Pippin

Mr. Hirson has written extensively for the theater, movies and television. His Broadway credits include Pippin, Walking Happy, which starred Norman Wisdom, and Darling of the Day, featuring Patricia Routledge. He won the Emmy for his six-hour television mini-series A Woman Named Jackie. Mr. Hirson’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol, which starred George C. Scott, was honored by a Royal Command performance. He wrote the film Demon Seed, starring Julie Christie and the story for The Bridge at Remagen.

Stephen Schwartz has contributed music and/or lyrics to Godspell, The Magic Show, The Baker’s Wife, Working (which he also adapted and directed), Rags, Children of Eden, My Fairytale, and the current Broadway hit, Wicked. He collaborated with Leonard Bernstein on the English texts for Bernstein’s Mass and wrote the title song for the play and movie Butterflies are Free. For children, he has written songs for two musicals, Captain Louie and My Son Pinocchio. For films, he collaborated with Alan Menken on the songs for Disney’s Enchanted, as well as the animated features Pocahantas and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and wrote the songs for the DreamWorks animated feature The Prince of Egypt. He has released two CDs of new songs entitled “Reluctant Pilgrim” and “Uncharted Territory.” His first opera, Séance on a Wet Afternoon, premiered with Opera Santa Barbara in the fall of 2009 and was recently produced by New York City Opera. A book about his career, “Defying Gravity,” has recently been released by Applause Books. Under the auspices of the ASCAP Foundation, he runs musical theatre workshops in New York and Los Angeles, and is currently the President of the Dramatists’ Guild. Mr. Schwartz has recently been given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Other awards include three Academy Awards, four Grammy Awards, four Drama Desk Awards, and a tiny handful of tennis trophies.

(she/her) Diane Paulus is the Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University. A.R.T.: 1776, WILD: A Musical Becoming, Gloria: A Life, Jagged Little Pill, ExtraOrdinary, The White Card, In the Body of the World, Waitress (film available online, French-language production in Quebec summer 2024), 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 work includes Cirque du Soleil’s Amaluna, Invisible Thread at Second 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, as well as the upcoming Carmen (2024 Glydenbourne Festival). Paulus is Professor of the Practice of Theater in Harvard University’s English Department and Department of Theater, Dance & Media. She was selected for Boston magazine’s 2023, 2022, 2020, and 2018 lists of Boston’s most influential people, the 2014 Time 100, Time magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and as one of Variety’s “Trailblazing Women in Entertainment for 2014.”

(he/him) Scott Pask has designed over 50 Broadway productions, receiving three Tony Awards for The Book of Mormon, The Coast of Utopia, and The Pillowman. Recently: American Buffalo (2022 Tony nomination), Mr. Saturday Night, The Prom, The Band’s Visit (Tony nomination), Mean Girls (Tony nomination). His work with Diane Paulus includes The Donkey Show, A.R.T.; Johnny Baseball, A.R.T.; Pippin (Tony nomination), A.R.T., Broadway, US Tour, Japan; HAIR, The Public Theater, Broadway, US Tour, West End; Finding Neverland, A.R.T., Broadway; Waitress, A.R.T., Broadway, US Tour, West End; and Cirque du Soleil’s Amaluna.

A.R.T.: Debut. One of the original costume designers for Cirque du Soleil, credits include: Saltimbanco, Mystère, Alegria, Quindam, O, La Nouba, Corteo, Zaia, Banana Schpeel. Additional credits: Céline Dion’s A New Day, Las Vegas; The Nutcracker, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal. Her work has been exhibited in Montreal, Quebec City, Canada; Paris, France; and Monterrey, Mexico.

A.R.T.: Pippin. More than 50 Broadway play and musical theater credits. He designs extensively off-Broadway, for resident theatres and touring productions throughout the United States as well as internationally. Selected Broadway credits: Finding Neverland, If/Then, Kinky Boots, Pippin, Cinderella, Hairspray, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Legally Blonde, Catch Me If You Can, The Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck, The Frogs, Side Man, and Wicked. He is the recipient of the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics’ Circle and OBIE Awards.

A.R.T.: Pippin, The Lily’s Revenge, As You Like It, Once, Prometheus Bound, The Blue Flower (IRNE and Elliot Norton Award), Cabaret, Alice vs. Wonderland, Paradise Lost. Sound Design credits: Broadway: Once (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award nomination). New York: Soul Doctor, Once (Lucille Lortel Award nomination), New York Theatre Workshop. London: BBC: “Dancing With The Stars,” “Later with Jools Holland,” “The Sound of Musicals,” “Friday Night with Jonathan Ross.” ITV: “Parkinson.” Music: Radiohead, Jamiroquai, Paolo Nutini, Orbital, Sparks, The Waterboys, Glastonbury Festival, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal College of Music. Woodhouse Players: The Dresser, Wyrd Sisters, Dracula—The Vampire Strikes Back. He has worked on numerous shows including work at: Brooklyn Academy of Music, Hollywood Bowl, Madison Square Garden, Royal Festival Hall, Avignon Festival.

