PLAYWRIGHT - MARTIN CASELLA
THEATER: (Plays) The Irish Curse (Off-Broadway, regionals. London, Edinburgh, Dublin; Bratislava, Prague, Vancouver; FringeNYC; published by Samuel French), Directions for Restoring the Apparently Dead (World Premiere in October, 2013 at Chicago’s Theatre 773), Scituate, Mates, Paydirt, Desert Fire, Beautiful Dreamer, Grand Junction and George Bush Goes to Hell. (Musicals – bookwriter) Co-wrote Play It Cool (Off-Broadway), Paper Moon, Happy Holidays, Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll, Saint Heaven, Doo-Dah! His plays and musicals have been performed all over the world, from the US and Canada, to Japan, to the UK, Brazil and many countries in Europe. Among the theaters in the US where his work has been done are Goodspeed Opera House, Fords Theater, Walnut Street Theater, the Pasadena Playhouse, Musical Theater of Wichita, the LA Free Public Theater, the Bailwick and the Mosiac Theater. FILM /TV: One Night Stand, directed by Talia Shire; Daddy’s Girl, HBO; and ABC’s One Life to Live. Wrote and developed scripts for Steven Spielberg, Lasse Hallstrom, Kerry Washington, Whoopi Goldberg, John Milius, Disney, Fox, Universal and Warner Brothers.
Casella has won or been nominated for the following theater awards: New York Outer Critics Circle Award nomination, Best New Off-Broadway Musical for Play It Cool; GLAAD nominations for Outstanding New LA Play for The Irish Curse and Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical for Play It Cool; Pride Play and Films’s Great Gay Play Award for Directions For Restoring the Apparently Dead; FRINGENYC Playwriting Award for The Irish Curse; Village Theater Best New Musical for Saint Heaven; Dublin International Gay Theater Festival, Best Play for The Irish Curse; Stamford Center for the Arts New Play Festival, Best New Play for Scituate; LA Dramalogue and LA WEEKLY Outstanding Play Awards for Mates;
Currently, Casella is writing the books for the stage musicals Pop Star and Mary Modern; the teleplay of the British animated feature The Land of Sometimes and co-wrote the hour-long TV drama pilot Mister. As an educator, he taught playwriting at his alma mater Cal Arts, and for the last eight years at The Harvey Milk High School in NYC. Member of The Dramatists Guild; Writers Guild of America, West; SAG/AFTRA; AEA. www.MartinCasella.weebly.com
THEATER: (Plays) The Irish Curse (Off-Broadway, regionals. London, Edinburgh, Dublin; Bratislava, Prague, Vancouver; FringeNYC; published by Samuel French), Directions for Restoring the Apparently Dead (World Premiere in October, 2013 at Chicago’s Theatre 773), Scituate, Mates, Paydirt, Desert Fire, Beautiful Dreamer, Grand Junction and George Bush Goes to Hell. (Musicals – bookwriter) Co-wrote Play It Cool (Off-Broadway), Paper Moon, Happy Holidays, Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll, Saint Heaven, Doo-Dah! His plays and musicals have been performed all over the world, from the US and Canada, to Japan, to the UK, Brazil and many countries in Europe. Among the theaters in the US where his work has been done are Goodspeed Opera House, Fords Theater, Walnut Street Theater, the Pasadena Playhouse, Musical Theater of Wichita, the LA Free Public Theater, the Bailwick and the Mosiac Theater. FILM /TV: One Night Stand, directed by Talia Shire; Daddy’s Girl, HBO; and ABC’s One Life to Live. Wrote and developed scripts for Steven Spielberg, Lasse Hallstrom, Kerry Washington, Whoopi Goldberg, John Milius, Disney, Fox, Universal and Warner Brothers.
