Hurricane Diane - Off-Broadway Creative Team
Production Staff
Madeleine George
Playwright
The Bengsons
Original Music
Abigail and Shaun Bengson are a married composing and performing duo raising two children in NYC and Vermont. They believe grief and joy are the same thing. They are interested in anything that gets us all free. The Bengsons' theater work includes The Keep Going Songs (LCT3), Sovereignty Hymns (La Jolla Playhouse), Oh Courage (The Joyce, international tour), The Keep Going Song (Actors Theatre of Louisville), My Joy Is Heavy (Arena Stage), Hundred Days (La Jolla Playhouse, New York Theatre Workshop, US Tour), The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova), Where The Mountain Meets The Sea (ATL’s Humana Festival; Manhattan Theatre Club), ... read more
Rachel Hauck
Scenic Designer
Broadway: What the Constitution Means to Me, Latin History for Morons. Recent work: Hadestown (National Theater; Citadel; NYTW); Hurricane Diane (NYTW); Othello, Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in the Park); The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova); You'll Still Call Me By Name (Sonya Tayeh/Jacob's Pillow); Tiny Beautiful Things, Dry Powder (The Public); Amy and the Orphans, On the Exhale (Roundabout Theatre Company); Antlia Pneumatica, Grand Concourse (Playwrights Horizons). Princess Grace, Lilly awards; Drama Desk, Lortel nominations; Obie Award for Sustained Excellence.
Raja Feather Kelly
Choreographer
Melanie J. Lisby
Stage Manager
Bray Poor
Sound Designer
Broadway: The Real Thing, In the Next Room, The American Plan. Recently, original music and sound for Sam Gold's Othello at NYTW. Other recent Off-Broadway work at The Signature, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, the Public (Lortel Nomination for Buzzer), the Roundabout Theatre Company and Lincoln Center Theater. Regional work at Berkeley Rep, Yale Rep, The Old Globe (Craig Noel Nomination for The Last Match), The Long Wharf, Arena Stage, South Coast Rep, Hartford Stage, among others. Amsterdam: The Glass Menagerie (Toneelgroep) Upcoming: John Leguizamo's Latin History for Morons at the Public. Awards: Obies for Sustained Excellence and Annie Baker's John ... read more
Barbara Samuels
Lighting Designer
arbara Samuels (she/her) is an Obie and Henry Hewes Design Award winning queer lighting designer, producer, and organizer. Barbara uses a diversity of approaches to create design-forward live events – aiming to unearth the human condition while destabilizing harmful power structures in and out of the theater.
New York credits include designs at Soho Rep, MCC, Lincoln Center, Ars Nova, NYTW, Target Margin, TFANA, Playwrights Horizons, 2ST, WP Theater, The Bushwick Starr, BethMorrison Projects, New Georges, and Clubbed Thumb. Regional: Pig Iron, BardSummerscape, The Alley, Long Wharf, ACT., Woolly Mammoth, Playmakers, Kansas City Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Shakespeare ... read more
Leigh Silverman
Director
Silverman directed the Lisa Kron play Well off-Broadway at The Public Theater; the play ran from March 2004 to May 2004. She also directed Well on Broadway in 2006. Among other awards, the play was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Off-Broadway Play. She directed Kron's play In the Wake in its premiere engagement at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles, California in March 2010. She directed In the Wake at the Public Theater in November 2010.
She has directed many plays off-Broadway, including Blue Door by Tanya Barfield in 2006 at Playwrights Horizons, for which she was ... read more
Kaye Voyce
Costume Designer
Awards and Nominations
2019 Obie Awards
Performance Award: Mia Barron won.
Playwriting Award: Madeleine George won.