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Blithe Spirit - Broadway Creative Team


Production Staff

Noel Coward Playwright
Richards / Climan, Inc. General Manager
Jeffrey Richards Associates General Press Representative
Michael Blakemore is an accomplished actor, director, and writer with a long and distinguished career in both the theater and film industries. Born in Sydney, Australia in 1928, Blakemore began his career as an actor before transitioning to directing in the 1960s. He has since become one of the most respected directors in the industry, with numerous awards and accolades to his name. Blakemore's early career was marked by his work as an actor in Australia and the UK. He made his West End debut in 1950 in a production of The Heiress, and went on to appear in numerous productions ... read more
Shane Marshall Brown Press Associate
Zev Bufman Producer
Caroline Chao Associate Lighting Designer
Tamar Climan General Manager: Richards / Climan, Inc.
Tamar Climan, founder of Climan Producing LLC (CPL), is a Tony Award®-winning theatre producer with almost three decades of experience producing and general managing on Broadway. Currently, Tamar is producing the national tour of A Soldier’s Play along with Roundabout Theatre Company. She is on the producing team of 1776 for the American Repertory Theater and serves as the Consulting Producer for the Tony Award® and Grammy-winning Jagged Little Pill on the West End and for its North American and Australian tours as well as the North American tour of the Tony Award®-winning revival of Oklahoma!. Previous producing credits ... read more Broadway/Tours: Elf, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Spiderman Turn Off The Dark, A Life in the Theatre, Million Dollar Quartet, The Addams Family, Memphis, Next to Normal, Rock of Ages, In the Heights, Wicked, 9 to 5, South Pacific, Peepshow in Vegas. Off-Broadway: Atlantic, MCC, Signature. Film: Margin Call, Howl, Sex and the City 1 & 2, Jonah Hex, Main Street, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, I Love You Phillip Morris, Rachel Getting Married, Dan in Real Life, Then She Found Me, Across the Universe, Ira & Abby, Rent, Pieces of April, Camp, The Grey Zone, Finding ... read more
Ken Davenport Producer
Broadway: Groundhog Day (Tony nomination), The Play That Goes Wrong, Spring Awakening (Tony nomination), It's Only a Play, Macbeth starring Alan Cumming, Godspell, Kinky Boots (Broadway - Tony Award, National Tour, Toronto, Australia, and West End), The Visit (Tony nomination), Mothers and Sons (Tony nomination), The Bridges of Madison County (National Tour), Allegiance, Chinglish, Oleanna starring Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles, Speed-the-Plow, Will Ferrell's You're Welcome America (Tony nomination), Blithe Spirit (Broadway, West End and National Tour), and 13. Off-Broadway: Daddy Long Legs, Altar Boyz (Co-Conceiver), My First Time (Author), The Awesome 80s Prom (Creator), and Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, ... read more
Peter J. Davison Scenic Designer
Scott M. Delman Producer
Delman has previously co-produced The Book of Mormon, Arcadia, That Championship Season, All My Sons, Speed-the-Plow, Blithe Spirit, Mary Stuart (Tony nominee), Reasons to Be Pretty (Tony nominee), Hamlet, Ragtime (Tony nominee), The Addams Family and American Idiot (Tony nominee). ... read more
Michael Filerman Producer
Jeffrey Finn Producer
Broadway: Seminar, American Idiot (Tony® nomination), A View From the Bridge (Tony® nomination), Oleanna, Blithe Spirit, On Golden Pond (Tony® nomination). Off-Broadway: Game Show. Regional: Poor Behavior and Oleanna at the Mark Taper Forum, The Subject Was Roses at the Kennedy Center. National tours: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber; On Golden Pond; The Who’s Tommy; Leader of the Pack; Tell Me on a Sunday; Promises, Promises; Company; Chess; and numerous Broadway Songbooks concert tours. In 1992, Jeffrey Finn Productions launched a corporate events company, Hot On Broadway, to produce customized corporate entertainment exclusively featuring current Broadway performers. Other current ... read more
Peter Fitzgerald Sound Designer
Credits: Your Welcome America, Movin' Out, Ring of Fire, Evil Dead the Musical, La Cage Aux Folles, Victor/Victoria, City of Angels, Gypsy, Falsettos, The Capeman, The Will Rogers Follies, M. Butterfly, Swing, Minnelli on Minnelli with Liza, Dream, Threepenny Opera with Sting, and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The Odd Couple, M. Butterfly, Stones in His Pockets, The Beauty Queen of Leenane and A Thousand Clowns. Fitzgerald is president of Sound Associates, Inc. a premier provider of sound and video systems to the theater. ... read more
Jerry Frankel Producer
Ronald Frankel Producer
Received Tony Awards for August: Osage County and Glengarry Glen Ross. Other Broadway shows include: Blithe Spirit, Race, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, China Doll, The Last Ship, Matilda and Something Rotten. Upcoming production: Come From Away. ... read more
