Once - Broadway Creative Team

John Carney is a Dublin-based writer director who came to the world’s attention following the box office hit and critically acclaimed musical feature film Once, which garnered multiple Independent Spirit, Sundance and Raindance awards. Previously, John was a bassist in the Irish rock band the Frames, where he met Glen Hansard. These musical roots continue to be evident in John’s work with his latest production, Can a Song Save Your Life?, heading into production in NYC in 2012. Other upcoming projects include Dogs of Babel for David Heyman and Nathan Kahane starring Steve Carell and a feature adaptation of M.R. ... read more Film: The Commitments, Once. Albums: Strict Joy, the soundtrack of Once (Academy Award®, Best Original Song, “Falling Slowly”), The Swell Season, The Cost, Burn the Maps, Set List: Live in Dublin, For the Birds, Dance the Devil, Fitzcarraldo, Another Love Song. ... read more Film: Once. Albums: The Swell Season, the soundtrack of Once (Academy Award®, Best Original Song "Falling Slowly"), Strict Joy, Anar. ... read more Broccoli started in the Bond franchise at the age of 17, working in the publicity department of The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). Several years later, she served as an assistant director on Octopussy (1983). Soon afterward, she progressed to become an associate producer of the film The Living Daylights (1987). However, her most significant role has been as a producer of the Bond films starring Pierce Brosnan and later Daniel Craig. Following her father's death in 1996, Broccoli worked with London theatre producer Michael Rose, to create the stage musical version of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang based on the 1968 musical ... read more An Irish native from Skibbereen, County Cork, Brian co-founded, with Patrick Milling Smith, the bi-coastal and international production house Smuggler Inc., an industry leader in film, theatre and commercials. This year Smuggler was awarded the Cannes Lions Palme d’Or along with Clio and British Arrows awards for Production Company of the Year. In 2011, Brian served as the chairman of AICP’s 20th annual award show. He also served on the jury of the Cannes Lions Festival and was among this year’s six honorees of the Made in NY Awards presented by Mayor Bloomberg. He’s presently producing the upcoming film Flatlake ... read more Recent Productions: Don Carlos (MET, NY) Love Never Dies (Adelphi, London). Bob Crowley has designed over twenty productions for the National Theatre, including most recently: The Habit of Art, The Power of Yes, Phèdre, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Gethsemane, and Fram (which he also co-directed with Tony Harrison), The History Boys (Broadway - Tony Award), His Girl Friday and Mourning Becomes Electra, plus more than twenty-five productions for the RSC, including: Les Liaisons Dangereuses and The Plantagenets, for which he won an Olivier Award. For the Donmar Warehouse - Into the Woods and Orpheus Descending. Other credits include: Pavane ... read more Broadway: Jersey Boys, Doubt, Steel Magnolias, Dracula, Taboo, The Boy From Oz, Joe Egg, Master Harold And The Boys, Present Laughter, A Doll's House. Venues: Roundabout, M.T.C., Playwrights, Atlantic, The New Group, M.C.C., The Public, Second Stage, Williamstown, Yale Rep., McCarter, Hartford Stage, Primary Stages, Lincoln Center, Long Wharf, Westport. Film Contributions: Million Dollar Baby, Ballad Of Bettie Page, Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind, Boy's Don't Cry. ... read more Broadway: Once, High, Looped, The Story of My Life, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. National tours: Les Misérables, Cabaret, Dora the Explorer Live!, Blues Clues Live!, Beauty and the Beast. Regional: Goodspeed, Westport Country Playhouse, North Carolina Theatre. Related: Cirque du Soleil’s Zarkana, “The 64th Annual Tony Awards,” The Radio City Christmas Spectacular. ... read more Broadway: Once, Wicked, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Looped, High, The Story of My Life. Off-Broadway: Once; Through the Night; Love, Loss, and What I Wore; The Retributionists; The Drunken City; Walmartopia; The Vagina Monologues; Fully Committed; 2.5 Minute Ride; Bosoms and Neglect. Many regional productions. ... read