Cast / creative

Tom Kitt

Music

Tom received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as two Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Orchestrations for Next to Normal. In addition, his work on Next to Normal received the Frederick Loewe Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best New Score. Tom is responsible for the music supervision, arrangements and orchestrations for Green Day's American Idiot on Broadway, and provided additional arrangements for their studio albums, 21st Century Breakdown and ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tré! As a composer, credits include the Broadway shows, High Fidelity and Bring It On: The Musical; The Winter's Tale and All's Well That Ends Well (The Public's NYSF). Tom has composed songs for Sesame Street and he co-wrote with Lin-Manuel Miranda, Bigger, which opened the 2013 Tony Awards. As an arranger, conductor, and musical director, other credits include Pitch Perfect, Everyday Rapture, 13, Laugh Whore, and Debbie Does Dallas.

Brian Yorkey

Book and Lyrics

Broadway: Next to Normal (Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony Award, Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Score, Tony Nomination for Best Book); The Last Ship, with Sting and John Logan, coming to Broadway in the fall of 2014. Films in development: Time After Time for Lionsgate/Summit and Anonymous Content, as well as Score! for Team Downey and Warner Bros. Other theatre credits: Making Tracks (Off-Broadway, regional, international), the musical adaptation of Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet, and the country musical Play It By Heart. Brian has directed Off-Broadway and regionally and for seven years was Associate Artistic Director at Village Theatre in Washington State, one of the nation’s leading producers of new musicals. He’s a graduate of Columbia University, where he was Artistic Director of the Varsity Show, an alum of the BMI/Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and the WGA. For Bev.

Michael Greif

Director

Broadway: Next to Normal, Grey Gardens, Rent (Tony Award nominations), and Never Gonna Dance. Delacorte: Winter's Tale, Romeo and Juliet. Off-Broadway: new plays, musicals, revivals at Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Class Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, NY Shakespeare Festival/Public, NYTW, Roundabout, Second Stage and Signature, including the 2010 revival of Angels in America (Lortel Award), Kushner's The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide… (Public), Guare's Landscape of the Body (Signature), and musical adaptations of Giant (Public) and Far From Heaven (Playwrights Horizons). He received Obie Awards for Machinal and Dogeaters (Public) and for Rent (NYTW). Regional: Williamstown (9 seasons) La Jolla Playhouse (Artistic Director 1995-99), Arena, Center Stage, Goodman, Guthrie, CTG/Taper, DTC, Trinity Rep. Education: Northwestern (BS),UCSD (MFA). Proud father of David and Hannah.

Larry Keigwin

Choreographer

Larry is a native New Yorker and choreographer who has danced his way from the Metropolitan Opera to downtown clubs to Broadway and back. He founded KEIGWIN + COMPANY in 2003 and has created dozens of dances for his company, as well as for the Royal New Zealand Ballet, The Martha Graham Dance Company, and others. His work in musical theater includes choreography for Tales of the City at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco in 2011, and the new production of Rent, for which he received the Joe A. Callaway Award from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation.

Michael Starobin

Orchestrations

Annie, Dogfight, Leap of Faith, Queen of the Mist, People in the Picture, Sondheim on Sondheim, Next to Normal, Glorious Ones, Grinch, Adrift in Macao, Bernarda Alba, Spelling Bee, Assassins, Tom Sawyer, A New Brain, A Christmas Carol (MSG), Hello Again, Guys & Dolls, My Favorite Year, Falsettos, In Trousers, Sunday in the Park with George, Once on This Island, Closer Than Ever, Legs Diamond, Romance Romance, Carrie, Birds of Paradise, Rags, Three Guys Naked, Von Richtofen.

Carmel Dean

Music Director

Broadway: Hands on a Hardbody, American Idiot, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Off-Broadway: Emotional Creature, Everyday Rapture, Elegies. Other: 52nd Annual Grammy Awards with Green Day; formerly Chita Rivera’s musical director. Carmel is a graduate of NYU’s Musical Theatre Writing Program. As a composer her work includes the musical A Girl Called Vincent with Dick Scanlan, and the YouTube series Project: Song Blog. She is also a proud Aussie! www.carmeldean.com

Annmarie Milazzo

Vocal Arrangements

Spring Awakening, Next To Normal, Bright Lights Big City, Dangerous Beauty, Prometheus Bound, Some Lovers, The Marc Pease Experience, Carrie. Lyricist: Cirque du Soleil’s Le Reve and Carmen, at The La Jolla Playhouse. Current Projects: Vocal designer for Finding Neverland at ART and A Little More Alive at Kansas City Rep Grammy nominated AnnMarie is the female vocalist for Aria Electronica and The East Village Opera Company on Decca/Universal Records.

