She / Her

Training: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

Theatre includes: The Purists (Kiln Theatre); The Band’s Visit (Donmar Warehouse); Carousel (Kilworth House Theatre); Heathers (The Other Palace); Evita (international tour); Children of Eden (Cadogen Hall); The Last 5 Years (Minack Theatre); Fiddler on the Roof (Chichester Festival Theatre); In the Heights (King’s Cross Theatre and Southwark Playhouse); Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre); Priscilla Queen of the Desert (UK tour) and Grease (UK tour).  

Television includes: Sound of Musicals with Neil Brand (BBC) 

Film includes: BKLYN The Musical (Lambert Jackson) and Been So Long (Netflix). 

She / Her

Theatre includes: ‘Mary Poppins’ in Mary Poppins (Prince Edward – Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical Nomination); ‘Marie Antoinette’ in CAKE (The Other Palace and Lyric); ‘Carla’ in Nine (The Hopemill); ‘Q’ in Rock Follies (Chichester Festival Theatre); ‘Laurey’ in Oklahoma! in concert (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); ‘Betty Schaefer’ in Sunset Boulevard (Royal Albert Hall); ‘Young Phillis’ in Follies (National Theatre); ‘Fran’ in Strictly Ballroom (Piccadilly); ‘Fastrada’ in Pippin (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); ‘Lana’ in The Carman (Royal Albert Hall); ‘Demeter’ in Cats (London Palladium); ‘Penny Pingleton’ in Hairspray (Leicester Curve); ‘Constance’ in Rock Of Ages (Shaftesbury); ‘Meg Kincaid’ in Merrily We Roll Along (Menier Chocolate Factory and Harold Pinter); ‘Lisa’ in Dirty Dancing (Aldwych) and ‘Zaneeta’ in The Music Man (Chichester Festival Theatre). 

Television includes: Victoria and Albert and Bramwell (ITV).

Film includes: ‘Tantomile’ in Cats (Universal and Working Title) and Dinotopia (Hallmark). 

He / Him

Training: Fresno Pacific University.

Theatre includes: Wicked (Broadway & US Second National Tour). Legally Blonde (Argyle Theater). Radio City Christmas Spectacular (Radio City Music Hall). Numerous productions for Walt Disney World.

Television: A Carol for Two (Hallmark).

She / Her

Theatre includes: ‘Madame Thenardier’ in Les Misérables (Sondheim); ‘Mrs. Brill’ in Mary Poppins (Prince Edward); ‘Whore/Claire’ in Amour (Charing Cross – Best Supporting Actress in a Musical Nomination); ‘Violet Butterfield’ in Flowers For Mrs. Harris (Chichester Festival); ‘Alice Beane’ in Titanic (Charing Cross/UK tour); ‘Cora’ in The Girls (Phoenix – Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical Nomination); ‘Barbara Castle’ in Made in Dagenham (Queen’s); ‘Gladys’ in Memphis (Shaftesbury – WhatsOnStage Best Supporting Actress Award Winner); ‘Mabel’ in The Pajama Game (Chichester Festival/Shaftesbury); ‘Mrs. Metcalf’ in Betty Blue Eyes (Novello); ‘Widow Corney’ in Oliver! (Drury Lane); ‘Tim’s Mother/Asphyxia’ in Salad Days (Riverside); ‘Mamie Eisenhower’ in First Lady Suite (Union); ‘Ms. Darbus’ (Original Cast) in High School Musical (UK tour); One Women Show: An Old Fashioned Love Story (New London).

Television/Film: ‘Grandma Who’ in The Grinch (NBC); ‘Mrs. Nathan’ in Vanity Fair (ITV/ Mammoth Screen); The Ritz, EastEnders, Miss Marple (BBC); Les Misérables (Working Title).

He / Him

Training: RADA 

Theatre includes: Little Shop of Horrors (Sheffield Crucible); The Baker’s Wife (Menier Chocolate Factory); Twelfth Night (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Aspects of Love (Lyric); HEX (National Theatre); Singing in the Rain (UK Tour); La Cage aux Folles (Park Theatre); King Lear (West End); Richard III (Headlong); Broken Glass (Watford Palace); The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre); The Sound of Music (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Peter and the Starcatcher (Royal and Derngate); Lend Me a Tenor (Gielgud); A Christmas Carol (West End); The Canterbury Tales and Eastward Ho! (Gielgud and RSC); A Midsummer Night’s
Dream and Timon of Athens (Globe); Imagine This (New London) and Martin Guerre (Prince Edward).

Television includes: Suspect (Disney+ and ITV); Shakespeare and Hathaway; EastEnders (BBC); Invasion (Apple TV) and Marilyn Monroe (Netflix). 

Film includes: The Crying Game (Neil Jordan) and A Muppet Christmas Carol (Disney).

Michael has been nominated for a TMA Award, a WhatsOnStage Award, a Helen Hayes Award, a BroadwayWorld Award and an Off West End Award, and jointly won an Olivier Award for ‘Best Acting Ensemble’ with RSC. 

He / Him

Training: Laine Theatre Arts 

Theatre Includes: ‘Elder Grant’ in The Book of Mormon (The Prince of Wales); ‘Angel’ in Kinky Boots in Concert (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); ‘Cyril’ in Mrs Henderson Presents (Royal Alexander Theatre, Toronto); ‘Peter Pan’ in Peter Pan (Northampton, Wolverhampton Manchester & Milton Keynes); ‘Rob’ in An Evening of Dirty Dancing (UK tour); ‘Bobby C’ in Saturday Night Fever (Jersey); understudy ‘Scarecrow’ in The Wizard of Oz (Royal Caribbean Cruise Line).

Television Credits: ‘Michael Banks’ in Cross Walk Musical for The Late Late Late Show with James Cordon (CBS). 

She / Her

Training: London College of Music (Class of 2025).

Theatre whilst training includes: ‘Fay Apple’ in Anyone Can Whistle and ‘Claudia Nardi’ in Nine (London College of Music).

Yara is thrilled to be making her West End debut in Wicked, marking her first professional role, and is deeply grateful to her family and friends for their
unwavering love and support.

