CREATIVES

Films (author or co-author): Sleeper, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Manhattan Murder Mystery, For the Boys, Intersection, (as writer/ director): Simon, Lovesick, The Manhattan Project, Sister Mary Explains It All. Television: The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson (head writer), The Dick Cavett Show (head writer/co-producer).   He has published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Playboy and other periodicals and was the 2006 recipient of the Writers Guild of America’s Ian McClellan Hunter Lifetime Achievement Award.   Jersey Boys, his first venture into musical theatre (with co-author Rick Elice) won four Tonys including Best Musical. The Addams Family, his second theatrical venture (also with Rick), ran for over 700 performances on Broadway and had national and international tours. Upcoming projects include musicals about Roy Rogers and the Woodstock Festival of 1969.

RICK ELICE (writer) Four-time Tony Award and Drama Desk nominee. Grammy and Olivier Award winner.

On Broadway: Jersey Boys (Best Musical; Tony, Grammy and Olivier Awards); The Addams Family; Peter and the Starcatcher (five Tony Awards); The Cher Show (two Tony Awards); Water for Elephants (seven Tony Award nominations); Smash. 

Currently in the pipeline: The Princess Bride, Silver Linings Playbook. 

From 1982-1999, as Creative Director at Serino Coyne Inc, Rick created advertising campaigns for more than 300 Broadway shows, from A Chorus Line to The Lion King.

From 1999-2009, Rick served as creative consultant for The Walt Disney Studios. 

Heartfelt thanks to those he’s been lucky enough to know: Sondheim, Stoppard, Bennett, Prince, Fosse, Robbins, Nichols, Tune, Nunn, Timbers, McAnuff, Laurents, Lippa, Trujillo, Stone, Taymor, Martin, Shaiman, Whitman, Stroman, Coyne, Brickman, and Rees. Rick thinks about them a lot. He never thought about New Jersey much. He does now.

Bob Gaudio wrote his first hit, ”Who Wears Short Shorts”, “at 15”, for the Royal Teens, and then went on to become a founding member of the Four Seasons and the band’s principal songwriter.

He also produced the hit “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” for Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand (Grammy nomination, Record of the Year) as well as seven albums for Diamond, including The Jazz Singer.

Other producing credits include albums for Frank Sinatra, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Michael Jackson and the soundtrack for the film of Little Shop of Horrors. Several songs co-written with Bob Crewe have been cover hits for such artists as the Tremeloes (“Silence Is Golden”), the Walker Brothers (“The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore”) and Lauryn Hill (“Can’t Take My Eyes Off You”). Gaudio produced and co-wrote the Who Loves You album for the Four Seasons and one of Billboard’s longest-charted singles (54 weeks),“Oh, What a Night.”

A high point in his career came in 1990 when, as a member of the original Four Seasons, Gaudio was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 1995, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, which hailed him as “a quintessential music-maker.”

Gaudio co-produced the current hit Broadway show A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical, and the Jersey Boys film with Nick Jonas as Frankie Valli. In 2022, Gaudio’s song “Beggin’” recorded by Månesskin, an Italian rock group, was chosen as Favorite Song of the Year by The American Music Awards. Gaudio is currently working on a project relating to Frank Sinatra’s Watertown album. To this day, Bob Gaudio and Frankie Valli still maintain their partnership…on a handshake.

 

“New York was pregnant in the fifties,” says Bob Crewe, “gestating with possibilities.” Crewe and music partner Frank Slay became independent writer-producers when the category hadn’t yet been invented.

In 1957 they wrote and produced “Silhouettes” for The Rays, which skyrocketed to #1. Suddenly, producers in demand, they launched Freddie Cannon’s “Tallahassee Lassie” and Billy & Lillie’s “Lah Dee Da.” Crewe’s 1960’s unprecedented producing success with The Four Seasons birthed a new sound, striking a major chord in American pop. “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Walk Like a Man,” “Candy Girl,” “Ronnie” – all smashes! When lead Frankie Valli demanded a solo turn, Crewe and Bob Gaudio wrote (and Crewe produced) “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” which eventually became the century’s fifth most-played song.

