Stephen Schwartz wrote the music and lyrics for The Prince of Egypt, recently at the Dominion Theatre. Other shows to which he has contributed music and/or lyrics and which have been seen in the UK include Godspell, Pippin, Working, Rags, Children of Eden and The Baker’s Wife. For film, he collaborated with Alan Menken on the songs for Disney’s Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Enchanted and its sequel Disenchanted. Awards include three Academy Awards, four Grammy Awards and the Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award. In the US, Mr. Schwartz has been given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, inducted into The Theater Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. A book about his career, Defying Gravity, has been published by Applause Books.

For more information, those interested are invited to visit: www.stephenschwartz.com

Winnie received a Tony nomination and a Drama Desk Award for Wicked. She got her start writing for the acclaimed television drama thirtysomething, and went on to create another memorable series: My So-Called Life, which starred Claire Danes. Other television credits include Once and Again, Huge (with her daughter, Savannah Dooley) and Roadies (with Cameron Crowe). Theatre work includes the musical Birds of Paradise (written with composer David Evans), Post-its: Notes on a Marriage and Assisted Living, (both written with her husband, actor Paul Dooley) and her play Choice. Also an actress, Ms. Holzman appeared in Jerry Maguire and as Larry David’s wife’s therapist on Curb Your Enthusiasm. Most recently, she completed both screenplays for the film adaptation of Wicked.

A two-time Tony Award-winning director, recent credits include: Here We Are; Grey House; The Boys in the Band (Netflix and Broadway); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Hillary and Clinton; Three Tall Women (Tony nomination); The Humans (Tony nomination); Blackbird; An Act of God; The Last Ship; Casa Valentina; I’ll Eat You Last…; Dogfight; Other Desert Cities; The Pride; Pal Joey; 9 To 5: The Musical; Three Days of Rain; Glengarry Glen Ross (Tony nomination); Laugh Whore; Assassins (Tony Award); Take Me Out (Tony Award); Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; A Man of No Importance; The Vagina Monologues and Love! Valour! Compassion! (Tony nomination). Acting credits include: Feud: Capote’s Women; American Horror Story; The Watcher (Netflix), Hollywood (Netflix) and the Broadway productions of The Glass Menagerie, The Normal Heart (Tony nomination) and Angels in America (Tony nomination). Mantello was nominated for Emmy and Critics’ Choice Awards for his performance in HBO’s The Normal Heart. He has received Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Clarence Derwent, Obie and The SDC “Mr. Abbott” Awards and is a member of The Theatre Hall of Fame.

Nominated for seven Tony Awards, Cilento won his first for his choreography on the historic Broadway production of The Who’s Tommy (Drama Desk Award, Fred Astaire Award, Olivier nomination).

Broadway: six Tony Award nominations for his choreographic work on How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (starring Matthew Broderick), the Broadway production Holler If Ya Hear Me featuring the music of Tupac Shakur, Director of Dream: The Johnny Mercer Musical, the 2004 revival of Sweet Charity, Baby, Wicked and Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ (Best Featured Actor in a Musical). Mr. Cilento also choreographed Elton John’s Aida on Broadway, on tour and the European productions in Germany and Amsterdam, as well as the iconic Broadway production of Jerry Herman’s Jerry’s Girls. Cilento was a member of the original Broadway cast of A Chorus Line (‘Mike’).

He has also directed and choreographed major commercials and concerts for Liza Minnelli, Barry Manilow, Chita Rivera, Billy Joel, Donna Summer, Pete Townsend, Alicia Keys and the Jonas Brothers. Cilento recently directed the critically acclaimed hit Broadway revival of Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ in Spring 2023.

Eugene Lee was Resident Designer at Trinity Rep in Providence, RI. He was the Production Designer of Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers.

Other Broadway credits include: Bright Star; Ragtime; Show Boat and Sweeney Todd.

Film includes: Coppola’s Hammett; Huston’s Mr. North; Malle’s Vanya on 42nd Street and Demme’s A Master Builder.

BFA: The Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon.