more Clive Goodwin is an award-winning Sound Designer recognized for producing seamless, innovative and creative audio in television, musical, theatrical and large-scale international entertainment platforms. Clive has provided benchmark designs for the BBC, which have been exported worldwide and his impressive list of media clients includes prominent London Theatre and Orchestral companies. A patent holder and member of R&D teams responsible for several large scale international installations, Clive has comprehensive knowledge of major digital control systems and audio editing software. Clive was also a musician in a Top 10 Indie experimental ensemble in the UK and is an accomplished photographer: ... read more Steven Hoggett has previously collaborated with John Tiffany on The Twits for the Royal Court, Let The Right One In and Black Watch for the National Theatre of Scotland, The Glass Menagerie at A.R.T. and on Broadway, and Once on Broadway and in the West End. Other recent credits include American Idiot, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Last Ship, Rocky the Musical and The Crucible on Broadway; St Joan at The Public; Close to You at NYTW and the Criterion; The Light Princess for the National Theatre; Dr. Dee for the Manchester International Festival; and Rigoletto for the Metropolitan Opera. ... read more Natasha Katz is a New York-based lighting designer. She is a six-time Tony Award winner who has designed extensively for theatre, opera, dance, concerts, and permanent lighting installations around the world. Her recent Broadway credits include: Diana, The Music Man, All My Sons, Burn This, The Prom, Frozen, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Cats, School of Rock, An American in Paris, Aladdin, Skylight, The Glass Menagerie, Once, Follies, The Coast of Utopia: Salvage, and Aida. ... read more Theatre: Once (Broadway & NYTW); War Horse; Caroline, or Change; Jerry Springer: The Opera; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; Nation (National Theatre); An Appointment With the Wicker Man; The Wolves in the Walls (National Theatre of Scotland/Improbable); Mamma Mia! (London, Tokyo, Seoul, international tour, Stockholm, Shanghai); The Full Monty; Once on This Island; Cats; Les Misérables (West End). Recordings: Once, Mamma Mia! (original London cast and movie soundtrack), Jerry Springer: The Opera, Once on This Island. Martin was musical director for Mamma Mia! the movie (Universal). ... read more Recent Broadway: Lennon, Sweeney Todd, The Producers, Beauty & the Beast, Hairspray, Movin’ Out, Sweet Charity, Good Vibrations, Dracula, Caroline or Change, Little Shop…, Thoroughly Modern Millie, 42nd St, Urinetown, Nine, La Boheme, Big River, Boys From Syracuse, Look of Love, Urban Cowboy, Never Gonna Dance, Thou Shalt Not, By Jeeves, Follies, Oklahoma!, Jekyll and Hyde, Rocky Horror Show, Seussical, The Music Man, Fosse, Swing!, Parade, Footloose, Kat and the Kings, Civil War, Triumph of Love. Studio Musician (bass): Michael Jackson, Madonna, Portishead, Eric Clapton, BB King, Sinatra, Carly Simon, Celine Dion, Smashing Pumpkins, Pete Seeger, NY Philharmonic. ... read more The Shubert Organization is America's oldest professional theatre company and the largest theatre owner on the Broadway. Since the dawn of the 20th Century, Shubert has operated hundreds of theatres and produced hundreds of plays and musicals both in New York City and throughout the United States. Shubert currently owns and operates seventeen Broadway theatres and six off-Broadway venues. ... read more Broadway shows include Once, That Championship Season, A Steady Rain, A Raisin in the Sun, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Crucible, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Price, Death of a Salesman, Freak, An Ideal Husband, Having Our Say, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, A Streetcar Named Desire, Lend Me a Tenor and Fences. Graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and admitted to practice law in New York. ... read more Credits: Once, The Book of Mormon, The Addams Family (Broadway and National Tour), Sister Act, Peter Pan (threesixty entertainment), The Mountaintop, Relatively Speaking, Man and Boy, Sons of the Prophet, An Evening with Patti and Mandy, and Stick Fly. Past