Crewe ran hot with artists from Vicki Carr, Oliver and Lesley Gore to Mitch Ryder, co-writing with Charles Fox the soundtrack for Jane Fonda’s film, “Barbarella.” Then his own Bob Crewe Generation exploded with Music to Watch Girls By. In 1972 Bob was in L.A., where he revived Frankie Valli with “My Eyes Adored You” by Crewe and Kenny Nolan. They also co-wrote Patti LaBelle’s “Lady Marmalade” (#1, July ’75), which was a hit again on the soundtrack of Moulin Rouge (#1, June ’01).

Des McAnuff is a two-time Tony Award-winning director and former artistic director of Canada’s Stratford Festival. He is also Director Emeritus of La Jolla Playhouse, where, as Artistic Director, he staged over 30 productions of classics, new plays and musicals. 

He’s co-founder of Broadway’s Dodgers. 

West End/UK Tours: The Ballad of Johnny and June, Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations, Jersey Boys (Olivier Award: Best New Musical), The Who’s Tommy (Olivier Awards: Best Director and Best Musical Revival). 

Broadway: The Who’s Tommy (2024), Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, Doctor Zhivago, Jesus Christ Superstar, Guys and Dolls, Aaron Sorkin’s The Farnsworth Invention, Jersey Boys (Tony and Olivier Awards: Best Musical), Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays (Tony Award: Best Special Theatrical Event), Dracula the Musical, How to Succeed…, The Who’s Tommy (1993, Tony Award: Best Director), A Walk in the Woods, Big River (Tony Awards: Best Director, Best Musical). Selected New York: Fetch Clay, Make Man (NYTW);multiple productions at The Public and BAM.

Stratford highlights: A Word or Two, Caesar and Cleopatra, The Tempest (all with Christopher Plummer), Twelfth Night (with Brian Dennehy).

Opera: Faust (The Met, ENO). TV: 700 Sundays (HBO). 

Film: Cousin Bette (with Jessica Lange, director), The Iron Giant (producer, BAFTA Award) and Quills (executive producer). In 2011, he was honoured with a doctorate from Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University) where he attended theatre school. In 2012, he was awarded Canada’s Governor General’s National Arts Center Award and the Order of Canada.

Sergio Trujillo is an internationally renowned director and choreographer whose work has been seen on stages around the world. He has choreographed more than 14 Broadway musicals and, in 2011, achieved the rare distinction of having four productions running simultaneously on Broadway: Next to Normal (Pulitzer Prize-winning musical), The Addams Family, Memphis (Olivier Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, and NAACP Award winner), and Jersey Boys (Tony, Olivier, and Green Room Award winner).

Most recently, he directed the Tony Award-nominated Real Women Have Curves on Broadway, Jesus Christ Superstar starring Cynthia Erivo and Adam Lambert at the Hollywood Bowl, Damn Yankees at Arena Stage (Helen Hayes Award nomination), Arrabal at the American Repertory Theater (Elliot Norton Award for Best Direction), Cirque du Soleil’s Paramour for Stage Entertainment, and co-directed The Harder They Come at The Public Theater.

Trujillo made history as the first Latinx recipient of the Tony Award for Best Choreography, winning in 2019 for Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations. He also received the 2015 Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreographer for Memphis. A two-time Emmy Award nominee, including for NBC’s Annie Live!, he is also a three-time NAACP Award winner. Most recently, he choreographed the movie musical Kiss of the Spider Woman starring Jennifer Lopez, earning a Chita Rivera Award nomination.

This year marks fifty years of arranging, music direction and music supervision, including serving on the creative teams of twenty Broadway shows, as well as other productions spanning the world.

Helpmann Award Winner (Australia’s equivalent of Olivier and Tony awards) for Jersey Boys music direction. Music supervisor: Jersey Boys film (2014) and upcoming livestream release.

Associate producer: A Bronx Tale cast album, Jersey Boys (platinum) cast album and Christmas album. Recent Broadway credits as music supervisor/arranger include: The Who’s Tommy, A Bronx Tale, and Summer: A Donna Summer Musical.

Composer: Fortune (Off-Broadway), The Silver Swan (National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship) ,a gospel-based Requiem, and songs for church, choir, cabaret, and NBC’s Saturday Night Live. Began as a concert pianist, now practicing piano again after a fifty-five year hiatus.

Formal education: Harvard (philosophy), Westminster Choir College (choral conducting).

