Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 - Off-Broadway Creative Team

Training: LAMDA. Theatre includes Broadway: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Original Company on Broadway and in San Francisco, In Transit, Once (Original Cast), Million Dollar Quartet. Off-Broadway: Pierre in Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (Kazino), Incident at Vichy (Signature), Atomic (Acorn), The Burnt Part Boys (Vineyard), Hell House (St. Ann’s Warehouse). National Tour: Miss Trunchbull in  Matilda (First National), My Fair Lady (Nunn/Mackintosh), The Radio City Christmas Spectacular (Arena Tour). Regional: The Unsinkable Molly Brown (The Muny, DTC), Sundance Theater Institute, NYSAF, O’Neill, Williamstown Theater Festival. Television includes: “Happy,” “Law & Order: SVU.” Film includes: The Night House, Noah Wise, Begin Again, Son of Morning. ... read more Amith Chandrashaker is an Indian-American cinematographer and director who has made a name for himself in the entertainment industry with his unique visual style and technical expertise. Born in Bangalore, India, Chandrashaker moved to the United States to pursue his passion for filmmaking. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film and Television Production from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he was awarded the prestigious Martin Scorsese Young Filmmaker Award for his short film "The Last Word." Chandrashaker began his career as a cinematographer working on independent films and music videos. His work quickly caught the attention ... read more Chavkin is a director, writer and artistic director of the TEAM. Hadestown (NYTW, National Theatre, London) has been one of her greatest joys. Tony and Lortel nominations and Drama Desk Award for Dave Malloy's Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (Broadway, Ars Nova, A.R.T.). London: Mission Drift (National Theatre), American Clock (Old Vic). Select New York and regional: Marco Ramirez’s The Royale (LCT; Obie Award, Drama Desk and Lortel noms.), Malloy’s Preludes (LCT3), Bess Wohl’s Small Mouth Sounds (Ars Nova and national tour) and Continuity (MTC), Carson Kreitzer’s and Matt Gould’s Lempicka (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Royal Family ... read more Blake DeLong is an actor, playwright, and film producer. New York audiences know him best for his dual-role as Andrey Bolkonsky and Old Prince Bolkonsky, which he originated in the hit musical Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (2014 Lucille Lortel Award nomination). His film work includes We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), Thank You a Lot (2014) and Auld Lang Syne (2016). A sixth generation Texan, he studied history and played in rock bands while attending The University of Texas at Austin. He began appearing in new and experimental plays in Austin's vibrant theater scene in ... read more Credits: The Royale (Lincoln Center Theater, Old Globe); Indecent (La Jolla Playhouse, Yale Rep, Vineyard); Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (ART, Ars Nova, Kazino); Time and the Conways (Old Globe); Stage Kiss, 100 Saints You Should Know (Playwrights Horizons); Marie Antoinette (ART, Yale Rep, SoHo Rep); Three Pianos (NYTW, ART); The Human Scale (The Public); Telephone (Foundry Theatre); How We Got On, Death Tax, A Devil at Noon (Humana Festival); Hammock and Blueprints of Relentless Nature (Liz Lerman Dance Exchange). As a company member of The TEAM, Matt has designed Roosevelvis, The Holler Sessions, Waiting for You ... read more Bradley King is a multiple award-winning lighting designer for theater, opera, and live performance. On Broadway, his designs for both Hadestown and Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 earned Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle awards, as well as a Live Design Achievement of the Year. His collaborations with the Tony award-winning director Rachel Chavkin include Hadestown (The Citadel, NYTW; Drama Desk Nom.), Lempicka (Williamstown), The Royal Family (The Guthrie), Preludes (LCT3), The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls (Yale Rep), and Uncle Vanya (CSC). In New York, his work has been seen at Roundabout Theatre Company, LCT3, Playwrights ... read more Mimi Lien is a designer of sets/environments for theater, dance, and opera. Arriving at set design from a background in architecture, her work often focuses on the interaction between audience/environment and object/performer. She is an artistic associate with Pig Iron Theatre Company, and co-founder of JACK, a performance/art space in Brooklyn. Recent work includes Signature Plays, John (Signature Theatre), War, Preludes (LCT3), The Oldest Boy (Lincoln Center), Black Mountain Songs (BAM/Brooklyn Youth Chorus), Appropriate (Mark Taper Forum), and An Octoroon (Soho Rep/TFANA). Mimi's designs for dance have been presented in the Netherlands, Russia, and Taiwan, and her stage