He / Him

Training: Rose Bruford School of Speech and Drama 

Theatre includes: Standing at the Sky’s Edge (Sheffield Crucible, National Theatre and Gillian Lynne); Flowers for Mrs Harris (Riverside Studios); Stepping Out (Stephen Joseph, Scarborough); The Merry Wives of Windsor (Oxford Shakespeare Company); The Miracle Worker (Civic, Chelmsford); The Pirates of Penzance, HMS Pinafore and The Mikado (Sasha Regan’s All-Male Opera Company); Top Hat (UK tour); Much Ado About Nothing and The Tempest (Principal Theatre Company); La Jetée (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh); Peter Pan (Lichfield Garrick); On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) (Union Theatre); Late Joys (Players); That’s Jewish Entertainment (Gatehouse); Pageant (Vaudeville) and Chicago (Adelphi).

She / Her

Training: Laine Theatre Arts. 

Theatre includes: Understudy ‘Elsa’ in Frozen (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); ‘Grizabella’ in Cats (international tour); Anton du Beke on Tour (UK tour); understudy ‘Elphaba’ in Wicked (Apollo Victoria); ‘Alternate Eva Peron’ in Evita (UK tour); ‘Snow White’ in Snow White (Bromley Churchill Theatre); The Sound Of Music (international tour); Save The Last Dance For Me (UK tour); White Christmas (Pitlochry Theatre) and Don’t Stop Believin’ Glee (UK tour).  

Television includes: ‘Susan’ in Hollyoaks (Channel 4).

Laura is delighted to be returning to Wicked London and would like to thank her husband, Mikko, and family for their continued love and support. 

She / Her

Training: The London School of Musical Theatre.

Theatre includes: Understudy ‘Glinda’ in Wicked (UK & Ireland Tour); understudy ‘Grizabella’. ‘Jellylorum’/’Griddlebone’ in CATS (international tour); understudy ‘Christine Daaé’ in The Phantom of The Opera (UK & Ireland tour) and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (London Coliseum).  

Television includes: ‘Young Beth’ in Jonathan Creek (BBC) 

Lydia has also made a name for herself on the London busking circuit, often heard at Waterloo, Covent Garden and Trafalgar Square. 

For Mum, Dad and Grace.

He / Him

Training: Laine Theatre Arts and Birmingham Ormiston Academy.

Theatre includes: Aladdin (Portsmouth); The Book Thief (West End); Bat Out Of Hell (West End/UK tour); Hello, Dolly! (West End) and Shrek (UK tour).

Other credits include: Just For One Day (workshop); Blue Peter (BBC).

Leo would like to thank his family, friends and all at Apollo Artist Management for their constant support.

He / Him

Training: University of the Philippines-Diliman.

Theatre includes: Guys & Dolls (Bridge Theatre); understudy ‘Mike Masaoka’ in Allegiance – A New Musical (Charing Cross Theatre); ‘Bloody Mary’s Assistant’ in South Pacific (Chichester Festival Theatre and UK national tour); The King And I (UK & international tour); Miss Saigon (UK & international tour) and Aladdin (Cambridge Arts Theatre).

She / Her

Theatre includes: Dance Captain for Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (Grimaldi Forum); Midnight (Sadlers Wells); Brigadoon (Regent’s Park); W2 and understudy ‘Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds’ in Hamilton (Victoria Palace Theatre); ‘Tammy’ and understudy ‘Amber’, ‘Penny’ and ‘FAF’ in Hairspray (UK tour) and Broadway to Hollywood (Festival Jardins Pedralbes).

Other credits include: The Lobster Ball (Cece Penniston, Crystal Waters, Julie McKnight and Robin S); The After School Death Day Club (workshop); Eliza: A Bloomin’ New Ballet (workshop).

She / Her

Training: Guildford School of Acting 

Theatre whilst training includes: ‘Buzz’/‘Francois’ in Homo Alone (The Other Palace); ‘Ms Sheinkopf’ in School of Rock (GWB Entertainment); ‘Minerva’ in Noughts and Crosses (UK tour); Ensemble and understudy ‘Grandma’ in Billy Elliot (Leicester Curve).

She / Her

Training: Bird College, first-class BA (Hons) in Dance and Theatre Performance.

Theatre includes: Swing in Wicked (Apollo Victoria); ‘Rumpleteazer’ in Cats (international tour); ‘Anybody’s’ in West Side Story (Kilworth House Theatre); ensemble and swing in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); ‘Handmaiden’ and understudy ‘Narrator’ in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (UK tour) and ensemble in Cinderella (Milton Keynes Theatre).

Meg would like to thank her family and friends for their continued love and support.

She / Her

Training: Guildford School of Acting. 

Theatre includes: ‘Surgeon’ in The Little Big Things (Soho Place); ‘Pirelli’ in Sweeney Todd (88 London Road); ‘Bamba’ in The Last Maharaja (Wyndhams); Neighbourhood Voices (Young Vic); ‘Gemma’ in Zoe (Glyndbourne) and ‘Kareena’ in Kali’s Toenail (Theatre Royal Stratford East).

Television includes: The Olivier Awards and The Royal Variety (ITV); Phone Shop (Talkback/E4); Shoot The Writers (AATTV); The Bill (Talkback Thames); Doctors and Holby City (BBC).

He / Him

Training: Drama Centre London and Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

Theatre includes: Party Games! (UK tour); Young Frankenstein and The Hound of the Baskervilles (English Theatre Frankfurt); Uncle Vanya (Boris Shchukin Institute Moscow); and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Twickenham Theatre).

Film includes: Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger (Tempo/Netflix).

Other credits include: Torchwood (Audio, Big Finish Productions).

Shaun is delighted to be joining the cast of Wicked and it marks his West End debut.

She / Her

Training: Laine Theatre Arts.

Theatre includes: Aladdin (UK & Ireland tour); ‘Cassandra’ and understudy ‘Bombalurina’ in Cats (international tour).

Film includes: Disenchanted (Walt Disney Pictures) and Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Amazon Studios). 

She / Her

Training: Guildford School of Acting.

Theatre includes: ‘Janet’ in The Rocky Horror Show (Dominion/UK tour); ‘Sister Sophia’ in The Sound of Music (Chichester Festival Theatre); Frozen (Drury Lane); Mame (Hopemill); ‘Maria’ in West Side Story (Ledreborg Slitskoncert Denmark); understudy ‘Jasmine’ in Aladdin (Prince Edward); understudy ‘Kathy Selden’ in Singin’ in the Rain (Kilworth) and Here Lies Love (National Theatre).

