In the Heights - Broadway Creative Team

Production Staff

Hudes is an American playwright, lyricist and essayist. She is best known for writing the book for the musical In the Heights. Her play Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. She won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Water by the Spoonful. ... read more
Conceiver
Lyricist
Raul Agraz Lead Trumpet/Flugelhorn
David Arch Moving Light Programmer
Michael Balderrama Dance Captain
Fight Captain
J. Philip Bassett Production Stage Manager
Brig Berney Company Manager
Howell Binkley Lighting Designer
Binkley's Broadway credits includeSummer: The Donna Summer Musical, Escape to Margaritaville, Come From Away (2017 Tony nomination), A Bronx Tale, Hamilton (2016 Tony winner/2018 Olivier winner), After Midnight (2014 Tony nomination), How to Succeed... (2011 Tony nomination), West Side Story (2009 Tony nomination), In the Heights (2008 Tony nomination), Jersey Boys (2006 Tony winner), Avenue Q, Parade, Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993 Tony nomination). He is also the Co-Founder/Resident Lighting Designer for Parsons Dance. 1993 Sir Laurence Olivier and Canadian Dora Awards for Kiss of the Spider Woman. 2006 and 2016 Henry Hewes Design Awards for Jersey Boys and ... read more
Andy Blankenbuehler Choreographer
Mr. Blankenbuehler won a 2008 Tony Award for his choreography in the Tony Award winning Best Musical In The Heights (also Lortel Award, Outer Critics Award and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography). He also choreographed the Broadway revival of The Apple Tree. Other recent projects include the new Broadway-bound musical Waiting For The Moon (music by Frank Wildhorn); the world premiere of the musical A Little Princess (music by Andrew Lippa); the Paper Mill Playhouse production of A Wonderful Life; as well as the off-Broadway play Burleigh Grimes (music by David Yazbek); and the hit Caesars Palace ... read more
Greg Bloxham Assistant Lighting Designer
Joseph Church Keyboard 2
Associate Conductor
Michael T. Clarkston Assistant Stage Manager

Broadway: Avenue Q; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; Hairspray; In The Heights; Jersey Boys; Million Dollar Quartet; The Lion King;

National Tours: Disney's Newsies, Buyer & Cellar w/ Michael Urie; Hello, Dolly! w/Sally Struthers; In The Heights (1st & 2nd); Shrek; Irving Berlin's White Christmas (Original Company SF & MUNY); The Lion King (Cheetah & Los Angeles);

Off Bwy/Regional: Rent; Avenue Q; Sunset Blvd.; Miss Saigon; Evita; Shrek; West Side Story; Les Miserables 

Tv/Film: A Wonderama Christmas; Wonderama (Season 1 & 2); Mad Fashion; The City; Dubai International Film Awards; Babopbye Ya; The Diplomat; Freegan Love; Wilderness;

Corporate / Industrials: Bravo, MTV, Viacom, Nickelodeon, HBO, Hulu, Google, VH1, Old Navy, JC Penney's, Conde ... read more

