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Birthday Candles - Broadway Creative Team


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Production Staff

Noah Haidle Playwright
Vivienne Benesch Director
John Gromada Sound Design
John Gromada (Composer/Sound Designer) has composed music or designed sound for more 40 Broadway productions, including All My Sons, Torch Song, The Elephant Man, The Trip to Bountiful with Cicely Tyson (Tony nomination), Gore Vidal's The Best Man (Drama Desk Award), Clybourne Park, Seminar, Man and Boy, The Columnist, Next Fall, A Bronx Tale, Prelude to a Kiss, Proof, A Streetcar Named Desire, Twelve Angry Men, and the original A Few Good Men. His other New York credits include Amy and the Orphans, Bruce Norris' Domesticated, Old Hats, Measure for Measure (Delacorte Theater), The Orphans? Home Cycle (Drama Desk ... read more
Kate Hopgood Original Music
Kate Hopgood is a sound designer, composer, and musician. Broadway: BIRTHDAY CANDLES with Debra Messing, directed by Vivienne Benesch. Her designs and original music have also been heard at the Detroit Public Theatre, Goodman Theatre's 2018 New Stages Festival, the Michigan Shakespeare Festival, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, Lifeline Theatre, and Babes with Blades Theatre Company. Kate's sound designs are also featured in QLab 4: Projects in Video, Audio, and Lighting Control published by Focal Press. For more info, visit katehopgood.com or SoundCloud. ... read more
Toni-Leslie James Costume Design
Broadway: Bernhardt/Hamlet; Come From Away; August Wilson’s Jitney; Amazing Grace; Lucky Guy; The Scottsboro Boys; Finian’s Rainbow; Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life; Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; King Hedley II; One Mo’ Time; The Wild Party; Marie Christine; Footloose; The Tempest; Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992; Angels in America: Millennium Approaches & Perestroika; Chronicle of a Death Foretold; and Jelly’s Last Jam. Off-Broadway: The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, Soho Rep, Lincoln Center Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Manhattan Theatre Club, and the Roundabout Theatre, among others. Regional: Berkeley Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Steppenwolf, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, the ... read more
Christine Jones Set Design
CHRISTINE JONES is a Tony-award winning set designer and the Artistic Director of the critically acclaimed Theatre for One, a portable private performing arts space for one actor and one audience member. Her Olivier and Tony Award winning scenography can currently be seen on Broadway and in the original London production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Along with co-designer Brett J. Banakis, Jones redesigned The Lyric Theatre in NYC, home to the first American production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Jones, along with co-designer Amy Rubin, most recently worked on Cyrano at The New Group, starring ... read more
Jen Schriever Lighting Design

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Awards and Nominations

2022 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding New Broadway Play: Birthday Candles was nominated but did not win.

2021 Theatre World Awards
Theatre World Awards: Enrico Colantoni won.
Theatre World Awards: Crystal Finn won.

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