Music and Lyrics
Benny Andersson
Born in Stockholm on December 16, 1946. In 1952, he received accordion lessons from his father and grandfather. From 1964–68, he was a member of The Hep Stars, Sweden’s most popular rock band of the 1960s, writing major hits such as “Sunny Girl” and “Wedding.” From 1972–82, Andersson was a member of ABBA, one of the most successful pop groups in history. Between 1982–84, he composed the music for Chess with Björn Ulvaeus and Tim Rice. In 1987, Andersson began collaborating with the folk group Orsa Spelmän, releasing three albums rooted in Swedish folk music: Klinga Mina Klockor, November 1989, and Fiolen Min. In 2001, this collaboration grew into the formation of Benny Andersson’s Orchestra (BAO), a 16-member ensemble featuring vocalists Helen Sjöholm and Tommy Körberg. To date, BAO has released eleven albums and toured extensively across Sweden with its popular summer concerts. From 1990–95, Andersson composed the music for Kristina from Duvemåla, which premiered in October 1995. He is also a founder of ABBA Voyage, the groundbreaking London production featuring ABBA as digital avatars. His many honors include being awarded the Swedish government’s title of Professor, induction into the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (2007), and honorary doctorates from the College of Humanities at Stockholm University (2008) and Luleå University of Technology (2012). Andersson is married to former television producer Mona Nörklit. They have one son, Ludvig Andersson. He also has two children from a previous marriage, Peter Grönvall and Helene Odedahl. He is the proud grandfather of seven: Charlie, Felix, Fabian, Malin, Viola, Leonard, and Eleanor.
Tim Rice
Tim Rice has worked in music, theatre and film since 1965, when he met Andrew Lloyd Webber, a fellow struggling songwriter. Rather than pursue Tim’s ambitions to write rock and pop songs, they turned their attention to Andrew’s obsession: musical theatre. Their first collaboration, The Likes of Us, did not set the theater world alight, but their next three works together did: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar,and Evita. Tim has since worked with other distinguished composers such as Elton John (The Lion King, Aida), Alan Menken (Aladdin, King David, Beauty and the Beast), Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson (Chess), and Stuart Brayson (From Here To Eternity). He has also written with Freddie Mercury, Burt Bacharach, Graham Gouldman, Gary Barlow and Rick Wakeman among others. Many of his musicals continue to play around the world in a huge variety of productions, big and small. In 2024-25, Tim toured the UK and Ireland (56 dates in all) with My Life in Musicals, an evening of his songs, mercifully performed by top singers and musicians rather than by him, to which he added reminiscence and comment, recalling their creation, success (or rejection), and the joy (usually) of working with great composers. Sir Tim’s interests beyond music, film and theatre include cricket. He founded his own team in 1973. Heartaches Cricket Club has now played over 750 matches and been on playing tours to the USA, Russia, France, Estonia, Hungary, Germany, and South Africa. He was President of the world’s most famous cricket club, MCC, in 2002. He has recently recorded a series of talks for BBC Maestro on Writing and Performing in Musical Theatre. He writes and presents a podcast (titled Get Onto My Cloud) about his sixty-year career, playing hits and flops, outtakes and number ones. He dedicates considerable time to several British educational institutions and charities, many connected with sport for disadvantaged children. He is a patron of the Bob Willis Fund (along with Bob Dylan!), an enterprise inspired by the late great English cricketer, dedicated to raise prostate cancer awareness. He crops up here and there in all branches of the media drawing on his extensive knowledge of the history of popular music. He has won several awards, mainly for the wrong thing or for simply turning up, but since you ask: 1 Emmy, 5 Grammys, 3 Tonys and 3 Oscars, making him an EGOT. His shows have spent more weeks on Broadway than those of any other British lyricist. He was knighted by Her Late Majesty the Queen in 1994. Despite requests, he is not retiring just yet.
