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Passing Strange - Broadway Creative Team


Production Staff

Stew Bookwriter
Lyricist
Composer
Stew is a critically acclaimed (i.e., "broke") singer songwriter currently looking for an affordable two-bedroom place in the Bay Area. He is the founder and leader of THE NEGRO PROBLEM (TNP), a cheerful pop rock combo of note from Los Angeles, the future cultural capital of the world... [insert loud coughing sound] ... read more
Annie Dorsen Additional Material
("Written In Collaboration")
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Heidi Rodewald Composer
Music
Sam Rudy Media Relations Press Representative
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
Karole Armitage Choreographer
John Bantay Assistant Stage Manager
Steve Bargonetti Guitar Instructor
STEVEN BARGONETTI: (Guitarist/Composer) Steven is a graduate of Columbia University. Most recently was onstage performer/Music Director/Arranger for the critically acclaimed play, Father Comes Home From The Wars by Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks. He recently played guitar/guitar synthesizer for the Broadway show Holler if Ya Hear Me featuring the music of Tupac Shakur. As lead guitarist for HAIR on Broadway, Steven was featured playing the Jimi Hendrix archetype. He is also an alumnus of numerous other Broadway shows, including The Color Purple, Caroline or Change, The Full Monty, Starlight Express, Hello Dolly, etc. Steven can be ... read more
Steve Bargunet Guitar Instructor
Jed Bernstein Producer
Jed Bernstein is a prominent figure in the entertainment industry, having worked in various roles on Broadway, in film, and in television. Born in New York City in 1956, Bernstein attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with a degree in English literature. He began his career in the theater industry as a press agent, working for the Shubert Organization and the National Theatre of the Deaf. In 1989, Bernstein co-founded the Broadway advertising agency Premier. The agency quickly became one of the most successful in the industry, working on campaigns for hit shows such as The Phantom of the Opera ... read more
Jay Binder Casting
(Additional Casting)
Jay Binder has cast over 70 Broadway productions, including the Tony Award winning productions of The Lion King, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, Dames At Sea, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Gypsy, The King and I, Lost in Yonkers and Jerome Robbins’ Broadway. In addition, he was fortunate enough to cast every Neil Simon play from 1990 through 2009. Mr. Binder was one of the founders and continues to be a driving force behind the highly-acclaimed Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert series at City Center in New York City. His work casting this series led ... read more
Jack Bowdan Casting
(Additional Casting)
Stephen Brackett Assistant Director
Broadway: Be More Chill (Lyceum Theater). Off-Broadway: Be More Chill (Signature and Two River Theaters), The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (Theaterworks USA/National Tour), Buyer & Cellar (Rattlestick and Barrow Street Theaters/National Tour/London’s Menier Chocolate Factory), The Mad Ones (Prospect Theater), Ultimate Beauty Bible (Page 73), Wringer (NYCCT), Carnival Kids (Lesser America), The Correspondent (Rattlestick), After (Partial Comfort), The Material World(Dixon Place), Be A Good Little Widow (Ars Nova), and The Tenant (Woodshed Collective). Regional: Significant Other (Geffen Playhouse), I Now Pronounce (Humana Festival), Le Switch (About Face), The Great Pretender (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley). Upcoming: Fall Springs at Barrington ... read more
Kevin Brubaker Assistant Sound Designer
Cynthia Cahill Assistant Stage Manager
Chloe Chapin Assistant Costume Designer
Elizabeth Hope Clancy Costume Designer
Annie Dorsen Director
Wendy Federman Producer
Mike Fornatale Guitar Technician
Buddy Freitag Producer
Barbara Freitag Producer
Christian Gibbs Guitar/Keyboard/Backing Vocals
Heidi Griffiths Casting
Ruth Hendel Producer
Ruth's Broadway credits include: In The Heights; Passing Strange; Legally Blonde; Kiki & Herb Alive on Broadway; High Fidelity; The Lieutenant of Inishmore; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Caroline, Or Change; A Raisin in the Sun; Golda's Balcony; Frozen; ‘Night Mother; Steel Magnolias; Barefoot in the Park; Metamorphoses. Off-Broadway: Altar Boyz; Our Lady of 121st Street; The Exonerated; Red Light Winter; tick tick…Boom!. Los Angeles: As Much As You Can. Ruth is on the boards of the LAByrith Theater, The Play Company and the Yale School of Drama Leadership Committee; She is vice-chair, and Stephen is Treasurer of the ... read more
Matthew Henning Music Transcription & Consultant
Jason Hindelang Stage Manager
Elie Hirschfeld Producer
Elie Hirschfeld is a Tony Award voting member of The Broadway League. He has produced and co-produced numerous Broadway shows, including Equus, Passing Strange, and Oleanna ... read more
Larry Hirschhorn Producer
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Kit Ingui Management Associate
Kit Ingui will join Williamstown Theatre Festival as Managing Director, Operations & Advancement. Kit joined Long Wharf Theatre in 2017 as Associate Managing Director and was promoted to Managing Director in October 2019. Before her time at Long Wharf, she was an Associate General Manager for Joey Parnes Productions (JPP) in New York City. With JPP, Ingui also company managed the Broadway productions of This Is Our Youth, the Off-Broadway transfer of Satchmo at the Waldorf, the 2014 Tony Award-winning musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder, the 2013 Tony Award-winning play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, ... read more
William Isaac Assistant Choreographer
John Johnson Assistant Producer
Associate Producer at Joey Parnes Productions. Broadway: Associate Producer on HAIR, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Lombardi, The Merchant of Venice. With Elizabeth I. McCann & Joey Parnes: The Play About the Baby, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia, Tuesdays with Morrie, Beckett/Albee, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Well, Butley, Passing Strange, Equus. Tony Award Productions from 2001 - 2008; served as Associate Producer in 2007 & 2008. Concerts: Working at The Zipper Theatre; Rated RSO at Joe's Pub; NewMusicalTheatre.com Launch Concert at Le Poisson Rouge, NewMusicalTheatre.com Live at The Canal Room, Morgan Karr at Joe's Pub, Drew Gasparini & Friends at Joe's ... read more
Bill Kenwright Producer
As a theatre producer, Kenwright is best known for the long-running West End hit Blood Brothers and the record-breaking UK tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Other productions have included West End runs of Whistle Down the Wind at the Palace Theatre, Festen in London, on a UK tour and on Broadway, The Big Life, Elmina's Kitchen, Scrooge – The Musical, The Night of the Iguana, A Few Good Men, A Man For All Seasons alongside UK tours of Jesus Christ Superstar, Tommy, Tell Me on a Sunday and This is Elvis. He produced the London revival of ... read more
Steve Klein Producer
David Korins Scenic Designer
Broadway: Mrs. Doubtfire, Beetlejuice (Tony nom, Drama Desk award), Hamilton (Tony nom), War Paint (Tony nom), Dear Evan Hansen, Bandstand, Misery, Motown, Vanya and Sonia, Bring It On, The Pee-Wee Herman Show, Lombardi, and Passing Strange. TV: "91st Annual Academy Awards," "Grease: Live!" (Emmy award). Concert: Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Mariah Carey, Andrea Boccelli. Extensive Off-Broadway/regional theatre, hospitality, and experience design. Dad: Stella and Vivian. ... read more Credits: Evita; Sugar Babies; Me and My Girl; The Goat (Tony Award); Movin’ Out (Tony Award); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Cyrano; Dirty Dancing; West Side Story; 9 to 5; The Addams Family; Merchant of Venice; Race; Promises, Promises; Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark; Priscilla Queen of the Desert; and Hello, Dolly! (Tony Award). ... read more
Emily Landau Producer
Vasi Laurence Producer
Rod Lemmond Associate Scenic Designer
Peter May Producer
Chase Mishkin Producer
Chase Mishkin produced several Broadway productions including Doctor Zhivago, Hands on a Hardbody, Equss, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and many more. ... read more
Tom Morse Sound Designer
Janet Pailet Producer
Joey Parnes Executive Producer
Tripp Phillips Production Stage Manager
Seymour "Red" Press Musical Coordinator
Heidi Rodewald Orchestrator
Musical Supervisor
Bass/Vocals
Kim Sellon Company Manager
Spring Sirkin Producer
David Ryan Smith Dance Captain
Broadway: Passing Strange. Off-Broadway: The Rover (NY Classical Theatre); #9 (59E59); Marat/Sade (Classical Theatre of Harlem). Regional: The Wiz (Dallas Theatre Center); Train to 2010 (Crossroads Theatre); Three Sisters, The Difficulty of Crossing a Field (A.C.T.); A Winter’s Tale, All’s Well That Ends Well (California Shakespeare Theatre). Film: Bee Season, I Am Ben. M.F.A., American Conservatory Theater. ... read more
Elizabeth Smith Dialect Coach
Aaron Sporer Assistant Lighting Designer
Jon Spurney Keyboard/Guitar/Backing Vocals
Jordan Thaler Casting
S.D. Wagner Associate Producer