A.R.T.: Debut. Selected Broadway: The Book of Mormon (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award); The Scottsboro Boys (Tony nomination, Drama Desk nomination); Monty Python’s Spamalot (Tony nomination, Drama Desk nomination); Fiddler on the Roof (2004 Revival, Tony nomination); A Class Act (Tony nomination); The Addams Family; Chaplin; Jane Eyre. Regional and Off-Broadway: 25 shows including: Death Takes a Holiday (Drama Desk nomination, Maury Yeston); The Nutty Professor (Marvin Hamlisch). Film: 17 films including: The Informant! (Marvin Hamlisch); Lady and the Tramp II, Disney; Little Mermaid II, Disney. Television (as composer): “The Wonder Pets!” (Five Emmy Awards). Other composer credits: Little Mermaid II (add’l music); Amazing Stories (Spielberg); In Memoriam (symphonic poem, publ. E.B. Marks). Recordings & Concerts: Sir Paul McCartney, Barbra Streisand, Eric Idle, Mandy Patinkin, Audra McDonald, Barry Manilow, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Betty Buckley, The Boston Pops, San Francisco Symphony, The New York Philharmonic, The Big Apple Circus. www.larryhochman.net

(she/her) A.R.T.: Waitress, Pippin. Broadway: Once Upon a One More Time, Waitress, Pippin, Hair. Regional: The Devil Wears Prada, Nerds. In development: Norma Rae, Wonder, The Forgotten Arm. Concerts: Sara Bareilles, Rosanne Cash, Rita Wilson, Kat McPhee, Joey McIntyre, A Prairie Home Companion. TV: “Central Park,” AppleTV+; “The Tony Danza Show,” ABC; various talk shows. Education: Vassar College.

A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway credits include: Godspell (Musical Director); Next to Normal (Musical Director); Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me (Musical Director/actor); Legally Blonde (Associate Conductor). Tours: Next to Normal (Music Supervisor); Grease (US/Asia). Off-Broadway: Silence: The Musical!; Almost Heaven: Songs of John Denver. Regional: La Jolla Playhouse, MUNY, Arena Stage, Trinity Rep, The Huntington Theatre, and nine seasons with the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Concert appearances include shows with Brooke Shields, Frankie Avalon, Emily Skinner, Dana Reeve, Billy Porter, Carol Woods and Ken Page.

A.R.T.: Pippin (Associate Music Director). Broadway: The Last Ship (written by 16-time Grammy Award winner, Sting; Associate Music Director); Pippin; (Assistant Conductor/Keys): Jesus Christ Superstar; Billy Elliot; Grease; Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; Keyboards: Guys and Dolls; Mama Mia; Promises, Promises; Addams Family; Women on the Verge. Music Supervisor for Disney's High School Musical, Milan/Italy Tour.First National Tours: Disney's High School Musical, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Grease. Work with Alicia Keys, Ke$ha, Matthew Morrison. As composer: The Return of the Blue Cat (with poet F.D. Reeve). TV: The X-Factor (Australia), The Next Big Thing. Sonny is also the music director and arranger for The Doo Wop Project. BFA in Jazz Piano from CUNY City College. 

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A.R.T.: Pippin. Broadway: Pippin, Matilda, Ghost The Musical (Drama Desk Award), The Woman in White. West End: The Invisible Man, Zorro, The Lord Of The Rings (also Toronto), Our House, The Witches, The Witches Of Eastwick, Scrooge. Other theater: Sideshow, Kennedy Center; Kenneth Branagh's Macbeth, Park Avenue Armory; Zorro, Alliance Theatre, Atlanta; Arabian Nights, A Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, The Mysteries, Spring Awakening, Royal Shakespeare Company; Theatre of Blood, La Grande Magia, The Seagull, National Theatre, UK. Other: L’Heure Espagnole, Royal Opera; Alice in Wonderland, Royal Ballet. Film: Hugo, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Paul has worked as a consultant to Radio City Music Hall and with magicians including David Copperfield and David Blaine. Winner of 2013 Magic Castle (Hollywood) Creative Fellowship. www.stageillusion.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.: Debut. Broadway credits include: Godspell (Musical Director); Next to Normal (Musical Director); Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me (Musical Director/actor); Legally Blonde (Associate Conductor). Tours: Next to Normal (Music Supervisor); Grease (US/Asia). Off-Broadway: Silence: The Musical!; Almost Heaven: Songs of John Denver. Regional: La Jolla Playhouse, MUNY, Arena Stage, Trinity Rep, The Huntington Theatre, and nine seasons with the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Concert appearances include shows with Brooke Shields, Frankie Avalon, Emily Skinner, Dana Reeve, Billy Porter, Carol Woods and Ken Page.

