As a pianist and singer Chris Curtis has performed in Los Angeles, New York, Japan and Ireland with such artists as Stevie Wonder. As a composer he wrote and sang the theme song for the popular Discovery Channel/The Learning Channel TV series A Wedding Story as well as the songs for the Discovery Channel's Travelers and On the Inside. He wrote and sang the theme song to the Trimark Pictures film The Break starring Martin Sheen. Chris was signed to the songwriter program at Disney Animation. CHAPLIN, formerly entitled Limelight, was the recipient of the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle's Craig Noel Award for Best Musical for its run at the La Jolla Playhouse.
Received the 2001 Tony Award® for co-writing the book of The Producers with Mel Brooks, and then went on to win the 2003 Tony Award® for co-writing the book of Hairspray with Mark O’Donnell. He received his first Tony Award® in 1977 for writing the book of Annie, which was his first Broadway show, and he has since written books for, among others, the musicals I Remember Mama, Ain’t Broadway Grand, Annie Warbucks and the American version of Bombay Dreams. His most recent works are the Broadway musicals Young Frankenstein, for which he co-wrote the book with Mel Brooks; Cry-Baby, co-written with Mark O’Donnell; and Elf, co-written with Bob Martin. Meanwhile, the summer of 2010 saw the limited-run premiere of Death Takes a Holiday, for which he co-wrote the book with the late Peter Stone to music and lyrics by Maury Yeston. Future projects include Rocky, for which he has written the book to lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty. Other works in earlier stages of development include musicals based on the life of Roy Rogers, the early years of Judy Garland entitled Chasing Rainbows, the movie Tootsie and the movie Dave. In addition, he is a long-time contributor of humor pieces, including Yma Dream, to The New Yorker; an Emmy Award®-winning writer of television comedy; and a collaborator on a number of screenplays, including Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs, To Be or Not to Be and the film version of The Producers. He is also the co-author, with the poet J.D. McClatchy, of the libretto of 1984, an opera composed by Lorin Maazel, based on George Orwell’s classic novel, which had its world premiere in the spring of 2005 at London’s Royal Opera House and was performed in 2008 at La Scala in Milan, and last year at the opera house in Valencia. Mr. Meehan is a member of the Council of the Dramatists Guild.
Warren was represented on Broadway this season by Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway (Director and Choreographer, Broadhurst Theater) and as choreographer of Follies (Marriott Marquis Theatre, The Kennedy Center). Most recently he directed and choreographed Cotton Club Parade at City Center Encores! and the critically acclaimed, Tony®-nominated Broadway revival of Finian’s Rainbow at the St James Theater. Other Broadway credits include A Tale of Two Cities (director/choreographer) at the Al Hirschfeld Theater. Selected additional New York credits include: choreographed Girl Crazy, On The Town, Finian’s Rainbow, Juno and Stairway To Paradise (all Encores! at City Center); 101 Dalmatians (Madison Square Garden / Tour); You Again (NY Fringe); Working (Zipper Theater); Slut! (ATA); Roundabout 40th Anniversary Gala and The 24 Hour Musicals (The Public Theater). Regional credits include: produced, directed and choreographed Hugh Jackman In Performance (Curran Theater San Francisco); Camelot (Stratford Canada); musical staging for the new Randy Newman revue Harps & Angels (Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles); directed and choreographed the award winning, Broadway-bound musical Limelight (La Jolla Playhouse); directed and choreographed Buddy’s Tavern (The O’Neill Theater Center, Richard Rodgers Award Winner); Lucky Guy (Goodspeed); choreographed Mame (The Kennedy Center); The Pirates Of Penzance (Paper Mill Playhouse, Goodspeed - CT Critics Circle Award for Best Choreography); The Bakers Wife (Goodspeed) and Pageant (Second City Chicago). In his native England his work has included Me and My Girl (director and choreographer, UK Tour - Award Winning Best Production, Theater Goers Choice Award); The Goodbye Girl (1st National UK Tour); Pageant (Vaudeville Theater); Sondheim’s Moving On (Bridewell Theater); and Scrooge (European Tour). He is represented on film and television by Deception starring Hugh Jackman (20th Century Fox); Hope and Faith (ABC); An Evening at the Boston Pops (PBS); and Elton John’s “Made in England” music video.
As music director: Wicked (Broadway, LA, SF, 1st National), Dogfight (Second Stage), Next to Normal (1st National), Behind the Limelight (La Jolla Playhouse; vocal arrangements, dance arr.), Vanities (Second Stage; cast album, vocal arr.), Is There Life After High School (York theater), Salon at the Taper (Mark Taper Forum). TV: Ugly Betty, The Little Mermaid 3. B.Mus from NYU, M.Mus from CCM. Love and thanks to my family and the Christophers in my life.