Randy Cohen Keyboard Programming
Broadway/Tours: Elf, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Spiderman Turn Off The Dark, A Life in the Theatre, Million Dollar Quartet, The Addams Family, Memphis, Next to Normal, Rock of Ages, In the Heights, Wicked, 9 to 5, South Pacific, Peepshow in Vegas. Off-Broadway: Atlantic, MCC, Signature. Film: Margin Call, Howl, Sex and the City 1 & 2, Jonah Hex, Main Street, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, I Love You Phillip Morris, Rachel Getting Married, Dan in Real Life, Then She Found Me, Across the Universe, Ira & Abby, Rent, Pieces of April, Camp, The Grey Zone, Finding ... read more
Lizbeth Cone General Manager
John S. Corker General Manager
Zachary Dietz Conductor
Keyboard 1
Associate Conductor
Keyboard 2
Joey Dowling Associate Choreographer
Heather Dunbar Assistant Scenic Designer
Sonny Everett Producer
Joe Fiedler Trombone 1
Peter Fine Producer
Andres Forero Drums, Latin/Brazilian percussion
Jill Furman Producer
Jill Furman was co-lead producer of In the Heights, which won the Tony Award® for Best Musical in 2008. Past Broadway productions: West Side Story, The Drowsy Chaperone, Sly Fox, Fortune’ s Fool. Past Off-Broadway productions: On the Line, Adult Entertainment. Currently: the hip-hop comedy group Freestyle Love Supreme, which will soon shoot a television pilot for a cable network, and the upcoming film Greetings From Tim Buckley, which she executive produced. In 2011 Jill received the Robert Whitehead Award for Outstanding Achievement in Commercial Theatre Producing. Boards: MCC Theater, David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center. Member: National Board of ... read more
Ruth Hendel Associate Producer
Ruth's Broadway credits include: In The Heights; Passing Strange; Legally Blonde; Kiki & Herb Alive on Broadway; High Fidelity; The Lieutenant of Inishmore; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Caroline, Or Change; A Raisin in the Sun; Golda's Balcony; Frozen; ‘Night Mother; Steel Magnolias; Barefoot in the Park; Metamorphoses. Off-Broadway: Altar Boyz; Our Lady of 121st Street; The Exonerated; Red Light Winter; tick tick…Boom!. Los Angeles: As Much As You Can. Ruth is on the boards of the LAByrith Theater, The Play Company and the Yale School of Drama Leadership Committee; She is vice-chair, and Stephen is Treasurer of the ... read more
Doug Hinrichs Percussion, Mallets, Timpani, Latin/Brazilian percussion
Heather Hogan Assistant Stage Manager
Caitlin Hunt Assistant Costume Designer
Casey Hushion Assistant Director
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Sander Jacobs Producer
Producer
Beverly Jenkins Production Stage Manager
Thomas Kail Director
Thomas Kail won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for Hamilton. Broadway directing credits include Hamilton; In the Heights; Freestyle Love Supreme; Lombardi; and Magic/Bird. Off-Broadway selected directing credits include the world premiere of Hamilton, Dry Powder, Tiny Beautiful Things, and Kings at The Public Theater; the world premiere of The Wrong Man at MCC theatre, the world premiere of In the Heights, Broke-ology, and the world premiere of When I Come to Die at Lincoln Center Theater; and the world premiere of Daphne’s Dive at Signature Theatre.  Broadway producing credits include Derren Brown: Secret and ... read more
Ryan Keberle Trombone 2
Michael Keller Musical Coordinator
Music Coordination for Broadway: The Book of Mormon, American Idiot, The Addams Family, Million Dollar Quartet, Memphis, Billy Elliot, Wicked, Mamma Mia, The Lion King; National Tour coordination: Les Misérables, Next To Normal, 9 to 5, Billy Elliot, In The Heights, Shrek, The Lion King, West Side Story, Wicked. Barbra Streisand Concerts (1994-2007). ... read more
Stephanie Klemons Assistant Dance Captain
Broadway: Hamilton, If/Then, In The Heights (OBC), Bring It On: The Musical (Associate Choreographer). Off-Broadway: In The Heights (Drama Desk Winner), Automatic Superstar, Repo: The Genetic… Tours: Bombay Dreams (1st Nat'l), Tea With Chachaji . Regional: Fly, Bring it On (Alexis). Endless gratitude family & friends. www.StephanieKlemons.com Instagram: @dancism Twitter: Steph_klem ... read more
Alex Lacamoire Musical Director
Music Arranger
Conductor
Keyboard 1
Orchestrator
Won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations for HAMILTON. He served as the Music Director, Orchestrator and Co-Arranger for HAMILTON. He has won a Tony and a Grammy for his work on In the Heights and a Tony for Dear Evan Hansen. For Hamilton, he was awarded an Obie and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. Select credits: Bring It On, Wicked, 9 to 5 (Drama Desk and Grammy nominations), Bat Boy, Godspell (2001 national tour), High Fidelity, Annie (2011 Broadway revival), Fly (Dallas Theater Center), Working (59E59), The Wiz (City Center), Legally Blonde, Dear Even Hansen (Arena ... read more
Charles LaPointe Wig Designer
More than 50 Broadway shows including Holiday Inn, On Your Feet!, Hamilton, Doctor Zhivago, The Color Purple, Of Mice and Men, Violet, Side Show, The Elephant Man, After Midnight, Beautiful, A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder, Motown, Jekyll & Hyde, Clybourne Park, Bring It On, Newsies, The Mountaintop, Memphis, Lombardi, Fences, In the Heights, Jersey Boys, A Raisin in the Sun. Television: "The Wiz Live!" (Emmy nomination.) ... read more
Anna Louizos Scenic Designer
Anna Louizos is an American scenic designer and art director. She is known for her Tony Award-nominated sets for the musicals In the Heights and High Fidelity, as well as the London, Broadway, Las Vegas, and touring productions of Avenue Q. Louizos was represented on Broadway with Cinderella at the Broadway Theatre in 2013-15. ... read more
