Benny & Joon - San Diego, CA (Regional) Creative Team

Production Staff

Kai Harada Sound Designer
Broadway: Amelie; Sunday in the Park With George; Allegiance; Gigi; Fun Home; On the Town; First Date; Follies (Tony Award & Drama Desk Nominations); and Million Dollar Quartet. Other: A Legendary Romance; Poster Boy (Williamstown); Beaches (Drury Lane); Brooklynite (Vineyard); Little Dancer and First You Dream (Kennedy Center); Zorro (Moscow; Atlanta); Hinterm Horizont (Berlin); Sweeney Todd and Man of La Mancha (Portland Opera); and She Loves Me (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). Audio Consultant for the revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Education: Yale University. ... read more
R. Lee Kennedy Lighter Designer
Lee has designed lighting for live performance for over thirty years. As a long-time associate of New York City-based Transport Group, he has designed twenty-three of their off-Broadway productions, receiving Drama Desk Award nominations for his work on See Rock City & Other Destinations, Bury the Dead, and The Audience; and Henry Hewes Design Award nominations for Summer and Smoke, I Remember Mama, and Queen of the Mist. Lee also designed the off-Broadway premiere of Terrence McNally’s And Away We Go for The Pearl, the world premiere musical Benny & Joon for The Old Globe, and The Light in the ... read more
Dane Laffrey Scenic Designer
Costume Designer
Broadway: set and costumes for Deaf West's Spring Awakening, set for Fool For Love. Recent off-Broadway: set and/or costumes for Rancho Viejo, Indian Summer, The Christians, Iowa (Playwrights Horizons), Sell.Buy.Date (Manhattan Theatre Club), Homos, or Everyone in America (Labyrinth), The Harvest, (Lincoln Center), The Glory of the World (B.A.M. Harvey), Cloud 9 (Atlantic) and other work at Roundabout, Second Stage, Vineyard Theatre, Lincoln Center Theatre, MCC, SoHo Rep, Rattlestick, Transport Group and many others. Regional work at The Humana Festival, Mark Taper Forum, Shakespeare Theatre, The Old Globe, Huntington Theatre Company, The Wallis Annenberg Center, Denver Center, Goodspeed, Woolly Mammoth, ... read more
J. Oconer Navarro Music Director
J. Oconer Navarro is an award-winning writer, music director, arranger, pianist, and vocal coach based in NYC. J. is a recipient of the American Theatre Wing Jonathan Larson Grant, an alumnus of the Composer-Librettist Studio at New Dramatists, and is widely recognized for his work in Music Direction. Off-Broadway: FIRST DAUGHTER SUITE (The Public Theater; Cast Album: Ghostlight/Sh-K-Boom Records), ?iOW@? (Playwrights Horizons), ADDING MACHINE (Minetta Lane Theatre; Lortel, Obie, and Outer Critics Circle Awards; Cast Album: PS Classics), SUMMER AND SMOKE (Transport Group/Classic Stage Company), WE THE PEOPLE (Theatreworks USA; Lortel Nomination), WHIDA PERU: ... read more
Anjee Nero Production Stage Manager
Scott Rink Choreographer
Amanda Salmons Stage Manager
Michael Starobin Orchestrations

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