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Be More Chill - Broadway Creative Team


Be More Chill Broadway

Production Staff

Joe Iconis Composer & Lyricist
Joe Iconis is a musical theater writer and performer. He has been nominated for a Tony Award, two Drama Desk Awards and a Lucille Lortel Award, is the recipient of an Ed Kleban Award, Jonathan Larson Award and Richard Rodgers Award. Joe’s musical Be More Chill (with Joe Tracz) opened this season at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre, following a sold-out Off-Broadway run at The Pershing Square Signature Center and a world premiere at Two River Theatre. He is the author of Broadway Bounty Hunter (with Lance Rubin and Jason SweetTooth Williams; Barrington Stage Company and Greenwich House Theater Off-Broadway), Bloodsong of ... read more
Joe Tracz Bookwriter
Joe Tracz spent years investigating the unfortunate world of Lemony Snicket before becoming a writer and producer on all three seasons of Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events. An LA-based screenwriter and playwright, his work includes the Drama Desk-nominated adaptation of the first Percy Jackson novel, The Lightning Thief, and the cult musical Be More Chill. ... read more
Ned Vizzini Source Material
(Based on the novel by)
42nd.Club Producer
A club for Broadway investors. Principals include Phil Kenny, Claire Kenny, Gary Rubenstein, Jaime Reubenstein and Max Newman. www.42nd.club ... read more
Lisa Dozier General Manager
Lisa is the founder of LDK Productions, a theatrical general management and producing firm in New York City. ... read more
Jack W. Batman Producer
Chris Blastings Producer
Brad Blume Producer
Beowulf Boritt Scenic Designer
25 Broadway shows including: Act One (Tony Award), The Scottsboro Boys (Tony Nomination), Therese Raquin (Tony Nomination), Come From Away, Flying Over Sunset, Freestyle Love Supreme, The New One, Meteor Shower, A Bronx Tale, Prince Of Broadway, Hand To God, Sondheim On Sondheim, …Spelling Bee , LoveMusik, Grace. 100 Off- Broadway shows including The Last Five Years, Fiddler On The Roof (in Yiddish), Sleepwalk With Me, and Miss Julie. 2007 OBIE Award for sustained excellence. ... read more
Dave Bova Wig and Hair Designer
Dave's Broadway credits included Be More Chill, Indecent, M. Butterfly, Bandstand, Sunset Boulevard, The Real Thing, and Violet. His work was seen Off-Broadway in Little Miss Sunshine, Here Lies Love, Buried Child, Pericles, What I Did Last Summer, Booty Candy, The Killer, My Name is Asher Lev, Good Person of Szechwan, and Romeo and Juliet. His national tour credits included Cruel Intentions, The Lightning Thief, Love Never Dies, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 42nd Street, Ragtime, The Addams Family, Camelot, Rock of Ages, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. His work has also been featured regionally in Marie Antoinette at Steppenwolf Theatre, Hamlet ... read more
Stephen Brackett Director
Broadway: Be More Chill (Lyceum Theater). Off-Broadway: Be More Chill (Signature and Two River Theaters), The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (Theaterworks USA/National Tour), Buyer & Cellar (Rattlestick and Barrow Street Theaters/National Tour/London’s Menier Chocolate Factory), The Mad Ones (Prospect Theater), Ultimate Beauty Bible (Page 73), Wringer (NYCCT), Carnival Kids (Lesser America), The Correspondent (Rattlestick), After (Partial Comfort), The Material World(Dixon Place), Be A Good Little Widow (Ars Nova), and The Tenant (Woodshed Collective). Regional: Significant Other (Geffen Playhouse), I Now Pronounce (Humana Festival), Le Switch (About Face), The Great Pretender (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley). Upcoming: Fall Springs at Barrington ... read more
Chase Brock Choreographer