Mark Wendland

Set Designer

Broadway: Merchant of Venice, Next to Normal, Talk Radio, An Almost Holy Picture, Death of a Salesman. New York: Murder Ballad, Beauty of the Father, Iron (MTC); Nobody Loves You, Lonely Iʼm Not, Boyʼs Life, Some Men (Second Stage); The Great God Pan, The World Over, (Playwrights Horizons); Rent (New World Stages); The Intelligent Homosexualʼs Guide…, Satellites, Fucking A, Pericles, A Dybbuk, The Winterʼs Tale, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Cymbeline, Timon of Athens (Public Theatre); Angels in America, Hot-N-Throbbing (Signature); Distracted (Roundabout); UNCONDITIONAL (Labyrinth); A Midsummer Nightʼs Dream, Richard III, Hamlet (CSC).

Emily Rebholz

Costume Designer

Broadway: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Off- Broadway: The Last Five Years, The Madrid, Slowgirl, Into the Woods; Close Up Space; Lonely, I'm Not; Carrie; Bachelorette; This Wide Night; Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson; The Language of Trees; Gutenberg! The Musical. Select New York: Honey Brown Eyes, Monstrosity, Dance Dance Revolution, Jollyship the Whiz-Bang, Boom, U.S. Drag, The Drum of the Waves of Horikawa, Have You Seen Steve Steven?. Select regional: Sweeney Todd, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Betty's Summer Vacation, Prometheus Bound, Dinner with Friends, Becky Shaw, Six Degrees of Separation, Don Quixote, Beyond Therapy. Education: M.F.A., Yale School of Drama.

Kenneth Posner

Lighting Designer

Kenneth has more than 50 Broadway play and musical theatre credits. He designs extensively off-Broadway, for resident theatres and touring productions throughout the United States as well as internationally. Selected Broadway credits: Wicked, Hairspray, Kinky Boots, Pippin, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Legally Blonde, The Coast of Utopia - Shipwrecked, Other Desert Cities, Harvey, The Best Man, The Merchant of Venice, The Royal Family, The Odd Couple, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Goat, Uncle Vanya, Side Man, The Little Foxes and The Rose Tattoo. He is the recipient of the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics’ Circle and OBIE Awards.

Brian Ronan

Sound Designer

Over twenty five Broadway shows including Annie, Bring It On: The Musical, Nice Work If You Can Get It (Tony nomination), The Book of Mormon (Tony Award), Anything Goes (Drama Desk, Tony nomination), American Idiot, Promises, Promises, Next to Normal (Tony nomination), Grease, Curtains, Spring Awakening as well as Grey Gardens and The Pajama Game. His career has spanned North America, Europe and Asia and has allowed him to work with the most talented composers, directors, designers, actors, musicians and stagehands in the world for which he is eternally grateful.

David Brian Brown

Wig and Hair Design

Broadway-Highlights: Bridges of Madison County, Macbeth, The Nance, Death of a Salesman, Follies, Sister Act, Arcadia, A Steady Rain, Shrek, The Little Mermaid, Legally Blonde, Spamalot, Tarzan, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Fiddler on the Roof, Nine, Gypsy, Sweet Smell of Success, The Invention Of Love, Aida, The Iceman Cometh, Chicago, Sideshow, Steel Pier. Off Broadway: Far From Heaven, Giant. Film credits: It’s Complicated, Angels In America (Emmy Nominated), Too Wong Foo…

Shawn Pennington

Production Stage Manager

Broadway: Wicked, Next to Normal, Sondheim on Sondheim. National Tours: Peter and the Starcatcher, Rock of Ages, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Pajama Game, Gypsy, Will Rogers Follies, Fame, Smokey Joe’s Cafe. Regional: Up Here (La Jolla Playhouse). Love to Mom, Dad, Mark & Beth

Jen Ash

Stage Manager

Broadway: Wicked. Off-Broadway: Fuerza Bruta WAYRA, Peter and the Starcatcher, Satchmo at the Waldorf, Brigadoon. Tours: Wicked, Peter and the Starcatcher. Regional: Honeymoon In Vegas, South Pacific, Grease (Paper Mill Playhouse, NJ). TV: Various shows and concerts for VH1 and MTV networks, and corporate industrial events for Arts Brookfield NYC.

Heather Englander

Assistant Stage Manager

Broadway: Amazing Grace, Finding Neverland, If/Then. Off-Broadway: Doctor Faustus (CSC); Dying for It (ATC); Much Ado… (NYSF); Far from Heaven (Playwrights Horizons); Killers and Other Family (Rattlestick); Talley’s Folly (Roundabout); Giant, Into the Woods, Love’s Labor’s Lost (NYSF); The Bad Guys (Second Stage). Education: Barnard College. e².