Received a Tony nomination and a Drama Desk Award for Wicked. She created the memorable television drama “My So-Called Life” which starred Claire Danes. Holzman got her start writing for the acclaimed drama “thirtysomething” and later executive produced (again with Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick) “Once and Again.” Other theatre work includes the musical Birds of Paradise (with composer David Evans) and a ten-minute play called Post-Its: Notes on a Marriage which she wrote with her husband, actor Paul Dooley. Features include ‘Til There Was You. Also an actress, Ms. Holzman appeared in Jerry Maguire and as Larry’s wife’s therapist ... read more
Published a dozen novels for children before writing his first adult novel, Wicked. A devotee of children’s fantasy, Maguire’s subsequent novels for adults are variations-on-a-theme: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister considers Cinderella as a seventeenth-century maid from Haarlem; Lost evokes the ghost of Charles Dickens’s Scrooge; and Mirror Mirror features a High Renaissance Snow White daunted by the wickedest stepmother, Lucrezia Borgia. Maguire’s novel Son of a Witch, a sequel to Wicked, is followed by volume III of the Wicked Years, A Lion Among Men, and concludes with the final novel in the Wicked Years, Out of Oz. He lives ... read more
STEPHEN OREMUS received the 2013 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations for Kinky Boots, for which he also served as Music Supervisor and Arranger. He received the 2011 Tony and Drama Desk Awards for co-orchestrating The Book of Mormon, as well as the 2012 Grammy Award for producing the cast recording. In addition to orchestrations for The Book of Mormon, he wrote the vocal arrangements and serves as music supervisor for the Broadway, National Tour, and London productions.
Stephen is the music supervisor and arranger of the original Broadway production of Wicked, and of the subsequent productions of this hugely popular musical ... read more
Broadway: Wicked, Mary Poppins, Ragtime (1998 Tony Award®), Miss Saigon, The Secret Garden (1991 Drama Desk Award), Crazy for You, Carousel, Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Sweet Smell of Success.
London: My Fair Lady, Oliver!, South Pacific. Stratford-upon-Avon: The Secret Garden.
Lincoln Center: A Man of No Importance, Dessa Rose. Ballet arrangements: for Christopher Wheeldon, Twyla Tharp, Lar Lubovich.
Recordings: for Placido Domingo, Marilyn Horne, Joshua Bell's CD "West Side Story Suite." ... read more
Broadway: Sweet Charity (Tony nom.), Aida, The Who's Tommy (Tony, Drama Desk, Astaire awards), How to Succeed... (Tony nom.), Dream: The Johnny Mercer Musical (director/choreographer; Tony nom., Best Choreography), Jerry's Girls, Baby (Tony nom.). West End: The Who's Tommy (Olivier nom.). Other credits: Off-Broadway's A Hot Minute and Angry Housewives, national tour of Spirit, ...Forum at La Jolla (San Diego Drama Critics and Drama-Logue awards). Performer credits: A Chorus Line (Mike, original cast), The Act, Seesaw, Perfectly Frank, Irene, Big Deal, Rachel Lily Rosenblum and Dancin' (Tony nom.). He has done musical staging for Liza Minnelli, Barry Manilow, Chita Rivera, ... read more
Susan Hilferty has designed set and costumes for over 400 productions across the globe. Recent designs include Parade (Broadway; Tony nomination), Funny Girl (Broadway), Swept Away (Berkeley Rep and Arena Stage), Hamlet (St. Anne’s Warehouse NY and Gate Theatre, Dublin), Waiting for Godot TFNA/NYC, Richard Nelson’s What Happened?: The Michaels Abroad (Loewe Theatre, NYC), and A Bright Room Called Day (Public Theatre). Her many Broadway designs include Wicked (Tony, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama Desk awards and Olivier nomination), August Wilson’s Radio Golf. Present Laughter (Tony nomination), Hands on a Hardbody, Spring Awakening (Tony nomination), Lestat (Tony nomination), Annie (2013 ... read more
Won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations for HAMILTON. He served as the Music Director, Orchestrator and Co-Arranger for HAMILTON. He has won a Tony and a Grammy for his work on In the Heights and a Tony for Dear Evan Hansen. For Hamilton, he was awarded an Obie and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. Select credits: Sweeney Todd (2023), Bring It On, Wicked, 9 to 5 (Drama Desk and Grammy nominations), Bat Boy, Godspell (2001 national tour), High Fidelity, Annie (2011 Broadway revival), Fly (Dallas Theater Center), Working (59E59), The Wiz (City Center), Legally Blonde, Dear ... read more
