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	Brad Anderson Officer Ivey, Luther Rosser, Guard Broadway credits include A Chorus Line (Don Kerr), All Shook Up (Chad), The Boy From Oz (Mark Herron), Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate (Gremio), Fosse. National Tours: Starlight Express, Damn Yankees with Jerry Lewis (Rocky), South Pacific at D.C.’s Arena Stage (Lt. Cable – Helen Hayes nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical), Aida (Radames) and Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Brad) at Northshore Musicial Theatre, Actor, Lawyer, Indian Chief at Goodspeed Opera House (Red Rock). Film/TV: Whirlwind (Desmond), Ed, All My Children, As the World Turns, General Hospital, Guiding Light and the Tony Awards. This is for discovering one’s true meaning!
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	Michael Berresse Governor Slaton, Britt Craig, Mr. Peavy was most recently seen scaring the bejeezus out of Russell Crowe as Robert Bingham in State of Play. Broadway: [title of show] (Director/Choreographer), Kiss Me, Kate (Tony, Outer Critics Circle, Astaire Award nominations), The Light in the Piazza (Outer Critics Circle nomination), A Chorus Line, Chicago, Damn Yankees,  Carousel, Guys & Dolls, The Gershwin’s Fascinating Rhythm, Fiddler on the Roof, A Wonderful Life (concert). London: Kiss Me, Kate (Olivier nomination). Off-Broadway:  [title of show] (Obie Award, Lucille Lortel nomination), Forever Plaid, The Cocoanuts. Encores!: No, No, Nanette, One Touch of Venus, Call Me Madam, Chicago. National Tours: Busker Alley, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Chicago, Fiddler on the Roof. Regional: The Dybbuk, A Majority of One, Annie, Funny Girl, among others. TV: Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU,  Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Great Performances, Live from Lincoln Center. Film: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, State of Play.
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	Will Collyer Ensemble CTG: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Kirk Douglas Theatre).  Other Los Angeles: Big (West Coast Ensemble), Gulls (Theatre@Boston Court), Unfinished American Highwayscape (Theatre@Boston Court), Town Without Pity (Lyric), Eric Larue (Elephant), Hair (Reprise!) and Once Upon a Mattress (UCLA, directed by Carol Burnett).  Regional: Conversations With My Father (TheatreWorks).  TV: Melrose Place, Pushing Daisies, NUMB3RS, Las Vegas, Charmed, Jack & Bobby, Judging Amy, CSI: Miami, Christmas Carol (MOW) and Boston Public.  He has sung on several film soundtracks, including Earth, Dance Flick and Bad Santa.  UCLA, Theatre B.A.  Love and thanks to Mom, Dad, Colin, Calvin, Mar and Steven. willcollyer.com.
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	Charlotte d'Amboise Mrs. Phagan, Sally Slaton is thrilled to be back in Los Angeles for the first time since 1998 when she won the L.A. Ovation Award and the L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award as Best Actress In A Musical for her performance as Roxie Hart in the national tour of Chicago at the Ahmanson Theatre. Most recently, she played Cassie in the Broadway revival of A Chorus Line for which she received a Tony Award nomination. She is also featured in the A Chorus Line documentary, Every Little Step. Other leading Broadway roles include Contact, Chicago, Company, Carrie, Damn Yankees (Fred Astaire Award), Jerome Robbins Broadway (Tony nomination), Sweet Charity (Fred Astaire Award), Song & Dance, Can Can and Cats. Other credits include Tonight at 8:30 (Williamstown), Speed-the-Plow (Actors Theatre of Louisville) and On the Town (Goodspeed Opera House). Off-Broadway includes Red Eye, Tennis Game, Prairie Avenue, Dolphin Position and Italian American Reconciliation. TV and Film: Law & Order, One Life to Live (recurring), Neon Jungle, Beyond the Bermuda Triangle and The In Crowd.
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	Karole Foreman Ensemble Recent Shows: Muzzy in Thoroughly Modern Millie at Sacramento Music Circus, Mary Magdalene in South Bay CLO’s Jesus Christ Superstar, and Hangin’ Out, The Good Body and Norman’s Ark. Other Shows: Josephine Tonight! (Josephine Baker), Jelly’s Last Jam (Anita-Suzi Bass Award) and the Las Vegas premiere of Mamma Mia! (Tanya). Other Theatres: Denver Center, Alliance Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, Mark Taper Forum, San Jose Rep AMT of San Jose, Northshore Music Theatre, Goodspeed Opera House and Pasadena Playhouse. TV: Medium, Third Watch, Law & Order, Strong Medicine, The Bold and the Beautiful, Becker and numerous commercials. Awards: Richard Rodgers’ Award, Jonathan Larson Foundation grant, an Edgerton Foundation grant and three NAACP nominations for her musical The Princess and the Black-Eyed Pea. Member of Actors’ Equity Association.
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	Davis Gaines Old Soldier, Judge Roan, Guard The Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera withover 2,000 performances on Broadway, Los Angeles and San Francisco and remains L.A.’s longest-running Phantom. Broadway/National Tours: The Phantom of the Opera (Raoul), Whistle Down the Wind, Camelot (w/Richard Burton), Hello, Dolly! (w/Carol Channing), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (w/Alexis Smith). Off-Broadway: The Death of Von Richthofen as Witnessed from Earth (The Public), One Two Three Four Five (Manhattan Theatre Club), Assassins (Playwrights Horizons), The Boys from Syracuse (Encores), The New Moon (New York City Opera), She Loves Me and Forbidden Broadway. Regional: Side by Side by Sondheim (Pasadena Playhouse), Damn Yankees (George Abbott, dir.), Arsenic and Old Lace (w/Kate Reid), The Rink (w/Lainie Kazan), Two Into One (w/Tony Randall). Other: Sweeney Todd (Reprise, NY Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony). Film: Warlock: The Armageddon. TV: Desperate Housewives, Charmed, Chicago Hope, Veronica’s Closet, Bodies of Evidence and Murder, She Wrote. .
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	Laura Griffith Ensemble Broadway: South Pacific, The Light in the Piazza, Sweet Smell of Success and Oklahoma! National Tour: The Light in the Piazza at the Ahmanson Theatre and the Kennedy Center (Helen Hayes Award nomination). Europe: West Side Story at the Deutsche Opera in Berlin. Washington, D.C.: Songs for a New World with Jason Robert Brown for the Signature Theatre. Seattle: 7 Brides for 7 Brothers, A Little Night Music and The Rocky Horror Show. Other Regional: Les Misérables at the California Musical Theatre, Camelot and Oklahoma! at the Music Theatre of Wichita, Road to Hollywood at the Goodspeed Opera House and Beauty and the Beast at the Pioneer Theatre. Graduate of Columbia University. LauraGriffith.net.
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	P. J. Griffith Officer Starnes, Tom Watson Recent theatre credits include Sky in Mamma Mia! (first national tour), Cousin Kevin in The Who’s Tommy (Flickerhouse Productions, L.A.), Jan in Setup and Punch (The Blank Theatre Company), Malcolm in Macbeth (Will & Co.), Jared in But I’m a Cheerleader, The Musical (NYMF), Sven/Russell in One Way Ticket to Hell (Strasberg Theatre) and the pre-Broadway workshops of The Flunky and Ataria. Film/TV: Without a Trace, House, September 12th, The Weathered Underground and Days of Our Lives. P.J. has fronted several bands, sharing stages with a strange cornucopia of musicians including Neil Diamond, Biohazard, Lonestar, The Misfits, Deborah Gibson, Jello Biafra and Vanilla Ice. Graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
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	Curt Hansen Young Soldier, Frankie Epps, Guard CTG Debut! Curt is a Wisconsin native, and attended the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point. Broadway: Hairspray (Sketch and understudy for Link Larkin). Television: Brand New Day (pilot for Nickelodeon). He would like to thank his New York family, the guys at BRS, and his actual family for their continuous love and support.
