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Production Staff

Peter Shaffer Playwright
Sam Rudy Media Relations General Press Representative
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
Chloe Chapin Associate Costume Designer
Gregory Clarke Sound Designer
Susie Cordon Production Stage Manager
John Gore Producer
John Gore is a producer/director who owns and is CEO of Key Brand Entertainment / Broadway Across America - the largest dedicated theater company in the US. He has won 4 Tony Award's, one Olivier Award and an Emmy Award nomination for Believe - The Eddie Izzard Story. His company presents first-class touring Broadway musicals, plays and other live events throughout a network of 42 North American cities, and currently has 12 shows on Broadway. He directed the only stage adaptations of Batman and Star Trek and produced Thunderbirds F.A.B and Wallace & Gromit on stage in the West End. ... read more
Deborah Hecht Dialect Coach
Broadway: War Paint, Groundhog Day, Fool for Love, Act One, Venus in Fur, God of Carnage, Long Day's Journey Into Night (with Redgrave and Hoffman), Exit the King, numerous others. Off-Broadway: Public, LCT3, Signature, Playwrights Horizons, others. Regional/international: Goodman, Westport, Two River Theater, Williamstown, others. Royal National, Royal Shakespeare Company. Film/TV: numerous. Faculty: Juilliard. ... read more
David Hersey Lighting Designer
Since his arrival in London from New York many years ago, David Hersey has designed the lighting for hundreds of plays, musicals, operas and ballets. He was lighting consultant to the National Theatre for ten years and is a past chairman and current fellow of the Association of Lighting Designers. In 2002 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Middlesex University. His many awards include Tonys for Best Lighting Design for Evita, Cats and Les Misérables plus the 1996 Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design for Burning Blue, The Glass Menagerie and Twelfth Night. He received Tony nominations for The ... read more
Raymond Huessy Associate Scenic Designer
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Bill Kenwright Producer
As a theatre producer, Kenwright is best known for the long-running West End hit Blood Brothers and the record-breaking UK tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Other productions have included West End runs of Whistle Down the Wind at the Palace Theatre, Festen in London, on a UK tour and on Broadway, The Big Life, Elmina's Kitchen, Scrooge – The Musical, The Night of the Iguana, A Few Good Men, A Man For All Seasons alongside UK tours of Jesus Christ Superstar, Tommy, Tell Me on a Sunday and This is Elvis. He produced the London revival of ... read more
Emily Landau Producer
Spencer Liff Dance Captain
Arielle Tepper Madover is a Tony Award-winning Theater & Film Producer, native New Yorker, and founder of premier concierge service, WhatShouldWeDo?! She also serves as the Board Chair for The Public Theater in New York. In 1998, after graduating from Syracuse University, Madover founded Arielle Tepper Madover Productions, a theatrical production company to develop and produce plays and musicals both on and off Broadway. Her first production was John Leguizamo's Freak, a semi-autobiographical one-person play that ran for six months at the Cort Theater in New York. Arielle’s producing credits include the film Genius and many acclaimed Broadway and Off-Broadway shows ... read more
Ted Mather Associate Lighting Designer
Peter May Producer
Chase Mishkin Producer
Chase Mishkin produced several Broadway productions including Doctor Zhivago, Hands on a Hardbody, Equss, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and many more. ... read more
John Napier Costume Designer
Scenic Designer
John Napier studied fine art at Hornsey College of Art in the early 1960s and theatre design at the Central School of Arts and Crafts under Ralph Koltai. He is an associate designer of the RSC. Notable productions for the RSC include: Macbeth, The Comedy of Errors, King Lear, Once in a Lifetime, The Greeks, Nicholas Nickleby, Hedda Gabler, Peter Pan and Mother Courage. NT productions include: The Party (Olivier’s last performance at the Old Vic), Equus, later seen worldwide, Trelawny of the ‘Wells’, An Enemy of the People, Peter Pan, Candide and South Pacific. Opera includes Lohengrin and Macbeth (Royal Opera, ... read more The Shubert Organization is America's oldest professional theatre company and the largest theatre owner on the Broadway. Since the dawn of the 20th Century, Shubert has operated hundreds of theatres and produced hundreds of plays and musicals both in New York City and throughout the United States. Shubert currently owns and operates seventeen Broadway theatres and six off-Broadway venues. ... read more
Joey Parnes General Manager
Brian Rardin Assistant Stage Manager
Rachel Russell Associate Director
Kim Sellon Company Manager
Thea Sharrock Director
Thea Sharrock is a British director with extensive experience in theater, film, and television. She was born on April 23, 1976, in London, England. Sharrock studied English literature at the University of Bristol before pursuing a career in directing. Sharrock's first major production was a revival of Caryl Churchill's "Cloud Nine" at the Almeida Theatre in London in 2007. The production received critical acclaim and earned Sharrock the Evening Standard Award for Best Director. She went on to direct a number of successful productions in London, including a revival of "Equus" starring Daniel Radcliffe and Richard Griffiths, which transferred to Broadway ... read more
Spring Sirkin Producer
Allison Sommers Stage Manager
Fin Walker Movement

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Awards and Nominations

2009 BroadwayWorld Awards
Best Direction of a Play: Thea Sharrock won.
Best Lighting Design: David Hersey won.
Best Revival of a Play: Equus won.

2009 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding Costume Design: John Napier was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Lighting Design: David Hersey was nominated but did not win.

2009 Tony Awards
Best Lighting Design of a Play: David Hersey was nominated but did not win.
Best Sound Design of a Play: Gregory Clarke won.

2008 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Lighting Design in a Play: David Hersey won.
Outstanding Sound Design: Gregory Clarke was nominated but did not win.

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