Called "prolific" in both The New Yorker and The New York Times, Brock is a 34-year old choreographer working in concert dance, theater, ballet, opera, television and video games. In addition to 30 dances for The Chase Brock Experience, Brock's choreography includes Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and Picnic; the stage adaptation of Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame currently playing in long-running German and Japanese productions; The Blue Flower (Second Stage, Lortel nomination for Outstanding Choreography), Tamar of the River (Callaway Award finalist for Choreography) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare in the Park); "Last Week Tonight with ... read more
Adam Caldwell Casting
Marlene Cohen Producer
Gary D Cohen Producer
Producer, Me Too. Stella Adler Theater. 2006, AKA as Garmar Ventures Producer, Dumbstruck, documentary Producer, Come From Away, Broadway 2017 Co Producer, The Samuel Project, full feature 2017 Producer: Be More Chill Broadway 2019 Producer: Tootsie Broadway 2019; Upcoming Producer : Diana, the musical Broadway 2020 ... read more 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
John Corker General Manager
Jonathan Demar Producer
Broadway: A Christmas Carol starring F. Murray Abraham. Off-Broadway: The Alchemists (Prospect Theater Company), Tosca (New York City Opera), A Gilbert and Sullivan Christmas Carol (New Punctuation Army). Workshops: Beast on the Moon (directed by Larry Moss) and Willy Wonka (MTI). T.V: Onion News Network, Eyewitness Kids News, and The View. Recordings: A Sugar Beats Christmas and Camp Broadway. ... read more
Gerald Goehring Producer
Andrew Hendrick Producer
Andrew Hendrick recently completed the first national tour of BULLETS OVER BROADWAY. Other touring credits include the 2014/2015 National Tour of Jekyll and Hyde the musical. Other Credits Include THE LITTLE MERMAID (Chef Louis), LES MISERABLES, AVENUE Q (Brian), ALMOST, MAINE (TBG) and more. Andrew is also a Producing Associate with BROADWAY RECORDS, which albums include THE COLOR PURPLE, DR. ZHIVAGO, THE WIZ LIVE, BROADWAY FOR ORLANDO, PETER PAN LIVE!, SIDE SHOW (2014), MATILDA, BIG FISH, BONNIE AND CLYDE, JEKYLL AND HYDE (2012 concept) and the LIVE at 54 BELOW series! ... read more
Ben Holtzman Producer
Phil Kenny Producer
Jim Kierstead Producer
Jim Kierstead is a Grammy-nominated Emmy, Olivier, and six-time Tony Award-winning producer of the Broadway, touring, Toronto, and London productions of Kinky Boots, the revival of Pippin, Hadestown, The Inheritance, The Lehman Trilogy, and The Inheritance. He is currently represented on Broadway as a co-producer of Sweeney Todd and Hadestown.. In addition, he has been a co-producer of 25 Broadway productions including The Visit, You Can’t Take It With You, Indecent, The Great Comet (all Tony nominated), Be More Chill, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Pretty Woman, Side Show, It Shoulda Been You, M. Butterfly, Rocky, ... read more
Alex Basco Koch Projection Designer
Ashlee Latimer Producer
Sammy Lopez Producer
Sammy Lopez is a New York City-based producer and director. He is the Producing Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Diverging Elements Theatre Co., a non-profit dedicated to creating theatre experiences for young audiences that spark thought, stimulate discussion, and initiate change. Under his direction, they have developed new shows at Barnes and Noble, Strand Book Store, Book Culture, The Children's Museum of Manhattan, and JCC Manhattan. He is the Associate Producer for the new musical, Bandstand, on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. He is a graduate of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and ... read more
Jenn Maley Producer
Emily Marshall Musical Director
Credits include: Broadway - Be More Chill, Elf; Ain't Too Proud, Beautiful, School Of Rock, Mean Girls, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (keyboard sub); Waitress (rehearsal pianist); Annie (keyboard programmer). Tours/Benefits: Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical; 1st National Tour of We Will Rock You, A Chorus Line, Beauty and the Beast, Flashdance, Elf. Off Broadway/Labs: Rock of Ages (New World Stages), The Remarkable Journey to Tianguo (Developmental Lab), PRELUDES (LCT3), Head Over Heels (Developmental Lab), Clueless (Dev. Lab), Chix 6 (La Mama). Marshall also works as a supervisor, producer, contractor, accompanist, vocal coach, keyboard programmer, arranger & orchestrator. ... read more
