ExtraOrdinary

Diane Paulus is the Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University. A.R.T.: Jagged Little Pill, The White Card, In the Body of the World, Waitress (currently on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre and on US national tour), Crossing, Finding Neverland, Witness Uganda, Pippin (Tony Award, Best Revival and Best Director), The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Tony Award, Best Revival; NAACP Award, Best Direction), Prometheus Bound, Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera, Best of Both Worlds, The Donkey Show. Other recent work includes Gloria: A Life, Cirque du Soleil’s Amaluna, currently on tour in South America, Invisible Thread at 2econd Stage, and The Public Theater’s Tony Award-winning revival of HAIR on Broadway and London’s West End. As an opera director, her credits include The Magic Flute, the complete Monteverdi cycle, and the trio of Mozart-Da Ponte operas. Paulus is Professor of the Practice of Theater in Harvard University’s English Department and Theater, Dance & Media concentration. She was selected for Boston Magazine’s 2018 list of Boston’s 100 most influential people and the 2014 Time 100, Time magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

A.R.T.: ExtraOrdinary, Cabaret, Prometheus Bound. Emmy Award-winning music director, composer, singer-songwriter, pianist, orchestrator, and producer. Creates and collaborates with: Alan Cumming, Margaret Cho, the von Trapps, Neil Gaiman, Amanda Palmer/The Dresden Dolls, Meow Meow, Justin Vivian Bond, Rufus Wainwright, Pink Martini, Kylie Minogue, Liza Minnelli, Kristin Chenoweth, Darren Criss, Peaches, Ricki Lake, the Gatlin Brothers, Michael Feinstein, Carol Channing, Ben Folds, System of a Down, Pina Bausch Tanzfestival, Boston Pops, Atlanta Symphony, London/SF/LA/NY Gay Men’s Choruses, Sydney Dance Company, Sesame Street. Original music: Moisés Kaufmann’s Bent, Mark Taper Forum; Jake Shears, debut solo album ft. Preservation Hall Jazz Band; Vegas! The Show, Planet Hollywood. Performance with Kristin Chenoweth at London US Embassy for President Obama, the First Lady, and Queen Elizabeth. World Tour and PBS Special: Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs. Broadway: Little Women (vocal arrangements). Multiple West End appearances. Lincoln Center Songbook Series. TV: “Ricki Lake Show,” FOX; Macy’s Parades, NBC; “One Life to Live,” ABC. Upcoming: Johnny Mercer Residence for “Revelations,” based on Anne Rice, Goodspeed; Reefer Madness revival. Ongoing: Mondays in the Club with Lance, Club Cumming. Steinway Artist, Jonathan Larson Award recipient. Education/Training: BFA, MFA, Music Composition, The Juilliard School; Interlochen graduate.

A.R.T.: ExtraOrdinary. Dick Scanlan wrote the musicals Thoroughly Modern Millie (book and lyrics, Tony Award for Best Musical), Everyday Rapture (Tony nomination for Best Book with Sherie Rene Scott), Renascence (book and co-director with Jack Cummings, Off-Broadway at the Transport Group) and The Unsinkable Molly Brown (new book and additional lyrics, Denver Center and St. Louis Muny). He served as script consultant to Berry Gordy on Motown the Musical, and creative consultant for Invisible Thread (formerly Witness Uganda) at 2econd Stage. His plays include Whorl Inside a Loop at 2econd Stage, co-written with Sherie Rene Scott and co-directed with Michael Mayer. Scanlan directed Jake Gyllenhaal and Ellen Greene in Little Shop of Horrors at Encores! Off-Center. His novel, Does Freddy Dance, was published by Alyson Publications. He has published numerous articles and essays in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and other publications.

A.R.T.: ExtraOrdinary, Jagged Little Pill (Associate Choreographer). Broadway: Waitress (Associate Choreographer), Spamalot (Ensemble); Pal Joey (Swing). Off-Broadway (Associate Choreographer): Odyssey, Public Theater; Ragtime, Lincoln Center. New York: Radio City Rockettes. Regional (Choreographer): American Idiot, TUTS; The Rocky Horror Show (Director/Choreographer), Dreamgirls, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Big Fish, Rock of Ages, Theatre Raleigh; Mamma Mia!, Casa Mañana. Regional (Associate Choreographer): Elf, Paper Mill Playhouse; Company, Bucks County; A Taste of Things to Come, Broadway Playhouse. TV/Film: “The Late Show with David Letterman,” “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” “SMASH” on NBC, “SUGARLAND” (music video). Resident Director of Hot On Broadway.

