Oleanna - Broadway Creative Team

Jed Bernstein is a prominent figure in the entertainment industry, having worked in various roles on Broadway, in film, and in television. Born in New York City in 1956, Bernstein attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with a degree in English literature. He began his career in the theater industry as a press agent, working for the Shubert Organization and the National Theatre of the Deaf. In 1989, Bernstein co-founded the Broadway advertising agency Premier. The agency quickly became one of the most successful in the industry, working on campaigns for hit shows such as The Phantom of the Opera ... read more Broadway: Groundhog Day (Tony nomination), The Play That Goes Wrong, Spring Awakening (Tony nomination), It's Only a Play, Macbeth starring Alan Cumming, Godspell, Kinky Boots (Broadway - Tony Award, National Tour, Toronto, Australia, and West End), The Visit (Tony nomination), Mothers and Sons (Tony nomination), The Bridges of Madison County (National Tour), Allegiance, Chinglish, Oleanna starring Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles, Speed-the-Plow, Will Ferrell's You're Welcome America (Tony nomination), Blithe Spirit (Broadway, West End and National Tour), and 13. Off-Broadway: Daddy Long Legs, Altar Boyz (Co-Conceiver), My First Time (Author), The Awesome 80s Prom (Creator), and Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, ... read more Broadway: Seminar, American Idiot (Tony® nomination), A View From the Bridge (Tony® nomination), Oleanna, Blithe Spirit, On Golden Pond (Tony® nomination). Off-Broadway: Game Show. Regional: Poor Behavior and Oleanna at the Mark Taper Forum, The Subject Was Roses at the Kennedy Center. National tours: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber; On Golden Pond; The Who’s Tommy; Leader of the Pack; Tell Me on a Sunday; Promises, Promises; Company; Chess; and numerous Broadway Songbooks concert tours. In 1992, Jeffrey Finn Productions launched a corporate events company, Hot On Broadway, to produce customized corporate entertainment exclusively featuring current Broadway performers. Other current ... read more Elie Hirschfeld is a Tony Award voting member of The Broadway League. He has produced and co-produced numerous Broadway shows, including Equus, Passing Strange, and Oleanna ... read more 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 Recent Broadway productions include Elling, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Oleanna, The Royal Family, A Man for All Seasons, Mauritius, Inherit the Wind, A Touch of the Poet, Frozen, and Doubt. He has also worked extensively off-Broadway and at most of the nation's leading resident theaters. He has been awarded the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics' Circle, Lucille Lortel, Obie, and Callaway Awards for his productions. ... read more Broadway: Seminar; The Motherf**ker With the Hat; The Pitmen Painters; Next Fall; Oleanna; You’re Welcome America. A Final Night With George W Bush; Mauritius; Doubt; The Goat. National tour: Doubt. Off-Broadway: Wit, The Laramie Project, Beckett/Albee, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, as well as productions at Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Theatre Company, the Public Theater/Shakespeare in the Park, New York Theatre Workshop, Center Theatre Group and the live HBO telecast of Will Ferrell’s You’re Welcome America. ... read more Recent Designs include Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) (Royal Court London), Mughal-e-Azam (NCPA Mumbai), Born for This (The Broad Stage, L.A.), The Crucible (Glimmerglass Festival), Indian Ink (Roundabout), Mr Burns, a post-electric play and Stage Kiss (Playwrights Horizons) and Norma (L.A. Opera). TV/film production design for "The Path" (Hulu), "In Treatment" (HBO), "Little Boxes" (Netflix), Some Velvet Morning (Tribeca Films). Exhibition designs for Space, Force, Construction; VAC Foundation, Venice. ... read more Rick Sordelet - Fight Director - Rick and his son and partner, Christian Kelly-Sordelet, created SORDELET INC, www.sordeletinc.com with 73 Broadway credits that include Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, and Wolf Hall. Also staged the fights for the opera Cyrano de Bergerac starring Placido Domingo at the Metropolitan Opera, The Royal Opera House, and the LaScala in Milan, Italy; and for over 65 productions on five continents including Ben Hur Live European Tour and sit down in Rome. Film: Ben is Back starring Julia Roberts and Lucas Hedges, The Game Plan starring Dwayne Johnson; Dan in ... read more A native of Portland, OR, Alan earned his bachelor's degree at Columbia University, majoring in music composition and orchestration, and got his start in the professional theater at Circle in the Square - first as subscription manager and later as assistant managing director. After years of gaining experience on the road with touring productions, Alan was appointed general manager of productions for The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 1985. It was while there that Wasser began his long, enormously successful professional relationship with Mackintosh, starting with the United States premiere of Les Misérables in December, 1986 ... read more