Daniel Goldstein
Book
Daniel is the winner of the 2016 Kleban Prize for Most Promising Musical Theater Librettist.
He was the recipient of an inaugural Calderwood Commission from the Huntington Theatre Company, for which he wrote an original musical with Michael Friedman entitled Unknown Soldier, which was developed at Manhattan Theatre Club, O’Neill National Music Theater Conference, and the McCarter Theatre Center and had its New York Premiere in February 2020 at Playwrights Horizons. He has also written the musical Row, with Dawn Landes, about Tori Murden McClure, the first woman to row across the Atlantic Ocean, commissioned by the Public Theater and currently in development at Williamstown Theatre Festival. Daniel’s plays include Orange Crush, commissioned by Roundabout Theatre Company, about Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter of The Art of the Deal. With Friedman, he is also the author of The Song of Songs, an adaptation of the Sholem Aleichem novella.
As a director, his work includes many productions on and off-Broadway and at theaters around the United States and internationally.
He is a graduate of Northwestern University with a degree in Performance Studies.
Dawn Landes
Music & Lyrics
Dawn Landes is a Nashville based singer-songwriter whose music you might have heard if you watch "The Good Wife", "House", or "Gossip Girl". As a musical theater artist, she is writing a musical, Row, with bookwriter Danny Goldstein. About Tori Murden-McClure, it’s the true story of the first woman to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Originally commissioned by Joe’s Pub, it has been developed at The Public Theater, Goodspeed Opera, the Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, and Playwrights Horizons. Dawn received a 2019 Lilly Award for her work on the show, bestowed by Williamstown Theatre Festival; the prize included a finishing commission and an additional development workshop with Williamstown.
Along with releasing five albums since 2005 (and an EP inspired by yé-yé, ‘60s French pop music), she’s a frequent collaborator with contemporaries such as Sufjan Stevens, Norah Jones and composer Nico Muhly. She has appeared with the Boston Pops, the NYC Ballet and on the TED main stage talking about her musical. You can watch that here. Dawn's most recent LP "Meet Me at the River" (Yep Roc) was recorded with legendary producer Fred Foster (Roy Orbison, Dolly Parton) and features Bobby Bare, Charlie McCoy and other A-list players. You can learn more about Dawn at www.dawnlandes.com
Tyne Rafaeli
Director
Tyne Rafaeli is a New York based director. Recent productions include Sylvia Khoury’s Power Strip at Lincoln Center Theatre and Selling Kabul at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Ming Peiffer's Usual Girls at Roundabout Theater Company (NY Times Critics’ Pick & Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Direction), Craig Lucas' I Was Most Alive With You at Playwrights Horizons (NY Times Critics’ Pick), Lauren Yee’s In a Word (NY Times Critics’ Pick), Keith Bunin's The Coast Starlight at La Jolla Playhouse, Martyna Majok’s Ironbound (Ovation Award), and Anna Ziegler’s Actually at The Geffen Playhouse (Ovation Award). Her work has also been seen at The Public, MTC, Atlantic Theatre Company, MCC, Classic Stage Company, Cal Shakes, New York Stage & Film, and Juilliard amongst others. Tyne was Bartlett Sher’s Associate Director on multiple Broadway and West End productions and is a 2016-18 Time Warner Directing Fellow at the Women's Project Theater and received the 2014 SDC Sir John Gielgud Fellowship for Classic Direction.
Kerstin Anderson
Young Tori / Amelia
Vermont native Kerstin Anderson was a sophomore at Pace University in NYC when she auditioned for Jack O'Brien who cast her as Maria von Trapp in his production of The Sound Of Music. Kerstin returned to New York and made her Broadway debut in Lincoln Center Theater's production of My Fair Lady, as the alternate Eliza Doolittle, directed by Bartlett Sher. This spring she made her off Broadway debut in Playwrights Horizon's production of Unknown Soldier, directed by Trip Cullman. She is a very amateur guitarist, a podcast enthusiast, and an avid nature lover!
John Ellison Conlee
Mac
Broadway: The Nap, The Full Monty (Tony and Drama Desk nominations), The Constant Wife, and 1776.
Other recent theatre: Venus, Assassins (Encores), Watson(s) in The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence (Obie Award), and Tumacho!
Recent film and TV work includes LBJ (Dir. Rob Reiner), "Emergence" (ABC), "High Maintenance" (HBO), "House of Cards" (Netflix), "Billions" (recur-Showtime), "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" (recur-Netflix), and "Madam Secretary" (recur-CBS).
