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Production Staff

David Yazbek Music and Lyrics
Maya Ciarrocchi Projections Content Designer
Maya Ciarrocchi is a New York City based interdisciplinary artist and projection designer. Exhibitions include: Anthology Film Archives, Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Chocolate Factory, Invisible Dog Arts Center, Microscope Gallery, New York Live Arts, Smack Mellon. Recent Off-Broadway/regional theater: The Band's Visit (Atlantic Theatre), The Effect (Barrow Street), As I Remember It (Baryshnikov Art Center), Sweet Bird of Youth (Goodman Theater), Crowns (Goodman Theater, 2012 Jeff Award), Ghost Light (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Throne of Blood (Brooklyn Academy of Music). She has been an artist in residence at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Sedona Summer Colony ... read more
David Cromer Director
David Cromer is director and actor originally from Chicago, currently based in New York. As a director, his New York credits include The Sound Inside (Broadway); The Band’s Visit (Atlantic Theater Company, Broadway & National Tour); the Broadway revivals of Brighton Beach Memoirs and The House of Blue Leaves; The Treasurer (Playwrights Horizons); Man from Nebraska (Second Stage Theatre); The Effect, Orson’s Shadow, and Tribes (Barrow Street Theatre); Women or Nothing (Atlantic Theater Company); Really Really (MCC Theater); When the Rain Stops Falling and Nikolai and the Others (Lincoln Center Theater); and Adding Machine (Minetta Lane Theatre). Other directing credits ... read more
Ashley-Rose Galligan Assistant Stage Manager
Andrea Grody Music Director
Broadway debut. Recent projects include the world premieres of The Band's Visit (Atlantic Theater Company), Cake Off (Signature Theatre/Bucks County Playhouse), The Fortress of Solitude (Public Theater/Dallas Theater Center), Unknown Soldier (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Love’s Labour's Lost (Public Theater/Shakespeare in the Park), and the Public Works production of As You Like It; and the regional premieres of The Great Immensity and Venice (Public Theater). Other favorites include Assassins (Yale Rep) and Robin Hood as Composer/Music Director (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Writing credits include the full-length musical Strange Faces and several songs for The Civilians' Let Me Ascertain You series. Andrea is ... read more
Richard A. Hodge Stage Manager
Charles LaPointe Wig Designer
More than 50 Broadway shows including Holiday Inn, On Your Feet!, Hamilton, Doctor Zhivago, The Color Purple, Of Mice and Men, Violet, Side Show, The Elephant Man, After Midnight, Beautiful, A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder, Motown, Jekyll & Hyde, Clybourne Park, Bring It On, Newsies, The Mountaintop, Memphis, Lombardi, Fences, In the Heights, Jersey Boys, A Raisin in the Sun. Television: "The Wiz Live!" (Emmy nomination.) ... read more
Sarah Laux Costume Designer
Broadway: The Humans, Fully Committed Off-Broadway/Regional: On The Shore of the Wide World (Atlantic Theatre Company), Sacred Valley (NYSAF), The Man in the Ceiling (Bay Street), The End of Longing (MCC), Bad Jews (George Street Playhouse), Man From Nebraska (2nd Stage), Ultimate Beauty Bible (Pg 73), Empathitrax (Colt Coer), The Effect (Barrow Street Theatre), Thresh/Hold (Pilobolus Dance Theater), Come Back, Little Sheba (Huntington Theatre Company), Women or Nothing (Atlantic Theatre Company), Really, Really (MCC)Feature Film: Freakshow (Maven) ... read more
Patrick McCollum Choreography
Credits include Oh, Hello! (Broadway, Cherry Lane Theatre); The Band's Visit (Atlantic Theater Company); The Lightning Thief (Theaterworks, Lortel Theater); Man From Nebraska (Second Stage); Blueprint Specials (Public Theater); Rain (Old Globe), Unknown Soldier (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Wilderness (Abrons Arts Center), Permission (MCC). As associate choreographer on Broadway: The Last Ship, Peter and the Starcatcher, and Rocky; Wicked (Dance Supervisor). ... read more
Tyler Micoleau Lighting Designer
