Spring Awakening - Off-Broadway Creative Team

Duncan Sheik is perhaps best known as the Tony and Grammy winning composer behind SPRING AWAKENING. As mentioned, he also wrote the music and lyrics for AMERICAN PSYCHO. Recent Broadway: Aladdin, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, American Psycho, You Can't Take It With You. West End: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Let the Right One In. Television: "The Wiz Live!" and "Peter Pan Live!" In 2014 his work was featured at the Museum of Art & Design in New York. Chernick is head designer for J&M Special Effects in Brooklyn www.jmfx.net Miranda Cornell is a mixed-race, Japanese-American theater director, producer, and educator. Select directing credits include Head and Heart (NYMF), the North American premiere of Breach Theatre’s It’s True, It’s True, It’s True (Idlewild Theatre Ensemble), and more with The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals, Access Theater, FringeNYC, and Semicolon Theatre Company. Assistant directing credits at McCarter Theatre Center, the Experimental Theater of Vassar College, New York Stage and Film, and The TEAM. She is currently the Asian American Arts Alliance Van Lier Fellow in Theater. Miranda graduated from Vassar College and has trained with SITI Company and Powerhouse Theater Training Program. mirandacornell.com  CHRISTINE JONES is a Tony-award winning set designer and the Artistic Director of the critically acclaimed Theatre for One, a portable private performing arts space for one actor and one audience member. Her Olivier and Tony Award winning scenography can currently be seen on Broadway and in the original London production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Along with co-designer Brett J. Banakis, Jones redesigned The Lyric Theatre in NYC, home to the first American production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Jones, along with co-designer Amy Rubin, most recently worked on Cyrano at The New Group, starring ... read more Broadway: Evita, Mary Poppins, Bonnie & Clyde, Wonderland, South Pacific, Woman In White, Jesus Christ Superstar, Riverdance. Broadway conductor: Miss Saigon and The Phantom of the Opera for last 15 years. Producer: West Side Story (Grammy); Promises, Promises, South Pacific (Grammy noms). The 70 plus shows he designed lighting for on Broadway include Death of a Salesman, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and directed by Mike Nichols, The Book of Mormon (Tony Award), The Coast of Utopia, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Fences, A Behanding in Spokane, Race, The Pillowman, Urinetown, and Into the Woods. In addition to 5 TONYs, his awards include an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence, a Bessie Award, and others. For dance, The Joffrey Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Tere O’Connor Dance, Merce Cunningham, Lar Lubovitch, Nancy Bannon, and many others. His ... read more Or Matias is an Obie Award–winning music supervisor, composer, orchestrator, and educator whose work has helped shape some of the most innovative productions in contemporary musical theatre. He has worked extensively on Broadway and on concert stages around the world, and is known for a distinctive cross-genre musical voice that blends classical, jazz, rock, hip-hop, and pop idioms. A passionate advocate for new work, Matias has helped develop more than fifteen world-premiere productions both on and off Broadway as music director and orchestrator. These include Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (Broadway), Grey House (Broadway), Black Swan (American Repertory ... read more Designer known for Romeo and Juliet, Job, The Outsiders, Gutenberg!, Here Lies Love, Mrs. Doubtfire, Springsteen on Broadway, Tootsie, Mean Girls, War Paint, Tuck Everlasting, The Last Ship, If/Then, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Annie, Bring it On, Nice Work if You Can Get It, and The Book of Mormon. Danya Taymor grew up in Palo Alto, California, and attended Palo Alto High School before graduating from Duke University. She began directing professionally with productions including I Hate Fucking Mexicans (2012), Wrench (2012), and My Daughter Keeps Our Hammer (2014) at Off-Broadway venues including the Flea Theatre and The Tank. In 2015, she made her Broadway debut as assistant director of Thérèse Raquin at Studio 54 and also directed Wyoming Off-Broadway. Her Off-Broadway directing credits include In Quietness (2016), The Place We Built (2016), The Sensuality Party (2016), Asking for Trouble (2016), Queens (2018), "Daddy" (2019), Heroes of the Fourth Turning ... read more