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Awards and Nominations

2008 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Book of a Musical: Stew was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Choreography: Karole Armitage was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Lyrics: Stew won.
Outstanding Music: Stew won.
Outstanding Music: Heidi Rodewald won.
Outstanding Musical : Passing Strange won.
Outstanding Orchestrations: Stew was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Orchestrations: Heidi Rodewald was nominated but did not win.

2008 New York Drama Critics Circle Awards
Best Musical: Stew Rodewald won.
Best Musical: Heidi Rodewald won.

2008 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding New Score: 0 was nominated but did not win.

2008 The Lortels
Outstanding Director: Annie Dorsen was nominated but did not win.

2008 Theatre World Awards
Performance: Daniel Breaker won.

2008 Tony Awards
Best Book of a Musical: Stew won.
Best Musical: Vasi Laurence was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: The Shubert Organization was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Elizabeth Ireland McCann was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Bill Kenwright was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: The Berkeley RepertoryTheatre was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: The Public Theater was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Joey Parnes was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Jackie Barlia Florin was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Wendy Federman was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Pat Flicker Addiss was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Chase Mishkin was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Ruth Hendel was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Spring Sirkin was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Jed Bernstein was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Elie Hirschfeld was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Steve Klein was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Janet Pailet was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Larry Hirschhorn was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Boyett Ostar was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Peter May was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Emily Fisher Landau was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Broadway Across America was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Buddy Freitag was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Barbara & Buddy Freitag was nominated but did not win.
Best Orchestrations: Stew was nominated but did not win.
Best Orchestrations: Heidi Rodewald was nominated but did not win.
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre: Heidi Rodewald was nominated but did not win.
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre: Stew was nominated but did not win.

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