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Production Staff

Lyle Kessler Playwright
John Lee Beatty Scenic Designer
Broadway: Venus in Fur, Time Stands Still, A View from the Bridge, The Royal Family, The Color Purple, Doubt, Chicago, Dinner at Eight, Proof, Rabbit Hole, Last Night of Ballyhoo, A Delicate Balance, The Heiress, The Most Happy Fella, The Sisters Rosensweig, Burn This, Penn & Teller, Ain't Misbehavin', Talley's Folly, Crimes of the Heart, Morning's at Seven, among others. Off-Broadway: Other Desert Cities, The Substance of Fire, A Life in the Theatre. Thirty-six seasons with MTC, Lincoln Center, Circle Rep, City Center Encores! Tony, Obie, DD, OCC awards; Theatre Hall of Fame. Graduate of Brown and Yale School of ... read more
Robert Cole Producer
Robert Cole made his Broadway producing debut in 1984 with August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. He is the recipient of three Tony Awards. Other credits include That Championship Season (2011); A Steady Rain (Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman); The Crucible (Liam Neeson and Laura Linney); Death of a Salesman (Brian Dennehy); Angels in America; Horton Foote’s The Young Man From Atlanta; Redwood Curtain (Lanford Wilson); Elaine Stritch: At Liberty; Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll (Eric Bogosian); One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Gary Sinise); Freak (John Leguizamo); and Emily Mann’s Having Our Say. Mr. Cole produced the film, Tape ... read more
Pat Collins Lighting Designer
Scott M. Delman Producer
Delman has previously co-produced The Book of Mormon, Arcadia, That Championship Season, All My Sons, Speed-the-Plow, Blithe Spirit, Mary Stuart (Tony nominee), Reasons to Be Pretty (Tony nominee), Hamlet, Ragtime (Tony nominee), The Addams Family and American Idiot (Tony nominee). ... read more
Peter Fitzgerald Sound Designer
Credits: Your Welcome America, Movin' Out, Ring of Fire, Evil Dead the Musical, La Cage Aux Folles, Victor/Victoria, City of Angels, Gypsy, Falsettos, The Capeman, The Will Rogers Follies, M. Butterfly, Swing, Minnelli on Minnelli with Liza, Dream, Threepenny Opera with Sting, and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The Odd Couple, M. Butterfly, Stones in His Pockets, The Beauty Queen of Leenane and A Thousand Clowns. Fitzgerald is president of Sound Associates, Inc. a premier provider of sound and video systems to the theater. ... read more
Jess Goldstein Costume Designer
Jess received the 2005 Tony Award for Lincoln Center's The Rivals. Other selected New York credits include Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington, Henry IV; Take Me Out; Enchanted April; Proof; Love! Valour! Compassion! ; The Most Happy Fella; Dinner With Friends; How I Learned To Drive; NYSF's Much Ado About Nothing; Buried Child and The Mineola Twins (Lortel and Hewes Awards). He will make his Met debut with Jack O'Brien's 2007 production of Il Trittico. Designs for film include A Walk On The Moon; Love! Valour! Compassion! and The Substance Of Fire. He is an Associate Professor at the ... read more
Roy Harris Production Stage Manager
Deborah Hecht Dialect Coach
Broadway: War Paint, Groundhog Day, Fool for Love, Act One, Venus in Fur, God of Carnage, Long Day's Journey Into Night (with Redgrave and Hoffman), Exit the King, numerous others. Off-Broadway: Public, LCT3, Signature, Playwrights Horizons, others. Regional/international: Goodman, Westport, Two River Theater, Williamstown, others. Royal National, Royal Shakespeare Company. Film/TV: numerous. Faculty: Juilliard. ... read more
Trisha Henson Stage Manager
Tom Kitt Composer
Tom Kitt is an American composer, conductor, orchestrator, and musician. For his score for the musical Next to Normal, he shared the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama with Brian Yorkey. He has also won two Tony Awards and an Outer Critics Circle Award for Next to Normal, as well as Tony and Outer Critics Circle nominations for If/Then and SpongeBob SquarePants. He has been nominated for eight Drama Desk Awards, winning one, and a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album for Jagged Little Pill in 2021. ... read more The Shubert Organization is America's oldest professional theatre company and the largest theatre owner on the Broadway. Since the dawn of the 20th Century, Shubert has operated hundreds of theatres and produced hundreds of plays and musicals both in New York City and throughout the United States. Shubert currently owns and operates seventeen Broadway theatres and six off-Broadway venues. ... read more
