Brad Haak: (Musical Supervisor/Co-Orchestrator) is the music director and conductor for Mary Poppins on Broadway. Previous collaborations with authors Paul Gordon and John Caird include a revival of their Jane Eyre in Tokyo and readings of The Front. Other Broadway credits include musical direction and arrangements for Elton John's Lestat and music direction for Chance and Chemistry – 100 Years of Frank Loesser featuring Sir Paul McCartney. Haak was assistant conductor for the First National Tour of The Lion King. His numerous regional credits include Gypsy at The Muny in St. Louis, Children of Eden at Ford’s Theatre in Washington DC and Les Misérables at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire for which he received a Jeff Award nomination. Other international credits include Honk! in Singapore and Manilla, the Philippines. Haak is a graduate of Northwestern University and a native of Chicago. less is the music director and conductor for Mary Poppins on Broadway. Previous collaborations with authors Paul Gordon and John Caird include a revival of their Jane Eyre in Tokyo and readings of The Front. Other Broadway credits include musical direction and arrangements for Elton John's Lestat and music direction for... more

Christina Burck: (Production Manager) has served as production manager at Rubicon Theatre Company for the past six and a half years. In addition to production managing their main stage season, she has served as Production Manager/Stage Manager for Daddy Long Legs at various theatres across the country as well as for The Best is Yet to Come: The Music of Cy Coleman both at Rubicon and off-Broadway. Additional credits include production stage manager for Spit Like A Big Girl, You Can’t Take It With You, A Time for Love, Man of La Mancha, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Turn of the Screw, Mating Dance of the Werewolf, and the BeckettFest at Rubicon; and Far Away, Tartuffe, Stand-Up Shakespeare, Richard II, Diva on the Verge starring Julia Migenes, and The Cherry Orchard starring Alfred Molina and Stephanie Zimbalist at Odyssey Theatre. She served as assistant stage manager for The Full Monty and Fiddler on the Roof, Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities; The Awful Grace of God: A Portrait of Robert F. Kennedy, Court Playhouse; ‘Night, Mother, Interact; As You Like It, Circus Theatricals; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Tamarind Theatre; and Spit Like a Big Girl, The Met Theatre. Burck also served as production manager at Odyssey Theatre Ensemble in West Los Angeles for over four years. less has served as production manager at Rubicon Theatre Company for the past six and a half years. In addition to production managing their main stage season, she has served as Production Manager/Stage Manager for Daddy Long Legs at various theatres across the country as well as for The Best is... more

David Farley: (Scenic/Costume Designer) was nominated for the Tony Award, Costume Design, and he and Timothy Bird were nominated for the Tony Award, Best Set Design for Sunday in the Park with George at Roundabout Theatre Company. They won the Outer Critics’ Circle Award for Outstanding Set Design, Play or Musical, and Farley was nominated for Outstanding Costume Design, Play or Musical, and for Outstanding Revival of a Musical. He and Timothy Bird won the Olivier Award and the Evening Standard Best Design Awards, as well as the Critics’ Circle Award, for productions at the Wyndhams Theatre and the Menier Chocolate Factory. Current shows include Terrible Advice at the Chocolate Factory, London, directed by Frank Oz; and The Rocky Horror Show on tour in Europe, directed by Sam Buntrock. Other recent theatre includes Romeo and Juliet at Dramaten, Stockholm, Sweden, directed by John Caird; A Little Night Music at the Walter Kerr Theatre, New York, and The Garrick Theatre, West End, Directed by Trevor Nunn; Kiss Me, Kate at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Ontario, directed by John Doyle; Dialogues Des Carmelites, Guildhall, directed by Stephen Barlow; The Tempest at Dramaten, Stockholm, directed by John Caird; Oklahoma! at Chichester Festival Theatre directed by John Doyle; Sunday in the Park with George at the 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle; 13, directed by Jeremy Sams’ on Broadway; Sweeney Todd, Gate Theatre, Dublin; set, costumes (and the plant!) design on Little Shop of Horrors which also transferred to the West End; Take Flight and The Last Five Years, Menier Chocolate Factory; tick, tick BOOM!, Chocolate Factory, Rubicon and Coronet Theatres; Corpse!, Salisbury Playhouse; The Lemon Princess, West Yorkshire Playhouse; and A Little Fir Tree and Macbeth at The Crucible, Sheffield. less was nominated for the Tony Award, Costume Design, and he and Timothy Bird were nominated for the Tony Award, Best Set Design for Sunday in the Park with George at Roundabout Theatre Company. They won the Outer Critics’ Circle Award for Outstanding Set Design, Play or Musical, and Farley was... more

