Pacific Overtures - West End 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. Hugh has designed the lighting for more than 160 productions and worked for most of the UK's national companies and extensively on Broadway. He has received three Olivier Awards for Best Lighting Designer: in 2004 for Pacific Overtures (Donmar); in 2000 for The Graduate (West End) and The Cherry Orchard (National Theatre); and in 1998 for The Unexpected Man (RSC) and The Blue Room (Donmar). In New York he received TONY® award nominations for Mary Stuart and Spamalot. His most recent work includes: Ghost the Musical (West End); The Wizard of Oz (West End); Matilda (RSC); Deathtrap (West End); La Bête ... read more