Purpose - Broadway Creative Team

LaChanze's first summer job was as a tap dancer in the ensemble of Uptown... It's Hot! at the Tropicana Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The show opened on Broadway in January 1986, where LaChanze began her professional career in the theater. LaChanze played the role of "Ti Moune" in the Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty musical Once on This Island in 1990 and received nominations for the Tony Award as Best Featured Actress in a Musical and Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Actress in a Musical. She was a replacement "Sarah" in the Ahrens and Flaherty and Terrence McNally Broadway ... read more 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. Amith Chandrashaker is an Indian-American cinematographer and director who has made a name for himself in the entertainment industry with his unique visual style and technical expertise. Born in Bangalore, India, Chandrashaker moved to the United States to pursue his passion for filmmaking. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film and Television Production from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he was awarded the prestigious Martin Scorsese Young Filmmaker Award for his short film "The Last Word." Chandrashaker began his career as a cinematographer working on independent films and music videos. His work quickly caught the attention ... read more JC Clementz is the Casting Director at Steppenwolf Theatre Company and a freelance stage director. As Casting Director at Steppenwolf, and previously at Milwaukee Repertory Theater, JC has cast productions out of Chicago and New York City. Highlights include the world premieres of Tracy Letts' Linda Vista (also on Broadway and at Center Theatre Group), The Minutes, The Doppelganger (an international farce) starring Rainn Wilson, and Antoinette Nwandu's Pass Over, which was filmed at Steppenwolf by Spike Lee and made its debut at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. As a freelance director his credits include The All Night Strut!, Murder ... read more Aaron Glick has produced PigPen Theatre Company's The Old Man and the Old Moon (off-Broadway and in Chicago with The Writers' Theatre), This One Girl's Story at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party at Theatre Row, Hedwig and the Angry Inch at The Producer's Club, and Hair at Marymount Manhattan College. Aaron works with producer David Stone and 321 Theatrical Management on such shows as: Three Days of Rain (with Julia Roberts), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Broadway and National Tours), Wicked (Broadway and around the world), Next to Normal (winner of ... read more Broadway music composition and sound credits include: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Speed of Darkness, My Thing of Love, Superior Donuts, A Year with Frog and Toad, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Hollywood Arms, King Hedley II, Buried Child, The Song of Jacob Zulu and The Grapes of Wrath. Off Broadway music and sound credits include: Inked Baby, After Ashley, Boy Gets Girl, Red, Space, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Marvin's Room, Eyes for Consuela and Ruined. Recent original music and sound credits include: The Bluest Eye (Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre); The Crucible, Good Boys and True ... read more Platt started producing in theatre, before moving into film. Platt was a business-affairs lawyer for (ICM) In- ternational Creative Management's superagent Sam Cohn, laying the essential groundwork of entertainment contacts. He was thirty-three years old when he replaced Mike Medavoy, at Orion Pictures, as production chief. After Orion, he served as president of production for two more movie studios:TriStar Pictures, and Universal Studios. Platt has since formed his own production company, Marc Platt Productions, within the Universal realm and continues to pursue creative projects. His company is responsible for the Legally Blonde films and the HBO miniseries Empire Falls. Platt has ... read more Phylicia Rashad made her Broadway directorial debut with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Purpose, which won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Play, Drama Desk Award (Outstanding Play), and New York Drama Critics Circle Award (Best Play). Other directing credits include: Our Lady of 121st Street, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Fences, Gem of the Ocean, A Raisin in the Sun, The Roommate, and Four Little Girls. This marks her third time directing Immediate Family. Producing credits include the 2024 Tony nominated Broadway revival of Ossie Davis’s Purlie Victorious, and the PBS film The ... read more