LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA (Book, Music and Lyrics) is a Pulitzer Prize, Grammy, Emmy and Tony award-winning songwriter, actor, director and producer. Creator and original star of Broadway's Tony-winning Hamilton and In the Heights. Additional Broadway: New York, New York (additional lyrics, Tony nomination for Best Musical); Freestyle Love Supreme (co-founder, guest performer, Special Tony Award recipient); Bring It On: The Musical (co-composer/co-lyricist, Tony nomination for Best Musical); and West Side Story (2009 revival, Spanish translations). Recipient of the 2015 MacArthur Foundation Award, the 2018 Kennedy Center Honors and the 2019 Portrait of a Nation Prize. Mr. Miranda, and The Miranda Family, are active supporters of initiatives that increase people of color's representation throughout the arts and government, ensure access to women's reproductive health and promote resilience in Puerto Rico. TV/film credits include tick, tick... BOOM!; Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe; Vivo; In the Heights; Hamilton (2021 Emmy Award, Outstanding Variety Special—Pre-Recorded), "Percy Jackson & The Olympians," "His Dark Materials," "Fosse/Verdon," "We the People," "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," "Curb Your Enthusiasm" (2018 Emmy nomination, Guest Actor), "Saturday Night Live" (2017 Emmy nomination, Guest Actor), "Bluey," "Sesame Street," "The Electric Company," "House," "DuckTales," 200 Cartas, Mary Poppins Returns, The Little Mermaid (live-action), Moana (2017 Oscar nomination, Grammy Award for Best Original Song) and Encanto (2022 Oscar nomination for Best Original Song; two Grammy Awards). Upcoming: Disney's Mufasa. For Vanessa, best of wives and best of women.
THOMAS KAIL (Director). Broadway directing credits include Sweeney Todd, Hamilton, Freestyle Love Supreme, In the Heights, Lombardi and Magic/Bird. Off-Broadway selected directing credits include the world premieres of Hamilton, Dry Powder, Tiny Beautiful Things and Kings at The Public Theater; the world premiere of The Wrong Man at MCC Theater; the world premiere of In the Heights; Broke-ology and the world premiere of When I Come to Die at Lincoln Center Theater; and the world premiere of Daphne's Dive at Signature Theatre. Broadway producing credits include Sweeney Todd, Derren Brown: Secret and Freestyle Love Supreme. Television directing and producing credits include "We Were the Lucky Ones" and "Up Here" on Hulu; "Hamilton" on Disney+; "Fosse/Verdon" on FX; and "Grease: Live" on Fox. He is a recipient of a Kennedy Center Honor and a graduate of Wesleyan University.
ANDY BLANKENBUEHLER (Choreographer) is a three-time Tony Award winner for his choreography in the Broadway productions of Bandstand, In the Heights and Hamilton, for which he also received London's Olivier Award. Other Broadway credits include Bring It On, 9 to 5, The People in the Picture, The Apple Tree, Annie and the revival of Cats. Most recently he made his writing debut (co-writer Ted Malawer) with the world premiere of Only Gold, Off-Broadway at MCC (Lortel and Chita Rivera Award). Upcoming theater projects include the first Broadway revival of the Tony Award-winning musical Kiss of the Spider Woman, as well as The Secret of Santa Vittoria with writer John Weidman. Recently, Mr. Blankenbuehler's work has been seen on the Emmy Award-winning FX series "Fosse/Verdon," as well as the Universal Studio film of the musical Cats. He made his concert debut with a piece entitled Remember Our Song for the Tulsa Ballet Company. He staged the 2022 Met Gala featuring Leslie Odom Jr. and Lenny Kravitz. As a performer, Mr. Blankenbuehler has danced on Broadway in Fosse, Contact, Man of La Mancha, Saturday Night Fever, Steel Pier, Big and Guys and Dolls. Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, Mr. Blankenbuehler resides in New York City, with his wife Elly and two children, Luca and Sofia. Mr Blankenbuehler has received Dance Magazine and Drama Desk awards for his achievement in the theater, as well as the 2018 Kennedy Center Honors for his work on the musical Hamilton.
