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VICTORIA CLARK (Madame Sousatzka) is a four-time Tony-nominated, American musical theater actress and singer. Ms. Clark has
performed in numerous Broadway musicals and in other theatre, film and television works. Her soprano voice can also be heard on innumerable cast albums
and several animated films. In 2008, Ms. Clark released her first solo album titled “Fifteen Seconds of Grace.” In 2005, Ms. Clark won the Tony Award for Best
Leading Actress in a Musical for her role in The Light in the Piazza. She also won the Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, and the Joseph Jefferson
Award for her performances in the same show. Ms. Clark’s stage work includes roles in the Broadway musicals Guys and Dolls (1992-93), A Grand Night for
Singing (1993-94), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1995-96, as Smitty), Titanic (1997-99, creating the role of Alice Beane), Cabaret (19992000, as Fraulein Kost) and Urinetown (2003, as Penelope Pennywise), as well as numerous roles Off-Broadway, in national tours and in regional theater. Ms.
Clark played Doris MacAfee in the City Center Encores! Production of Bye, Bye Birdie in 2004.
MONTEGO GLOVER (Xholiswa) is an American stage actress and singer. Ms. Glover made her Broadway debut in The Color Purple in the
roles of Celie & Nettie. She created the role of Felicia Farrell in the Broadway hit musical Memphis and received a Tony Award nomination for Lead Actress in a
Musical as well as a Drama League Nomination and won both the Outer Critics’ Circle Award and the Drama Desk Award for her performance. Ms. Glover won
a second Drama Desk Award (Outstanding Ensemble) for her critically acclaimed run as Nina in the New York debut of The Royale at Lincoln Center Theater.
She enjoyed a delightfully comedic turn as Annie Shepard in the new musical comedy It Shoulda Been You, and starred in the hugely successful 2016 revival
of Les Miserables as Fantine. Ms. Glover also has an impressive list of credits in concert work both in New York and around the country. She has been a Guest
Artist for the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York City Center, Philadelphia Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis
Symphony Orchestra, Caramoor Music Festival, Smith Center in Las Vegas, Concordia Conservatory (Hoch Chamber Series), Calgary Philharmonic, Sun Valley
Summer Symphony Orchestra and, most recently, Houston Symphony Orchestra to name a few.
JUDY KAYE (Countess) is a Tony Award-winning American
singer and actress who has appeared in myriad stage musicals, plays and
operas. Ms. Kaye made her Broadway debut in Grease as Betty Rizzo.
She took home a Tony Award for originating the role of Carlotta in The
Phantom of the Opera, and received a Tony nomination for her role in
Mamma Mia!. Other Broadway credits include On the Twentieth Century;
The Moony Shapiro Songbook; Oh, Brother!; Ragtime; the 2005 revival of
Sweeney Todd and the 2012 Gershwin musical Nice Work if You Can Get It.
In September 2014, Ms. Kaye joined the Broadway production of Cinderella as the Fairy Godmother
and remained with the show until its final performance on January 3, 2015. Since February 16, 2016,
Ms. Kaye has been performing the role of Madame Morrible in the Broadway production of Wicked.
JORDAN BARROW (Themba)
studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
and holds a BFA in Musical Theater from the
University of Michigan. Jordan Barrow’s offBroadway credits include The Tempest (Public
Theater’s NY Shakespeare Festival) and Held
Momentarily (NY Fringe Festival Encore Series).
TV credits include “Broad City.” Workshops and
readings include Sousatzka and Sweetie (directed by Patricia Birch). Regional
credits include Peter Pan and The Miracle Worker (Paper Mill Playhouse) and
Finian’s Rainbow (Music Theatre Wichita).
CRAIG LUCAS (Book) is a thrice Tony Award-nominated American playwright, screenwriter, theater director, musical actor and film director. He is currently Associate Artistic
Director at the Intiman Theatre in Seattle. In 1973, Mr. Lucas left Boston University with a Bachelor of Arts in theater and creative writing. His mentor, Anne Sexton, urged him to try his
luck in New York City as a playwright. He worked in many day jobs while performing in Broadway musicals including, Shenandoah, On the Twentieth Century, Rex, and Sweeney Todd. Mr.
