Lin-Manuel Miranda

Book, Music, and Lyrics

Pulitzer Prize, Grammy, Emmy and Tony Award-winning songwriter, actor, producer and director. Creator and original star of Broadway’s Tony-winning Hamilton and In the Heights. Additional Broadway: Freestyle Love Supreme (2020 Special Tony Award, co-creator/producer/guest performer), 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. Emmy Award winner with Tom Kitt for their song “Bigger” from the 67th Annual Tony Awards. Mr. Miranda and The Miranda Family actively support initiatives that increase the representation of people of color throughout the arts and government, that ensure access to women’s reproductive health, and that promote resilience in Puerto Rico. TV/Film: Vivo, In The Heights, Hamilton, His Dark Materials, Fosse/Verdon, Curb Your Enthusiasm (2018 Emmy nomination), Saturday Night Live (2017 Emmy nomination), We Are Freestyle Love Supreme; Siempre, Luis; Sesame Street, The Electric Company, House, DuckTales, 200 Cartas, The Odd Life of Timothy Green, Moana (Grammy Award for Best Original Song), and Mary Poppins Returns. Fall 2021 releases: Disney’s Encanto and Netflix’s Tick, Tick… BOOM! (film directorial debut). For Vanessa, best of wives and best of women.

Thomas Kail

Director

Broadway directing credits include Sweeney Todd (upcoming), 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 Derren Brown: Secret and Freestyle Love Supreme. Television directing and producing credits include “Up Here” on Hulu (upcoming), “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

Mr. Blankenbuehler is 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). 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.

On television, Mr. Blankenbuehler’s work has been seen on the Emmy Award–winning FX series “Fosse/Verdon,” the Lionsgate/ABC remake of Dirty Dancing, “America’s Got Talent,” “So You Think You Can Dance,” “The Sopranos,” MTV, “Sesame Street” featuring Janelle Monae, and many commercials. His choreography can be seen in the Universal Studio film of the musical Cats.

Mr. Blankenbuehler is very proud to have 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, he 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. He is a recipient of a special Drama Desk Award and Dance Magazine Award for his achievement in theater.

In 2018, he received the Kennedy Center Honors for his work on the musical Hamilton.

Alex Lacamoire

Orchestrations / Co-Arranger

Alex Lacamoire is a four-time Grammy, three-time Tony, and Emmy winner for his work on Dear Evan Hansen, Hamilton, In the Heights, and FX's mini-series Fosse/Verdon. His credits as music director, arranger, and/or orchestrator include: Message in a Bottle (London), The Wrong Man (Off-Broadway), Annie (2011 Broadway Revival), Bring It On, The People in the Picture, 9 to 5 (Drama Desk and Grammy noms), Legally Blonde, High Fidelity, Wicked, Bat Boy, and Godspell (2001 National Tour). He also serves as the Executive Music Producer for many films including The Greatest Showman (20th Century Fox), In the Heights (Warner Brothers) and the upcoming animation Vivo (Netflix), Dear Evan Hansen (Universal Pictures), and Tick, Tick...Boom! (Netflix). Love to Mom, Dad, Little Sis, and to his wife, Ileana.

Kat Sherrell

Music Director/Conductor

Broadway: In the Heights, Bring It On, The Book of Mormon. Three seasons of music supervising at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre. Author of Experiencing Broadway Music: A Listener’s Companion. Composer-lyricist of several musicals in development and a forthcoming EP. Grateful for the work of Maestra Music and proud to serve as co-chair of Regional and Affinity groups.

Ron Chernow

Author of the book “Alexander Hamilton”

Ron Chernow 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 eight honorary doctorates. He resides in Brooklyn, New York.

David Korins

Scenic Design

Broadway: Here Lies Love; Hamilton (Tony nomination); Beetlejuice (Tony nom); Dear Evan Hansen; Mrs. Doubtfire; War Paint (Tony nom); Bandstand; Misery; The Great Society; 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); 91st & 94th Academy Awards (Emmy noms); “Elton John: A Grammy Salute”; “Last Week Tonight” with John Oliver; “The Big Brunch”; Heisman Trophy Award ceremony. Creative Director: “Immersive Van Gogh”; “Disney Animation Immersive Experience”; “Hamilton: The Exhibition”; DiscOasis NYC; the Shoah Foundation; numerous collaborations with Sotheby’s and TED. He has collaborated with David Blaine, Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars, Mariah Carey, and Andrea Bocelli. Extensive theater, hospitality, event, and experience design. Dad: Stella & Vivian.

