Production Staff
William Shakespeare
Playwright
Todd Almond
Music and Lyrics
Writer and performer: Public Works’ The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, The Odyssey; Kansas City Choir Boy (PROTOTYPE, A.R.T., CTG); Stage Kiss (Playwrights Horizons). Original music: Melancholy Play (13P), Iowa (Playwrights Horizons), On the Levee (LCT3); book/concept: Girlfriend (Berkeley, ATL, CTG). Regional: Hedwig…, I Am My Own Wife, A Number. TV: “Live from Lincoln Center” with Andrew Rannells, “Law & Order: SVU.” ... read more
Chase Brock
Choreographer
Called "prolific" in both The New Yorker and The New York Times, Brock is a 34-year old choreographer working in concert dance, theater, ballet, opera, television and video games. In addition to 30 dances for The Chase Brock Experience, Brock's choreography includes Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and Picnic; the stage adaptation of Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame currently playing in long-running German and Japanese productions; The Blue Flower (Second Stage, Lortel nomination for Outstanding Choreography), Tamar of the River (Callaway Award finalist for Choreography) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare in the Park); "Last Week Tonight with ... read more
Lear deBessonet
Conceiver and Director
Lear deBessonet is the Founder of Public Works and Resident Director at the Public Theater. For Public Works, she has directed pageant-style musical adaptations of The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, and The Odyssey at the Delacorte, each featuring two-hundred New Yorkers from all five boroughs.
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