Porgy and Bess Program [pdf] - American Repertory Theater

creative team (continued)
and Misalliance. Broadway: Superior Donuts, Top
Girls, 110 In The Shade (Tony nom.), Talk Radio,
Shining City, Awake and Sing! (Tony nom.), Well,
Rabbit Hole, A Touch of the Poet, In My Life, The Tale
of the Allergist’s Wife, Reckless, The Piano Lesson,
Seven Guitars (Tony nom.), and The Light in the
Piazza (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics’ Circle
Awards). Recent credits include Groove Lily’s new
musical Sleeping Beauty Wakes (La Jolla
Playhouse/McCarter Theatre), Ariadne auf Naxos
(Opera Nationale de Bordeaux), The Emperor of
Atlantis/After Image (Boston Lyric Opera),
Kafeneion (Athens/Epidaurus Festival), Franco
Dragone’s holiday circus K’do! (Foret Nationale,
Brussels), All My Sons (Huntington Theatre), and
the world premiere of Phillip Glass’s opera,
Appomattox (San Francisco Opera). His extensive
credits in opera include productions at the Boston
Lyric, Bordeaux, Dallas, Glimmerglass, Hamburg,
Houston, Los Angeles, Metropolitan, Minnesota,
New York City, Nissei, San Francisco, Washington
National, and Santa Fe operas, and over 50 productions
for Opera Theater of Saint Louis where
he was Resident Lighting Designer for twelve
years. He is the recipient of an OBIE Award for
Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design, the
Michael Merritt Award for Design and
Collaboration and numerous nominations for the
Drama Desk, Lucile Lortel, Outer Critics Circle
and Tony Awards.
ACME SOUND PARTNERS
Sound Design
A.R.T.: Johnny Baseball. Over 30 Broadway
shows since 2000 including: Bengal Tiger at the
Baghdad Zoo (Tony nomination), The Merchant of
Venice, Lombardi, Fences (Tony nomination), The
Addams Family, Ragtime, Hair (Tony nomination),
In The Heights (Tony Nomination), [title of show],
Legally Blonde, A Chorus Line (2006), The Drowsy
Chaperone, The Light in the Piazza, Monty Python’s
Spamalot, Avenue Q, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and
La Bohème. Acme is Tom Clark, Mark Menard,
Nevin Steinberg and Sten Severson.
WILLIAM DAVID BROHN
Orchestrations
A.R.T.: Debut. Orchestrations: Miss Saigon, Martin
Guerre, Crazy For You, The Secret Garden, Wicked,
Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, My Fair Lady,
Oliver!, Betty Blue Eyes, Witches of Eastwick, Sweet
Smell of Success, Curtains, Ragtime (1998 Tony
Award—Best Orchestrations), Dessa Rose, A Man
of No Importance, The Three Musketeers, Marguerite,
Wuthering Heights, High Society, Show Boat, Jerome
Robbins’ Broadway, Gone With the Wind, Hey Mr.
Producer, Busker Alley, The Red Shoes, 110 in the
Shade, King of Hearts. Arranger: O! Freedom (with
Jack Waddell). Recordings: Joshua Bell (Gershwin
album/West Side Story Suite), Andre Previn,
Prokofiev “Alexander Nevsky” (Reconstruction),
Marilyn Horne, Placido Domingo.
CHRISTOPHER JAHNKE
Orchestrations
A.R.T.: Debut. Orchestrations: Dessa Rose, A Man
of No Importance, Legally Blonde (2011 Olivier
Award Best Musical), Cry-Baby, Grease (2007 revival),
Tom Jones (Stiles/Leigh), Chasing Nicolette,
The Toxic Avenger Musical, Not Wanted On The
Voyage (Bartram & Hill), Just So (Stiles & Drewe),
Dear World. New orchestrations for Les Misérables
(Broadway/U.S. tour/Madrid/Netherlands/
London/UK tour/Dutch cast album/25th anniversary
cast album/O2 arena concert in London, UK,
DVD/Blu-ray). Assistant to William David Brohn:
Sweet Smell of Success, Ragtime, The Three
Musketeers (Stiles/Leigh), The Witches of Eastwick,
Mary Poppins, Wicked. Music Producer/Music
Supervisor of Memphis (Tony Award Best Musical
2010). Current: Music Producer/Arranger of
Operation: Mindcrime with actor Adam Pascal and
writer Micah Schraft.
DAVID LOUD
Music Director
A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: The Scottsboro Boys,
Ragtime, Curtains, Sondheim On Sondheim, Steel
Pier, A Class Act, The Look of Love and revivals of
She Loves Me, Sweeney Todd, Company and The
Boys From Syracuse. Off-Broadway: And the World
Goes ’Round, for which he wrote the vocal and
dance arrangements, and Pacific Overtures.
Regional: The Visit (world premiere), Harold and
Maude (world premiere), First You Dream, Billy
Bishop Goes to War. He recently created the
arrangements for two acclaimed concerts in
New York: All the Things You Are (Songs of
Jerome Kern) and On a Clear Day: the Musical
Vision of Burton Lane. Acting credits: originated
three roles on Broadway: Curtains (Sasha)
Terrence McNally’s Master Class (Manny) and
Harold Prince’s original production of Stephen
Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along (Ted). He is a
graduate of Yale University and has served on
the faculty of the Yale School of Drama.
SHEILAH WALKER
Conductor
A. R. T.: Debut. Winner of the 2005, 2006 Leon
Rabin Award for Outstanding Music Direction
for Ragtime and Urinetown, Dallas-Ft. Worth area.
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