Diana
Sexy, sharp and trying to hold on to her family. played by Marin Mazzie
Broadway: Enron (Drama League nom); Kiss Me, Kate (Outer Critics Circle Award, Tony, Drama Desk & Olivier noms); Ragtime (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC noms); Passion (Tony nom, PBS); Spamalot (also London); Man of La Mancha; Into The Woods; Big River. Encores!: Kismet, Out Of This World. Off-Broadway/Regional: The Vagina Monologues, The Trojan Women, and The World Goes ‘Round (also national tour); A Streetcar Named Desire. TV: “Without a Trace,” “Still Standing,” “Numb3rs,” “Jake in Progress,” “Stacked,” “Sondheim’s 80th,” “Camelot,” “My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies” & “The Love Songs,” and “The Boston Pops’ Tribute to Jerry Herman.” Marin has been heard in many of the country’s major symphony halls, cabaret and concert venues. Her CD Opposite You, with husband Jason Danieley, is on PS Classics. Marin holds an Honorary Doctorate and has a musical theatre scholarship in her name from her alma mater, Western Michigan University. www.MarinMazzie.com; www.MarinandJason.com.
Dan
Handsome, genuine and working overtime to juggle being a father and a husband. played by Jason Danieley
Broadway: Curtains! (Outer Critics Nom.), Candide (Theatre World Award, Drama Desk Nom.), The Full Monty (also West End). Encores!: A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Strike Up The Band. Off-Broadway: Dream True, Trojan Women, Floyd Collins. Regional: The Highest Yellow (Helen Hayes Award), Casino Paradise, Brigadoon, 110 In The Shade (Backstage West Award), Beauty. Tours: Phantom of the Opera, Hair. Staged Concerts: Brigadoon (Broadway), Sondheim: The Birthday Concert (NY Phil/PBS), South Pacific (PBS) and Carousel (both at Carnegie Hall), Candide and Of Thee I Sing/Let ‘Em Eat Cake (both with San Francisco Symphony). Jason and wife Marin Mazzie perform in cabaret and concert halls across the country www.MarinandJason.com and are frequent guest artists with The Boston, New York, Philly Pops, San Francisco Symphony among many others. Albums: Opposite You (duet album with Ms. Mazzie), Jason Danieley and The Frontier Heroes (his band) www.TheFrontierHeroes.com and many original cast albums. www.jasondanieley.com
Natalie
Sixteen and trying to be perfect. It's not going well. played by Meghann Fahy
Meghann Fahy assumes the role of Natalie after making her Broadway debut as an original cast member of Next to Normal, including the Arena Stage production. TV: Hannah O'Connor on "One Life to Live" (ABC), "Gossip Girl" (CW11). Recent: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown (dir. Daniel Goldstein). So grateful for the indescribable experience. Love and thanks to my family and everyone at the Gersh Agency.
Gabe
Almost eighteen. Dashing. Bright. Playful. Everything a mother could dream. played by Kyle Dean Massey
Kyle is so proud to be a part of this show. Broadway: Xanadu (Thalia), Wicked (Fiyero u/s). Off-Broadway: Altar Boyz (Matthew). Tours: Wicked, 1st National; 42nd Street, North America and Japan (Billy Lawlor). TV: “Cupid” (ABC). Originally from Arkansas and a Missouri State graduate. Enormous gratitude to my friends, my family and my peeps at Nicolosi & Co. Always for my parents. www.kyledeanmassey.com
Henry
Natalie's boyfriend. Seventeen. Musician, romantic, stoner, slacker, philosopher king. played by Adam Chanler-Berat
Broadway debut! Adam reprises his role from the Second Stage premiere and the Arena incarnation. Recent: A Civil War Christmas (dir. Tina Landau), Calvin Berger (MTC) and Dani Girl (dir. John Carrafa). Regional: Mae West at Club El Fae; Honk; You’re a…Charlie Brown; Lord of the Flies. TV/film: “Law & Order,” The Life Before Her Eyes. Love and thanks to Michael, Brian, Tom, David, Terry, and this beautiful cast. For Mom, Dad, and Grandma.
