King Kong - Broadway Creative Team

Eddie Perfect is an Australian composer, lyricist, playwright, musician and performer. His works for the stage include Shane Warne The Musical (Token Events) for which he won a Helpmann, Greenroom and Victorian Premier's Literary Award, Vivid White and The Beast (Melbourne Theatre Company), Strictly Ballroom (Global Creatures), Songs From The Middle (with the Brodsky Quartet) and King Kong Alive On Broadway (Global Creatures). Eddie's acting credits include Offspring (Ten), South Pacific (Opera Australia/Lincoln Centre Theatre), Keating! (Belvoir) and as a regular presenter on Playschool. Eddie dedicates Beetlejuice to his wife Lucy Cochran and his daughters Kitty and Charlotte. ... read more Jack Thorne writes for theatre, film, television and radio. His theatre credits include Hope and Let The Right One In, both directed by John Tiffany, Woyzeck at the Old Vic, Junkyard, a Headlong, Rose Theatre Kingston, Bristol Old Vic and Theatr Clwyd co-production, The Solid Life of Sugarwater for the Graeae Theatre Company and the National Theatre, Bunny for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Stacy for the Trafalgar Studios, 2nd May 1997 and When You Cure Me for the Bush. His adaptations include The Physicists for the Donmar Warehouse and Stuart: A Life Backwards for Hightide. On film his credits include ... read more A club for Broadway investors. Principals include Phil Kenny, Claire Kenny, Gary Rubenstein, Jaime Reubenstein and Max Newman. www.42nd.club ... read more David Caddick has been the music director for numerous Broadway and London West End musicals including Evita, Cats, Song & Dance, Starlight Express, The Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon and Sunset Boulevard. He was the executive producer for the Broadway production of Oklahoma! and music director for the world premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s Bounce. Music director for the film of Evita starring Madonna. He won a GRAMMY® Award for producing the complete symphonic recording album of Les Misérables and also produced the cast albums of Oliver!, Oklahoma!, My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins and the 2006 revival of A Chorus ... read more Bachelor of Performing Arts in Design from the National Institute of Dramatic Art. Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Hons.) from the University of New South Wales. Helpmann Award for Best Set Design in 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2013. Green Room Award for Best Opera Design in 1998 and 2002. Green Room Award for Best Dance Design in 2005. Mike Walsh Travelling Fellowship in 1997. Pentagon Memorial Design Competition; finalist (with Room 4.1.3) in 2002. Theatre credits include Global Creatures: King Kong (Helpmann Award, 2013). Opera Australia: Sweeney Todd (Helpmann Award, 2002, Green Room Award, 2002), Simon Boccanegra, La Bohème and Madama ... read more 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 Peter Hylenski received a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award Honour for his work on Moulin Rouge! The Musical. A Grammy, Olivier, and seven-time Tony nominee, his selected design credits include Frozen, Anastasia, Beetlejuice, Once on This Island, Something Rotten, King Kong, Rock of Ages, After Midnight, Motown, The Scottsboro Boys, Side Show, Rocky, Bullets Over Broadway, Shrek the Musical, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Lend Me a Tenor, Elf, Wonderland, Cry-Baby, The Times They Are a-Changin’, The Wedding Singer, Sweet Charity, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. ... read more Work in the US includes King Kong, The Children, The Seagull, Private Lives (Broadway); King Lear, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Escaped Alone, Ghosts (BAM); Love and Information (NYTW); Cock (Duke on 42nd), Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? (Public Theater); Manon Lescaut, Madama Butterfly, Werther, Carmen (The Met). Current West End: 42nd Street. Awards include two Olivier Awards, South Bank Award for Opera which he directed and designed (Ring Cycle), Helpmann and Green Room Award for Lighting (King Kong in Australia). ... read more James L. Nederlander is President of the Nederlander Organization and son of James M. Nederlander (Chairman). He is the third generation of a family known for owning and operating theatres around the world as well as theatrical productions, cultural presentations and popular music attractions. Current productions include West Side Story, The Addams Family, Next to Normal and Race. Upcoming productions include a live show with magician David Blaine. ... read more IPN members bring Broadway productions to more than 110 cities through North America and Japan. Recent Broadway, London, U.S. and international tours include Monty Python's Spamalot, The Color Purple, Throughly Modern Millie, Bombay Dreams, Starlight Express, The King and I and Edward Scissorhands. ... read more The Shubert Organization is America's oldest professional theatre company and the largest theatre owner on the Broadway. Since the dawn of the 20th Century, Shubert has operated hundreds of theatres and produced hundreds of plays and musicals both in New York City and throughout the United States. Shubert currently owns and operates seventeen Broadway theatres and six off-Broadway venues. ... read more 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 Philip J. Smith is the Chairman and Co-CEO of the Shubert Organization. ... read more Tilders’ career has spanned some 25 years in which he has designed and built creatures and contraptions, models and special effects for the film and theatrical industries. His work can be seen in US feature films such as Peter Pan, Ghostrider, The Chronicles of Narnia and Star Wars - The Revenge of the Sith. Television credits include multiple seasons of the US sci-fi series Farscape as lead animatronics engineer and his theatrical credits include puppet making for productions of The Hobbit and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. In 2006 Sonny lead the creature design and build team for Walking ... read more 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 Edward Walson is a producer, writer, and director with a passion for the arts. Born in New York City, Walson grew up surrounded by Broadway and was exposed to the theater from a young age. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with a degree in economics. After college, Walson began his career in finance, but his love for the arts never waned. In 2013, Walson made his Broadway producing debut with the play "Lucky Guy," starring Tom Hanks. The play was a critical and commercial success, earning six Tony nominations, including Best Play. Walson also produced the Broadway revival ... read more Robert E. Wankel is the President and Co-CEO of the Shubert Organization. ... read more