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Michael Arden
Pippin
Broadway: Big River, The Times They Are A-Changin’. Off-Broadway/Elsewhere: Bare, It’s Only Life, Swimming in the Shallows, Pippin, Ace, God of Vengeance, The Common Pursuit, As You Like It, The Winter’s Tale, World AIDS Day concerts of Pippin and The Secret Garden. Television: Kings, The Return of Jezebel James, Cashmere Mafia, Grey’s Anatomy and Numb3rs. Film: Bride Wars, The Good Shepherd. Concert: Barbra Streisand’s European tour, Feinstein’s at the Regency and Joe’s Pub. Associate Director of A Tale of Two Cities. Training: The Juilliard School. |
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Jonah Blechman
Off-Stage Vocals, Swing, Magic Captain
stars in the new Spencer Schilly dramatic feature this spring. Film: This Boy’s Life, Fall Time, Treasure Island (Sundance Jury Prize Winner), Spent, Luster, Arc, Another Gay Movie and Another Gay Sequel (also executive produced). Television: Empty Cradle, The Commish, Rockford Files, Walker Texas Ranger, Dawson’s Creek, Seduced By Madness. Other L.A.: Doing Judy (Tiffany Theater), Kaleidoscope Symphony (Lillian Theatre), Itsy Bitsy Spider (Hudson Theatre), Accepting Rumi (Deaf West Theatre). Regional: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Victoria Theatre, San Francisco). Having produced, directed and choreographed for film and television, Jonah is currently producing his first television series. Thank you to CTG and DWT. For my loving family and house angel Jean. |
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Dan Callaway
Voice of Charles, Player, Soldier
Broadway: Linda Eder on Broadway (Gershwin Theatre). National Tours: The Phantom of the Opera. Other New York: All’s Well That Ends Well (Theatre 1010). Regional: The Pirates of Penzance (Guthrie), The Girl Who Would Be King (Riverside Theatre), Jesus Christ Superstar (MUNY), My Fair Lady (Sacramento Music Circus), The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Hangar), Cinderella (Arkansas Rep), West Side Story, Sweeney Todd and The Fantasticks (Heritage Rep). London: One Touch of Venus (Royal Opera House Linbury Studio), Little Women (Commonwealth Institute Theatre). Other L.A.: Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings (Theatre @ Boston Court), Mermaids (MGM on Stage), The Mystery of Edwin Drood and The Most Happy Fella (The Alex Theatre with Musical Theatre Guild). Film: The Three Thousand. Television: Numb3rs. Education: BFA, Elon University. Other: Member of L.A.’s Musical Theatre Guild. Teaching: Our Learning Spot Music Theatre Classes for Teens — www.ourlearningspot.com. Always for my wife, Heather. |
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Bryan Terrell Clark
Voice of Theo, Player, Noble, u/s Lewis
is happy to make his debut at the Mark Taper Forum in Pippin. During the past year, he has been seen in Reprise Theatre Company’s production of Once on This Island, the Alliance Theatre’s production of Sophisticated Ladies and Billy Porter’s project Being Alive. Before that, Bryan played Corey in Fences at the Pasadena Playhouse, opposite Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett. Additional theatre credits include His Girl Friday at the Guthrie Theater; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear, The King Stag, In the Red and Brown Water and numerous other shows at Yale Rep. Bryan has shared the stage and studio with many musicians including Kenny Latimore and Chante Moore, Jill Scott, Maxwell, Al Green, Neyo, Gladys Knight, Chaka Khan, Patti LaBelle, Destiny’s Child and Stevie Wonder. T.V.: The Unit and CSI: NY for CBS and Tyler Perry’s House of Payne for TBS. Bryan is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. (Jer. 29:11) |
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Nicolas Conway
Theo, Player
is very happy and thankful to have the opportunity to be in this amazing production. He is currently a freshman, attending Granada Hills Charter High School, Math and Science Magnet. During his free time he enjoys playing tackle football and skateboarding. As a son of deaf parents, he enjoys the art of ASL storytelling and has participated in various school drama activities. He is excited to bring the language of ASL to the theatre and work alongside professional actors. He appreciates his grandparents who have always supported him and wants to thank his mom and dad for all their encouragement and love. |
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Rodrick Covington
Player, Voice of Torch Bearer, Voice of Noble, Courier #1, Voice of Couriers #2 & #3, u/s Leading Player
Broadway: The Lion King. Off-Broadway: The Woman Upstairs, No Boundaries, Drumstruck, Native Son. National Tours: Fosse. Regional: The 60’s Project (Goodspeed), Jelly’s Last Jam (Alliance), In The Red and Brown Water (recipient of Suzi Bass Award, Alliance Theatre), The All Night Strut (ICT), The Bayou Legend (UCLA). Film: Three Verses, Mask of the Ninja, The Warriors, Five to Live. TV: Chappelle’s Show, Law & Order: CI. BFA, Suny Purchase Conservatory. 18th child of 19 from Polk County, Florida. To God be the Glory! Thanks to family and friends for being a blessing. Be the change you want to see… Phil. 3:12-14. |
