CAST
WHO’S WHO
SIMON RUSSELL BEALE’s (Henry Lehman) theatre career began with plays at the Traverse and Lyceum in Edinburgh. His first London appearance was in William Gaskill’s Royal Court production of Women Beware Women. For the National Theatre: The Lehman Trilogy (also Park Avenue Armory, New York and West End), King Lear, 50 Years on Stage, Timon of Athens, Collaborators, London Assurance, Major Barbara, Landscape and A Slight Ache, Much Ado About Nothing, The Alchemist, The Life of Galileo, Jumpers (also West End and New York), Humble Boy (also West End), the title role in Hamlet, Battle Royal, Candide, Summerfolk, Money, Othello, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and Volpone. For the RSC: The Tempest, King Lear, Ghosts, the title roles in Richard III and Edward II, The Seagull, Troilus and Cressida, The Man of Mode, and Restoration. Other theatre includes The Hothouse at Trafalgar Studios; Bluebird for Atlantic Theatre Company, New York; Privates on Parade and Death Trap at the Noël Coward; The Winter’s Tale and The Cherry Orchard at the Old Vic, in New York and on an international tour; Monty Python’s Spamalot on Broadway and in the West End; for the Donmar: The Philanthropist, Uncle Vanya, Twelfth Night, and Temple; Julius Caesar at the Barbican and on international tour; RichardII and Macbeth at the Almeida; and The Duchess of Mal at Greenwich and Wyndham’s. Dance includes Alice’sAdventuresin Wonderland for the Royal Ballet. Television includes Vanity Fair, Legacy, Parkinson: Masterclass, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Spooks, John Adams, Dunkirk, The Young Visiters, Great Historians: Gibbon, A Dance to the Music of Time, Persuasion, and The Mushroom Pickers. Film includes The Death of Stalin, My Week with Marilyn, The Deep Blue Sea, The Gathering, Alice in Wonderland, An Ideal Husband, The Temptation of Franz Schubert, and Hamlet. He has narrated several books and voiced three roles for the Shakespeare CD Series. Narrations for television include presenting Sacred Victoria, Symphony, and Sacred Music. Concerts include First Night of the Proms, Stravinsky Promenade and Sondheim Birthday Promenade. Simon Russell Beale is an associate artist of the RSC. In 2019 he was awarded a Knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for his services to the Arts.
ADAM GODLEY’s (Mayer Lehman) work in theatre includes The Lehman Trilogy (also Park Avenue Armory, New York and West End), From Morning to Midnight, Paul, Two Thousand Years, The Pillowman, Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick (Olivier nomination), Mr. A’s Amazing Maze Plays, Watch on the Rhine, and Close of Play at the National; The White Devil, Three Hours After Marriage, and The General from America for the RSC; Anything Goes (Tony and Drama Desk nominations and Outer Critics’ Circle Award-winner) at the Stephen Sondheim, New York; Mouth to Mouth (Olivier nomination) and Mr. Kolpert at the Royal Court; The Critic at the Royal Exchange; The Importance of Being Earnest and The Rivals (also West End) at Chichester; The Front Page and Cabaret at the Donmar; A Going Concern and June Moon (also West End) at Hampstead; Private Lives in the West End and on Broadway (Theatre World Award); and Rain Man (Olivier nomination), The Revengers’ Comedies, and An Inspector Calls in the West End. Television includes The Great, The Umbrella Academy, Lodge 49, The Blacklist, Powers, Homeland, Manhattan, Fallet, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Suits, A Young Doctor’s Notebook, Case Histories, The Special Relationship, Suburgatory, The Spies of Warsaw, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Dollhouse, Nuremberg, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Young Visiters, The Good Wife, Harry’s Law, Merlin, Miss Marple, In the Dark, Cor, Blimey!, Hawking, and Moonfleet. Film includes The Theory of Everything, The BFG, Battleship, Elizabeth – The Golden Age, Love Actually, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The X-Files, I Want to Believe, Son of Rambow, Thunderpants, Nanny McPhee, WildeSalomé, AndNowLadiesandGentlemen, and Around the World in 80 Days. For Samuel Jack Godley.
HOWARD W. OVERSHOWN (Emanuel Lehman) is thrilled to return to the Ahmanson, having played Louis in Ivo Van Hove’s A View From the Bridge in 2016. Of Mr. Overshown’s most recent stage appearance, as Prospero in Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s production of The Tempest, the New York Times said, “In Overshown’s finely understated interpretation, Prospero’s evolution is starkly clear...and we feel him, very subtly, let go of his vengefulness.” NY theatre credits include: BLUE with Phylicia Rashad, Beauty on the Vine with Olivia Wilde, A Soldier’s Play, with Blair Underwood and David Allen Grier, directed by Kenny Leon; Saint Joan with Condola Rashad and Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington, both directed by Daniel Sullivan; Richard III, directed by Sam Mendes; YellowMan; Orlando; The Underlying Chris; and Passage. You can see Howard in the first season of Girls5Eva and the upcoming season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Other TV credits: Blue Bloods, The Affair, Law and Order, Madam Secretary, Fosse/Verdon, and Kings.” Films: Pride and Glory, Body of Lies, 13, Never Here, Grand Street, and Lost Cat Corona. 2018 Ten Chimneys Fellow.