Lucas met Norman Rene in 1979. Their first collaboration was Marry Me a Little in 1981. The two wrote a script incorporating songs that had been written for, but discarded from Stephen
Sondheim musicals, and Rene also directed. They followed this with the plays Missing Persons (1981) and Blue Window (1984); Three Postcards (1987), an original musical by Mr. Lucas
and Craig Carnelia; and another play, Reckless (1983). In 1990, they joined forces for what would prove to be their biggest commercial and critical success, Prelude to a Kiss. They also
joined forces for the film Longtime Companion (1990), the 1992 film adaptation of Prelude with Alec Baldwin and Meg Ryan, and the 1995 film version of Reckless with Mia Farrow and
Mary Louise Parker. Following his early work on romantic comedies, Lucas began to write more serious works about AIDS, including The Singing Forest and The Dying Gaul, the latter of
which was made into a film that Lucas also directed. Mr. Lucas also authored the book for the musical The Light in the Piazza, and directed the world premiere at the Intiman Theatre in
Seattle. The Lincoln Center production, directed by Bartlett Sher, garnered him a Tony Award nomination. In late 2008, Mr. Lucas’ play Prayer for My Enemy made its New York premiere
at Playwrights Horizons. In 2014, Mr. Lucas was the book writer of the universally lauded restoration of Gershwin’s An American in Paris, which opened on Broadway in the spring of 2015
and garnered 14 Tony nominations and 4 Tony Awards.
RICHARD MALTBY, JR. (Lyrics) is a Tony Award-winning American theater director, producer, lyricist and screenwriter. While attending Yale in the mid-50’s, he met
composer David Shire, a fellow student, and they formed a partnership to write songs for musicals. Their musical version of Cyrano de Bergerac was produced by the Yale Dramatic
Association in 1958, then mounted by the prestigious Williamstown Summer Theatre. One song from the score, “Autumn,” was recorded by Barbra Streisand on her number one album
People in 1964. On subsequent albums, Streisand recorded the Maltby/Shire compositions “No More Songs for Me;” “Starting Here, Starting Now;” and “The Morning After.” Mr. Maltby
and Mr. Shire worked throughout the 1960’s on musicals and revues that played Off-Broadway or in regional theater, or went unproduced. Their first Broadway credit came on May 2,
1968, when their song “The Girl of the Minute” was used in the 1968 revue New Faces. Meanwhile, Mr. Shire composed film scores, and Mr. Maltby developed a career as a stage director.
In 1977, at the behest of the Manhattan Theatre Club, Richard directed a revue of songs that he and David Shire had written for a variety of projects. Staring Here, Starting Now ran for
120 performances, resulting in a cast album that earned a Grammy® nomination. Maltby and Shire finally reached Broadway with their own musical, Baby, directed by Mr. Maltby, which
opened on December 4, 1983, and ran 241 performances. They returned to Off-Broadway with the musical revues Urban Blight (which had a limited run at the Manhattan Theatre Club
beginning June 19, 1988) and Closer than Ever (which began a 288 performance run on November 6, 1989). Their second Broadway musical, Big, an adaptation of the successful film,
opened in April 1996 and ran 193 performances. Apart from his work with Mr. Shire, Mr. Maltby conceived and directed the revue Ain’t Misbehavin’, which used the songs of Fats Waller, and
he wrote new lyrics to some of Waller’s tunes for the production. It opened Off-Broadway on May 9, 1978, and eventually transferred to Broadway, running a total of 1,632 performances.