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	Deidrie Henry Minnie McKnight, Angela Regional: Ballad of Emmett Till (Goodman Theatre); Yellowman (Berkeley Repertory Theatre); Crowns (Intiman Theatre, Prince Music Theatre); As You Like It, Oo-Bla-Dee, Three Sisters, Wit,  Hamlet, Seven Guitars, Much Ado About Nothing (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Closer (Portland Center Stage); Blues for an Alabama Sky (Alliance Theatre, Hartford Stage, Arena Stage – Helen Hayes nomination), Huntington Theatre. Los Angeles: Coming Home, Yellowman (Fountain Theatre – Best Actress Award: Ovation, Backstage Garland, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, NAACP Theatre Award); Small Tragedy (Odyssey Theatre), McReel, Relativity (LA Theatre Works).  TV: Three Rivers, Southland, Lie To Me, Brothers & Sisters, The Riches, Shark, NCIS, Commander-in-Chief, Without A Trace and ER.
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	Christian Hoff Hugh Dorsey is proud to return to the L.A. stage in Parade after winning a Tony Award for his performance as Tommy DeVito in Broadway’s Jersey Boys as well as Drama Desk, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations. Entertainment Weekly named him “The Master of Mimicry” for his record-breaking voice-over accomplishments. Recorded Grammy-winning, original cast albums for The Who’s Tommy and Jersey Boys. Screen Credit: Ugly Betty (D.A. Richard Blackman), Law & Order: CI (Federal Prosecutor Thomas Grady), Encino Man, Star Trek IV, Honor Thy Mother, In Love and War, ER, JAG, Party of Five, Millennium, The Commish. Other Theatre: Cohan in George M!, Will Rogers in The Will Rogers Follies, Huck in Big River, Frank-n-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar and Sky Masterson in Guys & Dolls. Broadway debut was in the Tony Award-winning The Who’s Tommy. Visit www.christianhoff.com for Christian’s recordings and tour dates. He is the national spokesperson for the Bachmann-Strauss Dystonia and Parkinson Foundation and proud husband and father of four.
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	Sarah Jayne Jensen Ensemble is honored to be working with Rob Ashford and Jason Robert Brown once again. She was recently seen as Suzanne Von Stroh in Sony Pictures’ Center Stage: Turn it Up with Peter Gallagher. She also appeared as Shelley in New Line Cinema’s Hairspray starring John Travolta, in Columbia Pictures’ Across the Universe, as Anita Grey on ABC’s Pushing Daisies, and Punk’d, produced by Ashton Kutcher. Broadway shows include Gypsy with Bernadette Peters, Wonderful Town with Brooke Shields and Donna Murphy, Oklahoma! with Patrick Wilson and the first national tour of  Fosse. Regional: Princesses with Rob Ashford and Urban Cowboy with Jason Robert Brown. Sarah Jayne fell in love with improv, studying and performing at Upright Citizens Brigade in New York City and recently at the UCB here in Los Angeles. Grateful to my parents for their endless guidance and support. For Michael.
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	T. R. Knight Leo Frank Broadway: Noises Off, Tartuffe. Off-Broadway: Boy, Scattergood (Drama Desk nomination), The Hologram Theory, This Lime Tree Bower, Macbeth. Regional: Amadeus; Ah, Wilderness!; Racing Demon; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Philadelphia, Here I Come! (all at the Guthrie Theater). Television: Charlie Lawrence, Grey’s Anatomy (Emmy nomination).
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	Lisa Livesay Monteen Theme Park: Belle in The Golden Mickeys; lead singer of High School Musical: LIVE (Hong Kong Disneyland). Regional: Peter in Peter Pan (Performance Riverside),Belle in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Redlands Bowl), Gertie Cummings in Oklahoma! (Downey CLO), and Antonia in Man of La Mancha (Redlands CLO). Other: Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, Zaneeta Shinn in The Music Man, Star-to-be in Annie, and ensemble in Les Misérables. Voiceover: special event announcer (Hong Kong Disneyland). Much gratitude to the entire production team for this incredible opportunity, and to Nolan – you are brilliant and beautiful, and everything I am not. I love you. Soli Deo Gloria! Proud member of Actors Equity. www.lisalivesay.net.
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	Hayley Podschun Iola Stover CTG debut! Broadway: Roundabout Theatre Company’s Pal Joey and Sunday in the Park with George, Hairspray and The Sound of Music. National Tour: Hairspray (Penny Pingleton/Tammy). Regional: Sacramento Music Circus’ Hairspray (Penny Pingleton). Film/Soundtrack: Hairspray (Tammy). Thank you to The Gage Group and always Mom and Dad. www.hayleypodschun.com.
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	Lara Pulver Lucille Frank Film: The Special Relationship (written by Peter Morgan), Legacy (Black Camel Productions). TV: Robin Hood (BBC). For the Donmar Warehouse: Parade (Olivier-nominated). London: Everything Must Go! (Soho Theatre), Beau Jeste (UK premiere), Into the Woods (The Royal Opera House), The Last Five Years (UK premiere), Honk! (Royal National Theatre UK tour), Grease (Victoria Palace Theatre), Miss Saigon (national tour), High Society (national tour), A Chorus Line (Sheffield Crucible Theatre), The Boy Friend (national tour), Chicago (national tour), 42nd Street (national tour), The Wizard of Oz (Oldham Coliseum Theatre).
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	David St. Louis Newt Lee, Jim Conley, Riley Film: At Your Convenience, Trigger Effect, Temptation. T.V.: Third Watch, Law & Order, Law & Order S.V.U., A Royal Birthday, The Jury, One Life To Live, Homicide Life on the Streets, America’s Most Wanted and The Secret Path. Broadway: Harlem Song, Rent, Jesus Christ Superstar and The Scarlet Pimpernel. Regional: The Life (Jaxx Theatricals) Ragtime (PCPA Theatre), Porgy And Bess (Zach Scott Theatre), Raisin (Court Theatre), Once On This Island (Center Stage), From My Hometown (American Heartland Theatre), Me & Mrs. Jones (Prince Musical Theatre), Golden Boy (Long Wharf Theatre), Henry V (Shakespeare Theatre), Candide (Arena Stage), and Bessie’s Blues (Studio Theatre) for which he won a Helen Hayes award for most outstanding supporting actor.
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	Rose Sezniak Lila, Mary Phagan is elated to be making her L.A. debut as a part of this incredible cast! Rose could last be seen playing the role of SophieSheridan in the national tour of Mamma Mia! She is a graduate of The Catholic University of America’s Rome School of Music, and a proud member of AEA. Thanks and love to her parents, Geoffrey, and all of her incredibly supportive family and friends!
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	Phoebe Strole Essie is proud to be part of a revival of this beautiful musical. Film: Hamlet 2, My One and Only. TV: Sorority War (TV movie), 30 Rock, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Rescue Me, Stella. Broadway: Spring Awakening. Off-Broadway: Spring Awakening, Mourning Becomes Electra (The New Group). Thank you Dad, Estelle, Genn and Stephanie.
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	Josh Tower Ensemble CTG debut! Recent credits: Flick in Violet at MTG Los Angeles, Judas in South Bay CLO Jesus Christ Superstar and Prince Gallant in The Princess & the Black-Eyed Pea at San Diego Rep. Other joints include Simba in Disney’s The Lion King (Broadway and original Gazelle Tour), Ragtime (Broadway and Chicago), John in Miss Saigon, Enjolras in Les Mis, Dreamgirls, Chess, The Bubbly Black Girl…, The Alchemist, Leap of Faith, Langston in Harlem, The Times, Josephine’s Song, As You Like It, Once on This Island, Joseph…, Godspell, Baby, Avenue X, Threepenny Opera, Cymbeline, some of this, a bit of that, some T.V., some film. MFA, UNC Chapel Hill and B.A., Temple University. Proud Equity Member. Live, Love, Laugh!!
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	Robert Yacko Ensemble Broadway and National Tour: Fiddler on the Roof (w/ Herschel Bernardi). Off-Broadway: Oh, What A Lovely War!, The Miser. CTG: A Little Night Music (Doolittle Theatre), Undiscovered Country, Wild Oats, Moby Dick Rehearsed (Mark Taper Forum repertory company). Regional: Distracted, Bernstein’s Peter Pan, Splitting Infinity, Sylvia, Can Can (Revised), Five Course Love, The Real Thing, Company (w/Carol Burnett), Into the Woods (w/Leslie Uggams), Fiddler on the Roof (w/ Theodore Bikel), The Grave White Way, The Secret Garden, Chess, Sunday in the Park with George (L.A. premiere), Romance, Romance (West Coast premiere), Lies and Legends, Marry Me a Little. Film: Raising Helen, Life in a Perfect World. TV: The Closer, General Hospital, Picket Fences, Golden Girls, Get A Life.
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Credits