TONY CARLIN (Standby Henry Lehman). Thrilled to be at the Ahmanson continuing the journey with this great play. Broadway: Thirty Broadway shows including: The Lehman Trilogy, Bernhardt/Hamlet, Junk (by Ayad Akhtar), Six Degrees of Separation (with Allison Janney), Fish in the Dark (with Jason Alexander), All the Way, Time Stands Still, The Best Man, Spring Awakening, Mary Stuart, Lend Me a Tenor (directed by Stanley Tucci), Good People, Pygmalion, Copenhagen, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, and Mamma Mia! (Original Broadway company). Off-Broadway: Stuff Happens, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Once in a Lifetime, and The Clitorish. TV: Blacklist, Madame Secretary, Blue Bloods, Royal Pains, Star Trek Voyager, Seinfeld (Finale), and others. Film: Bourne Legacy, The Nutty Professor, True Colors, and Crazy People. Happily married for 23 years to actress Susan Knight; together raised two wonderful people, Connor and Grace, with whom they perform their evening of scenes and songs called Family Matters.
R.J. FOSTER (Standby Emanuel Lehman). Broadway: The Lehman Trilogy. Additional theatre credits: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Folger Theatre, Classic Stage Company, Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Billie Holiday Theatre, Classical Theatre of Harlem, among others. TV: Bull, The Good Fight, Power, Homeland, and Blacklist.
AARON KROHN (Janitor; Standby Mayer Lehman). Broadway: The Lehman Trilogy, The Height of the Storm, Summer, Cabaret, Macbeth, The Farnsworth Invention, The Coast of Utopia, Julius Caesar, Henry IV, and The Invention of Love. Stratford Shakespeare Festival: The Homecoming, Twelfth Night, and Henry in Henry V. Sam Mendes’s Bridge Project: As You Like It, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, and The Cherry Orchard. Off-Broadway: Coriolanus (Red Bull); Clive (the New Group); The Glass Cage, and Echoes of the War (Mint theater). Regional: La Jolla Playhouse, Folger Shakespeare Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, Hartford Stage, TUTS, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, The Old Globe, and the Alley Theatre. Film and Television: Fosse/Verdon, I Love You But I Lied; Boardwalk Empire; Law & Order: SVU; and Welcome to New York. Teaching Artist for New York’s “Epic Theatre Ensemble” 2001 to present. M.F.A. from The Old Globe Theatre. Check out his band “Notes From Underground” wherever you listen to music.
STEFANO MASSINI (Playwright) is an internationally renowned novelist and playwright who also regularly contributes to Italian newspaper La Repubblica. His work, including The Lehman Trilogy, has been translated into 27 languages and his plays have been performed in more theatres around the world than any other living Italian writer, staged by such directors as Luca Ronconi, Lluìs Pasqual, Declan Donnellan and Sam Mendes. He has won multiple awards, among them the Vittorio Tondelli Prize and the Ubu award, in Italy. Qualcosa sui Lehman (The Lehman Trilogy) has been among the most acclaimed novels published in Italy in recent years and won the Premio Selezione Campiello, the Premio Super Mondello, the Premio De Sica, the Prix Médicis Essai and the Prix Meilleur Livre Stranger.
BEN POWER (Adaptor) is a writer for theatre and the screen. For the last 12 years he has worked at the National Theatre as associate director and deputy artistic director and was responsible for the temporary theatre The Shed. Work for the screen includes Munich: The Edge of War and The Hollow Crown (BAFTA nominations for Best Single Drama and Best Mini-Series). Work for the stage includes adaptations of DH Lawrence’s Husbands & Sons, Euripides’ Medea and Ibsen’s Emperor & Galilean, all for the National; A Tender Thing for the RSC and Complicite’s A Disappearing Number (Olivier and Evening Standard Awards). He was associate director of Headlong where he adapted Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author and Marlowe’s Faustus. He is currently creating a television series for Working Title and is published by Faber & Faber.
