Dave Malloy breaks many of the rules that have accrued around American musical theater, and Ms. Chavkin has been making enormously inventive, and often wildly experimental, work for years.
The New York Times
“We are all in the belly of the whale…”
From the creative team behind A.R.T.’s 2015 production of Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 comes an epic musical adaptation of Herman Melville’s iconic American novel. As the egomaniacal Captain Ahab drives his crew across the seas in pursuit of the great white whale, Melville’s nineteenth-century vision of America collides head-on with the present.
This production contains extended heavy strobe lights, weapons, blood, depictions of violence against humans and whales, strong language, and haze and fog.
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Music, Lyrics, Book, and Orchestrations by Dave Malloy
Based on Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Music Direction and Supervision by Or Matias
Choreography by Chanel DaSilva
Developed with and Directed by Rachel Chavkin
Notable dates
Opening Night: 12/11
ASL Interpreted: 1/5 at 1PM & 1/8 at 7:30PM
Audio Described: 1/10 at 7:30PM & 1/11 at 1PM
Open Captioned: 1/9 at 7:30PM & 1/11 at 1PM
Production Sponsors
Alison and Bob Murchison
Production Support through the Incubator Fund
Allison Johnson
Donation Drives
Through January 12
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Creative Team
Writer, Composer, Orchestrator
Dave Malloy
Writer, Composer, Orchestrator
Dave Malloy
Dave Malloy is a composer/writer/performer/
Director
Rachel Chavkin
Director
Rachel Chavkin
Rachel Chavkin is a director, writer and artistic director of Brooklyn-based experimental collective the TEAM, whose work has been seen all over New York, the US, and internationally (including festivals across Europe, Australia, and the Hong Kong Arts Festival), and whose consensus-driven writing process was the subject of a feature length documentary by Emmy Winner Paulette Douglas. She won the Tony Award for her work on Hadestown (NYTW, National Theatre, London), which has been one of her greatest joys. She is a three-time Obie Winner, and received Tony and Lortel nominations and a Drama Desk Award for Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (Broadway, Ars Nova, A.R.T.). London: Mission Drift, National Theatre; American Clock, Old Vic. Select New York and regional: Marco Ramirez’s The Royale (Obie Award, Drama Desk, and Lortel noms.), LCT; Malloy’s Preludes, LCT3; Bess Wohl’s Small Mouth Sounds, Ars Nova, national tour; Carson Kreitzer’s and Matt Gould’s Lempicka, Williamstown Theatre Festival, La Jolla Playhouse; The Royal Family, Guthrie Theater; and multiple collaborations with Taylor Mac.
Choreographer
Chanel DaSilva
Choreographer
Chanel DaSilva
(she/her) ART: Moby Dick, The Black Clown. Commissioned works on The Joffrey Ballet, Parsons Dance Company, Gibney Company. Honors: 2011 Princess Grace Award, 2004 Presidential Scholar in the Arts, 2019 IRNE nomination for Best Choreography (The Black Clown), 2004 PBS Documentary “American Talent,” Education/Training: BFA, The Juilliard School.
Music Supervisor/Music Director
Or Matias
Music Supervisor/Music Director
Or Matias
A.R.T.: Debut. Most recent productions: First Daughter Suite, Public Theater; Preludes (Rachmaninoff, Music Director), LCT3. As writer: music, lyrics, and book for The Wave—based on the 1967 experiment which turned an entire school into a proto-fascist movement. Original scores for Land of Broken Toys at Fringe NYC and “Israel Story” radio show. Education: Juilliard and NYU (Dean’s Award). For Mai, who makes us sing, laugh, and love more than we knew we could. ormatiasmusic.com
Scenic Designer
Mimi Lien
Scenic Designer
Mimi Lien
A.R.T.: Moby-Dick; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812; The Communist Dracula Pageant. Broadway: Uncle Vanya; Sweeney Todd; True West; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (Tony Award). Off-Broadway: Fairview, An Octoroon, Soho Rep/TFANA; A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, St. Ann’s Warehouse. Opera: Grounded, Washington National Opera; Intelligence, Houston Grand Opera; Antony and Cleopatra, San Francisco Opera; Parsifal, Bayreuth Festival; Die Zauberflöte, Staatsoper Berlin. Awards: Drama Desk, Lortel, Bessie, Hewes Design Award, Obie Award, MacArthur Fellowship.
