David Yazbek — Music & Lyrics

DAVID YAZBEK (Music & Lyrics). A varied career as a recording artist, Emmy Award-winning TV and screenwriter, music producer, and pianist has somehow led Yazbek to become one of Broadway’s preeminent composer/lyricists. His three shows, The Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown have received a combined 24 Tony Award nominations, including three for Best Score. His newest musical, The Band’s Visit, earned him an Obie, New York Drama Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle and two Drama Desk awards for the Off-Broadway engagement at Atlantic Theatre Company. As a recording artist, Yazbek is responsible for five albums: The Laughing Man, Tock, Damascus, Tape Recorder and Evil Monkey Man. He has written and/or produced for such acts as XTC, Ruben Blades, The Persuasions, Joe Jackson, Tito Puente and many others. He also produced the original cast albums of his Broadway shows. He has three Grammy Award^® nominations. In the past couple of years, he has scored the final season of HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire,” composed music for Larry David’s Fish in the Dark and written songs and music for Much Ado About Nothing at Central Park’s Delacorte Theater, all while opening productions of Scoundrels and Women on the Verge in London’s West End. In past lives, he has written dozens of scripts and many songs for television and film, won an Emmy Award^® for his stint on “Late Night with David Letterman” and wrote the unrelenting theme song for “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?”

Photo credit: Andrew Eccles

Itamar Moses — Book

ITAMAR MOSES (Book). is the Tony Award-winning author of the full-length plays Bach at Leipzig, Celebrity Row, The Four of Us, Yellowjackets, Back Back Back, Completeness; and The Whistleblower, the musicals Nobody Loves You (with Gaby Alter), The Fortress of Solitude (with Michael Friedman), and The Band’s Visit (with David Yazbek), and the evening of short plays Love/Stories (or But You Will Get Used to It). His work has appeared Off-Broadway and elsewhere in New York, at regional theatres across the country and in Canada, Hong Kong, Israel, Venezuela, Turkey and Chile, and is published by Faber & Faber and Samuel French. Other awards for his work include Lucille Lortel, New York Drama Critics Circle, Outer Critics Circle, and Obie awards in New York, as well as awards from the Portland, San Diego, Dallas, and Bay Area Theatre Critics Circles. He’s received new play commissions from The McCarter, Playwrights Horizons, Berkeley Rep, The Wilma Theater, South Coast Rep, Manhattan Theatre Club, Lincoln Center, and The Goodman. Television work includes “Men of a Certain Age,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “Outsiders,” and “The Affair.” He holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU and has taught playwriting at Yale and NYU. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect. Born in Berkeley, CA, he now lives in Brooklyn, NY.

David Cromer — Director

DAVID CROMER (Director). Recent credits include: Man from Nebraska (Second Stage); the Off-Broadway premiere of The Band’s Visit (Atlantic Theatre Company); The Effect (Barrow Street Theatre); Come Back, Little Sheba (Huntington Theatre); Angels in America (Kansas City Rep); and Our Town at the Almeida Theatre in London, which he also directed in Chicago, New York (Barrow Street Theatre), Los Angeles, Boston and Kansas City. Additional New York Credits include: Women or Nothing at Atlantic, Really Really at MCC, The House of Blue Leaves and Brighton Beach Memoirs on Broadway, When the Rain Stops Falling and Nikolai and the Others at Lincoln Center Theater as well as Tribes, Orson’s Shadow (Barrow Street) plus Adding Machine, which was a BST production at the Minetta Lane. Originally from Chicago, his credits there include Sweet Bird of Youth (The Goodman), A Streetcar Named Desire, Picnic and The Price (Writers Theatre), Cherrywood, Mojo, and The Hot l Baltimore (Mary-Arrchie), The Cider House Rules (co-directed with Marc Grapey at Famous Door), and Angels in America (The Journeymen), among others. For his work he has received a Drama Desk, three Obies, three Lortels, four Jeff Awards and in 2010 was made a McArthur Foundation Fellow.

