Production Staff
Broadway: The Outsiders, Moulin Rouge! Off-Broadway: The Wrong Man, The Lucky Ones. Upcoming Film: In the Heights. Select Dance: Camille A. Brown and Dancers, Spectrum Dance Theater+Donald Byrd. Thank you, God, and the team of Moulin Rouge! Love you, Sones. Gratitude to Gram and Gramps, and LDC rep.
Palmer Hefferan is a sound designer and composer for theater, podcasts and new music. In 2019, she received a 2019 Obie Award for “Sustained Excellence in Sound Design.” Select New York credits include: BROADWAY: Grand Horizons, The Lifespan of a Fact; Select OFF-BROADWAY: Fefu and Her Friends (TFANA); Marys Seacole (Lincoln Center); Do You Feel Anger? (Vineyard Theatre); Merry Wives, Shipwreck, Wild Goose Dreams (The Public); The New Englanders, Sugar In Our Wounds, and Important Hats of the Twentieth Century (Manhattan Theatre Club); Something Clean, Bobbie Clearly (Roundabout Theatre); Nollywood Dreams, Seared, BLKS, Collective Rage, Charm, School Girls (MCC Theater); ... read more
Natasha Katz is a New York-based lighting designer. She is a six-time Tony Award winner who has designed extensively for theatre, opera, dance, concerts, and permanent lighting installations around the world. Her recent Broadway credits include: Diana, The Music Man, All My Sons, Burn This, The Prom, Frozen, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Cats, School of Rock, An American in Paris, Aladdin, Skylight, The Glass Menagerie, Once, Follies, The Coast of Utopia: Salvage, and Aida.
Broadway: The Humans, Fully Committed Off-Broadway/Regional: On The Shore of the Wide World (Atlantic Theatre Company), Sacred Valley (NYSAF), The Man in the Ceiling (Bay Street), The End of Longing (MCC), Bad Jews (George Street Playhouse), Man From Nebraska (2nd Stage), Ultimate Beauty Bible (Pg 73), Empathitrax (Colt Coer), The Effect (Barrow Street Theatre), Thresh/Hold (Pilobolus Dance Theater), Come Back, Little Sheba (Huntington Theatre Company), Women or Nothing (Atlantic Theatre Company), Really, Really (MCC)Feature Film: Freakshow (Maven)
Danya Taymor is a New York based director, writer and translator. Recent direction includes Will Arbery's HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING (Playwrights Horizons, Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Lortel Outstanding Play) Korde Arrington Tuttle's GRAVEYARD SHIFT (Goodman Theater), Jeremy O. Harris' "DADDY" (Almeida London + New Group/Vineyard), Antoinette Nwandu's PASS OVER (Lincoln Center + Steppenwolf, Lortel Outstanding Play), Danai Gurira's FAMILIAR (Steppenwolf), Martyna Majok's QUEENS (Lincoln Center Theater), Justin Kuritzkes’ THE SENSUALITY PARTY (The New Group), Susan Soon-He Stanton’s CYGNUS (Women’s Project), Brian Watkins’ WYOMING (Lesser America) and MY DAUGHTER KEEPS OUR HAMMER (The Flea), and Sarah Gancher’s THE PLACE WE BUILT ... read more
Lighting Design
Awards and Nominations
2025 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Direction of a Play: Danya Taymor won.
Outstanding Featured Performance in a Play: Amalia Yoo won.
Outstanding Lighting Design of a Pl: Natasha Katz was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Play: Kimberly Belflower was nominated but did not win.
2025 Drama League Awards
OUTSTANDING DIRECTION OF A PLAY: Danya Taymor was nominated but did not win.
2025 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding Direction of a Play: Danya Taymor won.
Outstanding New Broadway Play: John Proctor Is the Villain won.
2025 Tony Awards
Best Direction of a Play: Danya Taymor was nominated but did not win.
Best Lighting Design of a Play: Natasha Katz was nominated but did not win.
Best Lighting Design of a Play: Hannah Wasileski was nominated but did not win.
Best Sound Design of a Play: Palmer Hefferan was nominated but did not win.