Lin-Manuel Miranda

Book, Music and Lyrics

Broadway: Composer/Lyricist/Usnavi of In the Heights (four Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Score, Grammy Award, Pulitzer Prize finalist), Bring It On: The Musical (co-composer/co-lyricist, Tony nomination for Best Musical), West Side Story (2009 revival, Spanish translations). Off-Broadway: Hamilton (10 Lortel Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, eight Drama Desk Awards, the 2015 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best New Musical and the 2015 Obie Award for Best New American Play); Merrily We Roll Along, tick, tick…BOOM! (both City Center Encores!). With Tom Kitt, Lin-Manuel received an Emmy Award for “Bigger” from “The 67th Annual Tony Awards.” TV/film: “Freestyle Love Supreme,” “How I Met Your Mother,” “Smash,” “Do No Harm,” “Modern Family,” “House,” “The Electric Company,” “Sesame Street,” “The Sopranos,” The Odd Life of Timothy Green, 200 Cartas. For Vanessa, best of wives and best of women.

Thomas Kail

Director

Broadway: In the Heights (Tony nomination), Lombardi Magic/Bird. Off-Broadway: Hamilton (the Public; Drama Desk, Lortel and Obie Awards), In the Heights (Callaway Award, Drama Desk/OCC noms), Randy Newman's Faust and The Wiz (City Center), Broke-ology and When I Come to Die (LCT), Family Furniture (The Flea, Drama Desk nom), The Tutors (2ST Uptown). Other credits: Broke-ology (Williamstown), Once on This Island (Paper Mill), In the Heights (National Tour). Co-creator/director of hip-hop improv group Freestyle Love Supreme. Martin E. Segal Award from Lincoln Center. Graduate of Wesleyan University.

Andy Blankenbuehler

Choreographer

Broadway: Hamilton (Tony Award), Bandstand (Tony Award), In The Heights (Tony Award), Cats, Bring It On (Tony nom.), 9 to 5 (Tony nom.), Annie, People In The Picture, The Apple Tree.  Other work includes the Public and West End productions of Hamilton (Lortel, Drama Desk, Astaire, Olivier Award), Fly (DTC), The Wiz (City Center Encores!), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (US tour), and ABC’s television remake of Dirty Dancing.  Upcoming projects include Only Gold with British singer/songwriter Kate Nash.  As a performer, Mr. Blankenbuehler danced on Broadway in Fosse, Contact, Man of La Mancha, Saturday Night Fever, Steel Pier, Big, and Guys and Dolls.  Love to his wife Elly and two children, Luca and Sofia.

Alex Lacamoire

Orchestrations / Co-Arranger

Has won three Tonys and three Grammys for work on Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, and In the Heights. Select credits: Bring It On, Wicked, 9 to 5 (Drama Desk and Grammy nominations), Bat Boy, Godspell (2001 national tour), High Fidelity, Annie (2011 Broadway revival), Fly (Dallas Theater Center), Working (59E59), The Wiz (City Center), Legally Blonde. An Emmy-nominated composer for “Sesame Street.” Love to Mom, Dad, Little Sis, and to his wife, Ileana.

Ron Chernow

Author of the book "Alexander Hamilton"

Prizewinning, 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 American History Book Prize. A past president of PEN America, he has received eight honorary doctorates. He resides in Brooklyn, New York.

David Korins

Scenic Design

Broadway: Hamilton (Tony nomination), War Paint (Tony nomination), Dear Evan Hansen, Bandstand, Misery, Motown the Musical, 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). Concert: Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Sia, Mariah Carey, Andrea Boccelli. Extensive Off-Broadway/Regional theater, hospitality, event and experience design. Dad to Stella and Vivian.

Paul Tazewell

Costume Design

Recently received an Emmy Award for costume design of “The Wiz! Live” and a Tony Award for costume design of Hamilton. Film: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Cine Mosaic/HBO). Broadway: Side Show; Doctor Zhivago; Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk (Tony nomination); Memphis (Tony nomination); In the Heights (Tony nomination); The Color Purple (Tony nomination); A Streetcar Named Desire (Tony nomination); Caroline, or Change; Elaine Strich at Liberty.

