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Billy Elliot - Broadway Creative Team


Production Staff

StudioCanal Source Material
(Based on film)
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Lee Hall Bookwriter
Source Material
(Based on screenplay)
Lyricist
Bookwriter
Lyricist
Lee Hall was born in Newcastle Upon Tyne in 1966 and studied English Literature at Cambridge University. He has worked as a writer in theatre, TV, radio and film. He has been writer in residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Live Theatre, Newcastle Upon Tyne.Theatre: Wittgenstein on Tyne, Live Theatre 1996; Bollocks, RSC Fringe, 1998; Genie, Paines Plough, 1998; Cooking With Elvis, Live Theatre/West End 1999 – nominated for an Oliver Award for Best Comedy; Spoonface Steinberg, Ambassadors Theatre, London 2000; Two’s Company, Live Theatre/Bristol Old Vic, 2001; Billy Elliot the Musical, 2004 – Oliver Award Best Musical; Pitmen ... read more
Elton John Composer
Composer
Nina Lannan & Associates General Manager
Paul Arditti Sound Designer
Paul is delighted to have received a Tony Award, an Olivier Award, a Drama Desk Award and a BroadwayWorld.com Fans' Choice Award for the Sound Design of Billy Elliot The Musical. Other designs include Mary Stuart at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in the West End and on Broadway (Tony Award Nomination); A Ring, A Lamp, A Thing, a new opera at the Royal Opera House, London; Blood and Gifts, Love The Sinner, Nation, The Revenger's Tragedy, Happy Now?, Market Boy and Saint Joan (Olivier Award) at the National Theatre, London; The Pillowman at the National Theatre, London (Olivier Award nomination) ... read more
Gregg Arst Company Manager
Gregg is CEO & Founder of Tanna, Inc, a pricing & analytics firm providing ticketing oversight, revenue optimization, & business intelligence for Broadway & live entertainment. ... read more
Paul Atkinson Associate Set Designer
(UK)
Bonnie L. Becker Production Stage Manager
Broadway: Billy Elliot, Legally Blonde, Lestat, The Glass Menagerie, Bombay Dreams, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Real Thing, The Scarlet Pimpernel (versions 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 3.0), Victor/Victoria, The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public and Jelly’s Last Jam. Encores! at City Center: A Connecticut Yankee, Bloomer Girl, Hair. ... read more
Nikki Belsher Assistant Choreographer
Ashley Berman Assistant Company Manager
Tim Bevan Producer
Grady McLeod Bowman Fight Captain
Grady McLeod Bowman has been seen on Broadway in the original companies of Billy Elliot, South Pacific (2008 revival), Wonderland, and The Pirate Queen. Tour: Fosse, Pilobolus Dance Theatre. Film: Forrest Gump, The Last Five Years. As a choreographer, Grady has worked off-broadway and regionally, as well as choreographed several contemporary dance works for the University of NC School of the Arts. Associate Choreographer credits include Dogfight (2nd Stage Theatre), In Your Arms (NY Stage & Film), The Great American Mousical (Goodspeed - Norma Terris), and Top Hat (NYC Lab). Grady is also a founding ... read more
Jay Branford Reed 4 (Tenor Sax/Clarinet/Bass Clarinet)
Nora Brennan Casting Director
(Children)
Additional credits include: Productions Hello Again Off Broadway Revival, 2011 Casting Director Bury The Dead Off Broadway Revival, 2008 Casting Director Crossing Brooklyn Off Broadway, 2007 Casting Director The Dark at the Top of the Stairs Off Broadway Revival, 2007 Casting Director All The Way Home Off Broadway Revival, 2006 Casting Director Normal Off Broadway, 2005 Casting Director The Audience Off Broadway, 2005 Casting Director Requiem for William Off Broadway, 2004 Casting Director Stage Crazy for You First National Tour, 1994 Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall, 1992 Cats First National Company, 1986 Bombalurina ... read more
Sara Brians Resident Choreographer
SARA BRIANS is an award-winning director, choreographer, dancer and educator based in New York City. Her work spans Broadway theatre to film, live events and industrials. She has extensive experience conceiving choreography for large-scale productions as well as intimate venues, always with the purpose to develop and deliver original, inventive and imaginative theatre through artistic collaboration and galvanizing inspiration. Sara directed and choreographed GODSPELL at Theatre Aspen and choreographed FOLLIES at the Astoria Performing Arts Center, for which she received the Outstanding Choreography Award by the NY Innovative Theatre Awards. On Broadway, Sara was the Movement Assistant for Michael ... read more