Costume Designer
Brenda Abbandandolo
Costume Designer
Brenda Abbandandolo
A.R.T.: Debut. Off-Broadway: Octet, Signature; Continuity, MTC; Enemy of the People, The Royal Family, Guthrie Theater; I’ll Get You Back Again, Round House; Reconstruction, Primer For A Failed Superpower, The TEAM/Roulette, Brooklyn; Mission Drift, The TEAM/ National Theatre Of London; Bird Shit, Moma PS 1. Film/TV: “Saturday Night Live” (Associate Costume Designer), The Disaster Artist, The Adderall Diaries, The Wolf Hour, Like Father, Tallulah. Training: MFA, Design For Stage and Film, NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Lighting Designer
Bradley King
Lighting Designer
Bradley King
A.R.T.: Moby-Dick, We Live in Cairo, Endlings, Burn All Night, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, O.P.C. Broadway: Fat Ham, Hadestown (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC Awards), Flying Over Sunset (Drama Desk Award, Tony Nomination), The Great Comet(Tony, Drama Desk, OCC awards), Bernhardt/Hamlet. Numerous shows Off-Broadway, regionally, and around the world. Upcoming musicals: Water For Elephants, Alliance; Buena Vista Social Club, Atlantic; Lempicka; Goddess; How to Dance in Ohio. bradleykingld.com
Sound Designer
Hidenori Nakajo
Sound Designer
Hidenori Nakajo
A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: The Front Page (Associate Sound Designer); The Lightning Thief; Be More Chill; Allegiance; Gigi (Assistant Sound Designer). Off-Broadway: Octet (Henry Hewes Design Awards nomination), Signature; Ghost Quartet, NYTW; Rakugo by Katsura Sunshine, SoHo Playhouse; A Hatful of Rain, Lee Strasberg Theatre; Regional: Guys & Dolls, Guthrie; Benny & Joon (Associate Sound Designer), Old Globe. A translator (JP-EN)/venue audio associate for the Lincoln Center Festival 2015-2017. USITT Robert E. Cohen Sound Achievement Award 2012.
Puppet Design & Puppet Direction
Eric F. Avery
Puppet Design & Puppet Direction
Eric F. Avery
A.R.T.: Debut. A 24-Decade History of 24 Popular Music, St. Ann’s Warehouse (Bessie Award for Outstanding Visual Design); Basil Twist’s Rite of Spring (Assistant Director), Lincoln Center; Scarlet Ibis (Puppeteer), HERE Arts Center; La Divina Caricatura (Puppeteer), LaMaMa ETC; Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed (Puppeteer/ Co-Creator), BardSummerScape; A Prairie Homeless Companion (Director/Designer), Zamya Theatre; Beaverdance! (Scenic Design), Bedlam Theatre. Education: MFA, Towson University.
Wig, Hair, & Make-Up Design
Rachel Padula-Shufelt
Wig, Hair, & Make-Up Design
Rachel Padula-Shufelt
A.R.T.: Charlotte’s Web (Costume Design); Trans Scripts, Part I: The Women; Fingersmith; In the Body of the World; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812; Waitress; Crossing; The Heart of Robin Hood; All the Way; The Glass Menagerie; Pippin; Marie Antoinette; The Blue Flower; Cabaret; Death and the Powers; Best of Both Worlds; Donnie Darko; Julius Caesar; Copenhagen; The Communist Dracula Pageant. Broadway: Waitress, The Glass Menagerie. Regional: The Colored Museum, Huntington Theatre Company.
Casting
Stewart/Whitley
Casting
Stewart/Whitley
Duncan Stewart CSA/Benton Whitley CSA. A.R.T.: WILD, Moby-Dick,The Black Clown, Great Comet of 1812, The Tempest, Pippin. Broadway/NY: Hadestown (Artios Award), Chicago the Musical, Paradise Square, Rock of Ages, Lightning Thief,Great Comet of 1812, Elf, On the Town, Pippin, La Cage aux Folles, Radio City Christmas Spectacular. TV/Film: Netflix, 20th Century Fox, NBC, Lionsgate, Disney Channel. West End/U.K.: Hadestown, Thriller Live, Menier Chocolate Factory. Tours: Hadestown, Hairspray, Waitress, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Finding Neverland, Into the Woods, We Will Rock You. Regional: Berkeley Rep, Alley, Bay Street, For The Record, TUTS, Hollywood Bowl, McCarter, Signature, RCCL. Follow: @stewartwhitley and stewartwhitley.com.
