Camelot - Broadway Creative Team

Alan Jay Lerner wrote some of America's best loved and enduring stage and movie musicals with Frederick Loewe over a period of more than 25 years: Life of the Party, What's Up, The Day Before Spring, Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon, My Fair Lady, Camelot and Gigi. He also wrote Love Life with Kurt Weill, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever and Carmelina with Burton Lane, Coco with Andre Previn, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with Leonard Bernstein and Dance a Little Closer with Charles Strouse. He wrote the libretto and/or lyrics for the following films: An American in Paris, Gigi, ... read more Frederick Loewe, a classically trained musician, wrote the scores for some of America's most memorable musicals, including My Fair Lady, Camelot, Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon, and Gigi. Among his most famous songs with lyricist-partner Alan Jay Lerner are "Almost Like Being in Love," "I Could Have Danced All Night," and "Thank Heaven for Little Girls." A musical prodigy, Loewe was born in Berlin in 1901 and, at 13, was the youngest piano soloist to play with the Berlin Philharmonic. His popular song "Katrina," written when he was 15, sold more than a million copies across Europe. Struggling to find work ... read more Robert Russell Bennett orchestrated more than 300 Broadway musical scores including Show Boat; No, No, Nanette; Of Thee I Sing; Face the Music; Oklahoma!; Carmen Jones; Finian's Rainbow; Kiss Me, Kate; South Pacific; The King and I; My Fair Lady; and Camelot. His arrangements for the 1955 film version of Oklahoma! earned him an Academy Award. He also orchestrated and arranged Richard Rodgers' TV documentary score for "Victory at Sea." A classically trained composer, Bennett's prolific output of original compositions includes symphonies, sonatas, a ballet, a concerto and an opera. ... read more Chu's lighting for Mlima’s Tale earned him the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Lighting in 2019 and an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination in 2018. Also in 2018, he received an Obie for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design and a Berkshire Theatre Critics Association Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for Dangerous House. In 2009, Chu was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for his lighting of The Good Negro. ... read more Broadway: Spider-Man, Turn off the Dark; Spring Awakening; The Light in the Piazza; Caroline, or Change; The Full Monty; You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Twelfth Night (Jeanine Tesori). Off-Broadway: Coraline (Stephin Merritt), Mother Courage and Her Children, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Songs From an Unmade Bed, The Immigrant (Steven Alper), Radiant Baby (Debra Barsha), Twelfth Night (Duncan Sheik), Love’s Fire (Adam Guettel). Education: Southern Methodist University and Manhattan School of Music. ... read more Cookie Jordan is a multi-talented actress, singer, and dancer who has made a name for herself in both stage and screen. She was born and raised in New York City, where she began her career in the arts at a young age. Her passion for performing led her to pursue a degree in theater at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Jordan made her Broadway debut in the original production of "Dreamgirls" in 1981, where she played the role of Effie White. Her powerful vocals and emotional performance earned her critical acclaim and a Tony Award nomination for Best ... read more Broadway: Evita, Mary Poppins, Bonnie & Clyde, Wonderland, South Pacific, Woman In White, Jesus Christ Superstar, Riverdance. Broadway conductor: Miss Saigon and The Phantom of the Opera for last 15 years. Producer: West Side Story (Grammy); Promises, Promises, South Pacific (Grammy noms). ... read more Philip J. Lang was a musician, composer and music educator who taught at the graduate schools of music at the University of Michigan and the University of Colorado and was the orchestrator of more than 50 Broadway musicals including My Fair Lady and Camelot (with Robert Russell Bennett); Annie Get Your Gun; Applause; Hello, Dolly!; Carnival; and 42nd Street. Mr. Lang was an orchestrator for the Metropolitan Opera and a frequent musical arranger for television including Hallmark Productions, David Susskind, Radio City Music Hall and "The Tonight Show." ... read more Broadway: Seminar; The Motherf**ker With the Hat; The Pitmen