Danny Austin serves as Associate Director & Choreographer for the Jersey Boys U.K. & Ireland Tour (20th Anniversary), continuing a creative relationship with the show spanning more than two decades. He has helped shape and maintain productions worldwide, including Associate Director/Production Supervisor for the Las Vegas residency and Norwegian Cruise Lines, U.S. Creative Coordinator for the Trafalgar Theatre production and U.K. tour, and Associate Choreographer on Broadway, U.S. National Tours, and internationally. He has also directed Canadian productions for Drayton Entertainment and Mayfield Theatre. Additional credits include: Associate Choreographer for Hairspray (West End, U.K. Tour, International Tour) and Resident Director/Choreographer for the original Canadian company. He has served at the Charlottetown Festival and was a member of the acting company for seven seasons at the Stratford Festival, where he received three Tyrone Guthrie Awards. His work also includes television and live events.

Broadway: Sister Act, The Farnsworth Invention, Jersey Boys, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. Ms. Zieglerova designed numerous productions in the United States, Europe and Asia. Awards: The Green Room Award Australia, Theatregoers’ Choice Award London for Best Set Design, Lumen Award for the design of The New World Stages in NYC, Drammy Award for Best Set Design, Carbonell Award for Best Set Design, and designed sets for Best Touring Production of the L.A. Ovation Awards. www.klarazieglerova.com.

Broadway credits include: Jersey Boys, Disney’s Newsies, On The Town, The Rivals (2005 Tony Award), The Merchant Of Venice with Al Pacino (Tony nomination), Henry IV with Kevin Kline (Tony nomination), The Apple Tree with Kristin Chenoweth, Proof, Love! Valour! Compassion!, The Most Happy Fella, Tintypes, Buried Child, Take Me Out, How I Learned To Drive And The Mineola Twins (Lortel and Hewes Awards).

 Opera designs include: Il Trittico (Metropolitan Opera), La Traviata and Lucia Di Lammermoor (Washington National Opera), Two Women and Heart Of A Soldier (San Francisco Opera), The End Of The Affair (Houston Grand Opera), Dead Man Walking (NYC Opera and Chicago Lyric Opera) and Of Mice And Men, Agrippina and The Pirates Of Penzance (NYC Opera and Glimmerglass).

 Designs for film and television include: A Walk On The Moon and The Substance Of Fire as well as Talking With and Far East for PBS’ Great Performances.

He is the 2015 recipient of the Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award and is a graduate and faculty emeritus of the Yale School of Drama. www.jess-goldstein.com

Broadway: Ain’t Too Proud (2019 Tony nom), Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, Come From Away (2017 Tony nom), A Bronx Tale, Hamilton (2016 Tony winner/2018 Olivier Award winner), After Midnight (2014 Tony nom), How to Succeed… (2011 Tony nom), West Side Story (2009 Tony nom), In the Heights (2008 Tony nom.), Jersey Boys (2006 Tony winner), Avenue Q, Parade, Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993 Tony nom). Co-Founder/Original Resident Lighting Designer Parsons Dance. 1993 Sir Laurence Olivier and Canadian Dora Awards for Kiss of the Spider Woman. 2006 and 2016 Henry Hewes Design Awards for Jersey Boys and Hamilton.

Steve Canyon Kennedy was the production engineer on such Broadway shows as Cats, Starlight Express, Song & Dance, The Phantom of the Opera, Carrie and Aspects of Love.

 His Broadway sound design credits include: Ain’t Too Proud (Tony Nomination), On Your Feet!, Doctor Zhivago,Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill (Tony Award), Hands on a Hardbody (Drama Desk Award), Jesus Christ Superstar, Catch Me If You Can (Tony Nomination), Guys and Dolls, Mary Poppins, The Lion King, Jersey Boys (Drama Desk Award), Rent, Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays, Rent, Hairspray, The Producers, Aida, Titanic, Big, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Carousel and The Who’s Tommy (Drama Desk Award).

Off Broadway designs include: Marie and Rosetta and The Radio City Christmas Spectacular.

Steve is President of SCK Sound Design Inc.

 

Michael Clark is a designer recognized for consistently identifying and applying technology at the edge of its intended application.

 Designing projections for The Elephant Man, Dracula the Musical, Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays, and Ring of Fire, Clark served as US Associate Projection Designer for Jon Driscoll on Brief Encounter, Ghost, Chaplin, and Finding Neverland.