Björn Ulvaeus
Björn fell in love with rock ’n’ roll and skiffle in the mid-1950s. By the early 1960s, he was a member of the folk group the West Bay Singers. In 1963, the group entered a talent contest and was discovered by publisher Stig Anderson and Bengt Bernhag. The band was renamed the Hootenanny Singers and soon became one of Sweden’s most popular acts. In 1966, Björn had a chance meeting with Benny Andersson, then a member of The Hep Stars, Sweden’s top pop group. Their friendship sparked a songwriting partnership, and they wrote their first song together, Isn’t It Easy to Say. By 1970, the two were releasing records as a duo and staging a cabaret show with their fiancées, Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. From 1972 through the next decade, Björn was fully engaged with ABBA, creating one of the most successful music groups of all time. In 1983, he and Benny began work on the musical Chess with lyricist Tim Rice. A concept album was released in 1984, followed by a stage production in London’s West End in 1986 and on Broadway in 1988. Their next major stage work, Kristina from Duvemåla, opened in Stockholm in October 1995, based on Vilhelm Moberg’s epic novel series The Emigrants. Björn continues to collaborate with Benny on songs for Benny Andersson’s Orchestra (BAO). In 1999, with producer Judy Craymer, he co-created Mamma Mia!, the first jukebox musical, which became a global sensation. He was directly involved in countless productions of Mamma Mia! around the world, as well as both the 2008 and 2018 film adaptations. He also co-wrote and produced Mamma Mia! The Party, an immersive dinner-theatre experience first staged in Stockholm in 2016, which continues to run in Gothenburg and London. In 2021, ABBA released Voyage, their first studio album in 40 years, alongside ABBA Voyage, the groundbreaking virtual concert residency in London. Beyond his musical career, Björn serves as President of CISAC (the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers), the world’s umbrella organization for royalty-collecting societies. He is also a co-developer of Session, a digital tool designed to capture and secure songwriting metadata during the creative process. In 2014, together with EQT founder Conni Jonsson, Björn co-founded Pophouse Entertainment. Pophouse develops and produces entertainment properties across music, podcasts, and gaming, and in 2022 expanded into large-scale music catalog investments.
Based On An Idea By
Tim Rice
Tim Rice has worked in music, theatre and film since 1965, when he met Andrew Lloyd Webber, a fellow struggling songwriter. Rather than pursue Tim’s ambitions to write rock and pop songs, they turned their attention to Andrew’s obsession: musical theatre. Their first collaboration, The Likes of Us, did not set the theater world alight, but their next three works together did: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar,and Evita. Tim has since worked with other distinguished composers such as Elton John (The Lion King, Aida), Alan Menken (Aladdin, King David, Beauty and the Beast), Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson (Chess), and Stuart Brayson (From Here To Eternity). He has also written with Freddie Mercury, Burt Bacharach, Graham Gouldman, Gary Barlow and Rick Wakeman among others. Many of his musicals continue to play around the world in a huge variety of productions, big and small. In 2024-25, Tim toured the UK and Ireland (56 dates in all) with My Life in Musicals, an evening of his songs, mercifully performed by top singers and musicians rather than by him, to which he added reminiscence and comment, recalling their creation, success (or rejection), and the joy (usually) of working with great composers. Sir Tim’s interests beyond music, film and theatre include cricket. He founded his own team in 1973. Heartaches Cricket Club has now played over 750 matches and been on playing tours to the USA, Russia, France, Estonia, Hungary, Germany, and South Africa. He was President of the world’s most famous cricket club, MCC, in 2002. He has recently recorded a series of talks for BBC Maestro on Writing and Performing in Musical Theatre. He writes and presents a podcast (titled Get Onto My Cloud) about his sixty-year career, playing hits and flops, outtakes and number ones. He dedicates considerable time to several British educational institutions and charities, many connected with sport for disadvantaged children. He is a patron of the Bob Willis Fund (along with Bob Dylan!), an enterprise inspired by the late great English cricketer, dedicated to raise prostate cancer awareness. He crops up here and there in all branches of the media drawing on his extensive knowledge of the history of popular music. He has won several awards, mainly for the wrong thing or for simply turning up, but since you ask: 1 Emmy, 5 Grammys, 3 Tonys and 3 Oscars, making him an EGOT. His shows have spent more weeks on Broadway than those of any other British lyricist. He was knighted by Her Late Majesty the Queen in 1994. Despite requests, he is not retiring just yet.
New Book By
Danny Strong
Danny Strong is an Emmy and Golden Globe-winning writer, director, actor, and producer. He is the creator, showrunner, writer and director of the award-winning Hulu series “Dopesick,” starring Michael Keaton and Rosario Dawson. He was also the co-creator, executive producer, writer, and director for the hit FOX series “Empire.” He wrote the screenplays for the films Recount, Game Change, The Butler, Rebel in the Rye (which he also directed), and co wrote The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Parts 1 & 2. For theater, in addition to his new book for Chess, he is also writing the book for the new musical Galileo that premiered at Berkeley Rep in May 2024. As an actor, he’s appeared in major roles in several iconic TV shows and films including “Billions,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Mad Men,” “Girls,” “Justified,” “Gilmore Girls” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” On stage, he’s appeared in over 50 plays and musicals in regional theaters and in Los Angeles. He's won many awards including two Primetime Emmy Awards, two WGA awards, two Peabody awards, a PGA Award, a Golden Globe, the PEN USA Literary Award, the Scripter Award, a DGA nomination and the NAACP Image Award. He is a graduate of the USC School of Dramatic Arts.
