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Ben Hecht Playwright
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Charles MacArthur Playwright
Joey Parnes Productions General Manager
Jay Alix Producer
Broadway: The Piano Lesson, POTUS, Is This A Room, Gary, King Lear, Three Tall Women, Once On This Island, Meteor Shower, Hello, Dolly! (Tony Award); A Doll's House, Part 2; The Glass Menagerie; Indecent; Anastasia; The Front Page; The Humans (Tony Award); Bright Star; A View From the Bridge (Tony Award); The Crucible; Skylight (Tony Award); A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder (Tony Award). ... read more
Jane Bergere Producer
Len Blavatnik Producer
Kendall Booher Associate Company Manager
Eli Bush Producer
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
Jamie deRoy Producer
Jamie Gruber, better known by her stage name Jamie deRoy, is an American producer of Broadway plays, and a cabaret, stage, film and TV performer. She has co-produced 60 Broadway shows and 46 off-Broadway shows. ... read more
Eric Falkenstein Producer
Wendy Federman Producer
Additional credits include: The Ohmies: Producer/General Manager, Off-Broadway, Peter J. Sharp Theater, 2011 Two Rooms: General Manager, Off-Broadway, The Lion Theater, 2008 Christine Jorgensen Reveals: Producer/General Manager, NYC, Edinburgh, 2005; NYC, Dublin, 2006 (2005 Drama Desk Award) ... read more
Ruth Hendel Producer
Ruth's Broadway credits include: In The Heights; Passing Strange; Legally Blonde; Kiki & Herb Alive on Broadway; High Fidelity; The Lieutenant of Inishmore; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Caroline, Or Change; A Raisin in the Sun; Golda's Balcony; Frozen; ‘Night Mother; Steel Magnolias; Barefoot in the Park; Metamorphoses. Off-Broadway: Altar Boyz; Our Lady of 121st Street; The Exonerated; Red Light Winter; tick tick…Boom!. Los Angeles: As Much As You Can. Ruth is on the boards of the LAByrith Theater, The Play Company and the Yale School of Drama Leadership Committee; She is vice-chair, and Stephen is Treasurer of the ... read more
Una Jackman Producer
Broadway: Hello, Dolly! (Tony Award); A Doll's House, Part 2; The Glass Menagerie; Indecent; Anastasia; The Front Page; The Humans (Tony Award); Bright Star; A View From the Bridge (Tony Award); The Crucible; Skylight (Tony Award); A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder (Tony Award). ... read more
John Johnson Executive Producer
Associate Producer at Joey Parnes Productions. Broadway: Associate Producer on HAIR, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Lombardi, The Merchant of Venice. With Elizabeth I. McCann & Joey Parnes: The Play About the Baby, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia, Tuesdays with Morrie, Beckett/Albee, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Well, Butley, Passing Strange, Equus. Tony Award Productions from 2001 - 2008; served as Associate Producer in 2007 & 2008. Concerts: Working at The Zipper Theatre; Rated RSO at Joe's Pub; NewMusicalTheatre.com Launch Concert at Le Poisson Rouge, NewMusicalTheatre.com Live at The Canal Room, Morgan Karr at Joe's Pub, Drew Gasparini & Friends at Joe's ... read more
Heni Koenigsberg Producer
Heni Koenigsberg is a producer known for To Kill a Mockingbird, Hello, Dolly!, The Crucible, Porgy and Bess, and many more. Most recent credits include New York, New York, The Piano Lesson, Leopoldstadt, Funny Girl, and more! ... read more
Scott Lehrer Sound Designer
Lehrer's recent credits New York include Carousel; Hello, Dolly!; Illyria; The Front Page; The Gabriels; Shuffle Along…; Fiddler on the Roof; Dames at Sea; The King and I (also London); Living on Love; Honeymoon in Vegas; Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance; Love Letters; A Raisin in the Sun; Betrayal; Lucky Guy; South Pacific (first Tony Award for Sound Design); Death of a Salesman; The Apple Family Plays: Scenes from Life in the Country; and over 60 City Center Encores! productions including Chicago. Recordings include An American in Paris (Grammy Award nomination), Loudon Wainwright’s High Wide and Handsome (Grammy Award), and ... read more
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
Peter May Producer
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
Hidenori Nakajo Associate Sound Designer
-HIDENORI NAKAJO (Sound Design): A New York-based award-winning sound designer and theatrical composer. Off Broadway & NYC: Molly Sweeney (Irish Rep), Still (Colt Coeur), The Life & Smiles of Marc Summers (New World Stages), The Creeps (Playhouse 46), OCTET (Signature, Obie Award, Drama Desk nom., Lucille Lortel nom., Henry Hewes Design Awards nom.), Autumn Royal (Irish Rep, Drama Desk nom., Henry Hewes Design Awards nom.), mɔːnɪŋ [morning// mourning] by Gelsey Bell (Prototype Festival), Dodi & Diana (Colt Coeur), Regional: The Subject Was Roses (Bay Street Theatre), OCTET (Berkeley Rep), Moby Dick (A.R.T., Elliot Norton Award), Guys & Dolls (Guthrie), ... read more
Al Nocciolino Producer
Jack O'Brien Director