Casella has won or been nominated for the following theater awards: New York Outer Critics Circle Award nomination, Best New Off-Broadway Musical for Play It Cool; GLAAD nominations for Outstanding New LA Play for The Irish Curse and Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical for Play It Cool; Pride Play and Films’s Great Gay Play Award for Directions For Restoring the Apparently Dead; FRINGENYC Playwriting Award for The Irish Curse; Village Theater Best New Musical for Saint Heaven; Dublin International Gay Theater Festival, Best Play for The Irish Curse; Stamford Center for the Arts New Play Festival, Best New Play for Scituate; LA Dramalogue and LA WEEKLY Outstanding Play Awards for Mates;
Currently, Casella is writing the books for the stage musicals Pop Star and Mary Modern; the teleplay of the British animated feature The Land of Sometimes and co-wrote the hour-long TV drama pilot Mister. As an educator, he taught playwriting at his alma mater Cal Arts, and for the last eight years at The Harvey Milk High School in NYC. Member of The Dramatists Guild; Writers Guild of America, West; SAG/AFTRA; AEA. www.MartinCasella.weebly.com
DIRECTOR - ALAN MURAOKA
New York credits include: Kung Fu (Assistant Director for Leigh Silverman-Signature Theatre), American Songbook: Ann Harada (Lincoln Center Theatre), Falsettoland (NAATCO-Vineyard Theatre), Awesomer & Awesomer!!! (Triad Theatre), Telly Leung: Playlist (54 Below), John Tartaglia AD-LIBerty (Joe's Pub) Who Loves Ya’ Baby (Laurie Beechman Theatre), Grand Hotel (NYU/Cap 21), Karaoke Stories (IMUA Theater Company), Christmas Eve With Christmas Eve 1-4 (BC/EFA Benefits at the Midtown Theatre & XL Nightclub) Empty Handed (Musicals Tonight) and cabarets for Tony-nominated actress Stephanie D'Abruzzo and Ann Harada. Regionally: Once On This Island (Olney Theatre), The King and I (Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma & Harbor Lights Theatre), Xanadu (Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma), Disney's High School Musical (Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, MUNY, Casa Manana), Disney's High School Musical 2 (Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma), Urinetown (Trinity University), and Associate Director for Up In The Air (Kennedy Center). He has also directed for the Public Theater, the Village Theater in Seattle, and a three city Taiwanese tour of a rock musical called Making Tracks for Second Generation. Television, Alan has directed for Sesame Street and for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC (Sesame Street float w/Jimmy Fallon & The Roots). Mr. Muraoka is a member of the SDC and the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab. In August of this year he will be directing the World Premiere of Martin Casella’s play The Report, at The New York International Fringe Festival, and developing new musical projects with composers Gary Adler, Phoebe Kreutz, Keith Dale Gordon, Jason Ma, and Christine Toy Johnson. www.alanmuraoka.net
New York credits include: Kung Fu (Assistant Director for Leigh Silverman-Signature Theatre), American Songbook: Ann Harada (Lincoln Center Theatre), Falsettoland (NAATCO-Vineyard Theatre), Awesomer & Awesomer!!! (Triad Theatre), Telly Leung: Playlist (54 Below), John Tartaglia AD-LIBerty (Joe's Pub) Who Loves Ya’ Baby (Laurie Beechman Theatre), Grand Hotel (NYU/Cap 21), Karaoke Stories (IMUA Theater Company), Christmas Eve With Christmas Eve 1-4 (BC/EFA Benefits at the Midtown Theatre & XL Nightclub) Empty Handed (Musicals Tonight) and cabarets for Tony-nominated actress Stephanie D'Abruzzo and Ann Harada. Regionally: Once On This Island (Olney Theatre), The King and I (Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma & Harbor Lights Theatre), Xanadu (Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma), Disney's High School Musical (Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, MUNY, Casa Manana), Disney's High School Musical 2 (Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma), Urinetown (Trinity University), and Associate Director for Up In The Air (Kennedy Center). He has also directed for the Public Theater, the Village Theater in Seattle, and a three city Taiwanese tour of a rock musical called Making Tracks for Second Generation. Television, Alan has directed for Sesame Street and for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC (Sesame Street float w/Jimmy Fallon & The Roots). Mr. Muraoka is a member of the SDC and the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab. In August of this year he will be directing the World Premiere of Martin Casella’s play The Report, at The New York International Fringe Festival, and developing new musical projects with composers Gary Adler, Phoebe Kreutz, Keith Dale Gordon, Jason Ma, and Christine Toy Johnson. www.alanmuraoka.net
PRODUCER - BARRY GORALNICK
