Sides: The Fear is Real - Off-Broadway Creative Team

LCT: The King and I. Broadway: Pacific Overtures (Roundabout), Flower Drum Song, Urinetown. Off Broadway: Yellow Face (Theatre World Award, Drama League nomination), Love's Labor's Lost (Public), The School for Lies (Classic Stage Company), Hamlet (Shakespeare in the Park). Lee graduated from Harvard University in 1994 with a degree in English literature and environmental studies. He made his Broadway debut in Urinetown in 2001 and went on to appear in numerous stage productions, including a musical adaptation of Hamlet in which he played Rosencrantz. In 2008, he received a Theatre World Award for Distinguished Performance for Yellow Face. Lee began ... read more Anne Kauffman is an American director known primarily for her work on new plays, mainly in the New York area. She is a founding member of the theater group the Civilians. She made her Broadway debut with the Scott McPherson play Marvin's Room (2017) and returned with the revival of the Lorraine Hansberry play The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window (2023). Kauffman's past regional productions include Body Awareness by Annie Baker (2012) at the Wilma Theater; and Pulitzer Prize finalist Becky Shaw by Gina Gionfriddo (2009); The Flea and the Professor by Jordan Harrison at the Arden Theatre Company (2011); Six ... read more Broadway: Mrs. Doubtfire, Beetlejuice (Tony nom, Drama Desk award), Hamilton (Tony nom), War Paint (Tony nom), Dear Evan Hansen, Bandstand, Misery, Motown, Vanya and Sonia, Bring It On, The Pee-Wee Herman Show, Lombardi, and Passing Strange. TV: "91st Annual Academy Awards," "Grease: Live!" (Emmy award). Concert: Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Mariah Carey, Andrea Boccelli. Extensive Off-Broadway/regional theatre, hospitality, and experience design. Dad: Stella and Vivian.