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A Raisin in the Sun - Broadway Creative Team


A Raisin in the Sun Broadway

Production Staff

Lorraine Hansberry Playwright
Tulchin Bartner Producer
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
Eli Bush Producer
Scott M. Delman Producer
Delman has previously co-produced The Book of Mormon, Arcadia, That Championship Season, All My Sons, Speed-the-Plow, Blithe Spirit, Mary Stuart (Tony nominee), Reasons to Be Pretty (Tony nominee), Hamlet, Ragtime (Tony nominee), The Addams Family and American Idiot (Tony nominee). ... read more
Sonia Friedman Producer
Sonia Friedman Productions is a West End and Broadway theatre production company responsible for some of theatre's most successful productions of recent years. Sonia Friedman OBE and her company have initiated and produced more than 160 new productions. The company has won numerous Olivier and Tony Awards including a record-breaking nine Olivier Awards for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Recent SFP productions include The Book of Mormon; Farinelli and the King (Mark Rylance); Dreamgirls; The Ferryman; The Birthday Party; Ink; Hamlet (Andrew Scott); 1984; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; King Charles III; Funny Girl; Hamlet (Benedict Cumberbatch); Sunny Afternoon; ... read more
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
Joi Gresham Associate Producer
Ruth Hendel Producer
Ruth's Broadway credits include: In The Heights; Passing Strange; Legally Blonde; Kiki & Herb Alive on Broadway; High Fidelity; The Lieutenant of Inishmore; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Caroline, Or Change; A Raisin in the Sun; Golda's Balcony; Frozen; ‘Night Mother; Steel Magnolias; Barefoot in the Park; Metamorphoses. Off-Broadway: Altar Boyz; Our Lady of 121st Street; The Exonerated; Red Light Winter; tick tick…Boom!. Los Angeles: As Much As You Can. Ruth is on the boards of the LAByrith Theater, The Play Company and the Yale School of Drama Leadership Committee; She is vice-chair, and Stephen is Treasurer of the ... read more
John Johnson Executive Producer
Associate Producer at Joey Parnes Productions. Broadway: Associate Producer on HAIR, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Lombardi, The Merchant of Venice. With Elizabeth I. McCann & Joey Parnes: The Play About the Baby, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia, Tuesdays with Morrie, Beckett/Albee, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Well, Butley, Passing Strange, Equus. Tony Award Productions from 2001 - 2008; served as Associate Producer in 2007 & 2008. Concerts: Working at The Zipper Theatre; Rated RSO at Joe's Pub; NewMusicalTheatre.com Launch Concert at Le Poisson Rouge, NewMusicalTheatre.com Live at The Canal Room, Morgan Karr at Joe's Pub, Drew Gasparini & Friends at Joe's ... read more
Heni Koenigsberg Producer
Heni Koenigsberg is a producer known for To Kill a Mockingbird, Hello, Dolly!, The Crucible, Porgy and Bess, and many more. Most recent credits include New York, New York, The Piano Lesson, Leopoldstadt, Funny Girl, and more! ... read more
Kenny Leon Director
Kenny Leon is a Tony Award-winning Broadway and television director. His Broadway credits include the Tupac musical Holler If You Hear Me, A Raisin in the Sun starring Denzel Washington (Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play and Best Revival of a Play), The Mountaintop starring Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett, Stick Fly, August Wilson’s Fences (which garnered ten Tony nominations and won three Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Play), Gem of the Ocean and Radio Golf. He also directed Smart People for Second Stage. Leon's recent television work includes "Hairspray Live!", and "The Wiz Live!" ... read more
Brian MacDevitt Lighting Designer
The 70 plus shows he designed lighting for on Broadway include Death of a Salesman, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and directed by Mike Nichols, The Book of Mormon (Tony Award), The Coast of Utopia, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Fences, A Behanding in Spokane, Race, The Pillowman, Urinetown, and Into the Woods. In addition to 5 TONYs, his awards include an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence, a Bessie Award, and others. For dance, The Joffrey Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Tere O’Connor Dance, Merce Cunningham, Lar Lubovitch, Nancy Bannon, and many others. His ... read more Founder, Green Curtain Productions. Six Tony® and Drama Desk awards. Credits: The Book of Mormon, Jerusalem, Arcadia, La Bête, Red, The Addams Family, A Behanding in Spokane, Ragtime, Hamlet, All My Sons, Sunday in the Park with George, Cyrano, Journey’s End, Coram Boy, History Boys, Butley, Drowsy Chaperone, The Color Purple, Spamalot, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Pillowman, Democracy, Jumpers, Flower Drum Song. ... read more
Joey Parnes Executive Producer
Jon B. Platt Producer
Tony Awards: The Book of Mormon, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (Pulitzer) and Perestroika, Copenhagen, God of Carnage, Clybourne Park, Death of a Salesman, A Raisin in the Sun. Nominations: Wicked; Peter Pan; The Diary of Anne Frank; Hello, Dolly!; You're Welcome America, Man of La Mancha A View From the Bridge, Venus in Fur, The Motherfu**er With the Hat, Nice Work if You Can Get It. Current: Wicked, The Book of Mormon. This is Our Youth. Upcoming: A Delicate Balance, Fun Home ... read more
Joan Raffe Producer
Joan Raffe is a talented actress who has made a name for herself on Broadway and beyond. Born in New York City, Raffe began her career in the theater, performing in various productions throughout the city. She quickly gained recognition for her powerful voice and dynamic stage presence, and before long, she was being sought after by some of the biggest names in the industry. Raffe's Broadway debut came in 1970, when she appeared in the original production of Stephen Sondheim's "Company." She played the role of Marta, one of the many women in the life of the show's protagonist, Bobby. ... read more
Daryl Roth Producer
Daryl Roth is a Tony Award-winning Broadway producer who has been a driving force in the theater industry for over 30 years. She is known for her innovative productions, which often tackle challenging and thought-provoking subject matter. Born in 1945 in Lakewood, New Jersey, Roth grew up in a family that was deeply involved in the arts. Her father was a musician and her mother was a painter, and they encouraged their daughter to pursue her own creative interests. Roth attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied history and literature. After college, Roth moved to New York City and began ... read more
Ann Roth Costume Designer
Roth is a Carnegie Mellon graduate who began her career as a scenery painter for the Pittsburgh Opera. She intended to remain in the field of production design until she met Irene Sharaff at the Bucks County Playhouse. Sharaff invited her to California to assist her with costumes on the film Brigadoon and suggested Roth apprentice with her for five films and five Broadway productions before setting out on her own. Roth's first Hollywood film was 1964's The World of Henry Orient, where her designs included "monogrammed handmade yellow silk pajamas" for glamorous womanizer Peter Sellers. Roth next designed costumes for ... read more
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
Mark Thompson Scenic Designer
Mark Thompson's work for the National Theatre includes The Alchemist, Once in a Lifetime, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, Duchess of Malfi, Life x 3, The Wind in the Willows, The Madness of George III, Arcadia, Pericles, What the Butler Saw and The Day I Stood Still. Recent work elsewhere includes And Then There Were None (Gielgud); Bombay Dreams (London and Broadway); The Lady in The Van (Queen's), Follies (New York (set only); Dr Dolittle & Blast! (Apollo Hammersmith). For the RSC: Hamlet, Measure for Measure, The Wizard of Oz, Much Ado About Nothing, The Comedy of Errors and The ... read more
Jhett Tolentino Producer
Broadway credits include Children of a Lesser God, Tuck Everlasting, Hughie, Sylvia, Hand to God, A Delicate Balance, Side Show, This Is Our Youth, The Velocity of Autumn, A Raisin in the Sun, A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder, Macbeth, & Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. ... read more
S.D. Wagner Executive Producer