Patrick Mccollum — Choreography

PATRICK MCCOLLUM (Choreography). Credits include Oh, Hello! (Broadway, Cherry Lane Theatre); The Band’s Visit (Atlantic Theater Company); The Lightning Thief (Theaterworks, Lortel Theater); Man From Nebraska (Second Stage); Blueprint Specials (Public Theater); Rain (Old Globe), Unknown Soldier (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Wilderness (Abrons Arts Center), Permission (MCC). As associate choreographer on Broadway: The Last Ship, Peter and the Starcatcher, and Rocky; Wicked (Dance Supervisor).

Andrea Grody — Music Supervisor

ANDREA GRODY (Music Supervisor & Additional Arrangements). ) Broadway: The Band’s Visit, Tootsie. Other recent projects include the world premieres of Shaina Taub’s As You Like It (Public Works), The Band’s Visit (Atlantic Theater Company), Cake Off (Signature Theatre/Bucks County Playhouse), The Fortress of Solitude (Public Theater/Dallas Theater Center), Unknown Soldier (Williamstown Theatre Festival), and Love’s Labour’s Lost (Public Theater/Shakespeare in the Park); and the regional premieres of The Great Immensity and Venice (Public Theater). Other favorites include Assassins (Yale Rep) and Robin Hood as Composer/Music Director (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Upcoming: The Suffragists. Writing credits include the full-length musical Strange Faces and several songs for The Civilians’ Let Me Ascertain You series. Andrea is Resident Music Director and Senior Voice Teacher Associate at New York Vocal Coaching. B.A. Princeton University, M.A. Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Dean Sharenow — Music Supervisor

DEAN SHARENOW (Music Supervisor & Music Coordinator). Dean is a Grammy-nominated recording engineer and producer who also supervises theatrical music departments and orchestras. His Broadway credits include Sting’s The Last Ship and David Yazbek’s Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown, as well as Amélie and Lysistrata Jones. Off-Broadway, Dean has contracted Twelfth Night, The Total Bent, Fortress Of Solitude, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (all Public Theater). He also serves as contractor-in-residence at the Public. Dean’s engineering and producer credits include The Great Comet, Old Hats, Preludes, Fortress Of Solitude, Women On The Verge…, and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, as well as solo albums for Shaina Taub, David Sanborn, Stephen Lynch, David Yazbek, Joan Baez, and Jonatha Brooke.

Scott Pask — Scenic Designer

SCOTT PASK (Scenic Designer). Broadway credits include: The Book of Mormon (Tony Award), Little Foxes, Something Rotten! (Outer Critics nomination), Waitress, Oh Hello!, Blackbird, The Father, An Act of God, It’s Only a Play, The Visit (Drama Desk nom.), Airline Highway, Finding Neverland, Pippin (Tony Award Nom.), Nine, The Pillowman (Tony Award), Casa Valentina, I’ll Eat You Last (with Bette Midler), A Steady Rain (with Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig), The Lieutenant of Inishmore, A Behanding in Spokane, The Coast of Utopia (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Hewes Awards), Promises Promises, Hair, Pal Joey (Tony Nom), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Tony Nom., Drama Desk Award), Speed-the-Plow, Take Me Out, and Urinetown. London/UK: West End, National Theatre, Donmar Warehouse, Old Vic, Almeida Theatre, Opera North, Chichester Festival Theatre. Also: Peter Grimes (Metropolitan Opera), Cirque du Soleil’s Amaluna. With David Cromer: The House of Blue Leaves, Tribes.

Sarah Laux — Costume Designer

SARAH KAUX (Costume Design). 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)

Tyler Micoleau — Lighting Designer

TYLER MICOLEAU (Lighting Design). Originally from Maine, Tony Award winning lighting designer Tyler Micoleau has lived in Brooklyn for the last 24 years. He has designed extensively throughout New York as well as regionally and internationally, for world premiere plays, musicals and operas as well as outdoor spaces and touring pieces.

His work on Broadway includes The Band’s Visit at the Barrymore Theater and Be More Chill at the Lyceum Theater.

Other New York designs for Lincoln Center Theater, the Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Manhattan Theater Club, Atlantic Theater, Signature, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Vineyard Theatre, New Georges, Epic Theatre Ensemble, Page 73, Rattlestick, Barrow Street Theater, Foundry Theatre, The Play Company, Soho Rep and many others.

