Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark - Broadway Creative Team

... read more ... read more ... read more ... read more Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is an award-winning playwright, comic book and television writer. His plays, including Good Boys and True and Based on a Totally True Story, have been produced Off-Broadway (Manhattan Theatre Club, 2econd Stage) and regionally (Steppenwolf, South Coast Rep). For Marvel Comics, he has written The Fantastic Four, Nightcrawler and Spider-Man, and is currently adapting the Stephen King novel The Stand. Last year, his revision of the classic musical It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Superman! premiered at Dallas Theater Center. Additionally, he has written for the HBO series “Big Love.” Upcoming: American Psycho with Duncan Sheik, “Glee” ... read more Glen Berger’s plays include Underneath the Lintel (more than 450 performances Off-Broadway, 150 productions worldwide), O Lovely Glowworm (Portland Drammy Best Script Award) and Great Men of Science, Nos. 21 & 22 (L.A. Weekly Best Play Award). Glen has also collaborated on two new musicals: On Words and Onwards and Loewe Award winner A Night in the Old Marketplace, with commissions from theatres including Berkley Rep and the Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis. In television, Glen has won two Emmys (12 nominations) and has written more than 200 episodes for children’s television seen on PBS, NBC and the BBC including ... read more Theatre includes: Anything Goes, Get Up Stand Up, Leopoldstadt, Back to The Future, All About Eve, The Light In The Piazza, Rosmersholm, Company, The King & I, Funny Girl, St. Joan, City of Angels, One Night in Miami, The Young Chekhov Trilogy, Bend It Like Beckham, Gypsy, The Bodyguard, (West End). Present Laughter, The Master Builder, The Lorax, High Society, Electra, Clarence Darrow, Sweet Bird of Youth, Richard III, Kiss Me Kate, Inherit the Wind, A Christmas Carol, (Old Vic). TINA – The Tina Turner Musical The Ferryman, The Girl from the North Country, Farinelli and the ... read more Called "prolific" in both The New Yorker and The New York Times, Brock is a 34-year old choreographer working in concert dance, theater, ballet, opera, television and video games. In addition to 30 dances for The Chase Brock Experience, Brock's choreography includes Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and Picnic; the stage adaptation of Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame currently playing in long-running German and Japanese productions; The Blue Flower (Second Stage, Lortel nomination for Outstanding Choreography), Tamar of the River (Callaway Award finalist for Choreography) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare in the Park); "Last Week Tonight with ... read more Judy Chin has designed makeup for film, television and theatre. Film credits include The Unbelievable Truth; Ghost Dog; Requiem for a Dream; Frida; House of Sand and Fog; Broken Flowers; The Fountain; Blood Diamond; Across the Universe; Synecdoche, New York; All Good Things; The Wrestler; Sex and the City 1 and 2; Black Swan; Dream House; and The Tempest among many others. Television: “Sex and the City.” Her theatre credits include Golden Child and God of Carnage. ... read more Music tours (including The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, U2 and Barbra Streisand), television (including Pete Seeger: Power of Song - Emmy Award), film (including Live at the Max and Shine A Light), children’s show Yo Gabba Gabba! Live!, and Broadway (including Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark, Spamalot – TONY Award, Bombay Dreams and La Cage aux Folles). Inducted into the Canadian Music Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and has a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame. Michael has also been honored with the Billboard Legend of Live Award and a JUNO ... read more Dublin-born Rori Coleman is a composer, arranger, producer and sound engineer. He studied classical guitar at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. Composition credits include: music for the feature film Short Order with Emma de Caunes, Jack Dee, John Hurt, Vanessa Redgrave, and Rade Serbedzija; numerous short films the most recent being Sugarstick winner of best black comedy at the New York International Independent film and video festival 2009. Composition for many documentaries including the Global Nomad series, Decay, Nasc Greenland. Music for advertising, commissions include: Independent News and Media Group PLC, Lufthansa Airlines, European Environment ... 