Rafta, Rafta... - Off-Broadway Creative Team
Production Staff
Ayub Khan-Din
Playwright
David Anzuelo
Fight Director
David Anzuelo's Off-Broadway credits include Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven (2019), Fish Men (2017), Intimacy (2014), and The Passion of Frida Kahlo (1999).
Scott Elliott
Artistic Director
Director
Scott Elliott is an American theatre director and the founder and artistic director of The New Group, the acclaimed Off-Broadway theatre company. Born in Ohio in 1960, Elliott studied theatre at Ohio University, graduating in 1982 before moving to New York City.
He founded The New Group in 1987, where productions have included Hurlyburly, The Starry Messenger, and The Kid. His Broadway directing credits include Three Sisters, Present Laughter, and The Threepenny Opera, and his work has earned multiple Tony Award nominations.
Beyond the stage, Elliott directed the film A Map of the World, starring Sigourney Weaver and Julianne Moore, and has ... read more
Stephen Gabis
Dialect Coach
Broadway: Jersey Boys, Doubt, Steel Magnolias, Dracula, Taboo, The Boy From Oz, Joe Egg, Master Harold And The Boys, Present Laughter, A Doll's House. Venues: Roundabout, M.T.C., Playwrights, Atlantic, The New Group, M.C.C., The Public, Second Stage, Williamstown, Yale Rep., McCarter, Hartford Stage, Primary Stages, Lincoln Center, Long Wharf, Westport. Film Contributions: Million Dollar Baby, Ballad Of Bettie Page, Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind, Boy's Don't Cry.
Sydney Gallas
Assistant Costume Designer
SYDNEY GALLAS is a New York based costume designer.
where she has designed the costumes for Don Juan and Deer and the Lovers. She is currently designing Peerless at Yale Repertory Theatre.
Her design credits include Peerless at Yale Repertory Theatre, Don Juan (Yale School of Drama), Deer and the Lovers (Carlotta Festival), The Hotel Nepenthe, We Fight We Die (Yale Cabaret); Bastianello and Lucrezia (Urban Arias);Macbeth for iBook (New Book Press); Leave the Balcony Open (New Feet Productions); As You Like It, Fefu and Her Friends, The Tempest (The New School); Ivanov, The Ghost Sonata (Columbia University); Future ... read more
Judy Henderson
Casting
Peter Hoerburger
Assistant Lighting Designer
Shoko Kambara
Assistant Scenic Designer
Jason Lyons
Lighting Designer
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.
Marie Masters
Assistant Director
Derek McLane
Scenic Designer
Derek McLane received a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award Honour for his work on Moulin Rouge! The Musical. He has designed over 350 productions for Broadway, Off-Broadway, internationally and for TV. His over 40 credits include Burn This, The Parisian Woman, Anything Goes, The Price, Fully Committed, Beautiful, Ragtime, I Am My Own Wife and 33 Variations (Tony Award). He has designed the Academy Awards for six years (Emmy Award) and has designed four live musicals for NBC, including “Hairspray” (Emmy Award).
Qasim Naqvi
Composer
(Original Music)
(Original Music)
Valerie A. Peterson
Production Stage Manager
PRF Productions
Production Supervisor
DJ Rekha
Composer
(Original Music)
(Original Music)
Shane Rettig
Sound Designer
Geoff Rich
Executive Director
Fran Rubenstein
Assistant Stage Manager
Theresa Squire
Costume Designer
David Thomas (ii)
Assistant Sound Designer