Production Staff
Author
Composer
Broadway: American Utopia (2019). Byrne works in a variety of mediums. Born in Dumbarton, Scotland, he grew up in North America and was educated at art schools in Maryland and Rhode Island. Since leaving the Talking Heads, the band he co-founded in the 1970s, Byrne has released nine solo albums, most recently American Utopia (2018). Byrne has been honored with an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Grammy awards, along with Obie, Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel and the Theatre World awards for Here Lies Love. ... read more
Renee is a New York based actor recently seen in DAVID BYRNE'S AMERICAN UTOPIA. Recent credits include HERE LIES LOVE at THE PUBLIC THEATER written by David Byrne and directed by Alex Timbers and Andrew Lippa's THE WILD PARTY at NEW YORK CITY CENTER directed by Leigh Silverman and choreographed by Sonya Tayeh. Hailing originally from Santa Ana, California, Renee lives in New York City and received her BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts at their CAP21 studio. ... read more
Credits include The King and I (Lincoln Center), Here Lies Love (Public Theater), Old Globe, Arena Stage, Paper Mill and Sundance. Endless gratitude to his family, Barkada, Peyton and his many teachers. Proud U. Arts grad. Also a Director and Photographer! www.BillyBustamante.com ... read more
Patrick Catullo is currently represented on Broadway by Kimberly Akimbo; Here Lies Love; Merrily We Roll Along; Gutenberg! The Musical and the upcoming revival of An Enemy of the People.Previous credits include Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man & The Pool; David Byrne’s American Utopia (for which he received a Special Tony Award as well an Emmy nomination); Girl From the North Country; Fleabag; Network; The Boys in the Band; 1984; Nick Kroll & John Mulaney’s Oh, Hello on Broadway; Fully Committed; Gypsy (West End revival); The Elephant Man; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; If/Then; Next to Normal and The 25th ... read more
Diana DiMenna is a Broadway Producer. Shows include What the Constitution Means to Me, Network, The Iceman Cometh, Three Tall Women, Meteor Shower, A Doll's House, Part 2, Bright Star. ... read more
Broadway credits include Oh, Hello on Broadway and The Pee-wee Herman Show. ... read more
Company Manager, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Broadway)
Associate General Manager, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Broadway, 3rd National Tour, Las Vegas companies)
Associate Company Manager, LES MISERABLES (Broadway revival) ... 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
Broadway: Mrs. Doubtfire, Beetlejuice (Tony nom, Drama Desk award), Hamilton (Tony nom), War Paint (Tony nom), Dear Evan Hansen, Bandstand, Misery, Motown, Vanya and Sonia, Bring It On, The Pee-Wee Herman Show, Lombardi, and Passing Strange. TV: "91st Annual Academy Awards," "Grease: Live!" (Emmy award). Concert: Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Mariah Carey, Andrea Boccelli. Extensive Off-Broadway/regional theatre, hospitality, and experience design. Dad: Stella and Vivian. ... read more
Vocal Arranger
Justin Levine received an Outer Critics Circle Award Honour for his work on Moulin Rouge! The Musical and a Grammy Award nomination as a co-producer of the show’s cast album. His recent credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Delacorte, Drama Desk nomination), Vevo X Lorde: “Melodrama” (Electric Lady Studios), Contemporary Color (David Byrne, Barclays Center), The Outsiders (Goodman Theater), Here Lies Love (Public Theater, National Theatre, Seattle Rep, MASS MoCA), The Weight of Smoke (Paul Taylor/Doug Elkins, Lincoln Center), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Broadway/Public Theater), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Delacorte), The Robber Bridegroom (Roundabout), Murder Ballad (MTC/Union Square). ... read more
Winner of three Tony Awards and London’s Olivier Award, producer Hal Luftig has worked on and Off-Broadway for the past 25 years. Broadway: Evita, Catch Me If You Can, Come Fly Away, West Side Story, All My Sons, Legally Blonde, The Times They Are A-Changin’, Whoopi, Movin’ Out, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Annie Get Your Gun, High Society, The Diary of Anne Frank, Play On!, The King and I, Moon Over Buffalo, Angels in America, Jelly’s Last Jam, Death and the Maiden, The Secret Garden. Hal has an M.F.A. from Columbia University/ ... read more
J. Oconer Navarro is an award-winning writer, music director, arranger, pianist, and vocal coach based in NYC. J. is a recipient of the American Theatre Wing Jonathan Larson Grant, an alumnus of the Composer-Librettist Studio at New Dramatists, and is widely recognized for his work in Music Direction. Off-Broadway: FIRST DAUGHTER SUITE (The Public Theater; Cast Album: Ghostlight/Sh-K-Boom Records), ?iOW@? (Playwrights Horizons), ADDING MACHINE (Minetta Lane Theatre; Lortel, Obie, and Outer Critics Circle Awards; Cast Album: PS Classics), SUMMER AND SMOKE (Transport Group/Classic Stage Company), WE THE PEOPLE (Theatreworks USA; Lortel Nomination), WHIDA PERU: ... read more
Peter's Broadway credits include SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical, Dear Evan Hansen, A Doll's House, Part 2, An Act of God, Amalie, A New Musical, Fela!, The Heidi Chronicles, and The Best Man.
