Once On This Island - Broadway Creative Team

Lynn Ahrens' writing spans the Broadway stage, feature film and network television. She won the Tony Award, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards and received two Grammy nominations as lyricist of the Broadway musical Ragtime; in the same year, she received two Academy Award nominations, two Golden Globe nominations and a Gold Record for Twentieth Century Fox's animated feature film Anastasia. She wrote book and lyrics for Seussical (Grammy nomination, one of the most performed shows in America); Once On This Island (London Olivier Award, Best Musical, Tony nominations for Best Book and Score); Lincoln Center Theater's The Glorious Ones ... read more Stephen Flaherty writes music for theater, film, recordings and the concert stage. He is perhaps best known as the composer of the Broadway musicals Ragtime (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Grammy nominations), Seussical (Grammy and Drama Desk nominations), Once on This Island (Tony nomination, Olivier Award for London's Best Musical), and also contributed music to Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life (original songs) and Neil Simon's Proposals (incidental music). He has also written four musicals produced at Lincoln Center Theatre: The Glorious Ones (Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk nominations), Dessa Rose (Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk ... read more A club for Broadway investors. Principals include Phil Kenny, Claire Kenny, Gary Rubenstein, Jaime Reubenstein and Max Newman. www.42nd.club ... read more Through the generosity of Kathryn & Raymond Harbert, RMTC is Alabama's preeminent professional musical theatre organization, delivering Broadway caliber performances and arts education that enriches Birmingham's cultural landscape and transforms lives through theatre. RedMountainTheatre.org ... read more Beth Wishnie, Producing Director, The Hidden Theatre Company; and Lindsey Strasberg, Entertainment Attorney. Broadway debut! ... read more Four-time Tony-winning brother & sister producing team, Luigi & Rose Caiola. Rose is Artistic Director of Manhattan Music & Arts Center (MMAC). Broadway: Tony Awards: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, All The Way, The Color Purple, Dear Evan Hansen. Recent: Sunday in the Park With George. Upcoming: Pretty Woman: The Musical. ... read more 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 Michael Arden is a Tony-nominated director for his revival of Spring Awakening. The acclaimed production transferred from Deaf West Theater in Los Angeles to Broadway in fall 2015. He also won the Outer Critics Circle for Outstanding Director of a Musical and was nominated for a Drama Desk award for the production. Michael made his Broadway debut in Deaf West Theater and the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Big River. Other directing credits include My Fair Lady at Bay Street Theater; Merrily We Roll Along at the Wallis Annenberg Center in Los Angeles, where he is currently the Artist in ... read more Broadway theatre credits include: The Heart of Rock and Roll, Cabaret, The Notebook, Harmony, Purlie Victorious, , Back to the Future, Here Lies Love, Once Upon a One MOre Time, Life of Pi, Dancin' , A Doll's House, Pictures from Home, Some Like It Hot, A Beautiful Noise, KPOP, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Broadhurst Theatre); Hadestown (Walter Kerr Theatre - Tony Nomination); Pretty Woman: The Musical (Nederlander Theatre); Anastasia (Broadhurst Theatre); Dear Evan Hansen (Music Box Theatre - Tony Award); Kinky Boots (Al Hirschfeld Theatre - Tony Award and Olivier Award); Gettin’ the Band Back Together ... read more (Producer). Select directing: Dancing at Lughnasa, Shining City (Yale). Assistant Directing The Home Place (Irish Rep), Donegal (Abbey Theatre, Dublin). www.conorbagley.com ... read more CAMILLE A. BROWN is a prolific Black female director / choreographer, who has received numerous honors including a Guggenheim Award, Bessie Award, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award, Doris Duke Artist Award, United States Artists Award, two Audelco Awards, five Princess Grace Awards, and a New York City Center Award. She has received a Tony nomination, three Drama Desk nominations, three Lortel nominations and an Obie award for her work in theater. She is an Emerson Collective fellow, a TED fellow and the recipient of a Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship. Brown is the 2021 Distinguished Artist, presented by The International ... read more Broadway: SpongeBob SquarePants; M. Butterfly; Anastasia; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Hello, Dolly!; Come From Away; Waitress; Hamilton; Kinky Boots; Wicked. Off-Broadway: Sweeney Todd, Atlantic, Classic Stage, MCC, Second Stage. Film: Miss Sloane, Into the Woods, Margin Call, Rachel Getting Married, Across the Universe, Camp, Pieces