The Lion

SEAN DANIELS

Director

SEAN DANIELS (Director) has directed at Manhattan Theatre Club, Lynn Redgrave Theater, the Kennedy Center, St. James Theatre (West End), Actors Theatre of Louisville, Portland Center Stage, Geva Theatre Center, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Cleveland Play House, Alliance Theatre, California Shakespeare Theater, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Long Wharf Theatre, Dad’s Garage Theatre Company, Swine Palace, Neo-Futurists, Aurora Theatre, Crowded Fire Theater and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. His direction and shows have won “Best New Musical” in London; the Drama Desk Award in New York City; and “Best Play” and “Best Director” in the Bay Area, Rochester and Atlanta. His shows have also been nominated for a Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle Award. Sean was named “one of the top 15 up-and-coming artists in the U.S. whose work will be transforming America’s stages for decades to come” and “one of seven people reshaping and revitalizing the American musical” by American Theatre. He is the artistic director of Merrimack Repertory Theatre. He previously served as artist-at-large for Geva Theatre Center and spent four years at the Tony Award-winning Actors Theatre of Louisville as the theater’s associate artistic director, where he directed 17 productions including five Humana Festivals. Sean is the former associate artistic director/resident director of California Shakespeare Theater and before that spent a decade as artistic director and co-founder of Dad’s Garage Theatre Company in Atlanta. Twitter: @seandaniels.

NEIL PATEL

Scenic Designer

NEIL PATEL (Scenic Designer)’s designs are well known on and Off-Broadway and at regional theaters and opera houses in the U.S. and abroad. Recent New York credits include Mr. Burns, a post-electric play; Stage Kiss; Indian Ink; and Father Comes Home From The Wars (Parts 1, 2 and 3). Other work includes production design for the HBO series In Treatment and the feature films Some Velvet Morning (Tribeca Films) and Loitering with Intent (Parts and Labor).

BEN STANTON

Lighting Designer

BEN STANTON (Lighting Designer)’s Broadway credits include Fun Home (Circle in the Square, Tony Award nomination), An Enemy of the People (Friedman Theatre) and Seminar (Golden Theatre). Recent Off-Broadway credits include Fun Home (The Public, Lucille Lortel Award nomination); The Nether (MCC Theater, Lucille Lortel Award nomination); Our Lady of Kibeho (Drama Desk Award nomination); Kung Fu; Angels in America (Signature Theatre); Murder Ballad (MTC/Union Square Theatre, Lucille Lortel Award nomination); Belleville (New York Theatre Workshop, Lucille Lortel Award nomination); Into the Woods (Delacorte Theater); and The Whipping Man (MTC, Lucille Lortel Award, Drama Desk nomination). Selected regional credits include Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, South Coast Repertory, Goodman Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Huntington Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Paper Mill Playhouse, McCarter Theatre Center, Intiman Theatre and Actors Theatre of Louisville. Concert and tour designs for Regina Spektor, Sufjan Stevens, Beirut and St. Vincent. Touring lighting designer for The National Theatre (summer/fall 2014) and 2015 Obie Award winner for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design. www.benstanton.com

LEON ROTHENBERG

Sound Designer

LEON ROTHENBERG (Sound Designer)’s recent Broadway credits include Violet, The Realistic Joneses and The Nance (Tony Award). Select New York/Off-Broadway credits include Culture Project, Primary Stages, Second Stage Theatre, Tectonic Theater Project, Women’s Project Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, The Public, LCT3 and New York City Center. Select regional credits for Arena Stage, Seattle Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, New York Stage and Film, Two River Theater, North Shore Music Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, Intiman Theatre and Theatre By The Sea. International credits include Cirque du Soleil’s Kooza and Wintuk, National Theatre of Cyprus and the Dijon Festival. www.klaxson.net

JENNIFER CAPRIO

Costume Consultant

JENNIFER CAPRIO (Costume Consultant)’s credits include The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Broadway), The Lion (West End, St. James Theatre) and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (current national tour). Select New York credits include Tail! Spin! (Culture Project), The Lion (Manhattan Theatre Club), Little Miss Sunshine (Second Stage Theatre), In Transit (Primary Stages, Lucille Lortel Award nomination), Fugitive Songs (Dreamlight Theatre Company) and Striking 12 (Daryl Roth). Opera credits include Florida Grand Opera, Minnesota Opera, Opera Colorado and Mill City Summer Opera. Costume designs at over 60 U.S. regional theaters.

