CHADWICK STOKES (Music, lyrics, playwright) is an accomplished musician, songwriter, and activist from Boston. In his teens he started the band DISPATCH and went on to establish State Radio and Chadwick Stokes and the Pintos. DISPATCH alone has sold over a million albums, and their live performances have sold out the most iconic venues around the world including multiple nights at Madison Square Garden. The band gave one of the most historic concerts in Boston, MA, drawing over 110,000 people.

CHADWICK STOKES (Music, lyrics, playwright) is an accomplished musician, songwriter, and activist from Boston. In his teens he started the band DISPATCH and went on to establish State Radio and Chadwick Stokes and the Pintos. DISPATCH alone has sold over a million albums, and their live performances have sold out the most iconic venues around the world including multiple nights at Madison Square Garden. The band gave one of the most historic concerts in Boston, MA, drawing over 110,000 people.

Jessie wrote the musical Waitress with Sara Bareilles for director Diane Paulus. It was the first Broadway musical created by an all-female team and ran for four years, with productions on the West End and all over the world. She directed Alice by Heart, which she co-wrote with Steven Sater with music by Duncan Sheik whose beautiful melodies will remain. It premiered In London at the National Theatre Connections Program, and at MCC in NYC. Nelson began her career as an actress at The Public Theater working with the experimental theater Mabou Mines and acting with the New York Shakespeare Festival.

CHADWICK STOKES (Music, lyrics, playwright) is an accomplished musician, songwriter, and activist from Boston. In his teens he started the band DISPATCH and went on to establish State Radio and Chadwick Stokes and the Pintos. DISPATCH alone has sold over a million albums, and their live performances have sold out the most iconic venues around the world including multiple nights at Madison Square Garden. The band gave one of the most historic concerts in Boston, MA, drawing over 110,000 people.

Jessie wrote the musical Waitress with Sara Bareilles for director Diane Paulus. It was the first Broadway musical created by an all-female team and ran for four years, with productions on the West End and all over the world. She directed Alice by Heart, which she co-wrote with Steven Sater with music by Duncan Sheik whose beautiful melodies will remain. It premiered In London at the National Theatre Connections Program, and at MCC in NYC. Nelson began her career as an actress at The Public Theater working with the experimental theater Mabou Mines and acting with the New York Shakespeare Festival.

A.R.T.: Rhinoceros, The Arboretum Experience, In the Body of the World, Crossing, O.P.C. Select Productions: ANALOGUE , Rambert, London, (Top 5 UK production, 2024);  A Quiet Evening of Dance (National Dance Award, Fedora Prize); WAKE and RESONANCE, Los Angeles Dance Project, The Copier, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, LIFE, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Bravo Canada, Complexions, City of Los Angeles, ICA Boston, La Scala, The Louvre Museum, The Getty Museum, NDT, Paris Opera, PBS, Rover UK. 60 tours on 5 continents.

A.R.T.: Romeo and Juliet, Gloria: A Life. Off-Broadway: Kramer/Fauci, Skirball; Orpheus Descending, Theatre for a New Audience; Lucy, Audible Theater; Cyrano, The New Group; Octet, Signature Theatre, Berkeley Rep (Drama Desk nomination); Gloria: A Life, Daryl Roth Theatre; Miles for Mary, Playwrights Horizons (Lucille Lortel nomination); Thom Pain, based on nothing, Signature Theatre; Aging Magician, New Victory Theater; Ike at Night, The Public Theater. Regional: Most Happy, Williamstown Theatre Festival. Opera: Macbeth, Boston Lyric Opera; Down in the Valley, Detroit Opera; Highway 1, LA Opera; Omar, LA Opera, San Francisco Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Spoleto Festival USA; The Snowy Day, Houston Grand Opera; Blue, Michigan Opera Theatre.

A.R.T.: Debut. Regional: Fences and Mirror Crack’d, Alley Theatre; GODSPEED, Denver Center; Deceived and Trouble in Mind, The Old Globe; A Room in the Castle, Folger Theatre; Lady Disdain, Asolo Repertory Theatre. Workshops: Let the Good Times Roll. Film & TV: “Forever,” (Season 2); “The Chair Company,” (Season 1); “Ramy,” (Season 3); “Up Here,” (Season 1); “Kindred,” (Pilot). Awards: Emmy Award nomination, Period Costume Design. 

A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Marjorie Prime, Maybe Happy Ending (Tony nomination), Ben Platt: Live at the Palace, The Notebook, Days of Wine and Roses, A Christmas Carol (Tony nomination), The Rose Tattoo, Regina Spektor: Live on Broadway, JUNK (Tony nomination), Spring Awakening (Tony Award, Drama Desk nominations), Fun Home (Tony nomination). Off-Broadway: Masquerade, Public Charge, Table 17, Make Believe, The Mother, Yen, Our Lady of Kibeho, The Whipping Man (Lucille Lortel Award).

A.R.T.: Night Side Songs. Broadway: Lempicka. Broadway: Moulin Rouge!, Beetlejuice, Frozen, Once on This Island, Anastasia, Something Rotten!, Side Show, It’s Only a Play. Off-Broadway: A Walk on the Moon, Pericles, The Jonathan Larson Project, The Big Gay Jamboree, We Live in Cairo, The View Upstairs, Songbird. Regional: 5th Avenue Theatre, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Shakespeare Theatre Company, A.C.T., Ogunquit Playhouse. Unions: IATSE, United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829.