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Awards and Nominations

2014 Drama League Awards
Distinguished Performance Award: LaTanya Richardson Jackson was nominated but did not win.
Distinguished Performance Award: Denzel Washington was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Revival of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play : A Raisin in the Sun was nominated but did not win.

2014 Theatre World Awards
Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway Debut Performance: Sophie Okonedo won.

2014 Tony Awards
Best Direction of a Play: Kenny Leon won.
Best Revival of a Play: John Johnson won.
Best Revival of a Play: S.D. Wagner won.
Best Revival of a Play: Joey Parnes won.
Best Revival of a Play: Jhett Tolentino won.
Best Revival of a Play: Joan Raffe won.
Best Revival of a Play: Daryl Roth won.
Best Revival of a Play: Heni Koenigsberg won.
Best Revival of a Play: The Araca Group won.
Best Revival of a Play: Tulchin Bartner Productions won.
Best Revival of a Play: Sonia Friedman won.
Best Revival of a Play: Ruth Hendel won.
Best Revival of a Play: Stephanie P. McClelland won.
Best Revival of a Play: Roy Furman won.
Best Revival of a Play: Scott M. Delman won.
Best Revival of a Play: Jon B. Platt won.
Best Revival of a Play: Eli Bush won.
Best Revival of a Play: Roger Berlind won.
Best Revival of a Play: Scott Rudin won.
Best Revival of a Play: A Raisin in the Sun won.

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