Creatives

Stephen Schwartz has contributed music and/or lyrics to Godspell, Pippin, The Magic Show, The Baker’s Wife, Working (which he adapted and directed), Rags, and Children of Eden. For films, he collaborated with Alan Menken on the scores for Disney’s Pocahantas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Enchanted and wrote the songs for the DreamWorks animated feature The Prince of Egypt, a stage adaptation of which is currently playing in London’s West End. He has been inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and has been given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Awards include three Academy Awards, four Grammy Awards, and the Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award. Defying Gravity, a book about his professional career, is available from Applause Books.

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Winnie Holzman was nominated for a Tony Award and received a Drama Desk Award for Wicked. Other theatre work: the musical Birds of Paradise, One of Your Biggest Fans and Post-Its: Notes on a Marriage (the last two written with her husband, Paul Dooley.) Her play Choice had its world premiere at the Huntington Theatre. She created the television series “My So-Called Life,” as well as writing and producing for “thirtysomething,” “Once and Again,” “Huge” (with her daughter, Savannah Dooley) and “Roadies.” Also an actress, Ms. Holzman appeared in Jerry Maguire and “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” She is a graduate of Princeton University, the NYU Musical Theatre Program, a member of the Dramatists Guild and a native New Yorker.

Broadway: Hillary and Clinton, The Boys in the Band, Three Tall Women (Tony nom.), Blackbird, The Humans, Airline Highway, The Last Ship, Casa Valentina, I’ll Eat You Last, The Other Place, Other Desert Cities, Pal Joey, 9 to 5, November, The Ritz, Laugh Whore, Three Days of Rain, The Odd Couple, Glengarry Glen Ross, Assassins (Tony Award), Take Me Out (Tony Award), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Design for Living, Proposals, Love! Valour! Compassion! Off-Broadway: Dogfight, The Pride, A Man of No Importance, The Vagina Monologues, Corpus Christi. Netflix: The Boys in the Band. As an actor: Hollywood, The Glass Menagerie, The Normal Heart (Tony nom. and on HBO) and Angels in America (Tony nom.). Recipient of Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Clarence Derwent, Obie and Joe A. Callaway awards. He is a member of The Theater Hall of Fame.

Wayne Cilento will direct and choreograph the revival of Fosse’s Dancin’. He received Tony, Drama Desk, and Fred Astaire awards and an Olivier nomination for The Who’s Tommy. Tony nominations include Wicked, How To Succeed…, Dream: The Johnny Mercer Musical, Sweet Charity, Baby (Choreography), and Dancin’ (Best Supporting Actor). Broadway choreography credits include Aida, Jerry’s Girls, Holler If Ya Hear Me, and American Dance Machine. Off-Broadway he directed and choreographed A Hot Minute. His concerts include Alicia Keys’ World Tour, the PBS special “Spirit,” Liza Minnelli, Barry Manilow, Chita Rivera, Billy Joel, Donna Summer, Pete Townsend, and The Jonas Brothers. Wayne was an original Broadway cast member of A Chorus Line, The Act, Seesaw, Perfectly Frank, Irene, Big Deal and Rachael Lily Rosenbloom and choreographed the film Winter’s Tale.

Eugene Lee is the production designer of “Saturday Night Live,” “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and “Late Night With Seth Meyers.” Other Broadway credits: Bright Star, Ragtime, Show Boat and Sweeney Todd. Film credits: Coppola’s Hammett, Huston’s Mr. North, Malle’s Vanya on 42nd Street and Demme’s A Master Builder. BFA: Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon. MFA: Yale School of Drama. Three honorary PhDs. Awards: Tony, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Emmy Awards; Elliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence; Pell Award; DesignxRI Lifetime Achievement Award, New York Theater Hall of Fame. He lives in Providence, RI, with his wife, Brooke.