Production Stage Manager
Geoff Boronda
Production Stage Manager
Geoff Boronda
A.R.T.: Debut. New York: Ain’t No Mo’, The Urban Retreat, The Great Immensity, Fortress of Solitude, Public Theater; Romeo & Juliet, The Comedy of Errors, Public Theater Mobile Unit; Buzzer, Ping Pong, Public Theater Under the Radar Festival; The Chinese Lady, Sesar, Ma-Yi Theater Company; The Undertaking, The Civilians; generations, Soho Rep. Regional: Gertrude and Claudius, If I Forget, Typhoid Mary, Barrington Stage Company; Shakespeare in Love, Jazz, Baltimore Center Stage; A View from the Bridge, Center Theatre Group; Hamlet, A Doctor in Spite of Himself, Yale Repertory Theatre; Appropriate, Westport Country Playhouse. Education: MFA, Stage Management, Yale School of Drama.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Cast
Fedallah
Eric Berryman
Fedallah
Eric Berryman
A.R.T.: Moby-Dick, pool (no water). Off-Broadway: The B-Side: Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons, A Record Album Interpretation (Drama Desk Nomination), St. Ann’s Warehouse/The Wooster Group; Toni Stone, Roundabout Theatre Company; Steel Hammer, The Bacchae, Glory of the World, BAM; pool (no water), Barrow Street Theatre. Regional: The Amen Corner, Guthrie Theater; I Wish You Love, Penumbra Theatre/The Kennedy Center/Hartford Stage; Fly, Ford’s Theatre; Red, Topdog/Underdog, Noises Off, A Raisin in the Sun, Everyman Theatre (Company Member). Film/TV: Motherless Brooklyn; Marriage Story, “Bonding,” Barry, Netflix; Empathy, Inc.; After Louie. Education: Carnegie Mellon University.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Sailor 2/The Carpenter
Kim Blanck
Sailor 2/The Carpenter
Kim Blanck
A.R.T.: Moby-Dick. Off-Broadway: Octet, Signature, Original Cast Recording; Alice by Heart, MCC Theater, Original Cast Recording; Twelfth Night, Public Works/Shakespeare in the Park; Folk Wandering, Pipeline Theatre Company. Regional: Twelfth Night, Alley Theatre; Chasing the Song, La Jolla Playhouse; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Tantrum Theater. Workshops: Public Theater, Second Stage, Center Theatre Group, Atlantic Theater Company, Ars Nova, New York Theatre Workshop. Web: “Basic Witch.” Education/Training: BFA, NYU Tisch; MFA, Acting, UC San Diego.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Starbuck
Starr Busby
Starbuck
Starr Busby
A.R.T.: Moby-Dick. Off-Broadway: Octet (Paula), Signature; Where Love Lies Fallow (Nia 1), The Shed; Apollo Cafe Live: Soul Cypher; #BlackGirlMagic Show (Composer/Performer), JACK; Mikrokosmos, Sterischer Herbst (Graz), Nottingham Contemporary; The Girl with the Incredible Feeling, Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi. An experimental artist, Starr plays solo shows and fronts Brooklyn-based experimental soul band People’s Champs. Music: supporting work with artists including Gorillaz, Esperanza Spalding, X Ambassadors, Alice Smith. She is looking forward to continuing the development of (pray) with nicHi Douglas and Jerome Ellis at Ars Nova. Their music is available via all streaming services and Bandcamp.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Ishmael
Manik Choksi
Ishmael
Manik Choksi
A.R.T.: Moby-Dick; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (Dolokhov). Broadway: Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812. Off-Broadway: Indian Ink, Roundabout; Bunty Berman Presents (Lortel Nomination), New Group; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, Ars Nova; God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, Encores!; King Tot, D Deb Debbie Deborah, Clubbed Thumb; Huck & Holden, Cherry Lane. Film/TV: “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”; “New Amsterdam”; “Good Fight”; “Mindhunter”; “Elementary”; “Happyish”; “One Life To Live” (Vimal Patel), Home, Passing Season. Composer: Those Lost Boys (workshop), The Ramayan (workshop), Ars Nova; Food Odyssey, 3LD; Education: The Juilliard School.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Queequeg
