Book
Warren Leight AND Isaac Oliver
Scenic Design
Derek McLane
BROADWAY: Othello, Death Becomes Her, MJ the Musical, Moulin Rouge!, Purlie Victorious, A Soldier’s Play, American Son, The Parisian Woman, The Price, Noises Off, Fully Committed, Beautiful, Gigi, Anything Goes, The Heiress, The Best Man, Follies, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Million Dollar Quartet, Ragtime, 33 Variations, The Pajama Game, I Am My Own Wife. OFF-BROADWAY: Babe; Here There are Blueberries; Black No More; Merrily We Roll Along; The True; Jerry Springer: The Opera; If I Forget; The Whirligig; Into the Woods; Love, Love, Love; Sweet Charity; Evening at the Talk House; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Buried Child; The Spoils; Sticks and Bones; The Last Five Years; A Lie of the Mind; Ruined; Hurlyburly. TELEVISION: He designed the 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 Academy Awards, the 2024 SAG Awards, and the 2024 Met Gala, as well as the NBC LIVE! musicals “The Wiz” and “Hairspray,” among others. AWARDS: Winner of the 1997 and 2004 Obie Awards; the 2004, 2005 and 2007 Lortel Awards; the 2009 and 2021 Tony Awards; the 2011 and 2021 Drama Desk Awards; the 2015 and 2016 Art Directors Guild Awards; and the 2014 and 2017 Emmy Awards.
Costume Design
Catherine Zuber
Broadway credits include Moulin Rouge! The Musical (Tony Award), My Fair Lady (Tony Award), The King & I (Tony Award), South Pacific (Tony Award), The Coast of Utopia (Tony Award), The Light in the Piazza (Tony Award), Awake and Sing! (Tony Award), The Royal Family (Tony Award), Dinner at Eight (Tony nomination), Twelfth Night (Tony nomination), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Tony nomination), Golden Boy (Tony nomination), War Paint (Tony nomination), Born Yesterday (Tony nomination), Edward Albee’s Seascape (Tony nomination), Twelfth Night (Tony nomination), Junk, Gigi (Drama Desk Award), Oslo, Doubt, Fiddler On the Roof, The Father, and Mrs. Doubtfire. Metropolitan Opera: Il barbiere di Siviglia, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Le comte Ory, L’elisir d’Amore, Otello, Dr. Atomic, Roméo et Juliette. 2016 Induction: Theater Hall of Fame.
Lighting Design
Justin Townsend
Justin Townsend is an international lighting designer for performance. Broadway lighting designs include Death Becomes Her, Once Upon a Mattress, Here Lies Love, Moulin Rouge! The Musical (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award), Jagged Little Pill (Tony Nomination), American Psycho (Tony nomination, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Henry Hewes Award), The Humans (Tony nomination, Drama Desk Award), The Nap, The Little Foxes, Present Laughter, Casa Valentina, A Night with Janis Joplin (NAACP Theatre Award), Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Other Place, and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Hewes Nomination, OCC Nomination). As Creative Director, Justin collaborated with the Grammy-winning recording artist Drake, designing a 50’-tall replica of the top of the CN Tower for Drake’s OvO Fest in Toronto. The two also paired up for the 2017 “Boy Meets World” European tour. Most recently he created two immersive lighting installations in Brooklyn Museum’s Solid Gold exhibit. Off Broadway work includes Joan of Arc: Into the Fire, Here Lies Love (Public Theater, Drama Desk Award); Vietgone (MTC); Pretty Filthy (Civilians); Mr. Burns, a Post Electric Play (Playwrights Horizons); Odyssey, A Winter’s Tale (Public Works); Venus (Signature Theatre); Unnatural Acts (Classic Stage Company, Lucille Lortel Award). Justin received an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design in 2014. He is the Chair of the Department of Design for Stage and Film at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. www.justintownsend.com
Sound Design
Peter Hylenski
Peter Hylenski won the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award Honor for his work on Moulin Rouge! The Musical. He is a Grammy, Olivier and eight-time Tony nominee. Selected Broadway designs include All In: Comedy About Love, Death Becomes Her, Maybe Happy Ending, Lempicka, Bob Fosse’s Dancin’, Almost Famous, Moulin Rouge!, Frozen, Anastasia, Beetlejuice, Once On This Island, Something Rotten!, King Kong, Rock of Ages, After Midnight, Motown, Rocky, Side Show, Elf, The Scottsboro Boys, Shrek The Musical, Cry-Baby, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, The Wedding Singer, Sweet Charity, Bullets Over Broadway. Other designs: Awakening, Le Rêve and Lake of Dreams at Wynn Las Vegas. Peter holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University.
Music Supervision & Arrangements
Andrew Resnick
Choreography
Shannon Lewis
Shannon Lewis is a creative force who is passionate about her unique vision of storytelling through the collaborative process of theatre, television and film. As a performer, she appeared in 10 Broadway musicals over a 25-year career, and is internationally known for her performance of “I Gotcha” in the Tony Award-winning original Broadway cast of Fosse. As a choreographer, Shannon has extensive experience creating for film and television as the choreographer of Saturday Night Live’s Film Units, creating dances and movement for viral videos such as “I’m Just Pete”, “Gladiator Twosical,” “Shrimp Tower,” ”Big Boys,” and many more. She has also choreographed multiple pre-taped and live projects for NBC’s “The Tonight Show” with Jimmy Fallon and HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” with John Oliver. Shannon is the Creative Director and Choreographer of the NBC/Universal Upfront at Radio City Music Hall. She has also created, directed and choreographed many theatrical and dance projects at such respected venues as Carnegie Hall, Ballet Jazz Montreal, Roundabout Theatre Company, Signature Theatre NYC, Town Hall, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Alvin Ailey Citicorp Theatre, Dreamworks, CLI, Dance Out Loud, NY Times Center, Bay Street Theatre, Bucks County Playhouse, Ogunquit Playhouse and The York Theatre Company. Shannon is the founder of FIRESTART Creative, producing and developing impactful, creative projects for film, theatre, television and live events. Her original dance short “Don’t Go” was nominated for a 2023 World Choreography Award. For more information, please visit shannonlewis.net and follow IG @realshanlew.
DEVELOPED & DIRECTED BY
Alex Timbers
Alex Timbers has won a Tony, Golden Globe, London Evening Standard, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, two Lortel, and two Obie Awards. Broadway credits include All In: Comedy About Love; Moulin Rouge! The Musical; Here Lies Love; Beetlejuice; Oh, Hello on Broadway; Gutenberg! The Musical; David Byrne’s American Utopia; Just for Us; Peter and the Starcatcher; The Pee-wee Herman Show; and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (also book writer). Television includes directing and executive producing “Mozart in the Jungle” and the Netflix specials “John Mulaney: Baby J,” Mulaney’s “Kid Gorgeous,” and “Ben Platt: Live at Radio City.” His debut picture book Broadway Bird, set in an all-animal version of Broadway, is published by Macmillan.