Mr. Maltby won the Tony Award for Best Director of the show. Richard Maltby also helped Andrew Lloyd Webber and British lyricist Don Black Americanize the lyrics for the musical Song
and Dance, and also directed the Broadway production. It opened August 30, 1985, and ran for 474 performances. Mr. Maltby adapted the French lyrics of Alain Boublil into English for the
musical Miss Saigon, which opened on Broadway on April 11, 1991, and ran for 4,125 performances. Mr. Maltby also conceived the dance revue Fosse, which opened on Broadway January
14, 1999, and ran for 1,100 performances. All of these efforts produced cast albums.
DAVID SHIRE (Music), an Academy Award
and two-time Grammy Award winner and multiple Tony Award and Emmy® nominee, has composed prolifically for the theatre,
films, television and recordings. On Broadway, he and lyricist Richard Maltby wrote the scores for the musicals Baby (Tony Award nominations for Best Score and Musical) and Big (Tony
nomination for Best Score). His Off-Broadway scores, also written with Mr. Maltby, include Starting Here, Starting Now (Grammy nomination); Closer Than Ever (Outer Circle Critics Award
for Best Musical and Score); Urban Blight at the Manhattan Theatre Club and the Off-Broadway musical The Sap of Life. Mr. Shire also wrote the incidental scores for As You Like It (NY
Shakespeare Festival), Peter Ustinov’s The Unknown Soldier and His Wife (Lincoln Center), Donald Margoli’s The Loman Family Picnic (MTC), Schmulnick’s Waltz and Visiting Mr. Green.
Maltby and Shire’s most recent project, the musical Take Flight with book by John Weidman, has been workshopped at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, presented in concert versions
in Russia and Australia, and at Princeton’s McCarter Theatre. Mr. Shire is currently at work on an adaptation of a hit Thai musical, Behind the Painting, for Broadway. David Shire’s many
feature film scores include Norma Rae (Academy Award for Best Song, lyrics by Norman Gimbel), Francis Coppala’s The Conversation; All the President’s Men; The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3;
Short Circuit; 2010;, Farewell, My Lovely; The Hindenberg; Return to Oz and Saturday Night Fever, for which his work earned him two Grammy Awards. Mr. Shire most recently scored
David Fincher’s Zodiac and Peter Hyam’s Beyond a Reasonable Doubt. His numerous television scores have garnered five Emmy nominations and include Glenn Close’s Sarah Plain and Tall,
Christopher Reeve’s Rear Window on Entebbe, Oprah Winfrey’s The Women of Brewster Place, The Kennedy’s of Massachusetts, Wendy Wasserstein’s The Heidi Chronicles, and Neil Simon’s
Jake’s Women and Broadway Bound. Mr. Shire also composed the theme song with lyrics by Marilyn Bergman for the long-running Linda Lavin NBC series Alice.
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GRACIELA DANIELE (Choreography) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Ms. Daniele is known for her work on Woody Allen’s films: Bullets Over Broadway (1994),
Mighty Aphrodite (1995) and Everyone Says I Love You (1996). Daniele began her dance training at the age of seven at Teatro Colón, Argentina’s equivalent of Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre.
She later moved to Paris to continue her ballet studies, and while living there attended a performance of West Side Story, with Jerome Robbins’ original choreography. Overwhelmed by
the way dance was an integral part of the storytelling, Daniele decided to move to New York City to study jazz and modern dance, styles she felt were best for expressing human emotions
on stage. As a performer, Daniele made her Broadway debut in What Makes Sammy Run? in 1964. She studied with Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham while working with such
luminaries as Bob Fosse, Agnes de Mille and Michael Bennett, who hired her to assist him with Follies in 1971. Her first credit as a full-fledged choreographer was the 1979 revival of The
Most Happy Fella. In addition to her work in New York City, where she has choreographed for Ballet Hispanico and served as a director-in-residence at Lincoln Center, Daniele has directed
and/or choreographed theatrical, opera, and dance productions throughout the United States. Ms. Daniele has directed and/or choreographed several musicals of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen
Flaherty, including The Glorious Ones (2007) and Dessa Rose (2005) as well as Ragtime (1998). In 2005, Daniele was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. Ms. Daniele has
been nominated for Broadway’s Tony Award ten times.