Paul Tazewell

Costume Design

Received an Emmy Award for costume design of The Wiz! Live and a Tony Award for costume design of Hamilton. Film: West Side Story, directed by Steven Spielberg upcoming release (20th Century Studios); Hamilton (Disney+); Harriet (Focus Features); The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, starring Oprah Winfrey (Cine Mosaic/HBO). Broadway: In the Heights (Tony nomination); The Color Purple (Tony nomination); Memphis (Tony nomination); Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk (Tony nomination); Side Show; A Streetcar Named Desire (Tony nomination); Caroline, or Change; Elaine Stritch at Liberty; Doctor Zhivago. TV: Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert for NBC, starring John Legend.

Howell Binkley

Lighting Design

Broadway: Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations (2019 Tony nomination), Come From Away (2017 Tony nomination), Hamilton (Tony Winner), 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 (2008 Tony winner), Avenue Q, The Full Monty, Parade, Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993 Tony nomination/Olivier and Dora winner). Co-founder/resident lighting designer: Parsons Dance.

Charles G. LaPointe

Hair and Wig Design

Charles G. LaPointe is an award-winning Wig and Hair Designer. Theatre: Numerous Broadway; Touring; Regional Theatre; West End and International productions, including: Hamilton (Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylist Guild Award); Ain’tToo 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); Blue Bloods; American Crime; Maddoff; Hairspray.

Nevin Steinberg

Sound Design

Broadway: Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, 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 thirty 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.

Michael Keller and Michael Aarons

Music Coordinators

Broadway: & Juliet, Moulin Rouge!, Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, The Lion King, Wicked, The Book of Mormon. Upcoming Broadway: The 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

Randy Cohen 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.”

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: In a Little Room (Ten Bones), Sorin, Six Characters in Search of an Author (Notre Dame), Welcome to the Gun Show (ANTFest), Nothing Left to Burn (O’Neill Semi-Finalist, Ars Nova ANTFest).

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.

Hudson Theatrical Associates

Technical Supervision

Over 100 Broadway productions and tours. Recent: Mrs. Doubtfire, American Buffalo, The Minutes, Hangmen, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf, Girl From the North Country, American Utopia, Hadestown, Hamilton, Aladdin. HTA is a member of Neil A. Mazzella’s Hudson family, which includes Hudson Scenic Studio, Bridget Van Dyke, Sam Ellis, Sean Gorski, Brianne Tabak, and Irene Wang.

Ashley Brooke Monroe

Resident Director

Broadway: Indecent, The Glass Menagerie, Fun Home. Recent Directing: Death Cruise (Thicket & Thistle), Orlando (Fordham), Tommy’s Girls (Primary Stages), Julius Caesar (Classic Stage Company), The Goree All-Girl String Band (NYMF), In A Tilted Place (IRT), Fun Home (Cape Rep), Red Sky at Night, What We’ll Do, and Age of Extinction.

Stephanie Klemons

Associate & 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 national tours: Bombay Dreams, In the Heights, Bring It On. 

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 Theatre), 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.

Rod Harrelson

Dance Supervisor

Rod Harrelson is from Greensboro, NC. Attended UNC-Chapel Hill. Trained at Chapel Hill Ballet Conservatory, Steps on Broadway and Broadway Dance Center. Multiple Broadway, National Tour and Recording Artists to his credit. Dance Captain for Bring It On & Motown The Musical. Assistant Associate Choreographer for Motown the Musical 3rd National. Adjunct faculty for Theatre and Dance at Muhlenberg College. Love to God and Family!

Desmond Nunn

Dance Supervisor

Hamilton Deutschland (Assistant Choreographer), Hamilton Angelica Tour (Dance Captain/Swing, John Laurens/Philip Hamilton Cover, Dance Supervisor). Huge thanks to the HamFam past and present, and his family, whose love and support fuel him daily. Stream his debut single, “My Mind,” on Apple Music, Spotify, and Tidal.