Director
Michael Mayer
Award-winning director Michael Mayer has worked across a broad spectrum of media, from theatre and opera to television and film. Current theatre: the hit revival of Little Shop of Horrors (now in its sixth year at the Westside Theatre); the national tour of his Broadway revival of Funny Girl (which starred Lea Michele); and the national tour of A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical. Broadway credits include Swept Away (featuring songs by the Avett Brothers); Burn This (starring Adam Driver and Keri Russell); Head Over Heels (featuring the songs of The Go-Go’s); Hedwig and the Angry Inch (starring Neil Patrick Harris; Tony Award, Best Musical Revival; also national tour); Spring Awakening (Tony Award for Best Musical; Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Director; also London, national tour, Vienna, Tokyo, and Seoul productions); Green Day’s American Idiot (also co-author; Drama Desk Award for Best Director; also U.S., U.K., and Asia tours); Thoroughly Modern Millie (Tony Award for Best Musical; also London and national tour); Side Man (Tony Award for Best Play; also London and Kennedy Center productions); A View from the Bridge (Tony Award for Best Revival); The Terms of My Surrender (Michael Moore); Everyday Rapture; You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; and Triumph of Love. Off-Broadway credits include Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 21 Chump Street (BAM); Love, Love, Love (Roundabout); Brooklynite (also co-author, Vineyard); Whorl Inside a Loop (with Dick Scanlan, Second Stage); and 10 Million Miles (Atlantic). Other theatre credits include Chess (Kennedy Center), the award-winning production of Angels in America, and international work such as a record-breaking West End run of Funny Girl (London and U.K. tour) and As You Like It (Toho Theatre, Tokyo). Film credits include A Home at the End of the World (Excellence in Filmmaking, National Board of Review; GLAAD nomination), Single All the Way (Netflix), Flicka, and The Seagull. He was featured in the documentaries Those You’ve Known (HBO) and Broadway Idiot. Television credits include the pilot of Smash (NBC; producing director, Season One); two seasons of Alpha House (Amazon); and producing the HBO film WIG. Opera credits include his Metropolitan Opera debut with a celebrated new production of Rigoletto, followed by a co-production (with the English National Opera) of Nico Muhly’s Marnie and a new production of La Traviata, which broke box office records. He directed the world premiere of Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded, which opened the Met’s 2024–25 season, and his new production of Aida, which premiered at the Met on New Year’s Eve 2024. Awards and fellowships include the inaugural Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award, Drama League Founders Award, Jefferson Award, Ovation Award, Alan Schneider Award, and Carbonell Award, as well as Fox Foundation, Drama League, and TCG/NEA Directing Fellowships. He serves on the Boards of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) and the Arthur Miller Foundation.
Choreographer
Lorin Latarro
A multiple Drama Desk, Lortel, and Chita Rivera nominee, Lorin has choreographed on Broadway with Once Upon A Mattress, The Who’s Tommy, Heart Of Rock And Roll, Into The Woods, Waitress, Mrs. Doubtfire, Les Liaisons Dangereuses with Janet McTeer and Liev Schreiber, Waiting For Godot with Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart, and Merrily We Roll Along at The Roundabout. Other credits: La Traviata at The Metropolitan Opera, Chess at The Kennedy Center, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 21 Chump Street for This American Life (Brooklyn Academy of Music), The Public Theater’s The Visitor, Twelfth Night and The Odyssey (Public Works, Delacorte Theater), Oliver, Fanny and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (City Center Encores!), and A Christmas Carol (McCarter Theatre). Directing credits include Joy at The Laura Pels Theater starring Betsy Wolfe. Candace Bushnell’s one-woman show, Is There Still Sex In The City at the Daryl Roth Theatre (an NY Times Critic’s Pick), Begin Again with music by Train, Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy: The Immersive Experience, Queen Of The Night which garnered a Drama Desk Award, The David Foster and Kat McPhee Show, #DATEME at The Westside Theatre, A Taste Of Things To Come at Chicago’s Nederlander Broadway, Swelling And Irritation by Jodi Picoult and Tim McDonald, Trails by Jeff Thompson, Christy Hall. Rodgers After Hammerstein – 92Y Lyrics and Lyricists, Beth Malone’s Three Part Harmony - Theatre Aspen. Ms. Latarro holds a BFA from The Juilliard School. She holds a secondary degree from NYU Tisch Film and Television Directing Fundamentals. Lorin has traveled to India and Africa multiple times to work with The Gates Foundation in family health and planning, and is the founder of ArtAmmmo.org Artists Against Gun Violence as seen in the NY Times, PBS, “Rachel Maddow,” BBC.