MFA: Yale School of Drama and three honorary PhDs.

Awards: Tony; Drama Desk; Lucille Lortel; Emmy; Elliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence; Pell Award and DESIGNxRI Lifetime Achievement Award.

Eugene is an inductee into The Theater Hall of Fame, New York.

Hilferty has designed over 350 productions worldwide. London/UK – Scenery/Costumes: Salomé (National Theatre); Hamlet (Gate Theatre, Dublin); Athol Fugard’s Sorrows and Rejoicings (Tricycle) and The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family (European tour). Costumes: Blood Wedding (Young Vic); Buried Child and The Spoils (Trafalgar Studios); Spring Awakening (Novello); Flying Karamazov Brothers’ 4Play (Vaudeville) and August Wilson’s Jitney (National). Scenery/Costumes/Associate Director: Athol Fugard’s My Children! My Africa! and A Place with the Pigs (National); Valley Song (Royal Court) and Playland (Donmar). Directorial collaborators include: Yaël Farber, James Macdonald, Tony Kushner, Garry Hynes, Michael Longhurst, Michael Mayer, James Lapine, Jonathan Butterell, Robert Falls, Richard Nelson, Garland Wright, Mark Lamos, Frank Galati, Selina Cartmell, Des McAnuff, Bartlett Sher, Doug Wright, Laurie Anderson, and Athol Fugard. Recent designs include: Funny Girl (Broadway and national tour); Parade (Broadway TONY Nomination) and Waiting for Godot (TFNA). Other: Taylor Swift’s Speak Now! World Tour; Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Upcoming: Avett Brothers’ Swept Away (Broadway) and Aida (Metropolitan Opera). Hilferty is on faculty of Graduate Design NYU/Tisch, having served as chair for 25 years. Her many awards include three Lifetime Achievement Awards plus TONY, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards and Olivier nomination for Wicked.

West End: MEAN GIRLS, Pretty Woman: The Musical; Kinky Boots; Legally Blonde; Hairspray and Wicked (Olivier nominations) and Side Man.

On Broadway over 50 plays and musicals including: Beetlejuice; Pretty Woman: The Musical; Mean Girls; War Paint; On Your Feet!; Disgraced; If/Then; Kinky Boots; Pippin; Cinderella; Other Desert Cities; Coast of Utopia – Shipwreck (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award); Hairspray, The Merchant of Venice, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Tony nominations); Harvey; The Best Man; The Royal Family; Catch Me If You Can; 9 to 5: The Musical; Legally Blonde; The Pirate Queen; Lestat; The Odd Couple; Glengarry Glen Ross; Little Women; The Frogs; Imaginary Friends; Swing!; You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?; Uncle Vanya; Side Man; The Lion in Winter; Little Me; A View from the Bridge; The Last Night of Ballyhoo; The Little Foxes and The Rose Tattoo.

Opera credits include designs for the New York City Opera and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Recipient of the Obie Award for sustained excellence in lighting design.

West End theatre includes: Come From Away (Associate Producer); Kiss Me, Kate; The Lion King; Smokey Joe’s Café and Anything Goes. 

Broadway includes: First Date (Associate Producer); The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Drama Desk Award); Lysistrata Jones (Producer and Sound Designer); Wicked; Pal Joey; The Ritz and Laugh Whore (all with Joe Mantello); Man of La Mancha; Sweet Smell of Success; Copenhagen; Kiss Me, Kate; Footloose; The Lion King (Drama Desk Award); The Sound of Music; Juan Darien; A Christmas Carol (MSG); Steel Pier; Forum; The King and I; Moon Over Buffalo; Smokey Joe’s Café; Guys and Dolls; Five Guys Named Moe; She Loves Me; The Red Shoes and Anything Goes.

National and international include: The Lion King; Les Misérables; Mozart and Der Gloeckner von Notre Dame.

Off-Broadway includes: Here Lies Jenny and The Normal Heart.

Tony is a graduate of Ithaca College’s Department of Theatre Arts.

