Finding Neverland

A.R.T.: Debut. James Graham is a British playwright and screenwriter. His work has been staged throughout the UK. His plays include: Privacy, Donmar Warehouse; This House, National Theatre (nominated for an Oliver ‘Best Play’ Award and broadcast to cinemas globally as part of NT Live), The Whisky Taster, Bush Theatre; Tory Boys, Soho Theatre; A History of Falling Things, Theatr Clwyd; The Man, Sons of York and Albert’s Boy, Finborough Theatre. Film: X+Y, BBC Films and Origin pictures (due for release this year). TV: Prisoners’ Wives, BBC; Caught in a Trap, ITV. He is currently working on screenplays for The Weinstein Company and for BBC Films.

(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.”

A.R.T.: Debut. Mia Michaels is an American choreographer best known for her judging and three-time Emmy Award-winning contemporary choreography on the Fox TV show “So You Think You Can Dance.” She has choreographed tours from Madonna's Drown World Tour to Cirque du Soleil's Delirium. Mia’s stage-craft started in the concert dance arena with her own New York based dance company RAW — of which she was founder, artistic director and choreographer. Mia continues to inspire and teach master classes from young professional dancers, to prestigious dance institutions all over the world. In 2013, Mia was named by Variety Magazine as one of the most innovative women. Mia is very honored to be part of this project.

(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.: Debut. Broadway: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. Off Broadway: Explorers Club, Cactus Flower. Regional: Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Ford’s Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Old Globe, TheatreWorks, Huntington Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Manhattan School of Music, Portland Stage Company, TACT, Barrington Stage Company, Hartford Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Dorset Theatre Festival, Bay Street Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Two River Theater, George Street Playhouse, and Westport Country Playhouse. In years past, Philip has served as Associate Lighting Designer of over 35 Broadway plays and musicals.

(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.: Debut. Opera: Tannhäuser, Aïda, Il Trovatore, Die Walküre, Othello, Cenerentola, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, King Roger, Follies. Other work: Symptoms of Development, Nederlands Dans Theater and Cedar Lake; KDO (dir. Franco Dragone), Belgium; World Of Color, Disneyland California; "Got To Dance" (Paula Abdul), CBS; Céline Dion (2011, dir. Ken Ehrlich), Las Vegas; Crazy Horse (Christian Louboutin), Paris; India Circus; Adam & Eve, Dracula, Palais des Sports; Romeo & Juliet, Gran Teatro Roma.

A.R.T.: Debut. Performance work: Sochi Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony; Smithsonian Museum National Portrait Gallery; A Midsummer’s Night Dream (dir. Julie Taymor), Theater for a New Audience; Amaluna (dir. Diane Paulus), Cirque du Soleil big top touring show; Spades (dir. Robert Lepage), Ex Machina; In the Eye of the Storm, (dir. Michel Laprise), Cirque du Soleil; "Latin Grammy Awards”; Jonas Brother Concert; Peter Pan World Tour (dir. Luc Petit). Selected corporate clients: Louis Vuitton, Mercedes Benz, Samsung, Cisco Systems, Audi AG, Loewe S.A., Canali S.P.A., Eiffage, Natura, Pfizer, Airbus, Ogilvy and Mather, Moooi BV, Natura, Bundesliga, Luc Petit Creations, Music Hall of Belgium, Univision, RTL Television.

