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Imaginary Friends - Broadway Creative Team


Production Staff

Craig Carnelia Lyricist
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Nora Ephron Playwright
Ephron is well known for her films When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, You've Go Mail and more recently, Julie & Julia. For the stage, Ephron has written Short Talks on the Universe, the Drama Desk Award-winning Love, Loss, and What I Wore, Imaginary Friends, Lucky Guy, and more. Ephron started her career as a newspaper reporter for the New York Post and then became a magazine writer for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, and New York Magazine. After gaining a reputation as a journalist, Ephron turned to screenwriting and directing. Her break-out success came in 1989, with the ... read more
Marvin Hamlisch Composer
JoAnne Kane Music Preparation Music Preparation
Nina Lannan & Associates General Manager
Randy Andos Trombone/Tuba
Matt August Associate Director
Benny Burnett Assistant Company Manager
Hollis Burridge Trumpet
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
Lara Dubin Associate Lighting Designer
Maggie Edelman Associate General Manager
Evan Ensign Production Stage Manager
L.A. Glassburn Company Manager
Theatresmith Inc. Technical Supervisor
Michael Keller Musical Coordinator
Drums/Percussion
Music Coordination for Broadway: The Book of Mormon, American Idiot, The Addams Family, Million Dollar Quartet, Memphis, Billy Elliot, Wicked, Mamma Mia, The Lion King; National Tour coordination: Les Misérables, Next To Normal, 9 to 5, Billy Elliot, In The Heights, Shrek, The Lion King, West Side Story, Wicked. Barbra Streisand Concerts (1994-2007). ... read more
Brian Koonin Guitar/Banjo/Ukelele
Michael Levine Scenic Designer
Joan Marcus Production Photographer
Kip Marsh Associate Scenic Designer
Ron Melrose Conductor
Piano
Musical Supervisor
Musical Director
Dance Music Arranger
Music Direction: Imaginary Friends, Scarlet Pimpernel, Radio City Sinatra, upcoming Caraboo and Waiting for the Moon. Dance/Vocal Arranging: Sweet Smell of Success, Jekyll & Hyde, Perfectly Frank, The Act, Marilyn: An American Fable, Woman of the Year, Cabaret. Composing: Superdimensional Microbabes (upcoming anime-based musical), Fourtune (Off-Broadway), The Silver Swan (NEA Fellowship), three theatrical CDs (The Missing Peace, Early One Morning, Songs I Won’t Be Singing), two Harvard Hasty Pudding shows (Tots in Tinseltown, Bewitched Bayou), a gospel-based Requiem, and songs for church, choir, cabaret, and "Saturday Night Live." Harvard (philosophy), Westminster (choral conducting). ... read more
Jerry Mitchell Choreographer
Jerry Mitchell made his Broadway and West End debuts as director of Legally Blonde, for which he also served as Choreographer, and was nominated for both the Tony and Drama Desk Awards for his choreography and the Drama Desk Award for his direction. He also recently choreographed the Broadway production of Catch Me If You Can and West End production of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies. Mitchell received Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics' Circle Awards for choreographing the 2005 Tony Award-winning Best Revival of La Cage aux Folles, having also been nominated for the Tony as choreographer ... read more
Robert Morgan Costume Designer
Jack O'Brien Director
Broadway: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Front Page, It's Only a Play, Macbeth, The Nance, Dead Accounts, Catch Me If You Can, Impressionism, The Coast of Utopia (Tony Award), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Tony nomination), Henry IV (Tony), Hairspray (Tony), Imaginary Friends, The Invention of Love (Tony nomination, Drama Desk Award), The Full Monty (Tony nomination), More to Love, Getting Away With Murder, Pride's Crossing, The Little Foxes, Damn Yankees, Two Shakespearean Actors (Tony nomination), Porgy and Bess (Tony nomination). Metropolitan Opera: Il Trittico. Carnegie Hall: Guys and Dolls. Central Park: Much Ado About Nothing. Off-Broadway: Hapgood (Lucille Lortel Award). ... read more
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Jim Osorno Associate Choreographer
Charles Pillow Saxophone/Woodwinds
Kenneth Posner Lighting Designer
Kenneth Posner designs extensively on Broadway, off-Broadway, for resident theatres, and touring productions throughout the United States as well as internationally. Some of his Broadway work includes Pretty Woman, Mean Girls, War Paint, Tuck Everlasting, On Your Feet, If/Then, Kinky Boots, Pippin, Cinderella, Hairspray, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Legally Blonde, The Coast of Utopia-Shipwrecked, and Wicked. He is the recipient of the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics’ Circle and OBIE Awards. ... read more
Joel Rosen Stage Manager
Jonathan Smith Assistant Conductor
Jonathan (aka Smitti) Smith is a New York-based pianist, arranger, Music Director and woodworker. His training includes piano studies with Ellis Marsalis while a student at Loyola University in New Orleans, with Donald Brown while a student at the Berklee College of music, and a Masters of Music in jazz performance from Manhattan School of Music. Broadway credits include "Swing!", "Imaginary Friends", "A Bronx Tale", "Jersey Boys", "Thoroughly Modern Millie", and "Ain't Too Proud: The Life & Times of the Temptations". He has been Associate Music Supervisor of "Jersey Boys" worldwide, including productions in South Africa, Singapore, Japan, The UK, ... read more
Jason Strangfeld Associate Sound Designer
Paul Vershbow Associate Projection Designer
Mary Pat Walsh Creative Consultant
Jon Weston Sound Designer
Paris and West End: An American in Paris. West End: Thoroughly Modern Millie; Rent; The Who’s Tommy. Broadway design credits include: Prince of Broadway; She Loves Me; Amazing Grace; An American in Paris; On the 20th Century; You Can’t Take It With You; The Bridges of Madison County; How to Succeed in Business…; The Color Purple; Caroline, or Change; Nine; The Green Bird; Thoroughly Modern Millie. Off-Broadway and Regional: Paradise Square (Berkeley Rep); Unmasked: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber (Papermill Playhouse); Footloose (Kennedy Center); Scotland, PA (Roundabout); Evita (Bay Street); Grey Gardens (Bay Street); The Last Five Years (Second ... read more
Jim Woolley Stage Manager
Torrie Zito Orchestrator

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Awards and Nominations

2002 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Lyrics: Craig Carnelia won.

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