Production Staff
Wayne Barker
Composer
2011 Drama Desk award for Peter & The Starcatcher at New York Theatre Workshop.
Broadway: On stage with Dame Edna in Back With A Vengeance! (composer, and co-lyricist with Barry Humphries). Also for Edna: "We've Made The Most Of Melbourne" (2006 Commonwealth Games) and "Fifty On The Stage" (Royal Command Variety Performance). Regional: The Great Gatsby (Guthrie); Twelfth Night and The Three Musketeers (Seattle Rep).
TV: "A Little Curious" (HBO Family). Other: Mark Bennett's A Midsummer Night's Dream (orchestrations), Chicago City Limits, Radio Active Theater, The Raymond Scott Orchestrette, arrangements for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Chicago, Minnesota, San ... read more
Dave Barry
Source Material
(Based on novel)
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Rick Elice
Playwright
Elice with Marshall Brickman wrote the book for the Broadway musical Jersey Boys, which received a Tony Award nomination and a Drama Desk nomination for best book for a musical in 2006. With Roger Rees, he wrote the popular thriller Double Double, which has been translated into 16 languages.
He wrote Leonardo’s Ring (London Fringe, 2003) and Dog and Pony (New York Stage and Film, 2003). Elice was creative director at Serino Coyne, Inc. (1982–2000), where he produced advertising campaigns for more than 300 Broadway shows including A Chorus Line and The Lion King. He was a creative consultant for Walt ... read more
Ridley Pearson
Source Material
(Based on novel)
(Based on novel)
Greg Casimir
Musical Director
Jess Murphy
Associate Director
National: Collaborators
West End: War Horse
Other theatre includes: Into Thy Hands, Amadeus, The Hostage, The Unspeakable, Brief Encounter, Bedroom Farce, Perhaps Merely Quiet, Blood Wedding, Playing for Time
Films
Hereafter, Will’s Diaries, Sweeney Todd ... read more
Rich Affannato
Producer
Rich Affannato (Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of The STAGE Network) is responsible for developing new and existing Network content, implementing and maintaining its creative vision and direction, as well as managing and overseeing of production and operating budgets, executives, and STAGE staff. He also manages content acquisition, subscription oversight, licensing, sponsorships, investments, and corporate alliances.
Affannato has previously served in a similar capacity managing, developing, and overseeing commercial Broadway, Off-Broadway, Film, and Television productions, as well as International concert event management. He manages and operates Affannato Productions, LLC, a full service Production Company in New York City. Rich is a ... read more
Jillian Cimini
Casting
Jeff Croiter
Lighting Designer
Broadway: Peter and The Starcatcher; Newsies; The Pee-wee Herman Show; Next Fall; Kiki and Herb Alive on Broadway.
Other NYC credits include: Silence The Musical; Love, Loss, and What I Wore; Meet Vera Stark; Side Effects; A Lie of the Mind; Ordinary Days; Knickerbocker; Family Guys Sings; Jerry Springer The Opera; The Voysey Inheritance; The Internationalist; Almost, Maine; Streamers; Rufus Wainwright's Judy Concert at Carnegie Hall; and Jennifer Muller The Works.
Jeff is a producer of Submissions Only. ... read more
Steven Hoggett
Choreographer
(Movement)
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
(Movement)
321 Theatrical Management
General Management
Nina Essman, Nancy Nagel Gibbs and Marcia Goldberg’s Broadway, Off-Broadway and national tour management credits include Sister Act; Wicked; Next to Normal; Traces; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Man of La Mancha; The Graduate; Striking 12; The Vagina Monologues; Bat Boy; and I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change. ... read more
Patrick McCollum
Movement Associate
Credits include Oh, Hello! (Broadway, Cherry Lane Theatre); The Band's Visit (Atlantic Theater Company); The Lightning Thief (Theaterworks, Lortel Theater); Man From Nebraska (Second Stage); Blueprint Specials (Public Theater); Rain (Old Globe), Unknown Soldier (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Wilderness (Abrons Arts Center), Permission (MCC). As associate choreographer on Broadway: The Last Ship, Peter and the Starcatcher, and Rocky; Wicked (Dance Supervisor). ... read more
McKenzie Murphy
Assistant Stage Manager
Marco Paguia
Musical Supervisor
Roger Rees
Director
Off-Broadway: Lynn Nottage's Mud, River, Stone (Playwrights Horizons); Arms and the Man (Roundabout); Here Lies Jenny (Zipper Theater; Post Street Theater).
UK: Associate Artistic Director, 1984-5: Julius Caesar; Turkey Time; John Bull (Bristol Old Vic).
Regional: Artistic Director, 2005-7: Film Society; Rivals; Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio opposite Bebe Neuwirth); Double Double; Simon Grey's The Late Middle Classes; Anything Goes (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Herringbone; (WTF, McCarter Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse); Red Memories (NYSF); Merry Wives of Windsor; Love's Labour's Lost (Old Globe Theatre); Treemonisha; Juniper Tree; White House Cantata; Firebrand of Florence (Collegiate Chorale, NY); "Variety," episode 'OZ' (HBO). ... read more
Thomas Schumacher
Producer and President, Disney Theatrical Group
Thomas Schumacher serves as President & Producer of Disney Theatrical Productions, overseeing the development, creation and execution of Disney's legitimate Stage Entertainment worldwide. The division's credits include Beauty and the Beast, King David, The Lion King, Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida, On the Record, High School Musical, TARZAN, Mary Poppins, The Little Mermaid, Peter and the Starcatcher, Newsies, Aladdin, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Shakespeare in Love, Freaky Friday and Frozen. Recently he served as Executive Producer for the live-action film Beauty and the Beast. As President of Walt Disney Feature Animation, he oversaw some 21 animated features, including The ... read more
Clifford Schwartz
Production Consultant
Alex Timbers
Director
Alex Timbers is a Tony-nominated writer-director and the recipient of Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards, as well as two OBIE Awards.
Credits include: The Pee-wee Herman Show, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (also book writer; Drama Desk, Lortel, and OCC Awards, Tony nomination), A Very Merry Unauthorized Pageant (OBIE Award, Garland Award-Best Director), Gutenberg! The Musical! (Drama Desk nom. - Best Director of a Musical), Peter and the Starcatcher (co-director, OBIE Award- Best Director), Hell House (Drama Desk nom. - Unique Theatrical Experience).
Alex was President of the Yale Dramat and is the Artistic Director of downtown ... read more
Katherine Wallace
Production Stage Manager
Donyale Werle
Set Designer
Broadway: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (2011 Tony Nomination). Off-Broadway: Taming Of The Shrew (Theatre For A New Audience), Peter & The Starcatcher (New York Theatre Workshop, 2011 Lucille Lortel Nom.), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (The Public Theater), Broke-Ology (Lincoln Center Theater), Jollyship The Whizbang (Ars Nova).
Regional: Upcoming Once On This Island (Papermill Playhouse), Allegiance (Old Globe).
Awards: 2011 Obie Award, 2011 Lucille Lortel Award, 2010 Henry Hewes Design Award, 2010 Outer Circle Critics Nominee.
Co-chair: Broadway Green Alliance's Pre/Post Production Committee. ... read more
Darron West
Sound Designer
Paloma Young
Costume Designer
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