Production Staff
BROADWAY: Matilda, Bullets Over Broadway, Bronx Bombers, Hands on a Hardbody. OFF-BROADWAY: Abundance (TACT), Punk Rock, The Village Bike, The Third Story (MCC Theater); Venice (Public Theater); Bronx Bombers (Primary Stages). REGIONAL: August: Osage County, Divine Rivalry, Dividing the Estate, Jane Austen’s Emma, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, The Madness of George III, Cyrano de Bergerac, Working (The Old Globe); Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Hands on a Hardbody, Milk Like Sugar, Creditors, The Third Story (La Jolla Playhouse). MFA UC San Diego. ... read more
Choreographer
Lee Sunday Evans is a two-time Obie Award-winning Director + Choreographer and the Artistic Director of Waterwell.
With Waterwell, she directed The Courtroom, a reenactment of one woman’s deportation proceedings performed entirely from court transcripts arranged by Arian Moayed – this piece was named on The New York Times’ Best Theater of 2019 List. She also led the creation of The Flores Exhibits, a series of videos in which artists, advocates, lawyers and immigrants read testimony of children held in detention facilities at the U.S./Mexico Border. Her work has been seen at BAM, The Public Theater, Lincoln Center, Playwrights Horizons, Steppenwolf, ... read more
Broadway: Trouble in Mind (Roundabout). Off-Broadway: Shhhh (Atlantic); one in two (The New Group); Nollywood Dreams, School Girls… (MCC); Sugar in Our Wounds (MTC, Lucille Lortel Award); A Strange Loop (Special Citation Obie), Selling Kabul, Dance Nation (Playwrights Horizons); To My Girls (Second Stage); Fires in the Mirror (Signature). Regional: Alley Theatre, Berkeley Rep, CTG, Guthrie, Steppenwolf, Woolly Mammoth. International Tour: The Magnetic Fields: 50 Song Memoir. 2020 Obie Sustained Excellence in Set Design, Princess Grace Fabergé Theater Award, Henry Hewes Design Award nominee. For Brian. ... read more
BARBARA SAMUELS is a New York based lighting designer for Live Performance. Select NY: In The Green (LCT3), The Mother of Us All (MetMuseum), Hurricane Diane (NYTW/WP), Rags Parkland... (Ars Nova, Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk Noms.), Acquanetta (Summerscape, Prototype), Dance Nation (Playwrights Horizons, Hewes Nom.), The Things That Were There and Singlet (The Bushwick Starr), The Rape of The Sabine Women (Playwrights Realm), Orange Julius (Rattlestick/P73, Hewes Nom.), …Great Lakes (New Georges/WP); Caught (PlayCo), O, Earth (Foundry Theatre, Henry Hewes Nomination); Regional: KC Rep, Shakespeare Theater Company, American Conservatory Theater, Pig Iron, Long Wharf, Playmakers Rep, The Alley, and Trinity Rep. Proud USA829 Member. BA, Fordham; MFA, NYU. www.barbarasamuels.com ... read more
Awards and Nominations
2019 Drama Desk Awards
Ensemble Award: Purva Bedi won.
2019 Drama League Awards
Distinguished Performance Award: Eboni Booth was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play: Dance Nation was nominated but did not win.
2019 Obie Awards
Special Citations: Clare Barron won.
Special Citations: Lee Sunday Evans won.
2019 The Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Clare Barron was nominated but did not win.