Broadway: The Scottsboro Boys (Tony® nomination), Rock Of Ages, Sondheim On Sondheim, …Spelling Bee, LoveMusik, The Two And Only. Off-Broadway: More than 50 shows including The Last Five Years, Toxic Avenger, Miss Julie, Public, Roundabout, MTC, 2nd Stage, Vineyard, MCC, New Group, Pearl, American Place, Keen Company. Other Designs: The Seven Deadly Sins (New York City Ballet), Paradise Found (London), Reel to Real (Beijing) and 2 editions of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. He received a 2007 OBIE Award for sustained excellence in set design.
The North Pool (Barrington Stage Co.), The Thirty Nine Steps (Hudson Valley Shakes), God of Carnage (Hudson Stage Co.), The Understudy (Hartford Theatreworks), Showboat (Goodspeed Opera), Comedy of Errors (Hudson Valley Shakes), Monster At the Door (The Alley Theatre), Superior Donuts (The Pittsburgh Public Theatre), Apple Cove (The Women’s Project), Dramatis Personae (Cherry Lane), Dreams of the Washer (Cherry Lane Co.), Animals Out of Paper (Second Stage), All this Intimacy (Second Stage). Amy is thrilled to be making her Broadway debut. MFA from NYU Tisch School for the Arts.
NY Theater includes: Nice Work If You Can Get It (Tony® nomination); The Normal Heart; Anything Goes (Tony® nomination); Glass Menagerie (Lortel nomination); Lend Me a Tenor (Hewes Award, Tony® & Outer Critics nominations); Thoroughly Modern Millie; Blithe Spirit (Tony® nomination); Kiss Me, Kate (Tony Award® winner); Pajama Game (Tony® nomination); Wild Party; Golden Child; Kimberly Akimbo; The Life. Opera: Iphigénie en Tauride (Metropolitan Opera), The Bartered Bride (Juilliard), Tristan & Isolde, Adriana Mater (Paris Opera/Bastille), L’amour de Loin (Salzburg, Paris/Chatelet, Santa Fe, Helsinki), Iolanta, Perséphone (Teatro Madrid), works throughout U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan. Dance: Mark Morris, Dance Group, SF Ballet, Boston Ballet, Arizona Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet. Awards: two Tonys®, Drama Desk, Obie, Lucille Lortel, among others.
97 Broadway shows including Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway; Chicago; The Scottsboro Boys; Sondheim on Sondheim; White Christmas; [title of show]; The Drowsy Chaperone; Footloose; Sweeney Todd; revivals including Finian’s Rainbow; Dreamgirls and Sunday in the Park with George; and hundreds of touring productions. Other: Seaworld: Shamu Rocks, Shamu One Ocean, Bally’s Las Vegas: Jubilee!. Awards: Tony®, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Lumen (Architecture), Ace (Television).
Received his first Tony® for sound for the 2008 revival of South Pacific. Recent work: Death of a Salesman, Sweet and Sad, Cotton Club Parade, That Championship Season, Women on the Verge, Finian’s Rainbow, A View From the Bridge, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone and the long running revival of Chicago. As a music engineer/producer projects include: Loudon Wainwright’s Grammy winning High Wide and Handsome and Meredith Monk’s Mercy. He is on faculty at Bennington College.
Broadway: The Importance of Being Earnest, Present Laughter. Off-Broadway: Why Torture is Wrong..., Emergence-See!, Rainbow Kiss, Dutchman (AUDELCO Viv nomination), The Mistakes Madeline Made. Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival, Arena Stage, Westport Country Playhouse, Two River Theatre, McCarter Theater, Huntington Theatre, Long Wharf. Associate credits: One Man, Two Guvnors (Tony® nomination); Rock of Ages; That Championship Season; Women on the Verge...; Everyday Rapture (Drama Desk nomination); The 39 Steps (Tony Award®); South Pacific; Cymbeline; Happiness; Apple Tree; Adding Machine and the Metropolitan Opera's 125th Anniversary Gala. Drew holds an MFA from Boston University.
London-born Paul Huntley has worked on hundreds of Broadway shows since his 1972 arrival in New York, most memorably the original productions of Amadeus, Cats, Evita, Les Misérables, Sweeney Todd, The Producers and Hairspray. A recipient of the Drama Desk and Tony Awards®, he has also worked with the some of the most legendary leading ladies of the cinema, ranging from Bette Davis, Mae West, Marlene Dietrich and Vivien Leigh to Jane Fonda, Faye Dunaway, Glenn Close and Jessica Lange. Current shows include War Horse and Nice Work If You Can Get It.
