spends the rest of the year teaching skiing in
Steamboat Springs.
MICHAEL T. CLARKSTON
(
Production Stage
Manager
) Broadway:
Avenue Q, Chitty Chitty
Bang Bang, Hairspray, In The Heights, Jersey Boys,
Million Dollar Quartet, The Lion King.
National
tours:
In The Heights
(1st & 2nd),
Shrek, White
Christmas
(Orig. Co.),
The Lion King
(Cheetah &
L.A.). Off-Broadway/Regional:
Rent, Avenue Q,
Sunset Blvd., Miss Saigon, Evita, All Shook Up, 9
to 5
. Other: Elton John’s
GYBR 35th Anniversary
Concert
,
West Side Story 50th Anniversary Concert
,
The Normal Heart
with Glenn Close,
Best
Little Whorehouse
with Jennifer Hudson, many
corporate industrials and benefits. Film: Dubai
International Film Awards,
Babopbye Ya
,
The
Diplomat
,
Freegan Love
and
Wilderness
.
VINCE PESCE
(
Choreographer
) has recently
accepted the position of Director of Education
for Stages Performing Arts Academy. He served
as Kathleen Marshall’s associate choreographer
on the Broadway productions of
Anything Goes
,
(2011 Tony® Award – Choreography),
The Pajama
Game
starring Harry Connick, Jr. (2006 Tony®
Award – Choreography),
Wonderful Town
(2004
Tony® Award – Choreography), and
Little Shop of
Horrors
. Vince directed/choreographed a tour of
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor® Dreamcoat
,
the Mexico City company of
Victor/Victoria
and
choreographed the national/international tours of
‘S Wonderful
(world premiere),
Cinderella
starring
Lea Salonga,
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
, and
Oliver!
.
Vince also directed and choreographed
Good
News
and
Something’s Afoot
for Goodspeed Opera
House as well as
The Music Man
for Riverside
Theatre. He performed in the original Broadway
companies of
Beauty and the Beast; Victor/
Victoria; High Society
(Dance Captain);
Kiss Me,
Kate
(Dance Captain);
Wonderful Town
(Dance
Captain);
The Pajama Game
and in the 1992
revival of
Guys and Dolls
.
JOHN TARTAGLIA
(
Director
) makes his Muny
directorial debut after starring as The Genie in
last summer’s production of Disney’s
Aladdin.
John is known as “Johnny” from Disney’s
Johnny
and the Sprites
(nomination, Daytime Emmy
award, Outstanding Performer in a Children’s
Series) on Disney Junior, World-wide. John made
his Tony® award-nominated Broadway debut in
Avenue Q
, creating the roles of Princeton and
Rod. Broadway: Lumiere (
Beauty and the Beast
),
and originated the role of Pinocchio (
Shrek The
Musical
). He joined PBS’s
Sesame Street
as a
puppeteer at 16 years old, where he’s performed
for more than 10 seasons. John’s latest project,
ImaginOcean
, is currently being developed
with the Jim Henson Company for television,
utilizing their revolutionary Digital Puppetry
Studios system. John is currently resident
director for
Avenue Q
, playing off-Broadway.
He will be directing the upcoming Broadway
musical,
Because of Winn Dixie
, written by Nell
Benjamin with music by Duncan Sheik as well
as the upcoming live touring productions of
PBS and The Jim Henson Company’s
Dinosaur
Train
and
Sid the Science Kid.
His production
company, Gables Grove Productions (co-founded
with Michael Shawn Lewis), is an up-and-coming
multi-media family entertainment producer. Love
to family, friends, Michael and to all the dreamers
who never stop believing.
DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE
(
Book & Lyrics
)
was most recently nominated for two Tony
Awards for his work on
Shrek The Musical
: Best
Book of a Musical and Best Score (with composer
Jeanine Tesori). Prior to that he was awarded
the 2008 Ed Kleban Award as America’s most
promising musical theatre lyricist and the 2007
Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play
Rabbit
Hole
, which premiered on Broadway at MTC’s
Biltmore Theatre.
Rabbit Hole
also received five
Tony Award nominations, including Best Play,
and the Spirit of America Award. His other shows
include
Fuddy Meers, Kimberly Akimbo, Wonder of
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