Tara Rubin Casting Casting Director
(Adult)
Broadway: Jersey Boys; Spamalot; ...Spelling Bee; The Producers; Mamma Mia!; Phantom…; Good Vibrations; Bombay Dreams; Oklahoma!; Flower Drum Song; Imaginary Friends; Metamorphoses. Nat’l tour: Disney’s On the Record; Les Miserables. Lincoln Center: The Frogs; Contact; Thou Shalt Not; A Man of No Importance; Anything Goes (concert). Off-Broadway: Second Stage. Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival; Kennedy Center; La Jolla Playhouse; Yale Rep. Film: The Producers The Musical. Ms. Rubin is a member of the Casting Society of America. ... read more
David Chase Dance Music Arranger
Conductor
Musical Director
David has been Music Director, Supervisor and/or Arranger for thirty-five Broadway productions. Most recently, David acted as dance arranger on Roundabout Theatre Company’s Kiss Me, Kate and Tootsie, currently on Broadway. Other theatre credits include: many arrangements for the Boston Pops and Tanglewood Festival Chorus, The Kennedy Center Honors, Radio City Music Hall (where he spent many years as music director), EssentialVoicesUSA (including the upcoming Washington Women), and TV’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Music director for several productions at the Lyric Opera of Chicago (including The King and I with choreographer Peggy Hickey), and for NBC’s live performances of The Sound of Music ... read more
Dick Clark (ii) Trombone/Euphonium
The Weinstein Company Producer
(In Association With)
William Conacher Dialect Coach
(UK)
Eva Conti French Horn/Tenor Horn
Stephen Daldry Director
Stephen David Daldry CBE (born 2 May 1960) is an English director and producer of film, theatre, and television. He has won three Tony Awards for his work on Broadway and an Olivier Award for his work in the West End. He has received three Academy Awards nominations for Best Director, for the films Billy Elliot (2000), The Hours (2002), and The Reader (2008). From 2016 to 2020, he produced and directed the Netflix television series The Crown, for which he received one Producers Guild Award nomination, one Producers Guild Award win, two Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and one Primetime Emmy ... read more
Peter Darling Choreographer
Peter Darling is an award-winning choreographer. His work for theatre in the UK includes Groundhog Day, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (West End), Billy Elliott (West End), Merrily We Roll Along (Donmar Warehouse), Candide and Oh! What a Lovely War (National Theatre), Sunset Boulevard (Really Useful Group), The Tempest (Royal Shakespeare Company) and Edward II, The Country Wife, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night, all for Michael Grandage. He choreographed Matilda The Musical, Our House and The Lord of the Rings for Matthew Warchus. His film work includes Billy Elliott and The Phantom of the Opera. ... read more
John Dent Trumpet 2/Flugelhorn/ Cornet/Cornet in Eb
Larry DiBello French Horn
Kathryn Dunn Associate Choreographer
Tim Federle Dance Captain
Eric Fellner Producer
Jon Finn Producer
Rick Fisher Lighting Designer
Born in Philadelphia, Rick is the winner of a Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Billy Elliot on Broadway and a Helpmann Award for Billy Elliot in Sydney, he also has won two Olivier Awards for Best Lighting Design and a Tony and Drama Desk Award for An Inspector Calls (Broadway). Theatre work includes: Billy Elliot the Musical (worldwide); Merchant of Venice (RSC); Sweeney Todd (Paris); The Sound of Music (Buenos Aires); No Naughty Bits, Tiger Country (Hampstead); Tribes, A Number (Royal Court); Family Reunion, Betrayal, The Philanthropist, Old Times (Donmar); Rope (Almeida); Landscape With Weapon, Honour (National ... read more
Mary Kathryn Flynt Assistant Stage Manager
Kurt Froman Resident Choreographer
Broadway: An American in Paris, Billy Elliot (Resident Choreographer), Movin’ Out (James), Pal Joey. NYCB: Paris Opera Ballet (Répétiteur). FILM/TV: upcoming “Flesh & Bone” (STARZ, “Young Paul”), Black Swan (Associate Choreographer), Across the Universe, Center Stage, Biography Channel- Natalie Portman, “SNL”, “Live From Lincoln Center”. ... read more
Ben Furey Resident Dialect Coach
Ben is delighted to be returning for his eighth production at MTC. He has coached over 115 professional productions. Highlights on Broadway include Curious Incident..., Billy Elliot, The Last Ship, Michael Moore..., The Encounter and Matilda. Off-Broadway credits include productions at Barrow St, Atlantic, Roundabout and Signature Theatre. National tours include Curious Incident..., Gentleman's Guide..., Billy Elliot, Spamalot, Mamma Mia! Regional/international includes Williamstown Theatre Festival, Hartford Stage, Guthrie Theater, Two River Theater, Canon (Toronto), Gate (Dublin), Colorado Shakespeare. Film/TV credits include "Lost City of Z," "Elementary," "Vinetalk." Teaching: Juilliard, UNCSA. ... read more
David Furnish Executive Producer
After graduation, he was recruited by the advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather Canada in Toronto. At 27, he asked his firm to transfer him to their UK principal offices in London. Furnish flourished in England, becoming the firm’s youngest Director of Account Services. Furnish is co-chief of Rocket Pictures along with his husband, Sir Elton John. Furnish serves on the board of the Elton John AIDS Foundation, attending fundraisers and other events in support of that cause. Furnish is a contributing editor for Tatler magazine and also is a regular columnist for Interview and GQ. In 2015, he was named one of GQ's ... read more
James Dela Garza Trumpet 1/Cornet/Flugelhorn
Nicky Gillibrand Costume Designer
NICKY GILLIBRAND trained as a fashion textile designer. She works as a costume designer in Theatre and Opera and occasionally as a set designer. Winner of the Gold award for Best Costume Design, Prague Quadrenale 2003 for A Midsummer Night's Dream for the Royal Shakespeare Company. She is a visiting Professor at University of the Arts London (UAL). Theatre credits: Billy Elliot the Musical (worldwide); Once in a Lifetime, Measure for Measure, The Trial, Public Enemy, Hamlet, Government Inspector, Vernon God Little, Annie Get Your Gun, The Good Soul of Szechuan, King Lear, Six Characters in Search of ... read more
Andrew C. Gottlieb Assistant Stage Manager
shawn gough Keyboard/Synthesizer
Associate Conductor
BROADWAY: BILLY ELLIOT, RESIDENT MUSIC DIRECTOR & CONDUCTOR, SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, VIOLET, NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT, BIG FISH, SOMETHING ROTTEN, ALADDIN, INTO THE WOODS, LITTLE DANCER (BROADWAY UPCOMING), JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (50TH ANNIVERSARY INTERNATIONAL TOUR) RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL - CONDUCTOR - CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR SUSAN LUCCI - MUSIC DIRECTOR, ARRANGER & CONDUCTOR ... read more
Sally Greene Producer
Rick Heckman Reed 2 (Alto sax/Flute/Clarinet)
Alex Holton Trumpet 3/Flugelhorn/Cornet
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Howard Joines Percussion
Assistant Conductor
COMPANY the Musical Oct 2019 – Present Music Coordinator for the Broadway Production A CHRISTMAS CAROL Broadway Music Coordinator Sep 2019 – Present Music Coordinator for the Broadway Production MEAN GIRLS National Tour Music Coordinator Jun 2019 – Present Music Coordinator for the National Tour BEETLEJUICE the Musical Music Coordinator Sep 2018 – Present Music Coordinator for the Broadway Production MEAN GIRLS Music Coordinator Sep 2017 – Present Music Coordinator for the Broadway Production ALADDIN North American Tour Music Coordinator Sep 2016 – Present First-class touring production of the Broadway Musical Radio City CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR Music Coordinator 2014 – Present Music Coordinator for the Radio City Orchestra ALADDIN - THE MUSICAL Music Coordinator Sep 2013 – Present Broadway Musical BAT OUT OF HELL NY Music Coordinator Mar 2019 – Sep 2019 Music Coordinator for ... read more
Joseph Joubert Assistant Conductor
Keyboard/Synthesizer
Michael Keller Musical Coordinator
Music Coordination for Broadway: The Book of Mormon, American Idiot, The Addams Family, Million Dollar Quartet, Memphis, Billy Elliot, Wicked, Mamma Mia, The Lion King; National Tour coordination: Les Misérables, Next To Normal, 9 to 5, Billy Elliot, In The Heights, Shrek, The Lion King, West Side Story, Wicked. Barbra Streisand Concerts (1994-2007). ... read more
Devin Keudell General Manager
Cara Kjellman Dance Captain
Assistant Dance Captain
Kristina Kloss Assistant Lighting Designer
Martin Koch Orchestrator
Musical Supervisor
Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Cats Oliver! MAMMA MIA! and Billy Elliot. Recording Over thirty albums including Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Oliver!, Les Miserables - Symphonic Recording (Grammy winner), Hey Mr Producer, MAMMA MIA! (Grammy nomination), Jerry Springer The Opera, Billy Elliot, Bad Girls and John Barrowman The Album. Orchestration: Just So, Moby Dick, MAMMA MIA! (Tony Award nomination for Best Orchestrations), Jerry Springer The Opera, Billy Elliot (Winner - Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Best Orchestrations), Bad Girls, Desperately Seeking Susan, Kombat Opera - 5 Opera’s for BBC TV, Paparazzi and Cattle Call, 2 Ballets by Richard Thomas. Martin runs a successful ... read more