Elaine’s international career spans over 25 years in nearly every area of live performance. Her Broadway credits include: Spamalot; Impressionism; The People in the Picture; Assassins; Man of La Mancha; Into the Woods; Thurgood and Judgment at Nuremberg. Additional career highlights include: Great Scott; Everest; Iolanta; Tristan und Isolde and Moby Dick (Dallas Opera); Mazeppa (Metropolitan Opera); Dead Man Walking (NYC Opera); War and Peace (Metropolitan Opera and Kirov Opera); Tan Dun and Peter Sellars’ The Peony Pavilion at the Wiener Festwochen (Opera); Frequency Hopping (set and projections); Distracted (set and projections); Embedded; Fran’s Bed; Speaking in Tongues; The Stendhal Syndrome and The Thing About Men (Off-Broadway); Tan Dun’s The Gate (NHK Symphony); Don Byron’s Tunes and ’Toons at The Brooklyn Academy of Music (Concert); Peter Buffett’s Spirit: A Journey in Dance, Drums and Song and Chen Shi-Zheng’s Forgiveness at Asia Society/New York (Dance); Adidas; Sony/Epic Records; Kenneth Cole; Calvin Klein Cosmetics and the 1996 and 1997 CFDA Awards (Fashion/Industrial) and the 2008 documentary film, Secrecy.

Tom Watson headed the Wig and Make Up department at the Metropolitan Opera for 17 years. He has designed more than 80 Broadway productions including Wicked; Rock of Ages; How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; The Addams Family; Annie; Act One; You Can’t Take It With You; The King and I (LCT and tour); The Sound of Music (national tour); Dames at Sea; Thérèse Raquin; Fiddler on the Roof; Bright Star (Broadway and tour); Oslo (LCT); Long Day’s Journey into Night; Falsettos; The Little Foxes; Junk (LCT) and The Parisian Woman.

Broadway/West End: Wicked; Beautiful and MJ. Broadway: SMASH; Death Becomes Her; Suffs; KPOP; Beetlejuice; Torch Song; SpongeBob SquarePants; Summer; Sunday in the Park with George; Anastasia; Allegiance; If/Then; Follies; Jekyll & Hyde; The Normal Heart and Grease. Off Broadway: Fly; Sweet Charity; Into the Woods; The Wild Party and Show Boat. Television: Annie Live; Jesus Christ Superstar Live (Emmy nomination); The Gilded Age; Julia and Castle Rock. Film: The Holdovers; Hocus Pocus 2; Don’t Look Up and About Fate. www.joedulude2.com

Broadway: Kinky Boots (2013 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations and 2013 Grammy Award); The Book of Mormon (2011 Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Best Orchestrations and 2012 Grammy Award) and Disney’s Frozen: The Broadway Musical. Worldwide Music Supervisor/Arranger of Wicked; Music Supervisor/Vocal Arranger/Orchestrator of Broadway productions/tours of The Book of Mormon, Avenue Q, All Shook Up and 9 to 5: The Musical; Grammy nominee as Co-Producer with Dolly Parton of 9 to 5: The Musical Broadway cast recording. Other credits: Music Supervisor, Vocal Arranger and Orchestrator: tick, tick… BOOM!; Music Director: Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party; Conductor and contributing Orchestrator for the Oscar-winning Disney film Frozen; Music Director of the 87th Academy Awards telecast and The Wiz Live! on NBC TV.

William received the 1998 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations for Ragtime. Other Broadway and West End credits include: Half a Sixpence (Noël Coward); the revival of Miss Saigon (Prince Edward); Curtains; Mary Poppins; The Secret Garden; Show Boat; Crazy for You; Carousel; Sweet Smell of Success; Oklahoma!; Oliver!; The Witches of Eastwick; My Fair Lady; South Pacific; Betty Blue Eyes and Barnum (Chichester). He has provided arrangements for Marilyn Horne, James Galway, Placido Domingo and West Side Story Suite for Violin and Orchestra.