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James Royce Edwards
Lewis, Player
Off-Broadway: Altar Boyz (New World Stages), Matthew Passion (Chernuchin Theatre), Wanda’s World (45th Street Theatre). L.A. Theatre: Bye Bye Birdie (South Bay CLO), Altar Boyz (regional premiere Musical Theatre West), Children of Eden (MTW), The Scarlet Pimpernel (MTW). Regional Theatre Favorites: Paris by Night (Trinity Rep), Footloose (Sacramento Music Circus), Joseph…Dreamcoat (Moonlight Amphitheater), Forever Plaid (San Diego Resident Company), Sound of Music (American Musical Theatre of San Jose), Miss Saigon (AMTSJ), Cinderella, Fiddler on the Roof, Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Sundance Theatre). James is also an A.C.E. Certified Personal Trainer and Fitness Writer/Model having written for and appeared in Men’s Health, Maximum Fitness and Men’s Workout magazine, among others. Please visit: www.jamesroyceedwards.com to see more. |
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TL Forsberg
Player, Magician Assistant
TL is a Canadian-born actress and singer for the band Kriya, which opened for Alanis Morissette and Tori Amos at Toronto’s Molson Amphitheatre. She appeared opposite Sebastian Bach and Ted Nugent on VH1’s reality TV series Supergroup. Her performances were featured on Much Music, MTV (Fuse), The New Music and City TV, Ozzfest 2006, San Diego’s 105.3 Rock Radio and Hollywoodmusic.tv. She recently performed as Sarah in Children of a Lesser God at Rubicon Theatre in Ventura. Other TV/Film: Earth: The Final Conflict, La Femme Nikita, His Bodyguard and Hendrix. TL can be seen in the upcoming film See What I’m Saying: The Deaf Entertainers Documentary. She now spends her days in the studio recording her debut album with producer Joshua Rumor (Invengo Records). |
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Sara Gettelfinger
Fastrada, Player
Broadway: Seussical, The Boys From Syracuse, Nine (Carla), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Jolene), Grey Gardens (Little Edie Beale) at Playwrights Horizons. National Tours: Fosse. Other New York: Company (April) at the Helen Hayes, Carnival and Tenderloin at City Center Encores! and Anything Goes at Lincoln Center. Regional: Pippin (Fastrada) at Paperr Mill Playhouse. Film: Sex and the City. Television: Ed, Without a Trace, Guiding Light. Education: BFA, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Proud member of Actors’ Equity. |
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Tyrone Giordano
Pippin
is thrilled to return to the Mark Taper Forum with this production of Pippin. Tyrone was originally cast as Huckleberry Finn in Big River at Deaf West Theatre in 2001, and reprised the role here at the Mark Taper Forum in 2002. In 2003, he made his Broadway debut with the Roundabout/Deaf West/CTG production of the same at the American Airlines Theatre for which he and his castmate Michael McElroy (Jim) both won Drama Desk nominations. The show garnered two Tony Award nominations and won Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre. Tyrone joined the show on tour nationally with a stop in Japan in 2004-2005. Other stage credits include Zoo Story (Jerry) at Deaf West Theatre, The Miracle Worker (Ensemble) at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. Film credits include The Family Stone, A Lot Like Love and most recently, Untraceable. Keep hope alive. |
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Harriet Harris
Berthe, Player
Broadway: Thoroughly Modern Millie (Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical), The Man Who Came to Dinner, Old Acquaintance (Drama League nomination), Cry Baby (Drama League nomination). Off-Broadway: Man and Superman, Bella, Belle of Byelorussia (Drama Desk nomination), Jeffrey (Drama Desk nomination), Hamlet, Julius Caesar. Regional: Mame (Kennedy Center), The Glass Menagerie, Tartuffe, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Guthrie), On the Town (Reprise – L.A. Ovation Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical). Film: Memento, Nurse Betty, Monster-in-Law. Television: Frasier, Desperate Housewives, X-Files, It’s All Relative, The Five Mrs. Buchanans, Union Square, Six Feet Under. A.E.A. Member of The Acting Company. |
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Rebecca Ann Johnson
Off-Stage Vocals, Swing, u/s Catherine
Proud to be making her CTG/DWT debut! L.A. Theatre: Zanna Don’t (West Coast Ensemble, winner 2008 LADCCAward for Best Ensemble), Silk Stockings (Musical Theatre West), She Always Told Me (Little Ventures Productions). Television/Web: The Tinsley Bumble Show, Easy Bake Lovin’. Love and thanks to family and friends.
