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The Light in the Piazza - Broadway Creative Team


Production Staff

Adam Guettel Composer
Lyricist
iAdam Guettel is a composer/lyricist. Theatre includes The Light In the Piazza (2005; Tony Award for Best Original Score; Grammy Award nomination for Best Musical Theater Album; cast album on Nonesuch Records), Floyd Collins (1996 at Playwrights Horizons; Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical, Obie Award for Best Music; cast album on Nonesuch Records), and Saturn Returns (1998 at The Public Theater; recorded by Nonesuch Records as Myths and Hymns). Other awards include the Stephen Sondheim Award (1990), the ASCAP New Horizons Award (1997), and the American Composers Orchestra Award (2005). He received an honorary doctorate from Lehman College in ... read more
Arthur Laurents Bookwriter
Arthur Laurents was a renowned American playwright, screenwriter, and director who was born on July 14, 1917, in Brooklyn, New York. He was a prominent figure in the entertainment industry for over six decades and was widely regarded as one of the most influential playwrights of his generation. Laurents began his career in the theater as an assistant to playwrights such as Robert E. Sherwood and Moss Hart. He made his Broadway debut as a playwright in 1945 with the play "Home of the Brave," which dealt with anti-Semitism in the military. The play was a critical and commercial success and ... read more
Craig Lucas Bookwriter
Plays include Missing Persons, Reckless, Blue Window, Prelude to a Kiss, God’s Heart, The Dying Gaul, Stranger, Small Tragedy, The Singing Forest, Ode To Joy, I Was Most Alive With You. Screenplays include Longtime Companion (Sundance Audience Award), The Secret Lives of Dentists (NY Film Critics Best Screenplay Award), Reckless, Blue Window, The Dying Gaul. Libretti include The Light in the Piazza, Two Boys, Orpheus in Love, 3 Postcards, An American in Paris, Amélie, Sousatzka. He directed the world premiere of The Light in the Piazza, Harry Kondoleon’s plays Saved Or Destroyed and Play Yourself, and the films The Dying ... read more
Elizabeth Spencer Source Material
(Based on novella)
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Alfred Uhry Bookwriter
Theatre Owner / Operator
Christopher Akerlind Lighting Designer
Broadway: End of the Rainbow, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, 110 In The Shade (Tony nom.), Shining City, Well, Awake and Sing! (Tony nom.), Rabbit Hole, The Light In The Piazza (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics awards), Reckless, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, Seven Guitars (Tony nom.), among others. Recent: King Lear (Public Theater), Kdo! (Foret Nationale, Brussels), Kafeneion (Athens Festival), Garden Of Earthly Delights (Minetta Lane); Orpheus X (TFANA), Kaos (NYTW). Awards: Obie/Sustained Excellence, among others. ... read more
Jerry Altenburg Hair and Wig Designer
Adam Ben-David Rehearsal Pianist
Jonathan Butterell Choreographer
(Musical Staging)
Brian Cassier (Double Bass) is active as a jazz and studio recording musician for record, film, television and Broadway. He has performed and recorded with Barbra Streisand, Liza Minelli, Luther Henderson, Andrea Boccelli, Enya, Alana Davis, Audra McDonald, Pat Metheny, Antonio Banderas, Ciaran Sheehan, Chita Rivera, Phil Woods, Lionel Hampton, Clark Terry, Connie James, Mike Greensill, Wesla Whitfield, Patti Lupone, Jonathan Tunick Big Band, Bob Thosen Big Band, Lea Salonga and Steve Ross to name a few. Brian has performed in numerous chamber music ensembles, chamber orchestras and orchestras throughout the United States, Europe, South America and Asia with such ... read more
Turner Entertainment Co. Producer
(by arrangement with)
Producer
(by arrangement with)
Producer
(By Arrangement With)
Jessica Perlmeter Cochrane Assistant Company Manager
Bruce Coughlin Orchestrator
(Additional Orchestrations)
Bruce has orchestrated nearly 100 musicals and operas the world over including War Paint, The Light in the Piazza (co-orchestrator; Tony Award), 9 to 5, Grey Gardens, Urinetown, The Wild Party (Broadway), Assassins (London), Floyd Collins and Giant. Awards: Tony Award (plus two nominations), Obie, Drama Desk (plus eight nominations). ... read more
Andy Einhorn Production Assistant
In the 2016–17 season, Broadway music director and conductor Andy Einhorn leads the Indianapolis Symphony, Houston Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Tucson Symphony, and Fresno Philharmonic orchestras. Beginning in April 2017 he conducts Bette Midler in the Broadway revival of Michael Stewart and Jerry Herman’s Hello Dolly!, for which he serves as music director. Mr. Einhorn’s other Broadway credits include Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn, Woody Allen’s Bullets Over Broadway, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Evita, Stu Barker’s music for Brief Encounter, Adam Guettel’s The Light in the Piazza, and Sondheim on Sondheim. He recently served as music director and ... read more
Janet Foster Casting
Laura Griffith Dance Captain
Adam Guettel Orchestrator
