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Alain Boublil Bookwriter
(Original French text)
Bookwriter
Alain Boublil’s first musical, La Révolution Française, was the first ever staged French rock opera in 1973 in Paris and the start of his collaboration with composer Claude-Michel Schönberg. Their next show, Les Misérables, opened in Paris in 1980 and played there again in 1991 after having in the meantime opened in most of the world’s major cities starting in London in 1985, produced by Cameron Mackintosh. In 2007, Les Misérables celebrated its 22nd anniversary after having been voted Britain’s favourite musical. It opened on Broadway in 1987, winning Alain two Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Book and ... read more
James Fenton Additional Material
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Victor Hugo Source Material
(Based on novel)
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Herbert Kretzmer Lyricist
Herbert Kretzmer was born in South Africa, where he began a career in journalism writing the commentary for a weekly cinema newsreel. He came to live in London in 1954, and has since pursued twin careers as newspaperman and songwriter. He was feature writer on The Daily Sketch and a profile writer on The Sunday Despatch. He joined The Daily Express in 1960 and later became its drama critic, a post he held for 18 years, covering about 3,000 first nights. From 1979 to 1987, he wrote television criticism for The Daily Mail, winning, in this capacity, two national press awards. As ... read more
Jean-Marc Natel Bookwriter
(Original French text)
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Claude-Michel Schönberg Bookwriter
Composer
Serino, Coyne & Nappi Advertising
Batia Lieberman Cello
The Fred Nathan Company, Inc. General Press Representative
Chelsea Music Services, Inc. Music Preparation
Kaethe Durham Oboe and English Horn
The Shubert Organization (Gerald Schoenfeld: Chairman; Bernard B. Jacobs: P Theatre Owner / Operator
Richard Henrickson Violin
Michael Le Poer Trench Production Photographer
Marybeth Abel Production Stage Manager
Anne S. Abrams General Press Representative
Johnson-Liff Associates Casting
Jim Athens Stage Manager
Broadway: Evita; How to Succeed; Promises, Promises; White Christmas; Les Mise?rables (Imperial & Broadhurst Theatres); Avenue Q; Curtains; Fosse. Tours: Les Mise?rables, Fosse. Off-Broadway: Avenue Q; The Donkey Show. Also: Pittsburgh CLO, North Carolina Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse (Please, Don’t Eat The Daisies). ... read more
Mark Belair Percussion
Jake Bell Production Technical Manager
Jake Bell has been a Production Stage Manager, Technical Production Manager on Broadway productions for over 30 years. Broadway credits include: Wicked, Phantom of the Opera, Billy Elliot, Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Oklahoma, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Swanlake, DreamGirls, Cats, Chess, and Bring It On. In addition, he has consulted on theater renovations all over the United States, and served as a guest speaker for colleges and universities. ... read more
David Benoit Dance Captain
Most recently he appeared in Phantom of the Opera tour, William Finn’s reworking of Romance in Hard Times (Polly) at Barrington Stage. David has appeared in both the Broadway and National Touring companies of: Jekyll and Hyde (Bishop/Spider), Avenue Q (Nicky/Trekkie) and Les Misérables (Thénardier). Broadway: Dance of the Vampires. National Tour: Young Frankenstein(Kemp/Blind Hermit), All Shook Up (Sheriff Earl), Forbidden Broadway (Japan & U.S.), The Captain’s Daughter (Pugachev) at The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. Off Broadway: Forbidden Broadway: 10th Anniversary & Summer Shock!, Forever Plaid (Sparky) The Big Bang (Jed), Forbidden Hollywood (Chicago Co.). Regional: Sweeney Todd (Sweeney), Adding ... read more
Robert Billig Conductor
Musical Director
Musical Supervisor
Michael S. Borowski Press Representative
Andrew Bruce Sound Designer
Andrew began his theatre career at Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1968 and was appointed head of sound at the Royal Opera House in 1971. A year later he co-founded Autograph Sound Recording, a leading British sound design and equipment rental company, now responsible for numerous productions woldwide. He was associate designer on several landmarks of British musical theatre such as Evita, Cats and Starlight Express. Original design credits include Song and Dance, Abbacadabra, Little Me, Les Misérables, Chess, Follies, Into the Woods, The Card, Miss Saigon, Children of Eden, City of Angels, Martin Guerre, The Fix, The Witches of Eastwick, ... read more