Susan Hilferty has designed costumes and scenery for over 300 productions globally. Broadway credits include Present Laughter, Spring Awakening, Lestat, Into the Woods (all Tony-nominated). Her many directorial collaborations include Athol Fugard (over 40 productions), Joe Mantello, Yaël Farber, James Lapine, Michael Mayer, Richard Nelson, Tony Kushner, JoAnne Akalaitis, Arin Arbus, Des McAnuff, Rebecca Taichman, Garland Wright. Hilferty has also designed: opera (Rigoletto and Traviata for Metropolitan Opera); dance (Love Stories for Alvin Ailey); live music events (Taylor Swift’s Speak Now world tour). Hilferty chairs Grad Design at NYU/Tisch. Her many honors include Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for Wicked and two lifetime achievement awards. susanhilferty.com

Kenneth Posner has more than 50 Broadway play and musical theatre credits. He designs extensively Off-Broadway, for resident theatres and touring productions throughout the United States as well as internationally. Selected Broadway credits: Beetlejuice, Mean Girls, War Paint, On Your Feet!, Disgraced, If/Then, Hairspray, Kinky Boots, Pippin, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Legally Blonde, The Coast of Utopia — Shipwrecked, Other Desert Cities, Harvey, The Best Man, The Merchant of Venice, The Royal Family, The Odd Couple, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Goat, Uncle Vanya, Side Man, The Little Foxes and The Rose Tattoo. He is the recipient of Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Obie awards.

Lion King and Edwin Drood (Drama Desk Awards); Lysistrata Jones (also co-producer); The Ritz; Laugh Whore; Man of La Mancha; Sweet Smell of Success; Copenhagen; Kiss Me, Kate; Footloose; Sound of Music; Juan Darien; Christmas Carol (MSG); Steel Pier; Funny Thing… Forum; King and I; Moon Over Buffalo; Smokey Joe’s Cafe; Guys and Dolls; Five Guys Named Moe; She Loves Me; The Red Shoes; Anything Goes. Many shows in London and internationally. As co-producer: Come From Away and First Date.

Recent Broadway designs include The People in the Picture, Impressionism, Thurgood, Spamalot, Assassins, Man of La Mancha, Into the Woods and Judgment at Nuremberg. Opera designs include Great Scott, Everest, Iolanta, Tristan and Isolde, Moby Dick (Dallas Opera); Dead Man Walking (Houston Opera); Mazeppa (Metropolitan Opera); War and Peace (Kirov and Met Opera); Tan Dun’s The Gate; and Peter Sellar’s The Peony Pavilion. Off-Broadway designs include Frequency Hopping (set and projection), Embedded, The Stendhal Syndrome, Suitcase, Speaking in Tongues and The Thing About Men. Regional designs include Distracted (set and projection), Limonade Tous les Jours, Fran’s Bed, Once in a Lifetime, Cobb and Hair. She received an Eddy Award in 2003.

Tom Watson headed the wig and makeup department at The Metropolitan Opera for 17 years. He has designed more than 80 Broadway productions including Wicked, King Kong, Rock of Ages, How to Succeed…, The Addams Family, Annie, Act One, You Can’t Take It With You, The King and I (LCT & tour), The Sound of Music (national tour), Dames at Sea, Thérèse Raquin, Fiddler on the Roof, Bright Star (Broadway & tour), Oslo (LCT), Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Falsettos, The Little Foxes, Junk (LCT), The Parisian Woman, My Fair Lady (LCT) and Soft Power (L.A.).

Joe Dulude has been designing makeup for Broadway, Off-Broadway and the West End since 2003. His iconic designs can be seen in shows such as Wicked, Beetlejuice, SpongeBob Squarepants the Musical, and more. He has worked on several television and film productions including most recently “The Gilded Age,” Don’t Look Up, Shrine, Frills, and “Castle Rock.” He designed and received an Emmy nomination for his work on Jesus Christ Superstar: Live in Concert. He is an educator, fine artist and a drag performer. IG: @dulude2

Broadway and international credits: Frozen, Kinky Boots (Tony: Best Orchestrations, Grammy, Olivier), The Book of Mormon (Tony & DD: Best Orchestrations, Grammy), 9 to 5, Avenue Q, Wicked. Film: Vocal arranger/conductor for Frozen & Frozen 2; String arrangements/conductor for Lady Gaga’s “I’ll Never Love Again” (A Star Is Born) and “Til It Happens to You” (The Hunting Ground). Music Director for Rufus Wainwright’s Rufus Does Judy, TV: “The 87th Academy Awards,” “The Wiz Live,” “A Very Wicked Halloween”, “Rent Live”.

William David Brohn received the 1998 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations for Ragtime. Other credits include Half a Sixpence (Chichester Festival Theatre); Mary Poppins, Curtains, Miss Saigon, The Secret Garden, Show Boat, Crazy for You, Carousel, Sweet Smell of Success, Oklahoma! (Broadway); Mary Poppins, Oliver!, The Witches of Eastwick, My Fair Lady and South Pacific (London). He has provided arrangements for Marilyn Horne, James Galway, Placido Domingo and West Side Story Suite for Violin and Orchestra.