www.rebeccajohnson.com. |
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Troy Kotsur
Charles, Player
CTG: Sleeping Beauty Wakes (Prince), Big River (Pap/Duke). Deaf West Theatre: Krapp’s Last Tape (Dir. Jevon Whetter), The Zoo Story, True West (Lee), A Streetcar Named Desire (Stanley, LADCC nominee and LA Weekly Best Actor), Oliver!, Sleuth (Milo), Orphans (Treat), Of Mice and Men (Lenny, LA Weekly Best Actor), The Elephant Man (Merrick), Treasure Island, Ophelia (Hamlet) Film/ TV: Scrubs, CSI:NY, Sue Thomas: FBEye (recurring role), Strong Medicine, Universal Signs, The Number 23 (opposite Jim Carrey and directed by Joel Schumacher). Education: Theatre/Film at Gallaudet University, D.C. Raised in Phoenix, AZ. Thanks to Deanne and my daughter, Kyra (3), for their undying love and utmost support. |
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José F. Lopez, Jr.
Theo, Player
Broadway: Seussical, The Boys From Syracuse, Nine (Carla), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Jolene), Grey Gardens (Little Edie Beale) at Playwrights Horizons. National Tours: Fosse. Other New York: Company (April) at the Helen Hayes, Carnival and Tenderloin at City Center Encores! and Anything Goes at Lincoln Center. Regional: Pippin (Fastrada) at Paperr Mill Playhouse. Film: Sex and the City. Television: Ed, Without a Trace, Guiding Light. Education: BFA, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Proud member of Actors’ Equity. |
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John McGinty
Player, Noble, Courier #2, Peasant, u/s Pippin
National Tour: Robin Hood (Cleveland SignStage Theatre).
Theatre: Deaf World Odyssey (Gallaudet University), Etta Jenks (Boston Studio Theatre). Television: Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Film: Love Signs (Birthname Productions). Education: Northeastern University. Other: 2004 Summer Program at the National Theatre of the Deaf. First time working at Center Theatre Group (Mark Taper Forum). |
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Anthony Natale
Player, Torch Bearer, Petitioner, Courier #3, u/s Charles, ASL Captain
Tour: Italian Straw Hat. Regional: Godspell, Fiddler on the Roof, Oliver.Other L.A.: West Side Story, Godspell, Brilliant Traces, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.Film: Mr. Holland’s Opus, His Bodyguard, Two Shades of Blue, Universal Signs, Jerry Maguire, The Date Movie, Sorority Boys, City of Angels.Television: Ellen, Any Day Now, Rude Awakening, Beauty and the Beast, Seventh Heaven, Pacific Blue. Education: B.A degree in film production,minor in Theatre Arts, California State University, Northridge. Other: National Theater Tour, Amsterdam Theater, Holland tour, Canadian Theater tour. ASL Coach – Big River, Sleeping Beauty Wakes. |
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Aleks Pevec
Player, Voice of Petitioner, Visigoth Head, Voice of Peasant, u/s Pippin, u/s Voice of Charles
is honored to be making his CTG and DWT debut in Pippin. He was recently seen as Tommy in The Who’s Tommy (Ricardo Montalban Theatre), Wicked (Pantages Theatre), White Christmas (Pantages Theatre), Chess (Ford Amphitheatre), the Gordon Davidson tribute at the Ahmanson Theatre. Television: 90210. He is a recent graduate of UCLA with a B.A. in Musical Theater. Other interests: passionate surfer, swimmer and recent member of the UCLA Triathlon Team in hopes of completing an Iron Man in the future. Much aloha to his wonderful family, friends, teachers and agents at KSR. He would like to dedicate this performance to Skye. Pura Vida!. |
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Victoria Platt
Player, Magician Assistant, u/s Fastrada, u/s Berthe
Broadway: Jelly’s Last Jam. Regional: Venice (Center Theatre Group workshop), Atlanta (Geffen), Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Black Dahlia), Asphalt (REDCAT), The All Night Strut (ICT), Smoke, Lilies and Jade (The Public), Women of Plums (Kennedy Center), Conrack (AMAS - AUDELCO Award), The Hot Mikado (Ford Theatre), How’s Your Love Life? (LATC), Deena in Dreamgirls (Westchester B’way), 2 Divas & the Dog (The Tiffany and New Professional Theater) and Sheila in Hair (European tour). Film: Cover, My Girlfriend’s Back (2009), Josephine Bakerin HBO’s Winchell, Flip the Script, ‘Round Midnight and Rainbow in Alma’s Rainbow. TV: Barbershop, Strong Medicine, CSI: Miami, Crossing Jordan, Guiding Light, All My Children, State of Grace and The $treet. NAACP nominations: Hope Runs Eternal (NHPAC) and Opening Doors (Elephant Theatre), which she also co-produced. |