Dr. Madden/Dr. Fine
On the young side of ageless. Assured. A rock star. played by Louis Hobson
Louis is proud to make his Broadway debut. NYC: Lucas in The Addams Family (pre-Broadway workshop). Regional: Next to Normal (Arena Stage), Tony in West Side Story (5th Avenue), Chris in Miss Saigon (Casa Mañana and 5th Avenue), Che in Evita (Village Theatre), Claude in Hair (5th Avenue), Cabaret (Ordway, AMTSJ, 5th Avenue), Stupid Kids (Empty Space), world premiere of Stephen Schwartz’s Snapshots (Village Theatre). BA in theatre and music, Pacific Lutheran University.
Tom Kitt
Composer, Co-Orchestrator Tom received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as two Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Orchestrations (with Michael Starobin), for Next to Normal. His music for Next to Normal also received the 2009 Frederick Loewe Award for dramatic composition and an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best New Score. Tom is responsible for the music supervision, arrangements and orchestrations for Green Day’s American Idiot on Broadway and was also the string arranger on their most recent album, 21st Century Breakdown. Tom is also the composer of High Fidelity (Broadway), From Up Here (MTC) and The Retributionists (Playwrights Horizons). As a musical director, conductor, arranger and orchestrator for Broadway, Off-Broadway and beyond, credits include 13, Debbie Does Dallas, Everyday Rapture, Hair, Laugh Whore and Urban Cowboy. He is the proud leader of the Tom Kitt Band (www.tomkittband.com/), whose songs have been featured in film and TV.
Brian Yorkey
Librettist, Lyricist Brian received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as the 2009 Tony Award for Best Score, for Next to Normal. Brian was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Next to Normal, and his work on the show earned him the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Score. Theatre credits include Making Tracks, which has played Off-Broadway and regionally, the musical adaptation of Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet and the country musical Play It By Heart. Film and TV projects in development include the features Time After Time for Universal, Love Undercover for Pandemonium Films and Overture, Fashion Show for Parkes/ MacDonald and Paramount and Chase for Anonymous Content and Rosenzweig Films. He has directed Off-Broadway and regionally and for seven years was associate artistic director at Village Theatre in Washington state, one of the nation’s leading producers of new musicals. He’s a graduate of Columbia University, where he was artistic director of the Varsity Show, an alum of the BMI/Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and theWGA.
Michael Greif
Director Michael also directed the Second Stage and Arena Stage productions of Next to Normal (Tony nomination). Recent work includes Tony Kushner’s The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide... at the Guthrie, The Three Sisters (Williamstown) and Romeo and Juliet (NYSF at the Delacorte). Broadway credits include Grey Gardens (Tony nomination), Rent (Tony nomination) and Never Gonna Dance. Off-Broadway: Landscape of the Body, A Few Stout Individuals (Signature); (Obie),Satellites, Fucking A, Dogeaters Marisol, Pericles, Casanova, A Bright Room Called Day, Machinal (Obie) at NYSF; Boys’ Life, Spike Heels (Second Stage); A Very Common Procedure, The Distance From Here (MCC); Spatter Pattern (Playwrights Horizons); Mr. Marmalade (Roundabout); and Beauty of the Father (MTC). At New York Theatre Workshop (Artistic Associate), he directed Cavedweller; Bright Lights, Big City; and the original production of Rent (Obie). Favorite regional productions include The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull, Street Scene, Tonight at 8:30, Once in a Lifetime (Williamstown); and Our Town, Sweet Bird of Youth, Boy, Randy Newman’s Faust, Slavs and Thérèse Raquin at La Jolla, where he was artistic director (1995-99).
