Production Staff
David has choreographed some stuff (New York premieres of Ages of the Moon, Blasted, Spring Awakening, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Bug, Killer Joe), has played at some wonderful venues (NY Public Theater, Metropolitan Opera, MTC, TFANA), taught a few places (NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, RADA guest instructor, Strasberg Institute, Yale) and has worked with some great folks (Stella Adler, Joe Chaikin, Ken Russell, JoAnne Akalaitis, Franco Zeffirelli). Fight Master, SAFD. "Walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone."—G. Fox ... read more
Recent Broadway: Aladdin, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, American Psycho, You Can't Take It With You. West End: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Let the Right One In. Television: "The Wiz Live!" and "Peter Pan Live!" In 2014 his work was featured at the Museum of Art & Design in New York. Chernick is head designer for J&M Special Effects in Brooklyn www.jmfx.net ... read more
Most recent credits include: The Rose Tattoo (Broadway, 2019), Choir Boy (Broadway, 2019) and Lobby Hero (Broadway, 2018). He previously directed Adam Bock's The Drunken City and Sarah Schulman's Manic Flight Reaction at Playwrights Horizons. Other New York credits include Adam Bock's Swimming in the Shallows, Leslye Headland's Bachelorette and Terrence McNally's Some Men (Second Stage); Lloyd Suh's American Hwangap, Robert Farquhar's Bad Jazz, Roland Schimmelpfennig's Arabian Night and Brooke Berman's Smashing (The Play Company); Gina Gionfriddo's US Drag (stageFARM); Bert V. Royal's Dog Sees God (The Century Center); Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's Dark Matters (Rattlestick Theater); Jonathan Tolin's The Last Sunday ... read more
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
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
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
Broadway: If/Then, Merchant of Venice (Tony nom.), Next to Normal (Tony nom.), Talk Radio, An Almost Holy Picture, Death of a Salesman. Recent New York: Distracted (Roundabout), Punk Rock (MCC), I'm Gonna Pray For You So Hard (Atlantic), Murder Ballad (MTC), A Month in the Country, A Midsummer Night's Dream (CSC), Lonely I'm Not (Second Stage), RENT (New World Stages), The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide... (Public Theater). ... read more
Awards and Nominations
2017 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Fight Choreography: J. David Brimmer was nominated but did not win.
2017 The Lortels
Outstanding Lighting Design: Ben Stanton was nominated but did not win.
2017 Theatre World Awards
Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway Debut Performance: Lucas Hedges won.