The Heiress - Broadway Creative Team

... read more Luigi Caiola is a New York-based producer and philanthropist with a passion for theater. He has produced numerous Broadway shows, including the Tony Award-winning productions of "Dear Evan Hansen" and "Once on This Island." Caiola's love for theater began at a young age. He grew up in a family that was heavily involved in the arts, and he spent much of his childhood attending shows and performances. After graduating from college, Caiola decided to pursue a career in theater production. Caiola's first Broadway credit came in 2012, when he served as a co-producer for the musical "Leap of Faith." Since then, he ... read more Founder and Executive Artistic Director of Manhattan Youth Ballet and Manhattan Movement & Arts Center. She conceived the work FRECKLEFACE STRAWBERRY for the stage. She received her education at NYU’s Tish School of the Arts as well as was mentored by Maestro Zsednyi, principle dancer of the Royal Hungarian Opera Ballet. Ms. Caiola is a member of the Off Broadway League of Theaters and Producers as well as the Screen Actors Guild. She has produced a variety of concerts and benefits over the last 15 years including “Hope for Haiti” and “The Knickerbocker Suite”. MYB’s alumni dance in top world ... read more Credits include Evita, The Book of Mormon, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Seminar. Recent productions: House of Blue Leaves, West Side Story, La Bete, Come Fly Away, Ragtime, Gypsy, The Color Purple, Spamalot. Co-founded the investment firm Furman Selz, currently vice chairman Jeffries & Company. Vice chairman of Lincoln Center, Chairman emeritus of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, vice president NY City Opera. ... read more Jill Furman was co-lead producer of In the Heights, which won the Tony Award® for Best Musical in 2008. Past Broadway productions: West Side Story, The Drowsy Chaperone, Sly Fox, Fortune’ s Fool. Past Off-Broadway productions: On the Line, Adult Entertainment. Currently: the hip-hop comedy group Freestyle Love Supreme, which will soon shoot a television pilot for a cable network, and the upcoming film Greetings From Tim Buckley, which she executive produced. In 2011 Jill received the Robert Whitehead Award for Outstanding Achievement in Commercial Theatre Producing. Boards: MCC Theater, David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center. Member: National Board of ... read more Producer of Spanish-speaking versions of Young Frankenstein, A Steady Rain, Norman Conquests, and Good People in Buenos Aires (all in association with Pablo Kompel). Broadway: Evita. Off-Broadway: Rated P for Parenthood. Film/Television: El Club de los Famosos, Fernando in Arizona (in development). ... read more Moisés Kaufman is the founder and artistic director of Tectonic Theater Project, a Tony- and Emmy-nominated director and playwright, and a 2015 recipient of the National Medal of Arts. Mr. Kaufman’s Broadway directing credits include the revival of Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song, the revival of The Heiress with Jessica Chastain, 33 Variations (which he also wrote) starring Jane Fonda (Five Tony nominations); Rajiv Joseph’s Pulitzer Prize finalist Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo with Robin Williams; and Doug Wright’s Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning play I Am My Own Wife with Jefferson Mays. His play The Laramie Project (which he wrote ... read more 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 Founder, Green Curtain Productions. Six Tony® and Drama Desk awards. Credits: The Book of Mormon, Jerusalem, Arcadia, La Bête, Red, The Addams Family, A Behanding in Spokane, Ragtime, Hamlet, All My Sons, Sunday in the Park with George, Cyrano, Journey’s End, Coram Boy, History Boys, Butley, Drowsy Chaperone, The Color Purple, Spamalot, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Pillowman, Democracy, Jumpers, Flower Drum Song. ... read more Derek McLane received a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award Honour for his work on Moulin Rouge! The Musical. He has designed over 350 productions for Broadway, Off-Broadway, internationally and for TV. His over 40 credits include Burn This, The Parisian Woman, Anything Goes, The Price, Fully Committed, Beautiful, Ragtime, I Am My Own Wife and 33 Variations (Tony Award). He has designed the Academy Awards for six years (Emmy Award) and has designed four live musicals for NBC, including “Hairspray” (Emmy Award). ... read more Stacey Mindich is a Tony Award-winning producer and winner of the 2016 Robert Whitehead Award for Excellence in Commercial Producing. Noteworthy recent productions include The Crucible, Blackbird, the Tony Award-winning Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Bridges of Madison County (Tony Award, Best Score), Annie, The Heiress, Lucky Guy, The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Lion (Drama Desk Award), and Small Mouth Sounds, hailed by The New York Times and others as one of 2016’s best off-Broadway plays. ... read more Tony Awards: The Book of Mormon, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (Pulitzer) and Perestroika, Copenhagen, God of Carnage, Clybourne Park, Death of a Salesman, A Raisin in the Sun. Nominations: Wicked; Peter Pan; The Diary of Anne Frank; Hello, Dolly!; You're Welcome America, Man of La Mancha A View From the Bridge, Venus in Fur, The Motherfu**er With the Hat, Nice Work if You Can Get It. Current: Wicked, The Book of Mormon. This is Our Youth. Upcoming: A Delicate Balance, Fun Home ... read more As President of Jujamcyn Theaters, Jordan oversees five Broadway theatres, whose productions include the Tony Award-winning Best Musicals The Book of Mormon and Kinky Boots, Springsteen on Broadway, Mean Girls, Frozen and most recently, Hadestown. Jordan produced, Angels in America with the National Theatre starring Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane and Present Laughter starring Kevin Kline and the Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning Best Play, Clybourne Park. Jordan founded Givenik.com where theatergoers can buy tickets and 5% goes to the charity of their choice, and he recently founded his own online magazine, Warmly Jordan. ... read more Jack Viertel is an American theatrical producer and writer. From 2000 to 2020, he was a producer at the Encores! series. Viertel is credited as Producer, Theatre Owner/Operator, Conception, Creative Consultant, Writer, and more. ... read more Paula Wagner is a renowned American film producer and talent agent who has also made a name for herself on Broadway. Born on December 12, 1946, in Youngstown, Ohio, Wagner began her career as an actress and dancer before transitioning to producing. Wagner's Broadway credits include serving as a co-producer for the Tony Award-winning productions of "The Heiress" (1995), "The Last Night of Ballyhoo" (1997), and "The Graduate" (2002). She also produced the critically acclaimed "The Mercy Seat" (2002) and "The Exonerated" (2003). Her most recent Broadway production was "Pretty Woman: The Musical" (2018), which received mixed reviews but was a ... read more