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Spring Awakening - Broadway Creative Team


Spring Awakening Broadway

Production Staff

Steven Sater Bookwriter
Lyricist
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Duncan Sheik Composer
Duncan Sheik is perhaps best known as the Tony and Grammy winning composer behind SPRING AWAKENING. As mentioned, he also wrote the music and lyrics for AMERICAN PSYCHO. ... read more
Frank Wedekind Source Material
(Based on play)
Four-time Tony-winning brother & sister producing team, Luigi & Rose Caiola. Rose is Artistic Director of Manhattan Music & Arts Center (MMAC). Broadway: Tony Awards: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, All The Way, The Color Purple, Dear Evan Hansen. Recent: Sunday in the Park With George. Upcoming: Pretty Woman: The Musical. ... read more
Michael Arden Director
Michael Arden is a Tony-nominated director for his revival of Spring Awakening. The acclaimed production transferred from Deaf West Theater in Los Angeles to Broadway in fall 2015. He also won the Outer Critics Circle for Outstanding Director of a Musical and was nominated for a Drama Desk award for the production. Michael made his Broadway debut in Deaf West Theater and the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Big River. Other directing credits include My Fair Lady at Bay Street Theater; Merrily We Roll Along at the Wallis Annenberg Center in Los Angeles, where he is currently the Artist in ... read more
Hunter Arnold Producer
Broadway theatre credits include: The Heart of Rock and Roll, Cabaret, The Notebook, Harmony, Purlie Victorious, , Back to the Future, Here Lies Love, Once Upon a One MOre Time, Life of Pi, Dancin' , A Doll's House, Pictures from Home, Some Like It Hot, A Beautiful Noise, KPOP, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Broadhurst Theatre); Hadestown (Walter Kerr Theatre - Tony Nomination); Pretty Woman: The Musical (Nederlander Theatre); Anastasia (Broadhurst Theatre); Dear Evan Hansen (Music Box Theatre - Tony Award); Kinky Boots (Al Hirschfeld Theatre - Tony Award and Olivier Award); Gettin’ the Band Back Together ... read more
Ryan Conway General Management
Carl Daikeler Producer
Broadway: Anastasia, Disaster!, Spring Awakening, The Visit, It's Only a Play, The Bridges of Madison County and Macbeth. Has supported other productions including The Goat..., Mothers and Sons, Kinky Boots & more. Daikeler spent his teens working behind the scenes at his family's Bucks County Playhouse, and intends to spend his 50s supporting theatre on Broadway. ... read more
Ken Davenport Producer
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
Carol F. Doran Hair and Wig Designer
Kayla Greenspan Associate Producer
David J. Kurs Producer
Dane Laffrey Scenic and Costume Designer
Broadway: set and costumes for Deaf West's Spring Awakening, set for Fool For Love. Recent off-Broadway: set and/or costumes for Rancho Viejo, Indian Summer, The Christians, Iowa (Playwrights Horizons), Sell.Buy.Date (Manhattan Theatre Club), Homos, or Everyone in America (Labyrinth), The Harvest, (Lincoln Center), The Glory of the World (B.A.M. Harvey), Cloud 9 (Atlantic) and other work at Roundabout, Second Stage, Vineyard Theatre, Lincoln Center Theatre, MCC, SoHo Rep, Rattlestick, Transport Group and many others. Regional work at The Humana Festival, Mark Taper Forum, Shakespeare Theatre, The Old Globe, Huntington Theatre Company, The Wallis Annenberg Center, Denver Center, Goodspeed, Woolly Mammoth, ... read more
Cody Lassen Producer
Cody Lassen was most recently represented on Broadway by Paula Vogel’s Indecent and the Deaf West Theatre revival of Spring Awakening. Upcoming: How I Learned to Drive (opening April 19.) Recent co-producing credits include Thoughts of a Colored Man, What The Constitution Means To Me, Tootsie, Torch Song, The Band's Visit, and Significant Other. Upcoming: Some Lovers, a new musical by Burt Bacharach & Steven Sater; The Flamingo Kid by Robert Freidman & Scott Frankel; Alice By Heart, by Duncan Sheik, Steven Sater & Jessie Nelson; and The 12 by Robert Schenkkan & Neil ... read more
Spencer Liff Choreographer
Lucy Mackinnon Projection Designer
DTE Management General Management
Sandi Moran Producer
