Gore Vidal's The Best Man - Broadway Creative Team

Darren Bagert is an entertainment creator, producer, and director specializing in all forms of media including live entertainment, fashion, film/television, Broadway and beyond. He is a five-time Tony Award winning producer, as well as the recipient of almost every theatrical award in the industry including the Olivier Award; Drama Desk Award; Outer Critics Circle Award; Lucille Lortel Award; Drama League Award. Project highlights include: MOULIN ROUGE! the Musical -- winner of 10 Tony Awards including the 2021 Best Musical Award -- based on the Baz Luhrmann film, a global sensation spanning multiple markets (New York/Broadway, London/West End, North American Tour, Australia, Germany, Korea, ... read more Patty Baker is an American actress who has made a name for herself on Broadway. She was born in New York City and grew up in a family that was passionate about the arts. Her parents were both musicians, and they encouraged her to pursue her own artistic interests from a young age. Baker attended the High School of Performing Arts in New York City, where she studied drama and dance. After graduating, she went on to study at the Juilliard School, where she honed her skills as an actress. Her talent was quickly recognized, and she was soon cast in ... read more Paul Boskind, Ph.D. is a psychologist, Chief Executive Officer, national LGBTQ activist, philanthropist, and Tony Award-winning Broadway producer. In overcoming life struggles, Boskind personifies the meaning of a self-made entrepreneur — not just in the behavioral health arena, but also in diverse business ventures such as the hotel, restaurant, grocery and liquor store, and real estate development sectors. A diagnosis of Stargardt’s disease with progressive blindness at age 21 propelled Boskind to diligently earn his psychology degrees and Ph.D. A business-savvy psychologist, Boskind founded Deer Oaks Behavioral Health Organization in 1992. Beginning as a sole-practitioner clinic, the organization now provides behavioral health ... read more Tamar Climan, founder of Climan Producing LLC (CPL), is a Tony Award®-winning theatre producer with almost three decades of experience producing and general managing on Broadway. Currently, Tamar is producing the national tour of A Soldier’s Play along with Roundabout Theatre Company. She is on the producing team of 1776 for the American Repertory Theater and serves as the Consulting Producer for the Tony Award® and Grammy-winning Jagged Little Pill on the West End and for its North American and Australian tours as well as the North American tour of the Tony Award®-winning revival of Oklahoma!. Previous producing credits ... read more Bonnie Comley is the founder of BroadwayHD.com, an online streaming service on a mission to promote and preserve live theatre, extending the reach of Broadway and Broadway caliber shows to anyone, anywhere. BroadwayHD is capturing and then transporting the magic of performance from the stage to your screen so if you can't get to Broadway, get to BroadwayHD BroadwayHD.com's recent productions include: She Loves Me (Guinness World Record), Romeo and Juliet (Orlando Bloom),Cyrano de Bergerac (Kevin Kline), and Stephen Sondheim's Company (Neil Patrick Harris, Stephen Colbert, Patti LuPone). Bonnie also is a three-time Tony Award winning producer, and won an Olivier Award, ... read more Additional credits include: Spark Access theatre NYC, 2012 Scenic Designer Disney's Aladdin Seattle, 2011 Assistant Scenic Designer Irving Berlin's White Christmas Papermill Playhouse, 2011 Assistant Scenic Designer Tony Winners: Porgy & Bess, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf, Vanya and Sasha and Masha and Spike. Tony Nomination: The Best Man. Broadway: Glengarry Glen Ross, Bridges. Mark is also president of the Jewish Broadcasting Service (JBS), Optimum Channel 138. Producer. Stewart F. Lane is a Tony Award-winning Broadway producer, director, and author. He was born on March 16, 1947, in New York City, and grew up in Great Neck, Long Island. Lane attended the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration. He later earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in theater from Columbia University. Lane began his career in the entertainment industry as an actor, appearing in off-Broadway productions and regional theater. 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). Peter's Broadway credits include SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical, Dear Evan Hansen, A Doll's House, Part 2, An Act of God, Amalie, A New Musical, Fela!, The Heidi Chronicles, and The Best Man. His other credits include Grounded and Here Lies Love (The Public Theater), Wakey, Wakey (Signature Theatre), The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Second Stage Theater), Notes from Underground (Yale Repertory Theatre), The Grace Jones Hurricane Tour, Rent (New World Stages), Real Enemies (BAM Next Wave Festival), and Blind Date (Bill T. Jones). For Nature Theater of Oklahoma, No Dice and Life & Times (Burgtheater, Vienna). His upcoming ... read more Kenneth Posner designs extensively on Broadway, off-Broadway, for resident theatres, and touring productions throughout the United States as well as internationally. Some of his Broadway work includes Pretty Woman, Mean Girls, War Paint, Tuck Everlasting, On Your Feet, If/Then, Kinky Boots, Pippin, Cinderella, Hairspray, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Legally Blonde, The Coast of Utopia-Shipwrecked, and Wicked. He is the recipient of the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics’ Circle and OBIE Awards. Jeffrey has produced more than 50 shows on and off Broadway and has done press for more than 200 productions. The theatre remains his SO. Roth is a Carnegie Mellon graduate who began her career as a scenery painter for the Pittsburgh Opera. She intended to remain in the field of production design until she met Irene Sharaff at the Bucks County Playhouse. Sharaff invited her to California to assist her with costumes on the film Brigadoon and suggested Roth apprentice with her for five films and five Broadway productions before setting out on her own. Roth's first Hollywood film was 1964's The World of Henry Orient, where her designs included "monogrammed handmade yellow silk pajamas" for glamorous womanizer Peter Sellers. Roth next designed costumes for ... read more Tony Awards for All the Way, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Porgy and Bess; as well as nominations for Fiddler on the Roof, Wolf Hall, You Can't Take It With You, The Glass Menagerie and The Best Man.