SAM MENDES (Director) founded and ran the Donmar Warehouse in London for ten years. He was the founding director of Neal Street Productions and The Bridge Project. His work has been seen at the National Theatre, RSC, Royal Court, The Old Vic, Young Vic, BAM, the West End and on Broadway. Films include American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Jarhead, Revolutionary Road, Away We Go, Skyfall, Spectre and 1917. Awards include the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture and three other Academy Award nominations, five BAFTA Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, two Tony Awards, five Olivier Awards, the Olivier Special Award, three Evening Standard Awards, two Directors Guild of America Awards, the PGA award, the Jason Robards Award and the Shakespeare Prize. He has also won the Director’s Guild Award for lifetime achievement. He is an honorary fellow of the National Film and Television School, and a fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. He was made a CBE in 2000, and knighted in 2020 for services to drama.
ES DEVLIN (Scenic Design). Artist and designer Es Devlin is known for creating large-scale sculptures and performance spaces that combine light, music and language, including Memory Palace which mapped shifts in human perspective over 73 millennia, Forest of Us which forms part of the inaugural exhibition at Superblue Miami alongside new works by TeamLab and James Turrell. Devlin has conceived stage sculptures with Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, The Weeknd, Adele, Travis Scott and Kanye West as well as Olympic Ceremonies in London and Rio, runway shows with Louis Vuitton and Dior and two decades of opera, drama and dance worldwide. Her practice has been documented in the Masterclass and Netflix Abstract series. She has designed the U.K. pavilion at the World Expo Dubai and is the recipient of three Olivier Awards, the London Design Medal, Wall Street Journal Innovation Award, two university fellowships and an OBE.
KATRINA LINDSAY (Costume Design) is a set and costume designer working in theatre, opera, dance and film. Broadway costume designs: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (2018 Tony Award, 2017 Olivier Award), American Psycho (2016 Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nomination), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (2008 Tony Award, Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk Awards), Hamlet (with Benedict Cumberbatch). An associate of the National Theatre in London, Katrina’s recent set and costume designs: Three Sisters, Small Island and Mosquitos. Opera (costumes): Terry Gilliam’s Damnation of Faust, Benvenuto Cellini. Dance: (set and costume) The Most Incredible Thing, Javier de Frutos/Pet Shop Boy Ballet. Film: London Road.
LUKE HALLS (Video Design). Theatre: West Side Story; Ugly Lies the Bone (National Theatre); Girls & Boys, The Nether (Royal Court Theatre); Don Giovanni (Royal Opera House); Carmen (Bregenz Festival in Austria); Atlas (Los Angeles Philharmonic). Projections for Adele, Rihanna, Louis Vuitton, Take That, Pet Shop Boys, The Rolling Stones, Elton John, U2, Olympic Paralympic 2012 closing ceremonies and 2019 Pan American Games Opening Ceremony. Halls has received Knight of Illumination Awards in 2014, 2015 and 2016, and a BAFTA for The Cube.
JON CLARK (Lighting Design) is an award-winning designer. He has designed extensively for the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Donmar Warehouse, Almeida, Young Vic, West End and with many other companies in the UK and internationally. Recent designs for theatre: Betrayal (West End, Broadway); The Inheritance (Olivier Award, Tony nomination; West End, Broadway); Cyrano de Bergerac (West End); Evita (Regent’s Park); The Jungle (St. Ann’s Warehouse, West End); A German Life (Bridge Theatre); King Charles III (Broadway, West End). Recent opera design: The Exterminating Angel (Metropolitan Opera), Lucia di Lammermoor, Krol Roger, Written on Skin (Royal Opera House).
NICK POWELL (Composer and Sound Design). Theatre: The Ferryman (West End, Broadway); The Tell-Tale Heart, Othello (National Theatre); Julius Caesar (The Bridge Theatre); Lanark, Realism, The Wonderful World of Dissocia (Edinburgh International Festival); Wolf Hall: Parts 1 & 2 (West End, Broadway); A Life of Galileo, Richard III (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Wolves in the Walls (New Victory Theater). Film: 1917 (music consultant). Composer: Edinburgh International Festival’s 2017 opening and Guggenheim Bilbao’s 20th anniversary. Chamber piece Cold Calling performed by Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Nick’s solo album Walls Fall Down was released in 2021. Awards: Drama Desk (sound design), Premio Max (music composition), Tony and Olivier Award nominations. More information on Nick’s solo work is at nickpowell.online.
DOMINIC BILKEY (Co-Sound Design) is an Olivier-nominated sound designer and is currently head of sound and video at the National Theatre. He recently retired as chairperson of the Association of Sound Designers UK and was a recipient of the Technical Theatre Awards (TTA) for Outstanding Achievement in Sound. Bilkey is actively involved in teaching sound and associated technologies at a number of UK-based universities. Recent designs: Viral, Apollo 13 (original theatre online); Pippi Longstocking the Musical (Royal and Derngate); Death of a Salesman, Peter Pan, Jane Eyre (National Theatre); Shadowlands, Flarepath, Birdsong (Birdsong Productions).