Original Orchestrations By
Anders Eljas
Anders Eljas was educated at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, where he studied piano and violin. He began his career touring with ABBA on all their world tours: Australia and Europe in 1977; the USA, Canada, and Europe in 1979; and Japan in 1980.
In the early 1980s, Eljas orchestrated the music for the musical Chess (by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, and Tim Rice). He conducted the London Symphony Orchestra for the original recording and during their European tour in 1984. In 1987, he collaborated with Benny Andersson to compose the music for the screen adaptation of Astrid Lindgren’s Mio min Mio.
Throughout the 1990s, Eljas worked extensively as a conductor and musical director for numerous musicals and shows in Sweden. In 1995, he orchestrated the musical Kristina från Duvemåla (by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus) and served as musical director for its productions in Malmö, Gothenburg, and Stockholm.
In the spring of 2002, the Swedish version of Chess premiered in Stockholm. Once again, Eljas served as conductor and musical director, leading the production through its three-season run.
Over time, Eljas devoted himself increasingly to conducting, appearing with nearly every major symphony orchestra in Scandinavia. In 2009, he was musical director for Mamma Mia! in Oslo, and in 2010 he orchestrated Benny Andersson’s piece Vilar glad. I din famn, performed at the Swedish Royal Wedding in Storkyrkan on June 19.
In 2016, Anders Eljas was honored with the medal Litteris et Artibus from the King of Sweden, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to music.
Music Supervisor
Brian Usifer
Brian Usifer is a Music Supervisor, Arranger, Orchestrator, and Music Producer. His work on Broadway includes Swept Away (Music Supervisor, Arranger, Orchestrator), The Heart of Rock and Roll (Music Supervisor, Arranger, Orchestrator), A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical (Orchestrator, Incidental and Dance Arrangements), Disney’s Frozen (Music Director, Additional Arrangements), The Book of Mormon (Associate Music Supervisor), and Kinky Boots (Music Director, Additional Arrangements). He was also the Associate Music Supervisor for Kinky Boots on Tour, in London and in Toronto. Regional credits include: Berkeley Rep, Arena Stage (Helen Hayes Award winner for Swept Away), The Kennedy Center, and Barrington Stage Co. Concerts include: Bobby and Kristen Lopez: American Songbook at Lincoln Center, Clay Aiken’s “Tried and True DVD,” for PBS. Additionally, as an orchestrator: Galileo at Berkeley Rep, Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money by Motown legend Lamont Dozier Off-Broadway at the Atlantic, Into the Wild,NBC’s “Annie Live”(Additional Orchestrations), “The Wiz Live”(Additional Orchestrations). Brian can be heard as a pianist on “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” on Amazon.
Orchestrations
Anders Eljas
Anders Eljas was educated at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, where he studied piano and violin. He began his career touring with ABBA on all their world tours: Australia and Europe in 1977; the USA, Canada, and Europe in 1979; and Japan in 1980.
In the early 1980s, Eljas orchestrated the music for the musical Chess (by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, and Tim Rice). He conducted the London Symphony Orchestra for the original recording and during their European tour in 1984. In 1987, he collaborated with Benny Andersson to compose the music for the screen adaptation of Astrid Lindgren’s Mio min Mio.
Throughout the 1990s, Eljas worked extensively as a conductor and musical director for numerous musicals and shows in Sweden. In 1995, he orchestrated the musical Kristina från Duvemåla (by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus) and served as musical director for its productions in Malmö, Gothenburg, and Stockholm.
In the spring of 2002, the Swedish version of Chess premiered in Stockholm. Once again, Eljas served as conductor and musical director, leading the production through its three-season run.
Over time, Eljas devoted himself increasingly to conducting, appearing with nearly every major symphony orchestra in Scandinavia. In 2009, he was musical director for Mamma Mia! in Oslo, and in 2010 he orchestrated Benny Andersson’s piece Vilar glad. I din famn, performed at the Swedish Royal Wedding in Storkyrkan on June 19.