ALEX LACAMOIRE (Orchestrations/Co-Arranger) is a Tony, Grammy, Emmy and Olivier award-winning orchestrator, music director, arranger and composer. He most recently served as the music supervisor and conductor for the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. His other credits include The Wrong Man (Off-Broadway), Bring It On, 9 to 5 (Drama Desk and Grammy noms), Wicked, Bat Boy and Godspell (2001 national tour). He also served as the executive music producer for many films, including The Greatest Showman, In the Heights, VIVO, Dear Evan Hansen and tick, tick...Boom! He is the winner of three Tony Awards for Best Orchestrations, four Grammy Awards (three for Best Musical Theater Album and one for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media), three Olivier Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Music and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction on "Fosse/Verdon." In 2019, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Music from his alma mater, Berklee College of Music. He and the Hamilton creative team were the recipients of a first-of-its-kind Kennedy Center Honors, as the "trailblazing creators of a transformative work that defies category," a distinction never before awarded by the arts institution. In 2023, Lacamoire was named an Official Yamaha Artist. He currently resides in New York.
RON CHERNOW (Author of the book Alexander Hamilton) is the prize-winning, best-selling author of seven volumes and the recipient of the 2015 National Humanities Medal. His first book, The House of Morgan, won the National Book Award; Washington: A Life won the Pulitzer Prize for biography; and Alexander Hamilton—the inspiration for the musical—won the George Washington Book Prize. He is one of only three living biographers to have received the Gold Medal in Biography of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A past president of PEN America, Chernow has received nine honorary doctorates. He resides on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
DAVID KORINS (Scenic Design). Broadway: The Who's Tommy, Just for Us, Here Lies Love (Tony nomination), Hamilton (Tony nom.), Beetlejuice (Tony nom), Dear Evan Hansen, Mrs Doubtfire, War Paint (Tony nom.), Bandstand, Misery, Motown, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Annie, Bring It On, Magic/Bird, An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, Godspell, Chinglish, The Pee-wee Herman Show, Lombardi, Passing Strange, Bridge and Tunnel. TV: "Grease: Live!" (Emmy Award); 91st and 94th Academy Awards (Emmy noms.); "Last Week Tonight," "The Big Brunch." Creative Director: Immersive Van Gogh, Disney Animation Immersive Experience, Hamilton: The Exhibition, DiscOasis, Shoah Foundation and Sotheby's.
PAUL TAZEWELL (Costume Design). Broadway: Suffs; Death Becomes Her; Hamilton; MJ; Ain't Too Proud; Summer; In the Heights; The Color Purple; Memphis; Caroline, or Change; Side Show; A Streetcar Named Desire; Jesus Christ Superstar; A Raisin in the Sun; Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk. Film: Steven Spielberg's West Side Story (2022 Academy Award nomination), Harriet, Wicked (release November 2024). Television: NBC's "Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert." Awards: 2024 Drama Desk Award for Suffs, 2016 Tony Award for Hamilton and Emmy Award for "The Wiz Live!," NBC.
HOWELL BINKLEY (Lighting Design). Broadway: Ain't Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations (2019 Tony nom.), Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, Come From Away (2017 Tony nom.), A Bronx Tale, Hamilton (2016 Tony winner/2018 Olivier Award winner), After Midnight (2014 Tony nom.), How to Succeed... (2011 Tony nom.), West Side Story (2009 Tony nom.), In the Heights (2008 Tony nom.), Jersey Boys (2006 Tony winner), Avenue Q, Parade, Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993 Tony nom.). Co-Founder/Original Resident Lighting Designer Parsons Dance. 1993 Sir Laurence Olivier and Canadian Dora Awards for Kiss of the Spider Woman. 2006 and 2016 Henry Hewes Design Awards for Jersey Boys and Hamilton. hemsleylightingprograms.com/
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NEVIN STEINBERG (Sound Design). Broadway: Sweeney Todd (2023 revival, Tony Award), Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (Tony nomination), Hadestown (Tony Award), Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, Freestyle Love Supreme, The Cher Show, Bandstand, Bright Star, It Shoulda Been You, Mothers and Sons, Rodgers+ Hammerstein's Cinderella (Tony nomination), The Performers, Magic/Bird. Over 30 Broadway productions with Acme Sound Partners and five additional Tony nominations: The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Fences, Hair, In the Heights.
