Cast & Creative

Adam Rapp is the author of numerous plays, which include Nocturne (New York Theatre Workshop), Finer Noble Gases (26th Humana Festival), The Metal Children (The Vineyard), and Red Light Winter (Barrow Street Theatre), for which he won Chicago’s Jeff Award for Best New Work, an OBIE, and was named a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize. The Sound Inside received its world premiere at the 2018 Williamstown Theatre Festival and was named one of The New York Times best plays of 2018. It premiered on Broadway at Studio 54 in the fall of 2019 and went on to be nominated for 6 Tony Awards, including Best Play. His playwriting honors include Boston’s Elliot Norton Award, The Helen Merrill Prize, The 2006 Princess Grace Statue, a Lucille Lortel Playwright’s Fellowship, The Benjamin H. Danks Award, the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation Award, and a 2021 Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Jamestown Revival is an internationally recognized Americana/Roots Rock band from Austin, TX. who describe their music as “Southern & Garfunkel.” Jamestown Revival’s latest release, Young Man, is the band’s first album without electric guitars and their first to be recorded in a studio. With themes like coming of age and settling into an identity, Young Man was produced by Robert Ellis and Josh Block (Leon Bridges, Caamp). The band has performed at iconic music festivals, such as Farm Aid, Coachella, Stagecoach and Lollapalooza, and has performed with the likes of the Zac Brown Band, Nathaniel Rateliff, Ryan Bingham and Willie Nelson. Jamestown Revival has released three critically acclaimed albums (Utah, The Education Of A Wandering Man and San Isabel) and two equally praised EPs (Field Guide To Loneliness, an intimate collection of songs reflecting recent times where human contact was limited more than ever, and Fireside With Louis L’Amour, featuring songs inspired by stories from author Louis L’Amour).

Justin Levine’s recent projects include: Moulin Rouge! (music supervisor, arranger, orchestrator; Tony Award), Shakespeare in the Park’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (original music; Delacorte Theater; Drama Desk nom), VEVO X LORDE: Melodrama (vocal arranger/supervisor, conceived by Lorde, Electric Lady Studios), Contemporary Color (music supervisor, conceived by David Byrne, Barclay’s Center and Air Canada Center), Bonfire Night (book, music and lyrics, NAMT), The Weight of Smoke (original music with Matt Stine, choreographed by Doug Elkins for Paul Taylor American Modern Dance, Lincoln Center), Pepper and Sam (co-conceived with Salty Brine, Ars Nova, Joe’s Pub). Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (music director, co-orchestrator, cast, Public Theater and Broadway), Here Lies Love (music director, Public Theater, National Theater, Seattle Rep, MassMoca), Love’s Labour’s Lost (music director, co-orchestrator, cast, Delacorte), Robber Bridegroom (music director, co-orchestrator with Martin Lowe, Roundabout Theater), Murder Ballad (music director, orchestrator, Manhattan Theatre Club and Union Square Theater).

Upcoming credits: co-directing and choreographing an immersive show with the producers of Sleep No More. Recent choreo: Alice by Heart (MCC; Lortel, Chita Rivera and Callaway Awards), Cyrano (Goodspeed/The New Group), Phish at Madison Square Garden, The Count of Monte Cristo (St. Petersburg, Russia), Peter Pan (Beijing, China), The Light Princess (ART/New Victory, NY Times Critics’ Pick). Other works with Williamstown, New Ohio, Pipeline. Film: Verona, Dicks: The Musical (A24), Silent Retreat (Miramax). TV: “Living with Yourself” (Netflix). As directors: Roll! (Ars Nova), Dispossessed (HERE), Smile (FringeNYC), The 39 Steps (PST), and many shorts & music videos. Education: B.A.s, Harvard & Princeton. www.kupermanbrothers.com

Danya Taymor is a New York based director. She reopened Broadway with Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s Pass Over, the first play back after 18 months of darkness on Broadway (New York Times 10 best shows of 2021). Other recent work includes: Samuel Beckett’s Endgame (Gate Theater, Dublin), Will Arbery’s Pulitzer Prize finalist Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Obie Award, Callaway Award for Outstanding Direction) and Evanston Salt Costs Climbing (New Group), Jeremy O. Harris’ “Daddy” (Almeida, London + New Group/Vineyard), Korde Arrington Tuttle’s Graveyard Shift (Goodman), Martyna Majok’s queens (Lincoln Center), Danai Guirira’s Familiar (Steppenwolf) and Brian Watkins’ My Daughter Keeps Our Hammer and Wyoming (The Flea + Lesser America). Her world-premiere production of Pass Over (Steppenwolf 2017) was filmed in collaboration with Spike Lee, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and is streaming on Amazon Prime. Recipient of the Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creativity from Lincoln Center. BA: Duke University

