Laugh Whore - Broadway Creative Team

Mario Cantone is an American comedian, writer, actor, and singer with numerous appearances on Comedy Central including Chappelle's Show. He also played Anthony Marentino on Sex and the City. His style is fast-paced and energetic, with much of his humor coming from his impersonations of various characters ranging from his family members, to celebrities, to stereotypes. An accomplished stage actor, his Broadway debut was replacing Nathan Lane in the role of Buzz in Terrence McNally's Tony Award-winning dramatic comedy, "Love! Valor! Compassion!" For the Public Theater on Broadway, Canone played Stephano in Shakespeare's "The Tempest." Off-Broadway in Shakespeare in the Park, ... read more Broadway and Off-B'way Original Cast: Once on This Island (Daniel), Five Guys Named Moe (Nomax), Bright Lights, Big City (Tad), The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (Lucas), tick, tick… BOOM! (Michael). Television/Film: "Law & Order," "Everwood," "Peace Maker." Writing: CBS, Comedy Central, Laugh Whore (Broadway & ShowTime). Directing: Show Boat, Bernarda Alba, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Funked Up Fairy Tales. ... read more Broadway: Anastasia, Dear Evan Hansen, School of Rock, Hamilton. Upcoming Broadway: Prince of Broadway, The SpongeBob Musical, Frozen, Half Time. Current tours: Kinky Boots, Hamilton (Chicago), Hamilton (national tour). ... read more Broadway credits include Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, Assassins (Tony Award nomination), set and club design for the critically acclaimed revival of Cabaret, Jesus Christ Superstar, Guys and Dolls (Tony Award nomination), Buried Child, Design for Living, A Streetcar Named Desire, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and others. His other credits include Frozen (Disney California), as well as numerous opera World premieres, including Moby-Dick, Cold Mountain, Everest, Doubt, The Manchurian Candidate, and It's a Wonderful Life. He has designed for the Whitney Museum of American Art, BAM, Radio City Music Hall, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, the Guthrie Theater, Goodman Theatre, ... read more Mario Cantone is an American comedian, writer, actor, and singer with numerous appearances on Comedy Central including Chappelle's Show. He also played Anthony Marentino on Sex and the City. His style is fast-paced and energetic, with much of his humor coming from his impersonations of various characters ranging from his family members, to celebrities, to stereotypes. An accomplished stage actor, his Broadway debut was replacing Nathan Lane in the role of Buzz in Terrence McNally's Tony Award-winning dramatic comedy, "Love! Valor! Compassion!" For the Public Theater on Broadway, Canone played Stephano in Shakespeare's "The Tempest." Off-Broadway in Shakespeare in the Park, ... read more Scott has been designing lights for the entertainment industry since 1986. Theatre shows include Cabaret, Pippin, Grease, Gigi, Naughty Marietta, The Full Monty, Waiting for Godot, Hamlet, The Grapes of Wrath, Pantomime, Fences, A Raisin in the Sun, A Kwanza Song, Celebrations, The Importance of Being Earnest, Twelfth Night, Do Black Patten Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up, and the World Premiere of A Piece of my Heart. Scott toured for years doing jobs all the way from Vari Lite Tech to Production Designer. The concerts and touring shows either designed for or toured with include Marillion, Lou Rawls, Jeffry Osbourne, ... read more Broadway and Off-B'way Original Cast: Once on This Island (Daniel), Five Guys Named Moe (Nomax), Bright Lights, Big City (Tad), The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (Lucas), tick, tick… BOOM! (Michael). Television/Film: "Law & Order," "Everwood," "Peace Maker." Writing: CBS, Comedy Central, Laugh Whore (Broadway & ShowTime). Directing: Show Boat, Bernarda Alba, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Funked Up Fairy Tales. ... read more Ms. Eisenhauer and collaborator Jules Fisherhave collectively been awarded Broadway’s Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical seven times, including Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins (2004, Revival), Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk (1996), Jelly’s Last Jam (1992), The Will Rogers Follies (1991), Grand Hotel (1990), Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ (1978), and Pippin (1973), and once for Best Lighting Design of a Play for Ulysses in Nighttown (1974). For motion pictures, Fisher and Eisenhauer designed theatrical lighting for Rob Marshall's Chicago, Mel Brooks' The Producers, Richard Linklater's School of Rock and Bill Condon's Dreamgirls, and Disney's live-action remake of ... read more In a celebrated career spanning almost 40 years, Jules Fisher has lit over 200 Broadway and off-Broadway shows, as well as film, ballet, opera, television, and rock-and-roll concert tours. He has received 18 Tony nominations and won 8 Tony awards for Lighting Design, a record in this category. His most recent project, "Assassins", (2004 Tony award) also won him the Drama Desk and Outer Critic's Circle awards. His previous Tony awards were for "Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk," 1996; "Jelly's Last Jam," 1992; "The Will Rogers Follies," 1991; "Grand Hotel," 1990; "Dancin'," 1978; "Ulysses in Nighttown," 1973; ... read more Tom Kitt is an American composer, conductor, orchestrator, and musician. For his score for the musical Next to Normal, he shared the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama with Brian Yorkey. He has also won two Tony Awards and an Outer Critics Circle Award for Next to Normal, as well as Tony and Outer Critics Circle nominations for If/Then and SpongeBob SquarePants. He has been nominated for eight Drama Desk Awards, winning one, and a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album for Jagged Little Pill in 2021. ... 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 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 Credits: Once, The Book of Mormon, The Addams Family (Broadway and National Tour), Sister Act, Peter Pan (threesixty entertainment), The Mountaintop, Relatively Speaking, Man and Boy, Sons of the Prophet, An Evening with Patti and Mandy, and Stick Fly. Past projects include over 150 Broadway shows and their tours. Aurora Productions is Gene O'Donovan and Ben Heller with Stephanie Sherline, Jarid Sumner, Liza Luxenberg, Anita Shah, Rebecca Zuber, Steven Dalton, Eugenio Saenz Flores, Isaac Katzanek & Melissa Mazdra. ... read more