A.R.T.: Endlings, ExtraOrdinary.  Off-Broadway: Endlings, Sojourners, Her Portmanteau, NYTW; This Ain’t No Disco, Atlantic; Sojourners, Playwrights Realm; Songbird, 59E59, The View UpStairs, Culture Project. Regional: Old Globe, Signature, Denver Center, Shakespeare Theatre, Goodspeed Musicals, Alliance Theatre, Guthrie Theatre. Music: Tours for Sam Smith, the Spice Girls, and Sara Bareilles, performances for Camila Cabello, Elton John, Eminem, Cynthia Erivo, Janelle Monae. TV: “The Oscars” 2020, ABC; “Rent! Live,” Fox. Two Emmy Awards. Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, and Henry Hewes Design Award nominations. Education/Training: NYU. @JasonSherwoodDesign

(he/him) A.R.T.: ExtraOrdinary, The White Card, Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3), O.P.C., Witness Uganda, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Best of Both Worlds. Broadway: Motown, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Tony nomination), Topdog/Underdog. Off-Broadway: Water by the Spoonful; By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (Lucille Lortel and NAACP Theater Awards), 2econd Stage; The Capeman, Juan and John, Romeo and Juliet, Public Theater; The Misanthrope, All That I Will Ever Be, NYTW. Regional: Othello, Guthrie Theater; Ruined, Señor Discretion Himself (Helen Hayes Award nominee), Arena Stage; Twist, Alliance; Once on This Island, Center Stage.

A.R.T.:Ayodele Casel: Chasing Magic, ExtraOrdinary. Off-Broadway: Gloria: A Life; Fruit Trilogy; Relevance (Projection Design); Poison; Informed Consent (Projection Design); Nutcracker Rouge (Drama Desk nominations), Company XIV. Regional: Vietgone, Smart People, Denver Center; Top Girls (Projection Design), Huntington Theatre Company; Pinkolandia, Two River Theater; OR, Shakespeare & Company. International: The Ugly One, From the Fire! (Projection Design). Other: KPOP! (Lortel and Drama Desk Nominations), Oneohtrix Point Never’s MYRIAD, Park Avenue Armory. Awards: 2018 Henry Hewes Lighting Design Award, 2017 LIT Design Award (Theater Performance), Bel Geddes Design Enhancement (2015 & 2017), NEA/TCG Career Development Program recipient.

(he/him) A.R.T.: ExtraOrdinary, Jagged Little Pill, Waitress, Finding Neverland, Witness Uganda, The Heart of Robin Hood. Broadway: Jagged Little Pill (Tony nomination); Waitress, NYC and UK; Finding Neverland; Pippin (Tony nomination); La Cage aux Folles (Tony and Drama Desk nominations). Other recent credits: Bhangin It, La Jolla Playhouse; Anything Goes, Barbican and Tour; Lune Rouge, PY1; The Tempest; Red Velvet; Invisible Thread; Young Frankenstein; Pirate Queen; Carrie (Drama Desk nomination); Parade (Drama Desk nomination); Fosse, NYC, UK; Ragtime. Jonathan has designed fifteen Cirque du Soleil productions including Drawn to Life, MJ ONE, LOVE, KA, O, Mystère, Ovo, Corteo, and more. Operas include a residency at the Royal Opera House and the LA Opera. designingsound.com

A.R.T.: ExtraOrdinary, Waitress, Finding Neverland, Pippin, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Prometheus Bound, Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera, Children of Herakles. Broadway/National Tour: Finding Neverland, Pippin, The Gershwins��� Porgy and Bess, HAIR, The Full Monty, I Am My Own Wife. Other projects with Diane Paulus include: Capeman; Turnadot: The Rumble For The Ring; Collaborator of Bill Irwin for 28 years, one of the creators of the Tony Award-winning Fool Moon, Largely New York, The Regard of Flight.

A.R.T.: ExtraOrdinary, Pippin, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera, Children of Herakles. Broadway: The Play That Goes Wrong, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Color Purple, Wolf Hall Parts 1 & 2, Pippin, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, HAIR, The Wedding Singer, I Am My Own Wife, The Little Foxes, The Rehearsal, Summer and Smoke, Getting Away with Murder. Regional: Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera, Monaco and Chicago.

A.R.T.: ExtraOrdinary, Cabaret, Prometheus Bound. Emmy Award-winning music director, composer, singer-songwriter, pianist, orchestrator, and producer. Creates and collaborates with: Alan Cumming, Margaret Cho, the von Trapps, Neil Gaiman, Amanda Palmer/The Dresden Dolls, Meow Meow, Justin Vivian Bond, Rufus Wainwright, Pink Martini, Kylie Minogue, Liza Minnelli, Kristin Chenoweth, Darren Criss, Peaches, Ricki Lake, the Gatlin Brothers, Michael Feinstein, Carol Channing, Ben Folds, System of a Down, Pina Bausch Tanzfestival, Boston Pops, Atlanta Symphony, London/SF/LA/NY Gay Men’s Choruses, Sydney Dance Company, Sesame Street. Original music: Moisés Kaufmann’s Bent, Mark Taper Forum; Jake Shears, debut solo album ft. Preservation Hall Jazz Band; Vegas! The Show, Planet Hollywood. Performance with Kristin Chenoweth at London US Embassy for President Obama, the First Lady, and Queen Elizabeth. World Tour and PBS Special: Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs. Broadway: Little Women (vocal arrangements). Multiple West End appearances. Lincoln Center Songbook Series. TV: “Ricki Lake Show,” FOX; Macy’s Parades, NBC; “One Life to Live,” ABC. Upcoming: Johnny Mercer Residence for “Revelations,” based on Anne Rice, Goodspeed; Reefer Madness revival. Ongoing: Mondays in the Club with Lance, Club Cumming. Steinway Artist, Jonathan Larson Award recipient. Education/Training: BFA, MFA, Music Composition, The Juilliard School; Interlochen graduate.

