The Baker's Wife - West End Creative Team

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Jean Giono Source Material
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Marcel Pagnol Source Material
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Stephen Schwartz Composer/Lyricist
Authorized Biography: Defying Gravity: The Creative Career of Stephen Schwartz, from Godspell to Wicked (Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, by Carol de Giere) www.DefyingGravityTheBook.com Stephen Schwartz was born in New York City on March 6, 1948. He studied piano and composition at the Juilliard School of Music while in high school and graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1968 with a B.F.A. in Drama. Upon coming back to live in New York City, he went to work as a producer for RCA Records, but shortly thereafter began to work in the Broadway theatre. His first major credit was the title song for ... read more
Joseph Stein Bookwriter
David Cullen Orchestrator
Studied composition with Howard Ferguson and Richard Rodney Bennett at the Royal Academy of Music in the 1960s. He is best known as an orchestrator of musicals, particularly those of Andrew Lloyd Webber — Cats, Starlight Express, Song and Dance, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard, By Jeeves, Whistle Down the Wind, The Beautiful Game, The Phantom of the Opera, The Woman in White, Love Never Dies and most recently The Wizard of Oz. ... read more
David Hersey Lighting Designer
Since his arrival in London from New York many years ago, David Hersey has designed the lighting for hundreds of plays, musicals, operas and ballets. He was lighting consultant to the National Theatre for ten years and is a past chairman and current fellow of the Association of Lighting Designers. In 2002 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Middlesex University. His many awards include Tonys for Best Lighting Design for Evita, Cats and Les Misérables plus the 1996 Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design for Burning Blue, The Glass Menagerie and Twelfth Night. He received Tony nominations for The ... read more
Terry Allen Kramer Producer
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Credits: Evita; Sugar Babies; Me and My Girl; The Goat (Tony Award); Movin’ Out (Tony Award); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Cyrano; Dirty Dancing; West Side Story; 9 to 5; The Addams Family; Merchant of Venice; Race; Promises, Promises; Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark; Priscilla Queen of the Desert; and Hello, Dolly! (Tony Award). ... read more
Martin Levan Sound Designer
Theatre: After ten years as a recording engineer and record producer, Martin Levan began his theatrical career in 1982 when he supervised the sound for Song & Dance in London. Since then Martin has been responsible for designing the sound for many worldwide productions including Cats, Starlight Express, The Phantom of the Opera, Little Shop of Horrors, Carrie, The Baker’s Wife, The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber concerts, Requiem, Aspects of Love, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Show Boat, Sunset Boulevard, Whistle Down the Wind, Lautrec and The Beautiful Game. Recordings include the original cast ... read more
Homevale Limited Producer
Jerome Minskoff Producer
John Napier Settings
John Napier studied fine art at Hornsey College of Art in the early 1960s and theatre design at the Central School of Arts and Crafts under Ralph Koltai. He is an associate designer of the RSC. Notable productions for the RSC include: Macbeth, The Comedy of Errors, King Lear, Once in a Lifetime, The Greeks, Nicholas Nickleby, Hedda Gabler, Peter Pan and Mother Courage. NT productions include: The Party (Olivier’s last performance at the Old Vic), Equus, later seen worldwide, Trelawny of the ‘Wells’, An Enemy of the People, Peter Pan, Candide and South Pacific. Opera includes Lohengrin and Macbeth (Royal Opera, ... read more
James M. Nederlander Producer
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Andreane Neofitou Costume Designer
Andy’s iconic costume designs for the huge hits Les Misérables and Miss Saigon have been seen in London and on Broadway (gaining hera Tony nomination for Les Mis), with productions continuing to play worldwide. Les Misérables became the West End’s longest running show at 35 years, and a major new production of Miss Saigon recently toured the U.S. following successful runs in the West End and on Broadway. Among Andy’s other costume designs are Timon Of Athens with David Suchet, The Baker’s Wife and Gone With The Wind - all three directed by Trevor Nunn, Peter Pan (Royal National Theatre) directed ... read more
Trevor Nunn Director
Trevor Nunn was educated at Downing College, Cambridge, and in 1962 he won an ABC Director’s Scholarship to the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, where, as resident director, his productions included The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Peer Gynt and a musical version of Around the World in Eighty Days. He recently returned to the Belgrade to direct a production of Scenes from a Marriage. In 1964, Trevor joined the RSC, and was made the company’s youngest-ever artistic director in 1968. He was responsible for running the RSC until he retired from his post in 1986. Productions for the RSC included: The Revenger’s Tragedy, The Relapse, ... read more
David Toguri Choreographer
Gareth Valentine Musical Director
Duncan C. Weldon Producer
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