Andrew Cristi
Queequeg
Andrew Cristi
A.R.T.: Moby-Dick. Broadway: Pasek & Paul’s A Christmas Story! Off-Broadway: Miss You Like Hell, Public Theater; Big River, The Golden Apple, Encores! City Center; Freckleface Strawberry, New World Stages; American Morning, Prospect Theater Company. Workshops/Readings: The Visitor, Public Theater; Heading East, La Jolla Playhouse. Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Berkshire Theatre Group, and more. TV: “Manhattan Love Story,” ABC; Disney/ABC Talent Showcase. Education/Training: BFA, NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Sailor 1/The Blacksmith
Ashkon Davaran
Sailor 1/The Blacksmith
Ashkon Davaran
A.R.T.: Moby-Dick. Ashkon is an Iranian-American actor and musician from the San Francisco Bay Area. Off-Broadway: Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (Balaga); One Thousand Nights and One Day (world premiere). Regional: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (title role), San Francisco Playhouse; Beardo (title role). Workshops: We Live in Cairo (Amir), NYTW; Concerts: Joe Iconis Christmas Extravaganza, 54 Below; Junk, Joe’s Pub. As a musician, Ashkon has released albums/
Actors’ Equity Association member
Swing/Male Understudy
Ellis C. Dawson III
Swing/Male Understudy
Ellis C. Dawson III
A.R.T.: Moby-Dick. National Tour: Aladdin (Genie/&8203;Babkak Standby). Regional: In The Heights, Theatre Under The Stars; Next to Normal, Beck Center for Performing Arts. Workshops: Wait Wait Don’t Kill Me. Education: BM, Music Theatre, Baldwin Wallace University.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Flask
Anna Ishida
Flask
Anna Ishida
A.R.T.: Moby-Dick, Beowulf—A Thousand Years of Baggage. Off-Broadway: Henry VI: Parts 1 & 2 (Drama Desk nomination). New York: Trigger, Leviathan Lab. Regional: Macbeth, California Shakespeare Theater; It Can’t Happen Here, Berkeley Rep; The Importance of Being Earnest, Aurora Theatre; Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play, A.C.T.; Water by the Spoonful, TheatreWorks. Workshops: Lucky Ones; Revenge Song; Moby-Dick. Film: I Am a Ghost; Bitter Melon. Education: BA, English Literature, Mills College.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Tashtego
Matt Kizer
Tashtego
Matt Kizer
A.R.T.: Moby-Dick. Regional: Cashed Out (Buddy Paul), San Francisco Playhouse; The River Bride (Señor Costa), Alter Theater; El Paso Blue (Hefe), Eugene O’Neill Foundation; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Reuben), Grease (Vince Fontaine), Damn Yankees (Smokey), AMTSJ; A Funny Thing… Forum (Miles Gloriosus), West Side Story (Action), Mountain Play. Concerts: Excerpts from Moby-Dick In Concert Under the Whale, American Museum of Natural History/
Actors’ Equity Association member
Daggoo/Ishmael (u/s)
J.D. Mollison
Daggoo/Ishmael (u/s)
J.D. Mollison
A.R.T.: Moby-Dick. Broadway: Les Misérables. Off-Broadway: Octet, Iphigenia 2.0, Signature; X: Or, Betty Shabazz v. The Nation, The Acting Company; Venice, Public Theater; The Box, The Foundry; A Civil War Christmas, NYTW; Greater Angels, EPbB; Monstrosity, 13P. Regional: black odyssey, Cal Shakes; The Winter’s Tale, Public Works-Dallas Theater Center; Jelly’s Last Jam (Suzi Bass winner), Alliance Theatre. TV: “Shameless,” “Madam Secretary,” “Law & Order: SVU”, “Shades of Blue,” “Hawthorne,” “Numb3rs.” Training: Carnegie Mellon University.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Ahab
Tom Nelis
Ahab
Tom Nelis