An avid theatre enthusiast, Goralnick founded the New York-based Fresh Produce, Inc. theatre production company in 2001. The company’s mission is to produce new musicals and plays by American writers. Goralnick was on the producing team of the Tony-nominated, Pulitzer-prize winning Broadway play Disgraced, and the development team of Chasing Rainbows, a new musical about the early life of Judy Garland, with music from the MGM Feist/Robbins catalog. He also produced Eve-olution (by Hilary Illick and Jennifer Krier, starring Law & Order’s Mary McCormack and The Cosby Show’s Sabrina La Beauf) at the Cherry Lane Theater; The Irish Curse (by Martin Casella) at the Soho Playhouse; Saint Heaven (starring Tony-winner Chuck Cooper and Tony nominee Montego Glover, book by Martin Casella, music and lyrics by Keith Gordon) at the Stamford Center of the Arts, CT; Scituate (by Martin Casella) at the Barrow Group Theater; and How to Marry a Millionaire (music and lyrics by Keith Gordon). He is on the Board of the Edge Theater Company and studied at the Commercial Theater Institute. Originally trained as an architect at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Barry Goralnick also attended Brandeis University and the University of Reading in England.
An avid theatre enthusiast, Goralnick founded the New York-based Fresh Produce, Inc. theatre production company in 2001. The company’s mission is to produce new musicals and plays by American writers. Goralnick was on the producing team of the Tony-nominated, Pulitzer-prize winning Broadway play Disgraced, and the development team of Chasing Rainbows, a new musical about the early life of Judy Garland, with music from the MGM Feist/Robbins catalog. He also produced Eve-olution (by Hilary Illick and Jennifer Krier, starring Law & Order’s Mary McCormack and The Cosby Show’s Sabrina La Beauf) at the Cherry Lane Theater; The Irish Curse (by Martin Casella) at the Soho Playhouse; Saint Heaven (starring Tony-winner Chuck Cooper and Tony nominee Montego Glover, book by Martin Casella, music and lyrics by Keith Gordon) at the Stamford Center of the Arts, CT; Scituate (by Martin Casella) at the Barrow Group Theater; and How to Marry a Millionaire (music and lyrics by Keith Gordon). He is on the Board of the Edge Theater Company and studied at the Commercial Theater Institute. Originally trained as an architect at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Barry Goralnick also attended Brandeis University and the University of Reading in England.
PRODUCER - SARAHBETH GROSSMAN
Is a theatrical producer and a consultant in entertainment marketing, producing and non-profit management under her Sobelle Productions banner. Her Broadway credits include An American in Paris (2015 Tony Nomination for Best Musical), Ann written by and starring Holland Taylor, and Stick Fly written by Lydia Diamond and directed by Kenny Leon. Sarahbeth was also on Nelle Nugent’s producing team on Time Stands Still written by Donald Margulies and directed by Dan Sullivan, as well as John Leguizamo’s Ghetto Klown on Broadway. She worked with producer Jane Dubin on The Umbrellas of Cherbourg in London. Ms. Grossman was a producer on From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert for Sandy Hook which was the Broadway community’s response to the tragic shootings in Newtown, CT. Off-Broadway Ms. Grossman produced the highly acclaimed comedy, The Irish Curse by Martin Casella directed by Matt Lenz, which is now being licensed across the globe. She served as Executive Producer on the New York premiere of Ten Chimneys by Jeffrey Hatcher and the 60th anniversary revival of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, both at the Peccadillo Theater Company. In July 2013 she co-produced the sold-out and acclaimed run of Bend in the Road, the “Anne of Green Gables” musical, in the New York Musical Theatre Festival and is now putting together a national tour of the musical. Ms. Grossman served as Associate Managing Director of Yale Repertory Theatre and as Producing Director of the LA Stage & Film Company, where she produced the LA Premiere of Time on Fire: A Comedy of Terrors by Evan Handler. Film/television work includes stints at Showtime Networks, Viacom Pictures, production work on Me and Veronica directed by Don Scardino, BOPHA! directed by Morgan Freeman, Strapped directed by Forest Whitaker, and Three Wishes and Out to Sea (Associate Producer) directed by Martha Coolidge. She served as Vice President of Development & Production for Ms. Coolidge’s Ozma Productions under a television deal with Pearson Entertainment. Ms. Grossman was Executive Director of Global Brand Strategy & Business Development at Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment and Vice President of Marketing Communications at Variety prior to forming Sobelle Productions. Ms. Grossman holds a B.A. in Theater Arts from UCLA and an M.F.A. in Theater Management from the Yale School of Drama. She is a proud member of the Producers Guild of America and the National Association of Musical Theater.