Sergio Trujillo
Musical Staging Broadway: Jersey Boys (Olivier, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award nominations); Guys and Dolls; All Shook Up. Recent: Memphis (5th Avenue, La Jolla); Saved (Playwrights); Romeo and Juliet (Public); The Wiz, Zhivago (La Jolla); Mambo Kings; Disney’s European Tarzan; Kismet, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Encores!); Peggy Sue Got Married (West End); Kiss Me, Kate (Japan); The Sound of Music,West Side Story (Stratford); Chita and All That Jazz; Salome (NYC Opera); The Marriage of Figaro (L.A. Opera); Ballet Hispanico. TV: “Broadway: The American Musical” (PBS), “The 14th American Comedy Awards” (ABC), “Triple Sensation” (CBC). Ovation Award for Empire: A New American Musical, three Dora Award nominations. Upcoming Broadway: The Addams Family, Memphis.
Mark Wendland
Set Design Mark was nominated for a Tony Award for his work on this production. Broadway: Talk Radio, An Almost Holy Picture, Death of a Salesman. New York: Boys’ Life, Next to Normal, Some Men (Second Stage); Distracted (Roundabout); Unconditional (LAByrinth); Richard III, Hamlet, The False Servant, The Mysteries (CSC); Satellites, Fucking A, Pericles, A Dybbuk (Public Theater); Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Cymbeline, Timon of Athens, (Public Theater at the Delacorte); Beauty of the Father, Iron (MTC); Hot ’n’ Throbbing (Signature Theatre); Eight Days Backwards, Brutal Imagination (Vineyard Theatre). 2008 Henry Hewes Design Award.
Jeff Mahshie
Costume Design Broadway: The Little Dog Laughed. Off- Broadway: Hurlyburly (Drama Desk nomination), Next to Normal, Becky Shaw, Privilege, Show People, The Scene, Laughing Wild as well as The Corn Is Green. Jeff is also a fashion designer; his work has been shown at Bryant Park and featured in such magazines as InStyle, Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue as well as on the red carpet for many award shows.
Kevin Adams
Lighting Design Kevin was nominated for a Tony Award for his work on this production. Broadway: Hair (Tony nomination), Spring Awakening (Tony Award; also London, Japan, Korea,Vienna, U.S. tour), The 39 Steps (Tony, Drama Desk Awards), Passing Strange, Take Me Out, Hedda Gabler (Kate Burton), Sexaholix, The Good Body, An Almost Holy Picture. Off-Broadway: Hedwig and the Angry Inch; new work by Edward Albee, Eric Bogosian, Christopher Durang, Arthur Kopit, Terrence McNally, Charles Mee Jr., Neil Simon, Anna Deveare Smith and Paula Vogel. Concerts: Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs, Audra McDonald (Joe’s Pub, Town Hall, Lincoln Center), Patti LuPone, Sandra Bernhard. 1999 and 2007 Lucille Lortel Awards, 2002 Obie for Sustained Excellence. www.ambermylar.com
Brian Ronan
Sound Design Brian was a 2009 Tony nominee for this production. His Broadway designs include Grease, Curtains, Spring Awakening, Grey Gardens, Pajama Game, All Shook Up, Twelve Angry Men, The Look of Love, “Master Harold”…and the boys, The Boys From Syracuse, Fortune’s Fool, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, The Rainmaker, Little Me, …Charlie Brown, Cabaret, Triumph of Love, 1776 and State Fair. Off-Broadway, Brian has designed Saved and Bug, for which he won an Obie and Lucille Lortel Award.
Michael Starobin
Co-Orchestrator Won the 2009 Tony Award for this production as well as the 2004 Tony Award for Assassins. Other orchestrations include The Grinch, The Glorious Ones, Adrift in Macao, Bernarda Alba, Spelling Bee, Tom Sawyer, A New Brain, A Christmas Carol, Hello Again, Guys and Dolls, My Favorite Year, Falsettos, In Trousers, Once on This Island, Closer Than Ever, Legs Diamond, Romance/Romance, Carrie, Birds of Paradise, Rags, Three Guys Naked From the Waist Down, Von Richtofen, the Public Theater’s La Bohème and Sunday in the Park With George.