DOM RUGGIERO

Production Supervisor

DOM RUGGIERO (Production Supervisor)’s Broadway credits include The Gathering starring Hal Linden; Borscht Belt Buffet on Broadway starring Bruce Adler and Mal Z. Lawrence; and Ain’t That a Kick in the Head—The Music of Sammy Cahn directed by Chet Walker. First national tours include The Cole Porter Songbook starring Melba Moore, The Irving Berlin Songbook starring Carole Lawrence and Greetings…Shalom Aleichem Lives starring Judy Kaye, Bruce Adler and Theodore Bikel. Dom has worked on various productions in many capacities from stage management to general management and producing. His projects have taken him across the U.S., Europe, South America and Australia with Aint’ Misbehavin’, Phantom of the Opera, Anything Goes and Song and Dance, among many others.

MIND THE GAP PRODUCTIONS

Technical Supervisor

MIND THE GAP PRODUCTIONS (Technical Supervisor) is a Brooklyn-based production company specializing in custom fabrication, production management and production logistics. Notable projects include On the Town (Broadway), Hand to God (MCC Theater), And I and Silence, A Particle of Dread (Signature Theatre), Sex With Strangers, The Substance of Fire (Second Stage Theatre), Romeo and Juliet, Caucasian Chalk Circle (Classic Stage Company), The Tribute Artist, Poor Behavior and While I Yet Live (Primary Stages).

MAXIMUM ENTERTAINMENT

General Management

MAXIMUM ENTERTAINMENT (General Management) is a producing, developing and management company. Maximum Entertainment was founded in 2006 by Avram Freedberg, MaryBeth Dale and Eva Price. Associate General Manager Jim Brady joined Maximum in 2014. General management credits on Broadway, Off-Broadway and on tour include 50 Shades! The Musical Parody; Ivy + Bean, the Musical; Blank! The Musical; Colin Quinn: Long Story Short; Forever Dusty; Voca People; The Judy Show; Circumcise Me; The Great American Trailer Park Musical; The Magic School Bus Live!; Ella; ’S Wonderful; Strega Nona; and Irving Berlin’s I Love a Piano.

EVA PRICE

Producer

EVA PRICE (Producer) was recently named one of Crain’s New York Business’ “40 Under Forty” Rising Business Stars as well as one of Blouin Artinfo’s “25 Under 35” Emerging Broadway Players. She is executive producer/EVP for Maximum Entertainment, a producing and general management company located in New York City. Recent Broadway and Off-Broadway productions include On Your Feet! The Story of Gloria & Emilio Estefan; The Temptations and The Four Tops On Broadway; Found; Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin; John Grisham’s A Time to Kill; Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons; Lewis Black: Running on Empty; Annie; Peter and the Starcatcher (five Tony Awards); Kathy Griffin Wants A Tony; Colin Quinn: Long Story Short directed by Jerry Seinfeld (Drama Desk Award nomination); The Merchant of Venice starring Al Pacino (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critic’s Circle Award nominations); The Addams Family (Broadway, tour and Australia); Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking; and Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical. International and touring credits include Ivy + Bean, the Musical (national tour); The Magic School Bus Live!; The Climate Challenge (national tour); Ella, a bio musical about the life and music of Ella Fitzgerald (national tour);’S Wonderful (national tour); Strega Nona (national tour); Irving Berlin’s I Love A Piano (national tour and Japan); The Great American Trailer Park Musical (national tour); Private Jokes; and Public Places (London).