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Ty Taylor
Leading Player
is grateful to be working with CTG/DWT. CBS Rockstar: INXS finalist. Two Top 10 Hits with Dakota Moon on Elektra Records. Has shared stages with Tina Turner, Eric Clapton, Brian May, B.B. King, Slash and more. Broadway: Joseph…, Grease (director, Jeff Calhoun), Cats, Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber Concert. Songs For A New World – Original cast recording. L.A. stage: Damn Yankees (Reprise), Chess (Ford Amphitheatre). Las Vegas: We Will Rock You. Numerous commercials and voice-overs. Writer, producer of acclaimed children’s CD, I’m Ready. Writer of new rock musical – The Existents. Carnegie-Mellon graduate. His current band, Ghost Hounds, will release their debut album, produced by Nile Rodgers, in 2009 and already can be played on Rockband 2 video game.
www.ghosthoundsmusic.com |
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Nikki Tomlinson
Player, Magician Assistant, Dance Captain
National Tour: Joseph… Dreamcoat (with Patrick Cassidy). Regional: Hairspray, Gypsy, My Fair Lady (Sacramento Music Circus), Chicago (Musical Theatre of Los Angeles), Tip-Toes (Whitefire Theatre), Lady Be Good (Connecticut Repertory), Best of Forbidden Broadway, Honk!, Leader of the Pack (Arundel Barn Playhouse). Television: X-Play, Attack of the Show (G4 Network), AMC Date Night (AMC), Science of Love (NBC), Hot Tub in Space (NBC’s.Comedy), several commercials. Film: Naked Run, Forever For Now. Other: Universal Studios Japan, Walt Disney World, Holland America Cruise Lines, Six Flags Elitch Gardens. Co-creator of the Tinseltone Carolers – www.tinseltonecarolers.com. B.A. in Musical Theatre, Acting Minor, from the University of Northern Colorado. Proud AEA, SAG, AFTRA member. www.nikkitomlinson.com. |
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Melissa Van Der Schyff
Catherine, Player
Broadway: Big River (American Airlines). National Tour: Big River (Deaf West/TOTS). Regional: An Italian Straw Hat: A Vaudeville (South Coast Rep), as well as Imagine (workshop), Zhivago (La Jolla Playhouse), Big River (Deaf West), and for Center Theatre Group — Big River (Mark Taper Forum and Ahmanson), Post Office (workshop). London: Old Heads and Young Hearts (Drill Hall). Other L.A.: Ballad (Theatre Geo), Laura Dennis (Zephyr). Film: A Lot Like Love, Wyatt Earp. Television: The Great Commission (Showtime), The Whitey Show, Chicago Hope, Love and Marriage. Webseries: National Lampoon’s Lemmings Sketch Comedy (Maniatv.com). CD: Urban Peasant (http:/cdbaby.com/cd/mvds). Education: B.F.A. Acting, The College of Santa Fe, N.M., BADA (London). Tony Honor for Special Achievement in Theatre along with castmates of Big River. |
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Alexandria Wailes
Player, Magician Assistant, Visigoth Arm
Theatre: Mother Courage and Her Children (the Public), Big River (Roundabout/Deaf West/CTG), Children of a Lesser God (Keen Company), Big River national tour, Sleeping Beauty Wakes (Kirk Douglas Theatre), Big River (Mark Taper Forum/Deaf West), The Wild Boys (Australia Theater of the Deaf), Love Person (Mixed Blood Theatre), Aurora Leigh (Ensemble Studio Theatre), This Island Alone (Vineyard Playhouse). Television: Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Conviction. Films: Theatre of War, Freedom Is Not Free, Time. Ms. Wailes received a 2007 L.A. Ovation Award nomination for Sleeping Beauty Wakes (Best Lead Female in a Musical) and is a Tony honoree recipient for the Broadway revival of Big River (Ensemble). A proud member of Actor’s Equity. |
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Roger O. Hirson
Book
has written extensively for theatre, movies and television. Among his movie credits are Demon Seed starring Julie Christie, and To Catch a King starring Robert Wagner and Teri Garr. For television, he wrote A Woman Named Jackie, which won an Emmy, and adaptations of A Christmas Carol, featuring George C. Scott, and The Old Man and the Sea with Anthony Quinn. His play World War 2 ½ was staged in both New York and London. He is the father of two sons, Christopher, the jazz musician who lives in Berlin, and David, the playwright who lives in New York. |
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Stephen Schwartz
Music and Lyrics
