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Production Staff

Lynn Ahrens Lyricist
Lynn Ahrens' writing spans the Broadway stage, feature film and network television. She won the Tony Award, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards and received two Grammy nominations as lyricist of the Broadway musical Ragtime; in the same year, she received two Academy Award nominations, two Golden Globe nominations and a Gold Record for Twentieth Century Fox's animated feature film Anastasia. She wrote book and lyrics for Seussical (Grammy nomination, one of the most performed shows in America); Once On This Island (London Olivier Award, Best Musical, Tony nominations for Best Book and Score); Lincoln Center Theater's The Glorious Ones ... read more
Stephen Flaherty Composer
Stephen Flaherty writes music for theater, film, recordings and the concert stage. He is perhaps best known as the composer of the Broadway musicals Ragtime (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Grammy nominations), Seussical (Grammy and Drama Desk nominations), Once on This Island (Tony nomination, Olivier Award for London's Best Musical), and also contributed music to Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life (original songs) and Neil Simon's Proposals (incidental music). He has also written four musicals produced at Lincoln Center Theatre: The Glorious Ones (Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk nominations), Dessa Rose (Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk ... read more
Terrence McNally Book Writer
42nd.Club Co-Producer
A club for Broadway investors. Principals include Phil Kenny, Claire Kenny, Gary Rubenstein, Jaime Reubenstein and Max Newman. www.42nd.club ... read more
Zellzivits Co-Producer
Michael Aarons Music Coordinator
Broadway: Anastasia, Dear Evan Hansen, School of Rock, Hamilton. Upcoming Broadway: Prince of Broadway, The SpongeBob Musical, Frozen, Half Time. Current tours: Kinky Boots, Hamilton (Chicago), Hamilton (national tour). ... read more
Judith Ann Abrams Co-Producer
Hunter Arnold Co-Producer
Broadway theatre credits include: The Heart of Rock and Roll, Cabaret, The Notebook, Harmony, Purlie Victorious, , Back to the Future, Here Lies Love, Once Upon a One MOre Time, Life of Pi, Dancin' , A Doll's House, Pictures from Home, Some Like It Hot, A Beautiful Noise, KPOP, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Broadhurst Theatre); Hadestown (Walter Kerr Theatre - Tony Nomination); Pretty Woman: The Musical (Nederlander Theatre); Anastasia (Broadhurst Theatre); Dear Evan Hansen (Music Box Theatre - Tony Award); Kinky Boots (Al Hirschfeld Theatre - Tony Award and Olivier Award); Gettin’ the Band Back Together ... read more
Broadway Asia Co-Producer
Doug Besterman Orchestrator
DOUG BESTERMAN is a three-time Tony Award winning musician with a career spanning across theatre, film, television and recording. As a Composer, Producer, Arranger, and Orchestrator, he has been privileged to work with some of the most recognizable names in the industry, including composers Mel Brooks, Alan Menken, and Marc Shaiman; recording artists Barbra Streisand and Barry Manilow; and directors Rob Marshall and Susan Stroman. A veteran of 25+ Broadway shows, Besterman won the Best Orchestrations Tony Award® for Fosse, The Producers, and Thoroughly Modern Millie, and was nominated for The Music Man (2000), How to Succeed in Business, and Bullets ... read more
Dmitry Bogachev Commissioned by
Craig Burns Casting
Adam Cates Associate Choreographer
Adam Cates is a New York based director, choreographer, and writer. Credits include musicals, plays and operas for Hartford Stage, The Santa Fe Opera, TUTS, Gulfshore Playhouse, Theatre Aspen, Arkansas Rep, Music Theatre Wichita, Bard Music Festival, Anchorage Opera, Memphis Playhouse on the Square, NYMF, The Juilliard Opera, Feinstein's/54 Below, and others. Broadway credits include A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder and Anastasia (associate choreographer). He teaches on the faculty of Pace University, guest faculties of Broadway Dance Center and Steps in NYC and is author of The Business of Show. Instagram: @adamcnyc ... read more
David Chase Dance Arrangements
David has been Music Director, Supervisor and/or Arranger for thirty-five Broadway productions. Most recently, David acted as dance arranger on Roundabout Theatre Company’s Kiss Me, Kate and Tootsie, currently on Broadway. Other theatre credits include: many arrangements for the Boston Pops and Tanglewood Festival Chorus, The Kennedy Center Honors, Radio City Music Hall (where he spent many years as music director), EssentialVoicesUSA (including the upcoming Washington Women), and TV’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Music director for several productions at the Lyric Opera of Chicago (including The King and I with choreographer Peggy Hickey), and for NBC’s live performances of The Sound of Music ... read more
Linda Cho Costume Designer
Broadway: A Gentlemen's Guide to Love and Murder (Tony Award); Velocity of Autumn. Over 200 regional and international design credits in theatre, dance, and opera. Recipient of the Craig Noel Award, Connecticut Critic Circle Award, Irene Sharaff Young Master Award, Ruth Morely Design Award. Nominations from Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Henry Hewes, Elliot Norton, Bay Area, Robby, IRNE, and Jeff awards. MFA, Yale School of Drama. www.lindacho.com ... read more
Tamar Climan General Manager: Richards / Climan, Inc.
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
Polk & Co. Press