Is a theatrical producer and a consultant in entertainment marketing, producing and non-profit management under her Sobelle Productions banner. Her Broadway credits include An American in Paris (2015 Tony Nomination for Best Musical), Ann written by and starring Holland Taylor, and Stick Fly written by Lydia Diamond and directed by Kenny Leon. Sarahbeth was also on Nelle Nugent’s producing team on Time Stands Still written by Donald Margulies and directed by Dan Sullivan, as well as John Leguizamo’s Ghetto Klown on Broadway. She worked with producer Jane Dubin on The Umbrellas of Cherbourg in London. Ms. Grossman was a producer on From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert for Sandy Hook which was the Broadway community’s response to the tragic shootings in Newtown, CT. Off-Broadway Ms. Grossman produced the highly acclaimed comedy, The Irish Curse by Martin Casella directed by Matt Lenz, which is now being licensed across the globe. She served as Executive Producer on the New York premiere of Ten Chimneys by Jeffrey Hatcher and the 60th anniversary revival of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, both at the Peccadillo Theater Company. In July 2013 she co-produced the sold-out and acclaimed run of Bend in the Road, the “Anne of Green Gables” musical, in the New York Musical Theatre Festival and is now putting together a national tour of the musical. Ms. Grossman served as Associate Managing Director of Yale Repertory Theatre and as Producing Director of the LA Stage & Film Company, where she produced the LA Premiere of Time on Fire: A Comedy of Terrors by Evan Handler. Film/television work includes stints at Showtime Networks, Viacom Pictures, production work on Me and Veronica directed by Don Scardino, BOPHA! directed by Morgan Freeman, Strapped directed by Forest Whitaker, and Three Wishes and Out to Sea (Associate Producer) directed by Martha Coolidge. She served as Vice President of Development & Production for Ms. Coolidge’s Ozma Productions under a television deal with Pearson Entertainment. Ms. Grossman was Executive Director of Global Brand Strategy & Business Development at Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment and Vice President of Marketing Communications at Variety prior to forming Sobelle Productions. Ms. Grossman holds a B.A. in Theater Arts from UCLA and an M.F.A. in Theater Management from the Yale School of Drama. She is a proud member of the Producers Guild of America and the National Association of Musical Theater.
PRODUCER - CRAIG ZEHMS
Zehms produced Martin Casella's The Irish Curse at the NYC Fringe Festival, off-Broadway at the Soho Playhouse, and at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble in LA. He was a consultant on the productions of the play at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Dublin International Gay Theater Festival. As an actor he has performed in regional theatres such as the Ahmanson, San Diego Old Globe, Mark Taper Forum, Odyssey, Walnut Street, Goodspeed and Ford's Theatre. He is thrilled that upon his recommendation Martin Casella read the novel The Report and was inspired to write this beautiful, haunting play.
Zehms produced Martin Casella's The Irish Curse at the NYC Fringe Festival, off-Broadway at the Soho Playhouse, and at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble in LA. He was a consultant on the productions of the play at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Dublin International Gay Theater Festival. As an actor he has performed in regional theatres such as the Ahmanson, San Diego Old Globe, Mark Taper Forum, Odyssey, Walnut Street, Goodspeed and Ford's Theatre. He is thrilled that upon his recommendation Martin Casella read the novel The Report and was inspired to write this beautiful, haunting play.