Amanda Michaels Production Stage Manager
Tyler Micoleau Lighting Designer
Recent Off-Broadway: A Midsummer Nights' Dream (Public, Delacorte Theater, Central Park), The Antipodes (Signature), The Effect (Barrow Street), Familiar, Antlia Pneumatica (Playwrights Horizons, Drama Desk nomination). Other notable Off-Broadway: When The Rain Stops Falling (Lincoln Center Theater, Lucille Lortel Award), Blasted (Soho Rep, American Theatre Wing Hewes Award), Bug (Lucille Lortel and OBIE Awards). 2010 OBIE award for Sustained Excellence. ... read more
Michael F. Mitri Producer
Robert Rechnitz Producer
Joan Rechnitz Producer
Charlie Rosen Orchestrator
Charlie Rosen is a Tony Award–winning and Grammy-nominated composer and orchestrator whose music has been heard on stages and screens around the world. Recent Broadway credits include Some Like It Hot (Orchestrations); Be More Chill (Music Sup./Orchestrations); Moulin Rouge! (Orchestrations, Tony Award); Prince of Broadway (Orchestrations); American Psycho (Assoc. MD/Keys); The Visit (Guitar/Zither); Honeymoon in Vegas (Orchestrations); Cyrano de Bergerac (Composer); One Man, Two Guv’nors (Music Director, Bass); 13 The Musical (Guitars, Bass, Keys), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Assoc. MD, Bass, addl. Orch.). ... read more
Ryan Rumery Sound Designer
Ryan Rumery is a composer for film, television, and podcasts. He recently won the Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Play for his work on Stereophonic. Ryan’s music is regularly heard on “This American Life” and in the film Food and Country, premiering at Sundance 2023. He is a 2017 alumnus of the Sundance Institute Music and Sound Design Lab: Documentary, and is also a music producer, music editor, and recording engineer. He plays drums and keyboards. ... read more
Rebecca Scholl Casting
Rebecca Scholl works in casting. Her credits include Be More Chill. ... read more
Randi Sternfeld Producer
Fred Sternfeld Producer
Cori Stolbun Producer
Jennifer Ashley Tepper is producer of the musicals Be More Chill, Broadway Bounty Hunter, and Love In Hate Nation. She is also the Creative and Programming Director at Feinstein's/54 Below, and the author of The Untold Stories of Broadway book series. She is the creator of The Jonathan Larson Project and historian consultant on the upcoming film version of tick, tick...BOOM! Tepper was recently named recipient of a 2020 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award. As the leader of Feinstein's/54 Below's creative programming team, Tepper is responsible for programming every show at the Broadway supper club and concert venue. She has curated ... read more
Charlie Thorne Producer
Alisa Thorne Producer
Bobby Frederick Tilley II Costume Designer
Connor Tinglum Producer
Jenna Ushkowitz Producer
Kim Vasquez Producer
Kumiko Yoshii Producer

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Awards and Nominations

2019 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical: Bobby Frederick Tilly II was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Lyrics: Joe Iconis was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Music: Joe Iconis was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Musical: Be More Chill was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Orchestrations: Charlie Rosen was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Orchestrations: Charlie Rosen was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Projection Design: Alex Basco Koch was nominated but did not win.

2019 Drama League Awards
Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical: Be More Chill was nominated but did not win.

2019 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding New Broadway Musical: Be More Chill was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding New Score: Joe Iconis was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Projection Design: Alex Basco Koch was nominated but did not win.

2019 Tony Awards
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre: Joe Iconis was nominated but did not win.

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