A.R.T.: Moby-Dick, The Tempest, The Blue Flower, bobrauschenbergamerica. Broadway: Indecent, The Visit, Enron, The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, Aida, Girl From The North Country (upcoming). International: Laurie Anderson’s Songs and Stories from Moby Dick; Richard Foreman’s Pearls for Pigs; Tadashi Suzuki’s Dionysus; The Merchant of Venice, RSC, TFANA. Thirty years of Off-Broadway and Regional productions. Founding member, SITI Company. Honors: Eliot Norton Award (Prospero, The Tempest), OBIE Award (Marshal McLuhan, The Medium). Education/Training: MFA, UC San Diego.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Swing/Female Understudy
Ashley Pérez Flanagan
Swing/Female Understudy
Ashley Pérez Flanagan
A.R.T.: Moby-Dick; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812; Prometheus Bound. Broadway: Freestyle Love Supreme; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (u/s Sonya, Princess Mary). Off-Broadway: Freestyle Love Supreme, Ars Nova; In The Green, LCT3; The Lucky Ones, Ars Nova; Hadestown, NYTW; Orpheus and Eurydice Are…In Love, Ars Nova; In Love With Jobim, York Theatre. Regional: Evita, West Side Story, The Sound of Music. Select workshops: The Connector, Cowboy Bob, NYSF; The Seeker, Public Theater; No Good Things Dwell In The Flesh, WP Theater. Concerts: Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Joe’s Pub, 54 Below. Film: The Kitchen. Ashley is a member of the indie folk hop trio @moondrunkband.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Pip
Morgan Siobhan Green
A.R.T.: Moby-Dick. Broadway: Be More Chill, Lyceum Theatre. Off-Broadway: Folk Wandering, ARTNYC; Sweetee, Signature; Missed Connections, New Ohio. Regional: Between The Lines, Kansas City Rep. Education/Training: BS, Bradley University; MA, Long Island University. Thanks to Rachel, Dave, Stewart/Whitley, and the entire cast, crew, and fam at A.R.T., MSA, and 44 West Entertainment. Mom, Dad, and Manny it’s lit.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Father Mapple/Captain of the Albatross/Captain Boomer of the Bachelor/Captain Gardiner of the Rachel
Dawn L. Troupe
Father Mapple/Captain of the Albatross/Captain Boomer of the Bachelor/Captain Gardiner of the Rachel
Dawn L. Troupe
A.R.T: Moby Dick (Father Mapple/Captain of the Albatross/Captain Boomer/Captain Gardiner). Off-Broadway: Brothers ParaNormal (Delia), Anne of Green Gables (Mrs. Lynde), Year of The Monkey (Igloo), As Much As I Can (Patrice). Regional: black odyssey (Alsendra/Carib’dis/Diana Ross, BATCC nominee), Sister Act (Delores Van Cartier, BATCC nominee), Death of a Salesman (Linda Loman), Spunk (Blues Speak Woman), Aida (Aida), Ragtime (Sarah), Memphis (Emsemble), Color Purple (Shug Avery), Big River (Maid), Once On This Island (Mama Euralie), Caroline or Change (Radio 2). Workshops: Memphis, Little Princess, Funkentine Rapture, The Giver, Rebel Genius, Anne of Green Gables, Moby-Dick.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Stubb
Kalyn West
Stubb
Kalyn West
A.R.T.: Moby-Dick. Broadway: The Prom (Shelby/Alyssa; u/s Emma/Alyssa). Off-Broadway: Gigantic (Marlie). New York: Nikola Tesla Drops The Beat (Kat Johnson), ATF; The Demise (Natalie), NYMF. PopStar (Katie), Alchemy Theatre Productions. Regional: Hunchback of Notre Dame (Esmeralda), In The Heights (Vanessa), Fulton Theatre; Prince of Egypt (Ensemble), TheatreWorks; RENT (Mimi), Casa Mañana; Back Home Again (Aggie), Lesher Center; The Music Man (Zaneeta), Flatrock Playhouse; ASS (by Ellen Simon, Ana), Pioneer Theatre Company. Film/TV: “Blue Bloods” (Season 6, Rachel), CBS; Imitation Girl (Gabby), Ilium Pictures. The Talent House Agency.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Assistant Stage Manager
Erin McCoy
Assistant Stage Manager
Erin McCoy