ADRIAN NOBLE (Director) A world renowned Director, in 1991 Adrian Noble became the Artistic Director of the RSC, where he produced more than 200 productions and
directed over 40. His productions have won many awards and have been seen regularly at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Kennedy Center and around the world. Mr. Noble has directed
more than half of the Shakespeare cannon with many leading British actors, including Derek Jacobi, Ralph Fiennes, Kenneth Branaugh, Tom Courtenny, Helen Mirren, and Johnathan Price.
He won the Grand Pris des Critiques for his opera work in France. Mr. Noble is an Honorary Director of the British Universities, and an Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple. His London West
End credits include; The Importance of Being Earnest, The King’s Speech, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and The Secret Garden, and the adapted Henrik Ibsen play Brand for the London theatre
in 2003. In 2007 he took Jean-Paul Sartre’s Keen to Malvern, Bath and Brighton before it transferred to the West End. In 2008 he directed Hamlet for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival
and in 2010 Alcina for the Vienna State Opera. More recently, Mr. Noble produced and directed the Metropolitan Opera’s 2014 powerful production of Macbeth. During his career, Mr. Noble
has received 20 Olivier Award® nominations. In 1980 he became assistant director at the RSC where his first production was Alexander Ostrovsky’s The Forest. In 1988 he was promoted to
director of the RSC, but in 1989 he took a break and left the company. He then worked for the Peter Hall Company, directing The Fairy Queen. He also worked at the Manhattan Theatre
Club, Kent Opera and directed a production of Giovanni in a Paris circus tent. He returned to the RSC in March 1991, this time as artistic director. In 1993 he won the Globe Award for Best
Director for The Winter’s Tale. His Broadway production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1994) was popular enough to be revived two years later, and Mr. Noble also turned it into a film
adaptation in 1996. He resigned from the RSC in 2002, stating that “it is now time for me to seek new artistic challenges.”
ANTHONY WARD (Scenic Design) is a Tony Award and Olivier award-winning theater designer whose critically acclaimed work spans the worlds of theater, opera and
dance. He was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the University of Arts London in 2014. Specializing in set and costume design, Mr. Ward has worked for the Royal Shakespeare Company,
National Theatre, Donmar Warehouse, Royal Opera House, Opera North and Royal Ballet. His many awards include the 2009 Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Play for Phyllida
Lloyd’s Broadway production of Mary Stuart, following its transfer from the West End, the 1996 Olivier Award for Set Design (Oklahoma!), and the 1999 Olivier Award for Costume Design
for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, La Grande Magia and The Way of the World. Mr. Ward studied theatre design at Wimbledon School of Art. He designed Assassins, Oliver and King Lear for
Sam Mendes, My Fair Lady for Trevor Nunn at the National Theatre, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang for Adrian Noble at the London Palladium and Sweeney Todd and Gypsy for Jonathan Kent.
Mr. Ward also designed Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! for Sadler’s Wells and UK Tour, and Gloriana and Peter Grimes for Phyllida Lloyd at Opera North.
PAUL TAZEWELL (Costume Design) is a Tony Award-winning costume designer for the theatre, dance, and opera. He most recently won the Tony Award
for Best
Costume Design of a Musical for Hamilton. Mr. Tazewell received five Tony Award nominations for costume design, four Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Costume Design, and two
Lucille Lortel Awards (for On the Town and Hamilton). Mr. Tazewell has designed costumes for over a dozen Broadway productions, starting with Bring in‘ Da Noise, Bring in‘ Da Funk
in 1996. Other musicals include On the Town (Revival), The Color Purple, and, in 2009, Guys and Dolls (Revival) and Memphis. Recent Broadway work includes the acclaimed Hamilton,
On the Town, Side Show, and A Streetcar Named Desire. Plays on Broadway have included Lombardi, The Miracle Worker (Revival), Magic/Bird and the Tony Award-winning revival of A
Raisin in the Sun. Mr. Tazewell’s Off-Broadway work as a costume designer includes Elaine Stritch at Liberty (2001), Boston Marriage (2002), Ruined, One Flea Spare, Flesh and Blood, and
Harlem Song. In regional theater Mr. Tazewell has designed costumes for the Guthrie Theater, the Goodman Theater, and La Jolla Playhouse. His work for ballet companies includes the
Boston Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Bolshoi Ballet. Mr. Tazewell’s Opera credits include work at Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Houston Grand Opera, Washington
National Opera, ENO and the Metropolitan Opera.
