Production Staff
Elizabeth Swados
Adaptation
Composer
Barbara Carroll
Executive Assistant
Bill Castellino
Choreographer
Choreographer
(Musical Staging)
(Musical Staging)
Jason Steven Cohen
Associate Producer
Judy Dearing
Costume Designer
Michael E. Downs
Scenic Designer
Beverly Emmons
Lighting Designer
Broadway credits include Annie Get Your Gun, Jekyll & Hyde, The Heiress, Stephen Sondheim’s Passion and The Elephant Man. Her lighting of Amadeus won a Tony award. Regionals include JF Kennedy Center, the Guthrie, Arena Stage, the Alley. Off B’way she worked for Joseph Chaikin and Meredith Monk. For Robert Wilson; Einstein on the Beach and others. Her designs for dance: Martha Graham, Trisha Brown, Alvin Ailey, Merce Cunningham. Awards: seven Tony nominations, several American Theatre Wings, 1980 Obie and others. ... read more
Mervyn Haines Jr.
Technical Director
Richard Kornberg
Press Representative
Bob MacDonald
General Manager
Andrew Mihok
Production Manager
Paul O'Keefe
Musician
Joseph Papp
Producer
Joseph Papp was an American theatrical producer and director. He established The Public Theater in what had been the Astor Library Building in Lower Manhattan. There Papp created a year-round producing home to focus on new plays and musicals. ... read more
Michael Sottile
Musical Director
Musician
Elizabeth Swados
Director
Elizabeth Swados was a multi-talented artist who made a significant impact on the world of theater. Born in Buffalo, New York in 1951, Swados began her career in the arts at a young age. She attended Bennington College in Vermont, where she studied music and theater, and later went on to receive a Master of Fine Arts degree from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
Swados made her Broadway debut as a composer and lyricist for the musical "Runaways" in 1978. The show was a critical and commercial success, earning Swados a Tony nomination for Best Score. "Runaways" explored ... read more
The Public Theater
Producer
THE PUBLIC is theater of, by, and for all people. Artist-driven, radically inclusive, and fundamentally democratic, The Public continues the work of its visionary founder Joe Papp as a civic institution engaging, both on-stage and off, with some of the most important ideas and social issues of today. Conceived over 60 years ago as one of the nation's first nonprofit theaters, The Public has long operated on the principles that theater is an essential cultural force and that art and culture belong to everyone. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Patrick Willingham, The Public's wide ... read more
Rosemarie Tichler
Casting
Videos
