Broadway: CATS, The Color Purple (original and revival), The Lion King, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess.

), Fun Home (Tony/Drama Desk noms.

Atlantic Theater Company debut. Kidd’s books have sold over 10 million copies. Other Broadway/NYC credits: If/Then; Catch Me If You Can; Next to Normal; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; 1776; Show Boat; Les Miserables; Working (Drama Desk Award); Joe Cassidy: Rockstar at 54 Below, Joe’s Pub, and Ars Nova; and A Christmas Carol at Madison Square Garden. ), Cats 2016 (Dance Arr./Orch. The score, by Duncan Sheik and Susan Birkenhead, is in fact quite beautiful. Awards: Recipient of a Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Theatre Bay Area, and Jeff Awards; two Drama Desk Nominations. Broadway: American Son, Children of a Lesser God. Nottage is a member of the Dramatists Guild, an Associate Professor at Columbia University School of the Arts, and the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship, Steinberg “Mimi” Distinguished Playwright Award, and PEN/Laura Pels Master Playwright Award among others. Ms. Teeter, lovely as Lily, isn’t given lines to explain what she’s going through; nor do we get to hear her work through the moment in solo song, achieving the kind of interiority prose handles so well. Director for #BARS workshop and movement director for Lynn Nottage’s Mlima’s Tale (2018) at The Public. South Carolina, 1964. A world premiere musical from a powerhouse creative team that brought you some of the greatest works of the past three decades: Sweat, Spring Awakening, Working  and Fun Home. They have to do everything at once.

LaChanze, Jai'len Christine Li Josey, Vita E. Cleveland, Elizabeth Teeter and Romelda Teron Benjamin in “The Secret Life of Bees” at the Atlantic Theater Company. She’s Sung with Burt Bacharach and Patti LaBelle; back-up for Phil Collins, Martha Wash, Bette Midler & Mariah Carey. Each guide provides a variety of discussion starters, activities, and a relevant contextual basis to immerse students in the world of the play before attending the show. She won an L.A. She is a company member of Pig Iron Theatre Company, and co-founder of JACK, a performance/art space in Brooklyn. London: Buried Child. Kidd is the author of several memoirs, including the bestseller Traveling with Pomegranates, co-authored with Ann Kidd Taylor, and her ground breaking book The Dance of the Dissident Daughter. Clifton, NJ 07012, Click here for COVID-19 The show won the Teen Choice Award for TV Breakout Show in 2018. SUSAN BIRKENHEAD received a Tony Nomination and a Drama Desk Award for her lyrics for Jelly’s Last Jam. BRETT GRAY is an actor and musician who stars as ‘Jamal Turner’ in “On My Block,” a half-hour comedy series co-created by “Awkward” creator Lauren Iungerich, currently streaming on Netflix. ANTOINE SILVERMAN has contracted Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Fun Home, Tuck Everlasting amongst other Broadway shows. In addition to The Secret Life of Bees, she is currently working on Betty Boop, with David Foster and Sally Robinson, and Jerry Mitchell. nat. The premise posed a … This pledge would lead to her life as a percussionist, educator, poet, vocalist, and activist. If they devote one scene to atmosphere it’s a scene lost to character; a scene solely about character may shortchange plot. Despite its top creative team, an adaptation of the popular Sue Monk Kidd novel feels like a first draft. Even the incident that gets Rosaleen in trouble in the first place is incomprehensible without reading the script. His music has been described as “a sunshine-drenched slice of laid-back R&B.” The Philadelphia-native currently splits his time between New York and Los Angeles. Designs for Sam Gold include Annie Baker’s The Flick and the current Broadway production of King Lear. ), The Prom, Tuck Everlasting, Shrek the Musical (Tony/Drama Desk noms. AchesonWalsh Studios was founded by Matt Acheson and Fergus J Walsh in 2014. She and Rosaleen escape on an adventure where they are taken in by a trio of black beekeeping sisters. Drama Critics Award for Minsky’s.

She’s recently finished a summer-long role as percussionist, mentor, and vocalist for the Creede Repertory Theatre, and drummer for the full-stage debut of the hip-hop musical, Once Upon a Rhyme. New Irish Tenors: Full Orchestra Arr., Goodspeed: Just So. I am usually a big fan of Mr. Gold. Off-Center); Kin(Playwrights Horizons); The Big Meal (Playwrights Horizons; Lortel); Look Back in Anger(Roundabout Theatre Company; Lortel nomination); Circle Mirror Transformation(Playwrights Horizons; Obie, Drama Desk nomination); The Aliens (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre; Obie Award). On Broadway, Joe most recently played Cal in Waitress.

BFA from the University of Arizona. Off-Broadway: In the Blood, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (The Public); A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in the Park). Broadway: Waitress (Earl), Hair (Woof); West End: Hair (Woof); 1st Nat’l Tours: Hair (Woof), American Idiot (Rep. from Jingletown), Once (Svec), Waitress (Earl). Regionally: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Steppenwolf, American Repertory Theater, Denver Center, California Shakespeare, La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Repertory, Baltimore Center Stage, Arena Stage, Cleveland Playhouse, Signature Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Hartford Stage.

Lily Owens, a restless white teenager, struggles with her merciless father and the haunting memory of her mother’s death. Cherry-picking the source material’s biggest moments only highlights the lack of development, making an adaptation seem both hectic and ungrounded. Our clients include Amazon Studios, Broadway, Cirque Du Soleil, Disney, Lincoln Center Theater, Radio City Music Hall and TheatreWorks USA.

