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Production Staff

Steven Sater Bookwriter
Lyricist
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Duncan Sheik Composer
Duncan Sheik is perhaps best known as the Tony and Grammy winning composer behind SPRING AWAKENING. As mentioned, he also wrote the music and lyrics for AMERICAN PSYCHO. ... read more
Frank Wedekind Source Material
(Based on play)
Kevin Adams Lighting Designer
Four-time Tony winner Kevin Adams has designed SpongeBob SquarePants (Tony nom.), Head Over Heels, Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Tony and Outer Critics Award), American Idiot (Tony Award), Spring Awakening (Tony Award; Olivier nom for the West End production), Next To Normal (Tony nom), The 39 Steps (Tony and Drama Desk Awards), Hair (Tony nom), Man And Boy, Everyday Rapture, Passing Strange, Take Me Out, A Class Act, Hedda Gabler with Kate Burton, solo shows by Eve Ensler and John Leguizamo. Off-Broadway he has worked on the original production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Scottsboro Boys, Rent, Carrie, new ... read more
Melinda Berk General Manager
J. David Brimmer Fight Director
David has choreographed some stuff (New York premieres of Ages of the Moon, Blasted, Spring Awakening, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Bug, Killer Joe), has played at some wonderful venues (NY Public Theater, Metropolitan Opera, MTC, TFANA), taught a few places (NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, RADA guest instructor, Strasberg Institute, Yale) and has worked with some great folks (Stella Adler, Joe Chaikin, Ken Russell, JoAnne Akalaitis, Franco Zeffirelli). Fight Master, SAFD. "Walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone."—G. Fox ... read more
Boneau / Bryan-Brown General Manager/Press
Jim Carnahan Casting
Roundabout’s director of artistic development. Shows cast for Roundabout: Anything Goes, The Road to Mecca, Man and Boy, The Importance of Being Earnest, Sondheim on Sondheim, Bye Bye Birdie, Sunday in the Park…, 110 in the Shade, The Pajama Game, Twelve Angry Men, Assassins, Twentieth Century, Nine, Big River, Cabaret. Other Broadway: The Mountaintop, On a Clear Day…, Jerusalem, Arcadia, The Scottsboro Boys, La Bête, American Idiot, The Seagull, Spring Awakening, Boeing-Boeing, Curtains, The Pillowman, La Cage, Chitty…, Democracy, Fiddler on the Roof, …Millie. Film: A Home at the End of the World, Flicka. TV: “Glee” (Emmy nom). ... read more
Heather Cousens Production Stage Manager
Carrie Gardner Casting
Gardner also serves as casting director for the Roundabout. Broadway: The Book of Mormon; Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson; American Idiot; Spring Awakening (also national tour), Mrs. Warren's Profession, The Philanthropist, A Man For All Seasons, Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Off-Broadway: Tigers Be Still, The Language Archive, The Burnt Part Boys, Ordinary Days, The Understudy, The Language Of Trees, Distracted, Speech & Debate, Marriage of Bette & Boo, The Overwhelming, 10 Million Miles. ... read more
Lester Grant Production Manager
Kimberly Grigsby Musical Director
Musical Director
Broadway: Spider-Man, Turn off the Dark; Spring Awakening; The Light in the Piazza; Caroline, or Change; The Full Monty; You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Twelfth Night (Jeanine Tesori). Off-Broadway: Coraline (Stephin Merritt), Mother Courage and Her Children, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Songs From an Unmade Bed, The Immigrant (Steven Alper), Radiant Baby (Debra Barsha), Twelfth Night (Duncan Sheik), Love’s Fire (Adam Guettel). Education: Southern Methodist University and Manhattan School of Music. ... read more
Andrew D. Hamingson Managing Director
Susan Hilferty Costume Designer
Susan Hilferty has designed set and costumes for over 400 productions across the globe. Recent designs include Parade (Broadway; Tony nomination), Funny Girl (Broadway), Swept Away (Berkeley Rep and Arena Stage), Hamlet (St. Anne’s Warehouse NY and Gate Theatre, Dublin), Waiting for Godot TFNA/NYC, Richard Nelson’s What Happened?: The Michaels Abroad (Loewe Theatre, NYC), and A Bright Room Called Day (Public Theatre). Her many Broadway designs include Wicked (Tony, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama Desk awards and Olivier nomination), August Wilson’s Radio Golf. Present Laughter (Tony nomination), Hands on a Hardbody, Spring Awakening (Tony nomination), Lestat (Tony nomination), Annie (2013 ... read more
Tom Hulce Producer
