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Production Staff

Elliot Goldenthal Composer/Lyricist
Bookwriter
Composer
Lyricist
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Julie Taymor Bookwriter
Producer
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Kamyar Atabai Assistant Director
Jay Binder Casting
Jay Binder has cast over 70 Broadway productions, including the Tony Award winning productions of The Lion King, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, Dames At Sea, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Gypsy, The King and I, Lost in Yonkers and Jerome Robbins’ Broadway. In addition, he was fortunate enough to cast every Neil Simon play from 1990 through 2009. Mr. Binder was one of the founders and continues to be a driving force behind the highly-acclaimed Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert series at City Center in New York City. His work casting this series led ... read more
Elizabeth Burgess Assistant Stage Manager
Steven C. Callahan LCT General Manager
Nico Castel Dialect Coach
Richard Cordova Conductor
Musical Director
Thomas Cott LCT Director of Marketing & Special Projects
Geoffrey Gordon Percussion
Emily Grishman Music Preparation
Jeff Hamlin LCT Production Manager
Donald Holder Lighting Designer
Donald Holder has worked extensively in Theatre, Opera, Dance, Architectural and Television lighting in the US and abroad for over 30 years. He has designed 58 Broadway productions and has been nominated for 13 Tony Awards, winning the Tony for Best Lighting Design for The Lion King in 1998, and for the 2008 revival of South Pacific. Recent Broadway productions include: Tootsie, Kiss Me Kate, Anastasia, Oslo, Straight White Men, She Loves Me, Fiddler on the Roof, The King and I, On the Twentieth Century, The Bridges of Madison County, Bullets Over Broadway and many others. Projects at the NY ... read more
Hattie K. Jutagir LCT Director of Development
Hattie K. Jutagir is the Executive Director of Development and Planning at ‎Lincoln Center Theater. ... read more
Jeff Lee Stage Manager
Richard Martinez Keyboards
Gregory Meeh Special Effects Designer
Gregory Meeh designs special effects for theatre, opera and film. Credits: Kà, Cirque du Soleil. Broadway: An Act of God, Misery, Doctor Zhivago, The Last Ship, The Addams Family, Spamalot, Twelfth Night (Lincoln Center, Eddy Award), An Inspector Calls (Drama Desk Award), The Phantom of the Opera. ... read more
Tony Meola Sound Designer
Broadway: Lysistrata Jones (associate producer as well as sound design); …Drood (Drama Desk Award); First Date (associate producer); Pal Joey; The Ritz; Laugh Whore; Man of La Mancha; Sweet Smell of Success; Copenhagen; Kiss Me, Kate; Footloose; The Lion King (Drama Desk Award); The Sound of Music; A Christmas Carol (MSG); Steel Pier; Forum; The King and I; Moon Over Buffalo; Smokey Joe’s Cafe; Guys and Dolls; Five Guys Named Moe; She Loves Me; The Red Shoes; Anything Goes. London: Kiss Me, Kate; The Lion King; Smokey Joe’s Cafe; and Anything Goes. National and international: The Lion King, Les Miserables, ... read more
G.W. Mercier Costume Designer
Scenic Designer
Valerie Naranjo Percussion
Edward J. Nelson Company Manager
Seymour "Red" Press Musical Coordinator
Susan Rawcliffe Didjeridu, Wind Instruments
Philip Rinaldi LCT Press Representative
Julie Taymor Puppet Designer
Mask Designer
Scenic Designer
Costume Designer
Director
Taymor is an American director and writer of theater, opera and film. Her stage adaptation of The Lion King debuted in 1997, and received eleven Tony Award nominations, with Taymor receiving Tony Awards for Best Director and Costume Designer. Her film Frida, about Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, was nominated for five Academy Awards, including a Best Original Song nomination for Taymor's composition "Burn It Blue". She also directed the jukebox musical Across the Universe. ... read more
John C. Thomas Trumpet, Didjeridu
Bruce Williamson Keyboards
Steve "Doc" Zorthian Assistant Stage Manager

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Awards and Nominations

1997 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Best Revival - Musical: 0 was nominated but did not win.

1997 Tony Awards
Best Direction of a Musical: Julie Taymor was nominated but did not win.
Best Lighting Design: Donald Holder was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Lincoln Center Theater was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Music-Theatre Group was nominated but did not win.
Best Scenic Design: G.W. Mercier was nominated but did not win.
Best Scenic Design: Julie Taymor was nominated but did not win.

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