They / He

Training: Tring Park School for the Performing Arts.

Theatre credits include: Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club (Playhouse Theatre); Cats The Musical (international tour); Cats The Musical (Royal Caribbean International); Chrysalis London Dance Company, Oliver! (UK tour) and Oliver! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane).

Television/other credits include: Kinky Boots (Royal Variety Performance 2025); Cabaret (Royal Variety Performance) and Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club X Selfridges (Immersive).

He / Him

Training: L’Acadco – United Caribbean Dance Force and The University of Technology.

Theatre includes: The Lion King (UK & international tour); BOP Jazz Dance company; Tavaziva Dance Company; Edinburgh Multicultural Festival and Classically British & Co.

Other credits include: Bachelors degree in Culinary arts Management, a certified professor and examiner of a Caribbean dance technique “L’Antech”. Oraine is internationally also a teacher, mentor and choreographer.

Training: Bird College

Theatre includes: Come Fall In Love (Manchester Opera House); Kiss Me Kate (Barbican); White Christmas (Sheffield Crucible); The Third Man (Menier Chocolate Factory); CHICAGO (International Tour); 42nd Street (Théâtre du Châtelet); Guys and Dolls (Théâtre du Châtelet); Follies (National Theatre); Wonderful Town (Royal Exchange Theatre); Mrs Henderson Presents (Noël Coward Theatre) and The Wizard of Oz (London Palladium). As Associate Choreographer: Sunny Afternoon (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Gypsy (Royal Exchange Theatre) and The Witches of Eastwick (Cirkus, Stockholm).

She / Her

Training: GSA & National Youth Theatre.

Theatre includes: understudy ‘Carlotta’ in The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre); understudy ‘Madame Morrible’ in Wicked (Apollo
Victoria); understudy ‘Madame Thenardier’ in Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre); The Phantom of the Opera 25th Anniversary (The Royal Albert
Hall); Les Misérables 25th Anniversary (O2 Arena) and Sweeney Todd (Royal Festival Hall).

Other credits include: Voiceover for Aldi and Birdseye; Les Misérables and Phantom of the Opera 25th Concert.

He / Him

Training: Laine Theatre Arts and Preston College.   

Theatre includes: ‘L.A’ and ‘Patsy’ in Gypsy (Manchester Opera House); Sondheim on Sondheim (Alexandra Palace); Cinderella (Milton Keynes Theatre); Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Bristol Hippodrome); An Evening with Lucy Conley (Crazy Coqs); Life Of the Golden Laine (The Epsom Playhouse).

Wicked marks Nat’s West End debut.

He / Him

Training: Performers College.

Theatre includes: Assistant Dance Captain in Elf The Musical (West End); Assistant Dance Captain in The Great Gatsby (Original West End); Singin’ in the Rain (international tour); Sister Act (UK tour); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (UK tour & Toronto); White Christmas (UK tour); Curtains (West End & UK tour); Evita (UK & international tour); Dirty Dancing (West End & UK tour); Top Hat (UK tour) and Priscilla Queen of the Desert (NCL).

She / Her

Training: Bird College.

Theatre includes: Wicked (UK and Ireland Tour); Dance Captain, ensemble, understudy ‘Annie’ and ‘Winnie’ in Annie Get Your Gun (The Lavender Theatre); Dance Captain and understudy ‘Frenchy’ in Grease and Columbus the Musical (Royal Caribbean’s Harmony of the Seas).

She / Her

Training: Tring Park School for the Performing Arts.

Theatre includes: Carousel (Kilworth House Theatre); Priscilla Queen of the Desert (UK tour); Aladdin (New Victoria Theatre); 9 to 5: The Musical (UK tour); Snow White (London Palladium); The Bodyguard (Toronto); Dick Whittington (London Palladium); The Last Tango (UK tour and Phoenix) and Dance till Dawn (UK tour).

Workshops include: Associate Choreographer, You Can’t Get There From Here by Ben Elton.

She / Her

Training: Guildford School of Acting.

Theatre: Factory Girl/1st Cover ‘Fantine’ in Les Misérables (West End); Lead Vocalist for BKCP (Seabourn Quest); ‘Adriana’ in Comedy of Errors (Antic Disposition); ‘Pauline Clench’ in One Man, Two Guvnors (Theatre Royal Windsor); ‘Anna Truman’ in Deadly Nightcap (Theatre Royal Windsor); ‘Dusty Springfield’ in DUSTY (Charing Cross Theatre); ‘Connie’ and understudy ‘Annette’ in Saturday Night Fever (UK tour) and Love Story (Union Theatre).

They / Them / He / Him

Training: Urdang Academy, Arts Ed Sixth Form and Sylvia Young Theatre School.

Theatre includes: Why Am I So Single? (Garrick Theatre); The Great Gatsby (London Coliseum) and Personality (Southbank Centre).

They are delighted and grateful to be part of Wicked and would like to thank their parents for their continued support.
Represented by Alex Gottschall at Link Artists.

He / Him

Training: Guildford School of Acting.
Theatre includes: ‘Mungojerrie’ and cover ‘Skimbleshanks’ in Cats the Musical (international tour); ‘Handyman’ in Choir of Man (Norwegian Cruise Line); ‘Bruce’ and ‘Tommy’ in Matilda the Musical (Royal Shakespeare Company).
Film includes: The Lost Honour of Christopher Jeffries (ITV).

He / Him

Training: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

Theatre includes: Ensemble/Cover ‘Boq’ in Wicked (UK & Ireland tour 2023-2025); ‘Charlie Rawlins’ in the World Premiere cast of Bedknobs and Broomsticks (UK tour) and Swing in A Christmas Carol (RSC).

Conor is thrilled to be part of Wicked and would like to thank his family for their infinite love and support.

He / Him

Training: Guildford School of Acting.

Theatre includes: Shucked (original cast at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Little Big Things (original West End cast at @sohoplace); Jersey Boys (Trafalgar Studios) and Grease (RCCL).

Workshops include: ‘George Harrison’ in My Very Own British Invasion. ‘Marco’ in The Little Big Things (@sohoplace).