CLEMMIE EVANS - PRODUCER
Clemmie is so thrilled to be part of The Report's journey. A Welsh native, she has been working in New York since graduating from The American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Some role highlights include Masha (The Seagull), Natasha (Three Sisters), Fluellen (Henry V) and Mrs Cheveley (An Ideal Husband).She has performed with many companies including Punchdrunk, Manhattan Shakespeare Project, Red Monkey Theatre Group, Sink or Swim Rep and Origin Theatre Company and can be seen in the upcoming movie Freedom, the current season of Louie on FX and this season at The Mint Theater. With love and thanks to friends and family both sides of the pond,especially M&D and DD. clemmieevans.com
Clemmie is so thrilled to be part of The Report's journey. A Welsh native, she has been working in New York since graduating from The American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Some role highlights include Masha (The Seagull), Natasha (Three Sisters), Fluellen (Henry V) and Mrs Cheveley (An Ideal Husband).She has performed with many companies including Punchdrunk, Manhattan Shakespeare Project, Red Monkey Theatre Group, Sink or Swim Rep and Origin Theatre Company and can be seen in the upcoming movie Freedom, the current season of Louie on FX and this season at The Mint Theater. With love and thanks to friends and family both sides of the pond,especially M&D and DD. clemmieevans.com
CUTTING HEDGE PRODUCTIONS
Cutting Hedge - the forefront of BritMerican Theatre. Featuring the 'Best of Both' Cutting Hedge is an British American Ensemble with a desire to tell previously untold tales! Combining a British class, style and silliness with American dreams, glory and truth Cutting Hedge brings creativity from both sides of the pond in the making of their work.
Cutting Hedge - the forefront of BritMerican Theatre. Featuring the 'Best of Both' Cutting Hedge is an British American Ensemble with a desire to tell previously untold tales! Combining a British class, style and silliness with American dreams, glory and truth Cutting Hedge brings creativity from both sides of the pond in the making of their work.
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR - ADI ESHMAN
Adi Eshman is an aspiring playwright and screenwriter living in New York City. He hails from Venice Beach, where he was afraid of the ocean for a long time. Before joining The Report, he worked at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Warner Bros, Winkler FIlms, and Killer Films. His first play, Ostropol, just received its first reading at the Alchemical Lab in association with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. He is a graduate of the Gallatin School at NYU, with a concentration in The Role of Narrative in American History, Society, and Literature. He sincerely thanks The Report team for this incredible opportunity.
Adi Eshman is an aspiring playwright and screenwriter living in New York City. He hails from Venice Beach, where he was afraid of the ocean for a long time. Before joining The Report, he worked at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Warner Bros, Winkler FIlms, and Killer Films. His first play, Ostropol, just received its first reading at the Alchemical Lab in association with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. He is a graduate of the Gallatin School at NYU, with a concentration in The Role of Narrative in American History, Society, and Literature. He sincerely thanks The Report team for this incredible opportunity.
SCENIC DESIGN - LAUREN HELPERN
Lauren Helpern has designed scenery for numerous critically acclaimed productions including: 4000 Miles at LCT3 and Lincoln Center Theater, for which she won the Lortel Award; the Pulitzer Prize winner Disgraced, also at LCT3; The Model Apartment for Primary Stages, which was on Time Magazine’s and Ben Brantley’s New York Times’ Best of 2013 theater lists; Bad Jews at the Roundabout Theater Company, which was on AM New York’s 2013 top 10 list; and BUG at Barrow Street, for which she won the Obie. Other New York credits include: Voices in the Dark on Broadway at the Longacre; Bethany at the Women’s Project (also The Old Globe in San Diego); David Mamet’s Ghost Stories, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and Chimichangas and Zoloft at the Atlantic Theater Company; Core Values and Now Circa Then at Ars Nova; Hit the Wall at Barrow Street; Escape at La Mama; Desperate Writers at the Union Square Theatre; The Irish Curse (also by playwright Marty Casella) and Underneath the Lintel at the Soho Playhouse; The Amish Project at Rattlestick (also the Pittsburgh Public Theater), The Diary of a Teenage Girl at 3LD; productions for Manhattan Theater Club, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, Cherry Lane Theatre, stageFARM, New Georges, TheatreworksUSA, The Little Orchestra Society, and National Dance Institute. Her regional credits include Blue Man Group/Live at Luxor in Las Vegas, for which she won the Eddy award (also productions in Boston and Chicago); Always…Patsy Cline in Las Vegas and Los Angeles; and shows at Prince Music Theater, Act II Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Syracuse Stage, Theater J (DC), Adirondack Theatre Festival, Denver Civic Theater, Stamford Center for the Arts, and Anchorage Opera. She has designed events and benefits for a diverse group of clients, is currently co-designing a new web series called Janice Gunter: Ghost Hunter, and is an Adjunct Professor at Pace University.