Alfred Uhry Book is distinguished as the first American playwright to have won a Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award and a Tony Award.  A graduate of Brown University, Mr. Uhry began his professional career as a lyric writer under contract to the late Frank Loesser. His first major success came when he collaborated with Robert Waldman on a musical adaptation of Eudora Welty’s The Robber Bridegroom which opened at the Mark Taper Forum in 1976 and went to Broadway, winning Mr Uhry his first Tony nomination.  He followed that with five recreated musicals at the Goodspeed Opera House.  His first play, Driving Miss Daisy, opened at Playwrights Horizons in New York in 1987.  It moved subsequently to the John Houseman Theatre, where it ran for three years and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988.  The film version, starring Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman, won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1990.  The film was also chosen as Best Picture.  His next play, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, was commissioned by the Cultural Olympiad for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.  It opened on Broadway the next year where it ran for 550 performances and Uhry won the Outer Critics Circle Award, The Drama League Award and the 1997 Tony Award for Best Play.  Next came the original production of Parade in 1998, for which Uhry won his second Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical.  In 2007 a revised Parade opened at the Donmar Warehouse in London, where it garnered rave reviews and an Olivier Award nomination for Best Musical.  Uhry’s next play, Without Walls, starring Laurence Fishburne, played the Taper in 2006.  He is honored to be back for the third time.  He is currently adapting Marie Brenner’s memoir, Apples and Oranges, for the Manhattan Theatre Club.

