Legally Blonde - Broadway Creative Team

Nell Benjamin is a lyricist, writer, and composer noted for her work in musical theatre. With her husband and frequent collaborator Laurence O'Keefe, she won the Laurence Olivier Award for writing Legally Blonde in 2011. And in 2007, she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Original Score for Legally Blonde, and then again in 2018 for her lyrics for Mean Girls. ... read more ... read more Graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder, School of Journalism. Worked at The New York Times Denver Bureau as a research assistant and Sports and Fitness Publishing in Boulder, Colorado, as a magazine editor. Member of Denver’s Comedy Sports improv comedy troupe. Worked on the TV shows “Caroline in the City” and “Dilbert.” Won Walt Disney Screenwriting Fellowship in 1999. Credits include Disney’s film Freaky Friday. Much love to friends and family, especially the ridiculously lovely Jason and Harper. Graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder, School of Journalism. Worked at The New York Times Denver Bureau as a research ... read more Broadway: Tuck Everlasting (Tony nom.); Something Rotten! (Tony nom.); Aladdin; Kinky Boots (Tony nom., Olivier Award); Follies (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award); Elf; Legally Blonde (Tony nom.); The Drowsy Chaperone (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Award, Olivier nom.); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Flower Drum Song (Tony nom.); Side Show. Other: Dreamgirls (Olivier nomination), Sinatra (Radio City), Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Pageant (Olivier Nomination), The Kathy and Mo Show. TDF Young Master Award. ... read more Robert G. Bartner has produced on Broadway: Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Elling, La Bête, La Cage aux Folles (Tony), Memphis (Tony), Norman Conquests (Tony), Boeing-Boeing (Tony), Company (Tony) revival, Anna in the Tropics (Pulitzer). West End: Onassis, Flashdance, Legally Blonde, The Mountaintop (Olivier), La Cage aux Folles (Olivier), Guys and Dolls (Olivier). Upcoming: An Ideal Husband. ... read more Broadway: Billy Elliot, Legally Blonde, Lestat, The Glass Menagerie, Bombay Dreams, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Real Thing, The Scarlet Pimpernel (versions 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 3.0), Victor/Victoria, The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public and Jelly’s Last Jam. Encores! at City Center: A Connecticut Yankee, Bloomer Girl, Hair. ... read more Nell Benjamin is a lyricist, writer, and composer noted for her work in musical theatre. With her husband and frequent collaborator Laurence O'Keefe, she won the Laurence Olivier Award for writing Legally Blonde in 2011. And in 2007, she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Original Score for Legally Blonde, and then again in 2018 for her lyrics for Mean Girls. ... read more David Binder is a Tony Award-winning producer whose credits include Broadway, off-Broadway, and festivals. ... read more Broadway highlights: Dear Evan Hansen, She Loves Me, Curious Incident..., Gigi, The Bridges of Madison County, If/Then, Macbeth, Death of a Salesman, Follies, Sister Act, Arcadia, A Steady Rain, Shrek, The Little Mermaid, Legally Blonde, Spamalot, Tarzan, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Nine, Gypsy, Sweet Smell of Success, The Invention of Love, Aida, The Iceman Cometh, Chicago, Side Show, Steel Pier. Film/TV credits: "Peter Pan Live!" (NBC), "The Sound of Music Live!" (NBC), It’s Complicated, Angels in America (Emmy-nominated), To Wong Foo... ... read more Marc Bruni directed the Tony, Grammy, and Olivier Award winning Beautiful: The Carole King Musical on Broadway, in the West End, US and UK Tours, and in Australia where he won the 2018 Helpmann Award and Green Room Award for Best Direction of a Musical. Bruni’s other directing credits include Hey, Look Me Over!, Paint Your Wagon, Pipe Dream and Fanny for City Center Encores!, Roman Holiday (Golden Gate), The Explorers Club (Manhattan Theater Club), The Sound of Music (Chicago Lyric Opera), The Music Manand How to Succeed in Business... (Kennedy Center Broadway Center Stage), Old Jews Telling Jokes (Westside ... read more Kristin Caskey is a producer known for Fun Home, Parade, Legally Blonde, Prima Facie, and more. ... read more Bonnie Comley is the founder of BroadwayHD.com, an online streaming service on a mission to promote and preserve live theatre, extending the reach of Broadway and Broadway caliber shows to anyone, anywhere. BroadwayHD is capturing and then transporting the magic of performance from the stage to your screen so if you can't get to Broadway, get