iAdam Guettel is a composer/lyricist. Theatre includes The Light In the Piazza (2005; Tony Award for Best Original Score; Grammy Award nomination for Best Musical Theater Album; cast album on Nonesuch Records), Floyd Collins (1996 at Playwrights Horizons; Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical, Obie Award for Best Music; cast album on Nonesuch Records), and Saturn Returns (1998 at The Public Theater; recorded by Nonesuch Records as Myths and Hymns). Other awards include the Stephen Sondheim Award (1990), the ASCAP New Horizons Award (1997), and the American Composers Orchestra Award (2005). He received an honorary doctorate from Lehman College in ... read more
Jeff Hamlin LCT Production Manager
Concert Master
English Horn
Clarinet
Clarinet/English Horn/Oboe
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Hattie K. Jutagir LCT Director of Development
Hattie K. Jutagir is the Executive Director of Development and Planning at ‎Lincoln Center Theater. ... read more
Sarna Lapine Assistant Director
In 2017, Ms. Lapine directed the Broadway revival of Sunday in the Park with George to critical acclaim, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford. Her National Tours include theatrical staples such as The National Theatre's War Horse and Lincoln Center's South Pacific. She has worked on numerous Bartlett Sher productions such as Light in the Piazza, Awake and Sing! and South Pacific. ... read more
Jeffrey Yoshi Lee Assistant Sound Designer
Assistant Sound Designer
Josh Lowenthal Associate Company Manager
Claudia Lynch Assistant Stage Manager
Joan Marcus Production Photographer
Matthew Markoff Company Manager
violinist Lisa Matricardi ... read more
James McMullan Poster Art
Matthew Melchiorre Production Assistant
Assistant Stage Manager
Troy Miller Assistant to Mr. Lucas
Billy Miller Percussion
Melanie T. Morgan Production Assistant
Music Preparation
David Newell Assistant Costume Designer
Assistant Costume Designer
ACME Sound Partners Sound Designer
More than 30 Broadway shows since 2000 including Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Tony nomination), The Merchant of Venice, Lombardi, Fences (Tony nomination), The Addams Family, Ragtime, Hair (Tony nomination), In the Heights (Tony nomination), [title of show], Legally Blonde, A Chorus Line (2006), The Drowsy Chaperone, The Light in the Piazza, Monty Python's Spamalot, Avenue Q, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and La Bohème. Acme is Tom Clark, Mark Menard, Nevin Steinbergand Sten Severson. ... read more
Seymour "Red" Press Musical Coordinator
Dan Riddle Celesta
Piano, Celesta
Piano
Associate Conductor
Philip Rinaldi General Press Representative
Linda Mason Ross LCT Director of Marketing
Peter Sachon Cello
Peter Sachon not only performs with some of the finest freelance orchestras and opera companies in New York City, he also plays in Broadway shows, jazz and rock groups, and he is active in promoting new music. He has a regular blog at Polyphonic.org about reforming American orchestras. Mr. Sachon began his cello studies at the age of 14, and one year later was accepted into the Governor’s School for the Arts in Norfolk, Virginia. He then went on to study cello with Paul Tobias at The Mannes College of Music in New York, and chamber music with Felix Galimir and ... read more
Andrew Schwartz Mandolin
Guitar
Guitar/Mandolin
Gili Sharett Contrabassoon
Bassoon
Bassoon/Contrabassoon
Bartlett Sher Director
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
Adam Siegel LCT General Manager
Adam Siegel is the Managing Director at Lincoln Center Theater. ... read more
Michael J. Spadaro Assistant Lighting Designer
Ted Sperling Musical Director
Orchestrator
Conductor
LCT: The King and I, South Pacific, The Light in the Piazza (Tony, Drama Desk awards), A Man of No Importance, A New Brain, My Favorite Year. Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof, Guys and Dolls, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Full Monty, Titanic (actor), Kiss of the Spider Woman, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Drood, Sunday in the Park with George. Off- Broadway: Red Eye of Love, The Other Josh Cohen, Striking 12, See What I Wanna See (director); Saturn Returns, Floyd Collins, Romance in Hard Times (music director). Artistic director, MasterVoices; principal conductor, Westchester Philharmonic; creative director ... read more
Mikiko Suzuki Assistant Scenic Designer
James Tsao Violin
Ira Weitzman LCT Musical Theatre Associate Producer
LCT Musical Theater Associate Producer
Ira Weitzman is the Mindich Chair Musical Theater Associate Producer at Lincoln Center Theatre. ... read more
Thom Widmann Stage Manager
Peter Wolf Production Stage Manager
Production Stage Manager
Michael Yeargan Scenic Designer
LCT: Oslo, The King and I (Tony, Outer Critics Circle nominations), Golden Boy (Tony nom.), Blood and Gifts, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Tony nom.), South Pacific (Tony, Drama Desk awards; OCC nom.), Cymbeline, Awake and Sing! (DD Award; Tony nom.), Edward Albee's Seascape, The Light in the Piazza (Tony, DD awards). Broadway: The Ritz, Bad Habits, A Lesson from Aloes, The Road to Mecca (Roundabout), The Bridges of Madison County, Fiddler on the Roof. Also credits Off-Broadway, in regional theater, London, ten productions at the Metropolitan Opera and work at major ... read more
Michael Zecker Assistant Costume Designer
Ralph Zito Dialect Coach
Catherine Zuber Costume Designer