Recent Off-Broadway: A Midsummer Nights' Dream (Public, Delacorte Theater, Central Park), The Antipodes (Signature), The Effect (Barrow Street), Familiar, Antlia Pneumatica (Playwrights Horizons, Drama Desk nomination). Other notable Off-Broadway: When The Rain Stops Falling (Lincoln Center Theater, Lucille Lortel Award), Blasted (Soho Rep, American Theatre Wing Hewes Award), Bug (Lucille Lortel and OBIE Awards). 2010 OBIE award for Sustained Excellence. ... read more
Five OHM Productions Projection System Designer
Five OHM Productions is a full service theatrical support company that designs and builds audio and video systems for productions in a wide range of theaters and event spaces. With a talented staff of seasoned and jovial technicians and designers that span all disciplines, Five OHM has collaborated on hundreds of shows in New York City since 2006. ... read more
Scott Pask Scenic Designer
Selected Broadway credits include The Book of Mormon (Tony Award); The Band's Visit; Something Rotten!; Oh, Hello!; Saint Joan; The Little Foxes; Waitress; Pippin (Tony nomination); An Act of God; Blackbird; The Pillowman (Tony Award); The Visit; It's Only a Play; Finding Neverland; Casa Valentina; I'll Eat You Last; The Coast of Utopia (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards); Take Me Out; Hair; Pal Joey (Tony nomination); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Tony nomination, Drama Desk Award); Nine; and Urinetown. Also Cirque Du Soleil's Amaluna; Peter Grimes, Met Opera. Insta @scottpaskstudio ... read more
Mouna R'miki Dialect Coach
Dean Sharenow Music Contractor
Dean is a Grammy-nominated recording engineer and producer who also supervises theatrical music departments and orchestras. His Broadway credits include Sting's The Last Ship and David Yazbek's Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown, as well as Amelie and Lysistrata Jones. Off-Broadway, Dean has contracted Twelfth Night, The Total Bent, Fortress Of Solitude, and A Midsummer Night's Dream (all Public Theater). He also serves as contractor-in-residence at the Public. Dean's engineering and producer credits include The Great Comet, Old Hats, Preludes, Fortress Of Solitude, Women On The Verge..., and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, as well as solo albums for ... read more
Jamshied Sharifi Orchestrations
JAMSHIED SHARIFI is a New York-based composer, producer, and keyboardist. He has composed the scores for the feature films Harriet The Spy, Down To Earth, Clockstoppers, and Muppets From Space, as well as contributing music to numerous other films and television shows. As a producer, arranger, and keyboardist, he has recorded and/or performed with Paula Cole, Ray Charles, Dream Theater, Laurie Anderson, Hassan Hakmoun, and many others. Recent projects include composing Awakening, a long-form piece for the M.I.T. Wind Ensemble; arrangements for the Montreal Symphony and the National Symphony; and orchestrations for Sting's Broadway musical The Last Ship. ... read more
Lee Sher Movement Director

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Awards and Nominations

2017
Best New Musical: The Band's Visit was nominated but did not win.

2017 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Book of a Musical: Itamar Moses was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Director of a Musical: David Cromer won.
Outstanding Lyrics: David Yazbeck won.
Outstanding Music: David Yazbeck won.
Outstanding Musical: The Band's Visit was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Orchestrations: Jamshied Sharifi was nominated but did not win.

2017 New York Drama Critics Circle Awards
Best Musical: The Band's Visit won.

2017 Obie Awards
Directing: David Cromer won.
Musical Theater: David Yazbeck won.

2017 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway): Itamar McNally was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Director of a Musical: David Cromer was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical: The Band's Visit won.
Outstanding New Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway): David Yazbek won.
Outstanding Orchestrations: Jamshied Sharifi was nominated but did not win.

2017 The Lortels
Outstanding Costume Design: Sarah Laux was nominated but did not win.

2017 Theatre World Awards
Dorothy Loudon Award for Excellence in the Theater: Katrina Lenk won.

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