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Jason Robert Brown Music and Lyrics has been hailed as “a leading member of a new generation of composers who embody high hopes for the American musical” (The New York Times), and his “extraordinary, jubilant theater music” (Chicago Tribune) has been heard all over the world in his musicals and his live performances.  His four major musicals as composer and lyricist include 13, written with Robert Horn and Dan Elish, which opened at the Taper in 2007 and on Broadway in 2008; The Last Five Years, which was cited as one of Time Magazine’s 10 Best of 2001 and won Drama Desk Awards for Best Music and Best Lyrics; Parade, written with Alfred Uhry and directed by Harold Prince, which premiered at Lincoln Center Theater in 1998, and won both the Drama Desk and New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards for Best New Musical as well as garnering Jason the Tony Award for Original Score; and Songs for a New World, a theatrical song cycle directed by Daisy Prince. Jason was a Tony Award nominee for his contributions to the score of Urban Cowboy the Musical. His next project is Honeymoon In Vegas, a musical adaptation of the 1992 film, written with Andrew Bergman.  An orchestral adaptation of E.B. White’s novel The Trumpet of the Swan, written with Marsha Norman, premiered last winter at the Kennedy Center.  Jason’s first solo album, Wearing Someone Else’s Clothes, featuring his band The Caucasian Rhythm Kings, was named one of Amazon.com’s best of 2005 (Sh-K-Boom Records).  His collaboration with singer Lauren Kennedy, Songs of Jason Robert Brown, is on PS Classics. Jason teaches performance and composition at USC School of Theatre.  He lives with his wife and daughters in Los Angeles. www.jasonrobertbrown.com.