 His work spans traditional Broadway spectacle, opera, cutting-edge virtual and digital environments, including museum, gallery, and site-specific installations. He introduced digital display technology to multiple productions of Jersey Boys across the UK, Europe, Australia, South Africa, and Southeast Asia.

 Clark is a Professor of Digital Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida’s Digital Worlds Institute and principal of 5th Wall Inc., a design consultancy providing scenic and digital media services. He is a member of USA 829, IATSE, and IEEE. 

Charles G. Lapointe is an award winning Wig and Hair Designer based in New York, who maintains a highly successful career on stages throughout the United States and abroad.

Theatre: Numerous Broadway, Touring, Regional Theatre, West End and International productions including Hamilton (Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylist Guild Award), Death Becomes Her (Drama Desk Award); Titanique; The Great Gatsby; Pirates! The Penzance Musical!; Suffs (Drama Desk Award Nomination); MJ The Musical; The Who’s TOMMY; The WIZ; Beautiful: The Carole King Musical; Beetlejuice; The Cher Show (Drama Desk Award); Anastasia; SpongeBob SquarePants (Drama Desk Award); A Gentleman’s Guide; In the Heights.

 Television: “The Wiz Live!” (Emmy Nomination), “Jesus Christ Superstar Live!” (Emmy Nomination and Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylist Guild Award), “Bluebloods”, “American Crime”, “Maddoff”, “Hairspray.”

Broadway: Jersey Boys, Ain’t Too Proud, Memphis, Summer, Carousel (Drama Desk Outstanding Fight Choreography), Henry IV, Guys and Dolls, Doctor Zhivago, The Farnsworth Invention, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Dracula, Bonnie and Clyde, Two Shakespearean Actors, Anna Christie, The Real Inspector Hound, The Who’s Tommy. Off-Broadway: The Third Story, Pig Farm, The Night Hank Williams Died, Below the Belt. Stratford Shakespeare Festival: Henry V, The Who’s Tommy, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Caesar and Cleopatra. Metropolitan Opera: Faust, Rodelinda, Iphigénie en Tauride, Boris Godenov.

Broadway: Jersey Boys (Tony Nomination – Best Orchestrations), The Cher Show, Priscilla Queen of the Desert. Off-Broadway: Snoopy, Personals, A Good Swift Kick. Tours: Annie, Godspell, A Class Act. Regional Theatre: Musical Director and/or Orchestrator at Pasadena Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse,  Mark Taper Forum, Hollywood Bowl, La Jolla Playhouse, Theatreworks, Goodman Theatre, Goodspeed, Asolo Rep, Dorset Theatre, Northlight, Pioneer Theatre. TV: Composer, Arranger & Conductor for documentaries, sitcoms, movies and specials. Recordings: 20 albums, including the Grammy-winning Jersey Boys cast album. His orchestrations have been performed by the National Symphony, the Boston Pops, at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the White House and around the world.

Luke Zammit was most recently Resident Director and Skate Coordinator on the revival of

Starlight Express at Wembley Troubadour Theatre. He also previously worked as Assistant

Director on Mamma Mia! (Cyprus)

 

Performer credits include: Swing in Billy Elliot The Musical (UK Tour), Skate Captain,

Swing Cover Dustin in Starlight Express (Bochum), Ensemble cover Chad in High School

Musical (UK Tour), Ensemble in We Will Rock You (Dominion Theatre), Ensemble in I Can’t

Stop Loving You – Ray Charles (UK/USA/Monte Carlo)

 

Film work includes: Wicked (dir. Jon M. Chu) and Blitz (dir. Steve McQueen)

Ed is delighted to continue his association with Jersey Boys, following two periods with the show in 2014-15 (1st UK tour) and 2021-22 (West End). London theatre credits as Music Director: Jesus Christ Superstar (The Barbican), Mrs Doubtfire, Shaftesbury Theatre, Thelma and Louise (Young Vic), Rip It Up: The ‘70s (London Palladium) and Little Death Club (Underbelly).  As Deputy Music Director: MJ, Prince Edward Theatre and Motown the Musical, Shaftesbury Theatre. As Associate Music Director: Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Apollo Theatre). UK touring credits: Footloose, Beauty and the Beast, 42nd Street, Singing in the Rain, Oklahoma, Aspects of Love, The Rat Pack: Live from Las Vegas and Stiles and Drewe’s Peter Pan. Film credits: on-set Music Director for Pan (Warner Bros.), composer and pianist for the soundtrack to the BFI’s restoration of the 1925 silent classic, The Phantom of the Opera. Studies: Royal Academy of Music and the University of Birmingham