Howell Binkley

Lighting Design

Broadway: Allegiance, After Midnight (2014 Tony nomination), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (2011 Tony nomination), West Side Story (2009 Tony nomination), In the Heights (2008 Tony nomination), Jersey Boys (2006 Tony winner), Avenue Q, The Full Monty, Parade, Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993 Tony nomination/Oliver and Dora winner). Co-founder/resident lighting designer: Parsons Dance. 

Nevin Steinberg

Sound Design

Recent Broadway: Bright Star, It Shoulda Been You, Mothers and Sons, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Tony nomination), The Performers, Magic/Bird. Off-Broadway: Dear Evan Hansen, The Landing (The Vineyard Theatre), Far From Heaven (Playwrights Horizons). Audio Consultant for Carnegie Hall’s Isaac Stern Auditorium.

Charles G. LaPointe

Hair and Wig Design

More than 75 Broadway/Off-Broadway shows including Hamilton; Beautiful: The Carole King Musical; Anastasia; Motown the Musical; A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder; Six Degrees of Separation; Allegiance; On Your Feet!; Side Show; The Elephant Man; After Midnight; Bring It On; Newsies; Memphis; In the Heights; Jersey Boys; The Color Purple. Television: “The Wiz Live!” (Emmy Award nomination).

Michael Keller and Michael Aarons

Music Coordinator

Broadway: Honeymoon in Vegas, Amazing Grace. Upcoming Broadway: School of Rock, Gotta Dance. Current and future tours: Kinky Boots, The Bridges of Madison County, If/Then.

Hudson Theatrical Associates

Technical Supervision

More than 95 Broadway productions and tours. Recent: Penn & Teller on Broadway, The Visit, The Heidi Chronicles, It’s Only a Play, Aladdin. Part of Neil A. Mazzella's Hudson family, which includes Hudson Scenic Studio. Joining Neil on the HTA team are Sam Ellis, Eric Casanova and Irene Wang. 

Matt Gallagher

Universal Music Associate

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). Music Director/Arranger: Amanda Green, Yandura & Melocik, Atlantic Theater Company Galas, Phish at MSG (2010).

Kurt Crowley

Music Director

Previously worked on Hamilton (The Public Theater), Bring It On (Broadway), In the Heights (National Tour), Carmen la Cubana (Théâtre du Châtelet), Fly (DTC), Somewhere (Hartford Stage). Originally from Montana, he studied music in India on a fellowship from Harvard University.

Patrick Vassel

Associate and Supervising Director

Broadway: Magic/Bird. Off-Broadway: Working (Prospect Theater Company). Credits include: The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Homecoming (Stella Adler), Lombardi (Palace Theater), Nothing Left to Burn (Lark, Public Theater, Ars Nova ANTFest).

Hannah Ryan

Resident Director

Regional: Every Path (La Jolla Playhouse), The Guys (Davenport Theatre). Broadway: An American in Paris (Resident), The Curious Incident… (Associate), Doctor Zhivago, 700 Sundays (Assistant). Drama League Directors Project, SDC Foundation Denham Fellow. Founding member of Nettleworks.

Stephanie Klemons

Associate & Supervising Choreographer

Drama Desk Award–winning Performer & Choreographer. Original Broadway Companies: Hamilton, If/Then, Bring It On, In the Heights. Off-Broadway: Hamilton, In the Heights, REPO! First National Tours: Bombay Dreams, In the Heights, Bring It On.

Jennifer Jancuska

Dance Supervisor

Choreographer: new works by Araca, Mainspring, The Drama League, MTF, LTR, NYMF. Artistic Director: BC Beat, BroadwayConnection, The BringAbout, a company engaged by creatives/producers in development of new works. Teaching: NYU, Syracuse, PACE, UArts.

J. Philip Bassett

Production Supervisor

Broadway: The Last Ship, A Night With Janis Joplin, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Magic/Bird, The Miracle Worker, In the Heights, Grey Gardens, Lestat, The Glass Menagerie, Bombay Dreams, Hairspray, Neil Simon’s 45 Seconds From Broadway, Footloose, The Scarlet Pimpernel, and others.

