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Jerry Springer: The Opera - Off-Broadway Creative Team

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Production Staff

Stewart Lee Bookwriter
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Richard Thomas Bookwriter
Composer
Michael Curry (i) Music Director/Keyboard
Chris Bailey Choreographer
Theatre credits include: Gettin’ The Band Back Together (Belasco Theatre, Broadway); Jerry Springer the Opera (New Group, 2018 Chita Rivera Award nomination); The New Yorkers and 1776 (New York City Center Encores!); The Entertainer with Kenneth Branagh (Garrick Theatre, West End); Assassins (Menier Chocolate Factory, West End); Because of Winn Dixie (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); 2013 Tony Awards opening number ‘Bigger’ (CBS); MUNY; Jerome Robbins Broadway (production supervisor); Newsies (St. Louis Theatre Circle Award); The Music Man; Into the Woods; My Fair Lady; Tarzan; West Side Story and Thoroughly Modern Millie. Chris also worked on the Academy Awards from 2013-2015 as Assistant ... read more
Rick Bertone Keyboard
Jeff Croiter Lighting Designer
Broadway: Peter and The Starcatcher; Newsies; The Pee-wee Herman Show; Next Fall; Kiki and Herb Alive on Broadway. Other NYC credits include: Silence The Musical; Love, Loss, and What I Wore; Meet Vera Stark; Side Effects; A Lie of the Mind; Ordinary Days; Knickerbocker; Family Guys Sings; Jerry Springer The Opera; The Voysey Inheritance; The Internationalist; Almost, Maine; Streamers; Rufus Wainwright's Judy Concert at Carnegie Hall; and Jennifer Muller The Works. Jeff is a producer of Submissions Only. ... read more
Harry Hassell Woodwinds
Sarah Laux Costume Designer
Broadway: The Humans, Fully Committed Off-Broadway/Regional: On The Shore of the Wide World (Atlantic Theatre Company), Sacred Valley (NYSAF), The Man in the Ceiling (Bay Street), The End of Longing (MCC), Bad Jews (George Street Playhouse), Man From Nebraska (2nd Stage), Ultimate Beauty Bible (Pg 73), Empathitrax (Colt Coer), The Effect (Barrow Street Theatre), Thresh/Hold (Pilobolus Dance Theater), Come Back, Little Sheba (Huntington Theatre Company), Women or Nothing (Atlantic Theatre Company), Really, Really (MCC)Feature Film: Freakshow (Maven) ... read more
Stewart Lee Additional Lyrics
Book
Derek McLane Set Designer
Derek McLane received a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award Honour for his work on Moulin Rouge! The Musical. He has designed over 350 productions for Broadway, Off-Broadway, internationally and for TV. His over 40 credits include Burn This, The Parisian Woman, Anything Goes, The Price, Fully Committed, Beautiful, Ragtime, I Am My Own Wife and 33 Variations (Tony Award). He has designed the Academy Awards for six years (Emmy Award) and has designed four live musicals for NBC, including “Hairspray” (Emmy Award). ... read more
John Rando Director
Broadway theatre credits include: Gettin’ the Band Back Together (Belasco Theatre); On The Town (Lyric Theatre - Tony Nomination); Penn & Teller on Broadway (Marquis Theatre); A Christmas Story (Lunt-Fontanne Theatre); The Wedding Singer; Urinetown (Tony and Outer Critics Circle Awards); A Thousand Clowns and Neil Simon’s The Dinner Party. Off-Broadway theatre credits include: Jerry Springer – The Opera (New Group); Lives of the Saints (Primary Stages); The Heir Apparent (SDCF Calloway Award – Classic Stage Company); All in the Timing (Primary Stages – Obie Award); Carousel (New York Philharmonic) and The Toxic Avenger, among many others. Regional theatre credits include: Because ... read more
Greg Anthony Rassen Orchestrator
Broadway conducting credits include An American in Paris, Bullets Over Broadway, The Little Mermaid, The Book of Mormon, and R&H’s Cinderella. Off-Broadway: Peter and the Starcatcher (New World Stages) and Brundibar (New Victory). National tour: Music Supervisor R&H's Cinderella. Featured pianist: A Chorus Line (Revival), An American in Paris, and Lady Be Good (Encores!). He has played on several cast recordings, including the Grammy nominated An American in Paris for which he is the solo pianist. He is also a continuing member of the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall. Arranging and orchestrating credits include all of the major U.S. Pops orchestras, including Boston, ... read more
Olivia Sebesky Projection Designer
John Shivers Sound Designer
JOHN SHIVERS (Sound Design) Shucked, Beauty and the Beast (New Production Worldwide) Pretty Woman (Worldwide), Cirque du Soleil’s Paramour, Kinky Boots (2013 Tony Award recipient), Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway, Leap of Faith, Bonnie & Clyde, Sister Act, 9 to 5, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, The Little Mermaid, Tarzan, In My Life, Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays, Julia Sweeney’s God Sad ‘Ha’. International: Wicked, Spirit of Life, The Secret, Tarzan, Das Wunder Von Bern, The Lion King (Shanghai) and (Singapore), Regional: The Muny (2015 -Present), Trading Places, Afterwords, The Wanderer, Becoming Nancy, 42nd St., Rock of Ages, The Heart of ... read more
Book
Lyrics
Richard Thomas is best known for his starring role as “John-Boy Walton” in the iconic television drama “The Waltons”, for which he won an Emmy Award and received multiple Golden Globe Award nominations. He is most recognizable to contemporary television audiences for his role as “Nathan Davis” in the series “Ozark”, as well as “FBI Special Agent Frank Gaad” in the series “The Americans” and his performance as “Sanford Bensinger” in the series Billions. He was also been seen recently on television in the limited series Tell Me Your Secrets and on film opposite Sandra Bullock and Viola Davis in ... read more
Adam Wolfe Drums

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Awards and Nominations

2018 Obie Awards
Design Award: Sarah Laux won.
Performance Award: Will Swenson won.

2018 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical: Jerry Springer: The Opera was nominated but did not win.

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