to BroadwayHD BroadwayHD.com's recent productions include: She Loves Me (Guinness World Record), Romeo and Juliet (Orlando Bloom),Cyrano de Bergerac (Kevin Kline), and Stephen Sondheim's Company (Neil Patrick Harris, Stephen Colbert, Patti LuPone). Bonnie also is a three-time Tony Award winning producer, and won an Olivier Award, ... read more 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 Credits include Evita, The Book of Mormon, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Seminar. Recent productions: House of Blue Leaves, West Side Story, La Bete, Come Fly Away, Ragtime, Gypsy, The Color Purple, Spamalot. Co-founded the investment firm Furman Selz, currently vice chairman Jeffries & Company. Vice chairman of Lincoln Center, Chairman emeritus of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, vice president NY City Opera. ... read more Broadway: Jersey Boys, Doubt, Steel Magnolias, Dracula, Taboo, The Boy From Oz, Joe Egg, Master Harold And The Boys, Present Laughter, A Doll's House. Venues: Roundabout, M.T.C., Playwrights, Atlantic, The New Group, M.C.C., The Public, Second Stage, Williamstown, Yale Rep., McCarter, Hartford Stage, Primary Stages, Lincoln Center, Long Wharf, Westport. Film Contributions: Million Dollar Baby, Ballad Of Bettie Page, Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind, Boy's Don't Cry. ... read more Currently serving as Universal Music Associate for Hamilton Broadway, Chicago, 1st and 2nd National Tours. Broadway, Assoc. Conductor: Doctor Zhivago, Hands on a Hardbody, Jesus Christ Superstar (2012), 9 to 5, Legally Blonde, High Fidelity. Off-B’way, Music Director: Cymbeline (The Public), Tick, Tick… Boom! (Encores!), The Last Five Years (Second Stage), Altar Boyz (New World Stages), Zanna, Don't! (Houseman Theater). MD/arranger: Amanda Green, Yandura & Melocik, Voices of Gotham, Atlantic Theater Co. Galas, Phish at MSG (NYE 2010). Mattgallaghermd.com ... read more Graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder, School of Journalism. Worked at The New York Times Denver Bureau as a research assistant and Sports and Fitness Publishing in Boulder, Colorado, as a magazine editor. Member of Denver’s Comedy Sports improv comedy troupe. Worked on the TV shows “Caroline in the City” and “Dilbert.” Won Walt Disney Screenwriting Fellowship in 1999. Credits include Disney’s film Freaky Friday. Much love to friends and family, especially the ridiculously lovely Jason and Harper. Graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder, School of Journalism. Worked at The New York Times Denver Bureau as a research ... read more 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 Executive Producer of the Many in St. Louis ... read more Todd Edward Ivins designs dance, opera, plays, musicals, television, & corporate events. Favorites: Circus 1903 (International Tour), Mirror Mirror (sets & costumes, Milwaukee Ballet), Othello MC (sets & costumes, Milwaukee Rep), Les Miserables (Walnut Street Theatre), Into the Woods (Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre), Bright Lights, Big City (Prince Music Theatre), Five Presidents (Arizona Theatre Company). Todd is an Associate Artist at the Milwaukee Rep.  Love to my muses, Agatha and Abigail. www.ivinsart.com ... read more Orchestrator: (Broadway/London) Porgy and Bess (Tony nomination- Best Orchestrations), new orchestrations for Les Misérables (performed worldwide since 2006), Legally Blonde, King Kong, Cry-Baby, Grease (2007), Dessa Rose, A Man of No Importance, Wind in the Willows (Stiles & Drewe). Other orchestrations: Do You Hear the People Sing? (symphonic tour of Boublil/Schönberg), Tom Jones (Stiles & Leigh), Just So (Stiles & Drewe), Lady Gaga (“The Sound of Music” - 2015 Oscars, with Stephen Oremus), “The Wiz Live!,” Rufus Wainwright, Radio City Rockettes and Emily Bear. Music Supervisor: Memphis. Apprentice to orchestrator William David Brohn: Sweet Smell of Success, Ragtime, The Secret ... read more Denis is a two-time Tony Award nominated choreographer and director whose work has been seen on Broadway, across the country and around the world. From live theater to film and television, the variety of Denis’ work spans both media and genres. On Broadway, Denis received Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critic’s Circle and Chita Rivera nominations for both Tootsie and Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn (which was also captured by Broadway HD and has been enjoyed both in the US and globally on television and in movie theaters), and choreographed the Broadway production on Honeymoon in Vegas. Denis’ range of recent work ... read more Broadway: Evita, Legally Blonde, Come Fly Away, Catch Me If You Can. Upcoming: First Date, Kinky