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 Emmy Award winner Kyle Cooper has directed and produced over 150 feature film title sequences, including SE7EN, all three Spider-Man movies, and the Marvel logo animation. Details magazine credits Cooper with "almost single-handedly revitalizing the main title sequence as an art form." Kyle has collaborated with Julie Taymor on innovative visual effects sequences for Titus Andronicus, Across the Universe and The Tempest. He has a master's degree from the Yale School of Art, and holds the title of Royal Designer for Industry from the Royal Society of Arts in London. ... read more Jonathan Deans (Sound Designer) His work spans from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden to The Beatles 'LOVE' and Michael Jackson’s 'ONE' in Las Vegas. His Broadway credits include Pippin (Tony Nomination) Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, La Cage aux Folles (Tony and Drama Desk Nomination),Young Frankenstein, The Pirate Queen, Lestat, Taboo, Follies, Seussical, The Music Man, Fosse, Parade, Candide and Ragtime (A number of different awards). He designed the Off-Broadway revival of Carrie (Drama Desk Nomination). His work with Cirque du Soleil includes ONE, LOVE, KA, Believe, Zumanity, O, Mystere, La Nouba, Wintuk, Ovo, ... read more Spider-Man marks Ezralow’s fourth collaboration with Julie Taymor (Across the Universe film, The Green Bird on Broadway, The Flying Dutchman opera). Theatre credits/tours include his new dance theatre show WHY, Mandala, Love (Cirque du Soleil), AEROS, Ezralow and Friends, Iso Dance, Salgari (Teatro Filharmonico, Verona), Tosca (Gran Teatro, Roma), Aida (Maggio Musicale). In television he conceived/created the dance specials “Windows” (Bravo), “Episodes” (PBS, Emmy Award) and “Josh Groban in Concert” (PBS) and choreographed “Israel’s 50th Anniversary” (CBS) and “The 70th Annual Academy Awards” (Emmy nomination). The recipient of two American Choreography Awards for innovative and outstanding choreography, Premio Positano (Italy) ... read more Born and raised in Winterthur, Switzerland, Matthias Gohl studied at Berklee College in Boston, MA. Theater music/sound design credits include A.R.T.,Cambridge, MA, Trinity Repertory Theater, Providence, RI., and Theater For A New Audience, NYC. Film score production with Elliot Goldenthal includes: Interview With A Vampire, Michael Collins, Heat, two Batman features, Titus, Across the Universe, Iron Giant, Butcher Boy, Public Enemies and Oscar® winning scores for John Corigliano's The Red Violin and Julie Taymor's Frida. In addition to documentary film composition, jazz performance and opera/theater pit performance, Teese is proud of his collaborations with Carly Simon, Nana Vasconcelos and Dave ... read more Broadway: Spider-Man, Turn off the Dark; Spring Awakening; The Light in the Piazza; Caroline, or Change; The Full Monty; You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Twelfth Night (Jeanine Tesori). Off-Broadway: Coraline (Stephin Merritt), Mother Courage and Her Children, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Songs From an Unmade Bed, The Immigrant (Steven Alper), Radiant Baby (Debra Barsha), Twelfth Night (Duncan Sheik), Love’s Fire (Adam Guettel). Education: Southern Methodist University and Manhattan School of Music. ... read more Donald Holder has worked extensively in Theatre, Opera, Dance, Architectural and Television lighting in the US and abroad for over 30 years. He has designed 58 Broadway productions and has been nominated for 13 Tony Awards, winning the Tony for Best Lighting Design for The Lion King in 1998, and for the 2008 revival of South Pacific. Recent Broadway productions include: Tootsie, Kiss Me Kate, Anastasia, Oslo, Straight White Men, She Loves Me, Fiddler on the Roof, The King and I, On the Twentieth Century, The Bridges of Madison County, Bullets Over Broadway and many others. Projects at the NY ... read more Eiko Ishioka is a multidisciplinary designer whose internationally acclaimed work has made her one of the premiere visual artists in contemporary world culture. Her awards include an Academy Award® for costume design for Francis Ford Coppola's film Bram Stoker's Dracula, the Award for Artistic Contribution at the Cannes Film Festival for her production design of the film Mishima, Outer Critic Circle nominations and Tony® nominations for the sets and costumes of the Broadway play M. Butterfly, and a Grammy Award® for the artwork of Miles Davis' album Tutu. She directed a music video for the singer Björk and designed costumes ... read more Singer-songwriter/pianist Dawn Kenny holds a Masters in Contemporary Composition and released two albums with Sony. She has arranged and recorded for U2 and Johnny Hallyday. Dawn toured with Bob Geldof and Ron Sexsmith and has performed extensively throughout Europe and America. In Q Magazine in 