David Elzer: (Producer) is the Ovation Award-winning theatrical producer for The Marvelous Wonderettes, Los Angeles and off-Broadway; The Best Is Yet to Come, off-Broadway and at Rubicon; Sister Act: The Musical; Jewtopia, off-Broadway; The Laramie Project, Laguna Playhouse; and Catalpa and Shyness is Nice, at Alliance Theatre. Elzer’s latest project is the smash-hit, critically-acclaimed world premiere musical Having It All. He also produced the Los Angeles Drama Critics’ Circle and LA Weekly Award-winning Life Could be A Dream, which ran at The Hudson Theatre in Hollywood and at Laguna Playhouse. Through his publicity company DEMAND PR, Elzer represents many theatres in Los Angeles including Rubicon Theatre Company, Celebration Theatre, Colony Theatre Company, Cabrillo Music Theatre, Furious Theatre Company, La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, NoHo Arts Center, Open Fist Theatre Company, Theatre Tribe, and West Coast Ensemble. less is the Ovation Award-winning theatrical producer for The Marvelous Wonderettes, Los Angeles and off-Broadway; The Best Is Yet to Come, off-Broadway and at Rubicon; Sister Act: The Musical; Jewtopia, off-Broadway; The Laramie Project, Laguna Playhouse; and Catalpa and Shyness is Nice, at Alliance Theatre. Elzer’s latest project is the smash-hit,... more

Hanne-Berit Hahnemann: (Musician (Violin))

James O'Neil: (Rubicon Artistic Director) co-founded Rubicon Theatre Company in 1998. Rubicon directing credits include Fiddler on the Roof, Indy Award; the World Premiere of The Spin Cycle by David Rambo; Will Rogers' America; A Delicate Balance; The Diary of Anne Frank; Man of La Mancha; The Night of the Iguana; A Streetcar Named Desire, Indy Award; Driving Miss Daisy, NAACP Award; All My Sons, 2004 Ovation Award for Best Production of a Play; Sylvia; The Glass Menagerie; Jesus Christ Superstar; Love Letters; and Romeo and Juliet. Other directing credits include The Lion in Winter, The Petrified Forest, Inherit the Wind and regional premieres of John Ford Noonan’s A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking and Rupert Holmes’ Drood! Prior to starting Rubicon, O’Neil worked for more than 25 years as a producer, director and actor. He received his Bachelor of fine arts from California Institute of the Arts. While on staff at Landmark Entertainment Group, O’Neil directed a multi-million dollar animatronics/special effects show in Japan, supervising all aspects of production and creative direction for themed attractions in Sanrio’s Harmonyland. As associate producer/artistic associate for Santa Barbara Repertory Theatre, O’Neil helmed a new works program. As an actor, he received rave reviews in the role of Pontius Pilate in the national tour of Jesus Christ Superstar starring Ted Neeley, Carl Anderson and Irene Cara. Other roles include Dr. Prospero in the American regional premiere of Return to the Forbidden Planet at the American Heartland Theatre in Kansas City, John Adams in 1776, John in Oleanna, John in Lips Together, Teeth Apart, The Duke/Dr. Carrasco in Man of La Mancha, and Adam in the first reading of Dale Wasserman’s Western Star. For Rubicon he has appeared in Love Letters, The Rainmaker, The Devil’s Disciple, Dancing at Lughnasa, The Turn of the Screw, and most recently as Claudius in Hamlet (Indy Award). For Rubicon’s outreach programs, he is recipient of an Outstanding Contribution to the Theatre REP Award and a Friend of Education Award from the California State Board of Education, and on behalf of Rubicon he accepted the Los Angeles Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Sustained Excellence. less co-founded Rubicon Theatre Company in 1998. Rubicon directing credits include Fiddler on the Roof, Indy Award; the World Premiere of The Spin Cycle by David Rambo; Will Rogers' America; A Delicate Balance; The Diary of Anne Frank; Man of La Mancha; The Night of the Iguana; A Streetcar Named Desire,... more