His other credits include Grounded and Here Lies Love (The Public Theater), Wakey, Wakey (Signature Theatre), The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Second Stage Theater), Notes from Underground (Yale Repertory Theatre), The Grace Jones Hurricane Tour, Rent (New World Stages), Real Enemies (BAM Next Wave Festival), and Blind Date (Bill T. Jones).
For Nature Theater of Oklahoma, No Dice and Life & Times (Burgtheater, Vienna). His upcoming ... read more
Producer
Creative Consultant
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
LEA SALONGA is best known for her Tony Award-winning role in Miss Saigon. In addition to the Tony, she won the Olivier, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Theatre World Awards, Time100 Impact Award from Time Magazine, and the Gold Legend Award from Gold House. Most recently, Lea starred in the West End production of Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends, and as Aurora in Here Lies Love on Broadway, which she also produced. Lea was also the first Asian to play Eponine in the musical Les Misérables on Broadway and returned to the show as Fantine in the 2006 revival. She will ... read more
Sophia Skiles is a NYC-based Asian-American actor and teacher. She has performed in work directed by Michael Kahn (Helen Hayes nomination for ensemble performance), May Adrales, Anne Bogart, Richard Foreman, Chay Yew, David Herskovits, and Mary Zimmerman with strong ties to Ma-Yi Theater and National Asian American Theater Company. She has over twenty years of experience teaching acting in a wide range of environments: with public school students throughout NYC, pre-college students at Northwestern University's National High School Institute, and high school seniors in Ulster County, NY. She has held teaching positions in undergraduate theater programs at Mount Holyoke College, ... read more
Designer known for Romeo and Juliet, Job, The Outsiders, Gutenberg!, Here Lies Love, Mrs. Doubtfire, Springsteen on Broadway, Tootsie, Mean Girls, War Paint, Tuck Everlasting, The Last Ship, If/Then, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Annie, Bring it On, Nice Work if You Can Get It, and The Book of Mormon. ... read more
Matt Stine
Music Production & Additonal Arrangements
Matt Stine is a talented actor who has made a name for himself on both the Broadway stage and on television. Born and raised in New York City, Stine developed a love for acting at a young age and pursued it throughout his education. He attended the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where he honed his craft and made connections that would serve him well in his career.
Stine made his Broadway debut in 2009, when he was cast in the ensemble of the hit musical "Billy Elliot." He quickly proved himself to be a versatile performer, ... read more
Alex Timbers is a Tony-nominated writer-director and the recipient of Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards, as well as two OBIE Awards.
Credits include: The Pee-wee Herman Show, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (also book writer; Drama Desk, Lortel, and OCC Awards, Tony nomination), A Very Merry Unauthorized Pageant (OBIE Award, Garland Award-Best Director), Gutenberg! The Musical! (Drama Desk nom. - Best Director of a Musical), Peter and the Starcatcher (co-director, OBIE Award- Best Director), Hell House (Drama Desk nom. - Unique Theatrical Experience).
Alex was President of the Yale Dramat and is the Artistic Director of downtown ... read more
Justin Townsend received a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award Honour for his work on Moulin Rouge! The Musical. His Broadway credits include Jagged Little Pill, Saint Joan, Present Laughter, The Little Foxes, The Humans (Tony nomination), American Psycho (Tony nomination), Fool for Love, Casa Valentina, A Night with Janis Joplin, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Other Place, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. He served as Creative Director for Drake’s “Boy Meets World” European Tour and OVO Fest 2017. He previously worked with Alex Timbers on Here Lies Love. He is an associate professor at ... read more
Creative Consultant
Awards and Nominations
2024 Drama League Awards
Distinguished Performance: Conrad Ricamora was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Direction of a Musical: Alex Timbers was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Revival of a Musical: Here Lies Love was nominated but did not win.
2024 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding Lighting Design (Broadway or Off-Broadway): Justin Townsend was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Revival of a Musical: Here Lies Love was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Scenic Design (Broadway or Off-Broadway): David Korins was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Sound Design (Broadway or Off-Broadway): M.L. Dogg was nominated but did not win.
2024 Tony Awards
Best Choreography: Annie-B Parson was nominated but did not win.
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre: David Byrne was nominated but did not win.
Best Scenic Design of a Musical: David Korins was nominated but did not win.
Best Sound Design of a Musical: M.L. Dogg was nominated but did not win.