She / Her

Training: The Urdang Academy. 

Theatre includes: The Bodyguard (UK tour); ‘Karen Davidson’ and ‘Sharon Percy’ in Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace Theatre); ‘White Cat’ in Cats (Royal Caribbean Cruise Line); Get on the Floor! (Arena Tour); AJ live (Arena tour); Cinderella and Goldilocks & The Three Bears (Bristol Hippodrome).

Television includes: Lorraine (ITV); Steph’s Packed Lunch (Channel 4); BBC News and Strictly Come Dancing (BBC).

He / Him

Theatre: Ensemble in I’m Every Woman (Peacock Theatre); Swing/Dance Captain and ‘Samuel Seabury’ in Hamilton (UK & Ireland tour) and ‘Mungojerrie’ in Cats (international tour).

Film and Television includes: Disenchanted; Better Man; Beetlejuice 2; The Brit Awards (Dua Lipa); Treat People With Kindness (Harry Styles); The Voice UK and Dancing on Ice.

Workshops include: Treason: The Musical.

She / Her

Training: Laine Theatre Arts.

Theatre includes: Flashdance the Musical (international tour) and ‘Mrs Pumpernickel’ in Coppelia (The Cockpit, KVN Dance Company).

Television includes: Horrible Histories (BBC).

Film includes: IF (Paramount Pictures); Skeleton Crew and Standby ‘Bashful’, ‘Happy’ and ‘Sleepy’ in Disney’s Live-Action Snow White (Disney,
Marc Platt Productions) and Horrible Histories The Movie (BBC Films).

She / Her

Training: London Studio Centre.

Theatre includes: Grease (European Tour).

Workshops/other credits include: Death Note (Workshop); Platée (Garsington Opera); Heartstopper S3 (Netflix) and Bridgerton (Netflix).

He / Him

Training: ArtsEd, London.

Theatre credits include: Ensemble/ Cover ‘Sky’ in MAMMA MIA! (West End); Songs For A New World (Upstairs at the Gatehouse); ‘Thomas Malloy’ in The Beautiful Game (ArtsEd) and Ensemble/Dance Captain in Sweeney Todd (ArtsEd).

Concert credits include: Symphonic Jackson with Peter Andre (London Palladium); Doctor Zhivago – In Concert (London Palladium);  The Olivier Awards (Royal Albert Hall) and Let’s Face The Music (Royal Albert Hall).

He / Him

Training: Arts Educational Schools London 

Theatre whilst training includes: ‘John Kelly’ in The Beautiful Game; Catch Me If You Can; Let’s Face the Music (Royal Albert Hall) ‘Tobias’ in Sweeney Todd (Royal College of Music) and The Olivier Awards 2023 (ITV).

Theatre includes: ‘Lord Clapham’ in Something Rotten (English Theatre Frankfurt). 

Chris is delighted to be making his West End debut in Wicked. 

She / Her

Training: Arts Educational Schools London  

 Theatre includes: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (London Palladium); I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical (Edinburgh) and Scrooge (London Palladium).

Television includes: Britain’s Got Talent and The Olivier Awards, 2018 (ITV).

Film includes: The Union (Netflix).

Hannah is delighted to be in Wicked and would like to thank her family and friends for their support.

She / Her

Training: The Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

Theatre includes: Standing at the Sky’s Edge (The Gillian Lynne Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Sheffield Crucible); The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre) and Spend Spend Spend (The Royal Exchange, Manchester).

Other credits include: West Side Story (BBC Proms); Magic of the Musicals (London Palladium) and Feinstein’s 54 Below, New York.

Stephen Schwartz has written music and/or lyrics for several shows which have been seen in the UK, including Godspell, Pippin, Working, Rags, Children of Eden, The Baker’s Wife and The Prince of Egypt, adapted from the Dreamworks animated feature. Also for film, he collaborated with Alan Menken on the songs for Disney’s Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Enchanted. Awards include three Academy Awards, four Grammy Awards and the Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award for his support of young theatre artists. In the US, Mr. Schwartz has been inducted into The Theater Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame and been given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. For more information, those interested are invited to visit: www.stephenschwartz.com

Winnie received a Tony nomination and a Drama Desk Award for Wicked. She got her start writing for the acclaimed television drama thirtysomething, and went on to create another memorable series: My So-Called Life, which starred Claire Danes. Other television credits include Once and Again, Huge (with her daughter, Savannah Dooley) and Roadies (with Cameron Crowe). Theatre work includes the musical Birds of Paradise (written with composer David Evans), Post-its: Notes on a Marriage and Assisted Living, (both written with her husband, actor Paul Dooley) and her play Choice. Also an actress, Ms. Holzman appeared in Jerry Maguire and as Larry David’s wife’s therapist on Curb Your Enthusiasm. Most recently, she completed both screenplays for the film adaptation of Wicked.

A two-time Tony Award-winning director, recent credits include: Here We Are; Grey House; The Boys in the Band (Netflix and Broadway); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Hillary and Clinton; Three Tall Women (Tony nomination); The Humans (Tony nomination); Blackbird; An Act of God; The Last Ship; Casa Valentina; I’ll Eat You Last…; Dogfight; Other Desert Cities; The Pride; Pal Joey; 9 To 5: The Musical; Three Days of Rain; Glengarry Glen Ross (Tony nomination); Laugh Whore; Assassins (Tony Award); Take Me Out (Tony Award); Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; A Man of No Importance; The Vagina Monologues and Love! Valour! Compassion! (Tony nomination). Acting credits include: Feud: Capote’s Women; American Horror Story; The Watcher (Netflix), Hollywood (Netflix) and the Broadway productions of The Glass Menagerie, The Normal Heart (Tony nomination) and Angels in America (Tony nomination). Mantello was nominated for Emmy and Critics’ Choice Awards for his performance in HBO’s The Normal Heart. He has received Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Clarence Derwent, Obie and The SDC “Mr. Abbott” Awards and is a member of The Theatre Hall of Fame.

Nominated for seven Tony Awards, Cilento won his first for his choreography on the historic Broadway production of The Who’s Tommy (Drama Desk Award; Fred Astaire Award; Olivier nomination).

