Production Staff
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
Recent credits: “Dickinson” (Apple TV+), Sweat (Broadway), Wrong Man (MCC), Mlima’s Tale (Public), Tiny Beautiful Things (Public), Floyd’s (Guthrie), Cardinal (2nd Stage), Aubergine (Playwrights Horizons), Candide (LA Opera), La Bohème (Kennedy Center). Jennifer has designed productions for Signature Theater; Shakespeare in the Park; Manhattan Theatre Club; Women’s Project; Primary Stages, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Arena Stage, The Old Globe, Williamstown Theatre Festival, McCarter, Baltimore Center Stage, Yale Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Municipal Theater of Santiago, Chile, Opéra National de Bordeaux, Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, and others
Director
Erica Schmidt is an American theatre director, playwright, and screenwriter best known for writing the BAFTA- and Academy Award-nominated 2021 film Cyrano, based on her 2018 stage musical of the same name. The musical premiered at the Goodspeed. She was nominated for the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Sunset Film Circle Award for Best Screenplay.
In 2020, Schmidt received nominations for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play and Outstanding Revival of a Play for her off-Broadway all-female adaptation of Macbeth. She has created and directed several other off-Broadway plays, including ... read more
Cha is from Manila, Philippines based in New York City. A lighting designer for theatre, opera, dance, environmental performance and on-site installations.