Other credits include "Parks and Recreation" (recur-NBC), "Boardwalk Empire" (SAG Award nomination, recur-HBO), Murder Ballad (MTC and Union Square), The Madrid (MTC dir. Leigh Silverman), Pig Farm (Roundabout), Ethan Lipton’s Luther (Clubbed Thumb), The Butter and Egg Man, Once in a Lifetime, and The Bald Soprano (Atlantic), "Nurse Jackie" (Showtime), "Brotherhood" (recur-Showtime), "NCIS:LA", "Common Law", "Medium", and films, Serendipity, The Rebound, and Kinsey.
He received his MFA from NYU.
Nehal Joshi
Gerard
Broadway: All My Sons, School of Rock, Threepenny Opera, Gettin' the Band Back Together, Les Misérables (Original Revival Cast).
Off-Broadway: Falling for Eve, Working (2008 revision, Drama Desk Award), Grand Hotel (Encores!).
Select Regional: Disgraced (Arena Stage), Fly (La Jolla Playhouse), Peter & the Starcatcher (Actor Theatre of Louisville), Oklahoma! (Arena Stage), Mister Roberts (Kennedy Center), Les Misérables (Dallas Theatre Center), Disney's The Jungle Book (Goodman Theatre/Huntington Theatre).
Film/TV: “The Wire” (HBO), "Blackout" (BET), “Law & Order: SVU” (NBC), “Search Party” (TBS).
Video Game: World of Warcraft: Cataclysm.
Twitter: @nehalpjoshi. IG: @nehaljoshi.
Tamika Lawrence
Margaret / Tina Turner
Two-time Grammy-winning artist.
Broadway: Gettin’ The Band Back Together, Come From Away, Dear Evan Hansen (Virtual Cast), Beautiful, If/Then, Matilda, The Book of Mormon.
Off-Broadway: Hercules (The Public Theater), Rent, The Tempest (The Public Theater).
Television: “Modern Love”, “The Last OG”, “The Wiz Live!”, “Vinyl” (HBO), “Show Me a Hero” (HBO), “Blue Bloods”, “Law & Order: SVU”.
Movies: The Greatest Showman, White Girl, Breakable You.
Instagram @iamtamikalawrence
John McGinty
Lamar
Broadway: Children of a Lesser God, King Lear.
New York: Fêtes de la Nuit, World Premiere of Samuel D. Hunter’s The Healing, Veritas, Movement of the Soul.
Regional: Levity (Warren Miller PAC), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Sacramento Music Circus and La Mirada Theatre), Tribes (Guthrie Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre, Everyman Theatre), Pippin (Center Theatre Group / Deaf West).
Film: Wonderstruck, Sign, The First Purge.
TV: "Faces", "Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist", "This Close", "High Maintenance", "Don’t Shoot the Messenger", "Able".
@TheJohnMcGinty
Grace McLean
Tori
The Last Goodbye (2010), Caravan Man, Help Yourself (2007).
Broadway: Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (also Off-Broadway, ART).
Off-Broadway: Cyrano (New Group), In The Green (LCT3), Alice by Heart (MCC), Brooklynite (Vineyard), Bedbugs!!! (Arclight), The World is Round (BAM), Sleep No More (McKittrick), Twelve Ophelias (Woodshed Collective).
Grace McLean and Them Apples performed in the 2015 and 2016 seasons of Lincoln Center’s American Songbook, and Grace toured Pakistan and Russia as an artistic ambassador with the US State Department. Her musical In The Green was commissioned and produced by Lincoln Center Theater. She is a writer-in-residence at Lincoln Center Theater and is a member of the 2019-2020 Civilians R&D Group. 2017 Emerging Artist Award, Lincoln Center.
Kathryn O’Rourke
Betsy / Cher
Kathryn O’Rourke (she/her) is an actor/singer based in NYC who graduated from The Boston Conservatory in May of 2019. That summer she worked as an Apprentice at Williamstown Theatre Festival, where she was a part of the ensemble of WTF’s Late-Night Cabaret and other performance opportunities. For Kathryn, returning to WTF to play Betsy/Cher in Row was beyond her imagination while she was building sets and working front of house for the Festival that summer. She’s honored to be an up-and-coming player surrounded by such talented and dedicated artists once again. Instagram: @patty_olucky
Lance Roberts
Joe Curran / Muhammad Ali
Over the last eight years, he has been in the original Broadway companies of My Fair Lady (celebrating its one year anniversary), Sunset Boulevard with Glenn Close (revival), Finding Neverland, Act One with Tony Shaloub, Andrea Martin and Santino Fontana, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Scarlet Johannsen, Ghost, Sister Act, and the Peewee Herman Show starring Peewee Herman!
