Music & Book

Marshall is a director, writer and composer for musical theater, plays, animated films. He directed, composed, and co-wrote the Off-Broadway musicals Who's Your Baghdaddy, or How I Started the Iraq War (New York Times Critics’ Pick) and the now internationally licensed Triassic Parq (Ovation Award, Best Musical). Other: A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet (Director, DR2); Nikola Tesla Drops the Beat (Director, optioned by Alchemation); Claudio Quest (winner of six 2015 NYMF Awards for Excellence); Shrek the Halls (DreamWorks Theatricals); Loch Ness (optioned by Victoria Lang, Mark Schwartz and Martian Entertainment); VeggieTales: Noah’s Ark starring Wayne Brady (Film, Original Songs). Other Directing Work: Sequence (Adirondack Theater Festival); The Reunion Experience; Wonderland (Atlantic Theater Company); Eudaemonia; Uncle Pirate; Stuck; The 49 Project; Thursday; With Kings in the Back; Bat Boy; Escape Artists; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Developed work with Dreamworks Animation, Goodspeed Musicals, RKO Stage, PBS Kids. Lots of cool stuff in development. Graduate Yale University.

Lyrics & Book

A.D. is a playwright and lyricist living in New York. He co-wrote with Marshall the Off Broadway musical, Who’s Your Baghdaddy? or how i started the iraq war, which was a NY Times Critic’s Pick, and the Australian production of which is now available on BroadwayHD. Other work includes the play The Three Times She Knocked, which won the New York Fringe award for Best Playwrighting, The Chocolate Tree (Stages Rep, NAMT), Where It’s At (Yale, NYCFringe), Thursday (Yale), and Dance of the Fireflies (Yale, NYC). www.adpenedo.com

Puppet Designer

Nicholas Mahon is an Emmy nominated puppet and theatrical designer specializing in performer interactive pieces and character creation. Since 2004 he has worked on projects for Michael Curry Design, Walt Disney Entertainment, Universal Studios, The Jim Henson Company, Blue Man Group and many more. Most recent projects include Sesame Street Television (2013-present), Mother Of The Nation (Abu Dhabi 2016), Islamic Solidarity Games Opening Ceremony (Baku 2017) and 2018 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony (Pyeonchang). His work on the Baku 2015 European Games Opening Ceremony as Scenic Designer was nominated for a Daytime Emmy.

Choreographer

Misha Shields is a theater choreographer working in the New York and Boston areas. She is a Chita Rivera Award Nominee for Best Choreography for her work in the Off-Broadway production of, BAGHDADDY, and winner of the BroadwayWorld CNY Award for Best Choreography For A Professional Production for her work in, LOCH NESS. Some recent credit highlights include, PRIVATE GOMER JONES (Goodspeed Opera House, workshop), LOCH NESS (The Rev Theater), ONCE (Bucks County Playhouse), BAGHDADDY (St. Luke's Theater), WONDERLAND (Atlantic Theater Company), WITCH, I WAS MOST ALIVE WITH YOU, & YERMA (Huntington Theatre). Misha loves storytelling through movement and strives to find moments of comedy, dramatic simplicity, and surprise through her work. The Boston Globe states that Misha's choreography for Company One's production of VIETGONE, is "...one of the funniest fight sequences I’ve ever seen onstage.", and BroadwayWorld calls Misha's work, "beautiful" and "innovative". Whether it is a small play, huge musical, or original dance piece, Misha connects actors to their bodies and taps them into their characters through movement and body awareness. She loves crafting a unique physical language for every show to sculpt the arch of the production through what is unspoken. Misha was a lyricist with the BMI Lehman Engle Musical Theater Songwriting Workshop, and is a graduate of The Boston Conservatory. www.mishashields@gmail.com

Costume Designer

Kara Harmon OFF-BROADWAY: Public Theater: Cullud Wattah; Rattlestick Playwrights: Lockdown; Manhattan Theatre Club: The Niceties; Vineyard Theatre: Dot. REGIONAL (select credits): Steppenwolf: Choir Boy; The Children’s Theatre Company: Diary of a Wimpy Kid; Arizona Opera: Cosi Fan Tutte; Santa Fe Opera: Hometown to the World; Old Globe: Shutter Sisters; Alliance Theatre: Darlin’ Cory; Guthrie Theater: Guys & Dolls, Steel Magnolias; Milwaukee Rep: Toni Stone; Portland Center Stage: The Color Purple; Huntington Theatre: The Purists; Geva: In the Heights; Ford’s Theatre: The Wiz! (Helen Hayes Award); Arena Stage: Nina Simone: Four Women; Wolf Trap Opera: The Rape of Lucretia; Geffen Playhouse: Barbecue (NAACP Award); Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing. TV/FILM (Assistant Costume Design): Amazon: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” Season 2; Netflix: “Daredevil,” Season 2; HBO: “Boardwalk Empire,” Season 5. EDUCATION: NYU Tisch School of the Arts. KaraHarmonDesign.comoes here