CANDIDA CALDICOT (Music Director). Select credits include The Lehman Trilogy, King Lear, Queen Anne (West End); Hecuba, The Witch of Edmonton, The Heresy of Love, The Heart of Robin Hood (Royal Shakespeare Company). Other: Black Love (Paines Plough), The Wizard of Oz (musical supervisor, Leeds Playhouse), Peter Pan (Regent’s Park), Woyzeck (The Old Vic). She also works as a composer and orchestrator. Her musical The Little Prince is in development and the EP can be heard on Spotify and other streaming services.
REBEKAH BRUCE (Pianist) is a conductor, pianist, and vocal coach based in NYC. Before playing with The Lehman Trilogy in New York, she was Music Director of the First National Tour of Mean Girls. Most recently, she played keyboard in the Broadway revival of Company. Born and raised in Oklahoma, Ms. Bruce previously served on the music faculty at Oklahoma City University’s Bass School of Music, and as Vocal Director at Celebrity Cruises Entertainment. She can be seen performing and teaching across the country, and maintains a private voice studio in NYC, coaching primarily musical theatre and opera.
EM GOLDMAN (Pianist) is a collaborative pianist, composer, and writer. She has received fellowships and residencies from MacDowell, the Johnny Mercer Songwriting Project, and Goodspeed, and her work has been featured at Barrington Stage, the Aspen Music Festival, and many other venues. She’s been a guest artist/music director at the Juilliard School, Texas State University, and Ithaca College, and she works regularly as a musician on and Off-Broadway and regionally.
POLLY BENNETT (Movement) is a movement director and choreographer working across theatre, television and film. Recent credits: head of movement and choreography on Baz Luhrmann’s forthcoming untitled Elvis Presley film, No Time to Die, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Crown and The Great.
ZOÉ FORD BURNETT (Associate Director). Work as director and associate director includes productions at the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Donmar Warehouse, Shakespeare’s Globe, Arcola Theatre, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and Barbican. Credits as director include Machinal, Close Quarters, 1984, Octavia, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, Sonnets, Richard III, A Life in Theatre, Romeo and Juliet, Titus Andronicus, Blood Wedding, and School for Scandal.
RORY McGREGOR (Assistant Director). Broadway: Sea Wall/A Life, Ink, M. Butterfly. Off-Broadway: Sea Wall/A Life (The Public Theater), Underground (59E59 Theaters). Recent directing credits: Ransom (Arts on Site, upcoming), Interior by Nick Payne (59E59, world premiere), Vigil, Conway (Theaterlab), Macbeth (Connelly Theater), The Great Divide (Finborough Theatre). M.F.A.: Columbia University. rorydmcgregor.com
WENDY SPON CDG (Casting) is currently creative associate to Sheffield Theatres; previously head of casting at National Theatre. Directors worked with include Sam Mendes, Rufus Norris, Katie Mitchell, Carrie Cracknell, Nadia Fall, Dominic Cooke, Roger Michell, Richard Eyre, Jeremy Herrin, Simon Godwin, and Howard Davies.
JIM CARNAHAN CSA (Casting). The Lehman Trilogy was 151st Broadway show. His work on Broadway this season includes Moulin Rouge!; Caroline, or Change; Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; Funny Girl; Take Me Out; and Plaza Suite as well as Off-Broadway’s Little Shop of Horrors and Beautiful Noise in Boston; A Christmas Carol in Los Angeles; and A Christmas Carol, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and Swept Away in San Francisco. Film: Ari Aster’s Disappointment Blvd.
AURORA PRODUCTIONS (Production Management). The Book of Mormon; Beetlejuice; Birthday Candles; Company; Frozen (Australia, Germany, London, Japan, North American Tour) Hadestown (Tour); Macbeth; Mean Girls (Tour); Plaza Suite; The Music Man. Aurora has been providing technical supervision and production management to the entertainment industry since 1989.
JIM LEAVER (UK Production Manager). Production management internationally for over 20 years including King Lear, Follies, Othello (National Theatre), Macbeth, Tree of Codes, Yerma, The Lehman Trilogy (Manchester, London, Sydney, Paris, Park Avenue Armory). Currently: Hex (National Theatre), Four Quartets (West End), Hamlet and Oresteia (PAA), The Lehman Trilogy (Los Angeles).
DAVID LOBER (Production Stage Manager). Broadway: A Christmas Carol, Groundhog Day, Matilda, Saturday Night Fever. National tour and West Coast: Dear Evan Hansen; Wicked; Henry IV; The Lion King; Disney’s Beauty and the Beast; Million Dollar Quartet; Aida; Sunset Boulevard; Caroline, or Change; and TheLightinthePiazza. Love to Colleen and Phillip.