has contributed music and/or lyrics to Godspell, The Magic Show, The Baker’s Wife, Working (which he also adapted and directed), Rags, Children of Eden and Wicked. He collaborated with Leonard Bernstein on the English texts for Mass and wrote the title song for the play and movie Butterflies Are Free. For films, he collaborated with Alan Menken on the songs for Disney’s Enchanted as well as the animated features Pocahontas and The Hunchback of Notre Dame and wrote the songs for DreamWorks’ The Prince of Egypt. He runs the ASCAP musical theatre workshops in New York and Los Angeles and serves on the Council of the Dramatists’ Guild. Mr. Schwartz is the recipient of three Academy Awards,
four Grammy Awards, four Drama Desk Awards and a tiny handful of tennis trophies. A book about his career, Defying Gravity, has recently been released by Applause Books. www.stephenschwartz.com |
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Jeff Calhoun
Director, Choreographer
directed and choreographed the award-winning Deaf West production of Big River (Tony and Drama Desk nominations, Best Revival; Drama Desk nomination for Best Director of a Musical; Ovation and L.A. Drama Critics Circle awards for Direction and Choreography). He was a producer as well as director/choreographer for the Broadway production of Brooklyn The Musical. He directed and choreographed the 1994 Broadway revival of Grease! (Tony nomination, Best Choreography) and co-choreographed the Broadway revival of Annie Get Your Gun (Tony Award, Best Revival). His Broadway directing debut was Tommy Tune Tonight, and his collaboration with Mr. Tune led to the 1991 Tony for Best Choreography for The Will Rogers Follies. He provided the musical staging for the hit Broadway musical Grey Gardens and developed the first original ASL musical, Sleeping Beauty Wakes, at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. Jeff directed the world premiere of Disney’s High School Musical: On Stage at Theatre of the Stars. He subsequently directed both the domestic national tour and international productions of Disney’s High School Musical: On Tour. Jeff recently directed the world premiere of Disney’s High School Musical 2: On Stage at Theater of the Stars. Jeff will direct a reading of the new Wildhorn, Black and Menchell musical Bonnie & Clyde at Roundabout Theatre Company in February 2009. Jeff is an Associate Artist at Ford’s Theatre, where he will direct a new production of The Civil War next season. Jeff dedicates his work on this production in loving memory of Mario Melodia. Jeff is forever grateful to Mario for his guidance and tutelage, which enabled Jeff to cultivate a career in show business. |
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Steven Landau
Musical Director, Arranger
Center Theatre Group: Big River (musical director/arranger). Broadway: Big River (Roundabout/Deaf West Theatre/Center Theatre Group); Hairspray (substitute conductor, keyboards). Off-Broadway: Caroline, or Change (keyboards). National Tours: Titanic (musical director/conductor), Big River (musical director/arranger), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (associate conductor), White Christmas, Theater of the Stars (musical director/conductor), Disney’s High School Musical: The Ice Tour (additional orchestrations). Regional: Shenandoah, Ford’s Theatre(musical director/orchestrator). |
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Tobin Ost
Scenic and Costume Designer
Broadway: Brooklyn—the Musical (costume and associate set design). Off-Broadway: Grace for MCC Theatre Company (set design); The Overwhelming for Roundabout Theatre Company (costume design and associate set design); Zanna–Don’t! (co-set and costume design); Almost Heaven – Songs of John Denver (costume design) and Fighting Words (set design). Regional: Nightingale with Lynn Redgrave for the Mark Taper Forum and Hartford Stage; Sleeping Beauty Wakes for the Kirk Douglas Theatre; Shenandoah for Ford’s Theatre; Elegies for Barrington Stage Company; Himself and Nora for the Old Globe; Richard II for the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; Rice Boy for the Yale Repertory Theatre; Indoor/Outdoor for Portland Stage Company. Current: The Civil War for the Ford’s Theatre and The Philanthropist for Roundabout Theatre Company. Tobin is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. |
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Donald Holder
Lighting Designer