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Harold Prince Co-Conceiver directed the original productions of Cabaret, Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, The Phantom of the Opera, She Loves Me, Company, Follies, Candide, Pacific Overtures, Evita, Parade and LoveMusik. Before becoming a director, Mr. Prince’s productions included The Pajama Game, Damn Yankees, West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Fiorello! and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Among the plays he has directed are Hollywood Arms, The Visit, The Great God Brown, End of the World, Play Memory and his own play, Grandchild of Kings. He prepared a new version of Phantom, which is running in Las Vegas at the Venetian Hotel. He is currently working on a glamorous new musical, Paradise Found, with Richard Nelson, Ellen Fitzhugh, Jonathan Tunick and Susan Stroman, and music by Johann Strauss II. His opera productions have been seen at Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Dallas Opera, Vienna Staatsoper and the Theater Colon in Buenos Aires. He served as a trustee for the New York Public Library and on the National Council of the Arts of the NEA. Recently, he became an officer with the Order of Arts and Letters from the French Government for “contributing significantly to furthering the arts in France and throughout the world.” He is the recipient of a National Medal of Arts for the year 2000 from President Clinton for a career spanning more than 40 years, in which “he changed the nature of the American musical.” The recipient of 21 Tony Awards, he was a 1994 Kennedy Center Honoree.