Broadway: six Tony Award nominations for his choreographic work on How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (starring Matthew Broderick); the Broadway production Holler If Ya Hear Me featuring the music of Tupac Shakur; Director of Dream: The Johnny Mercer Musical; the 2004 revival of Sweet Charity; Baby; Wicked and Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ (Best Featured Actor in a Musical). Mr. Cilento also choreographed Elton John’s Aida on Broadway, on tour and the European productions in Germany and Amsterdam, as well as the iconic Broadway production of Jerry Herman’s Jerry’s Girls. Cilento was a member of the original Broadway cast of A Chorus Line (‘Mike’).

He has also directed and choreographed major commercials and concerts for Liza Minnelli, Barry Manilow, Chita Rivera, Billy Joel, Donna Summer, Pete Townsend, Alicia Keys and the Jonas Brothers. Cilento recently directed the critically acclaimed hit Broadway revival of Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ in Spring 2023.

Eugene Lee was Resident Designer at Trinity Rep in Providence, RI. He was the Production Designer of Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers.

Other Broadway credits include: Bright Star; Ragtime; Show Boat and Sweeney Todd.

Film includes: Coppola’s Hammett; Huston’s Mr. North; Malle’s Vanya on 42nd Street and Demme’s A Master Builder.

BFA: The Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon.

MFA: Yale School of Drama and three honorary PhDs.

Awards: Tony; Drama Desk; Lucille Lortel; Emmy; Elliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence; Pell Award and DESIGNxRI Lifetime Achievement Award.

Eugene is an inductee into The Theater Hall of Fame, New York.

Hilferty has designed over 350 productions worldwide. London/UK – Scenery/Costumes: Salomé (National Theatre); Hamlet (Gate Theatre, Dublin); Athol Fugard’s Sorrows and Rejoicings (Tricycle) and The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family (European tour). Costumes: Blood Wedding (Young Vic); Buried Child and The Spoils (Trafalgar Studios); Spring Awakening (Novello); Flying Karamazov Brothers’ 4Play (Vaudeville) and August Wilson’s Jitney (National). Scenery/Costumes/Associate Director: Athol Fugard’s My Children! My Africa! and A Place with the Pigs (National); Valley Song (Royal Court) and Playland (Donmar). Directorial collaborators include: Yaël Farber, James Macdonald, Tony Kushner, Garry Hynes, Michael Longhurst, Michael Mayer, James Lapine, Jonathan Butterell, Robert Falls, Richard Nelson, Garland Wright, Mark Lamos, Frank Galati, Selina Cartmell, Des McAnuff, Bartlett Sher, Doug Wright, Laurie Anderson, and Athol Fugard. Recent designs include: Funny Girl (Broadway and national tour); Parade (Broadway TONY Nomination) and Waiting for Godot (TFNA). Other: Taylor Swift’s Speak Now! World Tour; Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Upcoming: Avett Brothers’ Swept Away (Broadway) and Aida (Metropolitan Opera). Hilferty is on faculty of Graduate Design NYU/Tisch, having served as chair for 25 years. Her many awards include three Lifetime Achievement Awards plus TONY, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards and Olivier nomination for Wicked.

Kenneth Posner, Lighting Designer, designs extensively On and Off-Broadway, for resident theatres and touring productions throughout the United States as well as internationally. In addition to Wicked (Olivier nomination) he has designed the West End productions of Mean Girls; Pretty Woman; Kinky Boots; Legally Blonde; Side Man and Hairspray (Olivier nomination). His love of theatre began with his local community theatre and grew into a passion for lighting and visual story telling. He graduated with a degree in Lighting Design from SUNY at Purchase in 1987 and began his professional design career at the Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge Massachusetts. Selected Broadway credits include Beetlejuice; Mr Saturday Night; Pretty Woman; Mean Girls; War Paint; Tuck Everlasting; Disgraced; On Your Feet!; If/Then; Kinky Boots; Pippin; Cinderella; Hairspray; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Legally Blonde; Catch Me If You Can; The Coast of Utopia – Shipwrecked; Other Desert Cities; The Merchant of Venice; Finding Neverland and Wicked. He is the recipient of the TONY, Drama Desk, Outer Critics’ Circle and OBIE Awards.

West End theatre includes: Come From Away (Associate Producer); Kiss Me, Kate; The Lion King; Smokey Joe’s Café and Anything Goes. 

Broadway includes: First Date (Associate Producer); The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Drama Desk Award); Lysistrata Jones (Producer and Sound Designer); Wicked; Pal Joey; The Ritz and Laugh Whore (all with Joe Mantello); Man of La Mancha; Sweet Smell of Success; Copenhagen; Kiss Me, Kate; Footloose; The Lion King (Drama Desk Award); The Sound of Music; Juan Darien; A Christmas Carol (MSG); Steel Pier; Forum; The King and I; Moon Over Buffalo; Smokey Joe’s Café; Guys and Dolls; Five Guys Named Moe; She Loves Me; The Red Shoes and Anything Goes.

National and international include: The Lion King; Les Misérables; Mozart and Der Gloeckner von Notre Dame.

Off-Broadway includes: Here Lies Jenny and The Normal Heart.

Tony is a graduate of Ithaca College’s Department of Theatre Arts.

Elaine’s international career spans over 25 years in nearly every area of live performance. Her Broadway credits include: Spamalot; Impressionism; The People in the Picture; Assassins; Man of La Mancha; Into the Woods; Thurgood and Judgment at Nuremberg. Additional career highlights include: Great Scott; Everest; Iolanta; Tristan und Isolde and Moby Dick (Dallas Opera); Mazeppa (Metropolitan Opera); Dead Man Walking (NYC Opera); War and Peace (Metropolitan Opera and Kirov Opera); Tan Dun and Peter Sellars’ The Peony Pavilion at the Wiener Festwochen (Opera); Frequency Hopping (set and projections); Distracted (set and projections); Embedded; Fran’s Bed; Speaking in Tongues; The Stendhal Syndrome and The Thing About Men (Off-Broadway); Tan Dun’s The Gate (NHK Symphony); Don Byron’s Tunes and ’Toons at The Brooklyn Academy of Music (Concert); Peter Buffett’s Spirit: A Journey in Dance, Drums and Song and Chen Shi-Zheng’s Forgiveness at Asia Society/New York (Dance); Adidas; Sony/Epic Records; Kenneth Cole; Calvin Klein Cosmetics and the 1996 and 1997 CFDA Awards (Fashion/Industrial) and the 2008 documentary film, Secrecy.