A.R.T.: Real Women Have Curves. Broadway: Real Women Have Curves. Off-Broadway: Eurydice, Orlando, Signature Theatre; The Connector, MCC; Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Good Bones, The Tempest, The Public; The Blood Quilt, Six Characters, At the Wedding, Lincoln Center. Regional: Rhinoceros, Mojada, Yale Rep; Ain’t Misbehavin’, Barrington Stage; Angels in America, Arena Stage; West Side Story, White Christmas, Paper Mill; Grim, La Jolla Playhouse. Other: Hair and Makeup Department Head, Six: The Musical; co-owner, The Wig Associates.

A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Hadestown, Home for the Holidays, Clay Aiken and Ruben Studdard’s First Annual…, Wicked, Les Misérables, Spring Awakening. Off-Broadway: Rock of Ages, Alice by Heart, Only Gold, The Baker’s Wife. Regional: Brokeback Mountain, Chicago Shakespeare; Come Back to the Five and Dime… Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley (San Francisco Theatre Critics Circle Award for Best Music Direction). Concert: Disney Princess- The Concert, Palm Springs Pops. Film: On A String.

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A.R.T.: Jagged Little Pill, ExtraOrdinary. Broadway: Waitress (Global Associate Director & Choreographer), Moulin Rouge! (Resident Director), Jagged Little Pill (Associate Choreographer), Spamalot, Pal Joey. Directing: Putting It Together, Sylvia, Waitress, Never Be King, Gold Star, The Art of Life, The Rocky Horror Show, Meet Me in St. Louis, Goodbye New York, 13 the Musical, A Quarantine Cabaret. Choreography: Titanic, Escape to Margaritaville, Extraordinary, Dreamgirls, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Big Fish, Rock of Ages, Mamma Mia!, American Idiot. Associate Credits: Is There Still Sex in the City, Odyssey, The Public Theater; Elf, Paper Mill Playhouse; Ragtime, Lincoln Center; Company. Film & TV: SUGARLAND (music video); “The Late Show with David Letterman,” “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” “SMASH” Other: Radio City Rockettes; former Director of Theatre at Perry-Mansfield.

A.R.T.: Debut. Off-Broadway: Watch Night, PAC NYC; The Damned, Park Avenue Armory; Ugly Lies the Bone, Roundabout Underground. Tour: Disney’s The Lion King National Tour. Regional: Into the Woods, As You Like It, and Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, PCPA (Resident PSM); Pipeline, The Father, and Constellations, Studio Theatre; Singapore Repertory Theatre; Brooklyn Academy of Music; New York Stage & Film. International: Fela! The Concert, Adelaide Festival, Auckland Arts Festival. Other: UN General Assembly’s SDG presentations; Global Citizen #ShowUpVote Campaign; 24 Hour Plays.

A.R.T.: Debut. Off-Broadway: Manual Cinema’s Frankenstein, Public Theatre Under the Radar. Regional: The Brothers Size, Steppenwolf SYA; In the Sick Bay of the Santa Maria and Incendiary, Goodman Theatre New Stages; Radio Golf and The Mousetrap, Court Theatre; Stick Fly, Writers Theatre; The 39 Steps, Much Ado About Nothing, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and The Bookclub Play, Utah Shakespeare Festival. Associate Design: Hedda Gabler, The Old Globe; Table 17, The Geffen.

A.R.T.: Debut. Off-Broadway: Two By Synge, Irish Repertory Theatre; While You Were Partying, SoHo Rep; Lost and Found, AMT Theater. Regional: RENT, Art House Productions; On Your Feet, Beautiful and Jersey Boys, The Argyle Theatre; Something Rotten!, Into the Breeches (NH Theatre Award Nomination), The Barnstormers Theatre; I Am My Own Wife, Long Wharf Theatre; Clue, Oregon Cabaret Theater. Awards: NH Theatre Award, Outstanding Sound Design, Professional Production. Education: B.S., SUNY Empire State University. Unions: I.A.T.S.E United Scenic Artists 829.

A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: MJ, Boop!. Off-Broadway: Romeo and Juliet and Antigone, The Public; Teeth, New World Stages, Playwrights Horizons; Stereophonic, Playwrights Horizons; Meet the Cartozians, Second Stage Theatre. Regional: Les Miserables, Fiddler on the Roof, Hello Dolly, Newsies, and Something Rotten, Music Theatre Wichita. Educational: Hair!, Pace University.

A.R.T.: Debut. Off-Broadway: White Girl in Danger (Drama Desk nomination), Second Stage; Kramer/Fauci (Scenic), St. Ann’s; Elektra (Scenic), TFANA. International: Minor Music at the End of the World, Amsterdam, Venice. Opera: Parsifal (Augmented Reality and Projection), Bayreuther Festspiele; Omar, LA Opera, San Francisco Opera, Boston Lyric Opera. Concerts: Émigré, NY Philharmonic; Sufjan Stevens, Metric, JRJR, Dr Dog. Other: La Scala, Salzburg, Staatsoper Berlin, NYC Opera. Academic: Professor of the Practice, Theater Arts, MIT.

(he/him) A.R.T.: Real Women Have Curves. Broadway: A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical (Copyist/Music Assistant), Broadhurst Theatre. Regional: Macbeth In Stride (Associate Music Director), Shakespeare Theatre Company/Philadelphia Theatre Company; The Wanderer (Music Assistant), Paper Mill Playhouse; Theatre Now’s Sound Bites X, Brooklyn Children’s Theatre. He is a composer in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop.