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Water for Elephants - Broadway Creative Team


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Production Staff

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Rick Elice Book
Yonge Street Theatricals is a Dora Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated production company led by Linda Barnett and Natalie Bartello. Champions of great storytelling, the duo has been developing new musicals from the grassroots for more than thirteen years. By nurturing exceptional works from their earliest stages, and collaborating with the most exciting theatre professionals in Toronto and New York, Yonge Street Theatricals showcases quality entertainment that appeals to a wide audience by embracing artistic ambition. ... read more
Campbell Young Associates Hair & Makeup Designer
Theatre includes: Anything Goes, Get Up Stand Up, Leopoldstadt, Back to The Future, All About Eve, The Light In The Piazza, Rosmersholm, Company, The King & I, Funny Girl, St. Joan, City of Angels, One Night in Miami, The Young Chekhov Trilogy, Bend It Like Beckham, Gypsy, The Bodyguard, (West End). Present Laughter, The Master Builder, The Lorax, High Society, Electra, Clarence Darrow, Sweet Bird of Youth, Richard III, Kiss Me Kate, Inherit the Wind, A Christmas Carol, (Old Vic). TINA – The Tina Turner Musical The Ferryman, The Girl from the North Country, Farinelli and the ... read more
David Bengali Production Designer
Co-Music Supervisor
Co-Music Supervisor
Mary-Mitchell Campbell is a conductor, music director, orchestrator, composer, and arranger. She has served as the Music Director for many Broadway shows including Mean Girls, The Prom, My Love Letter to Broadway with Kristin Chenoweth, Tuck Everlasting, Finding Neverland, Big Fish, The Addams Family, Company, and Sweeney Todd. She also music directed Stephen Sondheim’s last musical Road Show at the Public Theater. She won a Drama Desk for Best Orchestrations for the 2006 revival of Company starring Raul Esparza and was nominated for Best Orchestrations for her work on the Off-Broadway productions of Allegro and Hello Again. She has a ... read more
Shana Carroll Co-Choreographer
Circus Designer
SHANA CARROLL is co-founding artistic director of Montreal's Les 7 Doigts de la Main (7 Fingers circus company), where she has directed and choreographed the company's major touring shows, including Traces (Drama Desk nomination), Sequence 8, Loft, La Vie, Le Murmure du Coquelicot, Cuisine & Confessions, and Psy. Shana also created the circus show of Queen of the Night at the Diamond Horseshoe in New York, which won the Drama Desk award for Unique Theatrical Experience. In addition to her work within 7 Fingers, Shana's circus choreography includes the Cirque du Soleil performance at the 84th Annual Academy Awards (2012), the ... read more
Tara Rubin Casting Casting Director
Broadway: Jersey Boys; Spamalot; ...Spelling Bee; The Producers; Mamma Mia!; Phantom…; Good Vibrations; Bombay Dreams; Oklahoma!; Flower Drum Song; Imaginary Friends; Metamorphoses. Nat’l tour: Disney’s On the Record; Les Miserables. Lincoln Center: The Frogs; Contact; Thou Shalt Not; A Man of No Importance; Anything Goes (concert). Off-Broadway: Second Stage. Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival; Kennedy Center; La Jolla Playhouse; Yale Rep. Film: The Producers The Musical. Ms. Rubin is a member of the Casting Society of America. ... read more
Elizabeth Doran Music Director
Elizabeth Doran is a New York based music director and pianist. Music team work includes- Broadway: Six, Mean Girls, Tuck Everlasting, Allegiance, Les Misérables. Off-Broadway: Sweet Charity (The New Group). Chicago: Goodman, Court, Porchlight, Timeline, Griffin, and Boho. Northwestern graduate. ... read more
Takeshi Kata Scenic Designer
Bradley King Lighting Designer
Bradley King is a multiple award-winning lighting designer for theater, opera, and live performance. On Broadway, his designs for both Hadestown and Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 earned Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle awards, as well as a Live Design Achievement of the Year. His collaborations with the Tony award-winning director Rachel Chavkin include Hadestown (The Citadel, NYTW; Drama Desk Nom.), Lempicka (Williamstown), The Royal Family (The Guthrie), Preludes (LCT3), The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls (Yale Rep), and Uncle Vanya (CSC). In New York, his work has been seen at Roundabout Theatre Company, LCT3, Playwrights ... read more
Camille Labarre Puppet Designer
Juniper Street Productions Production Manager
David Israel Reynoso Costume Designer
Jesse Robb Co-Choreographer
Jesse Robb is a NYC based choreographer known for his work on stage and television. He has worked on Broadway, for Cirque Du Soleil, at The Stratford Festival of Canada, The 5th Avenue Theater in Seattle, Theatre Calgary, and Ogunquit Playhouse amongst others. His work on television include shows on Amazon Prime and TBS. He is represented by WME in New York City and the Talent House in Toronto. @JesseRobbChoreography www.JesseRobb.com ... read more
Peter Schneider Producer
Timothy R. Semon Production Stage Manager
Production Supervisor
Jessica Stone Director
Broadway: Butley, The Odd Couple, Smell of the Kill, Design For Living, How to Succeed...,Grease. Off-Broadway: Crimes of the Heart, Krisit, The Country Club, June Moon, Tenderloin, Babes in Arms. National Tour: Grease, Bye Bye Birdie. Regional: Huntington, Mark Taper Forum, GeVa, the McCarter and six seasons at the Williamstown Theater festival. Favorite productions include She Stoops to Conquer, She Loves Me, Springtime For Henry, Betty's Summer Vacation, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Cherry Orchard, Where's Charley and Tonight at 8:30. Film: soon to be released How Do You Know, Failure to Launch, Loverboy, Signs, The Ice Storm . T.V.: ... read more
Foresight Theatrical General Manager
Walter Trarbach Sound Designer
Broadway: The Farnsworth Invention, Cymbeline. As a Partner in SCK Sound Design, his Credits include: Doctor Zhivago and The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, and Ain't Too Proud. Other Designs: Queen of the Mist, I Am Anne Hutchinson/I Am Harvey Milk, The Man in the Ceiling, The Tin Pan Alley Rag, Becky Shaw, Measure for Pleasure, Farragut North, I Love You Because, Love, Loss, and What I Wore, and Mr. Marmalade. Associate Sound Designs: Catch Me If You Can, Billy Crystal's 700 Sundays, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill (Tony Award), Jesus Christ Superstar, Hands on a Hardbody (Drama Desk ... read more
Daryl Waters Orchestrator

