David Yazbek has become one of Broadway’s preeminent composer/lyricists. Three of his shows, The Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown have been nominated for Best Score Tony Awards. He is a Tony Award winner for his most recent musical, The Band’s Visit, which opened on Broadway to rave reviews and has been named to every Best of the Year list for 2017. The show also received 10 Tony Awards, as well as the Lucille Lortel Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, and the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Musical. He’s also received three Grammy nominations and a Drama Desk Award. Yazbek won an Outstanding Writing Emmy Award for his stint on "Late Night with David Letterman." He scored the last season of HBO’s "Boardwalk Empire," wrote the theme song to "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego," and has written hundreds of songs, scripts, scores and jingles for adult and children’s TV. As a recording artist, Yazbek is responsible for five albums—The Laughing Man, Tock, Damascus, Tape Recorder, and Evil Monkey Man. He has written and/or produced for such acts as XTC, Ruben Blades, The Persuasions, Joe Jackson, Tito Puente and many others. As a performer, he and his band are engaged in an ongoing series of monthly shows at NYC’s 54 Below club.
Robert Horn has written or co-written the books for Dame Edna, Back with a Vengeance; 13 with Jason Robert Brown; Moonshine: That Hee Haw Musical, with Shane McAnally and Brandy Clark; Lone Star Love with the Red Clay Ramblers; and Dandy with composer Andreas Carlsson. Mr. Horn has also made contributions to numerous large-scale live events, such as Bette Midler’s 2016 Divine Intervention world tour. He has written, created, or produced such television series as "Designing Women," "Living Single," "High Society," "The Jenny Rivera Show," "Car Wash," and the Kelsey Grammer/Martin Lawrence series "Partners," to name just a few. Mr. Horn’s film and teleplay credits also include Teen Beach Movie (and its sequel), Sharpay’s Fabulous Adventure, Wild Life, and Good Advice.
Broadway: She Loves Me (Tony Award nomination, Outer Critics Circle nomination), You Can’t Take It With You (Tony Award nomination, Outer Critics Circle nomination), On the Twentieth Century (Outer Critics Circle nomination), The Elephant Man (Outer Critics Circle nomination), The Mystery Of Edwin Drood (Tony nomination), Harvey, Curtains (Tony nomination), The Little Dog Laughed (Lortel nomination), Twelve Angry Men (Tony nomination), The Man Who Had All The Luck, The Rainmaker, 1776 (Drama Desk, Tony nomination), Company, Steel Pier (Tony nomination), She Loves Me (First Revival, Tony nomination), A Month In The Country, Picnic. Off-Broadway: Amy and the Orphans, Dada Woof, Papa Hot (LCT), Tom Durnin, Gruesome Playground Injuries, Streamers, Good Boys And True, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, The Waverly Gallery, Flora, The Red Menace (Drama Desk nom), and The World Goes ‘Round (Drama Desk Award). TV: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” HBO’s “Divorce,” “A Christmas Story Live” (Fox), “Weeds” (EP), “30 Rock” (Emmy nomination, Best Director), “Modern Family.” Mr. Ellis is the Associate Artistic Director of Roundabout Theatre Company.
Recent credits include Holiday Inn, The New Irving Berlin Musical (Tony Award nomination); Honeymoon in Vegas (Broadway); Forum (Two River/ Williamstown Theatre Festival); Moonshine: That Hee Haw Musical (Dallas Theater Center); The Tempest (New York Shakespeare Festival); and Paint Your Wagon (NY City Center Encores!).