A.R.T.: ExtraOrdinary, Waitress. Broadway: Waitress (Orchestrator). New York: I Kiss Your Heart (composer), Soho Theater; Rob Roth’s SOUNDSTAGE (composer/sound design/orchestrator), HERE; Love the Struggle (composer/orchestrator), SheNYC. Regional: The Nightingale, La Jolla Playhouse; Alice by Heart, Theater Aspen. International: Lady Rizo’s Under (composer/performer), Edinburgh Fringe Assembly. Music Production: Violet, Lady Rizo; The Ginger Snapped, Jinkx Monsoon. Collaborators include: Duncan Sheik, Meow Meow, Alan Cumming, Lady Rizo, Taylor Mac, Justin Bond, and Spencer Day. Education: MA, Oberlin College.

A.R.T.: SIX, We Live in Cairo, ExtraOrdinary, The Black Clown, Jagged Little Pill (Bass alternate). Theater: Ogunquit Playhouse, North Shore Music Theater, Lyric Stage Company, Emerson College. Orchestra Performance: Plymouth Philharmonic (principal Bass), Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Emmanuel Music, Odyssey Opera, Cape Symphony, Indian Hill Symphony Orchestra. Education: MM, Classical Performance, New England Conservatory; BS, Physics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

A.R.T.: ExtraOrdinary. Off-Broadway: Sweet Charity starring Sutton Foster. Regional: The Prom, Alliance Theater. International: Fortezza Medievale, Montepulciano, Italy. Performances: Town Hall, Beacon Theater, Signature Theater, 54 Below, Rockwood Music Hall, Green Room 42. Education: BM, Jazz Performance, Kennesaw State University.

A.R.T.: ExtraOrdinary. Founding member of brass quartet The Westerlies. Works with artists including: Wynton Marsalis, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Alan Cumming, Anna Deavere Smith. Artistic Director for Jazz at Joye in Aiken. Director of the Summer Advanced Institute at Seattle JazzEd. Ambassador for Jazz at in Lincoln Center’s Jazz for Young People program. Education/Training: BM, MM, The Juilliard School.

A.R.T.: Stage Manager: We Live in Cairo; Barber Shop Chronicles; The Black Clown; HEAR WORD! Naija Woman Talk True; Burn All Night; Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education; 1984; O.P.C.; The Shape She Makes; The Donkey Show. Assistant Stage Manager: Othello; ExtraOrdinary; Jagged Little Pill; Bedlam’s Sense & Sensibility; The Night of the Iguana; Fingersmith; RoosevElvis; Kansas City Choir Boy; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812; The Heart of Robin Hood; All the Way; The Glass Menagerie; The Lily’s Revenge; Once. Production Associate: Prometheus Bound; The Blue Flower; Cabaret. Education/​Training: Boston University College of Fine Arts (Summa cum laude).

A.R.T.: We Live in Cairo, ExtraOrdinary, Jagged Little Pill. A.R.T./ArtsEmerson: The White Card. National Tour: The Book of Mormon (ASM), Finding Neverland (ASM), Anything Goes (PSM). International Tour: Shrek The Musical (PSM), Beauty and the Beast (PSM). Regional: Roundabout Theatre Company, The Public Theater, The Old Globe, Barrington Stage Company, Triad Stage. Education/Training: BFA, University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

A.R.T.: ExtraOrdinary, Executive Assistant to the Artistic Director. Regional: Chautauqua Theater Company, Syracuse Stage, L.A. Theatre Works. Education/Training: Shakespeare’s Globe (2015); BFA, Syracuse University.

A.R.T.: Life of Pi; 1776; WILD: A Musical Becoming; Jack and the Beanstalk; Gloria: A Life; Moby-Dick; We Live in Cairo; Endlings; Othello; ExtraOrdinary; The Black Clown; Jagged Little Pill; WARHOLCAPOTE; Burn All Night; The Night of the Iguana; Trans Scripts, Part I: The Women; Fingersmith; In the Body of the World; Waitress; O.P.C. Broadway: Mary Stuart. Regional: Vanity Fair, Central Square Theater; New Electric Ballroom, Gloucester Stage Company; Arms and the Man, Guthrie Theatre; The Foreigner, Cabaret, To Kill a Mockingbird, Kansas City Repertory Theatre. As Head of Voice and Speech at A.R.T., Erika also teaches in the Theater, Dance & Media concentration at Harvard as well as coaching public speaking skills across the university. Education: MA, Voice Studies, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama; MFA, Acting, Brandeis University.