Porgy and Bess Program [pdf] - American Repertory Theater

creative team (continued)
Music Supervisor for Ragtime in London, starring
Maria Friedman. Music Director/Conductor:
National tour of Ragtime, with David Loud, supervisor;
two national tours of Fiddler on the
Roof, starring Theodore Bikel; national tour of
Funny Girl, starring Deborah Gibson; national
tour of Oprah Winfrey’s production of The Color
Purple, starring Fantasia (NAACP Theatre Award
nomination for Best Music Direction in Los
Angeles). Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof (associate
conductor) starring Topol, Don’t Get God Started
with BeBe Winans. National tours of The Mystery
of Edwin Drood, Grand Hotel, South Pacific and
Hello, Dolly!, with Jean Stapleton, Joel Grey,
Liliane Montevecchi and Carol Channing. Tours
in Europe, Japan, Canada and Puerto Rico as pianist/accompanist
for several theater productions.
Acting credits: Ain’t Misbehavin’ and
Tintypes, Dallas-Ft. Worth; Barnum (Joyce Heth),
New Mexico. Vocal coach/accompanist in New
York; former head of the Vocal Department at
Dallas Arts Magnet High School, receiving a
teacher of the year award for outstanding work.
BRIAN HERTZ
Associate Conductor/Piano/Celeste
A.R.T.: Debut. Pianist for the Radio City
Christmas Spectacular; played in the Broadway
orchestras of Shrek, 9 to 5, The Little Mermaid,
Avenue Q, Legally Blonde, Xanadu, Les Misérables,
Sister Act. Assistant conductor at Avenue Q and
Altar Boyz. National tours: Legally Blonde
(Associate Music Director), Wonderful Town
(Associate Conductor); Paper Mill Playhouse:
Peter Pan (conductor), Forum (keyboards), Full
Monty (keyboards). Ithaca College grad.
TELSEY + COMPANY
Casting
A.R.T.: Debut. 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, The Addams Family, Memphis, Rock of
Ages, Wicked, Bring It On, Next to Normal, 9 to 5,
Peepshow in Vegas. Off-Broadway: Rent, Million
Dollar Quartet, Atlantic, MCC, Signature. Film:
The Odd Life of Timothy Green, Joyful Noise, Friends
with Kids, 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:
“Smash,” “A Gifted Man,” “The Big C,” “Ugly
Betty” (pilot), “Whoopi,” HBO’s “Undefeated,”
commercials. www.telseyandco.com.
NANCY HARRINGTON
Associate Director/
Production Stage Manager
A.R.T.: Children of Heracles, Prometheus
Bound, Death and the Powers. Broadway:
Collaborator of Bill Irwin for 28 years, one of
the creators of the Tony Award-winning Fool
Moon, Largely NY & The Regard of Flight. Other
Broadway: The Rainmaker, Uncle Vanya, A View
From The Bridge, The Full Monty, The Play What I
wrote, I Am My Own Wife, HAIR. Other projects
with Ms. Paulus include: Capeman, Turandot—
Rumble For The Ring, HAIR also in Central Park,
London, and national tour. In Additional: 60
premiere productions of New American plays
and musicals, over 200 productions worldwide.
DENISE L. WOODS
Dialect Coach
A.R.T.: Debut. Denise Woods’ work as a dialect
coach includes working with Academy Awardnominated
actors Will Smith (Ali) and Ken
Watanabe (The Last Samurai). Woods has worked
as a vocal coach with “NBC Nightly News,”
CNBC, “The Today Show,” CNN, “Inside
Edition” and “KTLA News.” Some of her clients
include Phylicia Rashad, Ellen Burstyn, Jeanne
Tripplehorn, Morris Chestnut, Taye Diggs, Paul
Rodriguez, Ray Liotta, Porscia Derossi, Rachel
Weisz, Forest Whitaker, Maggie Gyllenhaal and
Mike Myers. She is a graduate and former faculty
member of The Juilliard School and is currently
on faculty at California Institute of the Arts.
RYAN McKITTRICK
A.R.T. Dramaturg
A.R.T.: Lead dramaturg on more than thirty productions,
half of which were world premieres.
He is the A.R.T. Dramaturg and Co-Head of the
A.R.T. Institute’s Dramaturgy Program. He received
his M.F.A. in Dramaturgy from the
A.R.T./Moscow Art Theatre School Institute for
Advanced Theater Training at Harvard and his
B.A. in History and Literature from Harvard. He
is also a Lecturer in Dramatic Arts at Harvard
University and a Lecturer in Theater Arts at
Brandeis University. His articles on theater have
appeared in The Boston Globe, Correspondence,
Theatre and The Boston Phoenix. He is a recipient
of the TCG New Generations Award and the
NTC Scholarship Award. His co-translations
with Julia Smeliansky include Anton Chekhov’s
Lady with a Lapdog, Rezo Gabriadze’s Forbidden
Christmas and The Selected Letters of Olga
Bokshanskaya.
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