Broadway: The Band’s Visit. Other recent projects include the world premieres of Shaina Taub’s As You Like It (Public Works), The Band's Visit (Atlantic Theater Company), Cake Off (Signature Theatre/Bucks County Playhouse), The Fortress of Solitude (Public Theater/Dallas Theater Center), Unknown Soldier (Williamstown Theatre Festival), and Love's Labour's Lost (Public Theater/Shakespeare in the Park); and the regional premieres of The Great Immensity and Venice (Public Theater). Other favorites include Assassins (Yale Rep) and Robin Hood as Composer/Music Director (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Writing credits include the full-length musical Strange Faces and several songs for The Civilians' Let Me Ascertain You series. Andrea is Resident Music Director and Senior Voice Teacher Associate at New York Vocal Coaching. B.A. Princeton University, M.A. Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Broadway: Pretty Woman, Lobby Hero, She Loves Me (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards), On the Twentieth Century (Tony nom.), You Can’t Take It With You (Tony nom.), Kinky Boots (Tony nom.), Lucky Guy (Tony nom.), Hairspray (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle noms.). Founder and President of Rockwell Group, an architecture firm. Honors: AIANY President’s Award, Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, Presidential Design Award.
William Ivey Long has over 70 Broadway design credits in addition to his work in television, film, opera, and ballet. He has designed for such artists as Mick Jagger, Siegfried and Roy, The Pointer Sisters, and Joan Rivers. Mr. Long has won 6 Tony Awards, with 15 nominations. He was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in January 2006 and recently completed a 4-year elected term as Chairman of the American Theatre Wing.
Broadway: Over fifty productions, two Tony awards (The Lion King, South Pacific) and thirteen Tony nominations. Recent projects include: My Fair Lady, Oslo, Anastasia, She Loves Me, Fiddler On The Roof, The King and I, On The Twentieth Century, The Bridges Of Madison County, Golden Boy, Spiderman, Ragtime, Movin’ Out, Bullets Over Broadway, many others. Television: “Smash” Seasons 1 and 2 (NBC-Dreamworks). Film: Oceans 8.
Over 35 Broadway designs including Mean Girls, Margaritaville, Springsteen on Broadway, War Paint, The Last Ship, Beautiful, If/Then, The Book of Mormon, Anything Goes, American Idiot, Next to Normal, Spring Awakening, Grey Gardens. Off-Broadway designs include Bowie’s Lazarus, Giant, Rent, Everyday Rapture, Saved, 10 Million Miles, and Bug. He is the recipient of Obie, Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, Olivier and Tony awards.
London-born Paul Huntley has worked hundreds of Broadway shows, most memorably the original productions of Cats, Amadeus, Evita, The Producers, Sweeney Todd, and Hairspray. A recipient of the Drama Desk and Tony awards, he has also worked with the most legendary leading ladies of the cinema, ranging from Bette Davis and Marlene Dietrich to Scarlett Johansson.
Broadway: War Paint, Cabaret, Disgraced, Big Fish, Cinderella, Wit, Master Class, Good People, The Assembled Parties, LoveMusik, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Chaplin, The Addams Family, Young Frankenstein, Dreamgirls, …Edwin Drood, Sweeney Todd, Gypsy, Company, Sunday in the Park With George, The Color Purple, Memphis, A Little Night Music, Anything Does, Nice Work If You Can Get It, West Side Story, Rock of Ages, The Little Mermaid, Curtains.
Roundabout’s Director of Artistic Development, where he has cast over 75 shows. Aside from Roundabout, he has cast over 50 additional Broadway shows. Recent/upcoming Broadway: Moulin Rouge!, Head Over Heels, Travesties, Harry Potter, Angels in America, Farinelli and the King. Off-Broadway: Beast in the Jungle, If I Forget, Love Love Love. London: Glengarry Glen Ross, Cat on A Hot Tin Roof. Film: The Seagull.
Dean is a Grammy-winning record producer and engineer. Broadway: The Cher Show, The Band’s Visit, Amélie, The Last Ship, Lysistrata Jones, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Off-Broadway: Girl From the North Country, Twelfth Night, The Total Bent, Fortress of Solitude (all Public Theater). Album producer/engineer: The Band’s Visit, The Great Comet, Women on the Verge…, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Shaina Taub, David Sanborn, Stephen Lynch, David Yazbek.
Thirty four Broadway productions as dance arranger, music director and/or music supervisor. Currently: dance music for Carousel, Frozen, Anastasia, and Hello, Dolly!. Lyric Opera of Chicago (Music Director for My Fair Lady, King and I, Carousel). Arranger for the Boston Pops, Kennedy Center Honors, Radio City, “Crazy Ex- Girlfriend,” EssentialVoicesUSA. Two Emmy nominations for music direction for NBC Live! musicals, plus a Grammy nomination.