James C. Swonger: (Sound Designer) is resident sound designer at Cleveland Play House where he has designed sound for over 40 productions including Daddy Long Legs, The Trip to Bountiful, Present Laughter and An Orchard (Case Western Reserve University/CPH MFA Acting Program), A Soldier’s Tale with Catch and Release, Bill W. and Dr. Bob, the world premiere of Heaven’s My Destination, Crime and Punishment, Noises Off!, Gee’s Bend, The Chosen, Man of La Mancha, and I Am My Own Wife. For Cleveland State University Summer Stages 2009 he designed Chekhov in Yalta, The Shadowbox and Return to the Forbidden Planet. Additional credits include Cleveland’s Lyric Opera Company, The Utah Festival Opera Company, Pioneer Theatre Company, Baltimore CENTERSTAGE, George Street Playhouse, Yale Repertory Theatre, and premiere productions of The Tragic Demise of the Whaleship Essex, Swinging on a Star: A Tribute to the Music of Johnny Burke, Tangents, and The Count of Monte Cristo. He has also designed sound systems for restaurants, theatres and churches. less is resident sound designer at Cleveland Play House where he has designed sound for over 40 productions including Daddy Long Legs, The Trip to Bountiful, Present Laughter and An Orchard (Case Western Reserve University/CPH MFA Acting Program), A Soldier’s Tale with Catch and Release, Bill W. and Dr. Bob, the... more

John Caird: (Bookwriter/Director) is a freelance director and writer working in theatre, opera and musical theatre. Recent work in England includes Macbeth at Almeida Theatre and Hamlet at National Theatre, both with Simon Russell Beale. In Stockholm, Sweden, Caird has directed productions of Strindberg’s Dance of Death and Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor, Romeo and Juliet, and The Tempest, all at Royal Dramatic Theatre where he is principal guest director. In Japan, he has recently directed Jane Eyre at Nissay Theatre, his own adaptation of Teru Miyamoto’s novel Kinshu at Galaxy Theatre, and his version of Bernstein’s Candide at the Imperial Theatre. Other productions at London’s National Theatre include Candide, J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, The Seagull with Judi Dench, Pam Gems’ Stanley with Anthony Sher, and Humbleboy by Charlotte Jones with Diana Rigg and Simon Russell Beale. Caird is an honorary associate director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he has directed over twenty classic and new plays. His RSC productions of Les Misérables and Nicholas Nickleby have won numerous awards worldwide, including Olivier and Tony® Awards. Other work includes Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Song and Dance at the Palace Theatre and the Siegfried and Roy Spectacular in Las Vegas. Television work includes Nicholas Nickleby, As You Like It and his adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry IV for the BBC. In opera Caird has directed Verdi’s Don Carlos and Aida, Welsh National Opera; Puccini’s Tosca, Houston Grand Opera; and Brief Encounter, a new opera by André Previn, for which Caird also wrote the libretto. Brief Encounter had its world premiere at Houston Grand Opera in March, 2009, and has recently been released by Deutsche Grammophon. Published work as a librettist and lyricist includes a new version of John Gay’s Beggar’s Opera with the composer Ilona Sekacz, first performed at RSC; a new adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan which played at RSC and NT; Children of Eden with composer Stephen Schwartz; Jane Eyre with Paul Gordon; a new version of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide with new lyrics by Richard Wilbur and Stephen Sondheim; and Brief Encounter with music by André Previn. Theatre Craft, Caird’s new book on directing, was published by Faber & Faber in London and New York in March, 2010. less is a freelance director and writer working in theatre, opera and musical theatre. Recent work in England includes Macbeth at Almeida Theatre and Hamlet at National Theatre, both with Simon Russell Beale. In Stockholm, Sweden, Caird has directed productions of Strindberg’s Dance of Death and Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor,... more

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John Godbout: (Stage Manager) recently finished working on Ten Chimneys, Daddy Long Legs and The Life of Galileo for Cleveland Play House, where he returns after having been CPH’s resident stage manager for eight seasons. Last season he worked at Capital Repertory Theatre and North Shore Music Theatre, where he stage managed a new adaptation of Disney's Tarzan. He has also stage managed for The Weston Playhouse, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Northern Stage and Seaside Music Theatre. less recently finished working on Ten Chimneys, Daddy Long Legs and The Life of Galileo for Cleveland Play House, where he returns after having been CPH’s resident stage manager for eight seasons. Last season he worked at Capital Repertory Theatre and North Shore Music Theatre, where he stage managed a new... more

