F-ing A - Off-Broadway Creative Team

MTC: The Portuguese Kid; The Country House; The Assembled Parties; Accent On Youth; Come Back, Little Sheba; Shining City; Collected Stories; The American Pilot; Moonlight and Magnolias. Broadway: Harvey, A Life in the Theatre, The Lieutenant of Inishmore. Other recent designs include Noura (STC); The Total Bent (The Public); Constellations (Seattle Rep). Awards: BACC, Lortel, AUDELCO Viv. TV and other: HBO, Nickelodeon, Discovery, History Channel, Bravo, A&E, The Learning Channel and Fisher-Price toys. ... read more Greif attended Northwestern University and graduated from the University of California, San Diego graduate directing program. He was the Artistic Director of the La Jolla Playhouse, LaJolla, California from 1994 to 1999. He was an Artistic Associate at the New York Theatre Workshop where he directed, among others, Bright Lights, Big City (1998–99) and the original production of Rent for which he received the Obie Award for direction of a musical and which he later directed on Broadway. Greif has directed several original Broadway musicals and been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical four times. In addition ... read more Manu Narayan made his Broadway debut as Akaash, the romantic lead in the A.R. Rahman/Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Bombay Dreams in 2004, for which he received a Drama League Award nomination. A musical based on the popular cinema of India, Bollywood, Bombay Dreams was the first musical on Broadway ever to be composed by an Indian and starring an all South Asian cast. Narayan was nominated for a 2012 San Diego Critics Circle nomination in the category of Outstanding Featured Performance in a Play, Male for his turn as Ricky Roma in the Fall 2012 production of La Jolla Playhouse's ... read more Kenneth Posner designs extensively on Broadway, off-Broadway, for resident theatres, and touring productions throughout the United States as well as internationally. Some of his Broadway work includes Pretty Woman, Mean Girls, War Paint, Tuck Everlasting, On Your Feet, If/Then, Kinky Boots, Pippin, Cinderella, Hairspray, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Legally Blonde, The Coast of Utopia-Shipwrecked, and Wicked. He is the recipient of the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics’ Circle and OBIE Awards. ... read more Recent Off-Broadway: Regrets, Maple and Vine, A Small Fire, Keep Your Pantheon and School, Home, Jerry Springer: The Opera, Vigil, Almost an Evening, The Piano Teacher, Fever Chart, Scarcity, Celebration and The Room. Recent regional: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Guthrie,) The Crucible (Hartford Stage,) and Three Sisters and We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Yale Rep.) Suddenly Last Summer (Westport.) Associate Designer for Spamalot, Art and Closer. Faculty: Yale School of Drama. ... read more THE PUBLIC is theater of, by, and for all people. Artist-driven, radically inclusive, and fundamentally democratic, The Public continues the work of its visionary founder Joe Papp as a civic institution engaging, both on-stage and off, with some of the most important ideas and social issues of today. Conceived over 60 years ago as one of the nation's first nonprofit theaters, The Public has long operated on the principles that theater is an essential cultural force and that art and culture belong to everyone. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Patrick Willingham, The Public's wide ... read more Broadway: If/Then, Merchant of Venice (Tony nom.), Next to Normal (Tony nom.), Talk Radio, An Almost Holy Picture, Death of a Salesman. Recent New York: Distracted (Roundabout), Punk Rock (MCC), I'm Gonna Pray For You So Hard (Atlantic), Murder Ballad (MTC), A Month in the Country, A Midsummer Night's Dream (CSC), Lonely I'm Not (Second Stage), RENT (New World Stages), The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide... (Public Theater). ... read more