Production Staff
Johnny Cash
Source Material
(based on music)
Johnny Cash was an American singer, songwriter, musician, actor, and author. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 90 million records worldwide. His genre-spanning songs and sound embraced country, rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, folk, and gospel. This crossover appeal won Cash the rare honor of being inducted into the Country Music, Rock and Roll, and Gospel Music Halls of Fame. ... read more (based on music)
William Meade
Conceiver
Ken Billington
Lighting Designer
Ken Billington is a highly acclaimed lighting designer with over 50 years of experience in the theatre industry. Born in 1944 in Long Island, New York, Billington attended Hofstra University where he studied theatre and lighting design. After graduating, he began his career as a lighting designer in the Off-Broadway scene in the 1960s, eventually making his way to Broadway.
Billington has designed the lighting for over 100 Broadway productions, including the original productions of Sweeney Todd, Chicago, and The Drowsy Chaperone. He has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design 21 times, winning three times for his ... read more
Carl Casella
Sound Designer
Michael Clark
Projection Designer
Designs film and video for live events. Credits include Ring of Fire (Studio Arena Theater); 700 Sundays (Broadway and La Jolla); Dracula, The Musical (Broadway and La Jolla); The Elephant Man (Broadway); Manon Lescaut (Washington Opera); Allegro; One Red Flower and Hedwig (Signature Theater); Last Five Years (Philadelphia Theater Company) Company; Sunday in the Park With George and Merrily We Roll Along (Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration), Spider-Man Live (national tour), Music From a Sparkling Planet (Drama Dept), Aeros (national tour) and Dinner with Friends (ACT). ... read more
Peter Fitzgerald
Sound Designer
Credits: Your Welcome America, Movin' Out, Ring of Fire, Evil Dead the Musical, La Cage Aux Folles, Victor/Victoria, City of Angels, Gypsy, Falsettos, The Capeman, The Will Rogers Follies, M. Butterfly, Swing, Minnelli on Minnelli with Liza, Dream, Threepenny Opera with Sting, and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The Odd Couple, M. Butterfly, Stones in His Pockets, The Beauty Queen of Leenane and A Thousand Clowns. Fitzgerald is president of Sound Associates, Inc. a premier provider of sound and video systems to the theater. ... read more
Jeff Lisenby
Musical Director
Richard Maltby, Jr.
Director
BROADWAY: Conceived and directed two Tony Award winning musicals: AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' (1978: Tony, N.Y. Drama Critics, Outer Critics, Drama Desk Awards — also Tony Award for Best Director); FOSSE (1999: Tony, Outer Critics, Drama Desk Awards); as well as RING OF FIRE, (2006). With composer David Shire: director/lyricist: BABY (1983, seven Tony nominations); lyricist: BIG (1996, Tony nomination: Best Score). With Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg, co-lyricist: MISS SAIGON (Evening Standard Award, London 1990; Tony nomination: Best Score, 1991); co-lyricist: THE PIRATE QUEEN (2007). Director: THE STORY OF MY LIFE (2009). Director/co-lyricist: Andrew Lloyd Webber's SONG & DANCE (1986 Tony ... read more
Neil Patel
Scenic Designer
Recent Designs include Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) (Royal Court London), Mughal-e-Azam (NCPA Mumbai), Born for This (The Broad Stage, L.A.), The Crucible (Glimmerglass Festival), Indian Ink (Roundabout), Mr Burns, a post-electric play and Stage Kiss (Playwrights Horizons) and Norma (L.A. Opera). TV/film production design for "The Path" (Hulu), "In Treatment" (HBO), "Little Boxes" (Netflix), Some Velvet Morning (Tribeca Films). Exhibition designs for Space, Force, Construction; VAC Foundation, Venice. ... read more
Lisa Shriver
Choreographer
Broadway: Jesus Christ Superstar, The Farnsworth Invention, Ring of Fire, The Story of My Life. Additional: Take Flight, Fetch Clay, Make Man, (The McCarter) Yellow Face (The Public), Where's Charley? (Goodspeed), Stephen Sondheim's 75th Birthday Celebration, Stratford Festival: Jesus Christ Superstar, Caesar and Cleopatra, Mackers, The Tempest, Grapes of Wrath. Phish's NYE Concert at MSG (2010 & 2011).
Director/Choreographer of Motherhood: The Musical (Nationwide), An Evening of Guys and Dollsi w/Tony Bennett, Marisa Tomei, Vanessa Williams. Selected Film: A Christmas Carol (w/Jim Carrey), A Beautiful Mind, Hysterical Blindness.
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Studio Arena Theatre
Producer
David Woolard
Costume Designer
Videos