Amber White

Production Stage Manager

Broadway: The Last Ship, A Night with Janis Joplin, Scandalous, In The Heights, The Miracle Worker, Avenue Q. Off-Broadway includes: Murder for Two, Carrie.  National Tour includes: Wicked, White Christmas. This one’s for Olive.

E. Cameron Holsinger

Stage Manager

Tours: Motown, Once, The Addams Family, 9 to 5, Wicked, …Spelling Bee, The Grinch. New York: Fuerza Bruta. Regional: Wicked (Chicago), The Grinch (L.A.), The Addams Family (Buenos Aires and Mexico City), The Alliance Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater. A graduate of Wright State University.

Deanna Weiner

Assistant Stage Manager

Broadway: Matilda, Wicked, Glengarry Glen Ross, Leap of Faith, War Horse, Driving Miss Daisy, The Addams Family, 13, Rock’n’ Roll. Other: Public, Atlantic, Lincoln Center Festival, Encores!, Women's Project, MCC, Williamstown, Guthrie. Graduate, Barnard College.

Telsey + Company

Casting

Broadway/Tours: Pretty Woman, Straight White Men, My Fair Lady, Carousel, Mean Girls, Frozen, SpongeBob SquarePants, Once on This Island, Anastasia, Hello, Dolly!, Come From Away, Waitress, Kinky Boots, Wicked, The Color Purple, On Your Feet!, The King and I. Off-Broadway: Be More Chill, Sweeney Todd, Atlantic, MCC, Park Avenue Armory, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Second Stage. Film: Mary Poppins Returns, The Greatest Showman, Miss Sloane, Into the Woods, Margin Call, Rachel Getting Married. TV: “Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert,” “This Is Us,” “House of Cards,” “Divorce,” “NCIS: New Orleans,” “One Day at a Time,” “Atypical,” commercials. www.telseyandco.com

Sam Rudy Media Relations

Press Representative

Brig Berney

Company Manager

Credits: Hand to God, Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella, Gore Vidal's The Best Man, The Mountaintop, Born Yesterday, In the Heights, Deuce with Angela Lansbury, High Fidelity, Festen, Seascape, Primo, Billy Crystal's 700 Sundays, Jumpers, Baz Luhrmann's LaBohème, Rent (six + years), Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly!

Baseline Theatrical

General Management

(General Management). Andy Jones founded Baseline Theatrical in 2014, after 10 years on the management teams of Rent, Avenue Q and In the Heights. Broadway: Hamilton; Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812; The Last Ship. Off-Broadway: Stuffed, Straight. Upcoming: The Cher Show.

Jeffrey Seller

Producer

is the winner of four Tony Awards for Best Musical: Hamilton (2016); Rent (1996), both of which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Avenue Q (2004); and In the Heights (2008). Jeffrey 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, and The Last Ship (2014). Jeffrey is executive producer of the NBC Drama "Rise." Jeffrey graduated from The University of Michigan in 1986.

Sander Jacobs

Producer

Received the Tony Award for Best Musical for Hamilton (Pulitzer Prize winner) and In the Heights. Has served as a co-producer/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 investments. His career began with a multi-product fashion manufacturing and distributing company, which expanded into ventures in the cosmetics and real estate industries.

Jill Furman

Producer

Received the Tony Award for Best Musical for Hamilton (2016) and In the Heights (2008). Other Broadway: Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, The Heiress, Seminar, West Side Story, The Drowsy Chaperone, Sly Fox, Fortune's Fool. Off-Broadway: On the Line, Adult Entertainment. Executive produced the Pivot television series “Freestyle Love Supreme” and also produces the live version of the show. Received the 2011 Robert Whitehead Award for Outstanding Achievement in Commercial Theatre Producing. Member: National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.

The Public Theater

Producer

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 founder Joe Papp as an advocate for theater as an essential cultural force, leading and framing the important issues of our day. Programming includes new work, Shakespeare in the Park, Public Forum, Mobile Unit, Under the Radar, Public Studio, Public Works, Joe’s Pub. Recipient of 59 Tonys, 169 Obies, 53 Drama Desk Awards, 54 Lortel Awards, 32 OCC Awards, 6 Pulitzer Prizes.