Annmarie Milazzo
Vocal Arrangements Credits: Spring Awakening (Atlantic and Eugene O’Neill Theatre); Bright Lights, Big City (New York Theatre Workshop); Carmen (La Jolla Playhouse); The Marc Pease Experience (Paramount feature film). Composer/lyricist: Pretty Dead Girl (Sundance Film Festival), Sea Change. Lyricist: Le Rêve (Wynn Hotel Las Vegas), Carmen (La Jolla Playhouse). As a singer: the Grammy-nominated East Village Opera Company.
Charlie Alterman
Musical Director Broadway credits include Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me (Musical Director/ Actor) and Legally Blonde. National tour: Grease (also Korea, Macau). Off-Broadway favorites: Almost Heaven: Songs of John Denver and Silence: The Musical! Regional: La Jolla Playhouse, Huntington Theatre, Trinity Rep, Next to Normal at Arena Stage and nine seasons with the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Concert appearances: Frankie Avalon, Emily Skinner, Dana Reeve, Billy Porter, Carol Woods and Ken Page.
Michael Berry
u/s Dan, Dr.Madden/Dr.Fine B’way: Les Misérables. National tours: Sunset Boulevard, Tommy, Mamma Mia! Off-Broadway: Moby Dick (Drama Desk nom.), See What I Wanna See (Public), The American Clock (dir. Austin Pendleton). Film/TV: “Six Degrees,” “Young Riders,” Beyond the Law. Regional theatre: Tons. Directing credits include five acclaimed NYC productions and two award-winning short films. www.mirathefilm.com & www.gracklefilm.com
Kathy Voytko
Standby for Diana Broadway: Oklahoma!, Nine, The Frogs (Ariadne), The Pirate Queen (Standby Grania). National tours: The Phantom of the Opera (Christine), Evita (Eva). Kathy is the happy wife of John Cudia, and the lucky mom of Alena. She is thrilled and thankful to join the Next to Normal family.
Brian Crum
u/s Gabe/Henry Brian is honored to be a part of this company. Most recently seen as Doody in the 1st national tour of Grease. Other credits include Grease (Broadway, u/s Danny and Teen Angel); Wicked (Swing); Altar Boyz (Mark); Snapshots, a new Stephen Schwartz musical (Danny); Jesus Christ Superstar (Simon). Thanks and love to Mom, SP, SS, The Mine, Telsey + Co. and the entire Next to Normal team. brianjcrum.com/
MacKenzie Mauzy
u/s Natalie Broadway: A Tale of Two Cities (Seamstress). Most recently seen in Randy Newman’s Harps and Angels as Emotional Girl (Centre Theatre Group), Carrie: The Musical as Norma (revival reading) and White Noise as Eva (Le Petit Theatre, New Orleans.) TV: “Law & Order,” “Cold Case,” “CSI: NY” and “The Bold and the Beautiful” as Phoebe Forrester.
Michael Keller
Music Coordinator Music coordination for Broadway: West Side Story (2009), Guys and Dolls (2009), Billy Elliot, Shrek the Musical, In the Heights, The Little Mermaid, Wicked, Avenue Q, Mamma Mia!, The Lion King, Barbra Streisand concerts (1994/2001/2006/2007). Life is complete with wife Pamela Sousa, son Zachary and daughter Alexis.
Telsey + Company
Casting Broadway/tours: 9 to 5, Desire Under the Elms, Rock of Ages, reasons to be pretty, Blithe Spirit, South Pacific, In the Heights, Wicked, You’re Welcome America, Speed-the-Plow, Equus, Rent, Legally Blonde, Color Purple, Peep Show and Bette Midler (Vegas). Off-Broadway: Atlantic, MCC, Signature. Film: 17 Photos of Isabel, I Love You Phillip Morris, Rachel Getting Married, Sex and the City, Dan in Real Life, Then She Found Me, Across the Universe, Ira and Abby, Rent, Pieces of April, Camp, Grey Zone, Finding Forrester, The Bone Collector.