of April. TV: "This Is Us," "NCIS: New Orleans," "House of Cards," "Rise," "I'm Dying Up Here," "One Day at a Time," "Graves," "Atypical," commercials. www.telseyandco.com ... read more Broadway: The Bridges of Madison County, Honeymoon in Vegas (investor), Escape to Margaritaville (investor). Executive Director of Red Mountain Theatre Company, Birmingham, AL. Keith is dedicated to the support of new theatrical works centered on human rights. Please visit rmtchumanrights.org. ... read more Broadway: SpongeBob SquarePants; M. Butterfly; Anastasia; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Hello, Dolly!; Come From Away; Waitress; Hamilton; Kinky Boots; Wicked. Off-Broadway: Sweeney Todd, Atlantic, Classic Stage, MCC, Second Stage. Film: Miss Sloane, Into the Woods, Margin Call, Rachel Getting Married, Across the Universe, Camp, Pieces of April. TV: "This Is Us," "NCIS: New Orleans," "House of Cards," "Rise," "I'm Dying Up Here," "One Day at a Time," "Graves," "Atypical," commercials. www.telseyandco.com ... read more Broadway: Anastasia, Disaster!, Spring Awakening, The Visit, It's Only a Play, The Bridges of Madison County and Macbeth. Has supported other productions including The Goat..., Mothers and Sons, Kinky Boots & more. Daikeler spent his teens working behind the scenes at his family's Bucks County Playhouse, and intends to spend his 50s supporting theatre on Broadway. ... read more Broadway: Groundhog Day (Tony nomination), The Play That Goes Wrong, Spring Awakening (Tony nomination), It's Only a Play, Macbeth starring Alan Cumming, Godspell, Kinky Boots (Broadway - Tony Award, National Tour, Toronto, Australia, and West End), The Visit (Tony nomination), Mothers and Sons (Tony nomination), The Bridges of Madison County (National Tour), Allegiance, Chinglish, Oleanna starring Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles, Speed-the-Plow, Will Ferrell's You're Welcome America (Tony nomination), Blithe Spirit (Broadway, West End and National Tour), and 13. Off-Broadway: Daddy Long Legs, Altar Boyz (Co-Conceiver), My First Time (Author), The Awesome 80s Prom (Creator), and Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, ... read more Ms. Eisenhauer and collaborator Jules Fisherhave collectively been awarded Broadway’s Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical seven times, including Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins (2004, Revival), Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk (1996), Jelly’s Last Jam (1992), The Will Rogers Follies (1991), Grand Hotel (1990), Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ (1978), and Pippin (1973), and once for Best Lighting Design of a Play for Ulysses in Nighttown (1974). For motion pictures, Fisher and Eisenhauer designed theatrical lighting for Rob Marshall's Chicago, Mel Brooks' The Producers, Richard Linklater's School of Rock and Bill Condon's Dreamgirls, and Disney's live-action remake of ... read more A celebrity cosmetic dentist. She resides in NY with her husband, 3 children, son in law and granddaughter. www.dentaloasis.com ... read more CHRIS FENWICK music directed the Public Theater and Broadway productions of Fun Home (2015 Tony Award, Best Musical) and is Music Supervisor of the current national tour. He also recently music directed the Broadway revival of Sunday in the Park with George, starring Jake Gyllenhaal. He is the founding Music Director of City Center Encores! Off-Center. He music directed the original productions of Michael John LaChiusa's Giant, Los Otros, Queen of the Mist, and See What I Wanna See. Broadway and off-Broadway credits include Rocky, The Pajama Game, Here Lies Jenny, Road Show, Mother Courage at Shakespeare in the Park, ... read more Hailing from Zimbabwe but based in Australia for now, Mark is an entrepreneur who has built successful businesses in Japan and Australia. He has a passion for musical theatre, songwriting and producing new work that challenges and inspires audiences. ... read more In a celebrated career spanning almost 40 years, Jules Fisher has lit over 200 Broadway and off-Broadway shows, as well as film, ballet, opera, television, and rock-and-roll concert tours. He has received 18 Tony nominations and won 8 Tony awards for Lighting Design, a record in this category. His most recent project, "Assassins", (2004 Tony award) also won him the Drama Desk and Outer Critic's Circle awards. His previous Tony awards were for "Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk," 1996; "Jelly's Last Jam," 1992; "The Will Rogers Follies," 1991; "Grand Hotel," 1990; "Dancin'," 1978; "Ulysses in Nighttown," 1973; ... read more Shanna & Steven Silva: Anastasia, The Visit (Tony nom), Leap of Faith (Tony nom), It's Only a Play and more. ... read more WitzEnd partners are Michael Jackowitz, Jeffrey Grove, Marvin Kahan and Laura Dean-Koch in association with Sunshine Productions. Credit highlights: Escape to Margaritaville, Tuck Everlasting, Daddy Long