Off-Broadway: The Robber Bridegroom (revival, Roundabout), Shows for Days with Patti LuPone (Lincoln Center), and The Liquid Plain (Signature Theatre).
He has worked in regional theaters in 44 states. National Tours/Los Angeles: The original Los Angeles company of Cats, over 7000 performances as Jafar in Aladdin (Hyperion Theater), Once on This Island, Ain't Misbehavin’, The All Night Strut, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now, Change, Forbidden Hollywood, and more.
Film: This Is Where I Leave You, I Am Michael, The Humbling, Fan Girl.
TV: "The Affair", "Law and Order: SVU", "White Collar", "Nurse Jackie", "Numb3rs", "Girlfriends", "Will and Grace", "Drew Carey", "Knots Landing" and "Scarecrow and Mrs. King" as well as the HBO miniseries, "Show Me A Hero".
More info can be found at lanceontheloose on instagram.
Sean Stack
Eric Fee
Sean Stack is a Miami-raised actor, maker, and graduate of the UNCSA School of Drama. Recently, he co-wrote, co-produced, and performed in War Stories at the 2019 Minnesota Fringe Festival. His work explores queerness and transdisciplinary forms. Sean is immensely grateful to have had a hand in bringing Row to life alongside the incredible folks at WTF and Audible. He would also like to thank all of his past teachers for their wisdom and generosity.
Sally Wilfert
Luckett / Dolly Parton / Barbra Streisand
Broadway: Assassins, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, King David.
National Tour: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
Off-Broadway: Trevor (upcoming), See Rock City, Make Me A Song: The Music of William Finn, The Mistress Cycle, The Prince & The Pauper.
Mary-Mitchell Campbell
Music Supervisor
Mary-Mitchell Campbell is a conductor, music director, orchestrator, composer, and arranger who crosses genres easily between classical, pop, and Broadway styles of music. She has served as the Music Director for many Broadway shows including: The Prom, Mean Girls, My Love Letter to Broadway with Kristin Chenoweth, For The Girls,Tuck Everlasting, Finding Neverland, Big Fish, The Addams Family, Company, and Sweeney Todd. She also music directed Stephen Sondheim’s last musical Road Show at the Public Theater.
She won a Drama Desk for Best Orchestrations for the 2006 revival of Company starring Raúl Esparza and was nominated for Best Orchestrations for her work on the Off-Broadway productions of Allegro and Hello Again.
She has a very active concert career and performs frequently with Kristin Chenoweth, Gavin Creel, Jonathan Groff, Laura Benanti, Jessica Vosk, and Raúl Esparza.
In her pop career she has worked with Alicia Keys, Katy Perry, John Legend, Amy Grant, Kelly Clarkson, Stevie Wonder, James Taylor, Elvis Costello, and Josh Groban in concerts.
She has specialized in working with actors who sing in plays/musicals/events including Meryl Streep, Paul Newman, Renée Zellweger, Kevin Kline, Julia Roberts, Bruce Willis, Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hanks, and Jack Nicholson.
She has conducted the Chicago Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, the Nashville Symphony, and many other symphonies around the United States.
She is passionate about arts education and poverty reduction. She is the Founder and Co-Executive Director of ASTEP- Artists Striving To End Poverty (www.asteponline.org) which recruits and trains high level artists to work with kids in extreme situations to teach them health education and life skills through the arts. She is a regular volunteer with ASTEP programs in the US, Africa and India.
She is from North Carolina and has taught on the faculties of Juilliard, NYU, and Boston College.
Daniel Kluger
Orchestrations
Daniel Kluger is a Tony and Grammy-nominated composer, music producer, and sound designer based in New York who produces genre-defying scores in collaboration with high-level, innovative theater directors. Recent commercial work includes The Sound Inside (dir. David Cromer, starring Mary-Louise Parker), Sea Wall/A Life (dir. Carrie Cracknell, starring Jake Gyllenhaal), the Broadway revival of Marvin's Room (dir. Anne Kauffman, starring Janeane Garofalo & Lili Taylor), and the world premiere of Significant Other (dir. Trip Cullman, starring Gideon Glick). His most well-known project is the New York premiere of Daniel Fish’s visionary revival of Oklahoma! for which Kluger (with the blessing of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Estate) created entirely new and idiomatic orchestrations of this classic score for traditional bluegrass instruments – he was nominated for a Best Orchestrations Tony Award and Best Musical Theater Album Grammy Award for his work. Kluger scored the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway premieres of Sunday by Jack Thorne (dir. Lee Sunday Evans), Animal (starring Rebecca Hall), The Village Bike (dir. Sam Gold, starring Greta Gerwig) as well as the lauded NYT Critics’ Pick Man From Nebraska by Tracy Letts (dir. David Cromer). Additional off-Broadway credits include Tribes at the
Barrow Street Theatre (Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Best Sound Design), and Ethan Coen’s Women or Nothing at the Atlantic Theatre Company. Kluger has produced dozens of other scores for Lincoln Center, Roundabout Theatre Company, The Atlantic, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, Vineyard Theater, and more, as well as some of the country’s premier regional theaters.
