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The Year of Magical Thinking - Broadway Creative Team


Production Staff

Joan Didion Playwright
Theatre Owner / Operator
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
Karen Armstrong Production Stage Manager
John Barlow Executive Producer
Roger Berlind Producer
Berlind was a New York City theatrical producer and board member of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. and Lehman Brothers Inc. He was one of the founders of Carter, Berlind, Potoma & Weill in 1960, a company that would later through Sandy Weill become Shearson Loeb Rhoades, which was eventually sold to American Express in 1981 for approximately $930 million in stock. Recent productions include The Book of Mormon, Copenhagen; Kiss Me, Kate; Proof; Medea; Anna in the Tropics; Caroline, or Change; Wonderful Town; Doubt; The History Boys; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Faith Healer; Deuce; The Year of Magical Thinking; Curtains; ... read more
Debra Black Producer
Black was born Debra Ressler to New York lawyer Ira Ressler. She is the sister of Tony Ressler, who co-founded Apollo Global Management with Leon Black. She graduated from Barnard College in 1976. Black is a Broadway producer who has been nominated for ten Tony Awards, winning two in the Tony Award for Best Play category for The History Boys (2006) and The Pillow Man (2008). Black and her husband co-founded the Melanoma Research Alliance, which funds melanoma research worldwide. Black is a melanoma survivor herself. She was elected a trustee of the Rockefeller University in 2010. In 2015, She was elected a ... read more
Cassidy J. Briggs Company Manager
Boneau / Bryan-Brown Press Representative
Bob Crowley Scenic Designer
Recent Productions: Don Carlos (MET, NY) Love Never Dies (Adelphi, London). Bob Crowley has designed over twenty productions for the National Theatre, including most recently: The Habit of Art, The Power of Yes, Phèdre, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Gethsemane, and Fram (which he also co-directed with Tony Harrison), The History Boys (Broadway - Tony Award), His Girl Friday and Mourning Becomes Electra, plus more than twenty-five productions for the RSC, including: Les Liaisons Dangereuses and The Plantagenets, for which he won an Olivier Award. For the Donmar Warehouse - Into the Woods and Orpheus Descending. Other credits include: Pavane ... read more
Michal Daniel Production Photographer
Born in Prague, then Czechoslovakia. Left for the US in 1969. Served in the USAF and became photographer after seeing my first 4×5 negative come up in the developer, under a green safelite—military boot stepping on a flower. Corny, I know, but hey, instant love, to this day. Got my US citizenship and ran my own custom b&w photo lab in Minneapolis for two decades after that, while teaching fine b&w printing. Meanwhile, didn't get rich inventing or marketing the original M-Grip for M Leica cameras, nor being the first and then exclusive US importer of FOMA film and paper ... read more
Martha Donaldson Stage Manager
Naomi Donne Hair Designer
Make-Up Designer
David Hare Director
Bobby Harrell Associate Lighting Designer
Deborah Hecht Dialect Coach
Broadway: War Paint, Groundhog Day, Fool for Love, Act One, Venus in Fur, God of Carnage, Long Day's Journey Into Night (with Redgrave and Hoffman), Exit the King, numerous others. Off-Broadway: Public, LCT3, Signature, Playwrights Horizons, others. Regional/international: Goodman, Westport, Two River Theater, Williamstown, others. Royal National, Royal Shakespeare Company. Film/TV: numerous. Faculty: Juilliard. ... read more
Jeffrey Hinchee Associate Scenic Designer
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Bryan Johnson Associate Scenic Designer
Jean Kalman Lighting Designer
Brigitte Lacombe Cover Photo
Michelle Matland Associate Costume Designer
B.T. McNicholl Associate Director
Stuart Thompson Productions General Manager
Aurora Productions Production Manager
