The Light in the Piazza - Chicago (Regional) Creative Team

iAdam Guettel is a composer/lyricist. Theatre includes The Light In the Piazza (2005; Tony Award for Best Original Score; Grammy Award nomination for Best Musical Theater Album; cast album on Nonesuch Records), Floyd Collins (1996 at Playwrights Horizons; Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical, Obie Award for Best Music; cast album on Nonesuch Records), and Saturn Returns (1998 at The Public Theater; recorded by Nonesuch Records as Myths and Hymns). Other awards include the Stephen Sondheim Award (1990), the ASCAP New Horizons Award (1997), and the American Composers Orchestra Award (2005). He received an honorary doctorate from Lehman College in ... read more Arthur Laurents was a renowned American playwright, screenwriter, and director who was born on July 14, 1917, in Brooklyn, New York. He was a prominent figure in the entertainment industry for over six decades and was widely regarded as one of the most influential playwrights of his generation. Laurents began his career in the theater as an assistant to playwrights such as Robert E. Sherwood and Moss Hart. He made his Broadway debut as a playwright in 1945 with the play "Home of the Brave," which dealt with anti-Semitism in the military. The play was a critical and commercial success and ... read more Plays include Missing Persons, Reckless, Blue Window, Prelude to a Kiss, God’s Heart, The Dying Gaul, Stranger, Small Tragedy, The Singing Forest, Ode To Joy, I Was Most Alive With You. Screenplays include Longtime Companion (Sundance Audience Award), The Secret Lives of Dentists (NY Film Critics Best Screenplay Award), Reckless, Blue Window, The Dying Gaul. Libretti include The Light in the Piazza, Two Boys, Orpheus in Love, 3 Postcards, An American in Paris, Amélie, Sousatzka. He directed the world premiere of The Light in the Piazza, Harry Kondoleon’s plays Saved Or Destroyed and Play Yourself, and the films The Dying ... read more ... read more Broadway: The Last Ship, Rocky (Tony nomination), Superior Donuts, 110 in the Shade (Tony nomination), Well, Awake and Sing! (Tony nomination), The Light in the Piazza (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics' Awards), and Seven Guitars (Tony nomination) among others. Martha Clarke's Angel Reapers, Kaos, Garden of Earthly Delights (revival), and Belle Epoche. Other NY: Atlantic, Manhattan Theater Club, NYTW, Public, and Roundabout. Recent Opera: St Louis, Santa Fe, Washington National, Wexford. ... read more More than 30 Broadway shows since 2000 including Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Tony nomination), The Merchant of Venice, Lombardi, Fences (Tony nomination), The Addams Family, Ragtime, Hair (Tony nomination), In the Heights (Tony nomination), [title of show], Legally Blonde, A Chorus Line (2006), The Drowsy Chaperone, The Light in the Piazza, Monty Python's Spamalot, Avenue Q, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and La Bohème. Acme is Tom Clark, Mark Menard, Nevin Steinbergand Sten Severson. ... read more Bartlett Sher is the Resident Director of Lincoln Center Theater, where his productions include Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady, J.T. Rogers' Oslo (Tony nomination), Rodgers & Hammerstein's The King and I (Tony nomination), Golden Boy (Tony nomination), Blood & Gifts, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Tony nomination), South Pacific (Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle awards), Awake and Sing! (Tony nomination), and The Light in the Piazza (Tony nomination). He directed the recent Broadway productions of Fiddler on the Roof and The Bridges of Madison County (also Williamstown Theatre Festival), as ... read more LCT: The King and I, South Pacific, The Light in the Piazza (Tony, Drama Desk awards), A Man of No Importance, A New Brain, My Favorite Year. Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof, Guys and Dolls, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Full Monty, Titanic (actor), Kiss of the Spider Woman, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Drood, Sunday in the Park with George. Off- Broadway: Red Eye of Love, The Other Josh Cohen, Striking 12, See What I Wanna See (director); Saturn Returns, Floyd Collins, Romance in Hard Times (music director). Artistic director, MasterVoices; principal conductor, Westchester Philharmonic; creative director ... read more