CHARLES G. LAPOINTE (Hair and Wig Design). is an award-winning Wig and Hair Designer. Theater: Numerous Broadway, touring, regional theater, West End and international productions, including Hamilton (Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylist Guild Award), Ain't Too Proud, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Beetlejuice, The Cher Show (Drama Desk Award), The Band's Visit, Anastasia, SpongeBob SquarePants (Drama Desk Award), Jersey Boys, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, The Color Purple, Newsies, In the Heights. Television: "The Wiz Live!" (Emmy nomination); "Jesus Christ Superstar Live!" (Emmy nomination and Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylist Guild Award); "Bluebloods," "American Crime," "Maddoff," "Hairspray."
MICHAEL KELLER & MICHAEL AARONS (Music Coordinators). Broadway: & Juliet, Moulin Rouge!, Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, Lion King, Wicked, Book of Mormon. Upcoming Broadway: Devil Wears Prada. Off-Broadway: Kinky Boots, Little Shop of Horrors. Current tours: Moulin Rouge!, Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, Jagged Little Pill, Pretty Woman, Frozen.
RANDY COHEN (Synthesizer and Drum Programmer) has programmed more than 70 Broadway shows, including Hamilton, The Book of Mormon, Dear Evan Hansen, Frozen, Anastasia, Pretty Woman, Kinky Boots, A Bronx Tale, Once On This Island (revival), Bring It On, Grey Gardens, Peter and the Starcatcher and In the Heights. Keyboardist for TV's "Sesame Street."
MATT GALLAGHER (Associate Music Supervisor). Broadway, Associate Conductor: Doctor Zhivago, Hands on a Hardbody, Jesus Christ Superstar (2012), 9 to 5, Legally Blonde, High Fidelity. Off-Broadway, Music Director: Cymbeline (The Public), Tick, Tick...Boom! (Encores!), The Last Five Years (Second Stage). Training: Leite Music Studios, Adelphi University, Merce Cunningham.
EMMANUEL SCHVARTZMAN (Music Director/Conductor). Broadway: On Your Feet! Off-Broadway: Real Men (New World Stages). Tour: On Your Feet! International: Rent (Havana, Cuba), Carmen La Cubana (Paris, France). Born in Argentina and grew up in Miami, Manny has served as a music director, conductor, pianist, arranger and orchestrator for more than a hundred productions. Love to the HamFam!
HUDSON THEATRICAL ASSOCIATES (Technical Supervisor). Over 100 Broadway productions and tours. Recent: Left on Tenth; Sunset Blvd.; Our Town; Oh, Mary!; Suffs; The Notebook; Sweeney Todd; Hadestown; Hamilton; Aladdin. HTA is a member of Neil A. Mazzella's Hudson family, which includes Hudson Scenic Studios, Bridget Van Dyke, Sam Ellis, Sean Gorski, Anastasia Olowin, Brianna Stankiewicz, Brianne Tabak and Irene Wang.
PATRICK VASSEL (Associate and Supervising Director). Broadway: Hamilton, Freestyle Love Supreme (Associate Director), Magic/Bird (AD). Off-Broadway: Freestyle Love Supreme (Greenwich House), Hamilton (The Public Theater), Working (Prospect). Credits include: In a Little Room (Ten Bones), Sorin, Six Characters... (Notre Dame), Welcome to the Gun Show (ANTFest), Nothing Left to Burn (O'Neill semi-finalist, Ars Nova ANTFest).
