West Side Story - Broadway Creative Team

Leonard Bernstein was born on August 25, 1918, in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He took piano lessons as a boy and attended the Garrison and Boston Latin Schools. At Harvard University, he studied with Walter Piston, Edward Burlingame-Hill, and A. Tillman Merritt, among others. Before graduating in 1939, he made an unofficial conducting debut with his own incidental music to "The Birds," and directed and performed in Marc Blitzstein's "The Cradle Will Rock." Then at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, he studied piano with Isabella Vengerova, conducting with Fritz Reiner, and orchestration with Randall Thompson. In 1940, he studied at the ... read more Arthur Laurents was a renowned American playwright, screenwriter, and director who was born on July 14, 1917, in Brooklyn, New York. He was a prominent figure in the entertainment industry for over six decades and was widely regarded as one of the most influential playwrights of his generation. Laurents began his career in the theater as an assistant to playwrights such as Robert E. Sherwood and Moss Hart. He made his Broadway debut as a playwright in 1945 with the play "Home of the Brave," which dealt with anti-Semitism in the military. The play was a critical and commercial success and ... read more JEROME ROBBINS (born 11 October 1918 in New York City) was the younger of two children of Harry Rabinowitz, who emigrated to America from Poland in 1904, and his wife Lena Rips. Rabinowitz was at first a shopkeeper with a delicatessen on the Upper East Side of Manhattan; in the 1920’s he moved the family to Jersey City and then to Weehawken, New Jersey, where he and a brother-in-law established the Comfort Corset Company. Young Jerome, who showed an early aptitude for music, dancing, and theatrics, attended schools in Weehawken and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1935. Intending ... read more Broadway design credits include: The Addams Family, Rock of Ages, West Side Story (Revival), Bye Bye Bye Birdie, Dreamgirls (National Tour); Memphis, Gypsy (with Patti LuPone), 9 to 5 (Mark Taper Forum and Broadway), Young Frankenstein (Broadway and National Tour), The Little Mermaid, The Royal Family, After Miss Julie, Accent on Youth, Guys and Dolls (Revival), 33 Variations, Pal Joey, A Catered Affair, Minsky’s (Pre-Broadway/Mark Taper Forum), Curtains, Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas! (Broadway and National Tour), Sunday In The Park With George, Company, Sweeney Todd, Dangerous Liaisons, The Ritz, Cymbeline, The Country Girl (Frances McDormand), The New ... read more Leonard Bernstein was born on August 25, 1918, in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He took piano lessons as a boy and attended the Garrison and Boston Latin Schools. At Harvard University, he studied with Walter Piston, Edward Burlingame-Hill, and A. Tillman Merritt, among others. Before graduating in 1939, he made an unofficial conducting debut with his own incidental music to "The Birds," and directed and performed in Marc Blitzstein's "The Cradle Will Rock." Then at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, he studied piano with Isabella Vengerova, conducting with Fritz Reiner, and orchestration with Randall Thompson. In 1940, he studied at the ... read more Binkley's Broadway credits includeSummer: The Donna Summer Musical, Escape to Margaritaville, Come From Away (2017 Tony nomination), A Bronx Tale, Hamilton (2016 Tony winner/2018 Olivier winner), After Midnight (2014 Tony nomination), How to Succeed... (2011 Tony nomination), West Side Story (2009 Tony nomination), In the Heights (2008 Tony nomination), Jersey Boys (2006 Tony winner), Avenue Q, Parade, Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993 Tony nomination). He is also the Co-Founder/Resident Lighting Designer for Parsons Dance. 1993 Sir Laurence Olivier and Canadian Dora Awards for Kiss of the Spider Woman. 2006 and 2016 Henry Hewes Design Awards for Jersey Boys and ... read more JOSHUA BUSCHER made his Broadway debut with the 2009 revival of West Side Story originating the role of Diesel. Joshua is a graduate with a BA in Musical Theatre from UNC. Regional: Seven Brides... (Daniel) and Swing at the Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma. ... read more Lisa Dawn Cave is a stage manager who has worked on The Lion King, Frozen, Fun Home, Aladdin, West Side Story, and more. ... read more Hardt Casting, LLC ... read more Music Coordination for Broadway: The Book of Mormon, American Idiot, The Addams Family, Million Dollar Quartet, Memphis, Billy Elliot, Wicked, Mamma Mia, The Lion King; National Tour coordination: Les Misérables, Next To Normal, 9 to 5, Billy Elliot, In The Heights, Shrek, The Lion King, West Side Story, Wicked. Barbra Streisand Concerts (1994-2007). ... read more Credits: Evita; Sugar Babies; Me and My Girl; The Goat (Tony Award); Movin’ Out (Tony Award); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Cyrano; Dirty Dancing; West Side Story; 9 to 5; The Addams Family; Merchant of Venice; Race; Promises, Promises; Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark; Priscilla Queen of the Desert; and Hello, Dolly! (Tony Award). ... read more Stewart F. Lane is a Tony Award-winning Broadway producer, director, and author. He was born on March 16, 1947, in New York City, and grew up in Great Neck, Long Island. Lane attended the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration. He later earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in theater from Columbia University. Lane began his career in the entertainment industry as an actor, appearing in off-Broadway productions and regional theater. ... read more Arthur Laurents was a renowned American playwright, screenwriter, and director who was born on July 14, 1917, in Brooklyn, New York. He was a prominent figure in the entertainment industry for over six decades and was widely regarded as one of the most influential playwrights of his generation. Laurents began his career in the theater as an assistant to playwrights such as Robert E. Sherwood and Moss Hart. He made his Broadway debut as a playwright in 1945 with the play "Home of the Brave," which dealt with anti-Semitism in the military. The play was a critical and commercial success and ... read more Marina Lazzaretto is a New York based Canadian. She has appeared in many productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway, on Television and in National Touring Productions. ... read more Winner of three Tony Awards and London’s Olivier Award, producer Hal Luftig has worked on and Off-Broadway for the past 25 years. Broadway: Evita, Catch Me If You Can, Come Fly Away, West Side Story, All My Sons, Legally Blonde, The Times They Are A-Changin’, Whoopi, Movin’ Out, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Annie Get Your Gun, High Society, The Diary of Anne Frank, Play On!, The King and I, Moon Over Buffalo, Angels in America, Jelly’s Last Jam, Death and the Maiden, The Secret Garden. Hal has an M.F.A. from Columbia University/ ... read more Kevin McCollum has received the Tony Award for Best Musical for "In the Heights" (2008), "Avenue Q" (2004), and "Rent" (1996), which also won the Pulitzer Prize. He is currently represented on Broadway with the Olivier Award-winning "The Play That Goes Wrong." He produced "Something Rotten!" (Broadway, National Tour), "Hand to God" ( Broadway, West End), "Motown: The Musical" (Broadway, West End, and National Tour), "The Drowsy Chaperone" in 2006, which won five Tony Awards, Baz Luhrmann's production of "Puccini's La Boheme" in 2002, [title of show] in 2008, the touring and Broadway productions of Irving Berlin's "White Christmas," the ... read more Roy Miller is a prolific Broadway producer, with over 35 productions to his name. He has been involved in some of the most successful shows of recent years, including "The Producers," "The Book of Mormon," and "Kinky Boots." Miller has also produced a number of Off-Broadway productions, as well as films and television shows. Miller's career in the entertainment industry began in the 1980s, when he worked as a talent agent for William Morris. He later became a producer, and his first Broadway credit was as a co-producer of the 1995 revival of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." ... read more Lin-Manuel Miranda is an American songwriter, librettist, actor, singer, filmmaker, and rapper. He created the Broadway musicals In the Heights (2005) and Hamilton (2015), and the soundtracks for the animated films Moana (2016), Vivo, and Encanto (both 2021). His additional Broadway credits include New York, New York (Additional Lyrics, Tony nomination for Best Musical), Freestyle Love Supreme (Co-Founder, Guest Star, Special Tony Award Recipient), Bring It On: The Musical (co-composer/co-lyricist, Tony nomination for Best Musical), and West Side Story (2009 revival, Spanish translations). He has received numerous accolades including a Pulitzer Prize, three Tony Awards, two Laurence Olivier Awards, two ... 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 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 Tour: A Night with Janis Joplin, Vocalocity, Walking Dead Experience, The Little Prince, and Cirque Du Soleil’s Paramour in Germany. Out of Shadowland (Disney Tokyo Sea). NY: NBCU upfront at Radio City Music Hall, Sanctuary, Tail! Spin!, Useless, Lady Day at the Little Shubert Theatre, The Mysterious Hat, Brazil Brazil, Knuckleheads Zoo and Black Violin at the New Victory Theatre, Michael Count’s Moses in Egypt for New York City Opera, Play/Date at Fat Baby plus The Ride, Andrea Thome’s Pinkolandia, Lourds Lane’s Chix 6, John Maran’s A Raw Space and A Strange and Separate People, Stephen Stahl’s Straight to Hell ... read more RON PIRETTI Film: Darker than Blue – Prison Official, Straight Outta Thompkins – Undercover Cop, American Gangster – Judge. Fight Director on Broadway: The Last Ship, West Side Story, In the Heights, The Miracle Worker, Bengal Tiger at the Bagdad Zoo and The Performers. As an actor Ron appeared as Officer Krupke in the Broadway production of West Side Story; regionally, in such roles as a Clown in 39 Steps as well as appearing in film and TV. He has taught acting and/or stage combat for the Actors Studio at Pace University, Marymount Manhattan College and Wagner College. ... read more Ramin was an orchestrator, arranger, and composer, who won an Oscar and a Grammy for his work on the film version of West Side Story. He was also one of the three orchestrators on the original Broadway production of the show. Though West Side Story may be the most notable, Ramin also worked on many other Broadway shows such as Wonderful Town (1953), Say, Darling (1958), Gypsy (1959), The Girls Against the Boys (1959), Vintage '60 (1960), Wildcat (1960), The Conquering Hero (1961), Kwamina (1961), I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1962), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to ... read more JEROME ROBBINS (born 11 October 1918 in New York City) was the younger of two children of Harry Rabinowitz, who emigrated to America from Poland in 1904, and his wife Lena Rips. Rabinowitz was at first a shopkeeper with a delicatessen on the Upper East Side of Manhattan; in the 1920’s he moved the family to Jersey City and then to Weehawken, New Jersey, where he and a brother-in-law established the Comfort Corset Company. Young Jerome, who showed an early aptitude for music, dancing, and theatrics, attended schools in Weehawken and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1935. Intending ... read more Now in his 23rd season at George Street Playhouse, artistic director David Saint has directed thirty five mainstage productions, most recently American Son, Clever Little Lies, Outside Mulingar, Good People, Marlo Thomas and Keith Carradine in Arthur Laurents’ New Year’s Eve, Matthew Arkin in Donald Marguiles’ Sight Unseen, Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys, William Finn's landmark musical Falsettos, Joan Vail Thorne's The Things You Least Expect, the film noir musical Gunmetal Blues, Inspecting Carol, the world premiere of Arthur Laurents’ 2 Lives, The Last Five Years, Lend Me a Tenor and the world premiere of Charles Evered's Celadine starring Amy ... read more Broadway: Falsettos; American Psycho; The Visit; A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder; Sondheim on Sondheim; A Little Night Music; Gypsy (with Patti LuPone); Radio Golf; John Doyle's production of Sweeney Todd; Gem of the Ocean; Pacific Overtures; Assassins; Into the Woods; Topdog/Underdog; Dirty Blonde; Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk. He has composed scores for the Broadway productions of The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, and Dan Hurlin's Disfarmer (St. Ann's Warehouse). Awards: four Tony Award nominations, four Drama Desk Awards. ... read more Matt Shea is originally from Ohio but now lives in Los Angeles where he originated roles in Ball Yards (Zephyr Theatre), Monkey Business (Self-Realization Fellowship, Hollywood Temple), Greeks 6-Trogans 5 (Whitefire Theatre), and Theatre Movement Bazaar’s The Treatment (The Theatre @ Boston Court). In Chicago, Matt very much enjoyed working at Bailiwick Repertory in such shows as Son of Fire, Pope Joan, and Fairy Tales for which he received a Jeff Nomination. He has been seen on Broadway in Ragtime and Off-Broadway in Abingdon Theatre Company’s productions of Zona, The Ghost Of Greenbriar and The Appearance Of Impropriety. ... read more Broadway: Evita, How To Succeed; Billy Elliot (u/s Older Billy); West Side Story. Training: ABT; The Juilliard School. Regional: MUNY; 2010 Kennedy Center Honors. Winner: Australian Dancer of the Year. ... read more Broadway credits include Cats, Take Me Along, Cabaret, Jesus Christ Superstar, Gypsy, The Boy From Oz, La Cage aux Folles, A Chorus Line, West Side Story, Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway, Annie, On Your Feet!, and many others. Mr. Vaccariello has collaborated with Hugh Jackman as his Musical Director for fifteen years. ... read more David C. Woolard has designed costumes at most of the major theatres in America as well as productions all over the world. He has dressed many personalities including Jane Fonda, Betty Buckley, Liz Mikel, Quentin Tarantino and Billy Crystal among others. Broadway credits include BRONX BOMBERS, FIRST DATE, LYSISTRATA JONES, WEST SIDE STORY, Jane Fonda’s clothing for 33 VARIATIONS, DIVIDING THE ESTATE, THE FARNSWORTH INVENTION, RING OF FIRE, ALL SHOOK UP, THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW (2001 Tony Award nomination) VOICES IN THE DARK, THE WHO’S TOMMY (1993 Tony and Olivier Award nominations) BELLS ARE RINGING, MARLENE, WAIT UNTIL DARK, Horton Foote’s ... read more