Judith Schoenfeld
Production Stage Manager Broadway: Grey Gardens. Off-Broadway: numerous productions at Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Theatre for a New Audience, Mabou Mines and Classic Stage Company. Additional work at Lincoln Center Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Goodspeed Opera House, Arena Stage and Great Lakes Theatre Festival. Judith is a member of Actors’ Equity and a graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Larry Morley
Technical Supervisor Larry is pleased to have been a part of the Broadway theatrical community for more then 25 years. Broadway credits include Hair, American Buffalo, Equus, Speed-the- Plow, Passing Strange, Journey’s End, Butley, Well, Spelling Bee, Pippin, Primo, The Glass Menagerie, Virginia Woolf, Little Women, Twentieth Century, The Goat, Copenhagen, Jane Eyre, Annie, Noise/Funk, La Cage, Rags and Steel Pier.
321 Theatrical Management
General Management Nina Essman, Nancy Nagel Gibbs and Marcia Goldberg’s Broadway, Off-Broadway and national touring management credits include Wicked; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Striking 12; Man of La Mancha; The Good Body (tour); The Graduate; The Vagina Monologues; Bat Boy; Fully Committed; The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life; Lifegame; The Lion King; De La Guarda; Rent; Guys and Dolls; 42nd Street; I Love You, You’re Perfect…; Full Gallop; The Santaland Diaries; and Family Secrets.
David Stone
Producer David Stone is currently represented by Wicked and Next to Normal. He has produced The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Three Days of Rain, Man of La Mancha, The Vagina Monologues, Fully Committed, Lifegame, The Diary of Anne Frank, Full Gallop, The Santaland Diaries and Family Secrets. David serves on the boards of The Broadway League and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids. He also serves on the advisory boards of V-Day and Second Stage Theatre. David has lectured on theatre at the Juilliard School, NYU, Yale, Columbia and his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania.
James L. Nederlander
Producer President of the Nederlander Organization, son of James M. Nederlander (Chairman). He is the third generation of a family known for owning and operating theatres around the world as well as theatrical productions, cultural presentations and popular music attractions. Among Mr. Nederlander’s producing credits are Peter Brook’s The Tragedy of Carmen (special Tony Award), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? starring Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin, Billy Joel and Twyla Tharp’s Movin’Out and Cyrano de Bergerac starring Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner. Current productions include Come Fly Away, Million Dollar Quartet, West Side Story, The Addams Family and Race. Upcoming productions include a live show with magician David Blaine.
Barbara Whitman
Producer Broadway credits include A Raisin in the Sun, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Legally Blonde the Musical, 33 Variations, Mary Stuart, Hamlet and in the West End, Piaf.A native NewYorker, Barbara is a proud alum of NYU’s Gallatin and Columbia University’s program in theatre management and producing. She is chair of the board of Play Group Theatre, a Westchester-based youth theatre company. Her proudest productions are her sons, Daniel and Will.
Patrick Catullo
Producer Patrick is currently represented on Broadway by Twyla Tharp and Frank Sinatra’s Come Fly Away. He has also produced The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee on Broadway and around the country, as well as Bob Dylan and Twyla Tharp’s The Times They Are AChangin’ and Sixteen Wounded. He has served as the associate to producer David Stone and 321 Theatrical Management for the past decade. Patrick is a graduate of Yale and a member of The Broadway League.
Second Stage Theatre
Producer Founded in 1979 under the leadership of artistic director Carole Rothman, produces a diverse range of premieres and new interpretations of America’s best contemporary theatre, including such productions as Let Me Down Easy, Everyday Rapture, Becky Shaw, Animals Out of Paper, Edward Albee’s Peter and Jerry, The Little Dog Laughed, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Crowns, Jitney, Saturday Night, The Good Times Are Killing Me, This Is Our Youth, Coastal Disturbances and the current production of Kristoffer Diaz’s The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity. The company’s more than 125 citations include the Pulitzer Prize, seven Tony Awards, the 2002 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Body ofWork, 26 Obie Awards, six Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Clarence Derwent Awards, 12 Drama Desk Awards, nine Theatre World Awards, 11 Lucille LortelAwards, the Drama Critics Circle Award and 15 AUDELCO Awards. For subscriptions and more information, visit www.2ST.com.