A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Bernhardt/Hamlet. Off-Broadway: Ain’t No Mo, #BARS, Tiny Beautiful Things, Dry Powder, Buzzer, Fidelis; Public Theater Under the Radar Festival; Twelfth Night, Public Works; The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park. Sugar In Our Wounds, MTC. Lincoln Center Directing Labs, Lincoln Center Theater. PLAY ON! Festival, Classic Stage Company/OSF. Invisible Thread, Second Stage Theater. Regional: Shakespeare in Love, Jazz, Baltimore Center Stage; Appropriate, Westport County Playhouse; A View From the Bridge, Center Theatre Group. Education: Otterbein University.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Band
Conductor/Piano
J. Oconer Navarro
Conductor/Piano
J. Oconer Navarro
A.R.T.: Moby-Dick. Broadway: Curtains, The House of Blue Leaves, Mary Poppins, Next to Normal. Off-Broadway: Adding Machine, First Daughter Suite, iOW@, Twelfth Night, We the People, Whida Peru. Regional: Barrington Stage Company, Hangar Theater, The Kennedy Center, The Old Globe, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Paper Mill Playhouse, Two River Theater. Resident Composer, The Church of Saint Paul the Apostle, NYC. Awards: American Theatre Wing Jonathan Larson Grant. Faculty: NYU Tisch – New Studio on Broadway. Education: MFA, NYU.
Music Contractor/Viola
Jason Fisher
Music Contractor/Viola
Jason Fisher
A.R.T.: Evita; 1776; Moby-Dick; We Live in Cairo; Jagged Little Pill; The Black Clown; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812; Crossing. Founding Member, A Far Cry; Principal Viola, Boston Baroque; period viola with Handel and Haydn Society, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, The English Concert, ACRONYM Ensemble, The Thirteen, Seattle and Portland Baroque Orchestras, Teatro Nuovo, Opera Lafayette, Relic, Sarasa Ensemble. Carnegie Hall Fellow and Peabody Singapore Fellow. Tours of Europe, Asia, Kazakhstan, and the Kyrgyz Republic. Performances with Pink Martini, Jake Shimabukuro, Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Renée Fleming, Kiri Te Kanawa, members of the Florestan Trio, and Æolus, Brentano, Cleveland, Emerson, Mendelssohn and St. Lawrence String Quartets. Concerts at Vienna Musikverein, Singapore Esplanade, the Kennedy Center, and Carnegie Hall. Awards: Grammy nominee (Best Chamber Music/
Violin
Marissa Licata
Violin
Marissa Licata
A.R.T.: 1776; Moby-Dick; Jagged Little Pill. Broadway: A Beautiful Noise, Broadhurst Theatre; 1776, American Airlines Theatre. Off-Broadway: Christmas Spectacular, Radio City Music Hall; Assassins; Assembly. Tours: onstage featured violinist with Hip Hop Nutcracker, Jethro Tull, Alicia Keys, H.E.R., Ben Harper, Gloria Estefan, Steven Tyler, Dave Stewart (Eurythmics). Recordings: H.E.R., K. Michelle, Wyclef Jean. TV: “Shine A Light: A 9/11 Tribute,” CNN; “BET Awards;” “Good Morning America;” “The View;” “Latin Grammys.” Performances with Boston Ballet, Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas. Education: MM and BM, New England Conservatory of Music.
Cello
Lev Mamuya
Cello
Lev Mamuya
A.R.T.: Moby-Dick. Performances with A Far Cry, Cleveland Orchestra, Boston Pops, New Philharmonia. Admissions and Alumni Assistant, From the Top. Education: MM, New England Conservatory; BA, Harvard University; Kneisel Hall 2019.
Bass
Lizzie Burns
Bass
Lizzie Burns
A.R.T.: Moby-Dick; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812. Broadway: Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812. Performs with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, The Knights, A Far Cry, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, International Contemporary Ensemble, Decoda, Jupiter Chamber Players, New Orchestra of Washington, New Haven Symphony, New York City Ballet Orchestra. Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect Fellow ’16-’18, Yellow Barn participant ’14-’18. Education: New England Conservatory and Boston University.
