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received the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for
Drama and the Tony Award for Best
Musical for Rent. His ground-breaking
musical became the seventh longest-running
show in Broadway history; has been performed
in over 27 countries; and became a
feature film directed by Chris Columbus.
Jonathan won the Stephen Sondheim Award
and the Richard Rodgers Development
Grant for his rock musical Superbia (which
may yet be re-shaped for Broadway). He
performed his rock monologue tick,
tick…BOOM! at Second Stage Theatre, The
Village Gate and New York Theatre
Workshop before it was produced Off-
Broadway in 2001, touring both here and
abroad (Neil Patrick Harris starred in
London). Jon created and co-wrote the children’s
DVD Away We Go!, and can be heard
on the Library of Congress Songwriter
Series CD Jonathan Sings Larson. Rent
world premiere: February 13, 1996 at
NYTW; Broadway opening April 29, 1996.
Mr. Larson died of an undiagnosed aortic
aneurysm, attributed to Marfan Syndrome,
on January 25, 1996, ten days before his
36th birthday.
Michael Greif has received three Tony Award nominations and won the Obie Award. He was the Artistic Director of the La Jolla Playhouse in La Jolla, California from 1994 - 1999. He is represented in the current season by Angels in America Parts I and II (Signature Theater Company) and The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures (Public Theater). On Broadway, he most recently directed the musicals Next to Normal (also at Second Stage Theatre and Arena Stage) and Grey Gardens (also at Playwrights Horizons), receiving Tony Award nominations as director for each. He directed the original 1996 production of RENT, earning a Tony Award nomination for Best Direction of a Musical, the Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Director of a Musical, and the Obie Award. He was an Artistic Associate at the New York Theatre Workshop where he directed, among others, Bright Lights, Big City (1998-99) and the original production of RENT. Among his many directing credits off-Broadway are John Guare's Landscape of the Body and A Few Stout Individuals at the Signature Theater, Beauty of the Father for the Manhattan Theatre Club, and Romeo and Juliet at the New York Shakespeare Festival at the Delacorte Theater (June 2007).
Larry Keigwin's prolific and wide-ranging dance career began the day he auditioned as a back-up dancer for Downtown Julie Brown on Club MTV (he got the gig). He continued his dance career working for Chezzam! enlivening many a bar and bat mitzvah while earning his BA in dance from Hofstra University. In addition to Larry's choreographic work with K+C, his recent commissions have included The New York City Ballet's Choreographic Institute, The Martha Graham Dance Company, The Juilliard Dance Ensemble, The NYU/Tisch School's Second Avenue Dance Company, Paradigm, Hofstra University and California Institute of the Arts. His other choreographic credits include work with the pop band Fischerspooner, comedian Murray Hill and as an Associate Choreographer for both the Radio City Rockettes and the Off-Broadway musical "The Wild Party". As a dancer Larry has danced at the Metropolitan Opera in Doug Varone's "Le Sacre Du Printemps" and Julie Taymor's "The Magic Flute" in addition to his work with Mark Dendy (receiving a Bessie Award in 1998 for his performance in "Dream Analysis"), Robin Becker, Jane Comfort, John Jasperse, Doug Elkins, Zvi Gotheiner, and David Rousseve. He appeared in the Broadway bomb "Dance of the Vampires" and the Julie Taymor, Oscar nominated film "Across the Universe." In his spare time, Larry has created "Keigwin Kabaret," a fusion of modern dance, vaudeville, and burlesque acts presented by the Public Theater at Joe's Pub and by Symphony Space.
Broadway: Shrek The Musical, Jonathan Larson’s RENT; Tom Stoppard’s Jumpers; Sally Marr And Her Escorts (Composer). Off-Broadway: 10 Million Miles (ATC, ‘08 Drama Desk Nomination- Best Orchestrations), Fuckin’ A (NYSF), RENT (NYTW). Film: “Camp” (IFC, Jersey Films), “RENT” (Sony, Revolution Studios), “The Marc Pease Experience” (Paramount Pictures). Television: “Sheep In The Big City” and “Bear In The Big Blue House” (Nickleodeon, The Cartoon Network): Recordings: “RENT” (Broadway and Film Soundracks), “Camp” (Producer, Arranger), Adam Pascal’s “Model Prisoner” and Sherie Rene Scott’s “Men I’ve Had” (Sh-K-Boom Records). For the past several years, Tim has served on the panel for the Jonathan Larson Foundation, which provides grants to aspiring composers and lyricists.