Laura Bergquist: (Musical Director/Keyboard/Conductor) has been part of the Daddy Long Legs’ journey since the first workshop at Rubicon Theatre Company. She conducted national and international tours of The King and I, Titanic and Miss Saigon. Bergquist is a frequent guest conductor in regional theatres and a clinician in universities and churches. As an ASCAP Awards recipient for composition, her personal catalogue includes more than 60 works in print and several recordings. She was the original musical director for Jane Eyre (the first John Caird and Paul Gordon collaboration), as well as a contributing arranger on the Toronto cast recording. Regional theatre credits include Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Music Theatre of Wichita, Stage One and Atlanta’s Theatre of the Stars, as well as New York Stage and Film Festival, Juilliard, New York Musical Theatre Festival and National Alliance for Musical Theatre. Bergquist also performs with New York cabaret performer Steve Ross, maintains a large coaching studio and is on the music staff at Redeemer Presbyterian Church. Recent projects include Emma by Paul Gordon, and Children of Eden by John Caird and Stephen Schwartz. less has been part of the Daddy Long Legs’ journey since the first workshop at Rubicon Theatre Company. She conducted national and international tours of The King and I, Titanic and Miss Saigon. Bergquist is a frequent guest conductor in regional theatres and a clinician in universities and churches. As an... more

Linda Atherton: (Musician (Cello))

Michael Jackowitz: (Executive Producer) is executive producer of a number of new musicals, including the American premiere of My Fairytale, a musical about Hans Christian Andersen by award-winning composer Stephen Schwartz, at Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts’ Theaterfest for the 2011 Centennial Celebration of Solvang, California; Abyssinia: Praise Singer, a musical at Hackney Empire in London as part of the 2012 Olympic Festival;  Séance on a Wet Afternoon, the new opera by Stephen Schwartz, Opera Santa Barbara, New York City Opera and upcoming at Opera Queensland in Australia in 2013; and The Best Is Yet To Come: The Music of Cy Coleman devised and directed by David Zippel, Rubicon Theatre Company, Ventura, 59E59 off-Broadway. Jackowitz is also a producer of the 50th Anniversary revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying on Broadway starring Daniel Radcliffe (8 Tony Award Nominations, including Best Musical Revival). Past productions include The Food Chain by Nicky Silver, Westside Theatre, directed by Robert Falls and starring Hope Davis and Phyllis Newman; AVOW by Bill C. Davis at The Century Theatre; tick, tick…BOOM!, by Jonathan Larson directed by Scott Schwartz at the Coronet Theatre in Los Angeles following its successful run at Rubicon; I Do, I Do at Queens Theatre in the Park with Donna McKechnie; My Antonia, an adaptation of the Willa Cather novel by Scott Schwartz at Rubicon and Pacific Resident Theatre Company (LA Weekly Nominee, Best Production). Concurrently Jackowitz produced the world premiere of It’s Only Life (Ovation Award: Best Book/Music/Lyrics of an original work) by John Bucchino, directed by Daisy Prince. Jackowitz is co-partner of M&M Productions with Marvin Kahan and is a graduate of the Commercial Theater Institute’s Producing Seminar, class of 1996. He continues to serve as Rubicon’s director of new work and enjoys his “day job” as a physician at The Farber Center, New York City’s first freestanding state-of-the-art radiation oncology practice. less is executive producer of a number of new musicals, including the American premiere of My Fairytale, a musical about Hans Christian Andersen by award-winning composer Stephen Schwartz, at Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts’ Theaterfest for the 2011 Centennial Celebration of Solvang, California; Abyssinia: Praise Singer, a musical at Hackney... more

