Waitress

A.R.T.: Waitress. Sara Bareilles first achieved mainstream critical praise in 2007 with her hit “Love Song,” which reached #1 in 22 countries around the world from her debut album Little Voice. Since then, the Eureka, CA native has sold millions of albums worldwide and received five Grammy nominations including Song of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for “Love Song.” Bareilles’ highly anticipated sophomore release Kaleidoscope Heart debuted at #1 on the Billboard top 200 chart in September 2010 and has gained praise everywhere including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, People and Los Angeles Times. The album yielded the hit single “King of Anything,” which earned a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and was certified platinum by the RIAA. In 2011, Bareilles joined the judges’ panel on the hit NBC show “The Sing-Off.” Soon after, she released her highly revered Once Upon Another Time EP, produced by singer/songwriter and fellow “Sing-Off” judge Ben Folds. Sara’s highly acclaimed third studio album, The Blessed Unrest, released in 2013 via Epic Records, debuted at #2 on the Billboard album chart and was nominated for two Grammy Awards including “Album of the Year” and “Best Pop Performance” for her hit single “Brave.” Bareilles’ upcoming book, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) In Song, is slated to be released on October 6 by Simon & Schuster. Sara is also releasing a solo studio album featuring music from Waitress due out this fall on Epic Records.

(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.: Finding Neverland. Broadway: Finding Neverland, Of Mice and Men. Other theater: Frankenstein, Royal National Theatre; The Killer, Theatre for a New Audience; Macbeth, Hartford Stage; Tape, The Lively Lad, Orange Lemon Egg Canary, Humana Festival. TV/Film: Costume & Production Designer: “London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony” (Emmy Award); 127 Hours (Art Directors Guild nomination); Slumdog Millionaire (Costume Designers Guild Award); Trance; Sunshine; The American; The Extra Man; “Cinema Verite” (Emmy nomination); 10,000 Saints; The Good Lie, The Walk (upcoming), Steve Jobs (upcoming). Faculty, Carnegie Mellon. MFA, Yale.

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.

(he/him) A.R.T.: ExtraOrdinary, Jagged Little Pill, Waitress, Finding Neverland, Witness Uganda, The Heart of Robin Hood. Broadway: Jagged Little Pill (Tony nomination); Waitress, NYC and UK; Finding Neverland; Pippin (Tony nomination); La Cage aux Folles (Tony and Drama Desk nominations). Other recent credits: Bhangin It, La Jolla Playhouse; Anything Goes, Barbican and Tour; Lune Rouge, PY1; The Tempest; Red Velvet; Invisible Thread; Young Frankenstein; Pirate Queen; Carrie (Drama Desk nomination); Parade (Drama Desk nomination); Fosse, NYC, UK; Ragtime. Jonathan has designed fifteen Cirque du Soleil productions including Drawn to Life, MJ ONE, LOVE, KA, O, Mystère, Ovo, Corteo, and more. Operas include a residency at the Royal Opera House and the LA Opera. designingsound.com

A.R.T.: Waitress, Pippin, Marie Antoinette, Crossing. Broadway: The 39 Steps. Regional: The Colored Museum, Huntington Theatre Company; Kiss Me Kate, Hartford Stage, Old Globe; Sense and Sensibility, Dallas Theatre Center. T.V.: “Desperate Crossing” (Primetime Emmy nomination).

(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.: 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.: Waitress. Broadway: Finding Neverland, Little Shop of Horrors, Martin Short’s Fame Becomes Me, Sister Act. Has worked with many artists including Idina Menzel, Regina Spektor, Jewel, Enrique Iglesias, Katharine McPhee, Rita Wilson, Rachel Yamagata, Jonatha Brooke, Ben E. King, Darlene Love, and Steven Van Zandt. He owns and works out of his recording studio, Podnoise Studio NYC.

A.R.T.: ExtraOrdinary, Waitress. Broadway: Waitress (Orchestrator). New York: I Kiss Your Heart (composer), Soho Theater; Rob Roth’s SOUNDSTAGE (composer/sound design/orchestrator), HERE; Love the Struggle (composer/orchestrator), SheNYC. Regional: The Nightingale, La Jolla Playhouse; Alice by Heart, Theater Aspen. International: Lady Rizo’s Under (composer/performer), Edinburgh Fringe Assembly. Music Production: Violet, Lady Rizo; The Ginger Snapped, Jinkx Monsoon. Collaborators include: Duncan Sheik, Meow Meow, Alan Cumming, Lady Rizo, Taylor Mac, Justin Bond, and Spencer Day. Education: MA, Oberlin College.

A.R.T.: O.P.C. (Asst. Stage Manager), Witness Uganda (Asst. Stage Manager), The Wedding Band (Staged Reading, Stage Manager). Broadway: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Production Asst./Sub. ASM), Off-Broadway: One Night Only (Stage Manager), American Theatre of Actors. Regional: Welcome to Jesus (Stage Manager), Hartford Stage; Dreamgirls (Asst. Stage Manager), Ivoryton Playhouse; The Dining Room, Westport Country Playhouse. 2011/12 Season Production Assistant, Two River Theater Company. Stage Management B.F.A. from Syracuse University.

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.: Romeo and Juliet; 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: M.A., Voice Studies, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama; M.F.A., Acting, Brandeis University.