Education: MFA Yale School of Drama. Regional: Finding Neverland, Crossing: An American Opera, Waitress (A.R.T); Comedy of Errors (Oregon Shakespeare Festival).

Musicals don’t have that luxury. (national and European tours); Dirty Dancing. I don’t envy the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage the job of trimming the novel down to size (the musical still feels long at 2 hours 15 minutes) or the Tony Award-winning director Sam Gold the job of giving shape to what’s left. Regional: What Happened When (Echo Theater L.A.), The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (Goodman Theater), Love in the Wars (Bard Summerscape), Love & Communication (Passage Theater). Regional credits include performances with The Muny, The Rep, Opera Theatre St. Louis, The Tennessee Williams Festival, and Variety Theatre.

His music has been described as “a sunshine-drenched slice of laid-back R&B.” The Philadelphia-native currently splits his time between New York and Los Angeles. Television: Emmy-nominated for makeup design, “The Wiz Live!” (NBC). (Jason Hart devised the stirring vocal arrangements.). Brett released his debut EP, Easy Daze after premiering his hit single, Old Thing Back, on Sway’s Universe. Love and thanks always, to Ashley. JASON HART was the music director of the Broadway production of American Psycho. Broadway: Waitress (Nurse Norma), Violet (Mabel), The Book of Mormon, PQD (Diva), HAIR (Abraham Lincoln), Tarzan. Film and TV: “Law & Order: SVU,” “Blue Bloods,” “White Collar,” “One Life to Live,” “As the World Turns,” “Damages,” “Third Watch,” “Conviction,” “The Education of Max Bickford,” Evening, The Mini, School of Rock, Roger Dodger, Small Collection and Juke. Training: The Juilliard School. Idol, Kidz Bop Live! TV/Film: A Very Nutty Christmas; Madam Secretary; The Good Fight; Blue Bloods; Elementary; Law & Order; and Submissions Only. All rights reserved. She recurred on ABC/Shonda Rhimes’ drama “Scandal” as FBI Director Angela Webster. & Public Health Updates.

© 2020 Atlantic Theater Company. Select television: “God Friended Me,”“Rise,” “The Looming Tower,” “Succession,” “House of Cards,” “Smash,” “Hart of Dixie,” “The Wire.” She has written for Netflix’s “She’s Gotta Have It” and Cirque du Soleil’s “Crystal.” Albums: Something Else, Tinctures. LYNN NOTTAGE is a playwright and a screenwriter, and the first woman in history to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. GO RED SOX!! Her play Sweat (Pulitzer Prize, Obie Award) moved to Broadway after a sold out run at The Public Theater. Off-Broadway: The Girl From the North Country, Oedipus El Rey (Public Theater); Boesman & Lena (Signature); Nantucket Sleighride (Lincoln Center). Other films Side Effects, Heartbreak Hotel, For Love Or Money, Leap Of Faith and My New Guns. He creates collaborative performance with visual artists for museum and alternate spaces. Broadway: Brooklyn The Musical (Paradise). Regional: La Jolla Playhouse, Santa Cruz Shakespeare, New York Stage & Film. New York theater includes: Kings (Drama League nomination), Julius Caesar (Shakespeare in the Park 2017), Preludes, This, The Call, Luck of the Irish, her own play Angela’s M Mixtape, and Passing Strange. NY/ National Tours: Chicago (Matron Mama Morton), Catch Me If You Can, Smokey Joe’s Cafe (BJ), The Wiz, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Big River, IDAHO!, Hair. UNKLEDAVE’S FIGHT HOUSE is a Drama Desk nominated company of fight directors. In a novel, that may be fine; the backdrop stays in the background. DAN MOSES SCHREIER. (Mimi Lien’s set design, almost entirely abstract except for that stunning icon, resembles an Anthropologie store.) Composed scores for Broadway: Merchant of Venice (Al Pacino), Julius Caesar (Denzel Washington), The Tempest (Patrick Stewart). Ms. Kidd’s novel, which spent two years on the New York Times best-seller list and was made into a movie starring Queen Latifah and Dakota Fanning, has a bit of a “Green Book” situation on its hands. Atlantic debut! for her choreography), Radio City (Tracy), York Theater: Last Dance (Gaynor). Though the result doesn’t yet cohere, it is a serious and honorable first draft. In film, she stars in writer/director Marishka Phillips’ upcoming suspense filled film Melinda. Rhianna: NBA All-Star Game (String arr.) Theatre credits include The Color Purple (2006 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Lady in Musical), Once On This Island(nominations, Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle), If/Then, Ragtime, Company, and Uptown It’s Hot. ROMELDA TERON BENJAMIN. She is thrilled to be designing at Atlantic Theater for the first time! That’s of no use to those who haven’t read it. Awards: 5 TONY Awards nominations, 4 DRAMA DESK Awards.

So I have to ask myself what they see in their musical that I’m not seeing. Be Kind To One Another. Other recent designs include the Broadway productions of Sam Shepard’s True West, August Wilson’s Jitney, and the musicals Amélie and The Color Purple, as well as a theatrical adaptation of Between the World and Me and John Doyle’s Arturo Ui. She appeared in the award-winning film The Help landing a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. Recordings include; American Psycho (Original London Cast Recording) (2016), Legerdemain (2015), Covers 80s (Sneaky Records 2011), Whisper House (Sony 2009), Spring Awakening (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (2006), White Limousine (Rounder 2006), Daylight (Atlantic Records 2002), Phantom Moon (Nonesuch 2001), Humming (Atlantic Records 1998), Duncan Sheik (Grammy Nomination “Best Male Vocal”, RIAA Certified Gold) (Atlantic Records 1996). DEDE AYITE.