CYNTHIA CAHILL (Stage Manager). Broadway: Derren Brown: Secret (production stage manager); JUNK, Passing Strange (stage manager). Off-Broadway: Encores! (2018– 2020 and 2022 upcoming), Second Stage Theater, Atlantic Theater Company, Vineyard Theatre, The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons (production stage manager). National tours: London’s Globe Theatre, Kneehigh Theatre Company. Regional: 19 seasons at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, plus many others.
DANIELLE RANNO (Stage Manager). Over the last decade, Danielle has worked in theatre, opera, film, and dance. Her recent textbook, The Beginner’s Guide to Opera Stage Management is set to be published in March 2022 with Taylor & Francis Group. With gratitude to my family and Grandpa. 143!
MEGAN CURREN (Associate General Manager). Broadway: The Lehman Trilogy, To Kill a Mockingbird; Hello, Dolly!; Blackbird; King Charles III; Wolf Hall Parts 1 & 2; Waiting for Godot; No Man’s Land; The Book of Mormon; Shrek the Musical.
DEIRDRE MURPHY (Company Manager). Broadway: Rock of Ages, Doctor Zhivago, Allegiance, Cirque du Soleil’s Paramour, 1984, Farinelli and the King, The Ferryman, The Old Vic’s A Christmas Carol, and The Lehman Trilogy. Off-Broadway and Los Angeles: Heathers: The Musical.
PETER CHAPMAN Peter is author of The Last of the Imperious Rich: Lehman Brothers, 1844-2008, a leading reference on the history of the Lehman family.
NATIONAL THEATRE (Producer). Led by Rufus Norris and Lisa Burger in London. Current U.S. productions: The Lehman Trilogy and Hadestown. Their 2018 production of Angels in America set a record for the most Tony nominations for a play in Broadway history, winning the Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League and Outer Critic’s Circle awards for Best Revival. Other U.S. productions include Network; The Jungle; People, Places & Things; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; One Man, Two Guvnors; War Horse; The History Boys. Through work on its own stages, on tour, in schools, on cinema screens throughout the U.S. and streaming at home, the NT reaches millions of people worldwide every year through live and digital. nationaltheatre.org.uk
NEAL STREET PRODUCTIONS/CARO NEWLING (Producer). Founded in 2003, Neal Street produces film, television, and theatre under the leadership of Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Caro Newling and Nicolas Brown. Films: 1917, Away We Go, Revolutionary Road, Jarhead, Things We Lost in the Fire, Starter for Ten, Stuart a Life Backwards, Blood. TV production: Call the Midwife, Britannia, Penny Dreadful, Penny Dreadful City of Angels, Informer, The Hollow Crown. Broadway: The Ferryman, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Shrek the Musical, Red, Hamlet, Mary Stuart, The Vertical Hour. West End: premieres by David Hare, James Graham, Lucy Prebble, David Greig, David Lindsay- Abaire, Richard Greenberg, Samuel Adamson, Sean Foley; revivals Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park With George. Also, The Bridge Project presenting Shakespeare and Chekhov in 15 worldwide cities, made at BAM/The Old Vic from 2010 to 2012. Mendes and Newling established the Donmar Warehouse producing 70 productions from 1992-2002 including Broadway transfers of Cabaret, The Blue Room, The Real Thing, and Electra. Newling oversees Neal Street Theatre and was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2018 for Services to Drama. In 2015 Neal Street moved under the umbrella of parent company All3Media.
BARRY DILLER (Producer) is chairman and senior executive of IAC and Expedia. During his career at ABC, Paramount, and Fox he oversaw the creation of the ABC Movie of the Week, Saturday Night Fever, Taxi, Grease, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Cheers, Home Alone, and The Simpsons. Broadway credits include Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; West Side Story; To Kill a Mockingbird; The Iceman Cometh; Carousel; Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women; A Doll’s House, Part 2; The Humans; and Betrayal. Through his foundation he has supported projects for Roundabout Theatre Company, Signature Theatre, The Public Theater, and the Motion Picture & Television Fund, and created Little Island, a park and performance center in the Hudson River.
DAVID GEFFEN (Producer). Born in Brooklyn, Geffen began his illustrious career in the entertainment business in the mailroom of the William Morris Agency. From there he quickly rose through the ranks to become one of their most famous agents. He subsequently launched a series of very successful record labels, including Asylum Records, Geffen Records and DGC Records. Geffen’s labels have represented some of the world’s most renowned artists. His contributions to entertainment extend well beyond music and include groundbreaking works in film and theatre. He has brought audiences such acclaimed films as Personal Best, Little Shop of Horrors, Risky Business, and Interview With a Vampire, and theatrical productions include Cats, M. Butterfly, and Dreamgirls, which he brought to the big screen in 2006. In 2010, Geffen was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, receiving the Ahmet Ertegun Award. In 2011, the Grammy Salute to Industry Icons honored Geffen with the President’s Merit Award.
