Magic/Bird - Broadway Creative Team

Magic/Bird Broadway

Production Staff

Eric Simonson Playwright
National Basketball Association Producer
(In Association With)
Tamara Tunie Producer
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
William Bloom Associate Producer
Daniel Brodie Associate Projection Designer
Graduated with a degree in theatre and media design from the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. Brodie’s Broadway credits include Motown:The Musical and Disney’s Aladdin. He also designed the projections for Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella and The Winter's Tale and has worked regularly with puppeteer Basil Twist. He has also created large-scale video designs for Kanye West, Mariah Carey, and for the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. He has also worked as a guest lecturer at Yale University and New York University. Brodie’s awards include the United States Institute of Theatre Technology’s Rising Star Award ... read more
Jason Crystal Associate Sound Designer
BROADWAY: Tina (Nov 07, 2019 - Present) Associate Sound Design by Jason Crystal Freestyle Love Supreme (Oct 02, 2019 - Jan 12, 2020) Associate Sound Design by Jason Crystal Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (May 30, 2019 - Jul 28, 2019) Associate Sound Design by Jason Crystal The Cher Show (Dec 03, 2018 - Aug 18, 2019) Associate Sound Design by Jason Crystal Bright Star (Mar 24, 2016 - Jun 26, 2016) Associate Sound Design by Jason Crystal Hamilton (Aug 06, 2015 - Present) Associate Sound Design by Jason Crystal It Shoulda Been You (Apr 14, 2015 - Aug 09, 2015) Associate Sound Design by Jason Crystal Mothers and Sons (Mar 24, ... read more
Jeffrey Donovan Producer
Wendall K. Harrington Projection Designer
Broadway: All The Way, Driving Miss Daisy, Grey Gardens, They’re Playing Our Song, The Elephant Man, My One and Only, The Heidi Chronicles, The Will Rogers Follies, Having Our Say, Company, Racing Demon, Ragtime, John Leguizamo’s Freak, The Capeman, Putting It Together and The Who’s Tommy. Off Broadway: Sunday in the Park with George, Angels in America, Hapgood, Merrily We Roll Along (four times!) and Whistle Down the Wind. Opera: Werther at the MET, Julie Taymor’s The Magic Flute in Florence, Italy, A View from the Bridge at Chicago Lyric, Die Gezeichhneten at LA Opera, The Photographer at BAM, Transatlatic, ... read more
John Mara Jr. Producer
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
Fran Kirmser Producer
David Korins Scenic Designer
Broadway: Mrs. Doubtfire, Beetlejuice (Tony nom, Drama Desk award), Hamilton (Tony nom), War Paint (Tony nom), Dear Evan Hansen, Bandstand, Misery, Motown, Vanya and Sonia, Bring It On, The Pee-Wee Herman Show, Lombardi, and Passing Strange. TV: "91st Annual Academy Awards," "Grease: Live!" (Emmy award). Concert: Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Mariah Carey, Andrea Boccelli. Extensive Off-Broadway/regional theatre, hospitality, and experience design. Dad: Stella and Vivian. ... read more
W. Scott McGraw Producer
Tony Ponturo Producer
Tony Ponturo is a seasoned Broadway producer with over 40 years of experience in the entertainment industry. He has produced some of the most successful Broadway shows of all time, including "Memphis," "The Addams Family," and "August: Osage County." Ponturo began his career in the advertising industry, working for Anheuser-Busch for over 26 years. During his time there, he was responsible for some of the most memorable advertising campaigns in history, including the iconic Budweiser Clydesdales Super Bowl ad. In 2008, Ponturo made the transition from advertising to Broadway producing. His first show, "Memphis," won four Tony Awards, including Best Musical. He ... read more
Richard Redmond Associate Producer
Nevin Steinberg Sound Designer
Recent Broadway credits include: Dear Evan Hansen, The Cher Show, Bandstand, Bright Star, Hamilton, It Shoulda Been You, Mothers and Sons, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (Tony nomination), The Performers, Magic/Bird. Off-Broadway, Steinberg worked on Dear Evan Hansen (Second Stage), Hamilton (The Public Theater), The Landing (The Vineyard Theatre), Far From Heaven (Playwrights Horizons). Steinberg is the Audio Consultant for Carnegie Hall's Isaac Stern Auditorium, and has worked on over thirty Broadway productions as a former founding principal of Acme Sound Partners and for that work received five additional Tony nominations for The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad ... read more
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
Rachel Weinstein Associate Producer

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