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The History Boys - Broadway Creative Team


Production Staff

Alan Bennett Playwright
The National Theatre of Great Britian Producer
(Original Producer)
Gregg Arst Company Manager
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Tom Attwood Musical Director
(UK)
Jon Avnet Producer
Damian Bazadona Website Designer
David Benken Technical Supervisor
Broadway: Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Come Fly Away, The Little Mermaid, The Seafarer, Mary Poppins, The Lion King, The History Boys, The Woman in White, Democracy, The Boy From Oz, Jumpers. Tours: Dreamgirls, Mary Poppins, The Lion King. Las Vegas: The Lion King, Phantom Las Vegas. ... read more
Roger Berlind Producer
Berlind was a New York City theatrical producer and board member of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. and Lehman Brothers Inc. He was one of the founders of Carter, Berlind, Potoma & Weill in 1960, a company that would later through Sandy Weill become Shearson Loeb Rhoades, which was eventually sold to American Express in 1981 for approximately $930 million in stock. Recent productions include The Book of Mormon, Copenhagen; Kiss Me, Kate; Proof; Medea; Anna in the Tropics; Caroline, or Change; Wonderful Town; Doubt; The History Boys; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Faith Healer; Deuce; The Year of Magical Thinking; Curtains; ... read more
Debra Black Producer
Black was born Debra Ressler to New York lawyer Ira Ressler. She is the sister of Tony Ressler, who co-founded Apollo Global Management with Leon Black. She graduated from Barnard College in 1976. Black is a Broadway producer who has been nominated for ten Tony Awards, winning two in the Tony Award for Best Play category for The History Boys (2006) and The Pillow Man (2008). Black and her husband co-founded the Melanoma Research Alliance, which funds melanoma research worldwide. Black is a melanoma survivor herself. She was elected a trustee of the Rockefeller University in 2010. In 2015, She was elected a ... read more
Boneau / Bryan-Brown Press Representative
Jim Byk Press Associate
Tara Rubin Casting Casting
(US)
Broadway: Jersey Boys; Spamalot; ...Spelling Bee; The Producers; Mamma Mia!; Phantom…; Good Vibrations; Bombay Dreams; Oklahoma!; Flower Drum Song; Imaginary Friends; Metamorphoses. Nat’l tour: Disney’s On the Record; Les Miserables. Lincoln Center: The Frogs; Contact; Thou Shalt Not; A Man of No Importance; Anything Goes (concert). Off-Broadway: Second Stage. Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival; Kennedy Center; La Jolla Playhouse; Yale Rep. Film: The Producers The Musical. Ms. Rubin is a member of the Casting Society of America. ... read more
Lisa Cecchini Website Designer
Bob Crowley Costume Designer
Scenic Designer
Recent Productions: Don Carlos (MET, NY) Love Never Dies (Adelphi, London). Bob Crowley has designed over twenty productions for the National Theatre, including most recently: The Habit of Art, The Power of Yes, Phèdre, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Gethsemane, and Fram (which he also co-directed with Tony Harrison), The History Boys (Broadway - Tony Award), His Girl Friday and Mourning Becomes Electra, plus more than twenty-five productions for the RSC, including: Les Liaisons Dangereuses and The Plantagenets, for which he won an Olivier Award. For the Donmar Warehouse - Into the Woods and Orpheus Descending. Other credits include: Pavane ... read more
Eric Falkenstein Producer
Roy Furman Producer
Credits include Evita, The Book of Mormon, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Seminar. Recent productions: House of Blue Leaves, West Side Story, La Bete, Come Fly Away, Ragtime, Gypsy, The Color Purple, Spamalot. Co-founded the investment firm Furman Selz, currently vice chairman Jeffries & Company. Vice chairman of Lincoln Center, Chairman emeritus of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, vice president NY City Opera. ... read more
Ralph Guild Producer
Juliana Hannett Press Associate
Jim Byk
Bobby Harrell Moving Light Programmer