Studied: National Film School, UK. Broadway: Ghost: The Musical, Frost/Nixon, Brief Encounter, Enron. Off-Broadway: Richard III (BAM), Dirty Dancing (national tour). West End: The Wizard of Oz, Love Never Dies, Birdsong and Our House. Dance: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Royal Ballet). Events: The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall and Secret Cinema’s Blade Runner. Jon is a technical associate of the Royal National Theatre. Recent NT designs include: Travelling Light, Earthquakes in London and The Power of Yes.
Broadway: Nice Work If You Can Get It, Venus in Fur, Anything Goes, Rock of Ages, Memphis, Other Desert Cities, The Best Man, The Addams Family, A Little Night Music, Bye Bye Birdie, Gypsy, Sweeney Todd, Young Frankenstein, The Color Purple, The Light in the Piazza, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, A Catered Affair, The Pajama Game.
Tony Award® (Book of Mormon), four other Tony® nominations, five Emmys®. Broadway (partial): Addams Family, Spamalot, Jane Eyre, Fiddler, Scottsboro Boys. 18 films including various Disney, Marvin Hamlisch’s The Informant. Composer: The Wonder Pets!, Disney. Recordings, Concerts: Paul McCartney, Eric Idle, Audra McDonald, Barry Manilow, Boston Pops, NY Philharmonic. www.LarryHochman.net
Theatre: A Streetcar Named Desire; The Overwhelming (Roundabout Theatre); The Black Eyed (NYTW); Five by Tenn (MTC Stage 2); People Be Heard (Playwrights Horizons); In Darfur (Public Theater); The Convert (McCarter Theatre); Belleville, The Piano Lesson, Servant of Two Masters, Eclipsed, Death of a Salesman, Lydia, Trouble in Mind, King Lear, The Mystery Plays, dance of the holy ghosts, Taming of the Shrew, All’s Well That Ends Well, Iphigenia at Aulis, Kingdom of Eartha (Yale Rep); Hamlet, Carnival, King John, The Glass Menagerie (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); The Cook (Hartford Stage); Crimes of the Heart (Cape Playhouse). Ms. McGuire is an assistant professor of acting at Yale School of Drama.
Circus Aerial Sequence Design Off-Broadway: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (CSC) and the new Broadway-bound musical CHIX 6. 22 productions of the musical Barnum and training & sequencing for Aida, Tarzan, Thomas The Tank Engine Live, Madagascar Live. He’s the Director of Espana Streb Trapeze Academy at the STREB lab for Action Mechanics. www.BobbyHedglinTaylor.com
Ghost; How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; Promises, Promises; Bye Bye Birdie; Grease; The Times They Are A-Changin’; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Now.Here.This.; Vanities; Romantic Poetry; Adrift in Macao. Conductor/Percussionist/Drummer: Ghost, Billy Elliot, Scoundrels, Never Gonna Dance, Flower Drum Song, Full Monty, Superstar, Miss Saigon, Les Misérables, Singing in the Rain, The King and I, Cleavage, and the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Numerous appearances with orchestras in New York and around the United States, as well as recordings for albums, jingles, television and film. On-camera performances include: Maid in Manhattan and Guiding Light. For Robin and Taylor.
Credits include In The Heights (Broadway and 1st National Tour), Closer Than Ever (The York Theatre), workshops of BECOMING CHAPLIN, Gloryana, and The Great Pretender. B.Mus in Music Education from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, M.Mus in Conducting from the University of Cincinnati (CCM). Thanks to my family for their love and and support.
Broadway/Tours: Glengarry Glen Ross, Annie, Bring It On, Evita, The Best Man, Newsies, Porgy and Bess, SPIDER-MAN Turn Off the Dark, Rock of Ages, Wicked, Sister Act, The Normal Heart, Memphis, Million Dollar Quartet, The Addams Family. Off-Broadway: Bare, Rent, Atlantic, MCC, Signature. Regional: La Jolla, Paper Mill. Film: The Odd Life of Timothy Green, Friends with Kids, Joyful Noise, Margin Call, Sex and the City 1 & 2, I Love You Phillip Morris, Rachel Getting Married, Dan in Real Life, Across the Universe. TV: Smash, The Big C. www.telseyandco.com
Catch Me If You Can, Elf, Wonderland, Behanding in Spokane, Tale of Two Cities, Xanadu Japan, Times They Are A Changin’, Soccer Mom, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, August: Osage County, Legally Blonde, All Shook Up Tour, On Golden Pond, Scoundrels, Brooklyn, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Aida, Imaginary Friends, Def Poetry Jam, Disney’s Berlin Hunchback, Capeman, Show Boat, Spider Woman. Smitty lives in NJ with wife/actress/producer Nancy Ringham, & daughters Caitlyn & Madeline.
