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Machinal - Off-Broadway Creative Team

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Production Staff

Sophie Treadwell Playwright
Barbara Carroll Executive Assistant
Press Representative
Jason Steven Cohen Associate Producer
David Gallo Scenic Designer
David Gallo has designed over 30 Broadway production, including Memphis, First Date, The Drowsy Chaperone (Tony Award for Best Scenic Design), The Mountaintop, Reasons to Be Pretty, Xanadu, Company, and Thoroughly Modern Millie. Working with August Wilson from 1996 until his death, David designed the premire productions of Wilson's later works, including King Hedley II, Jitney, Gem of the Ocean, and Radio Golf, the latter two of with each garnered him Tony nominations. Other awards: Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Ovation, Obie, LA Drama Critics, Outer Critics Circle, NAACP. ... read more
Michael Greif Director
Greif attended Northwestern University and graduated from the University of California, San Diego graduate directing program. He was the Artistic Director of the La Jolla Playhouse, LaJolla, California from 1994 to 1999. He was an Artistic Associate at the New York Theatre Workshop where he directed, among others, Bright Lights, Big City (1998–99) and the original production of Rent for which he received the Obie Award for direction of a musical and which he later directed on Broadway. Greif has directed several original Broadway musicals and been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical four times. In addition ... read more
John Gromada Composer
(Original Music)
Sound Designer
John Gromada (Composer/Sound Designer) has composed music or designed sound for more 40 Broadway productions, including All My Sons, Torch Song, The Elephant Man, The Trip to Bountiful with Cicely Tyson (Tony nomination), Gore Vidal's The Best Man (Drama Desk Award), Clybourne Park, Seminar, Man and Boy, The Columnist, Next Fall, A Bronx Tale, Prelude to a Kiss, Proof, A Streetcar Named Desire, Twelve Angry Men, and the original A Few Good Men. His other New York credits include Amy and the Orphans, Bruce Norris' Domesticated, Old Hats, Measure for Measure (Delacorte Theater), The Orphans? Home Cycle (Drama Desk ... read more
Richard Kornberg Press Representative
Sharon Lynch Costume Designer
Jess Lynn Stage Manager
Bob McDonald General Manager
Joseph Papp Producer
Joseph Papp was an American theatrical producer and director. He established The Public Theater in what had been the Astor Library Building in Lower Manhattan. There Papp created a year-round producing home to focus on new plays and musicals. ... read more
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
Allison Sommers Stage Manager

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Awards and Nominations

1991 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Revival : Machinal was nominated but did not win.

1991 Obie Awards
Direction: Michael Grief won.
Performance: Jodie Markell won.
Sound design: John Gromada won.

1990 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Director - Play: Michael Grief was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Lighting Design: Kenneth Posner was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Set Design : David Gallo was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Sound Design - Play: John Gromada was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Sound Design - Play: John Gromada was nominated but did not win.

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