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The Farnsworth Invention - Broadway Creative Team


Production Staff

Aaron Sorkin Playwright
Playwright
Rob Andrusko Associate Scenic Designer
Stephanie Atlan Assistant Stage Manager
Sharon Bialy Casting
(West Coast)
Howell Binkley Lighting Designer
Binkley's Broadway credits includeSummer: The Donna Summer Musical, Escape to Margaritaville, Come From Away (2017 Tony nomination), A Bronx Tale, Hamilton (2016 Tony winner/2018 Olivier winner), After Midnight (2014 Tony nomination), How to Succeed... (2011 Tony nomination), West Side Story (2009 Tony nomination), In the Heights (2008 Tony nomination), Jersey Boys (2006 Tony winner), Avenue Q, Parade, Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993 Tony nomination). He is also the Co-Founder/Resident Lighting Designer for Parsons Dance. 1993 Sir Laurence Olivier and Canadian Dora Awards for Kiss of the Spider Woman. 2006 and 2016 Henry Hewes Design Awards for Jersey Boys and ... read more
Boneau / Bryan-Brown Press Representative
Dean A. Carpenter Assistant General Manager
Tara Rubin Casting Casting
(East Coast)
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
Stephanie Celustka Production Assistant
Peter Fulbright Technical Supervisor
Stephen Gabis Dialect Coach
Broadway: Jersey Boys, Doubt, Steel Magnolias, Dracula, Taboo, The Boy From Oz, Joe Egg, Master Harold And The Boys, Present Laughter, A Doll's House. Venues: Roundabout, M.T.C., Playwrights, Atlantic, The New Group, M.C.C., The Public, Second Stage, Williamstown, Yale Rep., McCarter, Hartford Stage, Primary Stages, Lincoln Center, Long Wharf, Westport. Film Contributions: Million Dollar Baby, Ballad Of Bettie Page, Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind, Boy's Don't Cry. ... read more
Adam Greenfield Production Dramaturg
Dodger Management Group General Manager
Pelican Group Producer
(In Association With)
Ashley Hanson Associate Sound Designer
Frank Hartenstein Production Stage Manager
Dancap Productions, Inc. Producer
(In Association With)
Serino Coyne, Inc. Advertising
Jennifer Hindman Kemp Company Manager
Latitude Link Producer
(In Association With)
Andrew Lippa Composer
(Original Music)
ANDREW LIPPA wrote the music and lyrics for Big Fish, book by John August, directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman, which recently played the Neil Simon Theater on Broadway. His oratorio, I Am Harvey Milk (words and music), was premiered by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus and the recording, released in October, 2013, reached number 2 on the iTunes Classical Chart. I Am Harvey Milk will be seen at LA’s Disney Hall in July and in NYC this fall at a venue soon to be announced. He wrote he Tony-nominated music and lyrics for the Broadway musical The Addams ... read more
Rabbit Ears, LLC Producer
Joan Marcus Production Photographer
Dodger Marketing Marketing
Kelly Martindale Stage Manager
Des McAnuff Director
McAnuff is a two-time Tony Award-winning director and former Artistic Director of the Stratford Festival. Broadway: Summer, Doctor Zhivago, Jesus Christ Superstar, Guys and Dolls, Aaron Sorkin’s The Farnsworth Invention, Jersey Boys (Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Musical), Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays (Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event), Dracula, the Musical, How to Succeed..., The Who’s Tommy (Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Director), A Walk in the Woods, Big River (Tony Awards for Best Director, Best Musical). McAnuff is also Director Emeritus of La Jolla Playhouse, where during his tenure as Artistic Director, he staged more than 35 ... read more
Ryan Mekenian Production Assistant
Lauren Mitchell Associate Producer
As producer, on Broadway: Urinetown, Into the Woods ('02 revival), Wrong Mountain, High Society. Off Broadway: Barbra’s Wedding, Bare. As actress, on Broadway: The Boys from Syracuse, Me and My Girl, Nine, Annie, City of Angels (LA), Into the Woods (original cast and PBS American Playhouse); and numerous Off Broadway, regional, television and concert appearances. ... read more
Sally Campbell Morse Executive Producer
Matthew Pachtman Associate Costume Designer
Mark Adam Rampmeyer Hair and Wig Designer
Steve Rankin Fight Director
Steve received wide critical praise, as both Fight Director and Actor, in the Tony Award-winning Lincoln Center Theatre’s Henry IV directed by Jack O’Brien. Other Broadway: Dracula the Musical (Des McAnuff, director), Twelfth Night, Two Shakespearean Actors (LCT), Anna Christie, The Real Inspector Hound (Roundabout), Getting Away With Murder, The Who’s Tommy. Off-Broadway: The Night Hank Williams Died, Below The Belt. New York audiences last saw Mr. Rankin’s work in the Metropolitan Opera Company’s production of Handel’s Rodelinda starring Rene Fleming. ... read more
Tech Production Services, Inc. Technical Supervisor