Randy Landau Bass/Fretless Bass
David Leong Fight Director
Allied Live Marketing
Rebecca Lustig Assistant Costume Designer
(US)
Ian MacNeil Scenic Designer
For the National Theatre, Ian MacNeil has designed Angels in America Parts One and Two, Everyman, Machinal (Critics' Circle Award - Designer), An Inspector Calls (also West End and international; Olivier and Critic Circle Awards - Designer) and The Amen Corner. For the Royal Court: Far Away (also West End and New York), A Number, Via Dolorosa (also West End and Broadway), Plasticine (Evening Standard Award - Designer) and In Basildon. For the Young Vic: Afore Night Come, Herge's Adventures of Tintin, Vernon God Little and A Doll's House (West End and BAM). For the Almeida: Medea, Festen (West End ... read more
J.J. McGeehan Guitar/Variax
B.T. McNicholl Resident Director
Mike Migliore Reed 3 (Tenor sax/Clarinet)
Angela Morrison Executive Producer
Claire Murphy Associate Costume Designer
(UK)
Carol Oune Associate Company Manager
John Owens Associate Sound Designer
(UK)
Suspension Productions Videographer
Barlow-Hartman Public Relations Press Representative
Robbie Roby Dance Captain
Carol Rosegg Production Photographer
Scott Rowen Assistant Stage Manager
Broadway: Nice Work If You Can Get It, Billy Elliot, Legally Blonde, The Wedding Singer, Lestat. Off-Broadway: See What I Wanna See, As You Like It (Delacorte), Stuff Happens (NYSF); The Great American Trailer Park Musical; Fat Pig (MCC). Scott is a graduate of Harvard University. ... read more
Brian Russman Associate Costume Designer
(US)
Edward Salkin Reed 1 (Alto sax/Flute/Piccolo)
Jack Schatz Trombone/Euphonium
David Scheinmann Production Photographer
Mark Schneider Resident Director
Arthur Siccardi Production Supervisor
Arthur Siccardi was a Production Manager, Technical Supervisor, and Production Supervisor with countless Broadway credits. He worked on shows such as Chicago, La Cage Aux Folles, Billy Elliot, Grease, A Chorus Line, The Color Purple, Gypsy, Mamma Mia!, Jesus Christ Superstar, Saturday Night Fever, Annie Get Your Gun, and many more. ... read more
Michaeljon Slinger Dance Captain
Broadway: Evita, How To Succeed; Billy Elliot (u/s Older Billy); West Side Story. Training: ABT; The Juilliard School. Regional: MUNY; 2010 Kennedy Center Honors. Winner: Australian Dancer of the Year. ... read more
Victoria Smerdon Associate Lighting Designer
(Programmer)
Tony Smolenski, IV Associate Sound Designer
(US)
Charlene Speyerer Assistant Stage Manager
Patrick Sullivan Production Supervisor
Training: Cork Arts Studio Stageworks and Arts Educational Schools, London. Credits while training include: Lucas in The Addams Family, ensemble and Dr. Wanamaker in Catch Me if You Can and George in Sunday in the Park with George. Theatre includes: Matthew Mugg in Dr Doolittle (No.1 UK Tour), Blake in Bat Out of Hell The Musical (original cast), Caboose in Starlight Express (The Other Palace), on-stage swing in The Wind in The Willows (UK Tour), George in Carrie The Musical (Southwark Playhouse), The Beast in Beauty and the Beast (Cork Opera House), Featured Soloist in Bernstein of Stage and Screen (National ... read more
Working Title Producer
Charles Underhill Stage Manager
Broadway: Nice Work If You Can Get It, Hugh Jackman Back on Broadway, Billy Elliot, Cat on A Hot Tin Roof, Les Misérables, The History Boys, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Bombay Dreams, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Wild Party, The Scarlet Pimpernel. Off-Broadway: Elaine Stritch: At Liberty (Public Theater). National tours: Billy Elliot, Carousel. International: Don’t Stop the Carnival. ... read more
Old Vic Producer
Julian Webber Associate Director
Julian was Associate Director for Stephen Daldry’s award winning production of An Inspector Calls, and has been responsible for three successful national tours of the UK as well as five recasts for the West End. Julian was also Associate Director at Liverpool Playhouse, where his production of Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men toured nationally. He adapted and directed The Three Musketeers at the Young Vic Theatre, which was nominated for a Barclay’s Theatre Award in 2002. More recently Julian directed the West-End revival of The Shape of Things by Neil Labute at the New Ambassadors and directed The Barber of Seville ... read more
Roger Wendt French Horn/Tenor Horn
Campbell Young Hair and Wig Designer
Make-Up Designer