A.R.T.: Pippin. Broadway: Pippin, Matilda, Ghost The Musical (Drama Desk Award), The Woman in White. West End: The Invisible Man, Zorro, The Lord Of The Rings (also Toronto), Our House, The Witches, The Witches Of Eastwick, Scrooge. Other theater: Sideshow, Kennedy Center; Kenneth Branagh's Macbeth, Park Avenue Armory; Zorro, Alliance Theatre, Atlanta; Arabian Nights, A Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, The Mysteries, Spring Awakening, Royal Shakespeare Company; Theatre of Blood, La Grande Magia, The Seagull, National Theatre, UK. Other: L’Heure Espagnole, Royal Opera; Alice in Wonderland, Royal Ballet. Film: Hugo, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Paul has worked as a consultant to Radio City Music Hall and with magicians including David Copperfield and David Blaine. Winner of 2013 Magic Castle (Hollywood) Creative Fellowship. www.stageillusion.com

A.R.T/Loeb.: Finding Neverland; Candide (Maximilian, HRDC, 1985). David has been Music Director, Supervisor and/or Arranger for forty Broadway productions. He’s written extensively for the Boston Pops and Tanglewood Festival Chorus (including their signature Twelve Days of Christmas), The Kennedy Center Honors, Radio City Music Hall, EssentialVoicesUSA (including the choral cycle Washington Women), and TV’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.  Music Director and Arranger for Apple TV’s Schmigadoon! and NBC’sThe Sound of Music and Peter Pan Live! (Emmy nominations for both). Grammy and Olivier nominee.  Choral works published by Hal Leonard. David lives in New York City with his wife, actress and Drama Desk nominee Paula Leggett Chase, and their two sons, Kyler and Dashiell.  Musical training:  Harvard biology degree.

A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Spring Awakening, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Drama Desk Award nomination). Others: Company (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield), Whisper House (Old Globe, San Diego). He has worked as arranger/orchestrator for Gary Barlow, George Benson, Björk, Sarah Chang, Ray Davies, Robin Gibb, Josh Groban, Jamiroquai, Lang Lang, George Michael, Oasis, Sade, Duncan Sheik, Simply Red, Sam Smith and won a BAFTA award for the soundtrack to the video game L.A. Noire. www.simonhale.co.uk

A.R.T.: Finding Neverland, Prometheus Bound. Broadway (Vocal Designer): Spring Awakening, Next to Normal, If/Then, Finding Neverland. Off-Broadway: Carrie, Bright Lights Big City, Superhero; (Orchestrator, with Michael Starobin): Once on this Island (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations). Regional: Dangerous Beauty, Some Lovers, Dave, A Walk on the Moon, Almost Famous. Other credits include The Radio City Rockettes’ Summer Spectacular 2016 (co-arranger/lyricist, co-composer); Cirque du Soleil’s Le Rêve and La Perle. Film: Pretty Dead Girl (Composer and Lyricist; Special Jury Award, Sundance Film Festival). Milazzo is the Grammy-nominated female vocalist for East Village Opera Company on Decca/Universal Records.

A.R.T.: The Shape She Makes. New York: Company (Drama Desk Award- Orchestrations); Big Fish; The Addams Family; Sweeney Todd; Road Show; Next to Normal; Hello Again (Drama Desk nomination-Orchestrations). Founder: ASTEP-Artists Striving to End Poverty (www.asteponline.org) and is passionate about arts education and poverty reduction. She has served on the faculties of NYU, Boston College, and Juilliard.

A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Big Fish, Chaplin. National Tour: In The Heights, 1^st National. Regional: Animal Crackers, Williamstown Theatre Festival. Workshops: Finding Neverland; Ever After; Becoming Chaplin; The Great Pretender. M.Mus in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Cincinnati (CCM) and B.Mus in Music Education from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

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.: Debut. Broadway: Vanya, Sonya, Masha & Spike; The Anarchist; One Man Two Guvnors; HAIR Summer of Love; In The Heights; 9 to 5; Wicked; Lestat; A Chorus Line; All Shook Up. Thank you Diane, Mia, Sharika, Ray and especially Nancy H. Love to Niall and Monty.