In 2016, Anders Eljas was honored with the medal Litteris et Artibus from the King of Sweden, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to music.
Brian Usifer
Brian Usifer is a Music Supervisor, Arranger, Orchestrator, and Music Producer. His work on Broadway includes Swept Away (Music Supervisor, Arranger, Orchestrator), The Heart of Rock and Roll (Music Supervisor, Arranger, Orchestrator), A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical (Orchestrator, Incidental and Dance Arrangements), Disney’s Frozen (Music Director, Additional Arrangements), The Book of Mormon (Associate Music Supervisor), and Kinky Boots (Music Director, Additional Arrangements). He was also the Associate Music Supervisor for Kinky Boots on Tour, in London and in Toronto. Regional credits include: Berkeley Rep, Arena Stage (Helen Hayes Award winner for Swept Away), The Kennedy Center, and Barrington Stage Co. Concerts include: Bobby and Kristen Lopez: American Songbook at Lincoln Center, Clay Aiken’s “Tried and True DVD,” for PBS. Additionally, as an orchestrator: Galileo at Berkeley Rep, Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money by Motown legend Lamont Dozier Off-Broadway at the Atlantic, Into the Wild,NBC’s “Annie Live”(Additional Orchestrations), “The Wiz Live”(Additional Orchestrations). Brian can be heard as a pianist on “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” on Amazon.
Music Director
Ian Weinberger
Broadway: Hamilton, Freestyle Love Supreme. New York: Chess, A New Brain, Titanic, Nobody Loves You. Orchestrations/arrangements: Titanic, Disney’s Zootopia and Moana Jr. Concerts: Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Louisiana Philharmonic, Jacksonville Symphony. TV: “Fosse/Verdon,” “The Eyes of the World,” “The Great War & The Great Gatsby,” The Tony Awards. Cast albums: A New Brain, The Christmas Schooner, The Theory of Relativity. Proud graduate of Northwestern University (music education/percussion performance) and NYU (jazz piano). Other experience: fourth-grade chess club. For Dad.
Set Design
David Rockwell
David Rockwell is Founder and President of Rockwell Group, an architecture and design firm based in New York with satellite offices in Los Angeles and Madrid. Broadway design credits include Art, Pirates! The Penzance Musical, Into the Woods, She Loves Me (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards), On the Twentieth Century (Tony nom.), You Can’t Take It With You (Tony nom.), Kinky Boots (Tony nom.), Lucky Guy (Tony nom.), and Hairspray (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations). Off-Broadway credits: Ragtime, Oliver!, and Shakespeare in the Park. Film and television: Team America and the 81st, 82nd, and 93rd Oscars (2010 and 2021 Emmy Awards). Honors: AIANY President’s Award, Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, Presidential Design Award.
Costume Design
Tom Broecker
TV: “SNL,” “House of Cards,” “30 Rock,” “The Comeback,” “Tales of the City,” “The Big C,” “Zelda.” Film: Eleanor the Great, Mean Girls: The Musical, Bros. The Met. Theatre: Little Shop of Horrors, Sideman, Race, Everyday Rapture, My Mother’s Brief Affair, Playwrights Horizons, The Public, Second Stage, MTC, The New Group, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Hartford Stage, McCarter, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Center Stage, Shakespeare Theatre DC. Yale School of Drama. 2 CDG Awards (12 noms), 6 Emmys.
Lighting Design
Kevin Adams
has received 4 Tony Awards for his work on Broadway, which includes Swept Away, Funny Girl, A Beautiful Noise, The Cher Show, Spongebob SquarePants, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, American Idiot, Next to Normal, The 39 Steps, Spring Awakening, Hair, Passing Strange, Everyday Rapture, Take Me Out, A Class Act, and Head Over Heels. Off-Broadway includes the original 1998 production of Hedwig, The Scottsboro Boys, Carrie, The Donkey Show, and many others. He has designed solo shows for Eric Bogosian, John Leguizamo, Anna Deavere Smith, Eve Ensler, Sandra Bernhard, Kate Mulgrew, Kevin Bacon, and Miss Faye Dunaway.