Regional designs for the Huntington Theater, Alley Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, the Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, Trinity Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theater, Kansas City Rep, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Wilma Theater, Pig Iron Theatre, the Folger, Long Wharf Theater and many others. Opera designs for palm beach Opera, Dallas Opera, Spoleto Festival USA, PORTopera, Curtis Opera, Manhattan School of Music, and Connecticut Grand Opera.

Dance design for Eliot Feld’s Mandance Project at The Joyce Theater, Neil Greenberg and The Chase Brock Experience.

Fine art installation projects include 2×4 Tree (PIFA Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts), Åhus Sommaren 1974 (Bellwether Galleries, Chelsea NYC), Beneath the Floorboards (Ohio Theater Gallery, Soho NYC).

Tyler has served on the faculty at Sarah Lawrence College and has been a visiting artist at Dartmouth College, Yale University, Bates College and his alma matter, Bowdoin College.

Kai Harada — Sound Designer

KAI HARADA (Sound Design). Broadway: Head Over Heels, The Band’s Visit (Tony Award and Drama Desk Award), Amélie, Sunday in the Park With George, Allegiance, Gigi, Fun Home, On the Town, First Date, Follies (Tony and Drama Desk Nominations), and Million Dollar Quartet. Other: A Chorus Line, Grand Hotel (City Center), Candide (LA Opera); We Live in Cairo, The Black Clown (ART); Tommy, The Music Man, Little Shop of Horrors, Chess, Little Dancer and First You Dream (Kennedy Center), Silent Night (Washington National Opera), Zorro (Moscow; Atlanta), Hinterm Horizont (Berlin), Sweeney Todd and Man of La Mancha (Portland Opera), and The Honeymooners (Paper Mill). Audio Consultant for Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Education: Yale University.

Maya Ciarrocchi — Projection Design

Maya Ciarrocchi (Projection Designer) is a New York City based interdisciplinary artist and projections designer. Exhibition venues include: Anthology Film Archives, Abrons Arts Center, Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Chocolate Factory, Kinescope Gallery, Microscope Gallery, New York Live Arts, and Smack Mellon. Recent Broadway: The Band’s Visit (Barrymore). Off-Broadway/regional theater: The Band’s Visit (Atlantic), The Effect (Barrow Street), As I Remember It (Baryshnikov Art Center), Sweet Bird of Youth (Goodman), Crowns (Goodman, 2012 Jeff Award), Ghost Light (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Throne of Blood (Brooklyn Academy of Music). Ciarrocchi has been an artist in residence at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Millay Colony and the Ucross Foundation and has received grants from the Franklin Furnace Fund, The Jerome Foundation, and the MAP Fund..

Charles Lapointe — Hair & Wig Design

CHARLES LAPOINTE (Hair & Wig Design). More than 50 Broadway shows including Holiday Inn, On Your Feet!, Hamilton, Doctor Zhivago, The Color Purple, Of Mice and Men, Violet, Side Show, The Elephant Man, After Midnight, Beautiful, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, Motown, Jekyll & Hyde, Clybourne Park, Bring It On, Newsies, The Mountaintop, Memphis, Lombardi, Fences, In the Heights, Jersey Boys, A Raisin in the Sun. Television: “The Wiz Live!” (Emmy nomination.)

Seth Sikes — Associate Director

SETH SKIES (Associate Director). Credits include The Nance, on Broadway, the Off-Broadway productions of Tribes and Pageant, as well as Sweet Bird of Youth at The Goodman Theatre directed by David Cromer. Directing credits included BUNKED at NY Fringe Festival (Best Musical), and The 7th Annual Broadway Beauty Pageant. His critically-acclaimed solo cabaret show, Seth Sikes Sings Judy Garland, won the Broadway World Award for Best Tribute. He performs regularly with his full band at Feinstein’s / 54 Below, as well as in other cities.

Zi Alikhan — Associate Director

ZI ALIKHAN (Associate Director). A South Asian-American, culturally Muslim theatre director. Broadway/Tour: Hamilton (Resident Director), Six Degrees of Separation (Associate), The Rose Tattoo (Associate). Directing: Playmakers Rep, NYSAF, Juilliard, Yale. ALUM: NYU/Tisch. Faculty: Pace.