Lisa M. Poyer General Manager
Broadway shows include Once, That Championship Season, A Steady Rain, A Raisin in the Sun, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Crucible, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Price, Death of a Salesman, Freak, An Ideal Husband, Having Our Say, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, A Streetcar Named Desire, Lend Me a Tenor and Fences. Graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and admitted to practice law in New York. ... read more
Thomas Schall Fight Director
More than 60 Broadway shows, including The Front Page, The Crucible, Blackbird, The Color Purple, Waitress, The King and I, War Horse, This Is Our Youth, Of Mice and Men, Romeo and Juliet, Lucky Guy, Death of a Salesman, Venus in Fur, A View From the Bridge. He has worked extensively at the Lincoln Center (Disgraced, Blood and Gifts), the Public Theater (Hamlet, King Lear, Mother Courage, Father Comes Home From The Wars), MTC (Ruined, Murder Ballad), NY Theatre Workshop (Red Speedo, Othello), and the Met Opera (Le Nozze di Figaro, Il Trovatore). ... read more
Philip J. Smith Producer
(Chairman, The Shubert Organization)
Philip J. Smith is the Chairman and Co-CEO of the Shubert Organization. ... read more
Daniel Sullivan Director
MTC directorial credits include The Little Foxes, The Country House, The Snow Geese, The Columnist, Lost Lake, Accent on Youth, Good People, Time Stands Still, Rabbit Hole, After the Night and the Music, Brooklyn Boy, Sight Unseen, Psycopathia Sexualis, and Proof. He has directed over 30 Broadway productions and at least as many Off-Broadway, including ten for The Public Theater's Shakespeare in he Park. He served as Artistic Director of Seattle Repertory Theatre from 1981-97. He is the Swanlund Professor of Theatre at University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. ... read more
Lucky VIII Producer
Robert E. Wankel Producer
(President, The Shubert Organization)
Robert E. Wankel is the President and Co-CEO of the Shubert Organization. ... read more
Orin Wolf Producer
Orin Wolf is a Broadway and tour producer whose credits include The Band’s Visit (Tony Award), Fiddler on the Roof (Tony nomination), Beautiful – The Carole King Musical (Tony nomination), Orphans (Tony nomination), Once (Tony Award), That Championship Season and A View From the Bridge (Tony nomination). Off-Broadway, London and touring: The Band’s Visit, Once, Not By Bread Alone, Groundswell, Judy Gold’s 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, Robert Wuhl’s Assume the Position and History of the Word. He was the inaugural recipient of the T-Fellowship for Creative Producing at Columbia University and is now the Director. ... read more
Frederick Zollo Producer

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Awards and Nominations

2013 Drama League Awards
Distinguished Performance Award: Alec Baldwin was nominated but did not win.
Distinguished Performance Award: Tom Sturridge was nominated but did not win.

2013 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding Revival of a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway): 0 was nominated but did not win.

2013 Theatre World Awards
Theatre World Award: Tom Sturridge won.

2013 Tony Awards
Best Revival of a Play: Orphans was nominated but did not win.
Best Revival of a Play : Frederick Zollo was nominated but did not win.
Best Revival of a Play : Robert Cole was nominated but did not win.
Best Revival of a Play : The Shubert Organization was nominated but did not win.
Best Revival of a Play : Orin Wolf was nominated but did not win.
Best Revival of a Play : Lucky VIII was nominated but did not win.
Best Revival of a Play : Scott M. Delman was nominated but did not win.
Best Revival of a Play : James P. MacGilvray was nominated but did not win.
Best Revival of a Play : StylesFour Productions was nominated but did not win.

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