Legs, Seance on a Wet Afternoon, How to Succeed.... Upcoming: Hawaiian Goddess Project and Poseidon. www.witzendtheatricals.com. ... read more Thrilled to make her producing debut. Thank you Mom, Dad, Keeley, Sarah, Kayla, Hunter, Doug, Amanda, Bailey, Zach, and Hercules. ... read more H. Richard Hopper has participated in numerous Broadway productions, national tours and international productions. He produced the 2015 Deaf West Theatre revival of Spring Awakening, for which he was nominated for a Tony, and will be producing the summer 2018 original Broadway musical Gettin' the Band Back Together. ... read more Peter Hylenski received a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award Honour for his work on Moulin Rouge! The Musical. A Grammy, Olivier, and seven-time Tony nominee, his selected design credits include Frozen, Anastasia, Beetlejuice, Once on This Island, Something Rotten, King Kong, Rock of Ages, After Midnight, Motown, The Scottsboro Boys, Side Show, Rocky, Bullets Over Broadway, Shrek the Musical, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Lend Me a Tenor, Elf, Wonderland, Cry-Baby, The Times They Are a-Changin’, The Wedding Singer, Sweet Charity, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. ... read more 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 Broadway: The Book of Mormon (Tony Award), Les Misérables, All Shook Up, …Tom Sawyer. Favorite Theater Credits: Tony Kushner’s A Bright Room Called Day (The Public), Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (Encores!), Romeo & Juliet, Caesar & Cleopatra (Stratford Theater), Julius Caesar and Shaina Taub’s Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in the Park), Bernarda Alba (Lincoln Center), Preludes (LCT3). Notable TV/Film: “Daredevil: Born Again” (Disney+), “Severance” (AppleTV+), “Proven Innocent” (FOX), “Braindead” (CBS), Spoiler Alert (Focus). BFA from NYU’s Tisch. A proud mama, wife, New Yorker, voter. As always, for Poppy. ... read more Broadway: The Color Purple, Motown, Scandalous, Hello, Dolly!, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Bandstand, Newsies, Memphis. National Tours: Memphis, Dreamgirls. Off-Broadway: Big River, Cabin in the Sky, Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Featured pianist: LaChanze, Jennifer Hudson, Heather Headley, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Ragtime on Ellis Island with Brian Stokes Mitchell. Originally from DC, Alvin has performed at the Kennedy Center, White House and Capitol and has two degrees in meteorology (yes, you read that correctly) from Harvard and Georgia Tech. He sends love to his wife Rebecca and their first child Samuel, who was born in March 2017. ... read more Ron has produced over 50 shows in New York and London in the past 25 years. He has Tony Awards and Olivier Awards to his credit for Side Man, The Real Thing, Hamlet and Spring Awakening. He is very happy to be working again with Ken Davenport on Michael Arden's amazing new production of Once On This Island. ... read more Diego is an international award-winning TV, film and theatre writer/director/producer. Spring Awakening (Broadway), American Idiot and Peter Pan (international stagings), You Only Live Once (film starring Gerard Depardieu). Diego is proud to "tell the story" with this amazing company. @Diegokol ... read more Rob is an Emmy-Award winning writer, director, composer and producer, and a proud alumnus of Chicago's renowned Second City comedy theatre. He owns Chicago's Apollo Theater, which recently hosted the Broadway musical Million Dollar Quartet for seven years, making it the longest-running Broadway show in Chicago's history. ... read more Broadway: set and costumes for Deaf West's Spring Awakening, set for Fool For Love. Recent off-Broadway: set and/or costumes for Rancho Viejo, Indian Summer, The Christians, Iowa (Playwrights Horizons), Sell.Buy.Date (Manhattan Theatre Club), Homos, or Everyone in America (Labyrinth), The Harvest, (Lincoln Center), The Glory of the World (B.A.M. Harvey), Cloud 9 (Atlantic) and other work at Roundabout, Second Stage, Vineyard Theatre, Lincoln Center Theatre, MCC, SoHo Rep, Rattlestick, Transport Group and many others. Regional work at The Humana Festival, Mark Taper Forum, Shakespeare Theatre, The Old Globe, Huntington Theatre Company, The Wallis Annenberg Center, Denver Center, Goodspeed, Woolly Mammoth, ... read more Kevin has invested in over 80 Broadway, Off-Broadway and touring productions. Three producer credits include The 39 Steps (Off-Broadway). ... read more After years of being a devoted theatregoer and investor in numerous plays, Judith is proud to make her producing debut with this poignant musical! She would like to thank her supportive husband, John, and her inspiring mother-in-law, Jennifer. ... read more Jesse, Kathy and their three children live in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. They are all madly in love with this show. ... read more Sandi Moran