Credits: Once, The Book of Mormon, The Addams Family (Broadway and National Tour), Sister Act, Peter Pan (threesixty entertainment), The Mountaintop, Relatively Speaking, Man and Boy, Sons of the Prophet, An Evening with Patti and Mandy, and Stick Fly. Past projects include over 150 Broadway shows and their tours. Aurora Productions is Gene O'Donovan and Ben Heller with Stephanie Sherline, Jarid Sumner, Liza Luxenberg, Anita Shah, Rebecca Zuber, Steven Dalton, Eugenio Saenz Flores, Isaac Katzanek & Melissa Mazdra. ... read more
Caroline Prugh General Management Associate
Caroline Prugh writes for the stage. Recent New York productions include the musical PINWHEEL! (random access theatre; 2015 NYIT Nomination for Outstanding Musical), and the plays: IT'S ONLY KICKBALL STUPID (kef productions; The Advocate’s NYC Lesbian Stage Highlights of 2014), NO PROVENANCE (written with Kate Holland & produced by Justin Cornell/FringeNYC 2014), and CLEAR COLD PLACE (vilde chaya collective & David Carpenter). Recent readings/workshops include: NIGHT AT THE BIG CHIEF MOTEL (Holland New Voices Award, 2016 Great Plains Theatre Conference) and TIL DEATH DO US PART (with composer/lyricist Bobby Cronin) part of 2015-16 Overtures Series at The Gallery Players (directed ... read more
Daryl Roth Producer
Daryl Roth is a Tony Award-winning Broadway producer who has been a driving force in the theater industry for over 30 years. She is known for her innovative productions, which often tackle challenging and thought-provoking subject matter. Born in 1945 in Lakewood, New Jersey, Roth grew up in a family that was deeply involved in the arts. Her father was a musician and her mother was a painter, and they encouraged their daughter to pursue her own creative interests. Roth attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied history and literature. After college, Roth moved to New York City and began ... read more
Ann Roth Costume Designer
Roth is a Carnegie Mellon graduate who began her career as a scenery painter for the Pittsburgh Opera. She intended to remain in the field of production design until she met Irene Sharaff at the Bucks County Playhouse. Sharaff invited her to California to assist her with costumes on the film Brigadoon and suggested Roth apprentice with her for five films and five Broadway productions before setting out on her own. Roth's first Hollywood film was 1964's The World of Henry Orient, where her designs included "monogrammed handmade yellow silk pajamas" for glamorous womanizer Peter Sellers. Roth next designed costumes for ... read more
Scott Rudin Producer
Films include Ladybird, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo; Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close; Moneyball; Moonrise Kingdom; Margaret; The Social Network; True Grit; Greenberg; It’s Complicated; Fantastic Mr. Fox; Julie & Julia; Doubt; No Country for Old Men; There Will Be Blood; Reprise; The Queen; Margot at the Wedding; Notes on a Scandal; Venus; Closer; Team America: World Police; I Heart Huckabees; School of Rock; The Hours; Iris; The Royal Tenenbaums; Zoolander; Sleepy Hollow; Wonder Boys; Bringing Out the Dead; South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut; The Truman Show; In & Out; Ransom; The First Wives Club; Clueless; Nobody’s Fool; ... read more
Eric Schnall Marketing
Tony Smolenski, IV Associate Sound Designer
Daniel Swee Casting
Stuart Thompson Executive Producer
Producing credits include the Tony Award-winning The Book of Mormon, God of Carnage and Proof; also Jerusalem, The Motherf**ker With the Hat, A View From the Bridge (2010), The Retreat From Moscow, The Play What I Wrote, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Not About Nightingales, The Chairs, Exit the King. His general management company has been responsible for more than 60 productions, most recently Fences, You're Welcome America, The Seagull and Boeing-Boeing. Thompson is the recipient of the 2010 Robert Whitehead Award for Outstanding Achievement in Commercial Theatre Producing. ... read more
Walter Trarbach Associate 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
James Triner General Manager

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Awards and Nominations

2007 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Solo Performance: Vanessa Redgrave won.

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