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Awards and Nominations

2009 BroadwayWorld Awards
Best Book of a Musical: Lee Hall won.
Best Choreography: Peter Darling won.
Best Direction of a Musical: Stephen Daldry won.
Best Musical: Billy Elliot won.
Best Orchestrations: Martin Koch won.
Best Original Score: Elton John won.
Best Sound Design: Paul Arditti won.

2009 Drama League Awards
Distinguished Production of a Musical: 0 won.

2009 New York Drama Critics Circle Awards
Best Musical: Lee Hall won.
Best Musical: Elton John won.

2009 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding Choreography: Peter Darling won.
Outstanding Costume Design: Nicky Gillibrand was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Director of a Musical: Stephen Daldry won.
Outstanding Director of a Musical: Stephen Daldry was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Lighting Design: Rick Fisher won.
Outstanding New Broadway Musical: 0 won.
Outstanding New Score: 0 was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Set Design: Ian MacNeil was nominated but did not win.
Special Achievement Award: Trent Kowalik won.
Special Achievement Award: Kiril Kulish was nominated but did not win.

2009 Theatre World Awards
Performance: Haydn Gwynne won.

2009 Tony Awards
Best Book of a Musical: Lee Hall won.
Best Choreography: Peter Darling won.
Best Costume Design of a Musical: Nicky Gillibrand was nominated but did not win.
Best Direction of a Musical: Stephen Daldry won.
Best Lighting Design of a Musical: Rick Fisher won.
Best Musical: Weinstein Live Entertainment won.
Best Musical: Old Vic Productions won.
Best Musical: Working Title Films won.
Best Musical: Universal Pictures Stage Productions won.
Best Orchestrations: Martin Koch won.
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre: Lee Hall was nominated but did not win.
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre: Elton John was nominated but did not win.
Best Scenic Design of a Musical: Ian MacNeil won.
Best Sound Design of a Musical: Paul Arditti won.

2008 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Book of a Musical: Lee Hall won.
Outstanding Choreography: Peter Darling won.
Outstanding Director of a Musical: Stephen Daldry won.
Outstanding Lighting Design in a Musical: Rick Fisher won.
Outstanding Music: Elton John won.
Outstanding Orchestrations: Martin Koch won.
Outstanding Sound Design: Paul Arditti won.

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