Production Staff
Co-Bookwriter
Co-Bookwriter
Executive Producer
Yonge Street Theatricals is a Dora Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated production company led by Linda Barnett and Natalie Bartello.
Champions of great storytelling, the duo has been developing new musicals from the grassroots for more than thirteen years. By nurturing exceptional works from their earliest stages, and collaborating with the most exciting theatre professionals in Toronto and New York, Yonge Street Theatricals showcases quality entertainment that appeals to a wide audience by embracing artistic ambition.
Michael Arden is a Tony-nominated director for his revival of Spring Awakening. The acclaimed production transferred from Deaf West Theater in Los Angeles to Broadway in fall 2015. He also won the Outer Critics Circle for Outstanding Director of a Musical and was nominated for a Drama Desk award for the production. Michael made his Broadway debut in Deaf West Theater and the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Big River. Other directing credits include My Fair Lady at Bay Street Theater; Merrily We Roll Along at the Wallis Annenberg Center in Los Angeles, where he is currently the Artist in ... read more
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
Book Writer
Rebecca is proud to bring this new play to Broadway — a first for both the director and the playwright! She has received numerous nominations and awards on Broadway (Porgy and Bess, All the Way among them) and Off-Broadway (Sleep No More). Committed to bringing both extraordinary new work and revivals of the American canon to audiences, Rebecca is extensively involved with and supportive of not-for-profit theater, including the ART at Harvard and Fisher Center at Bard.
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.
Set Designer
Broadway: set and costumes for Deaf West's Spring Awakening, set for Fool For Love. Recent off-Broadway: set and/or costumes for Rancho Viejo, Indian Summer, The Christians, Iowa (Playwrights Horizons), Sell.Buy.Date (Manhattan Theatre Club), Homos, or Everyone in America (Labyrinth), The Harvest, (Lincoln Center), The Glory of the World (B.A.M. Harvey), Cloud 9 (Atlantic) and other work at Roundabout, Second Stage, Vineyard Theatre, Lincoln Center Theatre, MCC, SoHo Rep, Rattlestick, Transport Group and many others. Regional work at The Humana Festival, Mark Taper Forum, Shakespeare Theatre, The Old Globe, Huntington Theatre Company, The Wallis Annenberg Center, Denver Center, Goodspeed, Woolly Mammoth, ... read more
Cody Lassen was most recently represented on Broadway by Paula Vogel’s Indecent and the Deaf West Theatre revival of Spring Awakening. Upcoming: How I Learned to Drive (opening April 19.) Recent co-producing credits include Thoughts of a Colored Man, What The Constitution Means To Me, Tootsie, Torch Song, The Band's Visit, and Significant Other. Upcoming: Some Lovers, a new musical by Burt Bacharach & Steven Sater; The Flamingo Kid by Robert Freidman & Scott Frankel; Alice By Heart, by Duncan Sheik, Steven Sater & Jessie Nelson; and The 12 by Robert Schenkkan & Neil ... read more
Lyricist
Notable set/costume designs include: Broadway: Once on This Island (Tony, Outer Critics, Drama Desk nomination), Sunday in the Park With George, Six Degrees of Separation, In Transit, Eclipsed (Tony Award), The Elephant Man (Broadway, West End), Violet. Off-Broadway: Familiar, The True, Here Lies Love (NY, London), Sweet Charity, Bella, and Booty Candy. Over 200 regional and international credits. Encores! Off-Center Principal Designer. Awards: Obie Award for Sustained Excellence, 3 Lucille Lortels, TDF Sharaff Award, 2 ATW Henry Hewes, Helen Hayes. Upcoming: Wild Goose Dreams. Head of Design at Fordham University Theatre Program. @clintramos
Video Designer
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.
Lighting Designer
LCT: Junk, Kill Floor, The Coward (LCT3). Broadway: Six Degrees of Separation, Fully Committed, Fun Home (Tony nomination), Deaf West's Spring Awakening (Tony nom.), An Enemy of the People, Seminar. Recent Off-Broadway: Napoli, Brooklyn (Roundabout); Derren Brown: Secret (Atlantic Theater); Marjorie Prime, The Christians (Playwrights Horizons); Yen, The Legend of Georgia McBride, The Nether (Lortel noms.; MCC); Fun Home (Lortel nom.; The Public); Piece of My Heart, Our Lady of Kibeho (Drama Desk nom.), Kung Fu, Angels in America (Signature); Incognito, Murder Ballad (Lortel nom.; MTC); Belleville (Lortel nom.; New York Theatre Workshop); Into the Woods (Delacorte); The Whipp ng ... read more
Awards and Nominations
2025 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Book of a Musical: Will Aronson won.
Outstanding Book of a Musical: Hue Park won.
Outstanding Direction of a Musical: Michael Arden won.
Outstanding Lead Performance in a Musical: Helen J. Shen was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Lead Performance in a Musical: Darren Criss was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Lyrics: Hue Park won.
Outstanding Lyrics: Will Aronson won.
Outstanding Music: Will Aronson won.
Outstanding Music: Hue Park won.
Outstanding Orchestrations: Will Aronson was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Scenic Design of a Musi: Dane Laffrey won.
Outstanding Scenic Design of a Musi: George Reeve won.
Outstanding Scenic Design of a Musi: Dane Laffrey was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Scenic Design of a Musi: George Reeve was nominated but did not win.
2025 Drama League Awards
DISTINGUISHED PERFORMANCE: Darren Criss was nominated but did not win.
DISTINGUISHED PERFORMANCE: Helen J. Shen was nominated but did not win.
OUTSTANDING DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL: Michael Arden won.
2025 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway): Hue Park won.
Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway): Will Aronson won.
Outstanding Direction of a Musical: Michael Arden won.
Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Musical: Darren Criss was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Lighting Design: Ben Stanton was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding New Broadway Musical: Maybe Happy Ending won.
Outstanding Orchestrations (Broadway or Off-Broadway): Will Aronson was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Scenic Design: Dane Laffrey was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway): Hue Park won.
Outstanding Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway): Will Aronson won.
Outstanding Sound Design: Peter Hylenski was nominated but did not win.
2025 Tony Awards
Best Book of a Musical: Will Aronson won.
Best Book of a Musical: Hue Park was nominated but did not win.
Best Costume Design of a Musical: Clint Ramos was nominated but did not win.
Best Direction of a Musical: Michael Arden won.
Best Lighting Design of a Musical: Ben Stanton was nominated but did not win.
Best Orchestrations: Will Aronson was nominated but did not win.
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (Music and/or Lyrics) : Hue Park won.
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (Music and/or Lyrics) : Will Aronson won.
Best Scenic Design of a Musical: George Reeve won.
Best Scenic Design of a Musical: Dane Laffrey won.
Best Sound Design of a Musical: Peter Hylenski was nominated but did not win.