Alto & Soprano Saxophone/Flute
Austin Yancey
Alto & Soprano Saxophone/Flute
Austin Yancey
A.R.T.: Moby-Dick. Off Broadway: Mel Brooks’ The Producers. Performances with: The World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra, Aretha Franklin, The Four Tops, The Temptations, The Supremes, Martha Reeves and The Vandellas. Album: Pocket Jazz Band with The Late Risers. Education: MM, New England Conservatory; BM, California State University Northridge.
Tenor Saxophone/Flute
Paul Mardy
Tenor Saxophone/Flute
Paul Mardy
(he/him) A.R.T: Moby-Dick. Performances with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Civic Symphony and the College Light Opera Company. Education: Graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music and State University of New York, Potsdam.
Trombone
Skye Dearborn
Trombone
Skye Dearborn
(she/her) A.R.T.: Evita, 1776, Moby-Dick. Broadway: 1776. Performances with Spoleto Festival USA, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Vermont Symphony, New Bedford Symphony, Richmond Symphony (VA), South Dakota Symphony, Audra MacDonald, “62nd Grammy Awards” with Lizzo. Education: MM, Boston University; BM, University of Michigan.
Drums/Percussion
Robert Schulz
Drums/Percussion
Robert Schulz
A.R.T.: Moby-Dick, Crossing, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, The Sound of a Voice. Percussionist, Boston Landmarks Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Musica Viva, IRIS Chamber Orchestra (Memphis, TN). Timpanist, Back Bay Chorale, Boston Baroque, Cantata Singers, Emmanuel Music, Odyssey Opera, Opera Lafayette (Washington, DC). Education: BM, Percussion Performance, SUNY Buffalo; MM, Jazz Studies, New England Conservatory. 1992 Music Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, 2004 Grammy Nominee for Best Small Ensemble Performance (The Mirror, Yehudi Wyner), 2016 Guest Artist at the Beijing Music Festival (Ancient Dances, Wu Man).
Additional Staff
Assistant Director
Chika Ike
Assistant Director
Chika Ike
A.R.T.: Debut. Directing: Chicago: Kentucky, A Swell in the Ground, Franklinland, In the Blood, No Child, Dontrell Who Kissed the Sea, Don’t Smoke in Bed. Also worked at Berkeley Rep, Goodman Theatre, Victory Gardens, Public Theater, and Chicago Dramatists. Drama League Directing Fellow, SDCF Gielgud Directing Fellow, Bret C. Harte Directing Fellow, Victory Garden Directing Initiative.
Associate Music Director
J. Oconer Navarro
Associate Music Director
J. Oconer Navarro
A.R.T.: Moby-Dick. Broadway: Curtains, The House of Blue Leaves, Mary Poppins, Next to Normal. Off-Broadway: Adding Machine, First Daughter Suite, iOW@, Twelfth Night, We the People, Whida Peru. Regional: Barrington Stage Company, Hangar Theater, The Kennedy Center, The Old Globe, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Paper Mill Playhouse, Two River Theater. Resident Composer, The Church of Saint Paul the Apostle, NYC. Awards: American Theatre Wing Jonathan Larson Grant. Faculty: NYU Tisch – New Studio on Broadway. Education: MFA, NYU.
Dramaturg
Jillian Walker
Dramaturg
Jillian Walker
A.R.T.: Debut. Jillian Walker creates plays that make space for healing and liberation; embodying remembrance for our ancestors and legacies. Recent Dramaturgy credits: Common’s recent world tour Let Love Tour, Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future, Ars Nova. Creator/performer: SKiNFoLK: An American Show, The Bushwick Starr. Member, MTF Makers at Musical Theater Factory, Makers Lab at Ars Nova; 2020-21 Tow Playwright-in-Residence at Soho Rep; currently collaborating on Kimberlé Crenshaw’s debut play Say Her Name: The Lives that Should Have Been. Education: MFA, Dramaturgy, Columbia Univeristy; BA, University of Michigan.
Associate Scenic Designer
You-Shin Chen
Associate Costume Designer
Heather McDevitt Barton
Associate Lighting Designer
Bridget Chervenka
Associate Sound Designers
Ken Travis
Sam Lerner
Nathan Rubio
Lead Puppet Builder & Associate Puppet Designer
Dan Jones
Assistant Lighting Designer
Kat Zhou
Lead Copyist
Leonoor Rinke De Wit
Music Assistant & Copyist
Travis Frank
Production Sound Engineer
Carin Ford
Keyboard Programmers
Randy Cohen
Sam Starobin
Vocal Consultant
Marisa Michelson
Voice and Text
Erika Bailey
Voice and Text
Erika Bailey
A.R.T.: Gatsby; Becoming a Man; 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.
