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Production Staff

Gary Adler Composer
Lyricist
Gary has been working as a theater musician in New York for over 25 years. As a pianist and conductor, his credits include Avenue Q, Kinky Boots, Next to Normal and The Radio City Christmas Spectacular. As a writer, he wrote music and lyrics for the long-running Off-Broadway musical Altar Boyz, for which he received two Drama Desk Award nominations. Other writing credits include Disney Channel’s “Johnny and the Sprites” and a number of contributions to the “Carols for a Cure” album series. ... read more
Ken Davenport Conceiver
Broadway: Groundhog Day (Tony nomination), The Play That Goes Wrong, Spring Awakening (Tony nomination), It's Only a Play, Macbeth starring Alan Cumming, Godspell, Kinky Boots (Broadway - Tony Award, National Tour, Toronto, Australia, and West End), The Visit (Tony nomination), Mothers and Sons (Tony nomination), The Bridges of Madison County (National Tour), Allegiance, Chinglish, Oleanna starring Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles, Speed-the-Plow, Will Ferrell's You're Welcome America (Tony nomination), Blithe Spirit (Broadway, West End and National Tour), and 13. Off-Broadway: Daddy Long Legs, Altar Boyz (Co-Conceiver), My First Time (Author), The Awesome 80s Prom (Creator), and Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, ... read more
Kevin Del Aguila Bookwriter
KEVIN DEL AGUILA received a Tony nomination and a Drama Desk Award for his performance as Osgood in Some Like It Hot on Broadway. Other Broadway credits: Frozen (Oaken), Peter and the Starcatcher (Smee), Rocky (everybody in Philadelphia). Off-Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare in the Park), Jacques Brel, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater (Encores!). Film/TV: “Peg+Cat,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Deadbeat” and Disney’s Frozen. In his spare time, Kevin is an Emmy-winning TV writer, lyricist for the stage and screen, and book-writer of the musicals Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Dog Man, Madagascar and Altar Boyz. ... read more
Marc Kessler Conceiver
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Lyricist
David Gersten & Associates Press Representative
Press Representative
Gary Adler Vocal Music Arranger
Vocal Music Arranger
Gary has been working as a theater musician in New York for over 25 years. As a pianist and conductor, his credits include Avenue Q, Kinky Boots, Next to Normal and The Radio City Christmas Spectacular. As a writer, he wrote music and lyrics for the long-running Off-Broadway musical Altar Boyz, for which he received two Drama Desk Award nominations. Other writing credits include Disney Channel’s “Johnny and the Sprites” and a number of contributions to the “Carols for a Cure” album series. ... read more
Stafford Arima Director
Director
Gail Brassard Costume Designer
Costume Designer
Casting Director
Andrew Cappelli Production Manager
Production Manager
Drums
Clayton Craddock's drumming career spans decades and numerous Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals. Clayton is currently the drummer of the Broadway Show Ain't Too Proud-The Life And Times Of the Temptations now playing at the Imperial Theatre. Heavily influenced by 70's soul and funk, Clayton learned from the best in the business about groove, feel, and consistency. Harvey Mason (Herbie Hancock), Jerome Brailey (P-Funk), Jonathan "Sugarfoot" Moffet (Michael Jackson), Larry Blackmon (Cameo), and Ed Greene (Barry White) were influenced his approach to the drums. Later, when he discovered rock, metal, fusion, and jazz, he drew inspiration for his playing style ... read more
Ken Davenport Producer
Producer
Broadway: Groundhog Day (Tony nomination), The Play That Goes Wrong, Spring Awakening (Tony nomination), It's Only a Play, Macbeth starring Alan Cumming, Godspell, Kinky Boots (Broadway - Tony Award, National Tour, Toronto, Australia, and West End), The Visit (Tony nomination), Mothers and Sons (Tony nomination), The Bridges of Madison County (National Tour), Allegiance, Chinglish, Oleanna starring Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles, Speed-the-Plow, Will Ferrell's You're Welcome America (Tony nomination), Blithe Spirit (Broadway, West End and National Tour), and 13. Off-Broadway: Daddy Long Legs, Altar Boyz (Co-Conceiver), My First Time (Author), The Awesome 80s Prom (Creator), and Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, ... read more
Carlos L. Encinias Dance Captain
Broadway: Les Miserables (Fuielly), Mamma Mia! (us. Eddie/Father A), Good Vibrations (us. Class President/Jan). Off-Broadway: Altar Boyz (Juan/Abe). Regional: Vices (Man 1). ... read more
Roy Gabay General Manager
General Manager
Producing credits include: The Little Dog Laughed; Metamorphoses; Frozen; A View From the Bridge (Tony® Award); How I Learned to Drive (Pulitzer Prize); Wit (Pulitzer Prize); Three Tall Women (Pulitzer Prize). Upcoming: Behind the Limelight; Cassandra’s Angel. ... read more
Matt Gallagher Keyboards
Currently serving as Universal Music Associate for Hamilton Broadway, Chicago, 1st and 2nd National Tours. Broadway, Assoc. Conductor: Doctor Zhivago, Hands on a Hardbody, Jesus Christ Superstar (2012), 9 to 5, Legally Blonde, High Fidelity. Off-B’way, Music Director: Cymbeline (The Public), Tick, Tick… Boom! (Encores!), The Last Five Years (Second Stage), Altar Boyz (New World Stages), Zanna, Don't! (Houseman Theater). MD/arranger: Amanda Green, Yandura & Melocik, Voices of Gotham, Atlantic Theater Co. Galas, Phish at MSG (NYE 2010). Mattgallaghermd.com ... read more