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HOWELL BINKLEY (Lighting Design) has lit a plethora of major Broadway shows, including many for Hal Prince and is a frequent collaborator with director Des
McAnuff. He is also a collaborator and co-founder of David Parsons’ Parsons Dance Company. Mr. Binkley has worked at regional theaters such as La Jolla, San Diego, California,
Shakespeare Theatre DC, Old Globe Theatre, the Guthrie Theater, the Goodman Theatre, and Hartford Stage. Binkley is well known for his use of saturated color, accompanied by white or
slightly cool highlights. He frequently uses smoke or haze to draw attention to his use of angle. His designs are partly based upon Craig Miller and Tom Skelton’s use of cross focusing to
make diamond effects. Mr. Binkley has been nominated for seven Tony Awards for Best Lighting including Hamilton, for which he won.
JONATHAN DRISCOLL (Projection Design) English cinematographer and lighting and projection designer Jon Driscoll made his Royal Opera debut in 2005 as
co-projection designer on A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He has since returned as co-projection designer on Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland for The Royal Ballet.
Driscoll was born in Great Yarmouth. He studied theatre design at the Croydon College of Art and went on to work as a lighting technician for the National Theater, before studying
cinematography at the National Film and Television School. He is the director of the post-production company Cinelumina and a technical associate of the National Theatre. His many
theatre projection designs include Frost/Nixon (Donmar Warehouse and Broadway), Enron (Headlong and Broadway), 3 Winters, King Lear, The Effect and People (National Theatre),
Midnight’s Children (Royal Shakespeare Company), The Lightning Play and Whistling Psyche (Almeida), Richard III (Old Vic), Brief Encounter (Kneehigh and international tour), Charlie
and the Chocolate Factory, From Here to Eternity, Ghost the Musical, The King’s Speech, The Wizard of Oz, Love Never Dies and Dirty Dancing (West End) and Chaplin the Musical and Finding
Neverland (Broadway). Other credits include The Phantom of the Opera (Royal Albert Hall) and Kate Bush: Before the Dawn (Hammersmith Apollo). Mr. Driscoll’s awards include the 2014
Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with Paul Pyant
MARTIN LEVAN (Sound Design) is a music producer and sound engineer who, during the 1980’s and 1990’s, designed the sound for many of the major musicals in the
West End of London. With Andrew Lloyd Webber, Martin worked on the original 1984 London production and 1987 Broadway production of Starlight Express, the 1985 Broadway production
of Song and Dance, the 1986 London and 1988 Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera, the original 1989 London production of Aspects of Love, the 1991 revival of Joseph and
the Amazing Tecnicolor Dreamcoat at the London Palladium, the original 1993 London production and 1994 Broadway production of Sunset Boulevard, the original 1998 London production
of Whistle Down the Wind, the original 2000 London production of The Beautiful Game and international productions of Cats. Mr. Levan’s other credits include Little Shop of Horrors, Kiss
of the Spider Woman, Blondel, Carrie, The Baker’s Wife and Hal Prince’s Show Boat and Lautrec. His original Broadway cast recording of Cats won a Grammy Award. Other awards include a
NAACP Theatre Award for Best Sound Director for The Phantom of the Opera, a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Sound Design for Sunset Boulevard and a Jessie Richardson
Theatre Award for Outstanding Design Team Achievement for Show Boat.
