The Lost Boys - Broadway Creative Team
Production Staff
Chris Hoch
Writer
Broadway: Amazing Grace, Matilda, La Cage..., Shrek, Spamalot, Dracula and Beauty and the Beast. Off-Broadway: Far From Heaven, Die Mommie Die!, Play It Cool and Face the Music . TV: "30 Rock," "Good Wife," "Gossip Girl" and "Braindead," et al.
David Hornsby
Writer
The Rescues
Music
Michael Arden
Director
Lighting Designer
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
Craig Burns
Casting
James Carpinello
Producer
James Carpinello is an American actor, best known for his work on Broadway and in film and television. Born on August 13, 1975, in Albany, New York, Carpinello grew up with a passion for the performing arts. He attended the State University of New York at Purchase, where he studied acting and honed his craft.
Carpinello made his Broadway debut in 1999, playing the role of Marius in the long-running musical Les Misérables. He received critical acclaim for his performance and went on to star in several other Broadway productions, including Saturday Night Fever, Xanadu, and Rock of Ages.
In addition to ... read more
Marcus Chait
Producer
Kristian Charbonier
Casting
Lauren Shuler Donner
Creative Consultant
Adam Fisher
Sound Designer
Sound design credits include: Billy Elliott The Muscial (Curve); The Last Five Years (Garrick & Southwark Playhouse); The Show Must Go On! (Palace); Our Man in Havana (Watermill Theatre); Beauty and the Beast (Nottingham Playhouse); the European premiere of The View Upstairs (Soho Theatre) and world premieres of What I Go To School For – The Busted Musical (Brighton Theatre Royal) and Soho Cinders (Soho Theatre). Other credits include: Carrie (Mountview Academy); Jesus Christ Superstar (LAMDA); Bandstand, Spongebob The Musical, Cats, The Wedding Singer, Ragtime, Kipps, The Wild Party, Freaky Friday, Legally Blonde and Nice Work If You Can Get ... read more
Christopher Cree Grant
Choreographer
Chris Hoch
Writer
Book Writer
Broadway: Amazing Grace, Matilda, La Cage..., Shrek, Spamalot, Dracula and Beauty and the Beast. Off-Broadway: Far From Heaven, Die Mommie Die!, Play It Cool and Face the Music . TV: "30 Rock," "Good Wife," "Gossip Girl" and "Braindead," et al.
David Hornsby
Writer
Book Writer
Mark Kaufman
Creative Consultant
Devin Keudell
Executive Producer
Dane Laffrey
Scenic Designer
Video 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
Gwyneth Larsen
Aerial Designer
Billy Mulholland
Aerial Designer
The Telsey Office
Casting
Ryan Park
Costume Designer
Ryan is a costume designer who lives and works in New York City. He has spent the majority of the past ten years as an associate to Catherine Zuber, distinguished costume designer. Ryan has been the associate/assistant designer on over twenty Broadway productions including Mrs Doubtfire, Warpaint, The King and I (LCT) Fiddler on the Roof, Gigi, The Bridges of Madison County, as well as operas at The Chicago Lyric, The English National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, The Metropolitan Opera, and The New York Philharmonic. Ryan’s career also encompassed TV, and short film: NBC Upfronts, Sound of Music and Peter ... read more
Ethan Popp
Orchestrator
Music Supervisor
Musical Arrangements
Ethan is a Grammy Award nominated music producer and Tony Award nominated orchestrator. With a career spanning over the last twenty years, his work as a music supervisor, arranger, orchestrator, and music producer has been seen and heard worldwide.
Since 2013, Ethan has served as the music supervisor, arranger and orchestrator for Broadway’s Motown the Musical, which earned him a 2013 Tony Award nomination for Best Orchestration (along with co-orchestrator Bryan Crook) and can currently be seen on tour throughout the United Kingdom. Motown also earned Ethan a 2014 Grammy Award nomination for Best Musical Theater Album (as music producer of ... read more
Juniper Street Productions
Production Management
The Rescues
Musical Arrangements
Orchestrator
Music and Lyrics
Vocal Arrangements
Jen Schriever
Lighting Designer
Broadway: Birthday Candles, Lackawanna Blues, Grand Horizons, What the Constitution Means to Me, Lifespan of a Fact, Eclipsed, Ghetto Klown. Off-Broadway work has been seen at Second Stage, The Atlantic, Playwrights Horizons, Signature, MCC, Roundabout, MTC, New York Theatre Workshop, The Public, The Vineyard, Women’s Project, Playwrights Realm, Primary Stages. Current: Blue Man Group National Tour. Opera: Fledermaus, Pearl Fishers (Metropolitan); Faust, Midsummer, Traviata (Mariinsky, Russia). Adjunct: Purchase. Mom: Henry.
Bespoke Theatricals
General Management
Maggie Brohn, Amy Jacobs, Devin Keudell, and Nina Lannan are partners and manage Broadway musicals and plays, tours, and concerts. This season on Broadway: Mamma Mia!, Billy Elliot, Bonnie and Clyde, Ghost, EVITA, Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway, Shatner's World: We Just Live In It and the plays Magic/Bird, and Venus In Fur. On tour: Mamma Mia!. Past productions include CATS, Annie Get Your Gun, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Color Purple, Legally Blonde and The Pillowman.
Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures
Producer
Patrick Wilson
Producer
Lauren Yalango-Grant
Choreographer
Awards and Nominations
2026 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Choreography: Lauren Yalango-Grant and Christopher Cree Grant was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Fight Choreography: Sordelet Inc. was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Lighting Design of a Musical: Jen Schriever and Michael Arden won.
Outstanding Scenic Design of a Musical: Dane Laffrey won.
Outstanding Wig and Hair Design: David Brian Brown was nominated but did not win.
2026 Drama League Awards
OUTSTANDING DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL: Michael Arden was nominated but did not win.
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A MUSICAL: The Lost Boys was nominated but did not win.
2026 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway): David Hornsby was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway): Chris Hoch was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Costume Design: Ryan Park was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Direction of a Musical: Michael Arden was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Musical: Ali Louis Bourzgui was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Musical: Benjamin Pajak was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Lighting Design: Michael Arden won.
Outstanding Lighting Design: Jen Schriever was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding New Broadway Musical: The Lost Boys was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Orchestrations (Broadway or Off-Broadway): Ethan Popp was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Orchestrations (Broadway or Off-Broadway): The Rescues was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Scenic Design: Dane Laffrey was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway): The Rescues was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Sound Design: Adam Fisher was nominated but did not win.
2026 Tony Awards
Best Book of a Musical: Chris Hoch was nominated but did not win.
Best Book of a Musical: David Hornsby was nominated but did not win.
Best Choreography: Lauren Yalango-Grant was nominated but did not win.
Best Choreography: Christopher Cree Grant was nominated but did not win.
Best Costume Design of a Musical: Ryan Park was nominated but did not win.
Best Direction of a Musical: Michael Arden was nominated but did not win.
Best Lighting Design of a Musical: Jen Schriever won.
Best Lighting Design of a Musical: Michael Arden won.
Best Musical: The Lost Boys was nominated but did not win.
Best Orchestrations: Ethan Popp was nominated but did not win.
Best Orchestrations: Kyler England was nominated but did not win.
Best Orchestrations: Adrianne "AG" Gonzalez was nominated but did not win.
Best Orchestrations: Gabriel Mann was nominated but did not win.
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre: The Rescues was nominated but did not win.
Best Scenic Design of a Musical: Dane Laffrey won.
Best Sound Design of a Musical: Kai Harada won.