John Caird Adaptation
Director
Caid is a freelance director and writer working in theatre, opera and musical theatre, an Honorary Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Principal Guest Director of the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm (Dramaten) and author of Theatre Craft, published by Faber and Faber. Recent work in England includes: Macbeth (Almeida) and Hamlet (NT), both with Simon Russell Beale. In Stockholm his production of Strindberg’s Dance of Death is currently running at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, and in Japan he has just directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the New National Theatre and his own adaptation of Teru Miyamoto’s novel Kinshu at ... read more
John Cameron Orchestrator
Katherine Canfield French Horn
Sean Carney Violin
Ken Caswell Associate Director
Additional credits include: The Merry Widow Cambridge Theatre, 1969 Ensemble Little Me Prince of Wales Theatre, London 1983 Pinchley Junior, Ensemble Spring and Port Wine New Theatre London, 1967/8. Wilfred Crompton Vivat Vivat Regina Picadilly Theatre, 1971 Ensemble, David Rizzio Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Criterion Theatre, 1974 Alfred Peter Pan Prince Edward Theatre, 1978 Cecco ... read more
Hugh Hysell Communications Promotions
Dennis Crowley Press Associate
Bert Fink Press Associate
Kate Flatt Choreographer
Kate Flatt trained at the Royal Ballet School. She began her career as assistant choreographer to Leonide Massine, whilst making new works for choreographic groups in ballet companies. She is a Churchill Fellow, a Rayne Award winner and received a Royal Society of Arts Award for research into traditional dance forms across Eastern Europe. Her career currently spans a wide field, nationally and internationally, and includes ballet and contemporary dance works, film, opera and musicals, including the original musical staging for Les Misérables (1985) at the RSC, in the West End and beyond. Opera includes: her choreography for Andrei Serban’s Turandot, ... read more
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Producer
(In Association With)
Gordon G. Forbes Company Manager
Kathleen Foster Viola
Beth Fremgen Assistant Conductor
David Gale Trumpet, Piccolo Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Jacqueline Giat Flute and Piccolo
Randy Glass Dance Captain
Broadway/national tours: Les Misérables. Regional: Annie, Sisters of Swing, My Fair Lady, Mame, Kismet, Pump Boys and Dinettes and The Oil City Symphony. Concerts: New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, the Mantovani Orchestra. Recordings: Disney, Warner Bros. and Universal. ... read more
Sariva Goetz Assistant Conductor
Keyboards
Keith Gonzales Associate Scenic Designer
Helen Gregor Hair and Wig Coordinator
The Walton Group Promotions
Patricia Hackbarth French Horn
Brian Hamm Bass
Jennie Hansen Viola
Fredric Hanson Stage Manager
David Hersey Lighting Designer
Since his arrival in London from New York many years ago, David Hersey has designed the lighting for hundreds of plays, musicals, operas and ballets. He was lighting consultant to the National Theatre for ten years and is a past chairman and current fellow of the Association of Lighting Designers. In 2002 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Middlesex University. His many awards include Tonys for Best Lighting Design for Evita, Cats and Les Misérables plus the 1996 Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design for Burning Blue, The Glass Menagerie and Twelfth Night. He received Tony nominations for The ... read more
Michael Hinton Drums
Noel Howard Assistant Costume Designer
Jason Howland Conductor
Jason Howland, an honors graduate of Williams College, is a Grammy Award-winning producer, Emmy Award-winning arranger, and Tony-nominated producer. Composer: the Tony-nominated Little Women – The Musical, Paradise Square (world premiere, Berkeley Rep), Ikiru for Horipro Productions (world premiere, Tokyo), Last Days of Summer (Kansas City Rep, George St. Playhouse) and the streaming hit, A Killer Party. Upcoming: Captain Nemo in Seoul, Tokyo Love Story in Tokyo. Howland won an Emmy in 2007 for “Handel’s Messiah Rocks” for PBS. He was nominated for a Tony in 1999 for co-producing The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh. He won a Grammy in ... read more