Lauren Helpern has designed scenery for numerous critically acclaimed productions including: 4000 Miles at LCT3 and Lincoln Center Theater, for which she won the Lortel Award; the Pulitzer Prize winner Disgraced, also at LCT3; The Model Apartment for Primary Stages, which was on Time Magazine’s and Ben Brantley’s New York Times’ Best of 2013 theater lists; Bad Jews at the Roundabout Theater Company, which was on AM New York’s 2013 top 10 list; and BUG at Barrow Street, for which she won the Obie. Other New York credits include: Voices in the Dark on Broadway at the Longacre; Bethany at the Women’s Project (also The Old Globe in San Diego); David Mamet’s Ghost Stories, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and Chimichangas and Zoloft at the Atlantic Theater Company; Core Values and Now Circa Then at Ars Nova; Hit the Wall at Barrow Street; Escape at La Mama; Desperate Writers at the Union Square Theatre; The Irish Curse (also by playwright Marty Casella) and Underneath the Lintel at the Soho Playhouse; The Amish Project at Rattlestick (also the Pittsburgh Public Theater), The Diary of a Teenage Girl at 3LD; productions for Manhattan Theater Club, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, Cherry Lane Theatre, stageFARM, New Georges, TheatreworksUSA, The Little Orchestra Society, and National Dance Institute. Her regional credits include Blue Man Group/Live at Luxor in Las Vegas, for which she won the Eddy award (also productions in Boston and Chicago); Always…Patsy Cline in Las Vegas and Los Angeles; and shows at Prince Music Theater, Act II Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Syracuse Stage, Theater J (DC), Adirondack Theatre Festival, Denver Civic Theater, Stamford Center for the Arts, and Anchorage Opera. She has designed events and benefits for a diverse group of clients, is currently co-designing a new web series called Janice Gunter: Ghost Hunter, and is an Adjunct Professor at Pace University.
PROPS - YUDELKA HEYER
Yudelka is an Actor/ Director and a Red Soil Productions founder an African and the Caribbean inspiredTheatre Company and works as a props mistress at the American Academy of Dramatics Arts. She enjoys every aspect of the Theatre and is thrilled to be part of this amazing production of The Report.
Yudelka is an Actor/ Director and a Red Soil Productions founder an African and the Caribbean inspiredTheatre Company and works as a props mistress at the American Academy of Dramatics Arts. She enjoys every aspect of the Theatre and is thrilled to be part of this amazing production of The Report.
COSTUME DESIGN - BRIAN HEMESATH
Bway: Honeymoon in Vegas. Television; Sesame Street (Two Emmy Awards), Saturday Night Live, The Sopranos.
Bway: Honeymoon in Vegas. Television; Sesame Street (Two Emmy Awards), Saturday Night Live, The Sopranos.
SPECIALTY MOVEMENT - DARREN LEE
Broadway: associate choreographer Pacific Overtures. Other New York productions include: History of War (NYMF), Heading East (Asia Society), Bronx Express (Fringe Festival), Hidden Sky (Prospect Theatre), Andy Warhol Was Right (NYMF), and Stephen Sondheim's 75th Birthday Celebration (New Amsterdam). Regionally he's created works for: Olney Theatre Center, Ogunquit Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, St. Louis MUNY, Paper Mill Playhouse, Music Theatre of Wichita, Glimmerglass Opera Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, McCarter Theatre, Williamstown Shakespeare Festival, Diamond Head Theatre Hawaii, Riverside Theatre (Vero Beach), UNLV Westchester Broadway, North Shore, Cincinnati Playhouse, Atlanta Alliance
, Trinity University, Texas, Lyric Theatre, La Comedia,Casa Manana, Lyric Theatre, Omaha Symphony. Disney Cruise, Holland America Cruise Line. www.darrenlee.com.
