Production Staff
John Steinbeck
Playwright
Darren Bagert
Producer
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, ... read more
Mark Berger
Associate Producer
David Binder
Producer
David Binder is a Tony Award-winning producer whose credits include Broadway, off-Broadway, and festivals. ... read more
Paula Marie Black
Producer
Michael Bodeen
Sound Design
Broadway credits include music composition and sound for No Man's Land & Waiting for Godot, Breakfast at Tiffany's and The Miracle Worker and sound for Larry David's Fish in the Dark, Of Mice and Men, This Is Our Youth, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Superior Donuts and The Grapes of Wrath. ... read more
Ruth Hendel
Producer
Ruth's Broadway credits include: In The Heights; Passing Strange; Legally Blonde; Kiki & Herb Alive on Broadway; High Fidelity; The Lieutenant of Inishmore; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Caroline, Or Change; A Raisin in the Sun; Golda's Balcony; Frozen; ‘Night Mother; Steel Magnolias; Barefoot in the Park; Metamorphoses. Off-Broadway: Altar Boyz; Our Lady of 121st Street; The Exonerated; Red Light Winter; tick tick…Boom!. Los Angeles: As Much As You Can. Ruth is on the boards of the LAByrith Theater, The Play Company and the Yale School of Drama Leadership Committee; She is vice-chair, and Stephen is Treasurer of the ... read more
Judy Kent
Producer
Wendy Knudsen
Producer
Suttirat Larlarb
Costume Design
Broadway: Finding Neverland, Of Mice and Men. Other theater: Frankenstein, Royal National Theatre; The Killer, Theatre for a New Audience; Macbeth, Hartford Stage; Tape; The Lively Lad; Orange Lemon Egg Canary; Humana Festival. TV/film: Costume and Production Designer: London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony (Emmy Award), 127 Hours (Art Directors Guild nomination), Slumdog Millionaire (Costume Designers Guild Award), Trance; Sunshine, The American, The Extra Man, "Cinema Verite" (Emmy nomination), 10,000 Saints, The Good Lie, The Walk, Steve Jobs. Faculty: Carnegie Mellon. MFA: Yale. ... read more
Kate Lear
Producer
Kate Lear is a Broadway producer and is married to correspondent Jonathan LaPook. She is the daughter of American television writer Norman Lear.
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Latitude Link
Producer
101 Productions, Ltd.
Executive Producer
Martin Massman
Producer
Matthew Masten
Associate Producer
Rob Millburn
Sound Design
Marianne Mills
Producer
Kevin Niu
Producer
The Shubert Organization
Producer
The Shubert Organization is America's oldest professional theatre company and the largest theatre owner on the Broadway. Since the dawn of the 20th Century, Shubert has operated hundreds of theatres and produced hundreds of plays and musicals both in New York City and throughout the United States. Shubert currently owns and operates seventeen Broadway theatres and six off-Broadway venues. ... read more
The Shubert Organization (Phillip J. Smith: Chairman; Robert E. Wankel: Pre
Theatre Owner / Operator
Piedmont Productions
Producer
Raise the Roof
Producer
Todd Rosenthal
Set Design
Todd Rosenthal is a Chicago based theater/ museum exhibition designer. Broadway: August Osage County (Tony Award), The Motherfucker with the Hat (Tony Award Nomination), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Tony Award Best Revival), Of Mice and Men, This is Our Youth, and Fish in the Dark. Off Broadway: Premiere of Red Light Winter at the Barrow Street, Domesticated at Lincoln Center, Qualms at Playwrights Horizons. Todd has designed six seasons for the Big Apple Circus. International credits include: August Osage County (National Theatre, London, Sydney Theater, Australia), The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Theatre Royal, Ireland). Regional: Steppenwolf (33 productions), Goodman ... read more
Eric Schnall
Associate Producer
Anna D. Shapiro
Director
Anna D. Shapiro joined the Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble in 2005 and became Artistic Director in 2015. She was awarded the 2008 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for August: Osage County (Steppenwolf, Broadway, London), and was nominated in 2011 in the same category for The Motherf**ker with the Hat (Public Theatre, Labyrinth Theater). Other directing credits at Steppenwolf include Visiting Edna, Mary Page Marlowe, Three Sisters, A Parallelogram, Up, The Crucible, The Unmentionables (also at Yale Repertory Theatre), The Pain and the Itch (also in New York), I Never Sang for My Father, Man from Nebraska, Purple ... read more
Jayne Baron Sherman
Producer
Philip J. Smith
Producer
(Chairman, The Shubert Organization)
Philip J. Smith is the Chairman and Co-CEO of the Shubert Organization. ... read more
(Chairman, The Shubert Organization)
John Steinbeck
Playwright
Marc Turtletaub
Producer
Robert E. Wankel
Producer
(President, The Shubert Organization)
Robert E. Wankel is the President and Co-CEO of the Shubert Organization. ... read more
(President, The Shubert Organization)
Michael Watt
Producer
Japhy Weideman
Lighting Design
Off-Broadway: Sons of the Prophet, Tigers Be Still (Roundabout); All New People, The Talls (Second Stage); The Singing Forest (The Public/NYSF); Thinner Than Water, Jack Goes Boating (LAByrinth Theater Co, Drama Desk nom); Apple Cove (Women's Project); Frankenstein (Soho Rep, Drama Desk Nom). International: Blackbird (West End); Troilus and Cressida (RSC); Electra (Epidaurus- Greece). Opera: Bluebeard's Castle/Il Prigioniero (La Scala, Nederlandse Opera); Eugene Onegin, Don Giovanni (Opéra de Lyon). Regional: ACT, Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Houston Grand Opera, Huntington Theater Co, The Old Globe, Santa Fe Opera, Shakespeare Theater Co, Signature Theatre Co, Westport, others. ... read more
Barbara Whitman
Producer
Whitman is the daughter of investment advisor Martin J. Whitman, namesake of the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. She has two brothers: James Whitman, a professor at Yale Law School, and Thomas Whitman, a professor of music at Swarthmore College. Her aunt is judge Phyllis W. Beck, who served on the Superior Court of Pennsylvania and was married to the University of Pennsylvania psychiatrist Aaron Beck. Her cousin is psychologist Judith S. Beck, who co-founded the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy.
Whitman attended the Dalton School and graduated from the Elizabeth Seeger School. She attended Bennington ... read more
Adam Zotovich
Producer
Awards and Nominations
2014 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Revival of a Play: Of Mice and Men was nominated but did not win.
2014 Drama League Awards
Distinguished Performance Award: James Franco was nominated but did not win.
Distinguished Performance Award: Chris O'Dowd was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Revival of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play : Of Mice and Men was nominated but did not win.
2014 Theatre World Awards
Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway Debut Performance: Chris O'Dowd won.
2014 Tony Awards
Best Lighting Design of a Play: Japhy Weideman was nominated but did not win.
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