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David Henry Hwang Playwright
Richards / Climan, Inc. General Manager
The Goodman Theatre (Robert Falls, Artistic Director; Roche Schulfer, Execu Producer
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Hunter Arnold Producer
Broadway theatre credits include: The Heart of Rock and Roll, Cabaret, The Notebook, Harmony, Purlie Victorious, , Back to the Future, Here Lies Love, Once Upon a One MOre Time, Life of Pi, Dancin' , A Doll's House, Pictures from Home, Some Like It Hot, A Beautiful Noise, KPOP, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Broadhurst Theatre); Hadestown (Walter Kerr Theatre - Tony Nomination); Pretty Woman: The Musical (Nederlander Theatre); Anastasia (Broadhurst Theatre); Dear Evan Hansen (Music Box Theatre - Tony Award); Kinky Boots (Al Hirschfeld Theatre - Tony Award and Olivier Award); Gettin’ the Band Back Together ... read more
Jeffrey Richards Associates General Press Representative
Hudson Theatrical Associates Technical Supervisor
Adam Belcuore Casting
Ariel Benjamin Associate Lighting Designer
Jeremy Scott Blaustein Associate Producer
Daniel Brodie Projections Consultant
Graduated with a degree in theatre and media design from the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. Brodie’s Broadway credits include Motown:The Musical and Disney’s Aladdin. He also designed the projections for Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella and The Winter's Tale and has worked regularly with puppeteer Basil Twist. He has also created large-scale video designs for Kanye West, Mariah Carey, and for the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. He has also worked as a guest lecturer at Yale University and New York University. Brodie’s awards include the United States Institute of Theatre Technology’s Rising Star Award ... read more
Candace Chong Translator
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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
Charles Coes Associate Sound Designer
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
Shawn Duan Projection Designer
Shawn Duan is a Chinese-American actor and singer with a passion for the stage. Born and raised in New York City, Duan began his career in theater at a young age. He attended the LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, where he honed his skills in acting, singing, and dancing. Duan made his Broadway debut in 2016, when he was cast in the ensemble of the hit musical "Hamilton." He remained with the show for two years, performing in over 600 shows. During his time with "Hamilton," Duan also served as the understudy for the roles of ... read more
Dasha Epstein Producer
Jerry Frankel Producer
Irene Gandy General Press Representative
Roy Gottlieb Producer
Heidi Griffiths Casting
Johnson Henshaw Assistant Director
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Alana Karpoff General Press Representative
Stephen M. Kaus Production Stage Manager
David Korins Scenic Designer
Broadway: Mrs. Doubtfire, Beetlejuice (Tony nom, Drama Desk award), Hamilton (Tony nom), War Paint (Tony nom), Dear Evan Hansen, Bandstand, Misery, Motown, Vanya and Sonia, Bring It On, The Pee-Wee Herman Show, Lombardi, and Passing Strange. TV: "91st Annual Academy Awards," "Grease: Live!" (Emmy award). Concert: Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Mariah Carey, Andrea Boccelli. Extensive Off-Broadway/regional theatre, hospitality, and experience design. Dad: Stella and Vivian. ... read more
Joanna C. Lee Cultural Advisor
Rod Lemmond Associate Scenic Designer
Mary Lu Roffe Producer
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
Michael McCabe Production Photographer
Michael McCabe is the UK Executive Producer of Wicked, winner of the 2010 Laurence Olivier Award for ‘Most Popular Show'. In partnership with Joseph Smith, his West End producing credits include: Million Dollar Quartet; Spring Awakening, winner of the Critics' Circle Award for 'Best Musical' and 4 Laurence Olivier Awards including 'Best Musical' and, on Broadway, the new production of How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, starring Daniel Radcliffe, and the Tony Award-winning revival of Promises, Promises, starring Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth. ... read more
Jillian M. Oliver Stage Manager
Nancy Palmetier Assistant Costume Designer
Carly J. Price Production Assistant
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
Leigh Silverman Director
Silverman directed the Lisa Kron play Well off-Broadway at The Public Theater; the play ran from March 2004 to May 2004. She also directed Well on Broadway in 2006. Among other awards, the play was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Off-Broadway Play. She directed Kron's play In the Wake in its premiere engagement at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles, California in March 2010. She directed In the Wake at the Public Theater in November 2010. She has directed many plays off-Broadway, including Blue Door by Tanya Barfield in 2006 at Playwrights Horizons, for which she was ... read more
Sarah Smith Associate Costume Designer
Ken Smith Cultural Advisor
Jeff Sugg Projection Designer
Mr. Sugg is an award-winning designer and theater maker with over 20 years experience in the performing arts. Mr. Sugg has designed for a wide range of productions from Broadway to regional theater to international concert halls. Mr. Sugg has been a collaborator with music/theater artists including The Wooster Group, Julia Wolfe, Cynthia Hopkins, Jim Findlay, and Mikel Rouse. Select theater credits include: Broadway: Tina the Musical (fall 2019), All My Sons, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (broadway, Tour, Australia), Sweat, Bring It On, 33 Variations. West End: Tina the Musical. His off-broadway and regional credits include Second Stage, The ... read more
Elizabeth M. Talmage Company Manager
Jordan Thaler Casting
JAM Theatricals Producer
Darron L. West Sound Designer
Previously at the Friedman: The American Plan,To Be or Not To Be, The Royal Family, Top Girls, and Time Stands Still. He is a Tony and Obie Award-winning sound designer whose work for theater and dance has been heard in over 500 Productions nationally and internationally, on Broadway and off. His accolades for Sound Design include the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel and AUDELCO Awards. He a two-time Henry Hewes Design Award winner, and a proud recipient of the Princess Grace Award statue. ... read more
Kate Wilson Dialect Coach
Broadway: End of the Rainbow, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, War Horse, The Mountaintop, , Master Class, The People in the Picture, Driving Miss Daisy, The Merchant of Venice, The Pitmen Painters, Red, Sunday in the Park with George, The Seafarer, American Buffalo, Curtains, Talk Radio, A Raisin in the Sun, Fiddler on the Roof, Nine, Oklahoma, Gem of the Ocean, Betrayal, others. Off-Broadway: The Whipping Man, Burn This, Far Away, others. Film & TV: Inside Llewyn Davis, Grand Street, Rubicon, Ceremony, Salt, Notorious, The Rebound, Pride and Glory, Fur. Faculty: Juilliard. ... read more
Anita Yavich Costume Designer

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Awards and Nominations

2012 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Play : David Henry Hwang was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Set Design: David Korins was nominated but did not win.

2012 The Hewes Awards
Hewes Design Award: David Korins won.

2012 Theatre World Awards
Outstanding Debut Performance: Jennifer Lim won.

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