KASH BENNETT (Producer) is managing director of National Theatre Productions, responsible for delivering all live theatre performed outside of the NT. Current NTP shows also include The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and The Ocean at the End of the Lane.
LISA BURGER (Producer) joined the National Theatre in 2001 and has been leading the NT alongside Director Rufus Norris since 2015. Passionate about getting work from the NT to as wide an audience as possible, Lisa has been involved in the National’s transfers to the U.S. since War Horse in 2010 and her most recent producing credits include Angels in America; Network; People, Places & Things; and Hadestown. She is equally proud of launching National Theatre Live which broadcasts theatre into cinemas worldwide, the creation of the digital streaming platform NT at Home last year and the NT Collection making work available to schools and colleges internationally. Lisa is chair of the Lyric Hammersmith in West London.
AMBASSADOR THEATRE GROUP (Producer). Broadway productions include Plaza Suite; Caroline, or Change; David Byrne’s American Utopia; Harold Pinter’s Betrayal; Sea Wall/A Life; Burn This; Pretty Woman: The Musical; A Doll’s House, Part 2; Dear Evan Hansen; and Sunday in the Park With George.
STEPHANIE P. McCLELLAND (Producer). Founder of Green Curtain Productions (GCP), multi-award-winning producer (15 Tonys, 15 Drama Desks, 13 Drama Leagues, 12 Outer Critics Circles, one Olivier Award) with credits including more than 100 theatrical productions worldwide. Board memberships: The Juilliard School and American Associates of the National Theatre.
ANNAPURNA THEATRE (Producer). Live stage division of Annapurna. New York: David Byrne’s American Utopia (Special Tony Award), Fleabag (Lortel Award), Betrayal, Network, Company. West End: Fleabag, Nine Night, The Curious Incident…, The Lehman Trilogy, Home I’m Darling (Olivier Award), Ocean at the End of the Lane. Film: Beat the Devil by David Hare, starring Ralph Fiennes on Showtime/Sky Arts.
DELMAN WHITNEY (Producer). Scott Delman has been producing on Broadway for over a decade. He joined Lehman Brothers upon college graduation in 1982. Ken and Liz Whitney have been long time investors on Broadway, and Ken joined Blackstone shortly after its start in 1988.
CRAIG BALSAM/HENI KOENIGSBERG/JOHN YONOVER (Producer) are thrilled to be a part of bringing this monumental play to Broadway. Recent productions include Hadestown; Hangmen; Company; What the Constitution Means to Me; Network; The Band’s Visit; A Gentleman’s Guide…; Skylight; The Play That Goes Wrong; Hello, Dolly!; A View From the Bridge.
FIERY ANGEL/SETH A. GOLDSTEIN (Producer). Fiery Angel: As lead producers in London: Hairspray, TouchingtheVoid, The Son, Home, I’m Darling, The Night of the Iguana, Mary Stuart, Circus 1903, Long Day’s Journey Into Night (New York, Los Angeles). Seth A. Goldstein: Partner in Broadway startup Hugo Six. Television:The Moblees. Broadway: numerous including Hello, Dolly! (Tony Award). London: Shakespeare’s R&J.
STARRY NIGHT ENTERTAINMENT (Producer) is headed by Michael Shulman and Craig Saavedra. Credits and/or major investments include The Ferryman (Tony Award), Hamilton, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Cripple of Inishmaan, After Midnight, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Last Ship, The Elephant Man, Lucky Guy. West End: Red, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Photograph 51, Oslo. Television: Tibor to the Rescue. Film: Sherman’s Way
GAVIN KALIN PRODUCTIONS (Producer). Select Broadway credits: Betrayal; The Ferryman; Sea Wall/A Life; Caroline, or Change; Hadestown. Select West End credits: Cyrano, Betrayal, King Lear, Pinter at the Pinter, The Ferryman, Come From Away, The Lehman Trilogy. For more information gavinkalinproductions.com.
PAUL & SELINA BURDELL/BILL DAMASCHKE (Producer). Paul and Selina Burdell seek and support creative endeavors and are pleased to align with Neal Street Productions. The Lehman Trilogy West End and Broadway is their first chosen theatre production. Bill Damaschke: Broadway: Moulin Rouge!; The Prom, Shrek with the amazing Caro Newling; The Ferryman (Tony Award Best Play). Film: The Prom on Netflix by Ryan Murphy.
