The Apple Boys - Off-Broadway Creative Team
Production Staff
LaChanze
Producer
LaChanze's first summer job was as a tap dancer in the ensemble of Uptown... It's Hot! at the Tropicana Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The show opened on Broadway in January 1986, where LaChanze began her professional career in the theater.
LaChanze played the role of "Ti Moune" in the Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty musical Once on This Island in 1990 and received nominations for the Tony Award as Best Featured Actress in a Musical and Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Actress in a Musical. She was a replacement "Sarah" in the Ahrens and Flaherty and Terrence McNally Broadway ... read more
David Alpert
Director
Ben Bonnema
Lyricist
Ben Bonnema is the recipient of the Fred Ebb Award, the Jonathan Larson Grant, the ASCAP Frederick Loewe Award, and the Harold Adamson Lyric Award. The New Yorker raved about his musical THE APPLE BOYS, calling it “a bushelful of delights” and that he wrote “clever, catchy songs.” It ran at the HERE Arts Center in November 2018 (book by Jonothon Lyons) and had its regional premiere at Bucks County Playhouse in May 2025.
ONE WAY, written with Christopher Staskel, was at NAMT’s 2019 Festival of New Musicals starring Jenn Colella (Come From Away, Tony Nom.). It was also developed at ... read more
AJ Epstein
Producer
Matt Gallagher
Vocal Music Arranger
Currently serving as Universal Music Associate for Hamilton Broadway, Chicago, 1st and 2nd National Tours. Broadway, Assoc. Conductor: Doctor Zhivago, Hands on a Hardbody, Jesus Christ Superstar (2012), 9 to 5, Legally Blonde, High Fidelity. Off-B’way, Music Director: Cymbeline (The Public), Tick, Tick… Boom! (Encores!), The Last Five Years (Second Stage), Altar Boyz (New World Stages), Zanna, Don't! (Houseman Theater). MD/arranger: Amanda Green, Yandura & Melocik, Voices of Gotham, Atlantic Theater Co. Galas, Phish at MSG (NYE 2010). Mattgallaghermd.com
Marc Kimelman
Choreographer
Adam Koch
Scenic Designer
Over the past 13 years Adam’s 200+ scenic designs for theater
and opera have been seen in New York City and across the country.
As a creative director and show doctor Adam has overseen
and shaped numerous theatrical and nightlife events.
A 2009 Helen Hayes nominee for Outstanding Set Design
for Signature Theatre's 'Kiss of the Spiderwoman',
a recipient of both the USITT Oren Parker Award for Excellence in
Scene Design, and the 2007 Kennedy Center Design Fellowship.
Adam is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University
and a credited contributor to the widely used collegiate textbook
'Scene Design and Stage Lighting' by R. Craig ... read more
Jonothon Lyons
Book
Alex Neumann
Sound Designer
Johanna Pan
Costume Designer
Johanna Pan is a costume and scenic designer from Singapore. With Sarah, she has production designed The Stand Ins (Manhattan Rep) and Stonewater Rapture (Ithaca College). Other credits include costume designer for Fingers & Toes (Plaza Theatre) directed by Bob Moss, Am I? Am I? Am I? (Flea), Dogs of DC (Manhattan Rep), Remission (Columbia New Play Workshop Festival), Nibbler (Stable Cable Lab Co.), Second Skin, How I Learned to Drive (Theatre 54@Shetler), set designer for She Stoops to Conquer (Across the Rubicon). She has also worked with The Muny, Roundabout Underground, LCT3, Arena Stage, Steppenwolf, Rattlestick, Epic Theatre, the ... read more
Evan Bernardin Productions
General Manager
Rui Rita
Lighting Designer
Broadway Lighting Design: Velocity of Autumn starring Estelle Parsons and Stephen Spinella at the Booth theatre, Trip to Bountiful starring Cicely Tyson, Vanessa Williams and Cuba Gooding Jr., Present Laughter starring Victor Garber at the American Airlines Theatre for Roundabout Theatre Company, Dividing the Estate starring Elizabeth Ashley at the Booth Theater for Lincoln Center Theater, Old Acquaintance starring Margaret Colin and Harriet Harris at the American Airlines Theatre for Roundabout Theatre Company, Enchanted April starring Molly Ringwald (2003 Outer Critics Circle nomination-Best Lighting Design), The Price starring Harris Yulin at the Royale Theatre and A Thousand Clowns starring Judd ... read more
Rona Siddiqui
Musical Supervisor
Grammy-nominated artist Rona Siddiqui is a composer/lyricist based in NYC. She is a recipient of the prestigious Kleban Prize for lyric writing, Jonathan Larson Grant, Mark O'Donnell Prize, and Billie Burke Ziegfeld award. Her show THE BROWN MUSICAL: A New Brown Musical (formerly Salaam Medina: Tales of a Halfghan), an autobiographical comedy about growing up bi-ethnic in America, has had a concert at 54 Below and development at Playwrights Horizons (dir. by Raja Feather Kelly). Other musicals include Father Time (co-created by Bryce Pinkham, Zack Fine & Kirya Traber), Expect Victory (book & co-lyrics by Kris Dias), Rattle the Cage ... read more
Jason Styres
Casting Director
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