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Present Laughter - Broadway Creative Team


Production Staff

Noel Coward Playwright
Red Awning Executive Producer
Jack W. Batman Producer
Thom Clay Company Manager
Broadway/Tours: Elf, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Spiderman Turn Off The Dark, A Life in the Theatre, Million Dollar Quartet, The Addams Family, Memphis, Next to Normal, Rock of Ages, In the Heights, Wicked, 9 to 5, South Pacific, Peepshow in Vegas. Off-Broadway: Atlantic, MCC, Signature. Film: Margin Call, Howl, Sex and the City 1 & 2, Jonah Hex, Main Street, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, I Love You Phillip Morris, Rachel Getting Married, Dan in Real Life, Then She Found Me, Across the Universe, Ira & Abby, Rent, Pieces of April, Camp, The Grey Zone, Finding ... read more
Eric Falkenstein Producer
Stephen Gabis Dialect Coach
Broadway: Jersey Boys, Doubt, Steel Magnolias, Dracula, Taboo, The Boy From Oz, Joe Egg, Master Harold And The Boys, Present Laughter, A Doll's House. Venues: Roundabout, M.T.C., Playwrights, Atlantic, The New Group, M.C.C., The Public, Second Stage, Williamstown, Yale Rep., McCarter, Hartford Stage, Primary Stages, Lincoln Center, Long Wharf, Westport. Film Contributions: Million Dollar Baby, Ballad Of Bettie Page, Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind, Boy's Don't Cry. ... read more
Susan Hilferty Costume Designer
Susan Hilferty has designed set and costumes for over 400 productions across the globe. Recent designs include Parade (Broadway; Tony nomination), Funny Girl (Broadway), Swept Away (Berkeley Rep and Arena Stage), Hamlet (St. Anne’s Warehouse NY and Gate Theatre, Dublin), Waiting for Godot TFNA/NYC, Richard Nelson’s What Happened?: The Michaels Abroad (Loewe Theatre, NYC), and A Bright Room Called Day (Public Theatre). Her many Broadway designs include Wicked (Tony, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama Desk awards and Olivier nomination), August Wilson’s Radio Golf. Present Laughter (Tony nomination), Hands on a Hardbody, Spring Awakening (Tony nomination), Lestat (Tony nomination), Annie (2013 ... read more
Nicole Kastrinos Executive Producer
Rocco Landesman Producer
(President Emeritus, Jujamcyn Theaters)
Paul Libin Producer
(Executive Vice President, Jujamcyn Theaters)
Josh Marquette Hair Designer
Broadway/Off-Broadway: The Book of Mormon, Elf, The Drowsy Chaperone, To Be Or Not To Be, Pig Farm, The Trailer Park Musical, Altar Boyz. West Coast: Robin & the 7 Hoods, Peep Show, Minsky's, Vanities. National Tours: Drowsy, Barbie Live!, Trip of Love. Associate Hair Designer: Mamma Mia! (North America), The Wedding Singer (Broadway), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Tour). Other NY: Show Boat @ Carnegie Hall, Encores! No, No, Nanette & Follies, numerous productions at Juilliard. ... 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 Los Angeles based theatre producer ... read more
Fitz Patton Sound Designer
Patton's Broadway credits include Bernhart/Hamlet, Three Tall Women, Meteor Shower, Present Laughter, The Little Foxes, The Humans (Drama Desk Award), Our Mother’s Brief Affair, Blackbird, The Father, An Act of God, It’s Only a Play, Airline Highway, The Other Place, Outside Mullingar, Casa Valentina. Off-Broadway his work has included Torch Song; Napoli, Brooklyn; Yen; Prodigal Son; The Other Place (Drama Desk nomination); and When the Rain Stops Falling (Drama Desk and Lortel Awards). He is the founding editor of Chance Magazine, a serialized art book on performance and design. ... read more
Spencer Ross Producer
Spencer is the founder of SBR Productions LLC. Broadway: Amelie, Come From Away, Present Laughter (2017), Significant Other, An American in Paris. National Tours: An American in Paris, Fun Home. ... read more
Jordan Roth Producer
As President of Jujamcyn Theaters, Jordan oversees five Broadway theatres, whose productions include the Tony Award-winning Best Musicals The Book of Mormon and Kinky Boots, Springsteen on Broadway, Mean Girls, Frozen and most recently, Hadestown. Jordan produced, Angels in America with the National Theatre starring Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane and Present Laughter starring Kevin Kline and the Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning Best Play, Clybourne Park. Jordan founded Givenik.com where theatergoers can buy tickets and 5% goes to the charity of their choice, and he recently founded his own online magazine, Warmly Jordan. ... 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