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Awards and Nominations

2024 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Choreography: Jesse Robb was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Costume Design of a Musical: David Israel Reynoso was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Direction of a Musical: Jessica Stone won.
Outstanding Fight Choreography: Cha Ramos won.
Outstanding Lighting Design of a Musical: Bradley King was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Puppetry: Ray Wetmore won.
Outstanding Sound Design of a Musical: Walter Trarbach won.

2024 Drama League Awards
Outstanding Production of a Musical: Water for Elephants was nominated but did not win.

2024 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding Choreography (Broadway or Off-Broadway): Jesse Robb was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Direction of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway): Jessica Stone won.
Outstanding Lighting Design (Broadway or Off-Broadway): Bradley King was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding New Broadway Musical: Water for Elephants was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Video/Projections (Broadway or Off-Broadway): David Bengali was nominated but did not win.

2024 Tony Awards
Best Book of a Musical: Rick Elice was nominated but did not win.
Best Choreography: Jesse Robb was nominated but did not win.
Best Costume Design of a Musical: David Israel Reynoso was nominated but did not win.
Best Direction of a Musical: Jessica Stone was nominated but did not win.
Best Lighting Design of a Musical: Bradley King was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Water for Elephants was nominated but did not win.
Best Scenic Design of a Musical: Takeshi Kata was nominated but did not win.

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