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The Hills of California - Broadway Creative Team


Production Staff

Jez Butterworth Playwright
Campbell Young Associates Wig, Hair & Makeup Design
Theatre includes: Anything Goes, Get Up Stand Up, Leopoldstadt, Back to The Future, All About Eve, The Light In The Piazza, Rosmersholm, Company, The King & I, Funny Girl, St. Joan, City of Angels, One Night in Miami, The Young Chekhov Trilogy, Bend It Like Beckham, Gypsy, The Bodyguard, (West End). Present Laughter, The Master Builder, The Lorax, High Society, Electra, Clarence Darrow, Sweet Bird of Youth, Richard III, Kiss Me Kate, Inherit the Wind, A Christmas Carol, (Old Vic). TINA – The Tina Turner Musical The Ferryman, The Girl from the North Country, Farinelli and the ... read more
Amy Ball UK Casting Director
Zoe Ford Burnett Associate Director
Jez Butterworth Playwright
Jez Butterworth was born in London in 1969. His plays include Mojo (1995), The Night Heron (2002), The Winterling (2006), Parlour Song (2008), Jerusalem (2009), The River (2012), and The Ferryman (2017). His plays have won two Olivier Awards, three Evening Standard Awards, Four Writer's Guild Awards and Three Critics Circle Awards. In 2007 he was given the E.M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His screenwriting credits include Fair Game, Get on Up (2014), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), Black Mass (2015), and Spectre (2015).
Candida Caldicot Musical Supervision
Arrangements
Jim Carnahan Casting Director
Roundabout’s director of artistic development. Shows cast for Roundabout: Anything Goes, The Road to Mecca, Man and Boy, The Importance of Being Earnest, Sondheim on Sondheim, Bye Bye Birdie, Sunday in the Park…, 110 in the Shade, The Pajama Game, Twelve Angry Men, Assassins, Twentieth Century, Nine, Big River, Cabaret. Other Broadway: The Mountaintop, On a Clear Day…, Jerusalem, Arcadia, The Scottsboro Boys, La Bête, American Idiot, The Seagull, Spring Awakening, Boeing-Boeing, Curtains, The Pillowman, La Cage, Chitty…, Democracy, Fiddler on the Roof, …Millie. Film: A Home at the End of the World, Flicka. TV: “Glee” (Emmy nom).
Natasha Chivers Lighting Design
Natasha is a London-based lighting designer with over 20 years of experience. Her extensive work in theatre includes Enemy of People (The Armoury, New York); Kan Ya Ma Kan (Riyadh); Message in a Bottle, Electric Hotel, Dystopian Dream and Gravity Fatigue (Sadler’s Wells); Drive and Live: La Boheme (ENO); Ivanov (Staatstheater Stuttgart); Blood Wedding (Young Vic); The Doctor, Hamlet and Oresteia (Almeida); Oedipus (Toneelgroep Amsterdam); The American Clock and SYLVIA (The Old Vic); The Antipodes, Sunset at the Villa Thalia and Statement of Regret (National Theatre); The Deep Blue Sea, The Chalk Garden and The House They Grew Up In (Chichester ... read more
Rob Howell Scenic and Costume Design
Rob Howell has designed sets and costumes extensively in the theatre and opera in the UK and abroad including at The Royal Court, The Donmar Warehouse, The Old Vic, The National Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Royal Opera House and The Metropolitan Opera and on Broadway. He has received numerous Olivier and Tony nominations, including a current Olivier nomination for The Ferryman, and was awarded Oliviers for Best Set Designer in the years 2000, 2006 and 2012 and a Tony for Best Set Designer in 2013.
Ellen Kane Choreography
London based Tony & Olivier nominated choreographer, Ellen Kane is currently working on Legally Blonde for Regent's Park Open Air Theatre (dir. Lucy Moss) and has been working as the Choreographer for Matilda (feature film dir. Matthew Warchus for Netflix) and A Chorus Line (dir. Nikolai Foster) for the Curve in Leicester. Other credits include: Choreographer West Side Story (dir. Nikolai Foster) for the Curve in Leicester and Dance & Movement Supervisor on Cats (dir. Tom Hooper), Co-Choreographer of Groundhog Day The Musical (dir. Matthew Warchus), Old Vic Theatre London and the August Wilson Theatre Broadway (Tony and Olivier nominations); ... read more
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
Frances Mercanti-Anthony US Casting Director
Verity Naughton UK Young Persons' Casting Director
Nick Powell Composer
Sound Design
Arrangements

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Awards and Nominations

2025 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Lead Performance in a Play: Laura Donnelly won.
Outstanding Scenic Design of a Play: Rob Howell was nominated but did not win.

2025 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding Costume Design: Rob Howell was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Direction of a Play: Sam Mendes was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Play: Laura Donnelly won.
Outstanding Lighting Design: Natasha Chivers was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding New Broadway Play: The Hills of California was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Scenic Design: Rob Howell was nominated but did not win.

2025 Tony Awards
Best Costume Design of a Play: Rob Howell was nominated but did not win.
Best Direction of a Play: Sam Mendes was nominated but did not win.
Best Lighting Design of a Play: Natasha Chivers was nominated but did not win.
Best Scenic Design of a Play: Rob Howell was nominated but did not win.
Best Sound Design of a Play: Nick Powell was nominated but did not win.

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