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Awards and Nominations

2005 BroadwayWorld Awards
Best Lighting Design: Christopher Akerlind won.
Best Orchestrations: Ted Sperling won.

2005 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Lighting Design: Christopher Akerlind won.
Outstanding Music: Adam Guettel won.
outstanding Orchestrations: Ted Sperling won.
Outstanding Orchestrations: Adam Guettel won.
Outstanding Orchestrations: Bruce Coughlin won.
Outstanding Set Design of a Musical: Michael Yeargan won.

2005 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding Broadway Musical: 0 was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Costume Design: Catherine Zuber was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Director of a Musical: Bartlett Sher was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Lighting Design: Christopher Akerlind won.
Outstanding Set Design: Michael Yeargan was nominated but did not win.

2005 The Hewes Awards
Lighting Design: Christopher Akerlind won.
Scenic Design: Michael Yeargan won.

2005 Tony Awards
Best Book of a Musical: Craig Lucas was nominated but did not win.
Best Costume Design of a Musical: Catherine Zuber won.
Best Direction of a Musical: Bartlett Sher was nominated but did not win.
Best Lighting Design of a Musical: Christopher Akerlind won.
Best Musical: Lincoln Center Theater was nominated but did not win.
Best Orchestrations: Bruce Coughlin won.
Best Orchestrations: Adam Guettel won.
Best Orchestrations: Ted Sperling won.
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre: Adam Guettel won.
Best Scenic Design of a Musical: Michael Yeargan won.

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