Alex Lacamoire is a Tony, Grammy, and Emmy-winning music director, arranger, and composer. He is best known for his work on Broadway’s critically-acclaimed shows Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, and In The Heights. Lacamoire’s credits for theatre include: The Wrong Man, Bring It On, High Fidelity, Annie, 9 to 5, Legally Blonde, Bat Boy. Other credits for television and film include: The Greatest Showman, “Fosse/Verdon,” “Vivo,” and “tick, tick…Boom!”.

Musical Director: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Rent, Aida, Bombay Dreams, Women On The Verge and Tarzan. Dance Arranger: Tarzan, Aida, Bombay Dreams, Sweet Charity, Guys and Dolls and Wicked. Synthesizer Design: Spamalot, Avenue Q, The Addams Family, Big Fish and Something Rotten. Contributing orchestrations: Aida, Bombay Dreams, Wicked, The Addams Family, On The 20th Century and Women On The Verge. Performances with Aretha Franklin, Dennis DeYoung, Shirley Bassey, Bob Hope, Phil Collins and Elton John.

Select Broadway/Tours: Angels in America (Tony nomination); Wicked [all worldwide productions]; Phantom of the Opera (World Tour); Love Never Dies (International Tour); Bright Star; Amazing Grace; Holler If Ya Hear Me; The Other Place; A Streetcar Named Desire; Shatner’s World; Billy Elliot; Pippin; 9 to 5; The Pirate Queen; Aida; Ragtime; Cabaret; Noise/Funk. Television: NBC’s “Maya & Marty” and NBC Universal Kids “Sprout House.” Edward represents designers as President of United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829. edwardpierce.com

LISA LEGUILLOU (Associate Director) worked with Joe Mantello on Frankie and Johnny…, Take Me Out and The Vagina Monologues. She has appeared in eight Broadway shows; on TV in “Sex and the City,” “NYPD Blue” and “NY Undercover”; and in the films Changing Lanes, Center Stage, Everyone Says I Love You and HBO’s “Angels in America.”

Broadway: Sherlock Holmes; Edward Gorey’s Dracula; The Elephant Man; Amadeus; Nicholas Nickleby; Tarzan; Pippin; Tintypes; Working; The Dresser; Alice in Wonderland; Grand Hotel; Piaf; Orpheus Descending; Moon Over Buffalo; Footloose; The Civil War; Dance of the Vampires; Godspell; Habeas Corpus; Frog & Toad; The Weir; Tom Sawyer; Kiss Me, Kate; Aida; Annie Get Your Gun; Dance of Death; Brooklyn; La Cage aux Folles; Circus: Monte Carlo Circus Spectacular; Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey TGSOE; Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros; Galactical Fantasy Circus; Gran Circo Panamericano.

Gregory Maguire published a dozen novels for children before writing his first adult novel, Wicked. A devotee of children’s fantasy, Maguire’s subsequent novels for adults are variations-on-a-theme: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister considers Cinderella as a seventeenth-century maid from Haarlem; Lost evokes the ghost of Charles Dickens’s Scrooge; and Mirror Mirror features a High Renaissance Snow White daunted by the wickedest stepmother, Lucrezia Borgia. Maguire’s novel Son of a Witch, a sequel to Wicked, is followed by volume III of the Wicked Years, A Lion Among Men, and concludes with the final novel in the Wicked Years, Out of Oz. He lives in Massachusetts and Vermont with his husband, the painter Andy Newman, and their three children.

Wicked; Kimberly Akimbo; Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog; A Strange Loop; Is This a Room; Dana H.; What the Constitution Means to Me; The SpongeBob Musical; War Paint; Oh, Hello on Broadway; Fully Committed; Fun Home; If/Then; Peter and the Starcatcher; Bring It On: The Musical; Sister Act; Traces; Next to Normal; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; The Vagina Monologues; Man of La Mancha; The Graduate; I Love You, You’re Perfect…; and Bat Boy: The Musical. 321 includes Nina Essman, Nancy Gibbs, Marcia Goldberg, Ken Silverman and Amy Merlino Coey. www.321mgt.com