Assassins - West End Creative Team
Production Staff
Charles S. Gilbert, Jr.
Source Material
(Based on idea)
(Based on idea)
Stephen Sondheim
Composer
Lyricist
Stephen Sondheim is widely acknowledged as the most innovative, most influential, and most important composer and lyricist in modern Broadway history. He is the winner of an Academy Award, numerous Tony Award, multiple Grammy Awards and a Pulitzer Prize. Some of his other accolades include a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center Honors (1993), the National Medal of Arts (1996), the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Gold Medal for Music (2006) and a special Tony Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre (2008).
Stephen Sondheim wrote the music and lyrics for Road Show (2008), Passion (1994), Assassins (1991), Into ... read more
John Weidman
Bookwriter
Mark Dorrell
Musical Director
John A. Leonard
Sound Designer
Sam Mendes
Director
Sam Mendes began his theatre career after graduating from Cambridge in 1987, when he was hired as an assistant director at Chichester Festival Theatre. He made his professional directing debut in September 1987 with a double bill of Anton Chekhov's The Bear and The Proposal. In 1989, he became the inaugural director of the Minerva Theatre. That year, he took over a production of Dion Boucicault's London Assurance at Chichester and made his West End directing debut at the Aldwych Theatre with Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, starring Judi Dench. London Assurance subsequently transferred to the Theatre Royal Haymarket.
In 1990, Mendes ... read more
Paul Pyant
Lighting Designer
Jeremy Sams
Musical Director
Michael Starobin
Orchestrator
Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing, Freaky Friday, Falsettos, First Daughter Suite, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Kid Victory, If/Then, Annie, Dogfight, Leap of Faith, Queen of the Mist, People in the Picture, Sondheim on Sondheim, Next to Normal (Tony Award), Glorious Ones, Grinch, Adrift in Macao, Bernarda Alba, Spelling Bee, Assassins (Tony Award), Tom Sawyer, A New Brain, A Christmas Carol, Hello Again, Guys & Dolls (1992), My Favorite Year, In Trousers, Sunday in the Park with George, Once on This Island, Closer Than Ever, Legs Diamond, Romance Romance, Carrie, Birds of Paradise, Rags, Three Guys Naked, Von Richtofen.
Anthony Ward
Settings/Costumes
The Donmar Warehouse
Producer
Awards and Nominations
1993 Olivier Awards
Best Director of a Musical: Sam Mendes was nominated but did not win.
The American Express Award for Best New Musical: Stephen Sondheim was nominated but did not win.
