Composer, Co-Orchestrator

Tom received 2009 Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Orchestrations for Next to Normal, which had successful productions at both Second Stage (Outer Critics Circle Award for Best New Score; Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Drama League nominations) and Arena Stage (nominated for five 2009 Helen Hayes Awards including Best Musical). He composed the music for High Fidelity (Broadway) and From Up Here (MTC), and his original songs have been featured in film and TV. He recently created new orchestrations for the CTG/DeafWest production of Pippin. As a musical director, conductor and arranger (Broadway and Off-Broadway), shows include 13, Hair, Laugh Whore, Urban Cowboy and Debbie Does Dallas. This spring, Tom will be the musical supervisor/arranger/orchestrator for Everyday Rapture at Second Stage, and his string arrangements will appear on the new Green Day album 21st Century Breakdown. He is the proud leader of The Tom Kitt Band (www.tomkittband.com). Love to Rita and Michael.

Librettist, Lyricist

Brian received the 2009 Tony Award for Best Score for his work on Next to Normal and was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. Theatre credits include Making Tracks, which has played Off-Broadway and regionally; the musical adaptation of Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet; and the new country musical Play It By Heart. Film and TV include the features Time After Time, in development at Universal with Marc Platt, and Sluts for Lionsgate and Furst Films; he is currently writing Love Undercover for Pandemonium Films and Overture, and Chase for Anonymous Content and Rosenzweig Films; and he co-created “Bears,” a new series for the Logo network. 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 the WGA.

Director

Michael directed the Second Stage and Arena Stage productions of Next to Normal (Tony nomination). Recent work includes The Three Sisters (Williamstown) and Romeo and Juliet (NYSF at the Delacorte). Broadway credits include Grey Gardens (Tony nom.), Rent (Tony nom.) and Never Gonna Dance. Off-Broadway: Landscape of the Body, A Few Stout Individuals (Signature); Satellites, Fucking A, Dogeaters (Obie), 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).

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

u/s Natalie

Meghann is thrilled to make her Broadway debut with Next to Normal! She has been singing in front of live audiences throughout Massachusetts and Connecticut since the age of nine and has recorded two full-length albums. Love to my parents and brother always.

u/s Diana, Dance Captain

Broadway: The Scarlet Pimpernel versions 1, 2 and 3 (Marguerite, Marie u/s); Jesus Christ Superstar 25th anniversary revival (original cast); The Ladies Who Sing Sondheim (Broadway Baby). Off-Broadway: Next to Normal (Diana standby); Wine Lovers (Katherine). Favorite original roles: Mary in Gods of Autumn (opposite Jarrod Emick) and Jessica in Bucchino’s It’s Only Life (Daisy Prince, dir.) For my superboys, ages 5 and 8.

u/s Gabe/Henry

Makes his Broadway debut at the Booth Theatre. His previous credits include Next to Normal at Arena Stage in DC as well as three years with the Chappell Players at St. John’s University, including the roles of Bobby Strong in Urinetown and Bat Boy in Bat Boy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Producer

is currently represented around the world by Wicked. 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.

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 West Side Story and Irena’s Vow. Upcoming productions include a live show with magician David Blaine.

Producer

Barbara is currently represented on Broadway by 33 Variations and Mary Stuart. Other Broadway credits include A Raisin in the Sun, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Legally Blonde: The Musical, and in the West End, Piaf. A native New Yorker, Barbara is a proud alum of both NYU-Gallatin and Columbia University School of the Arts (theatre management and producing). She is chair of the board of Play Group Theatre and serves on the National Advisory Council of Northwestern University’s School of Communication. Her proudest productions are her sons, Daniel and Will.

Producer

Patrick has 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 A-Changin’ 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.

Producer

Founded in 1979 under the leadership of artistic director Carole Rothman, Second Stage Theatre produces a diverse range of premieres and new interpretations of America’s best contemporary theatre, including such productions as 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 Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott’s Everyday Rapture. The company’s more than 125 citations include two 2005 Tony Awards for Spelling Bee and the 2002 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Body of Work. For subscriptions, tickets and more information, visit www.2ST.com.