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Production Staff

August Wilson Playwright
American Conservatory Theatre of San Francisco Producer
(In Association With)
Producer
Manhattan Theatre Club Producer
(In Association With)
Christopher Akerlind Lighting Designer
Broadway: End of the Rainbow, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, 110 In The Shade (Tony nom.), Shining City, Well, Awake and Sing! (Tony nom.), Rabbit Hole, The Light In The Piazza (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics awards), Reckless, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, Seven Guitars (Tony nom.), among others. Recent: King Lear (Public Theater), Kdo! (Foret Nationale, Brussels), Kafeneion (Athens Festival), Garden Of Earthly Delights (Minetta Lane); Orpheus X (TFANA), Kaos (NYTW). Awards: Obie/Sustained Excellence, among others. ... read more
Narda Alcorn Stage Manager
Herb Alpert Producer
Herb Alpert is an American trumpeter who led Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass in the 1960s. During the same decade, he co-founded A&M Records with Jerry Moss. His career as a musician includes recording five No. 1 albums and 28 albums on the Billboard magazine album chart, fourteen platinum albums, fifteen gold albums, and nine Grammy Awards. He has sold 72 million records worldwide.[1] Alpert is the only musician to hit No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 pop chart as both a vocalist ("This Guy's in Love with You", 1968) and an instrumentalist ("Rise", 1979). ... read more
Dwight Andrews Musical Director
Pamela Sheree Booker Director of Marketing
Scott Bradley Scenic Designer
Boneau / Bryan-Brown Press Representative
Tom Clark Sound Designer
Serino Coyne, Inc. Advertising
Margo Lion Producer
Lion is best known for her role in producing Hairspray. Originally, Lion worked in politics, but after spending three years at the University of Iowa's Playwrights Workshop where her former husband, Ted Nemeth, was a graduate student, Lion's focus turned from education to her earlier interest in theater. Lion's cousin, MacArthur Award recipient and director/choreographer Martha Clarke, introduced Lion to Lyn Austin from whom she learned the ropes with Austin's not-for-profit company, Music-Theater Group/Lenox Arts Center. The first musical Lion produced on Broadway was Jelly's Last Jam, based on Jelly Roll Morton and the origins of jazz. Other notable Broadway credits include Angels in ... read more
Paula Mallino Promotions
Benjamin Mordecai Executive Producer
Jane E. Neufeld Production Stage Manager
Gene O'Donovan Technical Supervisor
Marshall B. Purdy General Manager
Lloyd Richards Director
Constanza Romero Costume Designer
Romero met playwright August Wilson in 1990 when her Yale School of Drama teachers assigned her to design costumes for his play, The Piano Lesson. The couple married in 1994, and had one child, Azula Carmen Wilson. Wilson died in October 2005. Romero has twice been nominated for a Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Play (in 2005 and 2010, respectively) ... 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
Meg Simon Casting
Goodman Theatre Producer
(In Association With)
Tom Todoroff Dialect Coach
Scott Walton Promotions

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Awards and Nominations

1996 Drama League Awards
Distinguished Production of a Play: 0 won.

1996 New York Drama Critics Circle Awards
Best Play: August Wilson won.

1996 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Best Broadway Play: 0 was nominated but did not win.
Best Director - Play: Lloyd Richards won.
Special Awards: 0 won.

1996 Theatre World Awards
Performance: Viola Davis won.

1996 Tony Awards
Best Direction of a Play: Lloyd Richards was nominated but did not win.
Best Lighting Design: Christopher Akerlind was nominated but did not win.
Best Play: Jujamcyn Theaters was nominated but did not win.
Best Play: Manhattan Theatre Club was nominated but did not win.
Best Play: American Conservatory Theatre was nominated but did not win.
Best Play: Huntington Theatre Company was nominated but did not win.
Best Play: Goodman Theatre was nominated but did not win.
Best Play: Paramount Pictures was nominated but did not win.
Best Play: Scott Rudin was nominated but did not win.
Best Play: Margo Lion was nominated but did not win.
Best Play: Herb Alpert was nominated but did not win.
Best Play: Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre was nominated but did not win.
Best Play: Benjamin Mordecai was nominated but did not win.
Best Play: Sageworks was nominated but did not win.
Best Play: August Wilson was nominated but did not win.
Best Scenic Design: Scott Bradley was nominated but did not win.

1995 The Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: August Wilson was nominated but did not win.
The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: August Wilson was nominated but did not win.

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