Production Staff
Elliot Goldenthal
Composer/Lyricist
Bookwriter
Composer
Lyricist
Julie Taymor
Bookwriter
Lincoln Center Theater (André Bishop: Artistic Director; Bernard Gersten: E
Theatre Owner / Operator
Producer
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Advertising
Kamyar Atabai
Assistant Director
Jay Binder
Casting
Jay Binder has cast over 70 Broadway productions, including the Tony Award winning productions of The Lion King, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, Dames At Sea, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Gypsy, The King and I, Lost in Yonkers and Jerome Robbins’ Broadway. In addition, he was fortunate enough to cast every Neil Simon play from 1990 through 2009. Mr. Binder was one of the founders and continues to be a driving force behind the highly-acclaimed Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert series at City Center in New York City. His work casting this series led ... read more
Elizabeth Burgess
Assistant Stage Manager
Steven C. Callahan
LCT General Manager
Nico Castel
Dialect Coach
Richard Cordova
Conductor
Musical Director
Thomas Cott
LCT Director of Marketing & Special Projects
Geoffrey Gordon
Percussion
Emily Grishman
Music Preparation
Jeff Hamlin
LCT Production Manager
Donald Holder
Lighting Designer
Donald Holder has worked extensively in Theatre, Opera, Dance, Architectural and Television lighting in the US and abroad for over 30 years. He has designed 58 Broadway productions and has been nominated for 13 Tony Awards, winning the Tony for Best Lighting Design for The Lion King in 1998, and for the 2008 revival of South Pacific. Recent Broadway productions include: Tootsie, Kiss Me Kate, Anastasia, Oslo, Straight White Men, She Loves Me, Fiddler on the Roof, The King and I, On the Twentieth Century, The Bridges of Madison County, Bullets Over Broadway and many others. Projects at the NY ... read more
Hattie K. Jutagir
LCT Director of Development
Hattie K. Jutagir is the Executive Director of Development and Planning at ‎Lincoln Center Theater.
Jeff Lee
Stage Manager
Richard Martinez
Keyboards
Gregory Meeh
Special Effects Designer
Gregory Meeh designs special effects for theatre, opera and film. Credits: Kà, Cirque du Soleil. Broadway: An Act of God, Misery, Doctor Zhivago, The Last Ship, The Addams Family, Spamalot, Twelfth Night (Lincoln Center, Eddy Award), An Inspector Calls (Drama Desk Award), The Phantom of the Opera.
Tony Meola
Sound Designer
Broadway: Lysistrata Jones (associate producer as well as sound design); …Drood (Drama Desk Award); First Date (associate producer); Pal Joey; The Ritz; Laugh Whore; Man of La Mancha; Sweet Smell of Success; Copenhagen; Kiss Me, Kate; Footloose; The Lion King (Drama Desk Award); The Sound of Music; A Christmas Carol (MSG); Steel Pier; Forum; The King and I; Moon Over Buffalo; Smokey Joe’s Cafe; Guys and Dolls; Five Guys Named Moe; She Loves Me; The Red Shoes; Anything Goes. London: Kiss Me, Kate; The Lion King; Smokey Joe’s Cafe; and Anything Goes. National and international: The Lion King, Les Miserables, ... read more
G.W. Mercier
Costume Designer
Scenic Designer
Valerie Naranjo
Percussion
Edward J. Nelson
Company Manager
Seymour "Red" Press
Musical Coordinator
Susan Rawcliffe
Didjeridu, Wind Instruments
Philip Rinaldi
LCT Press Representative
Svetoslav J. Slavov
Violin
Julie Taymor
Puppet Designer
Mask Designer
Scenic Designer
Costume Designer
Director
Taymor is an American director and writer of theater, opera and film. Her stage adaptation of The Lion King debuted in 1997, and received eleven Tony Award nominations, with Taymor receiving Tony Awards for Best Director and Costume Designer. Her film Frida, about Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, was nominated for five Academy Awards, including a Best Original Song nomination for Taymor's composition "Burn It Blue". She also directed the jukebox musical Across the Universe.
John C. Thomas
Trumpet, Didjeridu
Bruce Williamson
Keyboards
Steve "Doc" Zorthian
Assistant Stage Manager
Awards and Nominations
1997 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Best Revival - Musical: 0 was nominated but did not win.
1997 Tony Awards
Best Direction of a Musical: Julie Taymor was nominated but did not win.
Best Lighting Design: Donald Holder was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Lincoln Center Theater was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Music-Theatre Group was nominated but did not win.
Best Scenic Design: G.W. Mercier was nominated but did not win.
Best Scenic Design: Julie Taymor was nominated but did not win.
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