Broadway/Tours: Elf, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Spiderman Turn Off The Dark, A Life in the Theatre, Million Dollar Quartet, The Addams Family, Memphis, Next to Normal, Rock of Ages, In the Heights, Wicked, 9 to 5, South Pacific, Peepshow in Vegas. Off-Broadway: Atlantic, MCC, Signature. Film: Margin Call, Howl, Sex and the City 1 & 2, Jonah Hex, Main Street, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, I Love You Phillip Morris, Rachel Getting Married, Dan in Real Life, Then She Found Me, Across the Universe, Ira & Abby, Rent, Pieces of April, Camp, The Grey Zone, Finding ... read more
Hartford Stage Company In Association With
Eric Cornell Executive Producer
Van Dean Co-Producer
Elizabeth Dewberry Co-Producer
Alexander Dodge Set Designer
Alexander Dodge is a Tony-nominated scenic designer known for his innovative and visually stunning designs for Broadway productions. Born in Washington D.C., Dodge grew up in a family of artists and was exposed to the world of theater from a young age. He studied architecture at Yale University before transitioning to scenic design and receiving his MFA from the Yale School of Drama. Dodge's first Broadway credit came in 2007 with the revival of "Butley," starring Nathan Lane. Since then, he has designed sets for a number of Broadway productions, including "Present Laughter," "Anastasia," "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," ... read more
Joe Dulude II Makeup Designer
Stephen Flaherty Vocal Arrangements
Stephen Flaherty writes music for theater, film, recordings and the concert stage. He is perhaps best known as the composer of the Broadway musicals Ragtime (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Grammy nominations), Seussical (Grammy and Drama Desk nominations), Once on This Island (Tony nomination, Olivier Award for London's Best Musical), and also contributed music to Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life (original songs) and Neil Simon's Proposals (incidental music). He has also written four musicals produced at Lincoln Center Theatre: The Glorious Ones (Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk nominations), Dessa Rose (Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk ... read more Shanna & Steven Silva: Anastasia, The Visit (Tony nom), Leap of Faith (Tony nom), It's Only a Play and more. ... read more
Peggy Hickey Choreographer
Award-winning director-choreographer, Peggy Hickey is one of the most versatile artists today, working extensively in television, film, theatre, and opera. Peggy was awarded the MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography for her work on Grammy-Award winner Beck’s The New Pollution. Peggy had directed and choreographed numerous regional productions including Trouble in Tahiti at Chicago Lyric Opera starring Susan Graham and Nathan Gunn, Elf for Tuacahn Center of the Arts and A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder for 3D Theatricals and Tuacahn respectively, to name a few. Ms. Hickey also choreographed the very successful Encores episodes “Grease” and “Fiddler” for ... read more
Donald Holder Lighting Designer
Donald Holder has worked extensively in Theatre, Opera, Dance, Architectural and Television lighting in the US and abroad for over 30 years. He has designed 58 Broadway productions and has been nominated for 13 Tony Awards, winning the Tony for Best Lighting Design for The Lion King in 1998, and for the 2008 revival of South Pacific. Recent Broadway productions include: Tootsie, Kiss Me Kate, Anastasia, Oslo, Straight White Men, She Loves Me, Fiddler on the Roof, The King and I, On the Twentieth Century, The Bridges of Madison County, Bullets Over Broadway and many others. Projects at the NY ... read more
Sally Cade Holmes Co-Producer
SALLY CADE HOLMES is a Tony Award-winning producer committed to making challenging and innovative entertainment with broad appeal. Her Broadway credits include Hadestown (Tony Award), The Inheritance (Tony Award; GLAAD Media Award), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, and Anastasia. Her Off-Broadway credits include Little Shop of Horrors and Puffs. Sally Cade also works with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival as the NYC Line Producer for their Play On! initiative. Past credits include Dylan Frederick's Boy Gets Violent (Ars Nova's AntFest), Summer Valley Fair (New York Musical Theatre Festival) and Ryan J. Haddad's Hi, Are You Single (2015 ... read more
Peter Hylenski Sound Designer
Peter Hylenski received a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award Honour for his work on Moulin Rouge! The Musical. A Grammy, Olivier, and seven-time Tony nominee, his selected design credits include Frozen, Anastasia, Beetlejuice, Once on This Island, Something Rotten, King Kong, Rock of Ages, After Midnight, Motown, The Scottsboro Boys, Side Show, Rocky, Bullets Over Broadway, Shrek the Musical, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Lend Me a Tenor, Elf, Wonderland, Cry-Baby, The Times They Are a-Changin’, The Wedding Singer, Sweet Charity, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. ... read more
Richards/Climan Inc. General Manager/Marketing Director
Trey Johnson Stage Manager
Michael Keller Music Coordinator
Music Coordination for Broadway: The Book of Mormon, American Idiot, The Addams Family, Million Dollar Quartet, Memphis, Billy Elliot, Wicked, Mamma Mia, The Lion King; National Tour coordination: Les Misérables, Next To Normal, 9 to 5, Billy Elliot, In The Heights, Shrek, The Lion King, West Side Story, Wicked. Barbra Streisand Concerts (1994-2007). ... read more