Victoria Lang has enjoyed an award-winning producing career in theatre, television, film, concerts and podcasting. On the cutting edge of the best of Off Broadway theatre she has produced such hits as FOUND: A New Musical, SILENCE! The Musical (Best Musical: Off Broadway Alliance Award, Top 5 Musicals: Time Magazine), SHOUT! The Mod Musical, JOHNNY GUITAR (Best Off-Broadway Musical: Outer Critics Circle Award), MATT & BEN (Top 5 Plays: Time Magazine), and David Friedman’s LISTEN TO MY HEART (Drama Desk Award). Recent Broadway productions include THE KITE RUNNER, FUNNY GIRL, PARADISE SQUARE, TOOTSIE (Tony nomination), THE CHER SHOW, THE LIGHTNING THIEF, SYLVIA, 1984, and ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE. West End productions include FUNNY GIRL (Olivier Award), BAT BOY and SHOUT! Upcoming Broadway: A FACE IN THE CROWD, THE NANNY, LOCH NESS, THE COTTAGE. Television: Live With Regis & Kathie Lee (3 Emmy nominations), Music Specials for PBS and A&E. Film: Macbeth in Manhattan (Showtime), Dark Tides & more. Podcast: FOUND on the Wondery network. Victoria is a Founder and Co-President of Content of Broadway & Beyond Theatricals, a Founder and Co-President of Plus Media & Plus Entertainment and President of Lang Entertainment Group. Victoria attended Emerson College and graduated with a BFA in Theatre Arts Summa Cum Laude from Long Island University. She is a member of the Broadway and Off-Broadway Leagues, the Off Broadway Alliance, BAFTA and the Black Theatre Coalition.

Carl D. White is a Tony Award-winning theatre producer and general manager, who began his career at the age of eighteen, when he founded the acclaimed Golden Theatre in Los Angeles in 1987. Following his tenure at The Golden, Carl worked for MCA/Universal Pictures and legendary producer/agent Stevie Phillips. He quickly followed that position with an Associate Company Manager on the pre-Broadway tour of the musical BUSKER ALLEY by the Sherman Brothers (celebrated composers of many Disney musicals, including MARY POPPINS), which was produced by the infamous producing team, Barry and Fran Weissler (of CHICAGO and WAITRESS). Following BUSKER, Carl then became the Producing Associate for producers David Stone and Amy Nederlander on their highly acclaimed productions of FULL GALLOP; THE SANTALAND DIARIES and THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK starring Natalie Portman.

Founding Martian Entertainment LLC in 1997, Carl has gone on to general manage and/or produce such acclaimed shows as: THE LIGHTNING THIEF: THE PERCY JACKSON MUSICAL (Broadway and 1st National Tour); THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (NYC and Chicago/touring company); THE NORMAL HEART (2011 Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics' Circle Award, Drama League Award); HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (2014 Tony Award); PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT; ALTAR BOYZ; [TITLE OF SHOW]; MATT & BEN; THE TEMPERAMENTALS; THE LAST SESSION, BARE, the film version of the musical HELLO AGAIN, and many other productions. He is a full member of The Broadway League, and The Off-Broadway League.

Gregory Rae is a Tony Award-winning producer based in New York. His theatrical credits include THE LIGHTNING THIEF: THE PERCY JACKSON MUSICAL, THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG, ALLEGIANCE, HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (2014 Tony Award), A TIME TO KILL, KINKY BOOTS (2013 Tony Award, 2016 Olivier Award), CLYBOURNE PARK (2012 Tony Award), BARE (off-Broadway), and THE NORMAL HEART (2011 Tony Award). He is an executive producer of the films VIRGIN TERRITORY, HELLO AGAIN, THE GOLDFISH, CLUTTER, THE MUSLIMS ARE COMING, HELLO AGAIN, and co-executive producer of THE GREEN. He joined Carl White as a partner in Martian Entertainment LLC in 2013.

Gregory graduated from Harvey Mudd College in 2000 with a degree in Mathematics and Computer Science, and received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Manhattanville College in 2014. He worked at Google as a software engineer in charge of log analysis until 2006. After leaving Google, he got involved in politics as one of the national leaders of Living Liberally, and has advised several campaigns for marriage equality around the country. In 2008, he was the technical lead for the No On Proposition 8 campaign in California, and in 2010 he served as treasurer of Fight Back New York, a political action committee that successfully targeted three New York state senators who had voted against marriage equality. Rae is the President of the Harvey Mudd College Alumni Association, and a board member of the Broad Stage. He is an emeritus board member of The Tank and Harvey Mudd College, and previously served on the board of The Production Farm. He is a full member of The Broadway League.

MARK SCHWARTZ is a Tony Award winning theatrical producer who has enjoyed a 40 year career in theatre production, at the Broadway Level.

He has been a Tony award voter for 28 years, and a member of the League of American theatre owners and producers, who embody the voting constituency for the awards.

He has been one of the lead producer's on over 20 Broadway productions which have been nominated for over 40 Tony awards.

Some of the productions he has produced which have won the coveted Tony award, are "NINE" starring Raul Julia (5 Tonys including best musical) "MY ONE AND ONLY", starring Tommy Tune and Twiggy ( 4 Tonys), "LA CAGE AUX FOLLES" (6 Tonys including best musical), "Zorba" starring Anthony Quinn, the Tony nominated production of "Dream" starring Leslie Ann Warren", both the Broadway and West End productions of "JACKIE" (the life and times of Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis) both the Off-Broadway and West End productions of the critically acclaimed "HEADWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH", EPIC PROPORTIONS, (Starring Christen Chenoweth) the off-Broadway productions of "MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL", (played for 8 years in NYC) and both the New York and West End productions of "SHOUT" (the mod musical).