Broadway: associate choreographer Pacific Overtures. Other New York productions include: History of War (NYMF), Heading East (Asia Society), Bronx Express (Fringe Festival), Hidden Sky (Prospect Theatre), Andy Warhol Was Right (NYMF), and Stephen Sondheim's 75th Birthday Celebration (New Amsterdam). Regionally he's created works for: Olney Theatre Center, Ogunquit Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, St. Louis MUNY, Paper Mill Playhouse, Music Theatre of Wichita, Glimmerglass Opera Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, McCarter Theatre, Williamstown Shakespeare Festival, Diamond Head Theatre Hawaii, Riverside Theatre (Vero Beach), UNLV Westchester Broadway, North Shore, Cincinnati Playhouse, Atlanta Alliance
, Trinity University, Texas, Lyric Theatre, La Comedia,Casa Manana, Lyric Theatre, Omaha Symphony. Disney Cruise, Holland America Cruise Line. www.darrenlee.com.
LIGHTING DESIGN - MICHAEL O'CONNER
Recent work includes: This Is Mary Brown (La Mama), Young Frankenstein (Forestburgh Playhouse), Douglas Carter Bean's Robin Hood (Lester Martin), No One Loves Us Here (Urban Stages), Oxbow (BAM), Collin Dunne's The Turn (City Center), Jean Butler's Hurry (Danspace and PAC Dublin), Fairycakes (Lester Martin), While Chasing the Fantastic (AADA), Last Days of Cleopatra (Urban Stages), Mary Poppins (Forestburgh Playhouse), Morgan James CD Release (Le Poisson Rouge), Beauty of the Father (AADA), The Morons (Cell Theater), Fruits Unheard Of (Chashama), Who's Your Daddy? (Irish Rep), Red Valley (New 45th Street), Noctu (Irish Rep), American Clock (AADA), Jimmy Titanic (Drilling Company), Lend Me A Tenor (Gallery Players), New Works Studio (LAByrinth Theatre), Moonfleece (45th Street Theater), Oliver (David F.Clune Center), Snapshot Plays (Theatre 54), Spring Awakening (AADA). Michael is the resident lighting designer for New Light Theatre Project, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts NYC and Tere O'Connor Dance.
Recent work includes: This Is Mary Brown (La Mama), Young Frankenstein (Forestburgh Playhouse), Douglas Carter Bean's Robin Hood (Lester Martin), No One Loves Us Here (Urban Stages), Oxbow (BAM), Collin Dunne's The Turn (City Center), Jean Butler's Hurry (Danspace and PAC Dublin), Fairycakes (Lester Martin), While Chasing the Fantastic (AADA), Last Days of Cleopatra (Urban Stages), Mary Poppins (Forestburgh Playhouse), Morgan James CD Release (Le Poisson Rouge), Beauty of the Father (AADA), The Morons (Cell Theater), Fruits Unheard Of (Chashama), Who's Your Daddy? (Irish Rep), Red Valley (New 45th Street), Noctu (Irish Rep), American Clock (AADA), Jimmy Titanic (Drilling Company), Lend Me A Tenor (Gallery Players), New Works Studio (LAByrinth Theatre), Moonfleece (45th Street Theater), Oliver (David F.Clune Center), Snapshot Plays (Theatre 54), Spring Awakening (AADA). Michael is the resident lighting designer for New Light Theatre Project, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts NYC and Tere O'Connor Dance.
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT - AMY O'NEIL
Amy is a recent graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and is thrilled to be involved with The Report and FringeNY
Amy is a recent graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and is thrilled to be involved with The Report and FringeNY
PRESS REPRESENTATIVE - JIM RANDOLPH
Broadway: Crazy For You; City of Angels; Lost in Yonkers; Master Class; Saturday Night Fever; The Dinner Party; Laughter on the 23rd Floor; Tru; The Odd Couple; Jake’s Women; Dame Edna: Back With a Vengeance; The Goodbye Girl; Death and the Maiden starring Glenn Close, Richard Dreyfuss & Gene Hackman; John Leguizamo's Freak; A Streetcar Named Desire with Jessica Lange & Alec Baldwin, Our Town starring Paul Newman. Off-Broadway: RUTHLESS!, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change; Freud’s Last Session; SILENCE! The Musical; Oleanna; Over the River and Through the Woods; iLuminate; The Syringa Tree, Churchill.
