Ruthless! The Musical - West End Creative Team

MARVIN LAIRD is the composer of the award-winning Off-Broadway musical, Ruthless!. His collaboration with Joel Paley, the author/lyricist of that show, has been ongoing for 25 years. Their most recent piece, The Yiddish are Coming…! The Yiddish are Coming…! is currently playing regionally throughout North America. Since the 1960s, he has conducted and/or written dance and vocal arrangements for over two dozen Broadway and West End shows, including the award-winning production of Annie Get Your Gun, and the most recent Broadway revival of Gypsy, both starring Bernadette Peters. Laird supplied the music for the Lar Lubovitch ballet, Smile with My ... read more Darren Bagert is an entertainment creator, producer, and director specializing in all forms of media including live entertainment, fashion, film/television, Broadway and beyond. He is a five-time Tony Award winning producer, as well as the recipient of almost every theatrical award in the industry including the Olivier Award; Drama Desk Award; Outer Critics Circle Award; Lucille Lortel Award; Drama League Award. Project highlights include: MOULIN ROUGE! the Musical -- winner of 10 Tony Awards including the 2021 Best Musical Award -- based on the Baz Luhrmann film, a global sensation spanning multiple markets (New York/Broadway, London/West End, North American Tour, Australia, ... read more West End credits include: Fiddler On The Roof (Playhouse Theatre); Chimerica (Harold Pinter Theatre); Elf – The Musical (Dominion Theatre); Quiz (Noël Coward Theatre); The Girls – A Musical Comedy (Phoenix Theatre); The Go-Between - Staring Michael Crawford (Apollo Theatre); Close To You - Bacharach Reimagined (Criterion Theatre); Impossible (Noël Coward Theatre); Strangers On A Train (Gielgud Theatre); The Full Monty (Noël Coward Theatre & National Tours); Alan Cumming - I Bought A Blue Car Today (Vaudeville Theatre) and Megan Mullally & Supreme Music Program (Vaudeville Theatre) RSC credits include: Timon of Athens, The Rover, Candide (Swan Theatre) and All’s Well ... read more Evan is a native New Yorker and a partner in the personal injury law firm of Sacks and Sacks. In addition to his very successful law career, Evan is an award winning producer winning both the Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel awards for Theatre de Complicite Mnemonic. Evan served as the lead producer of the off-Broadway revival of Ruthless! and lead producer of Ruthless! in London. Other theatre involvement includes Broadway: Hairspray (Tony Award Best Musical); London production of Hairspray (Laurence Olivier Award); Billy Elliot, (Olivier Award); and other New York productions including One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Finian's ... read more