Waitress - US Tour Creative Team

After graduating from UCLA in 2002, Sara Bareilles began performing at local venues and independently released the demo collections The First One and The Summer Sessions (2003). She self-released her debut album, Careful Confessions, in 2004, toured with Guster and Jon McLaughlin, and contributed music to the film Girl Play (2004). She signed with Epic Records in 2005 and opened for Marc Broussard in 2006. Her song "Gravity" also appeared in the film Loving Annabelle (2006). In 2007, she toured with Rocco DeLuca and the Burden, Aqualung, Mika, Maroon 5, Paolo Nutini, and James Blunt. Bareilles achieved her breakthrough with her ... read more BERNIE ARDIA (Hair Designer) Having a 40-year career. A California native starting in print work and television with soap opera work and television specials such as Happy Birthday Hollywood. Ardia returned to live theater with David Merrick's national tour of 42nd St. After many years of touring with live productions such as Can-Can, Me and My Girl, Showboat, Ziegfeld - A Night at the Follies he has now designed for well over 75 productions including recreating Mr. Paul Huntly’s designs for this current NETworks presentation of Hairspray. He is very happy to be a part of this project and working ... read more After graduating from UCLA in 2002, Sara Bareilles began performing at local venues and independently released the demo collections The First One and The Summer Sessions (2003). She self-released her debut album, Careful Confessions, in 2004, toured with Guster and Jon McLaughlin, and contributed music to the film Girl Play (2004). She signed with Epic Records in 2005 and opened for Marc Broussard in 2006. Her song "Gravity" also appeared in the film Loving Annabelle (2006). In 2007, she toured with Rocco DeLuca and the Burden, Aqualung, Mika, Maroon 5, Paolo Nutini, and James Blunt. Bareilles achieved her breakthrough with her ... read more Ken Billington is a highly acclaimed lighting designer with over 50 years of experience in the theatre industry. Born in 1944 in Long Island, New York, Billington attended Hofstra University where he studied theatre and lighting design. After graduating, he began his career as a lighting designer in the Off-Broadway scene in the 1960s, eventually making his way to Broadway. Billington has designed the lighting for over 100 Broadway productions, including the original productions of Sweeney Todd, Chicago, and The Drowsy Chaperone. He has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design 21 times, winning three times for his ... read more Lorin Latarro: Choreographer of Broadway’s upcoming TOMMY, INTO THE WOODS, WAITRESS, MRS. DOUBTFIRE, LES LIASONS DANGEREUSE with Janet McTeer and Live Schreiber, WAITING FOR GODOT with Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stuart, MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG for Roundabout, and LA TRAVIATA at The Met Opera. Lorin recently directed Candace Bushnell’s one woman show, IS THERE STILL SEX IN THE CITY at the Daryl Roth Theatre, which became a NYTimes Critic’s Pick. Additional Directing credits #DATEME at The Westside Theatre, A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME at Chicago’s Nederlander Broadway. Additional Choreography includes Encores OLIVER, CHESS at ... read more Abbey O'Brien is known for her work on Smash (2012), Monty Python's Spamalot (2005) and Diptych (2018). Broadway credits include Jagged Little Pill, Waitress, Pal Joey, and Spamalot. Selected Broadway credits include The Book of Mormon (Tony Award); The Band's Visit; Something Rotten!; Oh, Hello!; Saint Joan; The Little Foxes; Waitress; Pippin (Tony nomination); An Act of God; Blackbird; The Pillowman (Tony Award); The Visit; It's Only a Play; Finding Neverland; Casa Valentina; I'll Eat You Last; The Coast of Utopia (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards); Take Me Out; Hair; Pal Joey (Tony nomination); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Tony nomination, Drama Desk Award); Nine; and Urinetown. Also Cirque Du Soleil's Amaluna; Peter Grimes, Met Opera. Insta @scottpaskstudio Diane Paulus is the Artistic Director of the A.R.T., where her directing credits include: Prometheus Bound, Death and the Powers: The Robots' Opera (premiered in Monaco in September 2010), Johnny Baseball, Best of Both Worlds and The Donkey Show, a disco adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which ran for six years Off-Broadway. Her recent theater credits include The Public Theater's revival of Hair on Broadway (2009 Tony Award winner for Best Revival of a Musical, nominated for eight Tony Awards including Best Director, as well as winner of a Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award and Drama League ... read more