Jordan Roth Producer
(President, Jujamcyn Theaters)
As President of Jujamcyn Theaters, Jordan oversees five Broadway theatres, whose productions include the Tony Award-winning Best Musicals The Book of Mormon and Kinky Boots, Springsteen on Broadway, Mean Girls, Frozen and most recently, Hadestown. Jordan produced, Angels in America with the National Theatre starring Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane and Present Laughter starring Kevin Kline and the Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning Best Play, Clybourne Park. Jordan founded Givenik.com where theatergoers can buy tickets and 5% goes to the charity of their choice, and he recently founded his own online magazine, Warmly Jordan. ... read more
Robert Ryan Producer
Broadway: Robert Askins' Hand to God (five Tony nominations including Best New Play and Best Director, Lortel Award nomination, SDC Callaway nomination). West End: Hand to God (Olivier nomination for Best New Comedy). Off-Broadway: Important Hats of the Twentieth Century (Manhattan Theatre Club), Verite (Lincoln Center Theatre/LCT3), Teenage Dick (Public Theatre), Trevor (Lesser America), Love Song of the Albanian Sous Chef (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Bike America (Ma-Yi), Mel & El: Show & Tell (Ars Nova), Spacebar (Studio 42), and My Base and Scurvy Heart (Studio 42). Regional: Alliance Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Huntington Theatre, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, and more. ... read more
Bespoke Theatricals General Manager
Maggie Brohn, Amy Jacobs, Devin Keudell, and Nina Lannan are partners and manage Broadway musicals and plays, tours, and concerts. This season on Broadway: Mamma Mia!, Billy Elliot, Bonnie and Clyde, Ghost, EVITA, Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway, Shatner's World: We Just Live In It and the plays Magic/Bird, and Venus In Fur. On tour: Mamma Mia!. Past productions include CATS, Annie Get Your Gun, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Color Purple, Legally Blonde and The Pillowman. ... read more
Justin Townsend Lighting Designer
Justin Townsend received a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award Honour for his work on Moulin Rouge! The Musical. His Broadway credits include Jagged Little Pill, Saint Joan, Present Laughter, The Little Foxes, The Humans (Tony nomination), American Psycho (Tony nomination), Fool for Love, Casa Valentina, A Night with Janis Joplin, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Other Place, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. He served as Creative Director for Drake’s “Boy Meets World” European Tour and OVO Fest 2017. He previously worked with Alex Timbers on Here Lies Love. He is an associate professor at ... read more
Jack Viertel Producer
(Senior Vice President, Jujamcyn Theaters)
Jack Viertel is an American theatrical producer and writer. From 2000 to 2020, he was a producer at the Encores! series. Viertel is credited as Producer, Theatre Owner/Operator, Conception, Creative Consultant, Writer, and more. ... read more
David Zinn Set Designer

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Awards and Nominations

2017 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Costume Design for a Play: Susan Hilferty was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Wig and Hair: Josh Marquette was nominated but did not win.

2017 Drama League Awards
Distinguished Performance Award: Kate Burton was nominated but did not win.
Distinguished Performance Award: Kevin Kline was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Revival of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play: Present Laughter was nominated but did not win.

2017 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding Costume Design (Play or Musical): Susan Hilferty was nominated but did not win.

2017 Theatre World Awards
Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway Debut Performance: Cobie Smulders won.

2017 Tony Awards
Best Costume Design of a Play: Susan Hilferty was nominated but did not win.
Best Revival of a Play: Present Laughter was nominated but did not win.

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