Pacific Overtures - Regional (US) Creative Team

Stephen Sondheim is widely acknowledged as the most innovative, most influential, and most important composer and lyricist in modern Broadway history. He is the winner of an Academy Award, numerous Tony Award, multiple Grammy Awards and a Pulitzer Prize. Some of his other accolades include a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center Honors (1993), the National Medal of Arts (1996), the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Gold Medal for Music (2006) and a special Tony Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre (2008). Stephen Sondheim wrote the music and lyrics for Road Show (2008), Passion (1994), Assassins (1991), Into ... read more John Weidman is an American librettist and television writer for Sesame Street. He has worked on stage musicals with Stephen Sondheim and Susan Stroman. NYC: Metamorphoses (Tony Nomination), Sonnambula & Lucia Di Lammermoor (Metropolitan Opera), Galileo Galilei (BAM), Glorious Ones (Lincoln Center), Durango (Public), Pain and the Itch , Clybourne Park (Playwright's Horizon), Lookingglass Alice (New Victory), Measure for Measure (NYSF), Arabian Nights (BAM). REGIONAL: Lyric Opera/Chgo, Goodman, Steppenwolf, ACT(SF), McCarter, Berkeley Rep, Huntington, Shakespeare Theatre/DC, La Jolla, Mark Taper, Seattle Rep, Oregon Shakespeare, Arena Stage, Alley, Hartford Stage, Alliance, Actors Theatre/Louisville, Dallas Theater Center, South Coast Repertory, California Shakespeare, and Portland Center Stage, among others. INTERNATIONAL: Donmar & Barbican (London), Melbourne Theatre. Ensemble Member- Lookingglass/Chicago. Associate Professor- Northwestern University/Chicago.