Into the Woods - Broadway Creative Team

Lapine is an American stage director, playwright, screenwriter, and librettist. He has won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical three times, for Into the Woods, Falsettos, and Passion. He has frequently collaborated with Stephen Sondheim and William Finn. ... read more Rob Berman is an Emmy and Grammy Award-winning, New York-based conductor and music director. For fifteen years he was the music director of Encores!, New York City Center’s acclaimed series of great American musicals in concert, where he conducted over thirty productions, including the recent revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods, which transferred to a Broadway run and for which he received a Grammy Award as co-producer of the original cast recording. For nine years, Rob was music director of the Kennedy Center Honors, for which he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction. Other Broadway ... read more Lear deBessonet is the Founder of Public Works and Resident Director at the Public Theater. For Public Works, she has directed pageant-style musical adaptations of The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, and The Odyssey at the Delacorte, each featuring two-hundred New Yorkers from all five boroughs. ... read more Andrea Hood is a talented actress, singer, and dancer who has made a name for herself on both the Broadway stage and in television and film. Born and raised in New York City, Hood began her career as a child performer, appearing in numerous commercials and stage productions. She went on to attend the prestigious Juilliard School, where she honed her craft and developed her unique style. Hood made her Broadway debut in the hit musical "The Lion King," where she played the role of Nala. Her powerful voice and commanding stage presence quickly caught the attention of audiences and critics ... read more Cookie Jordan is a multi-talented actress, singer, and dancer who has made a name for herself in both stage and screen. She was born and raised in New York City, where she began her career in the arts at a young age. Her passion for performing led her to pursue a degree in theater at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Jordan made her Broadway debut in the original production of "Dreamgirls" in 1981, where she played the role of Effie White. Her powerful vocals and emotional performance earned her critical acclaim and a Tony Award nomination for Best ... read more Lorin Latarro: Choreographer of Broadway’s upcoming TOMMY, INTO THE WOODS, WAITRESS, MRS. DOUBTFIRE, LES LIASONS DANGEREUSE with Janet McTeer and Live Schreiber, WAITING FOR GODOT with Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stuart, MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG for Roundabout, and LA TRAVIATA at The Met Opera. Lorin recently directed Candace Bushnell’s one woman show, IS THERE STILL SEX IN THE CITY at the Daryl Roth Theatre, which became a NYTimes Critic’s Pick. Additional Directing credits #DATEME at The Westside Theatre, A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME at Chicago’s Nederlander Broadway. Additional Choreography includes Encores OLIVER, CHESS at ... read more Lehrer's recent credits New York include Carousel; Hello, Dolly!; Illyria; The Front Page; The Gabriels; Shuffle Along…; Fiddler on the Roof; Dames at Sea; The King and I (also London); Living on Love; Honeymoon in Vegas; Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance; Love Letters; A Raisin in the Sun; Betrayal; Lucky Guy; South Pacific (first Tony Award for Sound Design); Death of a Salesman; The Apple Family Plays: Scenes from Life in the Country; and over 60 City Center Encores! productions including Chicago. Recordings include An American in Paris (Grammy Award nomination), Loudon Wainwright’s High Wide and Handsome (Grammy Award), and ... read more Recent Off-Broadway: A Midsummer Nights' Dream (Public, Delacorte Theater, Central Park), The Antipodes (Signature), The Effect (Barrow Street), Familiar, Antlia Pneumatica (Playwrights Horizons, Drama Desk nomination). Other notable Off-Broadway: When The Rain Stops Falling (Lincoln Center Theater, Lucille Lortel Award), Blasted (Soho Rep, American Theatre Wing Hewes Award), Bug (Lucille Lortel and OBIE Awards). 2010 OBIE award for Sustained Excellence. ... read more Based in New York City, James Ortiz is a director, actor, writer, designer, and puppeteer. He was the recipient of the 2016 OBIE Award for Puppet Design for his critically acclaimed Off-Broadway show, The Woodsman. Ortiz is co-artistic director of Strangemen & Company, which was founded in 2010 by graduates of the Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Purchase. Through spectacular life-size puppetry and original music by violinist Edward W. Hardy, the ensemble of Strangemen & Co. presented an inventive take on one of America’s original fairy tales. The Woodsman (which featured nine Purchase alums) debuted in 2012 at Standard ToyKraft in Brooklyn, ... read more