is an American Theatre Producer and Philanthropist. A three-time Tony Award winner, her Broadway credits include Moulin Rouge! (Best Musical), Hadestown (Best Musical), Once on This Island (Best Revival of a Musical), Head Over Heels, Anastasia, Disaster!, Allegiance, Deaf West Theatre's Spring Awakening, and more. Sandi and her husband Tom have called Naples home for more than 30 years. Passionate about the community and its children, most of the couple’s charitable endeavors involve partnering with organizations to meet children’s basic needs, including nurturing their academic success or promoting arts education. They have been longtime supporters of many children’s and ... read more Creator of "The Tyler Mount Vlog", Mount is one of Broadway's most prominent social influencers. ... read more Broadway: La Cage aux Folles, Casa Valentina, The Humans, Blackbird. David is the Founding Artistic Director of ATTENTIONTheatre, which champions new work and creates professional opportunities for actors with disabilities. Thanks to Michael, and love to Ali. ... read more An American-British-Israeli trio, Yael Silver and Carol & Robert Walport. Huge love and thanks to our families. ... read more Broadway: Spring Awakening (Revival - Tony Nom.), The Visit (Associate Producer). Off-Broadway: The View Upstairs, Puffs, Clinton the Musical. Film: Loserville www.invisiblewallproductions.com ... read more Ashlee Latimer and Jenna Ushkowitz are thrilled to make their broadway producing debut with OOTI. Many thanks to the village. ... read more Corey Brunish, 2 Tony Awards. Matthew Hui, Onwards and Upwards. Jamie deRoy, 3-time Tony Winner. Dan Shaheen. Inspiration Diversity Family. ... read more WitzEnd partners are Michael Jackowitz, Jeffrey Grove, Marvin Kahan and Laura Dean-Koch in association with Sunshine Productions. Credit highlights: Escape to Margaritaville, Tuck Everlasting, Daddy Long Legs, Seance on a Wet Afternoon, How to Succeed... Upcoming: Hawaiian Goddess Project and Poseidon. www.witzendtheatricals.com. ... read more Roy has produced several Broadway shows: Bandstand, It's Only a Play and An Act of God. He has also been involved with How to Succeed..., Farinelli and the King, Sunday in the Park With George, The Play That Goes Wrong, Groundhog Day, Off-Broadway Clinton: The Musical and Gettin' the Band Back Together. ... read more Notable set/costume designs include: Broadway: Once on This Island (Tony, Outer Critics, Drama Desk nomination), Sunday in the Park With George, Six Degrees of Separation, In Transit, Eclipsed (Tony Award), The Elephant Man (Broadway, West End), Violet. Off-Broadway: Familiar, The True, Here Lies Love (NY, London), Sweet Charity, Bella, and Booty Candy. Over 200 regional and international credits. Encores! Off-Center Principal Designer. Awards: Obie Award for Sustained Excellence, 3 Lucille Lortels, TDF Sharaff Award, 2 ATW Henry Hewes, Helen Hayes. Upcoming: Wild Goose Dreams. Head of Design at Fordham University Theatre Program. @clintramos ... read more The first vertically integrated, profit-driven hedge fund to capture exceptional returns on Broadway, the West End and beyond. BSRF's mission is to allow investors to enjoy the related perks entertainment investing offers while driving maximum returns through strategic application of proven investment tactics to the Broadway marketplace. For more please visit BroadwayStrategicReturnFund.com. ... read more Michelle producing credits include Funny Girl, Hadestown, Be More Chill, and Once On This Island. Michelle is a graduate of Oxford University and Yale Law School and works in private equity. Now, more than ever, we need the power of storytelling. ... read more Brian is excited to be working with Ken and everyone at Davenport Theatrical Enterprises once again, having produced It's Only a Play, the Spring Awakening revival (Tony nomination) and the upcoming Gettin' the Band Back Together. Brian is the proud father of Bella and Ronan, the lucky husband of Keira and the Mayor of Irvington, NY. ... read more Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing, Freaky Friday, Falsettos, First Daughter Suite, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Kid Victory, If/Then, Annie, Dogfight, Leap of Faith, Queen of the Mist, People in the Picture, Sondheim on Sondheim, Next to Normal (Tony Award), Glorious Ones, Grinch, Adrift in Macao, Bernarda Alba, Spelling Bee, Assassins (Tony Award), Tom Sawyer, A New Brain, A Christmas Carol, Hello Again, Guys & Dolls (1992), My Favorite Year, In Trousers, Sunday in the Park with George, Once on This Island, Closer Than Ever, Legs Diamond, Romance Romance, Carrie, Birds of Paradise, Rags, Three Guys Naked, Von Richtofen. ... read more Marie is a frequent theatregoer, and this is her Broadway debut. She hopes for all to enjoy the show. ... read more Brendan C. Tetro is excited to make his Broadway debut. Thank you to Mom, Dad, MRM, family and friends for all your support! ... read more