A.R.T.: The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. Member of Boston Pops since 1981. Toured with: Tommy Dorsey Orch, Artie Shaw Orch, Buddy Rich Band, Frank Sinatra, Natalie Cole, Barry Manilow, Ben Vereen, Rita Moreno, Carol Channing, Avenue Q, Fosse, Star Wars In Concert. Former faculty at Berklee College Of Music. Pit musician in Boston at Citi Wang Theater, Shubert Theater, Boston Opera House, Colonial Theater, North Shore Music Theater. Founding member of John Allmark Jazz Orch. Former member of: Dick Johnson Swing Shift, Herb Pomeroy Jazz Orchestra.

A.R.T.: Debut. Active Boston area player and teacher on low brass instruments, Peter is currently music department chair at Phillips Academy in Andover, MA. He also maintains a busy performance schedule playing musical theater, symphonic music, and with jazz bands. Performances include the pit orchestras of Boston’s Wang, Colonial, and Shubert Theatres and the Boston Opera House, as well as with Boston’s Lyric Opera and the Boston Ballet. Peter has recorded on the Blue Note, RCA, A&M and Phillips record labels.

A.R.T.: Pippin. Performed with: DJ Premier, Itzhak Perlman, John Eliot Gardiner. Member of The King’s Consort, European touring orchestra. She performs on modern and baroque violin. She spent three years in London, studying and working with many acclaimed artists within the early music field, specializing in historical performance.

A.R.T.: Debut. Played with: Boston Symphony Pops, Boston Ballet, Boston Lyric Opera, Emmanuel Music, New England Ragtime Ensemble. Whether touring Asia as principal flute with the Mantovani Orchestra or wandering the Green Mountains as the piccoloist of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Peggy has had a lively and eclectic career. As a dedicated teacher, she has met with students at Phillips Academy, (Andover and Exeter), Salem State University, College of the Holy Cross, and Clark University. Of note are her recordings of Michael Gandolfi’s flute concerto, “Caution to the Wind” on CRI, and the Grammy nominated “Consortini” by Milton Babbit on GM.

A.R.T.: Pippin. Broadway: Chess, Cats, Anything Goes. 1st trumpet: Me and My Girl (Asst. Cond.), Cats, The Music of Andrew Lloyd Weber, Dancin’, National Tours; Shirley Bassey at Carnegie Hall; tours with Mel Torme; Frank Sinatra Jr.; Musical contracting for the Tanglewood Jazz Festival Orchestra (with Terrence Blanchard); Aretha Franklin; Frankie Valli; The Temptations. Presently musical contractor for the Boston Opera House, The Huntington Theatre, The Ogunquit Playhouse, and Worcester’s Hanover Theatre.

A.R.T.: Debut. Keyboardist/Conductor with the North Shore Music Theater, BAM Opera, The Colonial Theatre, Theatre by the Sea, and the Big Apple Circus. Appearances with Prague Radio, the Plymouth Philharmonic, and the New Bedford Symphony Orchestras. Jazz pianist with Jimmy Giuffre, Bill Pierce, Joe Lavano, George Garzone and Larry Coryell. Prolific composer with works performed by the Pittsburg New Music Ensemble, the New World Chorale NH Symphony Chorus, the Berlin Saxophone Quartet and the Solati Trio.

A.R.T.: Debut. Performing/recording credits include: Boston Pops; Boston Modern Orchestra Project; The New York Voices; Peter Eldridge; Syncopation; Brookline Symphony Orchestra; Boston Civic Orchestra; Longwood Symphony; blues artists Johnny Adams, Sam McClane, and the Love Dogs. Theater credits include: Wicked, The Addams Family, Annie, West Side Story. M.M. degree from the New England Conservatory and teaches at Berklee College of Music and serves as the co-chair of the music department for the Boston Arts Academy in Boston.

(he/him) A.R.T.: Pippin, Finding Neverland. Broadway in Boston: The Lion King, Mean Girls, Moulin Rouge, Legally Blonde, Matilda, Newsies, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Beautiful the Carole King Musical, Spamalot and others. Performances with the Boston Pops Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Philharmonic, and Boston Gay Men’s Chorus. Graduate of U. of M. School of Music. Professor, Berklee College of Music.

