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Production Staff

Mark Bennett Composer
Broadway (Composition and/or Sound Design): Driving Miss Daisy, A Steady Rain, The Coast of Utopia (2007 Drama Desk Award: Outstanding Music for a Play, Henry Hewes Award: Outstanding Sound Design), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Henry IV, Golda's Balcony, The Goat, Lily Tomlin's "The Search...", The Lion in Winter, A View From the Bridge among others. BAM/OLD VIC: Original scores for all productions of The Bridge Project 2009-2012 including Richard III (Sam Mendes, dir.); Off-Broadway: An Illiad, Valhalla, Mad Forest, My Children! My Africa! (NYTW), Scores for eight Shakespeare productions for The Joseph Papp Public Theater. Other ... read more
Christopher Durang Playwright
Gabriel Berry Costume Designer
Jay Duckworth Prop Master
Jay Duckworth is the founder of the Prop Summit a yearly meeting of Broadway, off - Broadway, LORT theaters and Academic prop professionals and student . He has been the Keynote Speaker for The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival as a guest of United States Institute of Theater Technology 2011 & 2015. Headed Master classes in Properties at numerous Universities. The roll call of shows he has create original work for starts in remastered Classic Greek Theater, re-imagined Shakespeare plays and musicals including Hamilton and stark Brechtian shows and continues with contemporary and ink wet works at his ... read more
Oskar Eustis Artistic Director
Jenny Gersten Associate Producer
Mandy Hackett Associate Artistic Director
Andrew D. Hamingson Executive Director
Erick Herrscher Assistant Director
Stephen M. Kaus Production Stage Manager
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 Assistant Scenic Designer
Drew Levy Sound Designer
Broadway: Oklahoma! (Tony nom., Drama Desk nom.), Honeymoon in Vegas (Drama Desk nom.), Chaplin (Drama Desk Award), The Winslow Boy, The Importance of Being Earnest, Present Laughter. Off-Broadway: Judgment Day (Park Avenue Armory), Oklahoma! (St. Ann’s), Cleopatra, One Day the Musical, The Weir, Why Torture Is Wrong…, Emergence-See!, Rainbow Kiss, Dutchman (AUDELCO Viv nom.). Regional: The Old Globe, “Heartbreak Hotel” (Chicago), ART, Williamstown, Huntington, Westport Country Playhouse, Two River Theater, McCarter Theater, Arena Stage, Long Wharf. ... read more
Andrea Nellis General Manager
Jillian M. Oliver Stage Manager
Matthew Pachtman Assistant Costume Designer
Thomas Schall Fight Director
More than 60 Broadway shows, including The Front Page, The Crucible, Blackbird, The Color Purple, Waitress, The King and I, War Horse, This Is Our Youth, Of Mice and Men, Romeo and Juliet, Lucky Guy, Death of a Salesman, Venus in Fur, A View From the Bridge. He has worked extensively at the Lincoln Center (Disgraced, Blood and Gifts), the Public Theater (Hamlet, King Lear, Mother Courage, Father Comes Home From The Wars), MTC (Ruined, Murder Ballad), NY Theatre Workshop (Red Speedo, Othello), and the Met Opera (Le Nozze di Figaro, Il Trovatore). ... read more
Austin Smith Assistant Lighting Designer
Broadway debut! Off-Broadway: Soho Rep's An Octoroon at Theatre for a New Audience. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School. Thank you God, Mom and Dad, Amber, Avery and Amaris. ... read more
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 Stephens Associate Scenic Designer

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Awards and Nominations

2009 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Set Design of a Play: David Korins won.

2009 The Hewes Awards
Scenic Design: David Korins won.

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