Production Staff
BROADWAY: Matilda, Bullets Over Broadway, Bronx Bombers, Hands on a Hardbody. OFF-BROADWAY: Abundance (TACT), Punk Rock, The Village Bike, The Third Story (MCC Theater); Venice (Public Theater); Bronx Bombers (Primary Stages). REGIONAL: August: Osage County, Divine Rivalry, Dividing the Estate, Jane Austen’s Emma, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, The Madness of George III, Cyrano de Bergerac, Working (The Old Globe); Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Hands on a Hardbody, Milk Like Sugar, Creditors, The Third Story (La Jolla Playhouse). MFA UC San Diego. ... read more
Mikhail Fiksel is a sound designer, musician, composer and a DJ based in NYC and Chicago. Originally from Siberia, Russia, Fiksel’s work has been heard on various stages, movie screens and dance floors around the US and beyond. Recent theatre work include projects with Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, 2nd Stage, The Pearl, The Flea, En Garde Arts, American Conservatory Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, St. Louis Repertory, Dallas Theatre Center, The Old Globe, Cleveland Playhouse, Redmoon, The Geffen Playhouse, The Long Wharf Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Victory Gardens, Albany Park Theatre Project, Writers Theatre, ... read more
Roundabout and Broadway debut. Off- Broadway: The Antipodes, Everybody, The Wolves, A Life (Lortel Award, Drama Desk nomination), Marjorie Prime, The Nether (Lortel nomination), The Village Bike, Buzzer, Small Mouth Sounds. Multiple projects with The Debate Society & The Mad Ones. Regional: Yale Rep, Bard SummerScape, Cincinnati Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, South Coast Rep. Opera: Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Atlanta Opera, Juilliard. Obie for Sustained Excellence in Design. ... read more
Anne Kauffman is an American director known primarily for her work on new plays, mainly in the New York area. She is a founding member of the theater group the Civilians. She made her Broadway debut with the Scott McPherson play Marvin's Room (2017) and returned with the revival of the Lorraine Hansberry play The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window (2023).
Kauffman's past regional productions include Body Awareness by Annie Baker (2012) at the Wilma Theater; and Pulitzer Prize finalist Becky Shaw by Gina Gionfriddo (2009); The Flea and the Professor by Jordan Harrison at the Arden Theatre Company (2011); Six ... read more
Awards and Nominations
2017 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Director of a Play: Anne Kauffman was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Play: Adam Bock was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Set Design for a Play: Laura Jellinek was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Sound Design in a Play: Mikhail Fiksel was nominated but did not win.
2017 Drama League Awards
Distinguished Performance Award: David Hyde Pierce was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play: A Life was nominated but did not win.
2017 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play: A Life was nominated but did not win.
2017 The Lortels
Outstanding Director: Anne Kauffman was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Scenic Design: Laura Jellinek won.
Outstanding Sound Design: Mikhail Fiksel won.