Passing Strange - Broadway Creative Team

Stew is a critically acclaimed (i.e., "broke") singer songwriter currently looking for an affordable two-bedroom place in the Bay Area. He is the founder and leader of THE NEGRO PROBLEM (TNP), a cheerful pop rock combo of note from Los Angeles, the future cultural capital of the world... [insert loud coughing sound] ... read more ... read more Four-time Tony winner Kevin Adams has designed SpongeBob SquarePants (Tony nom.), Head Over Heels, Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Tony and Outer Critics Award), American Idiot (Tony Award), Spring Awakening (Tony Award; Olivier nom for the West End production), Next To Normal (Tony nom), The 39 Steps (Tony and Drama Desk Awards), Hair (Tony nom), Man And Boy, Everyday Rapture, Passing Strange, Take Me Out, A Class Act, Hedda Gabler with Kate Burton, solo shows by Eve Ensler and John Leguizamo. Off-Broadway he has worked on the original production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Scottsboro Boys, Rent, Carrie, new ... read more STEVEN BARGONETTI: (Guitarist/Composer) Steven is a graduate of Columbia University. Most recently was onstage performer/Music Director/Arranger for the critically acclaimed play, Father Comes Home From The Wars by Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks. He recently played guitar/guitar synthesizer for the Broadway show Holler if Ya Hear Me featuring the music of Tupac Shakur. As lead guitarist for HAIR on Broadway, Steven was featured playing the Jimi Hendrix archetype. He is also an alumnus of numerous other Broadway shows, including The Color Purple, Caroline or Change, The Full Monty, Starlight Express, Hello Dolly, etc. Steven can be ... read more Jed Bernstein is a prominent figure in the entertainment industry, having worked in various roles on Broadway, in film, and in television. Born in New York City in 1956, Bernstein attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with a degree in English literature. He began his career in the theater industry as a press agent, working for the Shubert Organization and the National Theatre of the Deaf. In 1989, Bernstein co-founded the Broadway advertising agency Premier. The agency quickly became one of the most successful in the industry, working on campaigns for hit shows such as The Phantom of the Opera ... read more Jay Binder has cast over 70 Broadway productions, including the Tony Award winning productions of The Lion King, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, Dames At Sea, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Gypsy, The King and I, Lost in Yonkers and Jerome Robbins’ Broadway. In addition, he was fortunate enough to cast every Neil Simon play from 1990 through 2009. Mr. Binder was one of the founders and continues to be a driving force behind the highly-acclaimed Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert series at City Center in New York City. His work casting this series led ... read more Broadway: Be More Chill (Lyceum Theater). Off-Broadway: Be More Chill (Signature and Two River Theaters), The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (Theaterworks USA/National Tour), Buyer & Cellar (Rattlestick and Barrow Street Theaters/National Tour/London’s Menier Chocolate Factory), The Mad Ones (Prospect Theater), Ultimate Beauty Bible (Page 73), Wringer (NYCCT), Carnival Kids (Lesser America), The Correspondent (Rattlestick), After (Partial Comfort), The Material World(Dixon Place), Be A Good Little Widow (Ars Nova), and The Tenant (Woodshed Collective). Regional: Significant Other (Geffen Playhouse), I Now Pronounce (Humana Festival), Le Switch (About Face), The Great Pretender (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley). Upcoming: Fall Springs at Barrington ... read more Ruth's Broadway credits include: In The Heights; Passing Strange; Legally Blonde; Kiki & Herb Alive on Broadway; High Fidelity; The Lieutenant of Inishmore; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Caroline, Or Change; A Raisin in the Sun; Golda's Balcony; Frozen; ‘Night Mother; Steel Magnolias; Barefoot in the Park; Metamorphoses. Off-Broadway: Altar Boyz; Our Lady of 121st Street; The Exonerated; Red Light Winter; tick tick…Boom!. Los Angeles: As Much As You Can. Ruth is on the boards of the LAByrith Theater, The Play Company and the Yale School of Drama Leadership Committee; She is vice-chair, and Stephen is Treasurer of the ... read more Elie Hirschfeld is a Tony Award voting member of The Broadway League. He has produced and co-produced numerous Broadway shows, including Equus, Passing Strange, and Oleanna ... read more Producer. ... read more Associate Producer at Joey Parnes Productions. Broadway: Associate Producer on HAIR, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Lombardi, The Merchant of Venice. With Elizabeth I. McCann & Joey Parnes: The Play About the Baby, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia, Tuesdays with Morrie, Beckett/Albee, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Well, Butley, Passing Strange, Equus. Tony Award Productions from 2001 - 2008; served as Associate Producer in 2007 & 2008. Concerts: Working at The Zipper Theatre; Rated RSO at Joe's Pub; NewMusicalTheatre.com Launch Concert at Le Poisson Rouge, NewMusicalTheatre.com Live at The Canal Room, Morgan Karr at Joe's Pub, Drew Gasparini & Friends at Joe's ... read more As a theatre producer, Kenwright is best known for the long-running West End hit Blood Brothers and the record-breaking UK tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Other productions have included West End runs of Whistle Down the Wind at the Palace Theatre, Festen in London, on a UK tour and on Broadway, The Big Life, Elmina's Kitchen, Scrooge – The Musical, The Night of the Iguana, A Few Good Men, A Man For All Seasons alongside UK tours of Jesus Christ Superstar, Tommy, Tell Me on a Sunday and This is Elvis. He produced the London revival of ... read more Broadway: Mrs. Doubtfire, Beetlejuice (Tony nom, Drama Desk award), Hamilton (Tony nom), War Paint (Tony nom), Dear Evan Hansen, Bandstand, Misery, Motown, Vanya and Sonia, Bring It On, The Pee-Wee Herman Show, Lombardi, and Passing Strange. TV: "91st Annual Academy Awards," "Grease: Live!" (Emmy award). Concert: Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Mariah Carey, Andrea Boccelli. Extensive Off-Broadway/regional theatre, hospitality, and experience design. Dad: Stella and Vivian. ... read more Credits: Evita; Sugar Babies; Me and My Girl; The Goat (Tony Award); Movin’ Out (Tony Award); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Cyrano; Dirty Dancing; West Side Story; 9 to 5; The Addams Family; Merchant of Venice; Race; Promises, Promises; Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark; Priscilla Queen of the Desert; and Hello, Dolly! (Tony Award). ... read more Chase Mishkin produced several Broadway productions including Doctor Zhivago, Hands on a Hardbody, Equss, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and many more. ... read more Broadway: Passing Strange. Off-Broadway: The Rover (NY Classical Theatre); #9 (59E59); Marat/Sade (Classical Theatre of Harlem). Regional: The Wiz (Dallas Theatre Center); Train to 2010 (Crossroads Theatre); Three Sisters, The Difficulty of Crossing a Field (A.C.T.); A Winter’s Tale, All’s Well That Ends Well (California Shakespeare Theatre). Film: Bee Season, I Am Ben. M.F.A., American Conservatory Theater. ... read more