losing Louie, "Toad" in A Year With Frog and Toad, "Hysterium" in Forum (Drama League Honor, FANY Award), Neil Simon's Laughter On The 23rd Floor, David Henry Hwang's Face Value, Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury. Encores!: "Heinzie" in The Pajama Game. Joseph Papp's NYSF: All's Well That Ends Well, Othello, Von Richthofen, The Laundry Hour, Alice in Concert (with Meryl Streep). Off-Broadway: Almost An Evening, Chesapeake (Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations), A Flea in Her Ear (Drama League Honor), Beth Henley's The ... 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.
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