Alex Lacamoire is a four-time Grammy, three-time Tony, three-time Olivier, and Emmy Award winner for his work on Hamilton; Dear Evan Hansen; In the Heights and FX’s mini-series Fosse/Verdon. Alex was also the recipient of a first-of-its-kind Kennedy Center Honors for his contribution to Hamilton. Other credits as Music Director, Arranger, and/or Orchestrator include: Sweeney Todd (2023 Broadway Revival); Bring It On: The Musical; Wicked; Bat Boy and Godspell. He served as the Executive Music Producer for the films: The Greatest Showman; In the Heights; VIVO; Dear Evan Hansen and tick, tick… Boom!

Broadway: Aida; Tarzan; Bombay Dreams; Rent; Footloose; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Cats; Sunset Boulevard and Miss Saigon. National tours include: Starlight Express; Kiss of the Spider Woman; The Who’s Tommy and Jesus Christ Superstar among others. He has performed with Aretha Franklin, Dennis DeYoung of Styx, Shirley Bassey, Bob Hope, Vanessa Williams and with Elton John in Greatest Hits Live at Madison Square Garden. Clients include Dr Pepper, Frito Lay, American Airlines and General Electric.

Select Broadway/Tours: Angels in America (Tony nomination); Wicked (all worldwide productions); The Phantom of the Opera (world tour); Love Never Dies (international tour); Bright Star; Amazing Grace; Holler If Ya Hear Me; The Other Place; A Streetcar Named Desire; Shatner’s World; Billy Elliot the Musical; Pippin; 9 to 5: The Musical; The Pirate Queen; Aida; Ragtime; Cabaret and Noise/Funk. Television: NBC’s Maya & Marty and Universal Kids Sprout House.

Edward represents designers as President of United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829. www.edwardpierce.com

Mark is currently the Broadway Resident Director/Choreographer of Death Becomes Her. Broadway Associate Choreographer Credits include: Dear Evan Hansen; The Cher Show; My Fair Lady; SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical; War Paint and If/Then. West End Associate
Choreographer credits include: My Fair Lady; Dear Evan Hansen and Wicked. Film/TV Associate: Isn’t It Romantic? and Schmigadoon.

www.markmyars.com

West End leading roles: Annie; West Side Story; On Your Toes and A Chorus Line. Repertory theatre roles: Chicago; Lulu; Bells Are Ringing; Stepping Out and Blithe Spirit. Television and Films: The Music Lovers; The Boyfriend; Fiddler on the Roof; The Slipper and the Rose; Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels and Billy Elliot. Choreographer: Jesus Christ Superstar; Hair; Poppy; Annie; The King and I; Guys and Dolls; Iolanthe; Dreams of Leaving (TV) and The Peter Hall Company’s Twelfth Night. Recently played ‘Mother’ in Paul Harnett’s Alice: A New Musical (St. James Theatre) and appeared at the Royal Festival Hall in The Oliviers in Concert (BBC 3). Director: The Sound of Music; Sweet Charity; West Side Story and The Apollo Victoria 80th Anniversary Gala. West End musicals as Associate Director: Always; Annie; Kiss Me, Kate; Ragtime and The Producers. UK national tours as Associate Director: Annie; Kiss Me, Kate and The Producers following their West End productions. Recently appeared in the Wicked film as ‘Autograph Hunter’. Assistant to: Joe Mantello, Susan Stroman, Michael Blakemore, Martin Charnin, Kathleen Marshall, Tommy Tune, Larry Fuller, John Doyle and Stafford Arima. Associate Director for the Wicked UK & Ireland Tour.

Training: Stage Door School of Dancing, Bournemouth and London Studio Centre. Theatre includes: UK Dance Supervisor for the Wicked UK & Ireland Tour and UK/International Tour; the title role in Alice: A New Musical (St. James Theatre); flying workshop for Peter Pan (The O2); The Apollo Victoria 80th Anniversary Gala; Dancing in The Dark (Clapham Grand); Spirit of the Dance (UK tour); Journey of Jazz (Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadler’s Wells); Dance Captain and understudy ‘Peter’ in Peter Pan (The Anvil, Basingstoke); The Jazz Dance Company (Peacock Theatre, London) and West End Bares (Café de Paris). Television and Film includes: Infatuation for Kate Alexa; American Boy/New Generation video for PaM’s People, Killa Kela MTV music video and Children in Need. Hannah has taught at leading vocational colleges including The BRIT School, Arts Educational Schools London and London Studio Centre, and is a qualified Body Control Pilates teacher.