Thomas Edward Hulce is an American actor and theatre producer. He is best known for his portrayal of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the Academy Award-winning film Amadeus (1984), as well as the roles of Larry "Pinto" Kroger in Animal House (1978), Larry Buckman in Parenthood (1989), and Quasimodo in Disney's animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996). Hulce's awards include an Emmy Award for The Heidi Chronicles, a 2007 Tony Award for Best Musical as a lead producer for Spring Awakening, an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for Amadeus, and four Golden Globe nominations. ... read more
Bill T. Jones Choreographer
Bill T. Jones is the artistic director/co-founder of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and founding artistic director of New York Live Arts. He is the recipient of the 2014 Doris Duke Award; the 2013 Presidential Medal of the Arts, the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors; Tony Awards for Best Choreography for FELA! and Spring Awakening; Obie Award and Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Callaway Award for his choreography for Spring Awakening; the 2010 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award; the 2007 USA Eileen Harris Norton Fellowship; the 2006 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreography for The Seven; the 2005 Wexner Prize; the 2005 ... read more
Christine Jones Scenic Designer
CHRISTINE JONES is a Tony-award winning set designer and the Artistic Director of the critically acclaimed Theatre for One, a portable private performing arts space for one actor and one audience member. Her Olivier and Tony Award winning scenography can currently be seen on Broadway and in the original London production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Along with co-designer Brett J. Banakis, Jones redesigned The Lyric Theatre in NYC, home to the first American production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Jones, along with co-designer Amy Rubin, most recently worked on Cyrano at The New Group, starring ... read more
Michael Mayer Director
Recent work includes: Chess (Kennedy Center), WarholCapote (ART), Michael Moore's The Terms of My Surrender (Belasco), and the world premiere of Nico Muhly's opera Marnie at London's ENO. Broadway Credits include: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Tony Award, best musical revival, also National Tour), Spring Awakening (Tony Award/Best Musical and Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Director; also London, National Tour, Vienna, Tokyo, and Seoul productions); American Idiot (also co-author, Drama Desk Award for Best Director; also US, UK and Asia tours); Thoroughly Modern Millie (Tony Award/Best Musical also London and National Tour), Side Man (Tony ... read more
AnnMarie Milazzo Vocal Music Arranger
A.R.T.: Finding Neverland, Prometheus Bound. Broadway (Vocal Designer): A Beautiful Noise, Almost Famous, 1776, Once On This Island, Spring Awakening, Next to Normal, If/Then, Finding Neverland. Off-Broadway: Carrie, Bright Lights Big City, Superhero; (Orchestrator, with Michael Starobin): Once on this Island (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations). Regional: Dangerous Beauty, Some Lovers, Dave, A Walk on the Moon, Almost Famous. Other credits include The Radio City Rockettes’ Summer Spectacular 2016 (co-arranger/lyricist, co-composer); Cirque du Soleil’s Le Rêve and La Perle. Film: Pretty Dead Girl (Composer and Lyricist; Special Jury Award, Sundance Film Festival). Milazzo is the Grammy-nominated female vocalist ... read more
Christian Parker Associate Artistic Director
Neil Pepe Artistic Director
Neil Pepe received a Tony Nomination for Best Director for the production of American Buffalo. Broadway: Hands on a Hardbody; Speed-the-Plow; A Life in the Theatre. Off-Broadway/regional: A Play Is A Poem (CTG); Juno and the Paycock (Irish Rep); On the Shore of the Wide World, The Penitent, Marie and Rosetta, Hold on to Me Darling, Dying for It, 3 Kinds of Exile, Happy Hour, Offices, Almost an Evening, Parlour Song, The Night Heron, Mojo, Celebration, The Room, Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling, Sea of Tranquility, Blue/Orange, Wolf Lullaby (Atlantic); The Subject Was Roses, Keep Your Pantheon, Romance (Center ... read more
Ira Pittelman Producer
Ira and Tom Hulce first partnered in 2005 to develop and produce the musical Spring Awakening (Atlantic Theater Company, Broadway), which won eight 2007 Tony Awards including Best Musical. Next was Green Day's American Idiot (Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Broadway), which won two 2011 Tony Awards and toured North America/UK for three years. They also produced the Broadway revival of On A Clear Day You Can See Forever starring Harry Connick Jr. and have supported the development of a number of new musicals including 10 Million Miles (Atlantic Theater) and The Fortress Of Solitude (Dallas Theater Center, The Public). ... read more
Brian Ronan Sound Designer