Brian Lynch Technical Supervisor
Kevin McCollum Producer
Kevin McCollum has received the Tony Award for Best Musical for "In the Heights" (2008), "Avenue Q" (2004), and "Rent" (1996), which also won the Pulitzer Prize. He is currently represented on Broadway with the Olivier Award-winning "The Play That Goes Wrong." He produced "Something Rotten!" (Broadway, National Tour), "Hand to God" ( Broadway, West End), "Motown: The Musical" (Broadway, West End, and National Tour), "The Drowsy Chaperone" in 2006, which won five Tony Awards, Baz Luhrmann's production of "Puccini's La Boheme" in 2002, [title of show] in 2008, the touring and Broadway productions of Irving Berlin's "White Christmas," the ... read more
Kenneth J. McGee Stage Manager
Most recent: FOUND at Philadelphia Theatre Company and The SpongeBob Musical in Chicago. Broadway: China Doll; An American In Paris; Kinky Boots; The Best Man. ... read more
Scott A. Moore Marketing
Manny Moreira Guitar, Acoustic nylon/steel-string guitars
Trevor Neumann Trumpet 2/Flugelhorn
Harold Newman Associate Producer
Kristy Norter Saxophone/Flute/Piccolo
Hilary Noxon Assistant Scenic Designer
Irio O'Farrill, Jr. Bass/Fretless electric bass
Ryan O'Gara Assistant Lighting Designer
Tour: A Night with Janis Joplin, Vocalocity, Walking Dead Experience, The Little Prince, and Cirque Du Soleil’s Paramour in Germany. Out of Shadowland (Disney Tokyo Sea). NY: NBCU upfront at Radio City Music Hall, Sanctuary, Tail! Spin!, Useless, Lady Day at the Little Shubert Theatre, The Mysterious Hat, Brazil Brazil, Knuckleheads Zoo and Black Violin at the New Victory Theatre, Michael Count’s Moses in Egypt for New York City Opera, Play/Date at Fat Baby plus The Ride, Andrea Thome’s Pinkolandia, Lourds Lane’s Chix 6, John Maran’s A Raw Space and A Strange and Separate People, Stephen Stahl’s Straight to Hell ... read more
ACME Sound Partners Sound Designer
More than 30 Broadway shows since 2000 including Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Tony nomination), The Merchant of Venice, Lombardi, Fences (Tony nomination), The Addams Family, Ragtime, Hair (Tony nomination), In the Heights (Tony nomination), [title of show], Legally Blonde, A Chorus Line (2006), The Drowsy Chaperone, The Light in the Piazza, Monty Python's Spamalot, Avenue Q, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and La Bohème. Acme is Tom Clark, Mark Menard, Nevin Steinbergand Sten Severson. ... read more
Ron Piretti Fight Director
RON PIRETTI Film: Darker than Blue – Prison Official, Straight Outta Thompkins – Undercover Cop, American Gangster – Judge. Fight Director on Broadway: The Last Ship, West Side Story, In the Heights, The Miracle Worker, Bengal Tiger at the Bagdad Zoo and The Performers. As an actor Ron appeared as Officer Krupke in the Broadway production of West Side Story; regionally, in such roles as a Clown in 39 Steps as well as appearing in film and TV. He has taught acting and/or stage combat for the Actors Studio at Pace University, Marymount Manhattan College and Wagner College. ... read more
Todd Potter Associate Scenic Designer
Barlow-Hartman Public Relations Press Representative
Alejandra Reyes Assistant Dance Captain
Dave Richards Saxophone/ Flute/Clarinet
Luis Salgado Latin Assistant Choreographer
Thrilled and grateful to be a part of this story! Broadway Credits: Rocky ("Kid Rizzo"), Women on the Verge... ("Malik") , In the Heights. Other Credits: The Capeman (Public Theater), Mambo Kings (Frankie Suarez), Fame on 42nd Street. Film: Across the Universe; Enchanted; Step Up 2: The Streets; Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights. luissalgado.com. Twitter: @LSalgadoART ... read more
Jeffrey Seller Producer
Sten Severson Associate Sound Designer
Bill Sherman Orchestrator
Music Arranger
Mark T. Simpson Associate Lighting Designer
Mike Skipper Producer
Paul Tazewell Costume Designer
Tazewell has designed Broadway shows, theatre, film and television, dance, and opera for over 25 years. Starting his Broadway career with Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk directed by George C. Wolfe, he has since designed the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning Hamilton; Escape to Margaritaville; Summer; In the Heights; The Color Purple (2005); Dr. Zhivago; Memphis; Caroline, or Change; Elaine Stritch at Liberty; Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam; Lombardi; Magic/Bird; Side Show; A Streetcar Named Desire; Jesus Christ Superstar; Guys and Dolls; A Raisin in the Sun; and On the Town. In 2016, he received both a ... read more
Wilson Torres Percussion, Latin/Brazilian percussion
Amber Wedin Stage Manager
Scott Wendholt Trumpet 2/Flugelhorn
Donyale Werle Associate Scenic Designer
Broadway: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (2011 Tony Nomination). Off-Broadway: Taming Of The Shrew (Theatre For A New Audience), Peter & The Starcatcher (New York Theatre Workshop, 2011 Lucille Lortel Nom.), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (The Public Theater), Broke-Ology (Lincoln Center Theater), Jollyship The Whizbang (Ars Nova). Regional: Upcoming Once On This Island (Papermill Playhouse), Allegiance (Old Globe). Awards: 2011 Obie Award, 2011 Lucille Lortel Award, 2010 Henry Hewes Design Award, 2010 Outer Circle Critics Nominee. Co-chair: Broadway Green Alliance's Pre/Post Production Committee. ... read more
Michael Zecker Associate Costume Designer
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