ASHLEY BROOKE MONROE (Resident Director). Broadway: Life of Pi, Indecent, Fun Home, The Glass Menagerie. National tours: Life of Pi, Fun Home. Off-Broadway: All of Me (The New Group), Julius Caesar (CSC), Death Cruise (Access Theater), The Goree All-Girl String Band (Theatre Row). Regional: All of Me (Barrington Stage Company), Fun Home (Cape Rep), Indecent (The Huntington, Center Theatre Group).
STEPHANIE KLEMONS (Associate and Supervising Choreographer). Drama Desk Award-winning performer and choreographer. Original Broadway companies: Hamilton, If/Then, Bring It On, In the Heights. Notable Off-Broadway: Hamilton, In the Heights, Repo!.... First n'tl tours: Bombay Dreams, Heights and BIO. @steph_klem.
MICHAEL MINDLIN (Supervising Choreographer). Choreographer: The Nice List (Masie Productions), Gypsy (North Carolina Theatre), Xanadu (ReVision Theatre), Beauty and the Beast (Northern Stage), Awesomer and Awesomer (The Triad Theater), All Hail The Queen (The Cutting Room), numerous BC/EFA benefit concerts. Broadway performance: Aladdin, Bring It On, Mamma Mia!, 9 to 5, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Faculty at Broadway Dance Center and STEPS. IG: @Mindlin_Choreo.
AMBER WHITE (Production Supervisor). Broadway: The Last Ship, A Night with Janis Joplin, Scandalous, In the Heights, Miracle Worker, Avenue Q. Off-Broadway includes Murder for Two, Carrie. National tours: Wicked, White Christmas, Burn the Floor, Dinner with Friends. This one's for Olive.
ERIC H. MAYER (Production Stage Manager). Tours: To Kill a Mockingbird; Hello, Dolly!; Bat Out of Hell; Love Never Dies; A Gentleman's Guide...; Ghost Brothers of Darkland County; Sister Act. Off-Broadway: The 39 Steps, Strawberry and Chocolate, North. Regional highlights: The Tempest (RSC); Five Guys Named Moe, The Story of My Life (CATCO); The Secret Garden (CAPA). The Ohio State University. Love to Mom, Dad, Finn and Emma.
MARCEDÈS L. CLANTON (Stage Manager). Tours: To Kill A Mockingbird, Into the Woods, Hamilton. CTG: Our Dear Dead Drug Lord; Tambo & Bones; The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro; Mutt House; Die, Mommie Die! Select regional: Merry Wives of Windsor (Folger); Matilda The Musical; Ah, Wilderness!; Bootycandy; Fruit Fly (Leslie Jordan); Wolves; The Color Purple the Musical; Take Me Out.
ABBY L. POWERS (Assistant Stage Manager, She/Her) is so thankful to be back with the HamFam. She has been on tour for over 20 years and has loved being a part of so many different productions. “Unending love to Mom, Dad and my suitcases!”
ANTHONY CEFALA (Assistant Stage Manager). Broadway: The Music Man, MJ: The Michael Jackson Musical, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Pretty Woman, On Your Feet!, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. National tours: Anastasia, On Your Feet!, Motown.
JASON PELUSIO (Company Manager). Broadway/NYC: The Producers, Hairspray, Sweeney Todd (2005 revival), Company (2006 revival), Rock of Ages (Off-Broadway). National tours: The Producers, Sweeney Todd, Wicked, Jersey Boys, Beautiful. Las Vegas: Jersey Boys as well as Michael Jackson ONE and R.U.N. for Cirque du Soleil. Mahalo nui loa to PJ, G&G.
ARIANA GARCIA (Associate Company Manager). Broadway: Hell's Kitchen, Here Lies Love. Touring: Hamilton Eliza Company (Los Angeles), Hamilton Angelica Company, Hamilton And Peggy Company (Honolulu, Toronto). Proud UCLA alum with a B.A. in political science with a minor in global studies and public policy. For dad.