Tom Watson headed the wig/makeup department at the Metropolitan Opera for 17 years. He has designed more than 100 Broadway productions including Wicked; Rock of Ages; The King and I; Fiddler on the Roof; Oslo; Falsettos; The Little Foxes; My Fair Lady; Plaza Suite; Parade; Spamalot (revival); Just In Time; Floyd Collins and Ragtime.

Broadway/West End: Wicked; Beautiful and MJ. Broadway: SMASH; Death Becomes Her; Suffs; KPOP; Beetlejuice; Torch Song; SpongeBob SquarePants; Summer; Sunday in the Park with George; Anastasia; Allegiance; If/Then; Follies; Jekyll & Hyde; The Normal Heart and Grease. Off Broadway: Fly; Sweet Charity; Into the Woods; The Wild Party and Show Boat. Television: Annie Live; Jesus Christ Superstar Live (Emmy nomination); The Gilded Age; Julia and Castle Rock. Film: The Holdovers; Hocus Pocus 2; Don’t Look Up and About Fate. www.joedulude2.com

Broadway: Kinky Boots (2013 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations and 2013 Grammy Award); The Book of Mormon (2011 Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Best Orchestrations and 2012 Grammy Award) and Disney’s Frozen: The Broadway Musical. Worldwide Music Supervisor/Arranger of Wicked; Music Supervisor/Vocal Arranger/Orchestrator of Broadway productions/tours of The Book of Mormon, Avenue Q, All Shook Up and 9 to 5: The Musical; Grammy nominee as Co-Producer with Dolly Parton of 9 to 5: The Musical Broadway cast recording. Other credits: Music Supervisor, Vocal Arranger and Orchestrator: tick, tick… BOOM!; Music Director: Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party; Conductor and contributing Orchestrator for the Oscar-winning Disney film Frozen; Music Director of the 87th Academy Awards telecast and The Wiz Live! on NBC TV.

William received the 1998 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations for Ragtime. Other Broadway and West End credits include: Half a Sixpence (Noël Coward); the revival of Miss Saigon (Prince Edward); Curtains; Mary Poppins; The Secret Garden; Show Boat; Crazy for You; Carousel; Sweet Smell of Success; Oklahoma!; Oliver!; The Witches of Eastwick; My Fair Lady; South Pacific; Betty Blue Eyes and Barnum (Chichester). He has provided arrangements for Marilyn Horne, James Galway, Placido Domingo and West Side Story Suite for Violin and Orchestra.

Alex Lacamoire is a four-time Grammy, three-time Tony, three-time Olivier, and Emmy Award winner for his work on Hamilton; Dear Evan Hansen; In the Heights and FX’s mini-series Fosse/Verdon. Alex was also the recipient of a first-of-its-kind Kennedy Center Honors for his contribution to Hamilton. Other credits as Music Director, Arranger, and/or Orchestrator include: Sweeney Todd (2023 Broadway Revival); Bring It On: The Musical; Wicked; Bat Boy and Godspell. He served as the Executive Music Producer for the films: The Greatest Showman; In the Heights; VIVO; Dear Evan Hansen and tick, tick… Boom!

Broadway: Aida; Tarzan; Bombay Dreams; Rent; Footloose; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Cats; Sunset Boulevard and Miss Saigon. National tours include: Starlight Express; Kiss of the Spider Woman; The Who’s Tommy and Jesus Christ Superstar among others. He has performed with Aretha Franklin, Dennis DeYoung of Styx, Shirley Bassey, Bob Hope, Vanessa Williams and with Elton John in Greatest Hits Live at Madison Square Garden. Clients include Dr Pepper, Frito Lay, American Airlines and General Electric.

Over one-hundred Broadway, touring, and international productions, including: Stranger Things – The First Shadow (Special TONY Award); Angels in America (TONY nomination); Wicked (all worldwide productions); The Phantom of the Opera (World Tour). President, United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829 representing designers. Edward balances his professional life with the joy of raising three children with his wife in New Jersey. www.edwardpierce.com

Mark is currently the Resident Director/Choreographer of Broadway’s Death Becomes Her and the Associate Choreographer of The Sound of Music on Tour. Broadway Associate Choreographer Credits include: Dear Evan Hansen; The Cher Show; My Fair Lady; SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical; War Paint and If/Then. West End Associate Choreographer credits include: My Fair Lady; Dear Evan Hansen and Wicked.

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West End leading roles: Annie; West Side Story; On Your Toes and A Chorus Line. Repertory theatre roles: Chicago; Lulu; Bells Are Ringing; Stepping Out and Blithe Spirit. Television and Films: The Music Lovers; The Boyfriend; Fiddler on the Roof; The Slipper and the Rose; Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels and Billy Elliot. Choreographer: Jesus Christ Superstar; Hair; Poppy; Annie; The King and I; Guys and Dolls; Iolanthe; Dreams of Leaving (TV) and The Peter Hall Company’s Twelfth Night. Recently played ‘Mother’ in Paul Harnett’s Alice: A New Musical (St. James Theatre) and appeared at the Royal Festival Hall in The Oliviers in Concert (BBC 3). Director: The Sound of Music; Sweet Charity; West Side Story and The Apollo Victoria 80th Anniversary Gala. West End musicals as Associate Director: Always; Annie; Kiss Me, Kate; Ragtime and The Producers. UK national tours as Associate Director: Annie; Kiss Me, Kate and The Producers following their West End productions. Recently appeared in the Wicked film as ‘Autograph Hunter’. Assistant to: Joe Mantello, Susan Stroman, Michael Blakemore, Martin Charnin, Kathleen Marshall, Tommy Tune, Larry Fuller, John Doyle and Stafford Arima. Associate Director for the Wicked UK & Ireland Tour.