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Awards and Nominations

2007 New York Drama Critics Circle Awards
Best Musical: Steven Sater won.
Best Musical: Duncan Sheik won.

2007 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding Director of a Musical: Michael Mayer won.
Outstanding New Broadway Musical: 0 won.
Outstanding New Score: 0 won.

2007 The Hewes Awards
Lighting Design: Kevin Adams won.

2007 The Lortels
Outstanding Choreographer: Bill T. Jones was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Costume Design: Susan Hilferty was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Director: Michael Mayer was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Lighting Design: Kevin Adams won.
Outstanding Musical: Atlantic Theater Company, in association with Tom Hulce and Ira Pittelman won.
Outstanding Sound Design: Brian Ronan was nominated but did not win.

2007 Tony Awards
Best Book of a Musical: Steven Sater won.
Best Choreography: Bill T. Jones won.
Best Costume Design of a Musical: Susan Hilferty was nominated but did not win.
Best Direction of a Musical: Michael Mayer won.
Best Lighting Design of a Musical: Kevin Adams won.
Best Musical: Cindy and Jay Gutterman won.
Best Musical: StyleFour Productions won.
Best Musical: Joe Cilibrasi won.
Best Musical: Tamara Tunie won.
Best Musical: Jennifer Maloney won.
Best Musical: Elizabeth Eynon Wetherell won.
Best Musical: Amanda Dubois won.
Best Musical: Cold Spring Productions won.
Best Musical: Terry Schnuck won.
Best Musical: Ted Snowdon won.
Best Musical: Ira Pittelman won.
Best Musical: Tom Hulce won.
Best Musical: Jeffrey Richards won.
Best Musical: Jerry Frankel won.
Best Musical: Atlantic Theater Company won.
Best Musical: Jeffrey Sine won.
Best Musical: Freddy DeMann won.
Best Musical: Max Cooper won.
Best Musical: Harold Thau won.
Best Musical: Jennifer Manocherian won.
Best Musical: Mort Swinsky won.
Best Musical: Joe McGinnis won.
Best Musical: Judith Ann Abrams won.
Best Musical: ZenDog Productions won.
Best Musical: CarJac Productions won.
Best Musical: Aron Bergson Productions won.
Best Orchestrations: Duncan Sheik won.
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre: Steven Sater won.
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre: Duncan Sheik won.
Best Scenic Design of a Musical: Christine Jones was nominated but did not win.

2006 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Book of a Musica: Steven Sater was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Choreograph: Bill T. Jones was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Director of a Play: Michael Mayer won.
Outstanding Lyrics: Steven Sater won.
Outstanding Music: Duncan Sheik won.
Outstanding Musical: Spring Awakening won.
Outstanding Orchestrations (tie): Duncan Sheik was nominated but did not win.

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