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Anna in the Tropics - Broadway Creative Team


Production Staff

Nilo Cruz Playwright
Robert G. Bartner Producer
(In Association With)
Robert G. Bartner has produced on Broadway: Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Elling, La Bête, La Cage aux Folles (Tony), Memphis (Tony), Norman Conquests (Tony), Boeing-Boeing (Tony), Company (Tony) revival, Anna in the Tropics (Pulitzer). West End: Onassis, Flashdance, Legally Blonde, The Mountaintop (Olivier), La Cage aux Folles (Olivier), Guys and Dolls (Olivier). Upcoming: An Ideal Husband. ... read more
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
Robert Brill Scenic Designer
Scenic Designer
Broadway credits include Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, Assassins (Tony Award nomination), set and club design for the critically acclaimed revival of Cabaret, Jesus Christ Superstar, Guys and Dolls (Tony Award nomination), Buried Child, Design for Living, A Streetcar Named Desire, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and others. His other credits include Frozen (Disney California), as well as numerous opera World premieres, including Moby-Dick, Cold Mountain, Everest, Doubt, The Manchurian Candidate, and It's a Wonderful Life. He has designed for the Whitney Museum of American Art, BAM, Radio City Music Hall, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, the Guthrie Theater, Goodman Theatre, ... read more
David Bullard Associate Sound Designer
Richard Costabile Stage Manager
Stage Manager
Antje Ellermann Assistant Scenic Designer
Peter Fulbright Technical Supervisor
Leiko Fuseya Assistant Scenic Designer
Joshua Halperin Stage Manager
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Mara Isaacs McCarter Theatre Center Producing Director
With over twenty years of producing experience at flagship theaters in the United States, Mara Isaacs is recognized as a field leader in new play and musical development and production as well as non-profit organizational leadership. She began her professional career at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, where she produced new play development programs and productions from 1990-1995. During that time, she developed a reputation as an advocate for artists and honed her ability to identify and nurture emerging plays and playwrights. In 1995, Mara joined the McCarter Theatre Center staff, first as Resident Producer and then as Producing ... read more
Peter Kaczorowski Lighting Designer
More than 35 plays and musicals including Anything Goes; Venus in Fur; Nice Work if You Can Get It; Young Frankenstein; Curtains; Grey Gardens; The Pajama Game; The Producers; Contact; Kiss Me, Kate. Many productions Off-Broadway and for resident and regional theatres in the U.S. Opera: The Met, NYCO, LAMCO, San Francisco, Houston Grand, Seattle. Abroad: Royal Opera, Scottish Opera, La Fenice, Maggio Festival Florence, L'Arena di Verona, Teatrolirico di Cagliari, Teatro Sao Carlos Lisbon. He is the recipient of Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Drama-Logue and Hewes design awards. ... read more
Traci Klainer Associate Lighting Designer
Elie Landau Company Manager
Ray Larsen Producer
101 Productions, Ltd. General Manager
Emily Mann Director
Multi-award-winning Director and Playwright Emily Mann is in her 22nd season as Artistic Director of McCarter Theatre. Under Ms. Mann's leadership, McCarter was honored with the 1994 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theater. McCarter directing credits include Nilo Cruz's Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna in the Tropics with Jimmy Smits (also on Broadway); the world premiere of Christopher Durang's Miss Witherspoon with Kristine Nielsen (also off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons); Uncle Vanya with Amanda Plummer (also adapted); All Over with Rosemary Harris and Michael Learned (also off-Broadway at The Roundabout; 2003 Obie Award for Directing); The Cherry Orchard with Jane Alexander, John Glover, ... read more
Joan Marcus Production Photographer
Michael McAleer Assistant Costume Designer
Anne E. McMills Assistant Lighting Designer
Anne McMills Assistant Lighting Designer
James Milkey Assistant Lighting Designer
Cheryl Mintz Production Stage Manager
Cheryl Mintz celebrated 30 seasons at McCarter Theatre Center, 25 as McCarter Theatre’s Resident Production Stage Manager, has Production Stage Managed 106 productions and 100+ workshops, 698 performances of A Christmas Carol and has collaborated with America’s finest directors, playwrights, designers and actors. 2022 marked Cheryl’s 37th production with Artistic Director and Resident Playwright Emeritus, Emily Mann. Cheryl’s world premiere productions include Christopher Durang’s Tony winning Best Play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike and Turning Off the Morning News, Marina Carr’s Phaedra Backwards, John Guare’s Are You There, McPhee?, Edward Albee’s Me, Myself & I, ... read more
Janice Paran McCarter Theatre Center Dramaturg
Barlow-Hartman Public Relations Press Representative
Charles Rice-Gonzales Outreach Coordinator
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
Dan Moses Schreier Sound Designer
Broadway: Falsettos; American Psycho; The Visit; A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder; Sondheim on Sondheim; A Little Night Music; Gypsy (with Patti LuPone); Radio Golf; John Doyle's production of Sweeney Todd; Gem of the Ocean; Pacific Overtures; Assassins; Into the Woods; Topdog/Underdog; Dirty Blonde; Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk. He has composed scores for the Broadway productions of The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, and Dan Hurlin's Disfarmer (St. Ann's Warehouse). Awards: four Tony Award nominations, four Drama Desk Awards. ... read more
Tech Production Services, Inc. Technical Supervisor
Technical Supervisor
Tom Watson Hair and Wig Designer
Tom Watson is head of the wig and makeup department at the Metropolitan Opera. He has designed wigs for more than 45 Broadway productions. Current and recent Broadway designs include The Addams Family; Promises, Promises; Elling; Million Dollar Quartet; Mrs. Warren's Profession; Wicked; Rock of Ages; South Pacific; Sondheim on Sondheim; A View from the Bridge; and Sunday in the Park with George. ... read more
Chris Wendell Assistant to the Director
Kate Wilson Vocal Coach
Broadway: End of the Rainbow, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, War Horse, The Mountaintop, , Master Class, The People in the Picture, Driving Miss Daisy, The Merchant of Venice, The Pitmen Painters, Red, Sunday in the Park with George, The Seafarer, American Buffalo, Curtains, Talk Radio, A Raisin in the Sun, Fiddler on the Roof, Nine, Oklahoma, Gem of the Ocean, Betrayal, others. Off-Broadway: The Whipping Man, Burn This, Far Away, others. Film & TV: Inside Llewyn Davis, Grand Street, Rubicon, Ceremony, Salt, Notorious, The Rebound, Pride and Glory, Fur. Faculty: Juilliard. ... read more
Anita Yavich Costume Designer

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Awards and Nominations

2004 Outer Critics Circle Awards
John Gassner Playwriting Award: Nilo Cruz was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Broadway Play: 0 was nominated but did not win.

2004 Tony Awards
Best Play: Nilo Cruz was nominated but did not win.
Best Play: Roger Berlind was nominated but did not win.
Best Play: Daryl Roth was nominated but did not win.
Best Play: Ray Larsen was nominated but did not win.
Best Play: Robert G. Bartner was nominated but did not win.
Best Play: The McCarter Theatre Center was nominated but did not win.

2003 The Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Nilo Cruz won.

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