Sound Design
John Shivers
Real Women Have Curves, Swept Away (2025 Outer Critics Circle Award nominee), The Heart of Rock and Roll, Shucked (2023 Tony and Drama Desk Award nominee), Beauty and the Beast (Worldwide), Pretty Woman (Worldwide), Gettin’ The Band Back Together, Cirque du Soleil’s Paramour, Kinky Boots (2013 Tony Award), Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway, Leap of Faith, Bonnie and Clyde, Sister Act, 9 to 5, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, The Little Mermaid, Tarzan, Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays. International: Wicked, Tarzan, The Lion King. Regional: The Muny (2015-Present), Trading Places, The Wanderer, Becoming Nancy, 42nd St., First Wives Club, The Nutty Professor, Tales of the City, Emma, Robin and the 7 Hoods, Ace. Other credits: Savion Glover, Dionne Warwick, Burt Bacharach, Gregory Hines and engineering at Electric Lady Studios.
Video Design
Peter Nigrini
Peter Nigrini is one of Broadway’s pioneering projection designers. His work includes Hell’s Kitchen; Here Lies Love; MJ; Ain’t Too Proud; Beetlejuice; The SpongeBob Musical; Dear Evan Hansen; A Doll’s House, Part 2; and Fela! In other venues, Grounded (Public Theater); Hans Zimmer Live; Lucia de Lammermoor and Don Giovani (Santa Fe Opera); The Grace Jones Hurricane Tour; Deep Blue Sea (Bill T. Jones/Park Avenue Armory); and Real Enemies (BAM). He has been nominated for five Tony Awards and won a Lortel, a Drama Desk, a Jeff and an Obie.
Hair, Wig, and Makeup Design
Campbell Young
Associates
Casting
Jim Carnahan, CSA
Jim Carnahan has cast over 170 Broadway shows. Current/upcoming Broadway: Waiting for Godot, ART, Oedipus, Dreamgirls, Dolly: A True Original Musical, Stranger Things, Just in Time, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Moulin Rouge! Current/recent Off-Broadway: Kyoto, A Christmas Carol, Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, Creditors, Little Shop of Horrors. Upcoming/recent London: Woman in Mind (Duke of York), Mary Page Marlowe (Old Vic), Evita (Palladium), The Seagull (Barbican), Oedipus (Old Vic). Film: Ari Aster’s Beau is Afraid, Glee (Emmy nom).
Jason Thinger, CSA
Upcoming Broadway: Dreamgirls, Dolly: A True Original Musical. Broadway: Just in Time; Sunset Boulevard; Pirates! The Penzance Musical; Merrily We Roll Along; A Beautiful Noise; New York, New York; Almost Famous; Funny Girl; Take Me Out; A Christmas Carol; Tootsie. Off-Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors, Bigfoot!,Medea (BAM), Ghost of John McCain. Regional: Diary of a Tap Dancer (A.R.T.), Ride (Old Globe), Galileo (Berkeley Rep). London/UK: Evita (West End), Sinatra (Birmingham Rep), Local Hero (Chichester), The 47th (Old Vic). TV/Film: The Week Of and The Sinner.
Associate Director
Johanna Mckeon
Broadway: Swept Away, Funny Girl, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, American Idiot, War Paint, Grey Gardens,and King Kong. Directing: The Pansy Craze (Minetta Lane/Audible); The National Pastime (Premiere, Syracuse Stage); Henry V, Noura, Unseen, Anonymous Biography (Old Globe); Hedwig (Olney); I Have Loved Strangers (Premiere, Clubbed Thumb); The Comedy of Errors, Schmoozy Togetherness (Williamstown); Tokio Confidential (Atlantic); First Down (59E59); Sidewalk Echoes (En Garde Arts); Born in East Berlin (Stasi Museum, Berlin); A Hatful of Rain (ITS Festival Warsaw); Functional Drunk, Fiesta Cabana, The Tanks Break (Ontological-Hysteric). Film: My Address is Still Walton Have You Forgotten It? (Venice Biennale); Auld Lang Syne (Audience Award Indie Street Film Festival). Drama League, Boris Sagal, and Fulbright Fellowships. MFA UT Austin.
Associate Choreographer
Travis Waldschmidt
Broadway/NYC: Heart of Rock and Roll (Assistant Choreographer), Tale As Old As Time at 92Y. Associate credits: National Tour of Peter Pan; Beaches; Scotland, PA; The Last Supper; Matilda (The MUNY); and the film Frances Ha directed by Noah Baumbach and starring Greta Gerwig. Broadway Performing Credits: Mrs. Doubtfire (OBC); Kiss Me, Kate; Hello, Dolly!; Groundhog Day (OBC); Matilda; and Wicked. Additional performances: “Jimmy Fallon,” The Metropolitan Opera, “The Tony Awards,” and Carnegie Hall. @Waldschmidt__