Broadway: Merchant of Venice, Next to Normal, Talk Radio, An Almost Holy Picture, Death of a Salesman. New York: The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, Satellites, Fucking A, Pericles, A Dybbuk (Public Theatre), Merchant of Venice, The Winter's Tale, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Cymbeline, Timon of Athens (Public Theatre at the Delacourt), Angels in America, Hot-N-Throbbing (Signature), Boy's Life, Some Men (Second Stage), Distracted (Roundabout), UNCONDITIONAL (Labyrinth), The Age of Iron, Richard III, Hamlet, The False Servant, The Mysteries (CSC), Beauty of the Father, Iron (MTC). Dublin: A View From the Bridge (Gate Theatre). 2008 Henry Hewes Design Award.
designed the original production of RENT on Broadway and at NYTW for which she received the American Theater Wing Hewes Design Award and a Drama Logue Award. She was also nominated for a Drama Desk award, Dora Movar Award, and an Italian Musical Theater Award. Other productions with Michael Greif include The Distance from Here? by Neil LaBute and Marisol by Jose Rivera. Recent Credits Include: Singing in the Rain directed by Ray Roderick (Connecticut Critics Circle Award; Goodspeed Opera House); Up in the Air by Bill Russell and Henry Krieger, directed by Amon Miyamoto (Kennedy Center); Clear by Paul Oakley Stovall (Dixon Place). The world premiere of the following operas: A Flowering Tree by John Adams, directed by Peter Sellers (co-design with Gabriel Berry; in Vienna, London, Los Angeles and New York); I Fioretti in Musica directed and conceived by Gian Marco Le Forte (LaMaMa and the Goethe Institute). Finalist in the Opera America Robert L.B. Tobin Director- Designer Showcase for her design of Arjuna's Dilemma by Douglas J.Cuomo (2011). Angela also designs for Film and TV, most recently the short film Katya directed by Mako Kamitsuna; the feature Il Giornio in Piu directed by Massimo Venier; and the Emmy Award winning ?TV Show "We Are New York." Angela is thrilled to be part of this new Off-Broadway production of RENT.
has designed for theatre, opera, dance, solo performance and film. His Broadway credits include: American Idiot (Tony and Outer Critics Awards), Everyday Rapture, Next To Normal (Tony nomination), Hair (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics nominations), Passing Strange, The 39 Steps (Tony and Drama Desk Awards), Spring Awakening (Tony Award and Olivier nomination for West End production), and Take Me Out. He has designed solo shows for John Leguizamo, Eve Ensler, Eric Bogosian, Sandra Bernhard and Anna Deveare Smith. Off-Broadway includes the original production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch and new work by Edward Albee, Christopher Durang, Richard Greenberg, Kander and Ebb, Tony Kushner, Terrence McNally, Charles Mee Jr, Neil Simon and Paula Vogel. Other work includes: Magnet Fields' 69 Love Songs (Lincoln Center), Donmar Warehouse, Berkeley Rep, Guthrie Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Yale Rep, NY City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Kennedy Center, Janet Jackson's music video IF and HBO's Mildred Pierce. For his work off-Broadway he has received two Lucille Lortel Awards and an Obie for Sustained Excellence. www.ambermylar.com.
is happy to return as RENT’s designer after serving as the production sound engineer on the original. He has designed the sound for over twenty Broadway musicals and plays. Some recent designs include Anything Goes, Book of Mormon, American Idiot, Promises, Promises and Next to Normal (Tony nomination), Grease, Curtains, Spring Awakening, as well as Grey Gardens and The Pajama Game which both earned Drama Desk nominations. Off Broadway designs include Everyday Rapture, Saved, 10 Million Miles, and Bug, for which he won an Obie and Lucille Lortel award. His career has spanned twenty-five years and taken him across America, Europe and Asia and has afforded him the opportunity to work with the most talented composers, directors, designers, actors, musicians and stagehands in the world for which he is eternally grateful.
has designed projection on Broadway for, Fela!, 9 to 5: The Musical and Say Goodnight Gracie. Other designs include the Grace Jones Hurricane Tour, Der Ferne Klang, (Bard Summerscape), Haroun and the Sea of Stories (City Opera), Blind Date (Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance), The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (2nd Stage Theatre), Fetch Clay, Make Man (McCarter Theater Center), The Orphan of Zhao (Lincoln Center Festival), Sweet Bird of Youth (Williamstown), Dido and Aeneas (Handel Haydn Society), Biro (the Public Theater) and Wings (2nd Stage). For Nature Theater of Oklahoma, No Dice (2008 Obie Award), Romeo and Juliet (Salzburger Festspiele) and Life and Times, Epiode 1&2 (Burgtheater, Vienna) among others. He was also the designer on Becoming Helen Keller (PBS American Masters), the London Production of Fela!, Autumn Sonata (Yale Rep) and Sleeping Beauty Wakes (McCarter Theatre Center).
worked with Jonathan Larson as arranger and recording producer for 12 years. He received the 1996 Drama Desk Award for Best Arrangements for RENT. B’way: Doonesbury (keyboards and assistant conductor). Recording-arranging for Bette Midler, Taylor Dayne, Billy Mann, Chaka Khan, Bebe & Cece Winans, and Michael Crawford.