Broadway credits include: Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway; A Tale of Two Cities; Seafarer; Coram Boy; Movin’ Out; Music Man; Aida; Chicago and Beauty and the Beast. National tours credits include: Billy Elliot, Hello Dolly, Cats and Annie. With love for my amazing parents.
Broadway: Bonnie & Clyde, Billy Elliot. National Tour/Toronto: American Idiot, Billy Elliot. Off-Broadway: Signature Theater Company. Regional: Williamstown Theater Festival, Berkshire Theater Festival, City Theater Company. Readings: Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Bubble Boy. Love to Mom, Dad and the family. Graduate of Carnegie Mellon University. Proud AEA member.
Through JDC Investments (USA) Ltd, Joh and Claire are pleased and excited to present the Broadway production of the wonderful CHAPLIN: THE MUSICAL. Mr. Caudwell is a highly successful UK entrepreneur and philanthropist whose previous productions, in collaboration with good friends, Mindy and Bob Rich, include Jesus Christ Superstar and Leap of Faith (Broadway).
Have produced and managed many productions for 27 years, including The Producers, Hairspray, Stomp, Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, Smokey Joe’s Café, Angels in America, Love Letters, Penn and Teller and many others. They’ve won Tony Awards® in all four “Best” categories – play, musical, revival of a play and revival of a musical. Their nightclub, 54 Below, is now open.
Owned and operated by British theatre producer John Gore (CEO) and entertainment industry veteran Thomas B. McGrath (Chairman). Part of the Key Brand Entertainment family of companies which includes Broadway.com. Broadway Across America is a leading Broadway producer and the foremost presenter of first-class touring productions across North America. Visit BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com and Broadway.com.
Chunsoo Shin is a theatre producer and director, a film director and the founder of OD Musical Company, a leading producing company in South Korea. Vice-President of Korea Association of Performing Arts Producers. He is acknowledged with his numerous first-class musical productions such as Dr. Zhivago, Jekyll & Hyde, Spamalot, Dreamgirls, Man of La Mancha, Contact, All Shook Up, Nine, My Fair Lady, etc which also have brought him many The Musical Awards (Korean Tony Award® equivalent). Other credits include the U.S. National Tour of Dreamgirls; Broadway production of Jesus Christ Superstar (2012) and The Story of My LIfe, and Australian world premiere production of Dr. Zhivago and An Officer and A Gentleman. He directed the Korean productions of The Story of My LIfe and Spelling Bee. www.odmusical.com
Current projects: Doctor Zhivago The Musical, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (La Jolla). Past productions: The Real Thing (Tony Award®), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Tony Award®), Cabaret (Tony Award®), Enron, The Young Man from Atlanta, Present Laughter, Mrs. Klein, Wild Honey, Rock Doves, Breaking The Code, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Long Day’s Journey into Night, The Music Man, The Waverly Gallery and The Wild Party.
Seasoned restaurant executive, having transformed several brands into compelling success stories. Currently Chairman of Dunkin' Brands, Arby’s, Int’l Franchise Association and Vice Chairman of the Culinary Institute. Board member at Brinker Int’l and Six Flags. Married for 45 years…two children and five grandchildren…his greatest success!!
The nationally-acclaimed, Tony Award®-winning La Jolla Playhouse is renowned for creating the most exciting and adventurous new work in American theatre. Led by Artistic Director Christopher Ashley and Managing Director Michael S. Rosenberg, the Playhouse has sent numerous productions to Broadway, including Memphis, Jersey Boys, Peter and the Starcatcher, Big River, The Who’s Tommy, Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays and the Pulitzer Prize-winning I Am My Own Wife. Visit www.lajollaplayhouse.org.
Founded in 2004, the award-winning New York Musical Theatre Festival (Isaac Robert Hurwitz, Executive Director & Producer) provides a launching pad for the next generation of musicals and their creators to ensure the continued vitality of America’s greatest art form. Hailed as “the Sundance of Musical Theatre,” NYMF premieres over 30 new musicals each year. Over 75 NYMF shows have garnered post-Festival productions on and Off-Broadway, in 48 states, and around the world, including the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award®-winning Next To Normal. www.nymf.org