UK Music Supervisor for the Wicked UK & Ireland Tour. Music Supervisor: Viking Ocean Cruises (Blackburn International); Wicked (Apollo Victoria); Children of Eden (Prince of Wales); Search for a Twitter Star Live (Piccadilly); She’s the One (Savoy) and The Apollo Victoria 80th Anniversary Gala. Other credits include: Fame (West End and UK tour); Saturday Night Fever (West End and UK tour); Sinatra (West End); Annie Get Your Gun (UK tour); The Light Princess (National Theatre workshop) and Louise Dearman in Concert. Other freelance work includes: The Ratpack (West End); Taboo (West End); Regent’s Park; Chichester Festival Theatre; The Drifters (UK and international tour dates) and live radio broadcasts for Katherine Jenkins and Friday Night is Music Night.

Ron studied at The Royal Academy of Music and King’s College London. As Musical Director credits include: The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales). As Assistant Musical Director: Jersey Boys (Prince Edward); Shrek The Musical (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane) and The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales). As Associate Conductor/Children’s MD: Billy Elliot the Musical (Victoria Palace). Workshop MD credits include: Nativity! The Musical and Miss Atomic Bomb. Ron has also coached and consulted as a children’s vocal specialist on major West End and touring musicals. He is proud to have been made an Associate of The Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) where he coaches on the Postgraduate Musical Theatre course.

Training: Arts Educational Schools, London.

Theatre includes: Swing and understudy ‘Olaf’ and ‘Weselton’ in Frozen (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), Resident Director at Pretty Woman (The Savoy); ‘Alfredo’ and ‘Carlos’  in Pretty Woman (Piccadilly and Savoy); Dance Captain, Swing and understudy ‘Grantaire’ in Les Misérables All Star Concert (Gielgud); Dance Captain, Swing and understudy ‘Jean Val Jean’ and ‘Foreman’ in Les Misérables (Queens), Swing and understudy ‘Doctor Dillamond’ in Wicked (Apollo Victoria); ‘Scarecrow’ in The Wizard of Oz (Louder than Words, Cyprus); ‘Billy Lawlor’ in 42nd Street (Chichester Festival Theatre); ‘Ethan’ in The Full Monty (English Theatre of Frankfurt); ‘Barnaby’ in Hello Dolly! (Regent’s Park Open Air); Imagine This (New London); ensemble and understudy ‘Lt. Cable’ in South Pacific (UK tour) and Follies (London Palladium).

Workshops include: Much; ‘The Miller’s Son’ in Twang; ‘Simon’ in Some Sunny Day and RiZen.

Recordings include: Les Misérables Concert; Imagine This and Spitting Distance (original cast recording).

Films include: Frozen (Disney); ‘Noble Man’ in The King (Netflix) and Les Misérables Concert.

Jim is a freelance Casting Director of musicals and plays for West End and regional theatres, and for UK and international tours. He established Jim Arnold Casting in 2018, having previously worked as Associate Casting Director for Pippa Ailion Casting from 2012-2018. He is a full member of the Casting Director’s Guild of Great Britain & Ireland. Theatre includes: Wicked (Apollo Victoria and UK & Ireland Tour); Spend, Spend, Spend (Royal Exchange Theatre); A Christmas Carol:The Musical (Quays Theatre – The Lowry, Salford); Pretty Woman: The Musical (Savoy and UK & Ireland tour); Shrek The Musical (UK tour and Eventim Apollo); Bonnie & Clyde (Garrick and UK tour); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – The Musical (Leeds Playhouse and UK & Ireland tour); The Great British Bake Off Musical (Noël Coward and Everyman Cheltenham); When Darkness Falls (UK tour); Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical (Hall for Cornwall and UK tour); Rock of Ages (UK tour); The Prince of Egypt (Dominion); West Side Story (Royal Exchange Theatre); Curtains (Wyndham’s and UK tour); Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (Harold Pinter and UK tour); The Mirror Crack’d (Wales Millennium Centre and Wiltshire Creative); Eugenius! (The Other Palace); The Wedding Singer (Troubadour Theatre and UK tour) and Matilda The Musical (Original Casting Associate for the RSC).