is a collective founded by Brett J. Banakis and Christine Jones to amplify emerging and underrepresented designers by engaging in equitable collaborations. For this production of The Outsiders, they are thrilled to be designing alongside Tatiana Kahvegian. Kahvegian is originally from São Paulo, Brazil, and is of Armenian descent. Recent credits include Diary of a Tap Dancer (A.R.T.), and Give Me Carmelita Tropicana! (Soho Rep, co-design Mimi Lien). Jones and Banakis have worked on multiple shows together including The Devil Wears Prada, (Chicago), The Cher Show (Broadway), What’s It All About (NYTW, West End), and the Tony and Olivier Award winning Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (London, NY, Tokyo, Hamburg, Melbourne, Toronto, San Francisco). Banakis, Jones and Kahvegian all received their MFA at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Broadway: For Colored Girls… (Tony Award nominee), Pass Over. Off-Broadway: Evanston Salt Costs Climbing (The New Group), To My Girls (Second Stage), Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Obie Award; Playwrights Horizons), Broadway Bounty Hunter (Greenwich House), Plot Points, Pass Over (LCT3). Regional: How to Dance in Ohio (Syracuse Stage); Life After (Goodman Theatre); Afterwords (5th Avenue); Nina Simone: Four Women (Berkshire Theatre Group); Slow Food (Geva Theatre); Cry It Out and The Royale (Kitchen Theatre Company). Education: B.A., Adelphi University.

The 70 plus shows he designed lighting for on Broadway include The Music Man, Plaza Suite, The Minutes, He received Tony awards for The Book of Mormon, The Coast of Utopia, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, The Pillowman, and Into the Woods. Other awards include an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence, a Bessie Award, and others. For dance, The Joffrey Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Tere O’Connor Dance, Merce Cunningham, Lar Lubovitch, Nancy Bannon, and many others. His designs for the Metropolitan Opera include The Enchanted Island and Doctor Atomic. Mr. MacDevitt recently directed Between Riverside and Crazy for Studio Theater in DC, Proof for Theater Three in NY and Spring Awakening at The Clarice Smith Center in Maryland. Mr. MacDevitt is a member of the Naked Angels Theater Company.

Broadway: co-sound design: Here Lies Love, The Pee-wee Herman Show. Off-Broadway: Broadway Bounty Hunter and Joan of Arc: Into the Fire; co-sound design: Trevor, Here Lies Love (Lortel Award). Some of his work as associate sound designer includes Springsteen on Broadway, Mean Girls, Lazarus, Beautiful, The Book of Mormon, Bring It On: The Musical and Annie. In addition to theatre, Cody has co-designed some of New York’s biggest concert venues including Brooklyn Steel, Terminal 5 and Webster Hall.

Broadway: The Old Man And The Pool, Summer 1976. Off-Broadway/New York: The Harder They Come (The Public Theater) The Visitor (The Public Theater, Lucile Lortel Nom), Eve’s Song (The Public Theater), Everything Rises (BAM), Magdalene (Prototype Festival). Opera: L’Orfeo (Santa Fe Opera), Sweet Land (The Industry), The Anonymous Lover, Wonderful Town (LA Opera), Steal A Pencil For Me (Opera Colorado), Bell Curve @ Sound Box (SF Symphony), Oscillations (LA Phil). Awards: Princess Grace Award, Sherwood Award from CTG, Helen Hayes Award, LA Drama Critics Circle Distinguished Achievement Award among others. www.hananow.com

Broadway: SpongeBob, Bandstand, Finding Neverland, Violet, First Date, Godspell. Others: Water For Elephants (Alliance), Clint Black’s Looking For Christmas (Old Globe), Days of Wine & Roses (Atlantic), Camelot (Bay Street), ROOMS (New World Stages), Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing (Signature DC), The Circus In Winter (Goodspeed), 35MM (original), Chess (Kennedy Center), Bloodsong Of Love (Ars Nova), Heart of Rock ‘n’ Roll (workshops). Helen Hayes and Suzi Bass nominations for music direction. Film: The Last Five Years.

Selected Broadway and National Tours: The Wiz, Tommy,  Water for Elephants, Back To The Future, Here Lies Love, Bad Cinderella, Bob Fosse’s Dancin’, KPOP, Mr. Saturday Night, SIX, Ain’t Too Proud, The Band’s Visit, Sunset Boulevard, Miss Saigon, Dear Evan Hansen, Cats, School of Rock, Aladdin, Billy Elliot, Spamalot, …Spelling Bee, The Producers, Mamma Mia!, Jersey Boys, Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera. Selected Off-Broadway: Buena Vista Social Club, Gardens of Anuncia, Sing Street