Pete Hyde Trumpet and Piccolo Trumpet
Abe Jacob Associate Sound Designer
Victor Jaroway Music Preparation
Richard Jay-Alexander Associate Director
Executive Producer

Richard Jay-Alexander began his theatrical career in 1977 in the original cast of the Broadway play, ZOOT SUIT, appearing thereafter in the original Broadway cast of AMADEUS, which led to his being engaged as Associate Director of the National Touring Companies of that Tony Award-winning Play. He also staged AMADEUS in Santiago, Chile, in Spanish, in which he is fluent. However, he is probably best known for his association with Producer Cameron Mackintosh, having served as Executive Director of Mr. Mackintosh's American company for ten years, running its day-to-day operations in North America. Richard first came to Mr. Mackintosh's attention ... read more

William Joseph Drums
William is 15 years old and a sophmore in high school. Some previous credits include Baby John (West Side Story - Teatro San Diego), Jack (Fame), Franz (Rock of Ages), Crutchie (Newsies), Clarence (It’s a Wonderful Life), and more. He is trained in vocal performance, along with many different styles of dance including jazz, hip-hop, ballet, musical theatre, tap, and contemporary. ... read more
Sam Kephart Viola
Gregg N. Kirsopp Production Stage Manager
Constantine Kitsopoulos Conductor
Brian Koonin Guitar
Jim Laev Associate Conductor
Sarah Lambert Assistant Lighting Designer
Bryan Landrine 1st Assistant Stage Manager
Mitchell Lemsky Stage Manager
Katherine Livolsi-Stern Violin
Cameron Mackintosh Producer
Cameron’s Original productions include LES MISÉRABLES, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and CATS - the three longest running musicals of all time, now in their 4th decades - MISS SAIGON, MARY POPPINS (currently back in the West End and co-produced with Disney), LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, SONG AND DANCE, TOMFOOLERY, MARTIN GUERRE, THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK, FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE and SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM. He also reinvented modern versions of OLIVER!, FOLLIES, HALF A SIXPENCE, BARNUM and MY FAIR LADY. His new versions of LES MISÉRABLES, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, MISS SAIGON and OLIVER! are now proving ... read more
Ted Mather Assistant Lighting Designer
Martin McCallum Executive Producer
Martin McCallum, FRSA, was a British theatrical producer, former President of the Society of London Theatre and member of the Broadway League, who worked on over 500 shows on Broadway and in the West End. Martin died peacefully in Sydney on 14 January 2024 aged 73. Martin McCallum was born in Blackpool on 6 April 1950. He was educated at Frensham Heights, an arts orientated school in Surrey, before beginning his theatrical career as an ASM at the Castle Theatre Farnham. After a number of years in rep he became a production manager at the Old Vic, then home to the ... read more
Robert Meffe Associate Conductor
Associate Conductor
Keyboards
Robert Meffe Broadway: Associate Conductor of Little Women and the last six years of Les Miserables, keyboards for The Phantom of the Opera, Avenue Q, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Grey Gardens and Bombay Dreams. National Tours: Music Director of The Phantom of the Opera, Associate Conductor of Sunday in the Park with George. Off-Broadway: Violet, The Prince and the Pauper, Gutenberg! The Musical! and Lightin’ Out. Las Vegas: Associate Conductor of Avenue Q, keyboards for Mamma Mia and Hairspray. Williamstown Theatre Festival/McCarter Theater at Princeton University: Ten Cents a Dance (Associate Music Director). Yale Institute ... read more
Mark Menard Associate Sound Designer
Lori Miller Violin
David W. Moore Cello
Jason Moore Resident Director
Jason Moore studied acting and directing as a theater arts major at the University of California, Los Angeles, and continued at UCLA as a film directing major in the M.F.A. program. His thesis film, Paradise, Nebraska, won UCLA's top prize, the Spotlight Award for best film of the year. Paradise was a hit on the festival circuit and was sold to more than 20 domestic and international networks, including Showtime and the Sundance Channel. After graduating, he began directing commercials. He found them to be a natural extension of short filmmaking, and he enjoyed the fast pace and quick turnaround of ... read more