projects include over 150 Broadway shows and their tours. Aurora Productions is Gene O'Donovan and Ben Heller with Stephanie Sherline, Jarid Sumner, Liza Luxenberg, Anita Shah, Rebecca Zuber, Steven Dalton, Eugenio Saenz Flores, Isaac Katzanek & Melissa Mazdra. ... read more Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof, It Shoulda Been You, Once. Off-Broadway: Once (New York Theatre Workshop). Regional theatre: Prometheus Bound, The Blue Flower, Cabaret, Best of Both Worlds, Endgame, Donnie Darko (American Repertory Theater). ... read more Patrick Milling Smith co-founded, with Brian Carmody, the bicoastal and international production house Smuggler Inc., an industry leader in music videos, film and commercials. This year Smuggler was awarded the Cannes Lions Palme d’Or along with Clio and British Arrows awards for Production Company of the Year. Patrick served on the Board of Trustees of the NY Theatre Workshop and was among this year’s six honorees of the Made in NY Awards presented by Mayor Bloomberg. His most recent production is the upcoming feature Greetings From Tim Buckley. SEMINAR is Patrick’s first Broadway play, while concurrently producing Enda Walsh’s theatre ... read more Philip J. Smith is the Chairman and Co-CEO of the Shubert Organization. ... read more Charles Stone began in the industry on the films Evening and Revolutionary Road. He is also an associate producer on Theresa Rebeck’s Seminar starring Alan Rickman. Projects in development with Hart include a revival of Anouilh’s Becket and The Kid Stays in the Picture. ... read more John Tiffany directed Once for which he was the recipient of multiple awards both in the West End and on Broadway. As Associate Director of the Royal Court, his work includes Road, The Twits, Hope and The Pass. He was the director of Let The Right One In for the National Theatre of Scotland, which transferred to the Royal Court, West End and St. Ann's Warehouse. His other work for the National Theatre of Scotland includes Macbeth (also Broadway), Enquirer, The Missing, Peter Pan, The House of Bernarda Alba, Transform Caithness: Hunter, Be Near Me, Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us, ... read more Brian Walters Music Director - Actor www.brianwaltersonline.com ... read more Robert E. Wankel is the President and Co-CEO of the Shubert Organization. ... read more Michael G. Wilson began his producing career in 1976 working with Cubby Broccoli on The Spy Who Loved Me, and they co-produced the next six Bond films, five of which he co-wrote. He then went on to produce the hugely successful Golden Eye with his sister Barbara Broccoli, followed by the next five 007 releases. Together they are producing the 23rd Bond adventure, Skyfall, directed by Sam Mendes and starring Daniel Craig. Michael was awarded the OBE in Her Majesty the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list in 2008. Theatre includes Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (London, Broadway), A Steady Rain starring ... read more Orin Wolf is a Broadway and tour producer whose credits include The Band’s Visit (Tony Award), Fiddler on the Roof (Tony nomination), Beautiful – The Carole King Musical (Tony nomination), Orphans (Tony nomination), Once (Tony Award), That Championship Season and A View From the Bridge (Tony nomination). Off-Broadway, London and touring: The Band’s Visit, Once, Not By Bread Alone, Groundswell, Judy Gold’s 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, Robert Wuhl’s Assume the Position and History of the Word. He was the inaugural recipient of the T-Fellowship for Creative Producing at Columbia University and is now the Director. ... read more Frederick Zollo is an award winning American film and theatre producer. He has produced more than 100 plays in New York, London, and On-Tour. Zollo is an 18 time Tony nominee, winning the award six times. Past credits include Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (1984), King Hedley II (2001), A Steady Rain (2009); and Pulitzer Prize winners: ‘night Mother (1983), Glengarry Glen Ross (1984), and Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika (1993), among others. His production of the eight time Tony Award winning musical Once is currently at the Kennedy Center. Frederick Zollo is best known for his film work ... read more