Training: Stage Door School of Dancing, Bournemouth and London Studio Centre. Theatre includes: UK Dance Supervisor for the Wicked UK & Ireland Tour and UK/International Tour; the title role in Alice: A New Musical (St. James Theatre); flying workshop for Peter Pan (The O2); The Apollo Victoria 80th Anniversary Gala; Dancing in The Dark (Clapham Grand); Spirit of the Dance (UK tour); Journey of Jazz (Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadler’s Wells); Dance Captain and understudy ‘Peter’ in Peter Pan (The Anvil, Basingstoke); The Jazz Dance Company (Peacock Theatre, London) and West End Bares (Café de Paris). Television and Film includes: Infatuation for Kate Alexa; American Boy/New Generation video for PaM’s People, Killa Kela MTV music video and Children in Need. Hannah has taught at leading vocational colleges including The BRIT School, Arts Educational Schools London and London Studio Centre, and is a qualified Body Control Pilates teacher.

UK Music Supervisor for the Wicked UK & Ireland Tour. Music Supervisor: Viking Ocean Cruises (Blackburn International); Wicked (Apollo Victoria); Children of Eden (Prince of Wales); Search for a Twitter Star Live (Piccadilly); She’s the One (Savoy) and The Apollo Victoria 80th Anniversary Gala. Other credits include: Fame (West End and UK tour); Saturday Night Fever (West End and UK tour); Sinatra (West End); Annie Get Your Gun (UK tour); The Light Princess (National Theatre workshop) and Louise Dearman in Concert. Other freelance work includes: The Ratpack (West End); Taboo (West End); Regent’s Park; Chichester Festival Theatre; The Drifters (UK and international tour dates) and live radio broadcasts for Katherine Jenkins and Friday Night is Music Night.

Ron studied at The Royal Academy of Music and King’s College London. As Musical Director credits include: The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales). As Assistant Musical Director: Jersey Boys (Prince Edward); Shrek The Musical (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane) and The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales). As Associate Conductor/Children’s MD: Billy Elliot the Musical (Victoria Palace). Workshop MD credits include: Nativity! The Musical and Miss Atomic Bomb. Ron has also coached and consulted as a children’s vocal specialist on major West End and touring musicals. He is proud to have been made an Associate of The Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) where he coaches on the Postgraduate Musical Theatre course.

Training: Arts Educational Schools, London.

Theatre includes: Swing and understudy ‘Olaf’ and ‘Weselton’ in Frozen (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), Resident Director at Pretty Woman (The Savoy); ‘Alfredo’ and ‘Carlos’  in Pretty Woman (Piccadilly and Savoy); Dance Captain, Swing and understudy ‘Grantaire’ in Les Misérables All Star Concert (Gielgud); Dance Captain, Swing and understudy ‘Jean Val Jean’ and ‘Foreman’ in Les Misérables (Queens), Swing and understudy ‘Doctor Dillamond’ in Wicked (Apollo Victoria); ‘Scarecrow’ in The Wizard of Oz (Louder than Words, Cyprus); ‘Billy Lawlor’ in 42nd Street (Chichester Festival Theatre); ‘Ethan’ in The Full Monty (English Theatre of Frankfurt); ‘Barnaby’ in Hello Dolly! (Regent’s Park Open Air); Imagine This (New London); ensemble and understudy ‘Lt. Cable’ in South Pacific (UK tour) and Follies (London Palladium).

Workshops include: Much; ‘The Miller’s Son’ in Twang; ‘Simon’ in Some Sunny Day and RiZen.

Recordings include: Les Misérables Concert; Imagine This and Spitting Distance (original cast recording).

Films include: Frozen (Disney); ‘Noble Man’ in The King (Netflix) and Les Misérables Concert.

Jim is a freelance Casting Director of musicals and plays for West End and regional theatres, and for UK and international tours. He established Jim Arnold Casting in 2018, having previously worked as Associate Casting Director for Pippa Ailion Casting from 2012-2018. He is a full member of the Casting Director’s Guild of Great Britain & Ireland. Theatre includes: Wicked (Apollo Victoria and UK & Ireland Tour); Young Frankenstein (Hope Mill); Spend Spend Spend (Royal Exchange Theatre); A Christmas Carol – The Musical (The Lowry Quays); Miss Saigon (Gothenburg Opera); Pretty Woman: The Musical (Savoy and UK & Ireland tour); Shrek – The Musical (Eventim Apollo and UK tour); Bonnie & Clyde (Garrick and UK tour); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – The Musical (Leeds Playhouse and UK & Ireland tour); The Great British Bake Off Musical (Noël Coward and Everyman Cheltenham); When Darkness Falls (UK tour); Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical (Hall for Cornwall and UK tour); Rock of Ages (UK tour); The Prince of Egypt (Dominion); West Side Story (Royal Exchange Theatre); Curtains (Wyndham’s and UK tour); Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (Harold Pinter and UK tour); The Mirror Crack’d (Wales Millennium Centre and Wiltshire Creative); Eugenius! (The Other Palace); The Wedding Singer (Troubadour Theatre and UK tour) and Matilda The Musical (Original Casting Associate for the RSC).

Lloyd trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, before starting his career at the National Theatre and the Young Vic. Productions include: The Hunger Games On Stage (Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre); The Great Gatsby (London Coliseum); & Juliet (UK tour); Much Ado About Nothing and The Tempest (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); The Prince of Egypt (Dominion); 9 to 5: The Musical (UK tour); A Little Life (Harold Pinter); Bridgerton and Guardians of the Galaxy (Secret Cinema); Betrayal; Cyrano de Bergerac and Pinter Season (Harold Pinter and Broadway); The Time Traveller’s Wife (UK tour); Rusalka (English National Opera); Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (Harold Pinter and UK tour); The Wild Duck (Almeida); Summer and Smoke (Duke of York’s); The Jungle (Playhouse and Broadway); Nightfall (Bridge Theatre); Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (Aldwych, Associate PM); The Christmasaurus Live (Hammersmith Apollo); Project Polunin (London Coliseum); The Lady from the Sea (Donmar); Shakespeare Trilogy (Donmar and Broadway); Oslo (National Theatre and Harold Pinter); Buried Child and The Spoils (Trafalgar Studios); Blue/Orange and Macbeth (Young Vic); Lela & Co (Royal Court); Fleabag and The Mentalists (Wyndham’s); A View from the Bridge (Wyndham’s, Associate PM); Constellations (Donmar and UK tour); Neville’s Island (Duke of York’s) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Assistant PM).