Kimberly Kelley Company Manager
Phil Kenny Co-Producer
Tom Kirdahy Producer
Ali Ahmet Kocabiyik Co-Producer
Charles LaPointe Hair and Wig Designer
More than 50 Broadway shows including Holiday Inn, On Your Feet!, Hamilton, Doctor Zhivago, The Color Purple, Of Mice and Men, Violet, Side Show, The Elephant Man, After Midnight, Beautiful, A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder, Motown, Jekyll & Hyde, Clybourne Park, Bring It On, Newsies, The Mountaintop, Memphis, Lombardi, Fences, In the Heights, Jersey Boys, A Raisin in the Sun. Television: "The Wiz Live!" (Emmy nomination.) ... read more
Harriet Newman Leve Co-Producer
Carolyn & Marc Seriff In Association With
Situation Marketing Interactive Marketing
Peter May Co-Producer
Lee Micklin Assistant Stage Manager
David Mirvish Co-Producer
David Mirvish is a Toronto-based theatrical producer. Mr. Mirvish owns and operates four theatres in Toronto: the Royal Alexandra, the Princess of Wales, the Panasonic and the Canon. Mirvish Productions, a company founded by Mr. Mirvish in 1986, produces live theatre for these and other venues throughout Canada, the United States and England. In 1982, Mr. Mirvish and his father, Ed Mirvish, purchased and refurbished the venerable Old Vic Theatre in London, England, which they operated until 1998. ... read more
Thomas Murray Music Supervisor and Director/Conductor
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
Bonnie Panson Production Stage Manager
Aurora Productions Production Manager
Credits: Once, The Book of Mormon, The Addams Family (Broadway and National Tour), Sister Act, Peter Pan (threesixty entertainment), The Mountaintop, Relatively Speaking, Man and Boy, Sons of the Prophet, An Evening with Patti and Mandy, and Stick Fly. Past projects include over 150 Broadway shows and their tours. Aurora Productions is Gene O'Donovan and Ben Heller with Stephanie Sherline, Jarid Sumner, Liza Luxenberg, Anita Shah, Rebecca Zuber, Steven Dalton, Eugenio Saenz Flores, Isaac Katzanek & Melissa Mazdra. ... read more
Aaron Rhyne Projection Designer
AARON RHYNE is a New York based Projection Designer and Video Artist. Designs include BROADWAY: A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder, and Bonnie and Clyde. OPERA: La Traviata (Wolf Trap), Jerry Springer: The Opera (Carnegie Hall, The Sydney Opera House) Florencia en el Amazonas (Opera Colorado, Utah Opera), OFF BROADWAY: Wild With Happy at The Public (Drama Desk Nominee), Water By the Spoonful, Lonely, I’m Not, The Blue Flower, All New People (Second Stage), Graceland (Lincoln Center), Spirit Control (MTC), Taylor Mac’s Obie award winning The Lily’s Revenge (HERE), and Dutchman (Cherry Lane). REGIONAL: A Gentleman’s Guide to ... read more
Stephanie Rosenberg Co-Producer
Michael Stotts Co-Producer
Bill Taylor Producer
Umeda Arts Theater Co-Producer
Darko Tresnjak Director
Around 2000 he wrote Princess Turandot, inspired by Carlo Gozzi's play written in 1762 (upon which Puccini's opera Turandot was based). Tresnjak's play was performed by the Blue Light Theater Company in New York City in December 2000. He served as resident artistic director at Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California, in 2009, and directed for eight summers at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts. He was the artistic director at Hartford Stage in Hartford, Connecticut from the 2011–2012 season through the 2018–2019 season, where he commissioned The Man in the Case with Mikhail Baryshnikov and directed Kevin Bacon in Rear ... read more
Bruno Wang Co-Producer

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Awards and Nominations

2017 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Book of a Musical: Terrence McNally was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical: Linda Cho was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Music: Stephen Flaherty was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Musical: Anastasia was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Orchestrations: Doug Besterman was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Projection Design: Aaron Rhyne won.
Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical: Peter Hylenski was nominated but did not win.

2017 Drama League Awards
Distinguished Performance Award: Caroline O'Connor was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Production of a Broadway of Off-Broadway Musical: Anastasia was nominated but did not win.

2017 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway): Terrence McNally was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Costume Design (Play or Musical): Linda Cho was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Director of a Musical: Darko Tresnjak was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Lighting Design (Play or Musical): Donald Holder was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding New Broadway Musical: Anastasia was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding New Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway): Stephen Flaherty was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Orchestrations: Doug Besterman was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Projection Design (Play or Musical): Aaron Rhyne won.
Outstanding Set Design (Play or Musical): Alexander Dodge was nominated but did not win.

2017 Theatre World Awards
Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway Debut Performance: Christy Altomare won.

2017 Tony Awards
Best Costume Design of a Musical: Linda Cho was nominated but did not win.

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