JONATHAN TUNICK (Orchestrations) holds degrees from Bard College and the Juilliard School. Much of his work has arisen from his involvement in theatre. He is
associated with virtually every musical of Stephen Sondheim, including Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods. Sondheim said of Tunick’s work, “I think he’s tops...” and further noted that
“Tunick is a standout in his field not only because of his musicianship and imagination, but primarily because of ‘his great sensitivity to theatrical atmosphere.’ “Tunick won the first Tony
Award for Best Orchestrations that was awarded, in 1997, for Titanic. In addition to the other numerous awards, he has won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations three
times and a Drama Desk Special Award in 1982. Mr. Tunick has also won an Academy Award (A Little Night Music). Emmy Award (Night of No Stars) and an Emmy Award (No One is Alone,
performed by Cleo Laine). Mr. Tunick was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2009.
DAVID CADDICK (Music Supervisor) has been the music director for numerous Broadway and London West End musicals, including Evita, Cats, Song & Dance, Starlight
Express, The Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon and Sunset Boulevard. He was the executive producer for the Broadway production of Oklahoma! and music director for the world premiere
of Stephen Sondheim’s Bounce. Mr. Caddick has also been the Music director for the film of Evita, starring Madonna. He won a Grammy Award for producing the complete symphonic
recording album of Les Miserables and also produced the cast albums of Oliver!, Oklahoma!, My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins and the 2006 revival of A Chorus Line.
BRAD HAAK (Music Director) Broadway credits include 6 years as the music director for Disney’s Mary Poppins, Elton John’s Lestat, and, most recently, An American in Paris
for acclaimed director/choreographer Christopher Wheeldon. Mr. Haak has conducted national tours of Disney’s The Lion King and Miss Saigon. Highlights of the more than 30 regional
productions Brad has helmed include his critically acclaimed collaborations with director Gary Griffin at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, which garnered a Jeff Award for music director
(2011’s Follies) and a nomination (2012’s Sunday in the Park with George). Concert highlights include collaborations with Audra McDonald, Kristen Chenoweth, Dick Van Dyke and Sir Paul
McCartney. He has also provided orchestrations to the New York Pops, Boston Pops, National Symphony and LA Philharmonic.
LEBO M. (Additional Music and Vocal Arrangements) Grammy Award winner, Tony-nominated producer and songwriter, UK’s Ivor Novello songwriter’s winner,
two SAMA award-winner, UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador 2010/11. Lebohang Morake, also known as Lebo M. wears various hats, but is commonly known worldwide as “The voice and spirit
of The Lion King.” A native of South Africa, Lebo M was first recognized as the only African working on Disney’s smash feature film and musical sensation, The Lion King. Lebo M co-produced
The Lion King South Africa as lead producer. Shattering all local theatre records, The Lion King South Africa was seen by over 550,000 people in South Africa and over 75 million people
around the world with a worldwide gross earnings of nearly $7 billion in 2016. Ironically, it was Lebo M that brought the insatiable spirit of Nelson Mandela’s endurance of a 27- year prison
sentence to rule his country, through the music that told the same story about a lion returning to Pride Rock.
MARIUS DE VRIES (Additional Music Arrangements) has been involved in some of the most culture-defining recordings and soundtracks of the past two
decades, and has won two BAFTAs and an Ivor Novello award for his film composition work, as well as four Grammy Award nominations for soundtrack and record production. Beginning
his music career playing keyboards for the English eighties pop-soul band The Blow Monkeys, he has since written, arranged and produced across a wide range of styles and genres for
artists such as Madonna, David Bowie, Rufus Wainwright, Annie Lennox, U2, amongst many others. In the film and theater world, his work includes music direction, score composition
and song productions for Baz Luhrmann, George Lucas, Andrew Lloyd Webber, A.R. Rahman and many more. Mr. de Vries served as Music Director and Composer on George Lucas’ 2015
animated fairytale musical Strange Magic and as Musical Director and Music Producer to Damien Chazelle’s 2016 La La Land, the top prize winner at the recently completed 2016 Toronto
International Film Festival.