Credits include: Girl From The North Country (Public Theater, Old Vic/West End – Olivier Nomination); Romantics Anonymous (Shakespeare’s Globe). Broadway: Spring Awakening, Finding Neverland, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Drama Desk nomination). Arrangements and orchestrations for George Benson, Björk, Jamiroquai, Ray Davies, Josh Groban, George Michael, Oasis, Simply Red and Sam Smith (Grammy nomination and Spectre Bond theme).
Anastasia (Broadway and tour); Beetlejuice; Bernhardt/Hamlet; Book of Mormon (Broadway and tour); The Boys In The Band; Carousel; Frozen; Head Over Heels; Hello, Dolly! (B’way and tour); Mean Girls; School of Rock; Springsteen On Broadway; The Ferryman; The Humans (tour); The Waverly Gallery. Aurora has been providing technical supervision and production management to the entertainment industry since 1989.
Broadway: Side Show, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, 9 to 5, Pal Joey, Sunday in the Park… (2008), The Ritz, Curtains, Laugh Whore, Assassins. Film/TV: Mr. Holmes, Beauty and the Beast, “A Christmas Story Live.” As writer: Margaret and Craig (NYSAF), Havana (NCL). Directing credits include: photo op, The Dodgers, Cavan, Pump Up the Volume.
Partners Amy Jacobs & Devin Keudell manage Broadway musicals, plays & tours. Current/recent productions: Beetlejuice, The Ferryman, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Network, The Play That Goes Wrong (B’way/Tour), School of Rock, Angels in America & CATS. General Managers include David Roth and Danielle Saks.
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“Tootsie began with Don McGuire,” Pauline Kael wrote in The New Yorker; his “wild screenplay” created the Tootsie story. McGuire worked in movies and TV as an actor and director, but primarily as a writer. TV credits include: “Hennesey,” “From Here to Eternity.” Screenwriting credits include, Artists and Models, The Delicate Delinquent, Bad Day at Block Rock (nominated for Screenwriter’s Guild Award), Tootsie (nominated for Oscar; won Screenwriter’s Guild Award).
Larry Gelbart had a prolific, 65 year career writing for radio, TV, film, and stage. His theater credits include the musical City of Angels (Tony), co-author of A Funny Thing Happened… (Tony), Sly Fox (Drama Desk Award), and Mastergate. He developed and wrote the acclaimed TV series “M*A*S*H” (Emmy Award, Writers Guild Awards) and the screenplays for Oh, God! (Oscar nom) and Tootsie (Oscar nom).
is an Oscar, Emmy, Golden Globe and Drama Desk Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated actor and producer. He is well known for his film roles in The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, Kramer vs. Kramer, Wag The Dog, Rain Man, and most recently, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected). He played Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels in the film version of Tootsie, which was produced by his production company Punch Productions, Inc., along with Columbia Pictures, and was nominated for 10 Academy Awards.
Scott Sanders is a Tony, Emmy and Grammy Award-winning producer and storyteller. Distinguished theatre productions: the original B’way production of The Color Purple musical and its award-winning revival; After Midnight; Evita (revival); The Pee-wee Herman Show; Elaine Stritch: At Liberty. Music projects: Queen Latifah’s Grammy-nominated album, The Dana Owens Project. Film: Disney’s The Odd Life of Timothy Green. Upcoming: In The Heights and The Color Purple musical films for Warner Bros.
Producing credits: The Color Purple (2016 Tony Award Best Revival), After Midnight (2014 Tony Award Best Choreography), Evita starring Ricky Martin, The Pee-wee Herman Show (B’way and Los Angeles). Producer of the Drama Desk Award-winning Worth Street Theater Company. Carol helmed the press department at the Public Theater under George C. Wolfe. Highlight credits at the Public (both downtown and on B’way): The Tempest, Noise/Funk, Elaine Stritch: At Liberty, The Seagull. Love to Mustafa and Harriet.