Sandi Moran is an American Theatre Producer and Philanthropist. A three-time Tony Award winner, her Broadway credits include Moulin Rouge! (Best Musical), Hadestown (Best Musical), Once on This Island (Best Revival of a Musical), Head Over Heels, Anastasia, Disaster!, Allegiance, Deaf West Theatre's Spring Awakening, and more. Sandi and her husband Tom have called Naples home for more than 30 years. Passionate about the community and its children, most of the couple’s charitable endeavors involve partnering with organizations to meet children’s basic needs, including nurturing their academic success or promoting arts education. They have been longtime supporters of many children’s and ... read more
Gareth Owen Sound Designer
Sound Design Award highlights : Tony Award & Drama Desk Award for MJ: THE MUSICAL. Olivier Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Broadway World Award, Green Room Award, Dora Award, Craig Noel Award, and the WhatsOnStage Award for COME FROM AWAY; Olivier Award for MEMPHIS, Olivier Award for MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, Tony nomination for A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, Tony nomination for END OF THE RAINBOW, Olivier nomination for BACK TO THE FUTURE, Olivier nomination for BAT OUT OF HELL, Olivier nomination for TOP HAT, Olivier nomination for END OF THE RAINBOW, and Pro Sound Award for SOUND ENGINEER OF THE ... read more Broadway: Spring Awakening (Revival - Tony Nom.), The Visit (Associate Producer). Off-Broadway: The View Upstairs, Puffs, Clinton the Musical. Film: Loserville www.invisiblewallproductions.com ... read more
Alice Rix Associate Producer
Monica Rosenthal Producer
Duncan Sheik Orchestrations
Duncan Sheik is perhaps best known as the Tony and Grammy winning composer behind SPRING AWAKENING. As mentioned, he also wrote the music and lyrics for AMERICAN PSYCHO. ... read more
Brian J. Smith Producer
While enrolled at Collin College, Smith worked as theatre technician. He was later cast as Alex in A Clockwork Orange in a Quad C Theatre production to a positive review from the Dallas Observer. In 2005, he portrayed Trey, a gay man facing intolerance from the son of a fundamentalist preacher, in Hate Crime, an independent film that featured at gay and lesbian film festivals around the United States. Smith eventually received acting roles in two more independent films, Red Hook and The War Boys. In 2008, he appeared on Broadway in the play Come Back, Little Sheba as the character ... read more
Ben Stanton Lighting Designer
LCT: Junk, Kill Floor, The Coward (LCT3). Broadway: Six Degrees of Separation, Fully Committed, Fun Home (Tony nomination), Deaf West's Spring Awakening (Tony nom.), An Enemy of the People, Seminar. Recent Off-Broadway: Napoli, Brooklyn (Roundabout); Derren Brown: Secret (Atlantic Theater); Marjorie Prime, The Christians (Playwrights Horizons); Yen, The Legend of Georgia McBride, The Nether (Lortel noms.; MCC); Fun Home (Lortel nom.; The Public); Piece of My Heart, Our Lady of Kibeho (Drama Desk nom.), Kung Fu, Angels in America (Signature); Incognito, Murder Ballad (Lortel nom.; MTC); Belleville (Lortel nom.; New York Theatre Workshop); Into the Woods (Delacorte); The Whipp ng ... read more
R&D Theatricals Producer

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Awards and Nominations

2016 BroadwayWorld Awards
Best Revival of a Musical: Spring Awakening won.

2016 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Choreography: Spencer Liff was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Director of a Musical: Michael Arden was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical: Ben Stanton was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Revival of a Musical: She Loves Me won.
Outstanding Revival of a Musical: Spring Awakening was nominated but did not win.

2016 Drama League Awards
Outstanding Revival of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical: Spring Awakening was nominated but did not win.

2016 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding Choreography: Spencer Liff was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Director of a Musical: Michael Arden won.
Outstanding Lighting Design (Play or Musical): Ben Stanton was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Projection Design (Play or Musical): Lucy Mackinnon was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Revival of a Musical (Broadway or off-Broadway): Spring Awakening was nominated but did not win.

2016 Tony Awards
Best Direction of a Musical: Michael Arden was nominated but did not win.
Best Lighting Design of a Musical: Ben Stanton was nominated but did not win.
Best Revival of a Musical: Spring Awakening was nominated but did not win.

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