THE TELSEY OFFICE (Casting). With offices in both New York and Los Angeles, The Telsey Office casts for theater, film, television and commercials. The Telsey Office is dedicated to creating safe, equitable and anti-racist spaces through collaboration, artistry, heart, accountability and advocacy. thetelseyoffice.com.
ACTORS' EQUITY ASSOCIATION (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 50,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theater as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. actorsequity.org.
BASELINE THEATRICAL (General Management). Founded by Andy Jones in 2014 and joined by Nick Lugo, Baseline's Broadway credits include Hamilton; Sweeney Todd; Fat Ham; Freestyle Love Supreme; Pass Over; Derren Brown: Secret; The Cher Show; Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812; and The Last Ship. Off-Broadway: The White Chip, The Enigmatist, Audible Theater at Minetta Lane. Upcoming: The Queen of Versailles, Teeth. National tours: Hamilton, Freestyle Love Supreme. Recently established Beyond the Stage Door, a no-cost educational intensive created to prepare underrepresented undergraduates for theater management careers. baselinetheatrical.com.
JEFFREY SELLER (Producer) is the winner of four Tony Awards for Best Musical: Hamilton (2016) and Rent (1996), both of which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Avenue Q (2004); and In the Heights (2008). He also produced De La Guarda (1998), Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party (2000), Baz Luhrmann's direction of Puccini's La Bohème (2002), High Fidelity (2006), the 2009 revival of West Side Story, The Last Ship (2014), The Cher Show (2018), Derren Brown: Secret (2019) and the 2023 Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd. He has also produced Hamilton on international stages in London (2017); Australia (2021); Germany (2022), which was the first translated version of the production; and most recently the international tour (2023) and the UK/Ireland tour (2023). Jeffrey was executive producer of the NBC drama "Rise" (2018) and HBO's "Coastal Elites" (2020). He is a graduate of the University of Michigan.
SANDER JACOBS (Producer) received the Tony and Olivier awards for Best Musical for Hamilton (Pulitzer Prize winner) and a Tony Award for In the Heights. He recently served as executive producer of the Hamilton film and received an Emmy Award. He is a producer and/or investor for numerous Broadway, national and international productions. Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Grand Hotel, Follies, West Side Story, Bengal Tiger and The Last Ship are among his many productions.
JILL FURMAN (Producer) seeks to produce groundbreaking commercial work that surprises audiences. On Broadway, she is currently represented by Suffs (Tony nomination) and Hamilton (Tony Award). Past Broadway credits include In the Heights (Tony Award), Freestyle Love Supreme (Special Tony Award), Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella, The Heiress, Seminar, West Side Story, The Drowsy Chaperone, Sly Fox and Fortune's Fool. On TV and film, she executive produced Hamilton for Disney+ (Emmy Award) and In the Heights. She also produced Hulu's We Are Freestyle Supreme, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020. In 2011, she received the Robert Whitehead Award for Outstanding Achievement in Commercial Theatre Producing. Jill is a native New Yorker. She received a B.A. from Brown University and an M.B.A from Columbia. She is on the Brown University Board of Directors, the President's Advisory Council for the Arts at Brown and the Board of the Lung Cancer Research Foundation.
THE PUBLIC THEATER premiered Hamilton on January 20, 2015, on the same stage where A Chorus Line premiered 40 years earlier. New York's Public Theater continues the work of visionary founder Joe Papp as an advocate for theater as an essential cultural force, leading and framing the important issues of our day. Programming includes an annual season of new work, Free Shakespeare in the Park, Mobile Unit, Public Works and Joe's Pub. Recipient of 64 Tony Awards, 194 Obie Awards, 62 Drama Desk Awards, 61 Lortel Awards, 36 Outer Critics Circle Awards, 13 New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards, 65 AUDELCO Awards, six Antonyo Awards and six Pulitzer Prizes. publictheater.org.
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