Broadway: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Front Page, It's Only a Play, Macbeth, The Nance, Dead Accounts, Catch Me If You Can, Impressionism, The Coast of Utopia (Tony Award), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Tony nomination), Henry IV (Tony), Hairspray (Tony), Imaginary Friends, The Invention of Love (Tony nomination, Drama Desk Award), The Full Monty (Tony nomination), More to Love, Getting Away With Murder, Pride's Crossing, The Little Foxes, Damn Yankees, Two Shakespearean Actors (Tony nomination), Porgy and Bess (Tony nomination). Metropolitan Opera: Il Trittico. Carnegie Hall: Guys and Dolls. Central Park: Much Ado About Nothing. Off-Broadway: Hapgood (Lucille Lortel Award). ... read more
Chad Owens Associate Scenic Designer
Matthew Pachtman Associate Costume Designer
Joey Parnes Executive Producer
Jon B. Platt Producer
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
Daryl Roth Producer
Daryl Roth is a Tony Award-winning Broadway producer who has been a driving force in the theater industry for over 30 years. She is known for her innovative productions, which often tackle challenging and thought-provoking subject matter. Born in 1945 in Lakewood, New Jersey, Roth grew up in a family that was deeply involved in the arts. Her father was a musician and her mother was a painter, and they encouraged their daughter to pursue her own creative interests. Roth attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied history and literature. After college, Roth moved to New York City and began ... read more
Ann Roth Costume Designer
Roth is a Carnegie Mellon graduate who began her career as a scenery painter for the Pittsburgh Opera. She intended to remain in the field of production design until she met Irene Sharaff at the Bucks County Playhouse. Sharaff invited her to California to assist her with costumes on the film Brigadoon and suggested Roth apprentice with her for five films and five Broadway productions before setting out on her own. Roth's first Hollywood film was 1964's The World of Henry Orient, where her designs included "monogrammed handmade yellow silk pajamas" for glamorous womanizer Peter Sellers. Roth next designed costumes for ... read more
Scott Rudin Producer
Films include Ladybird, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo; Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close; Moneyball; Moonrise Kingdom; Margaret; The Social Network; True Grit; Greenberg; It’s Complicated; Fantastic Mr. Fox; Julie & Julia; Doubt; No Country for Old Men; There Will Be Blood; Reprise; The Queen; Margot at the Wedding; Notes on a Scandal; Venus; Closer; Team America: World Police; I Heart Huckabees; School of Rock; The Hours; Iris; The Royal Tenenbaums; Zoolander; Sleepy Hollow; Wonder Boys; Bringing Out the Dead; South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut; The Truman Show; In & Out; Ransom; The First Wives Club; Clueless; Nobody’s Fool; ... read more Meredith Lynsey Schade is a commercial and non-profit producer with two decades in the theatre industry. Recent credits include the Broadway productions of The Inheritance; Hadestown; Network; What the Constitution Means to Me; The Glass Menagerie; A Doll’s House Part 2; Hello Dolly; The Front Page; Spring Awakening; Bridges of Madison County; and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Tony Award). Off-Broadway: Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe (New World Stages); Uncle Vanya with Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Saarsgaard, The Forest with Diane Wiest, and Venus in Fur (Classic Stage Company). As one ... read more
Douglas W. Schmidt Set Designer
Mr. Schmidt has designed nearly 60 Broadway shows and dozens of regional productions for the Guthrie, The Old Globe, The Alley Theatre, and Seattle Rep, among others. He has three Drama Desk Awards (Into the Woods, Veronica's Room, Over Here!), three Tony nominations (The Front Page, Into the Woods, 42nd Street), an Obie, and many other awards. ... read more
Spring Sirkin Producer
Christopher Taggart Company Manager
Benjamin Travis Associate Lighting Designer
Luc Verschueren Hair Designer/Make-Up Designer
Luc Verschueren is a hair, wig, and makeup designer known for The Music Man, King Lear, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Waverly Gallery, Three Tall Women, Meteor Shower, A Doll's House Part 2, The Front Page, The Crucible, The Humans, Misery, Sylvia, A Delicate Balance, The Last Ship, Les Miserables, Ghost the Musical, Private Lives, Spider-Man Turn off the Dark, and Mary Stuart. ... read more
Sue Wagner Executive Producer
Anita Waxman Producer
Campbell Young Hair Designer/Make-Up Designer

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Awards and Nominations

2017 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Costume Design for a Play: Ann Roth was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Revival of a Play: The Front Page was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Set Design for a Play: Douglas W. Schmidt was nominated but did not win.

2017 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding Director of a Play: Jack O'Brien was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Revival of a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway): The Front Page was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Set Design (Play or Musical): Douglas W. Schmidt was nominated but did not win.

2017 Tony Awards
Best Scenic Design of a Play: Douglas W. Schmidt was nominated but did not win.

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