42ND.CLUB/PHIL & CLAIRE KENNY (Producer). 42nd.club is a Tony Award-winning network for Broadway producers and investors. Productions include Company (revival), Moulin Rouge!, Hadestown, Beetlejuice, and Waitress. Principals include Jim Kierstead, Tom McGrath, Bubba Samuels, and Winston Hatta. Phil and Claire Kenny are two-time Tony Award-winning producers.
CATWENJAM PRODUCTIONS (Producer). Catherine Adler: Five Tony Awards, Olivier Award. Currently: Tina—TheTina Turner Musical, Company. Wendy Federman: Ten Tony Awards, two Olivier Awards, Ellis Island Medal of Honor. Served: Kennedy Center’s NCPA. Jamie deRoy: Seven Tony Awards, 100-plus Broadway and Off-Broadway shows. Film: Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age.
AMANDA DUBOIS (Producer) has been an independent commercial producer since 2004. Broadway: Grace; Spring Awakening (Tony Award Best Musical, Drama Desk Award); ‘Night, Mother. Off-Broadway: Small Mouth Sounds, Shotspeare, Traces. National tours: Small Mouth Sounds, Shotspeare, Traces, Spring Awakening.
GLASS HALF FULL PRODUCTIONS (Producer) is a U.K.-based production company, co-founded and managed by Gareth Lake. GHF produces extensively all around the world, including the West End, Broadway and Australia. They are delighted to support this fabulous production and cheer the return of theatre after the pandemic. glasshalffullproductions.co.uk
DEDE HARRIS/LINDA B. RUBIN (Producer). Dede Harris has produced over 38 Broadway/Off-Broadway/West End productions, winning nine Tony Awards, most recently for Hadestown. Linda Bernstein Rubin: Hadestown (Tony Award), Network, Angels in America (Tony Award), Company. West End: Get Up Stand Up: The Bob Marley Musical.
KALLISH WEINSTEIN CREATIVE (Producer). Jan Kallish and Rachel Weinstein have decades of leadership experience at theatre companies in New York, Chicago, and London. Combined Broadway credits include The Ferryman (Tony Award), An American in Paris, Jagged Little Pill, Dear Evan Hansen, Disgraced, The Color Purple.
KORS LE PERE THEATRICALS LLC (Producer) was founded in 2015 by Michael Kors and Lance Le Pere. The Lehman Trilogy is their third production, following Network and wonder.land with National Theatre. New York residents, they are ardent supporters of the theatre.
JAMES L. NEDERLANDER (Producer). President of Nederlander Organization. Credits: Tina—The Tina Turner Musical, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jagged Little Pill, The Band’s Visit, On Your Feet!, Mean Girls, The Humans, My Fair Lady, The Elephant Man, Next to Normal, Movin’ Out, as well as many others.
NO GUARANTEES (Producer) is a theatrical production company founded by Christine Schwarzman, a recipient of the 2019 Tony Award for Best Musical (Hadestown), and a six-time Tony nominee. Producing credits include the New York premiere of Pulitzer Prize finalist Soft Power (The Public Theater).
MARK PIGOTT KBE, KStJ (Producer). Broadway: Angels in America (Tony Award, 2018), The Great Society (2019). A major benefactor of the National Theatre London, the Royal Shakespeare Company, BAFTA Los Angeles and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He appeared on stage at the National Theatre in wonder.land and War Horse, and attended Stanford University and the Neighborhood Playhouse. He established the Pigott/BAFTA scholarships for U.K. graduate film students in 2012.
PLAYING FIELD (Producer) is dedicated to accelerating the creation of world-class theatre. They are actively involved in seed funding and early-stage development, alongside late-stage investment and production of a wide variety of projects in London, nationally and internationally. playingfield.co.uk
CATHERINE SCHREIBER/ADAM ZELL (Producer). Catherine Schreiber: Tony/Olivier Award winner. Lead producer: Company; A Christmas Carol; Lion, Witch, Wardrobe (UK); The Play That Goes Wrong, The Scottsboro Boys (London). Broadway Global Producer 2017. @cschreiberbway. Producer/host @bwayandbeyondtv. Adam Zell: Tony Award-winning producer. Productions have garnered 40 Tony nominations and four wins. Recent: Ain’t Too Proud, Anastasia, Company, Indecent, The Inheritance, and Slave Play.
TULCHIN BARTNER PRODUCTIONS (Producer), a Tony- and Olivier Award winning production company, is thrilled for the return of live theatre. Broadway: Moulin Rouge!, Come From Away. West End: Leopoldstadt, Get Up Stand Up. Dedicated to the memory of Alice and Norman Tulchin.