Lloyd trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, before starting his career at the National Theatre and the Young Vic. Productions include: The Prince of Egypt (Dominion); 9 to 5: The Musical (UK tour); A Little Life (Harold Pinter); Bridgerton and Guardians of the Galaxy (Secret Cinema); Betrayal, Cyrano de Bergerac and Pinter Season (Harold Pinter and Broadway); The Time Traveller’s Wife (UK tour); Rusalka (English National Opera); Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (Harold Pinter and UK tour); The Wild Duck (Almeida); Summer and Smoke (Duke of York’s); The Jungle (Playhouse and Broadway); Nightfall (Bridge Theatre); Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (Aldwych, Associate PM); The Christmasaurus Live (Hammersmith Apollo); Project Polunin (London Coliseum); The Lady from the Sea (Donmar); Shakespeare Trilogy (Donmar and Broadway); Oslo (National Theatre and Harold Pinter); Buried Child and The Spoils (Trafalgar Studios); Blue/Orange and Macbeth (Young Vic); Lela & Co (Royal Court); Fleabag and The Mentalists (Wyndham’s); A View from the Bridge (Wyndham’s, Associate PM); Constellations (Donmar and UK tour); Neville’s Island (Duke of York’s) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Assistant PM).

As General Manager productions include: Wicked (Apollo Victoria, UK & Ireland Tours and International Tour); Moulin Rouge! The Musical (also Executive Producer – Piccadilly); MJ (also Executive Producer – Prince Edward); Wild Rose (also Executive Producer – Edinburgh Lyceum, March 2025); Next To Normal (Wyndham’s) and Come From Away (Abbey Theatre, Dublin and Phoenix).

As Producer and General Manager productions include: The Fifth Step (@SohoPlace – May 2025); Macbeth (Harold Pinter); Dr. Strangelove (Noël Coward and Bord Gáis, Dublin); The Artist (Theatre Royal Plymouth); The Unfriend (Criterion and Wyndham’s); The House of Bernarda Alba (as Producer – National Theatre); Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Sheffield, Lyric Hammersmith and Theatre Royal Haymarket); A Little Life (as Producer – Richmond, Harold Pinter and Savoy); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – The Musical (UK & Ireland Tour); Good (Harold Pinter) and Get Up Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical (Lyric).

As Executive Producer productions include: Moulin Rouge! The Musical (Picadilly); MJ (Prince Edward) and Wild Rose (The Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh).

Nina Essman, Nancy Nagel Gibbs and Marcia Goldberg’s past and present Broadway, Off-Broadway and national tour management credits include: Wicked (worldwide); SpongeBob Squarepants: The Broadway Musical; War Paint; Oh, Hello on Broadway; Fun Home; If/Then; Peter and the Starcatcher; Bring It On: The Musical; Sister Act; Traces; Next to Normal; The 25 th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; The Vagina Monologues; Man of La Mancha; The Graduate; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; Fully Committed and Bat Boy. Individual productions include: The Lion King; Smokey Joe’s Café; The Santaland Diaries; Full Gallop; Smoke on the Mountain; Rent; Guys and Dolls and The Diary of Anne Frank.

