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Production Staff

Matthew Armentrout Hair, Wigs, and Makeup Designer
Mike Brun Orchestrator
Orchestrations
Andrea Grody Music Director and Supervisor
Music Direction and Supervision
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
Natasha Katz Lighting Designer
Lighting Design
Natasha Katz is a New York-based lighting designer. She is a six-time Tony Award winner who has designed extensively for theatre, opera, dance, concerts, and permanent lighting installations around the world. Her recent Broadway credits include: Diana, The Music Man, All My Sons, Burn This, The Prom, Frozen, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Cats, School of Rock, An American in Paris, Aladdin, Skylight, The Glass Menagerie, Once, Follies, The Coast of Utopia: Salvage, and Aida. ... read more
Raja Feather Kelly Choreographer
Choreographer, Creative Consultant
Creative Consultant
Sun Hee Kil Sound Design
Sound Designer
Daniel Kluger Sound Effects Designer
Kluger's Broadway credits include Marvin's Room, Significant Other. Other New York credits include I Was Most Alive With You, The Light Years, Antlia Pneumatica, Marjorie Prime, Iowa (Playwrights Horizons); Man From Nebraska (Second Stage); The Effect, Tribes (Barrow Street Theatre); The Mystery of Love and Sex, Nikolai and the Others (Lincoln Center); Lost Girls, The Nether (MCC); Describe The Night, I'm Gonna Pray for You So Hard, Women or Nothing (Atlantic Theater Company). ... read more
Toni Leslie-James Costume Designer
Costume Design
Mimi Lien Scenic Designer
Scenic Design
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
Melanie Lisby Production Stage Manager
Melanie J. Lisby Production Stage Manager
Leah Newsom Dramaturg
Dramaturg
Ayanna Thompson is a Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University. She is the author of numerous books about Shakespeare, race, and performance. Thompson became a Shakespeare Scholar in Residence at The Public Theater in 2020, and in 2021, she was appointed to the board of trustees of the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. She has served on the Council of Scholars at Theatre for a New Audience in Brooklyn, NY, since 2017, the board of Play On Shakespeare since 2020, and the board for Woolly Mammoth Theater in Washington, DC from 2017-2018. She has worked as a textual and ... read more
Leigh Silverman Director
Director
Silverman directed the Lisa Kron play Well off-Broadway at The Public Theater; the play ran from March 2004 to May 2004. She also directed Well on Broadway in 2006. Among other awards, the play was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Off-Broadway Play. She directed Kron's play In the Wake in its premiere engagement at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles, California in March 2010. She directed In the Wake at the Public Theater in November 2010. She has directed many plays off-Broadway, including Blue Door by Tanya Barfield in 2006 at Playwrights Horizons, for which she was ... read more
Shaina Taub Book, Music, and Lyrics

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Awards and Nominations

2023 The Lortels
Outstanding Featured Performer in a Musical: Nikki M. James was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Musical: Suffs was nominated but did not win.

2022 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Lyrics: Shaina Taub was nominated but did not win.

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