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Christopher Oram Set and Costume Design For the Donmar: Hamlet (also Elsinore/Broadway), Madame de Sade, Twelfth Night, Ivanov (Wyndhams season), Othello, Parade, Frost/Nixon (also Gielgud/Broadway/U.S. tour), Guys and Dolls (Piccadilly/Australian Tour), Don Juan in Soho, Grand Hotel – The Musical, Henry IV, World Music, Caligula –Evening Standard Award, The Vortex, Privates on Parade, Merrily We Roll Along, Passion Play, Good, The Bullet.  Theatre includes A View from the Bridge (Duke of York’s), King Lear/The Seagull (RSC), Evita (Adelphi), Power – Olivier Award costume design, Summerfolk, Finding the Sun/Marriage Play (National).

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Neil Austin Lighting Designer works extensively in the UK for the Donmar Warehouse, National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Opera House and in the West End. Currently on Broadway: Hamlet starring Jude Law. Previously on Broadway: The Seafarer, Frost/Nixon (Outer Critics Circle nomination). U.S. Tours: King Lear and The Seagull starring Ian McKellen, Frost/Nixon. He has been nominated for three Laurence Olivier Awards for Best Lighting Design – twice in 2009 for Piaf at the Donmar Warehouse and No Man’s Land in the West End and once in 2007 for Therese Raquin at the National Theatre. He won the 2008 Knight of Illumination Award for Parade at the Donmar Warehouse and is nominated twice in the 2009 awards for Piaf at the Donmar Warehouse and Twelfth Night in the Donmar West End season.

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Jon Weston Sound Designer Broadway: 13, Les Misérables, The Color Purple, The Glass Menagerie, Caroline, or Change (Audelco Award), Nine, Imaginary Friends, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Green Bird, It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues, On the Town, Company in concert at Lincoln Center and Man of La Mancha. Off-Broadway and regional credits include The First Wives Club, Rooms, Family Guy Sings! at Carnegie Hall, Jesus Christ Superstar, A Little Night Music (L.A. Drama Critics Award), Himself & Nora, The Thing About Men, tick, tick…BOOM! and Bright Lights, Big City.

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Tom Murray Musical Director A Little Night Music (West End, London), Sunday In The Park With George (Broadway), Parade (Donmar, London), Pacific Overtures (Donmar, London), The Last Five Years (world premiere, New York, London), The Glorious Ones (Ahrens/Flaherty – world premiere), Loving Repeating (Stephen Flaherty – world premiere), Parade (U.S. national tour), Saturday Night (U.S. premiere), My Fair Lady (McCarter Theatre – Princeton, NJ), Putting It Together (Court Theatre – Chicago), A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures (Chicago Shakespeare), Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, Passion, Sunday In The Park With George, Anyone Can Whistle (Ravinia Festival – Chicago). Recipient of four Joseph Jefferson Awards (Chicago) and one Barrymore Award (Philadelphia) for music-direction. Future Projects:  A Little Night Music (NYC), Honeymoon in Vegas (Jason Robert Brown – NYC).

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David Cullen Orchestrator Broadway: Cats, Starlight Express, Song and Dance, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard, Shogun, The Phantom of the Opera, The Woman in White, Jesus Christ Superstar (revival), Swan Lake (Tony nomination). London: By Jeeves, Whistle Down the Wind, Beautiful Game, Can-Can (revival), Parade (revival), Piaf. Film: Evita, The Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar. Television: Relative Strangers, Surgical Spirit, The Bretts.

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Rob Ashford Director and Choregrapher Broadway: Thoroughly Modern Millie (Tony Award - Best Choreography), Cry Baby (Tony Award nomination, Drama Desk Award, Fred Astaire Award, Outer Critics Circle Award – Best Choreography), Curtains (Tony nomination – Best Choreography), The Wedding Singer (Tony and Drama Desk nominations – Best Choreography). London: A Streetcar Named Desire starring Rachel Weisz at The Donmar Warehouse, Parade at The Donmar Warehouse (Olivier nominations for Direction and Choreography), Guys and Dolls (Olivier nomination), Evita (Olivier nomination), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Olivier nomination), A Funny Thing Happened…, Once in a Lifetime (Royal National Theatre), Candide (The English National Opera, La Scala, Milan and Theatre du Chatelet, Paris). Film and Television: Beyond The Sea directed by and starring Kevin Spacey (Choreographer). The Kennedy Center Honors – Tributes to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Barbara Streisand (Choreographer), The 81st Annual Academy Awards – Production Number, starring Hugh Jackman and Beyonce Knowles, directed by Baz Luhrmann (2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography). He is on the executive committee for The Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and Board of Trustees for The Joyce Theater.

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Photo Credit

L to R: (Standing) David St. Louis, Deidrie Henry, T.R. Knight, Michael Berresse, Curt Hansen, Brad Anderson, Will Collyer, P.J. Griffith, Lara Pulver, Davis Gaines, Robert Yacko, Christian Hoff and Josh Tower; (Seated) Hayley Podschun, Phoebe Strole, Charlotte d’Amboise, Rose Sezniak, Lisa Livesay, Sarah Jayne Jensen, Laura Griffith and Karole Foreman. Photo by Craig Schwartz.