Broadway: Wicked; Topdog/Underdog (Tony Award); Fat Ham (Tony nomination); A Strange Loop (Tony Award); The Band’s Visit (Tony Award); War Paint; Oh, Hello on Broadway; If/Then; Pal Joey and Three Days of Rain. Off-Broadway and UK: Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures production of Edward Scissorhands (Drama Desk Award). Films: Wicked; The Little Mermaid; Babylon; Cruella; Dear Evan Hansen; The Trial of the Chicago 7 (BAFTA and Oscar nominations); Thunder Force; Mary Poppins Returns; La La Land (BAFTA Best Film Award, Oscar nomination); The Girl on the Train; Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk; Bridge of Spies (Oscar nomination); Into the Woods; Drive (BAFTA nomination); Ricki and the Flash; Scott Pilgrim vs. The World; Legally Blonde; Rachel Getting Married; Wanted; Nine; Hotel Artemis; 2 Guns; Lost River; Legally Blonde 2; The Other Woman; Winter’s Tale; Charlie St. Cloud; Cop Out; The Seeker; The Perfect Man; Honey and Josie and The Pussycats. Television: Better Nate Than Ever (Disney+, Emmy nomination); Oslo (HBO, Emmy nomination); Rent (FOX); Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert (NBC, Emmy Award); A Christmas Story Live! (FOX); Grease Live! (FOX, Emmy Award); Empire Falls (HBO); Taking The Stage (MTV); Once Upon A Mattress (ABC) and The Path To 9/11 (ABC). Mr. Platt has served as president for three movie studios (Orion, TriStar and Universal).

David Stone is currently represented by Wicked and Kimberly Akimbo. He has also produced Topdog/Underdog; The Boys in the Band; War Paint; If/Then; Next to Normal; The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Three Days of Rain; Man of La Mancha; The Vagina Monologues; Fully Committed; Lifegame; The Diary of Anne Frank; Full Gallop; The Santaland Diaries and Family Secrets. David serves on the boards of The Broadway League and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids. He also serves on the advisory boards of V-Day and Second Stage Theatre. David has lectured on theatre at Yale, Princeton, Columbia and his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania.

Universal Stage Productions, a division of Universal Theatrical Group, is the live theatre division of the world-famous motion picture studio. Universal’s musical phenomenon Wicked is now in its 19th year in the West End. With multiple international productions, including the original Broadway production which premiered in 2003, Wicked has been seen by over 60 million people worldwide, making it one of the most successful theatrical ventures of all time. Universal’s critically acclaimed musical adaptation of Billy Elliot, which won four Olivier Awards and ten Tony Awards, including Best Musical, concluded its 11-year run in the West End and has toured globally. Alongside the Broadway phenomenon Wicked, Universal Theatrical Group is represented on Broadway by the musical adaptation, Death Becomes Her, based on the 1992 Universal cult classic. Additional credits under UTG’s DreamWorks Theatricals banner include Shrek the Musical and the West End production of The Prince of Egypt.

Mr. Platt’s many honours include The Laurence Olivier Award, 14 Tony Awards, The Robert Whitehead Award for Distinguished Producing on Broadway and a Lifetime Membership in The Broadway League. His award-winning productions include: Angels in America; Company; Hangmen; Copenhagen; God of Carnage; The Humans; The Book of Mormon; Death of a Salesman; Clybourne Park; A Raisin in the Sun; A View From the Bridge; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; Skylight; Venus in Fur; Blackbird; No Man’s Land/Waiting for Godot; The Audience; The Crucible; King Charles III; The Heiress and The Children’s Hour.

Founded in 1997 by partners Matthew Rego, Michael Rego and Hank Unger, The Araca Group LLC produces and merchandises live entertainment and theatrical events on Broadway and around the world.

For more information please visit: www.araca.com

A four-time Olivier Award-winning producer in the UK and Tony Award-nominated on Broadway, Michael’s credits include the London premieres of Wicked, which is already the 10^th longest running West End show in British history, The Prince of Egypt; An American in Paris; Million Dollar Quartet; Spring Awakening and the 2012 revival of Sweeney Todd. Tours: three UK & Ireland Tours of Wicked, international tour of Wicked. Broadway includes How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Promises, Promises. From 1998-2004, Michael served as the original Marketing Director of Mamma Mia!, overseeing the first 14 premieres around the world.