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Production Staff

Adam Rapp Playwright
Carolyn Cantor Director
Shannon Nicole Case Production Manager
Jorge Cortes Assistant Sound Designer
Miranda Hoffman Costume Designer
Courtney Knoerlein Assistant Stage Manager
Community theatre actor in Montgomery County, MD ... read more
David Korins Scenic Designer
Broadway: Mrs. Doubtfire, Beetlejuice (Tony nom, Drama Desk award), Hamilton (Tony nom), War Paint (Tony nom), Dear Evan Hansen, Bandstand, Misery, Motown, Vanya and Sonia, Bring It On, The Pee-Wee Herman Show, Lombardi, and Passing Strange. TV: "91st Annual Academy Awards," "Grease: Live!" (Emmy award). Concert: Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Mariah Carey, Andrea Boccelli. Extensive Off-Broadway/regional theatre, hospitality, and experience design. Dad: Stella and Vivian. ... read more
Rod Lemmond Associate Scenic Designer
Jessica Pabst Assistant Costume Designer
Lucas Papaelias Composer
(Original Music)
Cory Pattak Assistant Lighting Designer
Select credits: The Story of My Life (Broadway) Associate Lighting Designer The Yellow Brick Road (Theatreworks USA) Assistant Lighting Designer Side Effects (MCC Theatre) Assistant Lighting Designer Peter and the Starcatcher (NYTW) Assistant Lighting Designer The Blue Flower (Prospect Theatre Company) Lighting Designer With Glee (Prospect Theatre Company) Lighting Designer This Side of Paradise (Off-Bway) Lighting Designer Newsies! (Paper Mill Playhouse) Assistant Lighting Designer How To Succeed... (Goodspeed Opera House) Assistant Lighting Designer Band Geeeks! (Goodspeed Opera House) Assistant Lighting Designer Lost in the Stars (Encores!) Assistant Lighting Designer Where's Charley? (Encores!) Assistant Lighting Designer Central Avenue Breakdown (NYMF) Lighting Designer Greenwood (NYMF) Lighting Designer POPart (NYMF) Lighting Designer The 10th Floor (NYMF) Lighting Designer The Bubble ... read more
Adam Rapp Composer
(Original Music)
Adam Rapp is an award-winning playwright and director. He is the author of numerous plays, which include Nocturne (American Repertory Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, The Almeida, London, The Traverse, Edinburgh), Faster (Rattlestick), Animals & Plants (A.R.T.), Finer Noble Gases(26th Humana Festival, Rattlestick, Edinburgh Fringe, The Bush, London), Stone Cold Dead Serious(A.R.T., Edge Theatre), Blackbird (The Bush, London; Edge Theatre), Gompers (Pittsburgh City Theatre, The Arcola, London), Essential Self-Defense (Playwrights Horizons/Edge Theatre), American Sligo(Rattlestick), Bingo with the Indians (The Flea), Kindness (Playwrights Horizons), The Metal Children (The Vineyard), The Hallway Trilogy (Rattlestick), The Edge of Our Bodies (36thHumana Festival), Dreams ... read more
Ray Rizzo Composer
(Original Music)
Music Arranger
Eric Shim Sound Designer
Ben Stanton Lighting Designer
LCT: Junk, Kill Floor, The Coward (LCT3). Broadway: Six Degrees of Separation, Fully Committed, Fun Home (Tony nomination), Deaf West's Spring Awakening (Tony nom.), An Enemy of the People, Seminar. Recent Off-Broadway: Napoli, Brooklyn (Roundabout); Derren Brown: Secret (Atlantic Theater); Marjorie Prime, The Christians (Playwrights Horizons); Yen, The Legend of Georgia McBride, The Nether (Lortel noms.; MCC); Fun Home (Lortel nom.; The Public); Piece of My Heart, Our Lady of Kibeho (Drama Desk nom.), Kung Fu, Angels in America (Signature); Incognito, Murder Ballad (Lortel nom.; MTC); Belleville (Lortel nom.; New York Theatre Workshop); Into the Woods (Delacorte); The Whipp ng ... read more
Amanda Stevens Associate Scenic Designer
Edge Theater Producer
Joseph Travers Fight Director
Charles M. Turner, III Production Stage Manager

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Awards and Nominations

2007 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Music for a Play: Ray Rizzo was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Music for a Play: Adam Rapp was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Music for a Play: Lucas Papaelias was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Set Design of a Play: David Korins was nominated but did not win.

2007 The Lortels
Outstanding Sound Design: Eric Shim was nominated but did not win.

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