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Nell Balaban: (Associate Director) has been in the Daddy Long Legs company since the show’s very first workshop. Recent projects include Katharine Heller’s My Dad’s Crazier than Your Dad at last year’s New York International Fringe Festival, Heartbreak House and Too Much Candy for Brave New World Repertory in Brooklyn, and The Boy in the Basement, for which she received an Outstanding Direction Award at the 2008 NYI Fringe Festival. At Manhattan Theatre Club she directed a staged reading of the new musical Lucky Break, and is currently developing several new shows including Death: The Musical with Paul Gordon. Balaban has served as assistant/associate director to Scott Schwartz on many projects including Golda’s Balcony on Broadway; Much Ado About Nothing, Alley Theatre; Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, Paper Mill Playhouse; and The Foreigner, Roundabout Theatre Company.  less has been in the Daddy Long Legs company since the show’s very first workshop. Recent projects include Katharine Heller’s My Dad’s Crazier than Your Dad at last year’s New York International Fringe Festival, Heartbreak House and Too Much Candy for Brave New World Repertory in Brooklyn, and The Boy in... more

Paul Gordon: (Music and Lyrics/Co-Orchestrator) was nominated for a 2001 Tony® Award for composing music and lyrics to the Broadway musical Jane Eyre, directed by John Caird and Scott Schwartz. He won a 2011 Ovation Award for his score to Daddy Long Legs and won the 2007 Bay Area Critics Circle Award for his book to the musical Emma. Daddy Long Legs, written with John Caird, had its first production at Rubicon Theatre in Ventura, California in the fall of 2009, garnering three Ovation Awards. The production has since gone on to play TheatreWorks, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Broad Stage, Northlight Theatre, La Mirada Theatre and Laguna Playhouse. Emma, for which Gordon wrote book, music and lyrics, has enjoyed productions at The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, TheatreWorks in Palo Alto, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and Repertory Theater of St. Louis. His other works include Analog and Vinyl, Death: The Musical, Being Ernest, The Sportswriter, and Little Miss Scrooge. less was nominated for a 2001 Tony® Award for composing music and lyrics to the Broadway musical Jane Eyre, directed by John Caird and Scott Schwartz. He won a 2011 Ovation Award for his score to Daddy Long Legs and won the 2007 Bay Area Critics Circle Award for his book... more

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Paul Toben: (Lighting Designer) Recent New York credits include The Story of my Life on Broadway; The Judy Show, DR2; Saturn Nights, Incubator Arts Project; Electra in a One Piece and The Realm, The Wild Project; Futurity, HERE Arts Center; and Romeo and Juliet, Columbia Stages. Regionally Toben’s work has been seen at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, TheatreWorks, Northlight, Theatre by the Sea, and Flat Rock Playhouse, among others. Toben spent three seasons at Williamstown Theatre Festival, including designs of Caravan Man and Demon Dreams. He has served as associate designer for Anything Goes, Everyday Rapture, Bye Bye Birdie, Sunday in the Park with George, and Pal Joey (on Broadway); Play Dead, New York and Las Vegas; and for national tours of Spring Awakening, A Bronx Tale and Annie. less Recent New York credits include The Story of my Life on Broadway; The Judy Show, DR2; Saturn Nights, Incubator Arts Project; Electra in a One Piece and The Realm, The Wild Project; Futurity, HERE Arts Center; and Romeo and Juliet, Columbia Stages. Regionally Toben’s work has been seen at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, TheatreWorks,... more

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Robert Fraser: (Musician (Guitar))

T. Theresa Scarano: (Properties Supervisor) is a native of Roswell, New Mexico, currently living in Southern California. Her multi-faceted career spans theatre and dance in varying capacities, including tech director and prop designer, as well as set designer and builder. She has stage managed for California Ballet, Kairos Dancers, and currently for Dancing Images Dance Company. Scarano served as both scenery warehouse manager and prop master at San Bernardino Civic Light Opera. She originated and authored a theatre program at Riverside County Juvenile Hall, in which she directed adolescents in performances presented for various audiences including Juvenile Court Judges. Scarano was manager of Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera’s set rental division prior to its becoming The Set Company, where she then worked as director of operations. She is currently director of Premier Sets. less is a native of Roswell, New Mexico, currently living in Southern California. Her multi-faceted career spans theatre and dance in varying capacities, including tech director and prop designer, as well as set designer and builder. She has stage managed for California Ballet, Kairos Dancers, and currently for Dancing Images Dance... more

Timothy Powell: (Musician (Bass))

Tom Fries: (Musician (Percussion))