A.R.T.: Debut. Accompanied: Aretha Franklin, Anthony Newley, The Smothers Brothers, Carol Lawrence, Al Martino, Jack Gilford, Rita Moreno, Bobby Vinton, Bobby Rydell, The Four Lads, The Four Aces, Donna Summer, Myanna, Foster Brooks, Robert Merrill. Performed: Buddy Rich, Dizzy Gillespie, Phil Woods, Johnny Hartman. He served as music director on seven consecutive world cruises of the Holland America and Royal Viking cruise lines. In October of 2007, Tom had the pleasure of playing at Carnegie Hall with soprano Karyn Levitt.

A.R.T.: Debut. Composer/arranger Tara Novak has devoted the past 15 years of her life to studying music of many genres, specializing in Irish traditional music, jazz, and classical crossover. She works extensively as a soloist, and in 2013 performed the Boston premiere of Irish composer Bill Whelan’s double concerto Inishlacken with fiddler Zoe Conway. She is the solo violinist with both the Three Irish Tenors and Druid, as well as music-directing and leading her own shows, Ishna and Nollaig: An Irish Christmas.

A.R.T.: Debut. Vinny is on the faculty teaching drums at Providence College and Rhode Island College. He has played with Jeffrey Osbourne, Smokey Robinson, Chuck Berry, Boz Scaggs and toured with Burt Bacharach. He currently performs with the John Allmark Jazz Orchestra.

A.R.T.: The Tempest, Finding Neverland. Music Director for Mt. Auburn Cemetery's A Glimpse Beyond. Principal Percussionist for Juventas New Music Ensemble and Flamenco Boston. Resident composer for Boston Theater Company, Come On Over Ensemble Theater, Danza Organica, Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion. Dance Accompanist for Boston Ballet and Boston Conservatory. New Album Off Gridavailable on iTunes. Percussion Performance degrees from The Boston Conservatory and University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

A.R.T.: The White Card, Finding Neverland, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. Broadway: Tina – The Turner Musical, The Play That Goes Wrong, The Color Purple (Revival), Finding Neverland, Motown, Pippin, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. Off-Broadway: The Tempest, Richard III, Well, Take Me Out, A Winter’s Tale, Suburbia.

A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway/1st National Tours: The Addams Family, 9 to 5 The Musical, Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, The Miracle Worker, Oleanna, Will Farrell’s You’re Welcome America... Off-Broadway: Sweeney Todd, Company, New York Philharmonic; Classic Stage Company; Public Theater; 59E59; Trinity Repertory Company; Paper Mill Playhouse. Proud AEA Member.

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. Assistant Choreographer: The Shape She Makes. Performed/Collaborated with: Andy Blankenbuehler, Bartlett Sher, Ben Wright, Crystal Pite, Kelly Devine, Mark Dendy, Michael Grandage, MOMIX, Robert LePage. Non-Vocal Lead/ Aerialist: Armida; The Tempest, The Metropolitan Opera. Dancer: Aida, Don Giovanni, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Faust, The Metropolitan Opera. Regional Associate Choreographer: The Wiz, MSMT; Pippin, Phoenix Theatre. TV: “America’s Got Talent.” Assistant Artistic Director & Associate Choreographer of Mark Stuart Dance Theatre.

A.R.T.: WARHOLCAPOTE, Johnny Baseball. Broadway: Of Mice and Men, Violet, After Midnight, Beautiful, Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, Motown, Jekyll and Hyde, Clybourne Park, Bring It On, Newsies, The Columnist, Bonnie and Clyde, The Mountaintop, Merchant of Venice, Memphis, Lombardi, Fences, Looped, Miracle Worker, Superior Donuts, 33 Variations, Guys and Dolls, In the Heights, Jersey Boys, The Color Purple, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, Good Vibrations, A Raisin in the Sun.