J. Philip Bassett

Production Supervisor

Broadway: Hamilton, 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.

Maggie Brohn

Executive Producer

Eric H. Mayer

Production Stage Manager

Tours: Hello, Dolly!, Bat Out of Hell, Love Never Dies, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, Sister Act, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Off-Broadway: 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). Graduate of The Ohio State University. Love to Mom, Dad, Finn, and Emma.

Wendy Blackburn Eastland

Stage Manager

Regional: Sweat (People’s Light); A Doll’s House, Part 2; Every Brilliant Thing; Cabaret (Arden Theatre Company); Real Women Have Curves; Frankenstein; Hairspray; Bella: An American Tall Tale (Public Works Dallas, Dallas Theatre Center); Native Gardens (Trinity Rep). Thank you to family and friends for their unending support.

Abby L. Powers

Assistant Stage Manager

Touring credits: 42nd Street, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Fiddler on the Roof, Cats, West Side Story, Catch Me If You Can, Ghost, Annie, Joseph and the... Dreamcoat, Cheers, Cinderella, School of Rock and Summer: The Donna Summer Musical.

The Telsey Office
Bethany Knox, CSA

Casting

Broadway/tours: Beetlejuice; Be More Chill; Network; The Cher Show; The Prom; American Son; Pretty Woman; My Fair Lady; Mean Girls; Frozen; Anastasia; Come From Away; Waitress; Kinky Boots; Wicked; Hello, Dolly!; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; On Your Feet! Off-Broadway: Atlantic Theater Company, Classic Stage Company, MCC Theater, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Second Stage Theater. Film: Mary Poppins Returns, Ben Is Back, The Greatest Showman, Into the Woods, Rachel Getting Married. TV: “Rent: Live,” “Murphy Brown,” “This Is Us,” “House of Cards,” “NCIS: New Orleans,” “One Day at a Time.”

John Gilmour, Gabriella Godinez

Marketing and Communications

The Press Room

Press Representative

Broadway: Hamilton, The Book of Mormon, and this season’s Prima Facie starring Jodie Comer. Off-Broadway: Everything’s Fine, Hyprov, Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish. Institutions: The Acting Company, Antonyo Awards, Barrington Stage Company, Drama Book Shop, Hunter Theater Project, National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, NY Classical Theatre, Ogunquit Playhouse, Out of the Box Theatrics, Paper Mill Playhouse, Rosie’s Theater Kids, Shakespeare’s Globe, Vineyard Theatre, Waterwell, The Wooster Group. Upcoming: Born for This, Grace, Invincible, Personality, Sidney, A Wonderful World, Working Girl The Musical.

Laura Matalon

Marketing and Communications

Jason Pelusio

Company Manager

Broadway & other 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, Michael Jackson ONE & R.U.N (Cirque du Soleil). Love to PJ/G/G and “ohana” (old and new) everywhere.

Tina Kailiponi

Associate Company Manager

Hailing from Maui, Hawaii, Tina is delighted and honored to be a part of this Hamilton Tour. As a Maui regional theater Production Stage Manager since 1994, some of her favorite productions include Les Misérables, Jekyll & Hyde, Macbeth, Man of La Mancha, Fiddler on the Roof, and Next to Normal for Maui Academy of Performing Arts (MAPA). She is also the former Director of Youth Education for Maui OnStage at the Historic Iao Theatre. “Being able to represent Maui in such a fun and creative way means the world to me.”

The Booking Group

Tour Booking Agency

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; The Great Comet; The Last Ship. Off-Broadway: Audible Theatre at Minetta Lane, The Enigmatist. 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. 

Andy Morgan

Social Responsibility Consultant,
Social Impact Consults

Jeffrey Seller

Producer

Jeffrey Seller 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 revival of Sweeney Todd. He was executive producer of the NBC drama “Rise” (2018) and HBO’s “Coastal Elites” (2020). Jeffrey is a graduate of the University of Michigan.

Sander Jacobs

Producer

Received the Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Musical for the Pulitzer Prize–winning Hamilton, 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, such as Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Grand Hotel, Follies, West Side Story, Bengal Tiger, and The Last Ship.

Jill Furman

Producer

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.