2007, Bono called her "an exceptional musician." ... read more Credits: Evita; Sugar Babies; Me and My Girl; The Goat (Tony Award); Movin’ Out (Tony Award); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Cyrano; Dirty Dancing; West Side Story; 9 to 5; The Addams Family; Merchant of Venice; Race; Promises, Promises; Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark; Priscilla Queen of the Desert; and Hello, Dolly! (Tony Award). ... read more Martin McCallum, FRSA, was a British theatrical producer, former President of the Society of London Theatre and member of the Broadway League, who worked on over 500 shows on Broadway and in the West End. Martin died peacefully in Sydney on 14 January 2024 aged 73. Martin McCallum was born in Blackpool on 6 April 1950. He was educated at Frensham Heights, an arts orientated school in Surrey, before beginning his theatrical career as an ASM at the Castle Theatre Farnham. After a number of years in rep he became a production manager at the Old Vic, then home to the ... read more See official website ... read more James L. Nederlander is President of the Nederlander Organization and son of James M. Nederlander (Chairman). He is the third generation of a family known for owning and operating theatres around the world as well as theatrical productions, cultural presentations and popular music attractions. Current productions include West Side Story, The Addams Family, Next to Normal and Race. Upcoming productions include a live show with magician David Blaine. ... read more Jaque was born in the province of Quebec. He has been working in the entertainment industry for over 30 years, with the last 20 years dedicated to designing systems for hanging and flying performers and equipment. His design contribution to Cirque du Soleil helped create such masterpieces as "KÀ", "O", "Zumanity", and "Varekai", among others. A talented multidisciplinary artist, he is credited for having strong imagination and skills on both the artistic and technical aspects of his work. Having worked in theater, movies, television and live entertainment, his wide experience allows him to maximize the performance presented to an ... read more Scott Rogers comes to Broadway via Hollywood where he has been a stuntman, stunt coordinator and second unit director in more than 80 feature films and countless television productions. Most notably: Spiderman 2 and Spiderman 3 as well as The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum and Independence Day. Scott’s “aerial” experience, which has been born out of 20 years of performing, rigging and designing wire work for film, makes him uniquely qualified for Spider-Man Turn Off the Dar ... read more La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini (Broadway 2002) Executive Producer The Woodsman by James Ortiz and Edward W. Hardy (Off-Broadway 2016, PBS, BroadwayHD) Executive Producer Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark by Glen Berger, Julie Taymor, and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Broadway 2011) Executive Producer Ghost The Musical by Bruce Joel Rubin, Dave Stewart, Glen Ballard, Bruce Joel Rubin, Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard (Broadway 2012) Producer ... read more Taymor is an American director and writer of theater, opera and film. Her stage adaptation of The Lion King debuted in 1997, and received eleven Tony Award nominations, with Taymor receiving Tony Awards for Best Director and Costume Designer. Her film Frida, about Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, was nominated for five Academy Awards, including a Best Original Song nomination for Taymor's composition "Burn It Blue". She also directed the jukebox musical Across the Universe. ... read more George Tsypin is a sculptor, architect and designer of opera, film and video. He won an International Competition of "New and Spontaneous Ideas for the Theater for Future Generations" some twenty years ago. Since then his opera designs have been seen all over the world, including the Salzburg Festival, Opera de Bastille in Paris, Covent Garden in London, La Scala in Milan and Metropolitan Opera in New York. The first private gallery show of his sculpture took place in 1991 at Twining Gallery in New York. George exhibited his work at Venice Biennale in 2002. He has worked with director ... read more Luc Verschueren is a hair, wig, and makeup designer known for The Music Man, King Lear, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Waverly Gallery, Three Tall Women, Meteor Shower, A Doll's House Part 2, The Front Page, The Crucible, The Humans, Misery, Sylvia, A Delicate Balance, The Last Ship, Les Miserables, Ghost the Musical, Private Lives, Spider-Man Turn off the Dark, and Mary Stuart. ... read more