Monsoon Wedding - Off-Broadway Creative Team

MASI ASARE is a composer, lyricist, and playwright. Shows include: THE FAMILY RESEMBLANCE (book/music/lyrics; Theatre Royal Stratford East commission, Eugene O’Neill Center); a new musical about a story of racial passing (book/music/lyrics) commissioned by Barbara Whitman/Grove Entertainment; the new musical adaptation of Mira Nair’s film MONSOON WEDDING (lyrics); a one-act play about Ms. Marvel MIRROR OF MOST VALUE (Marvel/Samuel French); a new musical commissioned by Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theatre/Toulmin Foundation; and spy musical SYMPATHY JONES (music/lyrics/concept; NYMF; Playscripts). A past Dramatists Guild Fellow, Masi won the Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award for a woman composer of musicals, both the Holof Lyricist ... read more ... read more Susan Birkenhead is an American lyricist. Birkenhead made her Broadway debut as one of a team of songwriters contributing to Working (1978), for which she received her first Tony Award nomination. Her second was earned for Jelly's Last Jam (1992), which won her the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics and a Grammy Award nomination. Additional Broadway credits include Triumph of Love (Drama Desk nomination) and additional lyrics for the Cole Porter tunes in the 1998 revival of High Society. Birkenhead's Off-Broadway and regional theatre credits include What About Luv?, a musical adaptation of the Murray Schisgal play Luv, for which she ... read more ... read more ... read more Jason Ardizzone-West (set design) works on Broadway (associate/assistant for Bullets Over Broadway, If/Then; set designer for Bullets Over Broadway National Tour), Off Broadway (The Orion Experience), and most recently with Juilliard (Measure For Measure, The Winter’s Tale, Rabbit Hole). Jason teaches set design at NYU Tisch, and is a member of USA 829. www.ardizzonewest.com ... read more Carrie-Anne is an Olivier Award-nominated choreographer for her work on SIX. Choreography theatre credits include Welcome to Iran (Stratford East/National Theatre, April 2020), This Is My Family (Chichester Festival Theatre), Tales of the Turntable (Southbank Centre), Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense (Duke of York’s Theatre/U.K. tour), The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party (Royal Opera House/The Roundhouse), The Suicide (The National), R&D (Hampstead Theatre), Back to the Lab (Sadler’s Wells), The Catherine Tate Show Live (U.K. tour), Into the Hoods Remixed (Peacock Theatre/U.K. tour) and Some Like it Hip Hop (Peacock Theatre/U.K. tour). ... read more Bradley King is a multiple award-winning lighting designer for theater, opera, and live performance. On Broadway, his designs for both Hadestown and Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 earned Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle awards, as well as a Live Design Achievement of the Year. His collaborations with the Tony award-winning director Rachel Chavkin include Hadestown (The Citadel, NYTW; Drama Desk Nom.), Lempicka (Williamstown), The Royal Family (The Guthrie), Preludes (LCT3), The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls (Yale Rep), and Uncle Vanya (CSC). In New York, his work has been seen at Roundabout Theatre Company, LCT3, Playwrights ... read more JAMSHIED SHARIFI is a New York-based composer, producer, and keyboardist. He has composed the scores for the feature films Harriet The Spy, Down To Earth, Clockstoppers, and Muppets From Space, as well as contributing music to numerous other films and television shows. As a producer, arranger, and keyboardist, he has recorded and/or performed with Paula Cole, Ray Charles, Dream Theater, Laurie Anderson, Hassan Hakmoun, and many others. Recent projects include composing Awakening, a long-form piece for the M.I.T. Wind Ensemble; arrangements for the Montreal Symphony and the National Symphony; and orchestrations for Sting's Broadway musical The Last Ship. ... read more