This production of Jersey Boys is Jonathan’s fourth as associate designer and he also worked with Klara Zieglerova on Sister Act. He is Mark Thompson’s associate on Mamma Mia! and has designed more than 30 productions as well as assisting him on productions of Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, One Man Two Guvnors, Doctor Dolittle, Wind in the Willows, art, Life x 3, The Lady in the Van and Bombay Dreams amongst others. He was Maria Björnson’s assistant for the original production Phantom of the Opera and has reproduced the show worldwide and was her assistant on productions for the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Royal Shakespeare Company, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, English National Opera and La Scala, Milan. Other work includes designs for Scottish Opera, Kent Opera, Welsh National Opera and the West End

   

Wig Designer: Beetlejuice – UK Associate (Prince Edward), The Ballard of Johnny and June – UK Associate (UK Tour), Bat Out of Hell (UK Tour/ Las Vegas)

Wig Supervisor: Midsummer Murders (UK Tour), The Great Gatsby (London Coliseum), MJ (Prince Edward), Just for One Day (Shaftsbury/Old Vic/Toronto), A Night with Janis Joplin (Peacock Theatre), Plaza Suite (Savoy Theatre),  Ain’t Too Proud (Prince Edward), Newsies (Troubadour Wembley), Jersey Boys (Trafalgar Studios /UK Tour), Cats (International Tour/China), Grease (Dominion/UK Tour)

Assistant Wig Supervisor to Linda Mc Knight and Wig Maker, West End: & Juliet, Hamilton, The Wind in the Willows, Motown, Beautiful, Bat Out of Hell, Memphis, Jersey Boys, What the Butler Saw, Backbeat, Rock of Ages, Dirty Dancing, The Lion in Winter, The Tempest, Flare Path, Pygmalion, An Ideal Husband, The Misanthrope, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Entertaining Mr Sloane, Brief Encounter, A Little Night Music, The 39 Steps.

Other credits: Grease (Leicester Curve) Ros and Oklahoma (Chichester) Jersey Boys (UK Tour) Bat Out of Hell (Manchester) Beautiful (UK Tour) Motown (UK Tour) Spamalot (UK Tour) Aida (Royal Albert Hall) Chess (UK Tour) Batman Live (World Tour).

Suzy has also been a Wig Maker for over 15 years. Making wigs for the shows listed above. Additionally working at The Royal Opera House and other wig making studios.

Lauren is a musical director and educator working across the UK and international theatre scene. Lauren studied at the University College Cork and Mountview. Credits include: Jersey Boys (NCL), SIX (NCL), SIX (Deputy MD -West End). Lauren has musically directed a wide range of college, fringe, and off-West End shows. She is a passionate educator of the arts, and has taught at leading institutions including ArtsEd, Laine Theatre Arts, and Guildford School of Acting. Lauren extends heartfelt thanks to Danny, Ron & Dodgers for their continued trust and support, her mother for never questioning any of her decisions that led her to this job – and to her partner Abby, currently PSM on the Jersey Boys US tour, proving that even across continents, the show (and the relationship) must go on.  

The DODGERS (Dodger Properties) is a theatrical producing partnership hatched in New York in 1978. Over 200 productions in North America, London, Europe and Australasia; blessed by Broadway’s Tonys (56), London’s Oliviers, Australia’s Helpmanns.

Current Broadway: The Rocky Horror Show at Studio 54 (with Trafalgar). Other Broadway: Lead producers Jersey Boys (worldwide), Matilda (with RSC), Groundhog Day (with Whistle Pig), 42nd Street, A Bronx Tale, Urinetown, Into the Woods (original ’87 and ’02), Music Man, High Society, Titanic, ….Forum, The King and I, The Who’s Tommy (original), Ralph Fiennes’ Hamlet (with Almeida), Guys and Dolls, Jelly’s Last Jam, The Secret Garden, Gospel at Colonus, Big River, among others.

West End: Clueless the Musical. The Dodgers have offices in Times Square and Covent Garden. Their president is Michael David, currently the Executive Producer of MJ on Broadway, National Tour, and Hamburg.  

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