Christopher Gattelli Choreographer
Choreographer
CHRISTOPHER GATTELLI was awarded the 2012 Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for his choreography in Newsies. Broadway (choreographer): The King & I (Tony nomination), South Pacific (Tony and Outer Critics Circle nominations), My Fair Lady, War Paint, Amazing Grace, Casa Valentina, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Sunday in the Park With George, Godspell, The Ritz, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, 13, High Fidelity. Off- Broadway: Dogfight (Lortel Award), Altar Boyz (Lortel Award, Callaway Award, Drama Desk Nom.), Bat Boy: The Musical (Lortel Award), 10 Million Miles, Adrift in Maco, tick,tick...BOOM!, I Love You Because. ... read more
Robyn Goodman Producer
Producer
Robyn Goodman won Tony Awards for Best Musical as producer of AVENUE Q and IN THE HEIGHTS. Her other Broadway productions include METAMORPHOSES and WEST SIDE STORY. She is a producer of AVENUE Q at New World Stages, and produced ALTAR BOYZ Off-Broadway. She is a founding Board member of The Ride and Artistic Consultant to Roundabout Theatre Company. Robyn was co-founder of Second Stage Theatre, serving as artistic director for 13 years. ... read more
Walt Grossman Producer
(In Association With)
Producer
(In Association With)
Ruth Hendel Producer
(In Association With)
Producer
(In Association With)
Ruth's Broadway credits include: In The Heights; Passing Strange; Legally Blonde; Kiki & Herb Alive on Broadway; High Fidelity; The Lieutenant of Inishmore; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Caroline, Or Change; A Raisin in the Sun; Golda's Balcony; Frozen; ‘Night Mother; Steel Magnolias; Barefoot in the Park; Metamorphoses. Off-Broadway: Altar Boyz; Our Lady of 121st Street; The Exonerated; Red Light Winter; tick tick…Boom!. Los Angeles: As Much As You Can. Ruth is on the boards of the LAByrith Theater, The Play Company and the Yale School of Drama Leadership Committee; She is vice-chair, and Stephen is Treasurer of the ... read more
Peter Hylenski Sound Designer
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
Sara Jaramillo Production Stage Manager
Sharon Karmazin Producer
(In Association With)
Producer
(In Association With)
Recent Broadway credits include Meteor Shower, The Band's Visit, Marvin's Room, Dear Evan Hansen, Eclipsed, Something Rotten!, Honeymoon in Vegas, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and Hands on a Hardbody. ... read more
Doug Katsaros Synth Programmer
Orchestrator
Orchestrator
Natasha Katz Lighting Designer
Lighting Designer
Natasha Katz is a New York-based lighting designer. She is a six-time Tony Award winner who has designed extensively for theatre, opera, dance, concerts, and permanent lighting installations around the world. Her recent Broadway credits include: Diana, The Music Man, All My Sons, Burn This, The Prom, Frozen, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Cats, School of Rock, An American in Paris, Aladdin, Skylight, The Glass Menagerie, Once, Follies, The Coast of Utopia: Salvage, and Aida. ... read more
Stephen Kocis Associate Producer
Associate Producer
Anna Louizos Scenic Designer
Scenic Designer
Anna Louizos is an American scenic designer and art director. She is known for her Tony Award-nominated sets for the musicals In the Heights and High Fidelity, as well as the London, Broadway, Las Vegas, and touring productions of Avenue Q. Louizos was represented on Broadway with Cinderella at the Broadway Theatre in 2013-15. ... read more
Josh Marquette Wig Designer
Hair Designer
Broadway/Off-Broadway: The Book of Mormon, Elf, The Drowsy Chaperone, To Be Or Not To Be, Pig Farm, The Trailer Park Musical, Altar Boyz. West Coast: Robin & the 7 Hoods, Peep Show, Minsky's, Vanities. National Tours: Drowsy, Barbie Live!, Trip of Love. Associate Hair Designer: Mamma Mia! (North America), The Wedding Singer (Broadway), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Tour). Other NY: Show Boat @ Carnegie Hall, Encores! No, No, Nanette & Follies, numerous productions at Juilliard. ... read more
David Matos Guitar
Guitar
Simon Matthews Sound Designer
Sound Designer
Matt Murphy Producer
(In Association With)
Producer
(In Association With)
Mark Shacket Producer
(In Association With)
Producer
(In Association With)
Lynne Shankel Music Arranger
(Additional Arrangements)
Orchestrator
Musical Director
Keyboards
Conductor
Dance Music Arranger
Keyboards
Orchestrator
Conductor
Musical Director
Pat Sosnow Production Stage Manager
Production Stage Manager
Broadway: Evita, How To Succeed; Promises, Promises; Steady Rain; 33 Variations; ...Millie; Sexaholix...; Kiss Me Kate; Kat and the Kings; Freak; Beauty and the Beast; Angels in America; I Hate Hamlet; Eastern Standard. Roundabout, NYSF, MTC, Altar Boyz, MTC. ... read more
Michael Patrick Walker Vocal Music Arranger
Vocal Music Arranger

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Awards and Nominations

2005 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical: 0 won.

2005 The Lortels
Outstanding Choreographer: Christopher Gattelli won.
Outstanding Musical: Ken Davenport and Robyn Goodman, in association with Walt Grossman, Ruth Hendel, Sharon Karmazin, Matt Murphy and Mark Shacket was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Sound Design: Simon Matthews was nominated but did not win.

2005 Theatre World Awards
Performance: Tyler Maynard won.

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