Jesse Kovarsky — Associate Choreographer

JESSE KOVARSKY (Associate Choreographer). Broadway: The Bands Visit (Asst. choreo), Fiddler on the Roof. Off Broadway: Sleep No More, Seeing You, Lost Mountain. Soloist at The Metropolitan Opera House in The Death of Klinghoffer. London: The Drowned Man, The Falling Song with Junk Ensemble, Soloist at the English National Opera. Film/TV: Anna Karenina, Muppets Most Wanted, After Yang, “Orange is the New Black” (Asst. Choreo), Paul McCartney’s music video “Who Cares”. Choreographed Fishcerspooner’s Top Brazil music video.

Tara Rubin Casting — Casting Director

TARA RUBIN CASTING (Casting). Selected Broadway: Ain’t Too Proud, King Kong, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, The Band’s Visit, Prince of Broadway, Indecent, Bandstand, Sunset Boulevard, Miss Saigon, Dear Evan Hansen, A Bronx Tale, Cats, Falsettos, Disaster!, School of Rock, Les Misérables, The Heiress, The Phantom of the Opera, Billy Elliot, Shrek, Spamalot, …Spelling Bee, The Producers, Mamma Mia!, Jersey Boys. Off-Broadway: Gloria: A Life, Smokey Joe’s Café, Jersey Boys, Here Lies Love, Love, Loss and What I Wore. Selected Regional: Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, Asolo Rep.

Peter Van Dam, CSA — Casting

Zohar Tirosh-Polk — Israeli Dramaturg & Dialect Coach

ZOHAR TIROSH-POLK (Israeli Dramaturg & Dialect Coach). Zohar was the production dramaturg and dialect consultant for Higher at A.C.T.  Her plays: Pieces, Land/Holy, Home/Front, The Zionists, Theo’s Dream, Waltz, and Six have been presented or produced at the The New Group, Magic Theatre, The Lincoln Center Theater’s Director’s Lab, New Repertory Theatre, The Cape Cod Theatre Project, The Jewish Plays Project, Rising Phoenix Rep, Silk Road Rising, the Lark Play Development Center, The Brick and HERE, among others. The Zionists will be published in the upcoming Semitic Commonwealth Anthology. Her English translation of Hanoch Levin’s play, Those Who Walk in the Dark is published in Wanderers and Other Israeli Plays by Seagull Books. Zohar won the Jewish Plays Project’s new play competition for Six. A 2017-2018 LABA fellow, Zohar is the recipient of the Foundation for Jewish Culture’s Theatre Grant and a commission from Highbrow Productions. She has a B.A. in Literature and Writing from Columbia University and a Playwriting MFA from Brooklyn College under Mac Wellman and Erin Courtney.

Adrian Ries — Music Director

Adrian Ries (Music Director, Keys/Conductor) (he/him) National Tour: The Band’s Visit; Off Broadway: Sweeney Todd (Barrow Street Theater) Regional: Gulfshore Playhouse,  Axelrod PAC,  Pioneer Theatre Co., Summer Repertory Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, and Weathervane Theatre. He’s arranged and music supervised for Norwegian Cruise Lines, The Randy Andys, and more. South Dakota native. https://link.edgepilot.com/s/4e86d61e/eH1PwQvF6USsb7rnMdsKwg?u=http://www.adrianries.com/

Jamshied Sharifi — Orchestrations

JAMSHIED SHARIFI (Orchestrations) is a New York-based composer, producer, and keyboardist. He has composed the scores for the feature films Harriet The Spy, Down To Earth, Clockstoppers, and Muppets From Space, as well as contributing music to numerous other films and television shows. As a producer, arranger, and keyboardist, he has recorded and/or performed with Paula Cole, Ray Charles, Dream Theater, Laurie Anderson, Hassan Hakmoun, and many others. Recent projects include composing Awakening, a long-form piece for the M.I.T. Wind Ensemble; arrangements for the Montreal Symphony and the National Symphony; and orchestrations for Sting’s Broadway musical The Last Ship.