A.R.T.: Pippin (Associate Music Director). Broadway: The Last Ship (written by 16-time Grammy Award winner, Sting; Associate Music Director); Pippin; (Assistant Conductor/Keys): Jesus Christ Superstar; Billy Elliot; Grease; Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; Keyboards: Guys and Dolls; Mama Mia; Promises, Promises; Addams Family; Women on the Verge. Music Supervisor for Disney's High School Musical, Milan/Italy Tour.First National Tours: Disney's High School Musical, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Grease. Work with Alicia Keys, Ke$ha, Matthew Morrison. As composer: The Return of the Blue Cat (with poet F.D. Reeve). TV: The X-Factor (Australia), The Next Big Thing. Sonny is also the music director and arranger for The Doo Wop Project. BFA in Jazz Piano from CUNY City College. 

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A.R.T.: Pippin. Performed with: DJ Premier, Itzhak Perlman, John Eliot Gardiner. Member of The King’s Consort, European touring orchestra. She performs on modern and baroque violin. She spent three years in London, studying and working with many acclaimed artists within the early music field, specializing in historical performance.

A.R.T.: Pippin. He received his Master’s Degree from Indiana University, studying with legendary cellist Janos Starker. He has performed in Asia, Europe, throughout the United States and on PBS and National Public Radio. Kevin has served as principal cellist for the touring companies of the Royal Ballet and American Ballet Theater as well as the national touring productions of Evita, Cats, Titanic, Showboat, Sunset Boulevard, Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, and Les Misérables. He regularly performs with the duo ClearVision and is a member of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra.

A.R.T.: Debut. Principal bass: The Boston Modern Orchestra Project, The Boston Philharmonic, Opera Boston. Member: The Rhode Island Philharmonic, Portland Symphony, Springfield Symphony. He is a frequent participant with: The Chameleon Arts Ensemble, Emmanuel Music, New England Camerata. He serves on the faculties of the New England Conservatory of Music Preparatory Division, the Walnut Hill School, and Project STEP. He is an alumnus of the Hartt School of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music.

(he/him) A.R.T.: Pippin, Finding Neverland. Broadway in Boston: The Lion King, Mean Girls, Moulin Rouge, Legally Blonde, Matilda, Newsies, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Beautiful the Carole King Musical, Spamalot and others. Performances with the Boston Pops Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Philharmonic, and Boston Gay Men’s Chorus. Graduate of U. of M. School of Music. Professor, Berklee College of Music.

A.R.T.: Debut. Jazz Alto Saxophonist/woodwind specialist. Member of: Buddy Rich Big Band, Herb Pomeroy Jazz Orchestra, Greg Hopkins Big Band, John Allmark Jazz Orchestra. Performed with: Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Rosemary Clooney, Jon Faddis, Jack Walrath, Bill Pierce, Phil Woods, Natalie Cole, Stevie Wonder, Johnny Mathis, Aretha Franklin, Mel Torme, Harry Connick Jr., Boston Pops Orchestra, Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band. He is featured on the Buddy Rich recording “Mr. Drums, Live on King Street.”

A.R.T.: Johnny Baseball. Woodwind doubler on oboe, English horn, flute, saxophone, and clarinet. Performed for Broadway productions in the orchestra pits of Boston’s Wang, Shubert, Colonial, Boston Opera House, and North Shore Music Theater. Besides playing for touring shows in Boston, Rod has performed in the pre-Broadway productions of Dreamgirls, Grand Hotel, Seussical, and Rags. Recent highlights include Candide at the Huntington Theatre and the concert performance of Porgy and Bess with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, as well as numerous performances with the Boston Pops Orchestra.

A.R.T.: Pippin. Broadway: Chess, Cats, Anything Goes. 1st trumpet: Me and My Girl (Asst. Cond.), Cats, The Music of Andrew Lloyd Weber, Dancin’, National Tours; Shirley Bassey at Carnegie Hall; tours with Mel Torme; Frank Sinatra Jr.; Musical contracting for the Tanglewood Jazz Festival Orchestra (with Terrence Blanchard); Aretha Franklin; Frankie Valli; The Temptations. Presently musical contractor for the Boston Opera House, The Huntington Theatre, The Ogunquit Playhouse, and Worcester’s Hanover Theatre.

