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Production Staff

59 Productions Projection Design
Playful Productions General Manager
Christopher Austin Orchestrator
Andy Barnwell Orchestra Manager
Jacquelin Barrett Associate Director/Choreographer
Bob Crowley Costume Design
Set Design
Recent Productions: Don Carlos (MET, NY) Love Never Dies (Adelphi, London). Bob Crowley has designed over twenty productions for the National Theatre, including most recently: The Habit of Art, The Power of Yes, Phèdre, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Gethsemane, and Fram (which he also co-directed with Tony Harrison), The History Boys (Broadway - Tony Award), His Girl Friday and Mourning Becomes Electra, plus more than twenty-five productions for the RSC, including: Les Liaisons Dangereuses and The Plantagenets, for which he won an Olivier Award. For the Donmar Warehouse - Into the Woods and Orpheus Descending. Other credits include: Pavane ... read more
Sam Davis Dance Arranger
Bill Elliott Additional Orchestrations
BILL ELLIOTT is an arranger, orchestrator, composer, conductor, and bandleader who has made a specialty of composing, arranging, and producing vintage styles of music. He was co-orchestrator for the 2015 production of Bandstand at the Paper Mill Playhouse. In 2015 he won a Tony award for Best Orchestrations for An American in Paris on Broadway. In 2015 he orchestrated two additional Gershwin musicals: the Chichester (England) Festival Theater debut production of Damsel in Distress and the Encores! revival of the 1924 Gershwin musical Lady Be Good. In 2012 he received Tony and Grammy nominations for his work on the Broadway musical Nice ... read more
Todd Ellison Musical Supervisor
Rob Fisher Musical Score Adaptation
Emma Harris Resident Dance Supervisor
Theatrical credits include: Ella Nijinksy & Tamara in Rattigan's Nijinsky (Chichester Festival), u/s Lady Raeburn, Timothy's Mother and Asphynxia in Salad Days (Riverside Studios), Meg Giry in Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty's), Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Adelphi Theatre) where she had the featured Soprano Solo One More Angel and u/s Apache; Evita (Adelphi Theatre) as u/s Mistress; Imagine This - Workshop (ICW Productions, directed by Timothy Sheader); Aladdin (Old Vic Theatre); June in Chicago (UK Tour); West Side Story (Bregenz Festival, Austria); On Your Toes (Japanese Tour); the original London cast of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (London ... read more
Natasha Katz Lighting Design
Natasha Katz is a New York-based lighting designer. She is a six-time Tony Award winner who has designed extensively for theatre, opera, dance, concerts, and permanent lighting installations around the world. Her recent Broadway credits include: Diana, The Music Man, All My Sons, Burn This, The Prom, Frozen, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Cats, School of Rock, An American in Paris, Aladdin, Skylight, The Glass Menagerie, Once, Follies, The Coast of Utopia: Salvage, and Aida. ... read more
Dontee Kiehn Associate Director/Choreographer
Nigel Lilley UK Musical Director
Nigel Lilley is a British musical director, arranger, and conductor who has worked extensively in the West End and on Broadway. He was born in London and began his career as a pianist and musical director in regional theaters across the UK. Lilley's West End credits include serving as musical director and conductor for productions such as "Les Misérables," "Miss Saigon," "The Phantom of the Opera," "Mary Poppins," and "Billy Elliot." His work on "Les Misérables" earned him an Olivier Award nomination for Best Musical Director. He also served as the musical supervisor for the West End production of "The Bodyguard," ... read more
Lynette Mauro Associate Costume Designer
Patrick Molony Production Manager
Production Manager
Stefan Musch Wigs Supervisor
Jonathan O'Boyle Resident Director
James Orange UK Casting Director
John Rigby Musical Director
Dr John Rigby is a conductor, musical supervisor and musicologist who initially studied orchestral conducting at the University of Huddersfield and the Royal Northern College of Music. He gained his PhD from Kings College London having researched the cultural resonances of Franz Lehár’s ‘Berlin’ operettas during the Weimar Republic. He also holds an honorary Doctor of Arts from Edge Hill University in recognition of his work in musical theatre and conducting. West End credits include: An American in Paris (Dominion); Beautiful and Damned (Lyric); The Drowsy Chaperone (Novello); The King and I (Palladium); The Last Empress (Apollo, Hammersmith); Marguerite (Theatre Royal, ... read more
Don Sebesky Additional Orchestrations
Donald John Sebesky was an American composer, arranger, conductor, and jazz trombonist. He was a multi-instrumentalist and could play a number of other instruments: keyboards, electric piano, organ, accordion, and clavinet. ... read more
Simon Sherriff Associate Lighting Designer
Rick Steiger Production Supervisor
Rick Steiger is a Broadway stage manager. ... read more
Jon Weston Sound Design
Paris and West End: An American in Paris. West End: Thoroughly Modern Millie; Rent; The Who’s Tommy. Broadway design credits include: Prince of Broadway; She Loves Me; Amazing Grace; An American in Paris; On the 20th Century; You Can’t Take It With You; The Bridges of Madison County; How to Succeed in Business…; The Color Purple; Caroline, or Change; Nine; The Green Bird; Thoroughly Modern Millie. Off-Broadway and Regional: Paradise Square (Berkeley Rep); Unmasked: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber (Papermill Playhouse); Footloose (Kennedy Center); Scotland, PA (Roundabout); Evita (Bay Street); Grey Gardens (Bay Street); The Last Five Years (Second ... read more
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Awards and Nominations

2018 Olivier Awards
Best Theatre Choreographer: Christopher Wheeldon was nominated but did not win.
Blue-i Theatre Technology Award For Best Set Design: Bob Crowley won.

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