Lisa Shriver Movement and Protocol
Broadway: Jesus Christ Superstar, The Farnsworth Invention, Ring of Fire, The Story of My Life. Additional: Take Flight, Fetch Clay, Make Man, (The McCarter) Yellow Face (The Public), Where's Charley? (Goodspeed), Stephen Sondheim's 75th Birthday Celebration, Stratford Festival: Jesus Christ Superstar, Caesar and Cleopatra, Mackers, The Tempest, Grapes of Wrath. Phish's NYE Concert at MSG (2010 & 2011). Director/Choreographer of Motherhood: The Musical (Nationwide), An Evening of Guys and Dollsi w/Tony Bennett, Marisa Tomei, Vanessa Williams. Selected Film: A Christmas Carol (w/Jim Carrey), A Beautiful Mind, Hysterical Blindness. ... read more
Sally Sibson Production Assistant
Mark T. Simpson Associate Lighting Designer
Jeffrey Sine Producer
(In Association With)
Tony Smolenski, IV Scenic Designer
(Co-Scenic Designer)
Steven Spielberg Producer
Sherry Thomas Casting
(West Coast)
Walter Trarbach Sound Designer
Broadway: The Farnsworth Invention, Cymbeline. As a Partner in SCK Sound Design, his Credits include: Doctor Zhivago and The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, and Ain't Too Proud. Other Designs: Queen of the Mist, I Am Anne Hutchinson/I Am Harvey Milk, The Man in the Ceiling, The Tin Pan Alley Rag, Becky Shaw, Measure for Pleasure, Farragut North, I Love You Because, Love, Loss, and What I Wore, and Mr. Marmalade. Associate Sound Designs: Catch Me If You Can, Billy Crystal's 700 Sundays, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill (Tony Award), Jesus Christ Superstar, Hands on a Hardbody (Drama Desk ... read more
Sarah Sophia Turner Assistant Costume Designer
Jennifer F. Vaughan Associate General Manager
Daisy Walker Assistant Director
David C. Woolard Costume Designer
David C. Woolard has designed costumes at most of the major theatres in America as well as productions all over the world. He has dressed many personalities including Jane Fonda, Betty Buckley, Liz Mikel, Quentin Tarantino and Billy Crystal among others. Broadway credits include BRONX BOMBERS, FIRST DATE, LYSISTRATA JONES, WEST SIDE STORY, Jane Fonda’s clothing for 33 VARIATIONS, DIVIDING THE ESTATE, THE FARNSWORTH INVENTION, RING OF FIRE, ALL SHOOK UP, THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW (2001 Tony Award nomination) VOICES IN THE DARK, THE WHO’S TOMMY (1993 Tony and Olivier Award nominations) BELLS ARE RINGING, MARLENE, WAIT UNTIL DARK, Horton Foote’s ... read more
Klara Zieglerova Scenic Designer
Broadway: The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, Off-Broadway: Controversy (Public Theatre), Yellowman (MTC), First Love (New York Theater Workshop), Irish Repertory Theater, and others. Regional: La Jolla Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Dallas Theater Center, Portland Center Stage, Seattle Rep, Florida Stage, McCarter Theater, Wilma Theatre, Williamstown, Old Globe Theatre, Ahmanson Theater, and others. International: Saturday Night Fever (Holland), Eden (Cork, Ireland). Interior Architecture design: Dodger Stages, New York. Awards: 2003 Drammy Award for Best Set Design, 2000 Carbonell Award for Best Set Design; sets for the Best touring production - 2003 L.A. Ovation Award. Graduate of Yale ... read more
Amanda Zieve Assistant Lighting Designer
Amanda's recent Designs include: Tommy (Broadway & Goodman) Cabaret (Goodspeed) Into The Woods, Billy Elliot and Titanic (Signature Theatre) American Jade (Buck’s County Playhouse) I Hate Hamlet (Maltz Jupiter) Sweeney Todd and Roof of the World (KC Rep) Approval Junkie (Off Broadway, Alliance Theatre). Her San Diego credits include: The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical, Put Your House In Order (La Jolla Playhouse) English, Crime and Punishment, A Comedy, Dial M, Hair, Ebenezer Scrooge’s Big San Diego Christmas Show, Tiny Beautiful Things, Barefoot in the Park, Native Gardens, The Wonderers, Rich Girl (The Old Globe) Evita, Cabaret, Rock of ... read more
Frederick Zollo Producer
(In Association With)
Frederick Zollo is an award winning American film and theatre producer. He has produced more than 100 plays in New York, London, and On-Tour. Zollo is an 18 time Tony nominee, winning the award six times. Past credits include Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (1984), King Hedley II (2001), A Steady Rain (2009); and Pulitzer Prize winners: ‘night Mother (1983), Glengarry Glen Ross (1984), and Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika (1993), among others. His production of the eight time Tony Award winning musical Once is currently at the Kennedy Center. Frederick Zollo is best known for his film work ... read more
Alissa Zulvergold Production Assistant

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Awards and Nominations

2008 Theatre World Awards
Performance: Jimmi Simpson won.

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