A.R.T.: Debut. Walt Bostian, trombone, has played the national tours of The Lion King, Wicked, and other shows during their Boston runs. In addition he has performed with the Boston Ballet, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, The Rhode Island Philharmonic, and The Portland Symphony Orchestra, as well as touring with Bim Skala Bim and Roomful of Blues. He is an Honors graduate of the New England Conservatory.

A.R.T.: Debut. Worked with: Boston Symphony and Pops orchestras, The Boston Ballet, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, The Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, The Portland Symphony Orchestra. His expertise spans genres, including orchestra, opera, new music, jazz and theater. He holds degrees in music from Boston University and The Juilliard School. He currently resides in Providence, RI.

A.R.T.: Debut. Styles: rhythm and blues, rock. Work includes: shows with Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, world tours with small jazz groups, clubs, performing concerts. He is active in the educational community, teaching private students, working as a respected clinician and festival adjudicator. Kenny is the leader, for the last twenty years, of his own seventeen-piece big band, which has recorded three CDs, the latest being “Common Thread” in 2009.

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.: Debut. Broadway: Godspell; Wonderland; HAIR; Grease; Grey Gardens;The Pajama Game; Sweet Charity; A Christmas Carol, MSG; The Play What I Wrote; Oklahoma!; The Full Monty; Marie Christine, LCT. Off-Broadway: If There Is I Haven’t Found it Yet. Concerts: Dreamgirls 20th Anniversary Concert.

A.R.T.: Resident vocal coach since 1997; 70 productions, most recently dialect design for Once, Pippin, and Glass Menagerie. Regional theater coaching: A.C.T., Guthrie. Has worked with directors Diane Paulus, John Tiffany, Sarah Benson, Bill T. Jones, Andrei Serban, David Mamet, Robert Woodruff, among others. A.R.T. Institute Head of Voice & Speech: vocal production, dialects, Shakespeare; heads M.F.A. program in voice pedagogy. National workshops on public speaking and storytelling; Harvard’s Bok Center filmed her work with Harvard faculty: “The Act of Teaching.” Performance credits: A.C.T., California Shakespeare Festival, Denver Center Theater, San Jose Rep, Alaska Rep & Joyce Theater. B.A. Stanford, M.F.A. American Conservatory Theater, Master Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework.

A.R.T.: Finding Neverland, Witness Uganda, Pippin, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Prometheus Bound, Johnny Baseball. Broadway: Finding Neverland, Pippin, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. National Tour: Pippin, The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess. Graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, B.A. in Visual and Environmental Studies (Film Production). Mia has been assisting for Diane Paulus since graduating in 2010. Mia was also a Resident Director at The Flea Theater in NYC, where she directed new works by Trista Baldwin and Israel Horovitz. Other credits include: Ensemble Studio Theater, The Berkshire Theatre Festival, American Conservatory Theater, NYU Tisch, and Vassar Powerhouse.

A.R.T.: Debut. Directed and Choreographed for Trinity Repertory Company, TheatreWorks, TinyRhino, NYMF, FringeNYC, Young Playwrights Inc., Maples Rep, Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre, Festival 56, NYU, and Temple University. Performing: Broadway, National Tours, West End, and Regional credits. BFA, Webster University. MFA, Brown/Trinity Rep. www.christopherwindom.com

A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway (original casts): The Producers(Carmen Ghia, Dance captain); La Cage aux Folles(Hanna from Hamburg); Fosse (Dance Captain, Original choreography reconstruction). Tours: 42nd Street, 1st European tour; CATS, Hamburg, Germany;Anything Goes, Berlin, Germany. Costume Design: Heatwave: The Jack Cole Project, Off-Broadway; Crazy for You, Theatre by the Sea; My One and Only, A Chorus Line, 101 Dalmations (Kevin Kline Award nomination), Stages St. Louis.

A.R.T.: Debut. Recent choreography credits include: Equus (dir. Tony Walton). Broadway performance credits: War Horse, Tarzan. Other performance: FuerzaBruta; De La Guarda; Liars’ Club; Impact Theater. She teaches movement for actor and acting for dancers. B.A. from Vassar College. She is so happy to collaborate with A.R.T. and Les 7 Doigts.

A.R.T Debut. Associate design: Les Liaisons Dangerouses, Blackbird, Howard Katz, and Pig Farm (all with Scott Pask), The Year of Magical Thinking (with Bob Crowley), The 25th Annual Putnam Country Spelling Bee (with Jennifer Caprio). Selected assistant design: The Addams Family, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Hair, 9 to 5, Pal Joey, Speed the Plow, Cry Baby, November, The Coast of Utopia. Boston Ballet’s new The Nutcracker, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Stratford Shakespeare Festival), and Arabella (Opera Australia) all with Robert Perdziola.