designs have ... read more John Logan received the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League awards for his play Red. Other plays include Peter and Alice, I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers and Never the Sinner. As a screenwriter, Logan has been three-times nominated for the Oscar, and has received Golden Globe, BAFTA, WGA, Edgar and PEN Center awards. His films include Skyfall, Spectre, Hugo, The Avia­tor, Gladiator, Rango, Genius, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Last Samurai and Any Given Sunday. He also created "Penny Dreadful" for Showtime. ... read more Dave Malloy is a composer/sound designer/performer, winner of a 2009 Jonathan Larson Grant and a recipient of the 2009-11 NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Theatre Designers. His most recent large-scale work, Beowulf – A Thousand Years of Baggage, a Banana Bag & Bodice SongPlay commissioned by Berkeley's Shotgun Players featuring dueling trombones and 40's vocal jazz harmonies, enjoyed sold out runs in Berkeley and NYC, received the 2008 Glickman Award and appeared on the Best of 2008 lists of every major Bay Area paper (including two #1 spots). ... read more Or Matias is an Obie award-winning composer, lyricist, music director, and orchestrator based in NYC. This season, Or was the music supervisor and arranger for the Broadway show Grey House, dir. by Joe Mantello. Or was the music supervisor and co-orchestrator of Love Around the Block, the immersive theatrical extravaganza commissioned by Hermès to celebrate the launch of their new Madison Avenue flagship store. Or has worked extensively with Josh Groban, The Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Ingrid Michaelson, Phillipa Soo, Dave Malloy, Rachel Chavkin, and countless others. Or was the music director and conductor for the hit Broadway musical Natasha, Pierre, and ... read more Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof, Rent, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Elf. National Tours: The Drowsy Chaperone, La Cage Aux Folles, 9 to 5. Off-Broadway: Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (Kazino & A.R.T.) The Royale (Lincoln Center), Preludes (LCT3), Almost, Maine, (Daryl Roth Theatre), Summer of '42, (Variety Arts), Iphigenia in Aulis, Naked, Hurricane, The Misanthrope (Classic Stage Company), The Day Emily Married, Barefoot Boy With Shoes On (Primary Stages), What Didn't Happen (Playwright's Horizons), The Dying Gaul (Vineyard Theatre) and many others. Regional: Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, Dallas Summer Musicals, TUTS, TOTS, Pantages Theatre, Starlight Theatre, ... read more Music Director for the upcoming Broadway revival of Smokey Joe's Cafe. Recent credits include: Associate Conductor, The Last Ship (written by 16-time Grammy Award-winner, Sting), and the Tony Award winning Best Revival Pippin. Other Broadway credits: Jesus Christ Superstar, Billy Elliot, Grease, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Guys and Dolls, Mama Mia!, Promises, Promises, Addams Family, Women on the Verge. Music Supervisor for Disney's High School Musical (Milan/Italy tour.) 1st National Tours: Disney's High School Musical, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Grease. Work with Alicia Keys, Ke$ha, Matthew Morrison. As a composer: The Return of the Blue Cat (with poet F.D. ... read more Roundabout: Machinal. Recent: I Promised Myself To Live Faster (Pig Iron/Humana); Hair: Retrospection (KC Rep); Pretty Filthy (The Civilians); Kansas City Choir Boy (Prototype); Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Kazino); Mr. Burns; Fly By Night; Stage Kiss (Playwrights Horizons); Marie Antoinette (Soho Rep); The Understudy (McCarter); The Lightning Thief (Theatreworks). Upcoming: Amelie (Berkeley Rep). ... read more Design credits include King Lear, Epiphany, Saturday Night Fever, Gift of Angels (Universal Studios, Osaka, Japan). Associate credits include A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder (Tony Award: Best Musical, Drama Desk nomination: Outstanding Sound Design), Indian Ink, Passion (Drama Desk nomination: Outstanding Sound Design), The Visit, Battle of Black and Dogs, Father Comes Home From the Wars. Attended Yale School of Drama. ... read more Shaina is an Obie Award-winning songwriter/performer and an Artist-in-Residence at the Public Theater, where Suffs first premiered. Broadway debut! She created and performed in musical adaptations of Twelfth Night and As You Like It at Shakespeare in the Park with the Public Works community that have since been produced by London’s National Theatre, the Young Vic, and hundreds more theaters and schools worldwide. Taub has won a Jonathan Larson Grant, Kleban Prize, and Fred Ebb Award. She performed Off-Broadway in Hadestown, Great Comet (Lortel nom), Bill Irwin and David Shiner’s Old Hats, which featured her songs, and played Emma Goldman ... read more