Broadway: 30 productions, including South Pacific (2008 Tony Award, Drama Desk nomination), Les Liaisons Dangereuses, A Streetcar Named Desire, Gem of the Ocean, Movin’ Out, Juan Darien (all Tony-nominated), The Lion King (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards), Cyrano de Bergerac, Radio Golf, Thoroughly Modern Millie and The Boy From Oz. Recent Off-Broadway: The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Romantic Poetry, Saved, Almost an Evening, The Pain and the Itch, Romeo and Juliet (Delacorte). Regional Theatre: Center Stage, Steppenwolf, Goodman, Arena Stage, South Coast Repertory, Huntington, Seattle Rep, Intiman, Williamstown, Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, many others. Mark Taper Forum/Kirk Douglas Theatre: The Little Dog Laughed, Pippin, Jitney, Hughie, Spunk, Yellow Face, Without Walls, Glimmer, Glimmer and Shine, many others. LA Opera: Grendel. |
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Philip G. Allen
Sound Designer
Center Theatre Group: Ahmanson – Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cinderella; Mark Taper Forum – The Talking Cure, Like Jazz, Big River, Flower Drum Song, The First Picture Show, 13 (Production Sound Engineer), Pippin. Broadway: Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks and If You Ever Leave Me I’m Going With You (assisting long time design partner Jon Gottlieb). Los Angeles: The Ten Commandments (starring Val Kilmer) at the Kodak Theatre, Paint Your Wagon, Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks and Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues (Geffen Playhouse), Play On and Blame It On the Movies (Pasadena Playhouse), Masada (Shubert Theatre), the past ten seasons of Reprise! Other: Forever Plaid and Blues in the Night (Coconut Grove Playhouse, Miami), U.S. workshop productions of current West End musical Zorro with music by John Cameron and the Gipsy Kings, Production Sound Engineer for Thoroughly Modern Millie (La Jolla Playhouse), Head Soundman for national tours of Titanic, Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Man of La Mancha. Awards: 2003 NAACP Award for Sound Design (Jesus Christ Superstar), 2001 Ovation Award for Flower Drum Song (Taper), 1999 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Cinderella, two Ovation Award nominations for Best Sound Design. Mr. Allen teaches at USC School of Theatre and at CalArts. |
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Jim Steinmeyer
Illusion Designer
According to The New York Times, Jim Steinmeyer is the “celebrated invisible man, designer and creative brain behind many of the great stage magicians of the last quarter century.” His illusions have been featured by magicians Doug Henning, Siegfried and Roy, David Copperfield, Criss Angel, Ricky Jay, and many others. Jim has created special illusions for Broadway, Off-Broadway, West End and Las Vegas shows, including Beauty and the Beast, Into the Woods, The Phantom of the Opera and Mary Poppins. In 2009, his illusions are featured in the 139th edition of Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. He’s also the author of several books on the history of magic, including the bestseller, Hiding the Elephant and The Glorious Deception. Jim lives in Los Angeles with his wife, television producer Frankie Glass. |
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Deaf West Theatre
Ed Waterstreet, Artistic Director; Laura Hill, General Manager
established itself as the first professional resident American Sign Language theatre in the western United States in 1991. Located in the North Hollywood Arts District, DWT has produced over 30 plays (and three musicals), winning more than 80 theatre awards, has performed on Broadway, and been nominated for a Tony. Always the innovator, DWT created and developed the theatrical form of the sign language musical with acclaimed productions like Oliver!, the Tony nominated Big River which had back-to-back regional, touring and Broadway productions, and the first original sign language musical Sleeping Beauty Wakes. DWT continually strives to raise the standard of deaf theatre by pioneering innovative storytelling techniques for the stage, providing valuable opportunities for deaf actors, crafting engaging school programs that provide bi-lingual and bi-cultural learning opportunities, and collaborating with theatres regionally and nationally to expand inclusive programming. |
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