Music Equipment Coordinator
Alex Giorgetti
Second Assistant Director
Keenan Tyler Oliphant
Second Assistant Director
Keenan Tyler Oliphant
A.R.T.: Moby-Dick. Broadway: Hadestown. Off-Broadway: TERCE: a practical breviary, Here Arts; Will You Come with Me?, PlayCo; Oratorio for Living Things, Ars Nova. Off-Off-Broadway: To the Ends of the Earth, JACK; Self-Combustion of a 30-Something-Year-Old…, New Ohio; Kyk Hoe Skyn die Son, Clubbed Thumb Winterworks; queen, Dixon Place. Regional: Drama League Fellow 2021/2022; Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellow 2020/2021.
Choreography Assistants
Christiana Hunte
Sarah Shin
Production Assistants
Carolina Arboleda
Bradley Costa
Jess Kemp
Jenna Ng Lowry
CASTING
STEWART/WHITLEY
Duncan Stewart, CSA; Benton Whitley, CSA; Joey Montenarello, CSA; Sam Yabrow; Luke Schaffer
Additional Sound Equipment provided by PRG
Additional Lighting Equipment provided by Christie Lites
Additional Puppets constructed by Honey Goodenough
Moby-Dick rehearsed at the Gelsey Kirkland Academy of Classical Ballet.
Special Thanks
ArtsEmerson and the staff at the Cutler Majestic Theater, the American Museum of Natural History, Amy Brakeman, Save That Stuff, Green Mattress Recycling, Hilton’s Tent City,
Jonathan Perry & Siobhan Brown
Dave Malloy would like to thank:
Rick Burkhardt, Blake DeLong, Alec Duffy, Jerome Ellis, Oskar Eustis, Paul Ketchum, Lin-Manuel Miranda, James Harrison Monaco, Madeline Oldham, Azudi Onyejekwe, Nathaniel Philbrick, and Margaret Toth for all their insights and conversation; Mandy Hackett and Jesse Alick and everyone at the Public Theater, Shanta Thake and everyone at Joe’s Pub, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Eleanor Wallace and the Baryshnikov Arts Center, The MacDowell Colony, The Hermitage Artist Retreat, The Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Musicals, The Sundance Institute Theater Program/Ucross Foundation, Emily Simoness and Space on Ryder Farm, The Vineyard Arts Project, and Ann and Graham Gund for all their developmental support; Alonso Teruel and everyone at the American Museum of Natural History who made our Under the Whale concert such a sublime experience; Kym McNair, Addys Castillo, Joe Barndt, and The People’s Institute for Survival & Beyond’s Undoing Racism Workshop; and all the people who were involved in the show’s many workshops and other stepping stones along its 6-year journey, including Isaac Alter, Brent Arnold, Brittain Ashford, El Beh, Gelsey Bell, Eliza Bent, Alon Bisk, Catherine Brookman, Eisa Davis, Emily DeCola, Ty Defoe, Lea DeLaria, Angel Desai, Daveed Diggs, Clifton Duncan, Lulu Fall, Safiya Fredericks, Eddie Gesford, Maria Goyanes, The Squeezers of Great Comet, Samantha Greene, Ryan Haddad, Curtis Hasselbring, Paul Jones, Karl Josef Co, David Patrick Kelly, Amy Rebecca King & The Joe’s Pub Tambourine Chorus, Jo Lampert, Kristine Haruna Lee, Amy Lizardo, Zonya Love, Alex Lydon, Ken Marks, Hiroyuki Matsura, April Matthis, Grace McLean, Jamie Mohamdein, John Murchison, Shoba Narayan, Tanis Paranteau, Paul Pinto, Alex Rodriguez, Jermaine Rowe, Christina Sajous, Pamela Salling, Heathcliff Saunders, Adrienne Shamszad, Rona Siddiqui, Pearl Sun, Karen Szpaller, Annie Tippe, Mariand Torres, Pinky Weitzman, Tobias Wong, Clive Worsley, Davren Wright, Katrina Yaukey, and Rasha Zamamiri.