Painters; Next Fall; Oleanna; You’re Welcome America. A Final Night With George W Bush; Mauritius; Doubt; The Goat. National tour: Doubt. Off-Broadway: Wit, The Laramie Project, Beckett/Albee, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, as well as productions at Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Theatre Company, the Public Theater/Shakespeare in the Park, New York Theatre Workshop, Center Theatre Group and the live HBO telecast of Will Ferrell’s You’re Welcome America. ... read more Recent credits: “Dickinson” (Apple TV+), Sweat (Broadway), Wrong Man (MCC), Mlima’s Tale (Public), Tiny Beautiful Things (Public), Floyd’s (Guthrie), Cardinal (2nd Stage), Aubergine (Playwrights Horizons), Candide (LA Opera), La Bohème (Kennedy Center). Jennifer has designed productions for Signature Theater; Shakespeare in the Park; Manhattan Theatre Club; Women’s Project; Primary Stages, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Arena Stage, The Old Globe, Williamstown Theatre Festival, McCarter, Baltimore Center Stage, Yale Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Municipal Theater of Santiago, Chile, Opéra National de Bordeaux, Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, and others ... read more LCT: Oslo, Dada Woof Papa Hot, Domesticated. Broadway includes This Is Our Youth, Of Mice and Men, Lucky Guy, That Championship Season, August: Osage County (also national tour). Off-Broadway includes Smart People, Guards at the Taj, My Name Is Asher Lev, Rated P for Parenthood, Make Me a Song, Opus, Crazy Mary, A Spanish Play, Satellites. Regional includes Steppenwolf, Center Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival. ... read more SARAH PARKER (Ensemble). Broadway: The WHO’s Tommy (asst. choreographer), How to Dance in Ohio (asst. choreographer), Camelot (assoc. choreographer), Fiddler on the Roof. Tour: Mob Leader in Jesus Christ Superstar. Off-Broadway: Hell’s Kitchen. Regional: The WHO's Tommy (Goodman Theatre), How to Dance in Ohio (Syracuse Stage). Dance: Camille A. Brown and Dancers. TV: Harlem, Modern Love, Jesus Christ Superstar LIVE, Mozart in the Jungle. Improvisation teacher and arts writer with an MA in Journalism from NYU. @sfp9589 ... read more Trude Rittman has amassed more than 50 Broadway credits as a choral and dance arranger including The Sound of Music, The King and I, South Pacific, My Fair Lady, Carousel, Finian's Rainbow, Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon and Peter Pan. A composer in her own right, she provided music for such shows as "Omnibus" and "Seven Lively Arts." ... read more Bartlett Sher is the Resident Director of Lincoln Center Theater, where his productions include Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady, J.T. Rogers' Oslo (Tony nomination), Rodgers & Hammerstein's The King and I (Tony nomination), Golden Boy (Tony nomination), Blood & Gifts, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Tony nomination), South Pacific (Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle awards), Awake and Sing! (Tony nomination), and The Light in the Piazza (Tony nomination). He directed the recent Broadway productions of Fiddler on the Roof and The Bridges of Madison County (also Williamstown Theatre Festival), as ... read more His works include the Broadway plays A Few Good Men, The Farnsworth Invention and To Kill a Mockingbird; the television series Sports Night (1998–2000), The West Wing (1999–2006), Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006–07), and The Newsroom (2012–14). He wrote the film screenplay for the legal drama A Few Good Men (1992), the comedy The American President (1995), and several biopics including Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Moneyball (2011), and Steve Jobs (2015). For writing 2010's The Social Network, he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay. He made his feature film debut ... read more Broadway: End of the Rainbow, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, War Horse, The Mountaintop, , Master Class, The People in the Picture, Driving Miss Daisy, The Merchant of Venice, The Pitmen Painters, Red, Sunday in the Park with George, The Seafarer, American Buffalo, Curtains, Talk Radio, A Raisin in the Sun, Fiddler on the Roof, Nine, Oklahoma, Gem of the Ocean, Betrayal, others. Off-Broadway: The Whipping Man, Burn This, Far Away, others. Film & TV: Inside Llewyn Davis, Grand Street, Rubicon, Ceremony, Salt, Notorious, The Rebound, Pride and Glory, Fur. Faculty: Juilliard. ... read more