Moving Light Programmer
Dede Harris Producer
Mark Henderson Lighting Designer
Mark was the recipient of the 1992, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2010 and 2016 Laurence Olivier Awards for Lighting Design, was awarded a Tony award in 2006 for The History Boys. Has lit extensively for all the major theatre, opera and dance companies in the UK including over 60 productions for the National Theatre and over 70 in the West End together with over 20 Broadway productions. ... read more
Nicholas Hytner Director
Nicholas Hytner has been Director of the National Theatre since 2003, and heads a team that produces around 20 new shows each year. Since 1989 he has directed 28 productions at the National, including The Madness of George III, Henry V, His Dark Materials, The History Boys, Stuff Happens, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Much Ado About Nothing, England People Very Nice, Phedre, The Habit of Art, London Assurance, Hamlet and Collaborators. On Broadway he has directed The History Boys, Sweet Smell of Success and Miss Saigon; and at Lincoln Center Theater Carousel and Twelfth Night. He has directed ... read more
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Tom Lorenzo Website Designer
101 Productions, Ltd. General Manager
Joan Marcus Production Photographer
Situation Marketing Website Designer
Jack Murphy Movement Director
Michael J. Passaro Production Stage Manager
Broadway: Evita, How To Succeed..., Promises..., A Steady Rain, Impressionism, White Christmas, Phantom, Les Misérables, History Boys, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Chicago, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Cabaret, Frog and Toad, Dance of the Vampires, Sweet Smell of Success, Carousel, Angels in America, Will Rogers Follies. MFA, NYU. Faculty, Yale University. ... read more
Colin Pink Sound Designer
Judith Resnick Producer
Scott Rudin Producer
Films include Ladybird, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo; Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close; Moneyball; Moonrise Kingdom; Margaret; The Social Network; True Grit; Greenberg; It’s Complicated; Fantastic Mr. Fox; Julie & Julia; Doubt; No Country for Old Men; There Will Be Blood; Reprise; The Queen; Margot at the Wedding; Notes on a Scandal; Venus; Closer; Team America: World Police; I Heart Huckabees; School of Rock; The Hours; Iris; The Royal Tenenbaums; Zoolander; Sleepy Hollow; Wonder Boys; Bringing Out the Dead; South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut; The Truman Show; In & Out; Ransom; The First Wives Club; Clueless; Nobody’s Fool; ... read more
Richard Sisson Composer
(Original Music)
Morton Swinsky Producer
Ben Taylor Video Director
JAM Theatricals Producer
Charlie Underhill Stage Manager
Andy Ward Associate Production Manager
(UK)
Toby Whale Casting
(UK)

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Awards and Nominations

2006 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding New Play: Alan Bennett won.
Outstanding Director of a Play: Nicholas Hytner won.

2006 Drama League Awards
Distinguished Production of a Play: 0 won.

2006 New York Drama Critics Circle Awards
Best Play: Alan Bennett won.

2006 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding Broadway Play: 0 won.
Outstanding Director of a Play: Nicholas Hytner won.

2006 Theatre World Awards
Performance: Richard Griffiths won.

2006 Tony Awards
Best Direction of a Play: Nicholas Hytner won.
Best Lighting Design of a Play: Mark Henderson won.
Best Play: Mort Swinsky won.
Best Play: Alan Bennett won.
Best Play: Boyett Ostar Productions won.
Best Play: Roger Berlind won.
Best Play: Debra Black won.
Best Play: The National Theatre of Great Britain won.
Best Play: Eric Falkenstein won.
Best Play: Dede Harris won.
Best Play: Ralph Guild won.
Best Play: Jon Avnet won.
Best Play: Scott Rudin won.
Best Play: Judith Resnick won.
Best Play: Stephanie P. McClelland won.
Best Play: Jam Theatricals won.
Best Play: Roy Furman won.
Best Scenic Design of a Play: Bob Crowley won.

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