The Wiz - St. Louis, MO (Regional) Creative Team

Production Staff

L. Frank Baum Source Material
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William F. Brown Bookwriter
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George Faison Composer
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Timothy Graphenreed Composer
(Additional)
Timothy Graphenreed, (8-26-1951 to 3-1-2020) Composer/Lyricist/Co-Author/Musical Director.Vocal Arranger/Orchestrator/Show Pianist, is best known for composing "The Tornado", "The Funky Monkey", and "Emerald City Ballet" in the Mega Broadway hit “The Wiz”. He is a member of ASCAP and worked with several multi-talented Directors/Choreographers including Michael Peters, Maurice Hines, Pat Birch, Hinton Battle, Lee Summers, Louis Johnson, Debbie Allen, Otis Sallid and of course, Tony Award-winning George Faison. He has also worked with or created arrangements for several Notables including the late Gregory Hines; Jennifer Holiday; Phylicia Rashad; Jeff Goldblum; Robert Downey, Jr.; Maya Angelou; Valerie Simpson; Darlene Love; ... read more
Charlie Smalls Composer
Lyricist
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Luther Vandross Composer
(Additional)
Darryl Archibald Music Director
DARRYL ARCHIBALD (Musical Director/Conductor): The Color Purple (Broadway tour of the 2015 revival ); Motown The Musical (Broadway and national tour); Wicked at the Pantages Theater (substitute conductor); Memphis Broadway tour; Dreamgirls national tour (associate conductor); Disney's The Lion King Broadway tour (vocal coach/assistant conductor); Dear World with Tyne Daly (VPAC); Jonathan Dove’s Innocence (Banff Centre and Manhattan Theatre Club); Two By Two with Jason Alexander, How To Succeed... with John O’Hurley, The Fantasticks with Eric McCormack, Once On This Island with Ledisi, Li'l Abner with Cathy Rigby and Fred Willard (Reprise); Great Expectations, My Fair Lady, 1776, Camelot, and ... read more
Camille A. Brown Choreographer
CAMILLE A. BROWN is a prolific Black female director / choreographer, who has received numerous honors including a Guggenheim Award, Bessie Award, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award, Doris Duke Artist Award, United States Artists Award, two Audelco Awards, five Princess Grace Awards, and a New York City Center Award. She has received a Tony nomination, three Drama Desk nominations, three Lortel nominations and an Obie award for her work in theater. She is an Emerson Collective fellow, a TED fellow and the recipient of a Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship. Brown is the 2021 Distinguished Artist, presented by The International ... read more
Rob Denton Lighting Design
Rob Denton is a lighting and video designer, specializing in theatre, opera, and dance with a passion for closely collaborating with media designers. He is a member of United Scenic ?Artists? , Local 829. Design credits include: The Mikado (Memphis Opera); Children of Eden (Kennedy Center); Die Fledermaus (Maryland Opera Studio) Rumpelstiltskin (Imagination Stage); Nunsense, Mary Poppins, and West Side Story and projections for Les Misérables (The Muny); You Are Dead, You Are Here (HERE Art Center, NYC); Spring Awakening (University of Maryland); La Bohème (Maryland Opera Studio); Madame Butterfly (Minnesota Opera); La Bohème (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis); Caroline, ... read more
Leon Dobkowski Costume Design
Greg Emetaz Video Design
Edward Haynes Scenic Design
Denis Jones Director
Denis is a two-time Tony Award nominated choreographer and director whose work has been seen on Broadway, across the country and around the world. From live theater to film and television, the variety of Denis’ work spans both media and genres. On Broadway, Denis received Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critic’s Circle and Chita Rivera nominations for both Tootsie and Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn (which was also captured by Broadway HD and has been enjoyed both in the US and globally on television and in movie theaters), and choreographed the Broadway production on Honeymoon in Vegas. Denis’ range of recent work ... read more
Leah J. Loukas Wig Design
Broadway: Time and the Conways; Marvin’s Room; Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812; Sweat; Oh, Hello!; The Heidi Chronicles, On the Town, A Night with Janis Joplin; Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; American Idiot; Irena’s Vow. The Public Theater: Sweat, Plenty, Barbecue, Fortress of Solitude. Shakespeare in the Park series: Julius Caeser, Taming of the Shrew, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Into the Woods. Ms. Loukas has designed various productions at many regional theaters including: La Jolla Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Dallas Theater Center and The Muny. ... read more
David Patridge Sound Design
John Shivers Sound Design
JOHN SHIVERS (Sound Design) Shucked, Beauty and the Beast (New Production Worldwide) Pretty Woman (Worldwide), Cirque du Soleil’s Paramour, Kinky Boots (2013 Tony Award recipient), Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway, Leap of Faith, Bonnie & Clyde, Sister Act, 9 to 5, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, The Little Mermaid, Tarzan, In My Life, Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays, Julia Sweeney’s God Sad ‘Ha’. International: Wicked, Spirit of Life, The Secret, Tarzan, Das Wunder Von Bern, The Lion King (Shanghai) and (Singapore), Regional: The Muny (2015 -Present), Trading Places, Afterwords, The Wanderer, Becoming Nancy, 42nd St., Rock of Ages, The Heart of ... read more
Nancy Uffner Production Stage Manager
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