Broadway: Crazy For You; City of Angels; Lost in Yonkers; Master Class; Saturday Night Fever; The Dinner Party; Laughter on the 23rd Floor; Tru; The Odd Couple; Jake’s Women; Dame Edna: Back With a Vengeance; The Goodbye Girl; Death and the Maiden starring Glenn Close, Richard Dreyfuss & Gene Hackman; John Leguizamo's Freak; A Streetcar Named Desire with Jessica Lange & Alec Baldwin, Our Town starring Paul Newman. Off-Broadway: RUTHLESS!, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change; Freud’s Last Session; SILENCE! The Musical; Oleanna; Over the River and Through the Woods; iLuminate; The Syringa Tree, Churchill.
COMPOSER - PAUL RUDOLPH
Composer, percussionist, instrument builder, and vocal music director for Sesame Street, was nominated in 2009 and 2013 for an Emmy in Music Direction. Composition clients: “Elmo's Monster Maker,” Leslie Carrara-Rudolph, Jerry Nelson, Heather Henson, Martin Robinson, the Jim Henson Company, and “Sesame Street”. He has directed vocals for “Sesame Street” TV, home video, web content, Emmy-award winning songs and live performances. Paul's percussion group GLANK performs on custom found-object instruments, and began in 2002 in Los Angeles, performing customized audience-interactive shows. New York performances include La Mama, Roulette Kids, the Queens Maker Faire (Editor's Choice award in 2012, 2013, 2014) and the Secret Theatre via an arts grant from the Queens Council on the Arts and MuSE. GLANK has over 200 altered/tuned instruments plus 100's of audience interaction materials. Paul met his bride, Leslie Carrara-Rudolph, when he was assistant music director and composer for ABC's “Muppets Tonight.”
Composer, percussionist, instrument builder, and vocal music director for Sesame Street, was nominated in 2009 and 2013 for an Emmy in Music Direction. Composition clients: “Elmo's Monster Maker,” Leslie Carrara-Rudolph, Jerry Nelson, Heather Henson, Martin Robinson, the Jim Henson Company, and “Sesame Street”. He has directed vocals for “Sesame Street” TV, home video, web content, Emmy-award winning songs and live performances. Paul's percussion group GLANK performs on custom found-object instruments, and began in 2002 in Los Angeles, performing customized audience-interactive shows. New York performances include La Mama, Roulette Kids, the Queens Maker Faire (Editor's Choice award in 2012, 2013, 2014) and the Secret Theatre via an arts grant from the Queens Council on the Arts and MuSE. GLANK has over 200 altered/tuned instruments plus 100's of audience interaction materials. Paul met his bride, Leslie Carrara-Rudolph, when he was assistant music director and composer for ABC's “Muppets Tonight.”
SOUND DESIGN - CHRIS SASSANO
Chris Sassano is a 4 time EMMY award winner for Live Action Sound Editing on Sesame Street. He has worked on other educational shows such as Peg + Cat, Wonder Pets, 3rd & Bird, Electric Company, and It's A Big Big World. He has mixed for shows such as the Onion News Network. Chris works with Broadway Jr. productions sound designing the background ambiences and sound effect cues. In his free time he writes and directs for a NY sketch comedy troupe called, The Dog Committee.
Chris Sassano is a 4 time EMMY award winner for Live Action Sound Editing on Sesame Street. He has worked on other educational shows such as Peg + Cat, Wonder Pets, 3rd & Bird, Electric Company, and It's A Big Big World. He has mixed for shows such as the Onion News Network. Chris works with Broadway Jr. productions sound designing the background ambiences and sound effect cues. In his free time he writes and directs for a NY sketch comedy troupe called, The Dog Committee.
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