His plays have been produced by Ensemble Studio Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Woolly Mammoth, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre, 1812 Productions, and SF Playhouse, named Outstanding Original Script 2009 by Bay Area Critics Circle, awarded a NYFA grant, and published in several volumes of Best American Short Plays. TV credits include Beavis & Butt-head, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Bert and Ernie’s Great Adventures, Upside Down Show, and Wonder Pets (Emmy Award). He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Lisa Vogel and their offspring Jake and Anna. www.billyaronson.com
has had the privilege to be the General Manager of three Tony Award winning best musicals, In The Heights, Avenue Q and RENT. He was also the General Manager for the Broadway productions of the revival of Ragtime, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas and Baz Luhrmann’s Production of Puccini’s La Bohème. He was the general manager for the national tour of Avenue Q, two national touring companies of RENT, the Canadian, West End, and German productions of RENT, Avenue Q at the Wynn Resort in Las Vegas and the holiday perennial Irving Berlin’s White Christmas which has had productions in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Toronto, St. Paul and Detroit.
Is a dramaturg, director and teacher. She brought nearly 20 years of new play dramaturgical experience to her months of work with Jonathan Larson on the script of RENT. She was Associate Artistic Director for the Philadelphia Theatre company where she created and administered a new play festival. She was Dramaturg at Circle Repertory Company. She has directed over 100 productions of both new plays and revivals at regional and New York theatres, and many more workshops and reading of new plays. She is currently head of the MFA program in dramaturgy at Brooklyn College.
Broadway/Tours: SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark, The Normal Heart, Baby It’s You!, Sister Act, Catch Me If You Can, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Million Dollar Quartet, The Addams Family, Memphis, Rock of Ages, Wicked, Next to Normal, 9 to 5, Peepshow in Vegas. Off-Broadway: Atlantic, MCC, Signature. Film: Margin Call, Howl, Sex and the City 1 & 2, Jonah Hex, Main Street, The Other Woman, I Love You Phillip Morris, Rachel Getting Married, Dan in Real Life, Then She Found Me, Across the Universe, Ira & Abby, RENT, Pieces of April, Camp, The Grey Zone, Finding Forrester, The Bone Collector. TV: “The Big C,” “Smash,” “Vital Signs,” “Ugly Betty” (pilot), “Whoopi,” HBO’s “Undefeated,” commercials.
represent the international
tour of Fela!, Play Dead, New York Theatre
Workshop, Canada’s Stratford Shakespeare
Festival, Berkshire Theatre Festival,
P.S.122, Transport Group, The Joyce
Theater. Almost 30 years of Broadway credits
include Hairspray, Rent, Fela!,
BROADWAY: Memphis, A Catered Affair, Cymbeline, South Pacific, The Lion King, Gypsy. OFF BROADWAY: Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches & Part Two: Perestroika. REGIONAL: Long Wharf, 5th Avenue, Signature Theatre, The Old Globe, San Diego Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Shakespeare on the Green. EDUCATION: Western Michigan University & University of San Diego, California.
Jeffrey Seller is the winner of three Tony Awards for Best Musical: RENT (1996), which also won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Avenue Q (2004); and In the Heights (2008). Jeffrey has also produced and/or developed Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (2011), De La Guarda (1998), Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party (2000), Baz Luhrmann's production of Puccini's La Bohème (2002) and High Fidelity (2006). Jeffrey is a graduate of the University of Michigan.
Kevin McCollum received Tony Awards for Best Musical for In the Heights (2008), Avenue Q (2004) and RENT (1996), which was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and is now a major motion picture. He also produced Pulitzer Prize finalist Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo starring Robin Williams; The Drowsy Chaperone (five 2006 Tony Awards); Baz Luhrmann's La Bohème (2002), which won two Tony Awards; High Fidelity (2006); [title of show] (2008); West Side Story (2009), Ragtime (2010), and the debut stage production of Irving Berlin's White Christmas. Off-Broadway, he produced Lippa’s The Wild Party and the international hit De La Guarda.
Allan S. Gordon received the 1996 Tony Award for Best Musical for Rent. He also produced the original West End engagement as well as two revivals with Elan V. McAllister at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London. Mr. Gordon was represented on Broadway by Spamalot, for which he received the 2005 Tony Award for Best Musical, as well as Hairspray, for which he received the 2003 Tony Award for Best Musical. He received the 1999 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play for Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman and received a Tony nomination that same season for the revival of Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh. In 2002, he received a Tony nomination for Best Play Metamorphoses. Allan Gordon’s career spans the fields of theatre, law, investment banking, real estate and venture capital. In 2010, he received a Tony nomination for Best Musical for American Idiot. He is the chairman of the Allan S. Gordon Foundation, which, among other things, grants awards to not-for-profit theatres for the development of new theatrical works. Mr. Gordon is vice-chairman and a trustee of New York Theatre Workshop, a graduate of Harvard Law School and a member of the New York Stock Exchange.
Currently represented on Broadway and on tour with productions of Baby It’s You, and West Side Story. Other credits include RENT, Avenue Q, In The Heights, Ragtime, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Baz Luhrmann’s La Boheme, The Drowsy Chaperone, High Fidelity, The Odd Couple, Movin’ Out, Contact, [title of show], Jesus Christ Superstar, Side Show, De La Guarda, and Riverdance.
founded in 1913 represents more than 45,000 actor and stage managers in the U. S. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including pension and health plans. AEA is affiliated with the AFL-CIO and FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org. |