Is resident designer at Trinity Rep and a resident artist at Long Wharf Theatre. He is the production designer of “Saturday Night Live,” “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and “Late Night With Seth Meyers.” Other Broadway credits: Bright Star, Ragtime, Show Boat and Sweeney Todd. Film credits: Coppola’s Hammett, Huston’s Mr. North, Malle’s Vanya on 42nd Street and Demme’s A Master Builder. BFA: Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon. MFA: Yale School of Drama. Three honorary PhDs. Awards: Tony, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Emmy Awards; Elliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence; Pell Award; and DesignxRI Lifetime Achievement Award. A ... read more
A two-time Tony Award-winning director, credits include The Humans (Tony nomination), Blackbird, An Act of God, Airline Highway, The Last Ship, Casa Valentina, I'll Eat You Last..., The Other Place, Dogfight, Other Desert Cities, The Pride, Pal Joey, 9 to 5, November, The Receptionist, The Ritz, Three Days of Rain, The Odd Couple, Glengarry Glen Ross (Tony nomination), Laugh Whore, Assassins (Tony Award), Wicked, Take Me Out (Tony Award), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, A Man of No Importance, Design for Living, The Vagina Monologues, Bash, Love! Valour! Compassion! (Tony nomination), Proposals, The Mineola Twins, and Corpus ... read more
Recent Broadway designs include The People in the Picture, Impressionism, Thurgood, Spamalot, Assassins, Man of La Mancha, Into the Woods and Judgment at Nuremberg. Opera designs include Great Scott, Everest, Iolanta, Tristan and Isolde, Moby Dick (Dallas Opera); Dead Man Walking (Houston Opera); Mazeppa (Metropolitan Opera); War and Peace (Kirov and Met Opera); Tan Dun?s The Gate; and Peter Sellar?s The Peony Pavilion. Off-Broadway designs include Frequency Hopping (set and projection), Embedded, The Stendhal Syndrome, Suitcase, Speaking in Tongues and The Thing About Men. Regional designs include Distracted (set and projection), Limonade Tous les Jours, Fran?s Bed, Once in a ... read more
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
Broadway: Original casts of Diana the Musical, King Kong, M Butterfly, The King and I, Spiderman Turn Off the Dark(u/s Mary Jane). Off-Broadway: Soft Power at the Public Theater, Kung Fu at the Signature Theater. First National Tours: Original casts of Wicked (dance captain), Aida (u/s Amneris). Other tours: West Side Story, Fame. Sit downs: Original casts of Wicked, We Will Rock You. Recent original work highlights: Other World, Joy the Musical, Disney's Hercules. TV/Film highlights: 50th Anniversary Concert for Kennedy Center, Mozart in the Jungle, Isn't It Romantic, Estella Scrooge. ... read more
Bryan Perri is well known for being the director for Jagged Little Pill. He also served as Music Director for the Broadway-bound production of Almost Famous at San Diego’s Old Globe Theater where he was the recipient of the Craig Noel Award for Outstanding Music Direction. Other credits as Music Director include the Broadway productions of Wicked, Chaplin (vocal and dance arrangements), and the Broadway National Tour of Next To Normal. Bryan also Music Directed Superhero, Dogfight, and Vanities all at 2nd Stage Theater off-Broadway. He was also Music Director for the National Tour of Altar Boyz and was the ... read more
Marc Platt is best known for producing Broadway hits such as Wicked, The Band's Visit, Oh! Hello, If/Then, and live theatrical television productions like A Christmas Story Live, and the upcoming Rent Live. ... read more
Tony Awards: The Book of Mormon, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (Pulitzer) and Perestroika, Copenhagen, God of Carnage, Clybourne Park, Death of a Salesman, A Raisin in the Sun. Nominations: Wicked; Peter Pan; The Diary of Anne Frank; Hello, Dolly!; You're Welcome America, Man of La Mancha A View From the Bridge, Venus in Fur, The Motherfu**er With the Hat, Nice Work if You Can Get It. Current: Wicked, The Book of Mormon. This is Our Youth. Upcoming: A Delicate Balance, Fun Home ... read more
Kenneth Posner designs extensively on Broadway, off-Broadway, for resident theatres, and touring productions throughout the United States as well as internationally.
Some of his Broadway work includes Pretty Woman, Mean Girls, War Paint, Tuck Everlasting, On Your Feet, If/Then, Kinky Boots, Pippin, Cinderella, Hairspray, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Legally Blonde, The Coast of Utopia-Shipwrecked, and Wicked.
He is the recipient of the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics’ Circle and OBIE Awards. ... read more
Paul Rubin, "The Fly Guy", has choreographed some of the most memorable flying sequences from the Tony Award winning Broadway production of Wicked to Cathy Rigby's Emmy Award winning DVD of Peter Pan.
Some of Paul's current projects include: Disney's The Little Mermaid playing in Tokyo and Nagoya, Franco Dragone's La Perle in Dubai and Aladdin in Cairo, Egypt. ... read more