RICHARD WINKLER/ALAN SHORR/DAWN SMALBERG (Producer). Broadway: ComeFromAway, Ain’tToo Proud, Diana, The Inheritance, Betrayal, Slave Play, Three Tall Women, Something Rotten, Sunday in the Park With George, Cinderella, Nice Work…, Catch Me…. West End: Leopoldstadt, Cinderella. Winkler’s Tony Awards: The Inheritance, The Ferryman, Vanya and Sonia…, Memphis, La Cage aux Folles, The Norman Conquests. Olivier Awards: Leopoldstadt; The Inheritance; Come From Away; Home, I’m Darling; Long Day’s Journey Into Night.
JOHN JOHNSON (Executive Producer). Seven-time Tony Award-winning producer who has worked on over 40 Broadway productions. Co-founder of WJP, a Broadway producing, management, and live events company that has produced the historic presentation of To Kill a Mockingbird at Madison Square Garden, Men In Blazers live podcast tour, TodayTix Presents at Tavern on the Green and The Midnight Theatre at Manhattan West. Graduate: Fordham University at Lincoln Center. @WJPLive
JILLIAN ROBBINS (Executive Producer). Broadway: The Lehman Trilogy, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, West Side Story, To Kill a Mockingbird, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, Hillary and Clinton, King Lear, The Waverly Gallery, Three Tall Women, Carousel, The Iceman Cometh, MeteorShower, and 1984. National tours: Hello, Dolly! and The Humans. Graduate: Brown University and Columbia Business School.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATES OF THE NATIONAL THEATRE (AANT) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that supports the work of the National Theatre in the United States and around the world. To find out more about AANT membership, upcoming events, and supporting the National Theatre in the U.S., please visit aarnt.org. Leopoldstadt, Cinderella. Winkler’s Tony Awards: The Inheritance, The Ferryman, Vanya and Sonia…, Memphis, La Cage aux Folles, The Norman Conquests. Olivier Awards: Leopoldstadt; The Inheritance; Come From Away; Home, I’m Darling; Long Day’s Journey Into Night.
THE SHUBERT ORGANIZATION (Producer). Under the leadership of Robert E. Wankel, chairman and CEO, The Shubert Organization owns and operates 17 Broadway and six Off-Broadway theatres. The company has produced and co-produced hundreds of plays and musicals, including the upcoming Some Like It Hot.
INDEPENDENT PRESENTERS NETWORK (Producer) is a consortium of 32 leading presenters of touring Broadway shows. Recent and upcoming Broadway: Company, Mrs. Doubtfire, Jagged Little Pill, Tina—The Tina Turner Musical, Moulin Rouge!, Tootsie, Oklahoma!, The Band’s Visit, and Dear Evan Hansen.
JOHN GORE ORGANIZATION (Producer). Family of companies includes Broadway Across America and Broadway.com, under the supervision of 14-time Tony-winning producer John Gore (chairman and CEO). Productions include Ain’t Too Proud, Company, Dear Evan Hansen, Girl From the North Country, Jagged Little Pill, Mean Girls, Moulin Rouge!, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Tina–The Tina Turner Musical.
SUE WAGNER (Executive Producer). Seven-time Tony Award- winning producer who has worked on over 40 Broadway productions including A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Passing Strange, The Humans, Three Tall Women and the box office shattering production of Hello, Dolly! Co-founder of WJP, a Broadway production, management, and live events company that produced the historic presentation of To Kill a Mockingbird at Madison Square Garden, TodayTix Presents at Tavern on the Green and is presenting at The Midnight Theatre at Manhattan West. @WJPLive.
CENTER THEATRE GROUP
MEGHAN PRESSMAN (Managing Director/CEO) joined Center Theatre Group in 2019. Previously, she served as Managing Director of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (D.C.), Director of Development for Signature Theatre (N.Y.), and Associate Managing Director of Berkeley Rep. She is a graduate of Yale School of Drama/Yale School of Management, and serves as a mentor in the Theater Management program. Meghan has served as the Vice-Chair for the Theatre Communications Group Board of Directors, and is a member of the Broadway League.
DOUGLAS C. BAKER (Producing Director) joined Center Theatre Group in 1990. Doug is an active member of the Broadway League, the Independent Presenters Network (IPN), and is a proud member of the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers (ATPAM). In 2013, Doug received the Broadway League’s prestigious Outstanding Achievement in Presenter Management Award.
GORDON DAVIDSON (Founding Artistic Director) led the Taper throughout its first 38 seasons, guiding over 300 productions to its stage and winning countless awards for himself and the theatre—including the Tony Award for theatrical excellence, Margo Jones Award, The Governor’s Award for the Arts, and a Guggenheim fellowship. The Kentucky Cycle and Angels in America (Part One) won the Pulitzer in consecutive years and, in 1994, three of the four plays nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play were from the Taper (Angels in America won). In 1989, Gordon took over the Ahmanson and, in 2004, he produced the inaugural season in the Kirk Douglas Theatre.