Playful Productions is one of the most eminent independent theatre producers in the West End. Alongside its producing work, Playful is a full-service executive producer and general management company.

As Producer and General Manager productions include Inter Alia (Wyndham’s); Born With Teeth (Wyndham’s); The Fifth Step (@SohoPlace); Dr. Strangelove (Noël Coward and Bord Gáis, Dublin); Macbeth (Harold Pinter); MJ (Prince Edward); The Artist (Theatre Royal Plymouth); The Unfriend (Chichester Festival Theatre, Criterion and Wyndham’s); Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Sheffield, Lyric Hammersmith and Theatre Royal Haymarket); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – The Musical (UK & Ireland Tour); Good (Harold Pinter); Get Up Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical (Lyric); Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies (Aldwych) and The Audience (Gielgud and Apollo).

As Producer productions include All My Sons (Wyndham’s); The Unbelievers (Royal Court); Make It Happen (Dundee Rep and Edinburgh International Festival); Buena Vista Social Club (Broadway); Groundhog Day (The Old Vic and Princess Theatre, Melbourne) and MJ (Broadway).

Current and recent Executive Producer work includes Wicked (Apollo Victoria); Moulin Rouge! The Musical (Piccadilly); MJ (Prince Edward) and Wild Rose (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh); additionally, Executive Producer on the multi-Emmy-award-winning Netflix TV series The Crown based on The Audience.

As General Manager productions include Wicked (Apollo Victoria, UK & Ireland Tours and International Tour); Moulin Rouge! The Musical (Piccadilly); Wild Rose (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh) and Come From Away (Abbey Theatre, Dublin and Phoenix).

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Nina Essman, Nancy Nagel Gibbs and Marcia Goldberg’s past and present Broadway, Off-Broadway and national tour management credits include: Wicked (worldwide); SpongeBob Squarepants: The Broadway Musical; War Paint; Oh, Hello on Broadway; Fun Home; If/Then; Peter and the Starcatcher; Bring It On: The Musical; Sister Act; Traces; Next to Normal; The 25 th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; The Vagina Monologues; Man of La Mancha; The Graduate; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; Fully Committed and Bat Boy. Individual productions include: The Lion King; Smokey Joe’s Café; The Santaland Diaries; Full Gallop; Smoke on the Mountain; Rent; Guys and Dolls and The Diary of Anne Frank.

Broadway: Wicked; Topdog/Underdog (Tony Award); Fat Ham (Tony nomination); A Strange Loop (Tony Award); The Band’s Visit (Tony Award); War Paint; Oh, Hello on Broadway; If/Then; Pal Joey and Three Days of Rain. Off-Broadway and UK: Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures production of Edward Scissorhands (Drama Desk Award). Films: Wicked; The Little Mermaid; Babylon; Cruella; Dear Evan Hansen; The Trial of the Chicago 7 (BAFTA and Oscar nominations); Thunder Force; Mary Poppins Returns; La La Land (BAFTA Best Film Award, Oscar nomination); The Girl on the Train; Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk; Bridge of Spies (Oscar nomination); Into the Woods; Drive (BAFTA nomination); Ricki and the Flash; Scott Pilgrim vs. The World; Legally Blonde; Rachel Getting Married; Wanted; Nine; Hotel Artemis; 2 Guns; Lost River; Legally Blonde 2; The Other Woman; Winter’s Tale; Charlie St. Cloud; Cop Out; The Seeker; The Perfect Man; Honey and Josie and The Pussycats. Television: Better Nate Than Ever (Disney+, Emmy nomination); Oslo (HBO, Emmy nomination); Rent (FOX); Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert (NBC, Emmy Award); A Christmas Story Live! (FOX); Grease Live! (FOX, Emmy Award); Empire Falls (HBO); Taking The Stage (MTV); Once Upon A Mattress (ABC) and The Path To 9/11 (ABC). Mr. Platt has served as president for three movie studios (Orion, TriStar and Universal).

David Stone (Producer) is currently represented on National Tour by Kimberly Akimbo and around the world (on stage and screen) by Wicked. He has also produced Purpose; Kimberly Akimbo; Topdog/Underdog; The Boys in the Band; War Paint; If/Then; Next to Normal; The 25^th 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 Yale, Princeton, Columbia and his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania.

Universal Stage Productions, a division of Universal Theatrical Group, is the live theatre division of the world-famous motion picture studio. Universal’s musical phenomenon Wicked is now in its 20th year in the West End. With multiple international productions, including the original Broadway production which premiered in 2003, Wicked has been seen by over 60 million people worldwide, making it one of the most successful theatrical ventures of all time. Universal’s critically acclaimed musical adaptation of Billy Elliot, which won four Olivier Awards and ten Tony Awards, including Best Musical, concluded its 11-year run in the West End and has toured globally. Alongside the Broadway phenomenon Wicked, Universal Theatrical Group is represented on Broadway by the musical adaptation, Death Becomes Her, based on the 1992 Universal cult classic. Additional credits under UTG’s DreamWorks Theatricals banner include Shrek the Musical and the West End production of The Prince of Egypt.

Mr. Platt’s many honours include The Laurence Olivier Award, 14 Tony Awards, The Robert Whitehead Award for Distinguished Producing on Broadway and a Lifetime Membership in The Broadway League. His award-winning productions include: Angels in America; Company; Hangmen; Copenhagen; God of Carnage; The Humans; The Book of Mormon; Death of a Salesman; Clybourne Park; A Raisin in the Sun; A View From the Bridge; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; Skylight; Venus in Fur; Blackbird; No Man’s Land/Waiting for Godot; The Audience; The Crucible; King Charles III; The Heiress and The Children’s Hour.

Founded in 1997 by partners Matthew Rego, Michael Rego and Hank Unger, The Araca Group LLC produces and merchandises live entertainment and theatrical events on Broadway and around the world.

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A four-time Olivier Award-winning producer in the UK and Tony Award-nominated on Broadway, Michael served as Executive Producer of Wicked in the UK from its London premiere in 2006 until his retirement in 2025. His additional producing credits included: The Prince of Egypt; An American in Paris; Sweeney Todd; Million Dollar Quartet and Spring Awakening in the UK and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Promises, Promises on Broadway. Michael also served as the original Marketing Director of Mamma Mia!, overseeing the first 14 international premieres.