John Napier Scenic Designer
Andreane Neofitou Costume Designer
Andy’s iconic costume designs for the huge hits Les Misérables and Miss Saigon have been seen in London and on Broadway (gaining hera Tony nomination for Les Mis), with productions continuing to play worldwide. Les Misérables became the West End’s longest running show at 35 years, and a major new production of Miss Saigon recently toured the U.S. following successful runs in the West End and on Broadway. Among Andy’s other costume designs are Timon Of Athens with David Suchet, The Baker’s Wife and Gone With The Wind - all three directed by Trevor Nunn, Peter Pan (Royal National Theatre) directed ... read more
Robert Nolan Company Manager
Robert Nolan, an ATPAM Manager since 1989 and former President, died on Wednesday December 27th.   Robert began his career as personal assistant to Carol Channing and her husband Charles Lowe during tours of Hello, Dolly! and Jerry’s Girls.  This led to his first show as a Company Manager: the tour of My One and Only.  On Broadway, he worked on Cabaret with Joel Grey, Starlight Express, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, A Tale of Two Cities and a long stint for Cameron Mackintosh including Oklahoma!, Putting it Together, Les Miserables, and The Phantom of the Opera. At the time of his death he was employed at 101 Productions, Ltd.   Robert’s love for the theater and the community runs ... read more
Trevor Nunn Adaptation
Director
Trevor Nunn was educated at Downing College, Cambridge, and in 1962 he won an ABC Director’s Scholarship to the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, where, as resident director, his productions included The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Peer Gynt and a musical version of Around the World in Eighty Days. He recently returned to the Belgrade to direct a production of Scenes from a Marriage. In 1964, Trevor joined the RSC, and was made the company’s youngest-ever artistic director in 1968. He was responsible for running the RSC until he retired from his post in 1986. Productions for the RSC included: The Revenger’s Tragedy, The Relapse, ... read more
The Publicity Office General Press Representative
Harriet Orenstein Oboe and English Horn
Brent Peterson Stage Manager
Mathilde Pincus Music Preparation
Marion Pinheiro Violin
Joseph Piscitelli Flute and Piccolo
Marilyn Reynolds Concertmistress
Dan Riddle Associate Conductor
Keyboard
Beth Riedmann Associate Company Manager
Dale Rieling Conductor
Mel Rodnon Music Contractor
John Rojak Bass Trombone
Richard Schurkamp Assistant Costume Designer
Myra Segal Violin
Barbara Seinfeld Associate General Manager
Matthew Sklar Associate Conductor
Tony, Emmy and Drama Desk Award-nominated composer of the Broadway musicals Elf and The Wedding Singer (Tony nomination for Best Original Score, Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Music). He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction for the critically acclaimed NBC stop-motion animated TV special "Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas." Additional TV/film credits include "Sesame Street," "Wonder Pets!" and PBS's "American Masters." Awards include the ASCAP Foundation Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award, the Gilman/Gonzalez-Falla Theatre Award and the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation. ... read more
Sam Stickler Production Stage Manager
Marc Thibodeau Press Associate
Sasha Vselensky Violin
Alan Wasser General Manager
A native of Portland, OR, Alan earned his bachelor's degree at Columbia University, majoring in music composition and orchestration, and got his start in the professional theater at Circle in the Square - first as subscription manager and later as assistant managing director. After years of gaining experience on the road with touring productions, Alan was appointed general manager of productions for The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 1985. It was while there that Wasser began his long, enormously successful professional relationship with Mackintosh, starting with the United States premiere of Les Misérables in December, 1986 ... read more
Mitchell Weiss Clarinet and Alto Saxophone
Allan Williams Associate General Manager
Robert Zottola Trumpet, Piccolo Trumpet, Flugelhorn
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