Production Staff
David Gallo has designed over 30 Broadway production, including Memphis, First Date, The Drowsy Chaperone (Tony Award for Best Scenic Design), The Mountaintop, Reasons to Be Pretty, Xanadu, Company, and Thoroughly Modern Millie. Working with August Wilson from 1996 until his death, David designed the premire productions of Wilson's later works, including King Hedley II, Jitney, Gem of the Ocean, and Radio Golf, the latter two of with each garnered him Tony nominations. Other awards: Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Ovation, Obie, LA Drama Critics, Outer Critics Circle, NAACP. ... read more
Susan Hilferty has designed set and costumes for over 400 productions across the globe. Recent designs include Parade (Broadway; Tony nomination), Funny Girl (Broadway), Swept Away (Berkeley Rep and Arena Stage), Hamlet (St. Anne’s Warehouse NY and Gate Theatre, Dublin), Waiting for Godot TFNA/NYC, Richard Nelson’s What Happened?: The Michaels Abroad (Loewe Theatre, NYC), and A Bright Room Called Day (Public Theatre). Her many Broadway designs include Wicked (Tony, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama Desk awards and Olivier nomination), August Wilson’s Radio Golf. Present Laughter (Tony nomination), Hands on a Hardbody, Spring Awakening (Tony nomination), Lestat (Tony nomination), Annie (2013 ... 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
Broadway: The Music Man (Mayor Shinn), On the Twentieth Century, You Can't Take it With You, Relatively Speaking, Losing Louie, "Toad" in A Year With Frog and Toad, "Hysterium" in Forum (Drama League Honor, FANY Award), Neil Simon's Laughter On The 23rd Floor, David Henry Hwang's Face Value, Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury. Encores!: "Heinzie" in The Pajama Game. Joseph Papp's NYSF: All's Well That Ends Well, Othello, Von Richthofen, The Laundry Hour, Alice in Concert (with Meryl Streep). Off-Broadway: Almost An Evening, Chesapeake (Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations), A Flea in Her Ear (Drama League Honor), Beth Henley's The ... read more
Broadway music composition and sound credits include: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Speed of Darkness, My Thing of Love, Superior Donuts, A Year with Frog and Toad, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Hollywood Arms, King Hedley II, Buried Child, The Song of Jacob Zulu and The Grapes of Wrath. Off Broadway music and sound credits include: Inked Baby, After Ashley, Boy Gets Girl, Red, Space, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Marvin's Room, Eyes for Consuela and Ruined. Recent original music and sound credits include: The Bluest Eye (Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre); The Crucible, Good Boys and True ... read more
Rothman co-founded Second Stage in 1979 with the goal to create an open, creative space that served to introduce the community to new, emerging talent and to produce new plays by living American Playwrights. Over the past 45 years, Rothman has produced more than 250 inspiring plays and musicals, introducing the world to bold and diverse voices. Her taste as an artistic director, which the New York Times once called, “eclectic and unpredictable,” has resulted in a wide range of premieres and new interpretations of some of America’s best contemporary theater, as well as catapulted shows to hundreds of productions ... read more
Awards and Nominations
2001 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding Off-Broadway Play: 0 won.
2001 The Lortels
Outstanding Costume Design: Susan Hilferty was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Director: Marion McClinton was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Lighting Design: Donald Holder was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Play: Second Stage Theatre was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Scenic Design: David Gallo won.
Outstanding Sound Design: Robert Milburn was nominated but did not win.
2000 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Director - Play: Marion McClinton won.
Outstanding Ensemble Performance: Cast of "Jitney" won.
Outstanding New Play: August Wilson won.
Outstanding Set Design - Play: David Gallo won.
2000 New York Drama Critics Circle Awards
Best Play: August Wilson won.
2000 The Hewes Awards
Scenic Design: David Gallo won.