Irene Gandy General Press Representative
John Gendron Associate General Manager
Megan Henninger Assistant Sound Designer
Paul Huntley Wig Designer
London-born Paul Huntley has worked hundreds of Broadway shows, most memorably the original productions of Amadeus, Cats, Evita, Sweeney Todd, The Producers and Hairspray. A recipient of the Drama Desk and Tony awards, he has also worked with the some of the most legendary leading ladies of the cinema, ranging from Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh to Jane Fonda and Faye Dunaway. Current shows include Anything Goes, War Horse, Other Desert Cities and Leap of Faith. ... read more
Serino Coyne, Inc. Advertising
Alana Karpoff Press Associate
Bruce Klinger Company Manager
Ted LeFevre Associate Scenic Designer
Brian MacDevitt Lighting Designer
The 70 plus shows he designed lighting for on Broadway include Death of a Salesman, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and directed by Mike Nichols, The Book of Mormon (Tony Award), The Coast of Utopia, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Fences, A Behanding in Spokane, Race, The Pillowman, Urinetown, and Into the Woods. In addition to 5 TONYs, his awards include an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence, a Bessie Award, and others. For dance, The Joffrey Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Tere O’Connor Dance, Merce Cunningham, Lar Lubovitch, Nancy Bannon, and many others. His ... read more
Àra Marx Stage Manager
Martin Pakledinaz Costume Designer
NY Theater includes: The Normal Heart, Anything Goes (Tony® nomination), Glass Menagerie (Lortel nomination), Lend Me a Tenor (Hewes Award, Tony® & Outer Critics nominations), Thoroughly Modern Millie, Blithe Spirit (Tony® nomination), Kiss Me, Kate (Tony Award® winner), Pajama Game (Tony® nomination), Wild Party, Golden Child, Kimberly Akimbo, The Life. Opera: Iphigénie en Tauride (Metropolitan Opera), The Bartered Bride (Juilliard), Tristan & Isolde, Adriana Mater (Paris Opera/Bastille), L'amour de Loin (Salzburg, Paris/Chatelet, Santa Fe, Helsinki), Iolanta, Perséphone (Teatro Madrid); works throughout U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan. Dance: Mark Morris Dance Group, SF Ballet, Boston Ballet, Arizona Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet. ... read more
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
JK Productions Producer
Judith Resnick Producer
Jeffrey Richards Producer
Jeffrey has produced more than 50 shows on and off Broadway and has done press for more than 200 productions. The theatre remains his SO. ... read more
Diana Rissetto Press Associate
Playwright Diana Rissetto is originally from New York City and grew-up in Ocean Township, New Jersey She has been praised for her quirky humor and handling on subjects as grave as the Holocaust, when her play WARMTH raised $25,000 with one performance for the Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey. Her plays have been performed throughout the New York area. Diana has also worked behind-the-scenes of many Broadway productions and is currently the Literary and Artistic Assistant at the ReVision Theatre in Springsteen Country (Asbury Park, NJ.) She chronicles her life and thoughts at www.dianagolightly.blogspot.com. ... read more
Paula Roberts Psychic Consultant
Elon Rutberg Press Associate
Robert J. Saferstein Production Photographer
Arlene Scanlan Producer
Terry Schnuck Producer
A five-time Tony Award recipient, Terry's credits include: Bandstand; Amelie; Sunset Boulevard; Fun Home (Tony); You Can't Take It With You; Beautiful: The Carole King Musical; Matilda; Clybourne Park (Tony); The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess (Tony); Bonnie & Clyde; High; Race; Superior Donuts; Burn The Floor; Hair (Tony); Blithe Spirit; The Homecoming; Spring Awakening (Tony); Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me; The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial; ‘night, Mother; Enchanted April; Nevermore; Falling; Silence! The Musical; Wanda's World; Ministry of Progress. ... read more
MaryAnn D. Smith Associate Costume Designer
Steve Traxler Producer
Kim Weild Associate Director
Steven Zweigbaum Production Stage Manager
Production Supervisor

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Awards and Nominations

2009 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Costume Design: Martin Pakledinaz was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Director of a Play: Michael Blakemore was nominated but did not win.

2009 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding Costume Design: Martin Pakledinaz was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Revival of a Play: 0 was nominated but did not win.

2009 Theatre World Awards
Performance: Susan Louise O'Connor won.

2009 Tony Awards
Best Costume Design of a Play: Martin Pakledinaz was nominated but did not win.

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