Kai Harada
Sound Designer
Broadway: Head Over Heels; The Band’s Visit (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award); Amélie; Sunday in the Park With George; Allegiance; Gigi; Fun Home; On the Town; First Date; Follies (Tony, Drama Desk Nominations); and Million Dollar Quartet.
Other: Hercules (Delacorte); Soft Power (Public); Marie: Dancing Still (5th Avenue); The Light in the Piazza, Candide (L.A. Opera); We Live in Cairo, The Black Clown (ART); Tommy, The Music Man, Little Shop of Horrors, Little Dancer (Kennedy Center); Silent Night (WNO); Zorro (Moscow; Atlanta); Hinterm Horizont (Berlin); Sweeney Todd (Portland Opera). Audio Consultant for the revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
Education: Yale University.
Candace Broecker-Penn
ASL Interpreter
Candace Broecker-Penn, certified ASL interpreter, has interpreted over 100 shows on Broadway including Dear Evan Hansen, The Rose Tattoo, Bernhardt/Hamlet, Kiss Me Kate, Curious Incident, Cabaret, Lion King, Wicked. She interpreted at Roundabout, Atlantic Theatre, Barrow Street, Playwrights Horizons, The Public, and summers interpreting Shakespeare at the Delacorte Theatre. She specializes in interpreting in the Arts, regularly interprets for films, television, museums, auditions, rehearsals, and readings. She coordinated the interpreting for For Colored Girls…at The Public, was on-set interpreter for A Quiet Place, Wonderstruck and was featured in Frederick Wiseman’s documentary Ex Libris. She is an advocate of #Deaftalent.
Christina Trunzo-Mosleh
ASL Interpreter
Christina Trunzo-Mosleh, certified ASL interpreter, has interpreted numerous shows in New York City and New Jersey. Shows on Broadway include: Wicked, Annie, Anastasia, Sponge Bob Square Pants, School of Rock, Old Times, Picnic, The Importance of Being Earnest, Pal Joey, Pacific Overtures, The Pajama Game, Bombay Dreams. She interpreted at Roundabout, The New Victory Theater, The Public, The Delacorte Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, The Mayo Center for Performing Arts, Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, The Center for the Arts in Staten Island, Literally Alive, Theater in Motion. She is forever grateful to the Deaf community and is honored to work with such amazing #Deaftalent.
Ryan Dobrin
Assistant Director
Ryan Dobrin is a New York-based director and producer interested in the exploration of emotional growth, otherness, human connection, and morality through storytelling, music, movement, and spectacle. Currently: Producing Artistic Leadership team at The Movement Theatre Company, 20/21 Roundabout Directors Group, Directing Fellow at Playwrights Horizons, and the director of Those Guilty Creatures. Previously: The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals Directing Cohort, Directing Fellow at Manhattan Theatre Club, Artistic Fellow at Ars Nova, and the Directing Observership Program at NAMT. He has also worked on projects as an associate or assistant to directors Trip Cullman, Margot Bordelon, Shira Milikowsky, & Miranda Haymon, and as a script assistant to The Mad Ones. Ryan graduated from Wesleyan University, where he received the Rachel Henderson Theater Prize and the Outreach & Community Service Prize in Theater. For more: ryandobrin.com.
Emily Whitaker
Associate Music Director
Music Director of Mean Girls (First National Tour).
Broadway: The Band’s Visit, Tootsie (Keyboards).
Off-Broadway/Regional: Merrily We Roll Along (Roundabout/Fiasco Theater), The Hello Girls (Prospect Theater Company), The Band’s Visit (Atlantic Theater Company), Unknown Soldier (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Into the Woods (McCarter/Fiasco Theater).
BA Princeton University, MA Columbia University.
Proud teaching artist at McCarter Theatre.
