Warriors - Broadway Creative Team

Dede Ayite is a costume designer whose Broadway credits include A Soldier’s Play, Slave Play, American Son, and Children of a Lesser God. Select Off-Broadway credits include Secret Life of Bees, FireFlies, Marie and Rosetta, Tell Hector I Miss Him (Atlantic); By The Way, Meet Vera Stark, JHAT (Signature); BLKS, Collective Rage…, School Girls… (MCC); Slave Play (NYTW); Sugar in Our Wounds (MTC); If Pretty Hurts…, Mankind, Bella: An American Tall Tale (Playwrights Horizons); The Royale (Lincoln Center); Ugly Lies the Bone (Roundabout); and brownsville song [b-side for tray] (LCT3). Regionally, Ayite’s works has appeared at Oregon Shakespeare Festival; ... read more Mr. Blankenbuehler won a 2008 Tony Award for his choreography in the Tony Award winning Best Musical In The Heights (also Lortel Award, Outer Critics Award and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography). He also choreographed the Broadway revival of The Apple Tree. Other recent projects include the new Broadway-bound musical Waiting For The Moon (music by Frank Wildhorn); the world premiere of the musical A Little Princess (music by Andrew Lippa); the Paper Mill Playhouse production of A Wonderful Life; as well as the off-Broadway play Burleigh Grimes (music by David Yazbek); and the hit Caesars Palace ... read more BROADWAY: Tina (Nov 07, 2019 - Present) Associate Sound Design by Jason Crystal Freestyle Love Supreme (Oct 02, 2019 - Jan 12, 2020) Associate Sound Design by Jason Crystal Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (May 30, 2019 - Jul 28, 2019) Associate Sound Design by Jason Crystal The Cher Show (Dec 03, 2018 - Aug 18, 2019) Associate Sound Design by Jason Crystal Bright Star (Mar 24, 2016 - Jun 26, 2016) Associate Sound Design by Jason Crystal Hamilton (Aug 06, 2015 - Present) Associate Sound Design by Jason Crystal It Shoulda Been You (Apr 14, 2015 - Aug 09, 2015) Associate Sound Design by Jason Crystal Mothers and Sons (Mar 24, ... read more Recently appeared at The Public in Julius Caesar, Passing Strange, June and Jean in Concert, and solo shows at Joe’s Pub. Her Broadway credits include Passing Strange and Off-Broadway she has appeared in Preludes, The Call, Luck of the Irish, This, Angela's Mixtape. Her television credits include "The Looming Tower," "Rise," "Succession," "House of Cards," "Blindspot," "Hart of Dixie," "Smash," and "The Wire." She is a writer for Netflix's "She's Gotta Have It" and Cirque du Soleil's Crystal. Her albums include Something Else. She has received an Obie for Sustained Excellence and she was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her ... read more Thomas Kail won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for Hamilton. Broadway directing credits include Hamilton; In the Heights; Freestyle Love Supreme; Lombardi; and Magic/Bird. Off-Broadway selected directing credits include the world premiere of Hamilton, Dry Powder, Tiny Beautiful Things, and Kings at The Public Theater; the world premiere of The Wrong Man at MCC theatre, the world premiere of In the Heights, Broke-ology, and the world premiere of When I Come to Die at Lincoln Center Theater; and the world premiere of Daphne’s Dive at Signature Theatre.  Broadway producing credits include Derren Brown: Secret and ... 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. Jenny Koons is a New York-based director. She specializes in bringing diverse artists together to create original cross-disciplinary work. Recent collaborators include 2015 Female Beatbox World Champion Kaila Mullady, actor/poet/playwright Craig 'muMs' Grant, globe-trotting DJ Rich Medina, Ex Machina video artist David Leclerc, international tabla innovator Gurpreet Chana, The Dance Cartel, The TEAM, Cirque De Demain award-winning artist Kyle Driggs, chefs Tyrell and Hopkins of Lucullan Foods, and jazz composer Noah Agruss. Recent projects: Instant SPKRBOX (SPKRBOX Festival commission, Norway), Bars and Measures (NNPN world premiere),Gimme Shelter (Why Not Theatre, Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games commission), I'm Not the Stranger You ... read more Broadway: Mrs. Doubtfire, Beetlejuice (Tony nom, Drama Desk award), Hamilton (Tony nom), War Paint (Tony nom), Dear Evan Hansen, Bandstand, Misery, Motown, Vanya and Sonia, Bring It On, The Pee-Wee Herman Show, Lombardi, and Passing Strange. TV: "91st Annual Academy Awards," "Grease: Live!" (Emmy award). Concert: Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Mariah Carey, Andrea Boccelli. Extensive Off-Broadway/regional theatre, hospitality, and experience design. Dad: Stella and Vivian. Lin-Manuel Miranda is an American songwriter, librettist, actor, singer, filmmaker, and rapper. He created the Broadway musicals In the Heights (2005) and Hamilton (2015), and the soundtracks for the animated films Moana (2016), Vivo, and Encanto (both 2021). His additional Broadway credits include New York, New York (Additional Lyrics, Tony nomination for Best Musical), Freestyle Love Supreme (Co-Founder, Guest Star, Special Tony Award Recipient), Bring It On: The Musical (co-composer/co-lyricist, Tony nomination for Best Musical), and West Side Story (2009 revival, Spanish translations). He has received numerous accolades including a Pulitzer Prize, three Tony Awards, two Laurence Olivier Awards, two ... read more