Boots. He has co-presented Fosse and The Full Monty in Japan, and Japanese local productions of Never Gonna Dance, The Boy From Oz, The Producers, Sweet Charity, Titanic, Brooklyn, All Shook Up, Grease, Side Show. ... read more 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 Broadway: Evita, Catch Me If You Can, Legally Blonde, The Wedding Singer. Vegas: Peepshow. Recording Artists: Beyonce, Alicia Keys, Missy Elliott, Gwen Stefani, Rihanna, Madonna, Mariah Carey. ... read more 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 Stewart F. Lane is a Tony Award-winning Broadway producer, director, and author. He was born on March 16, 1947, in New York City, and grew up in Great Neck, Long Island. Lane attended the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration. He later earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in theater from Columbia University. Lane began his career in the entertainment industry as an actor, appearing in off-Broadway productions and regional theater. ... read more Winner of three Tony Awards and London’s Olivier Award, producer Hal Luftig has worked on and Off-Broadway for the past 25 years. Broadway: Evita, Catch Me If You Can, Come Fly Away, West Side Story, All My Sons, Legally Blonde, The Times They Are A-Changin’, Whoopi, Movin’ Out, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Annie Get Your Gun, High Society, The Diary of Anne Frank, Play On!, The King and I, Moon Over Buffalo, Angels in America, Jelly’s Last Jam, Death and the Maiden, The Secret Garden. Hal has an M.F.A. from Columbia University/ ... read more Jerry Mitchell made his Broadway and West End debuts as director of Legally Blonde, for which he also served as Choreographer, and was nominated for both the Tony and Drama Desk Awards for his choreography and the Drama Desk Award for his direction. He also recently choreographed the Broadway production of Catch Me If You Can and West End production of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies. Mitchell received Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics' Circle Awards for choreographing the 2005 Tony Award-winning Best Revival of La Cage aux Folles, having also been nominated for the Tony as choreographer ... read more James L. Nederlander is President of the Nederlander Organization and son of James M. Nederlander (Chairman). He is the third generation of a family known for owning and operating theatres around the world as well as theatrical productions, cultural presentations and popular music attractions. Current productions include West Side Story, The Addams Family, Next to Normal and Race. Upcoming productions include a live show with magician David Blaine. ... read more IPN members bring Broadway productions to more than 110 cities through North America and Japan. Recent Broadway, London, U.S. and international tours include Monty Python's Spamalot, The Color Purple, Throughly Modern Millie, Bombay Dreams, Starlight Express, The King and I and Edward Scissorhands. ... read more ALBERT NOCCIOLINO serves as President & CEO of NAC Entertainment, Ltd., a company based in Binghamton, NY; a diversified entertainment and theatrical company specializing in the presentation of National Touring Broadway shows in New York State (Buffalo, Rochester, Binghamton, Elmira, Utica and Albany) and the State of Pennsylvania (Scranton and Erie). Albert is also the President & CEO of Famous Artists, a company based in Syracuse, NY that brings Touring Broadway shows to the Crouse Hinds Theater at the Oncenter and the Landmark Theatre. He has presented shows for over 35 years! In addition to directing the Broadway subscription ... read more 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 Kenneth Posner designs extensively on Broadway, off-Broadway, for resident theatres, and touring productions throughout the United States as well as internationally. Some of his Broadway work includes Pretty Woman, Mean Girls, War Paint, Tuck Everlasting, On Your Feet, If/Then, Kinky Boots, Pippin, Cinderella, Hairspray, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Legally Blonde, The Coast of Utopia-Shipwrecked, and Wicked. He is the recipient of the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics’ Circle and OBIE Awards. ... read more Broadway: She Loves Me (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards), On the Twentieth Century (Tony nom.), You Can't Take It With You (Tony nom.), Kinky Boots (Tony nom.), Lucky Guy (Tony nom.), Hairspray (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle noms.). Off Broadway: the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park. Founder and president of Rockwell Group, the architecture firm which renovated The Hayes Theater for Second Stage. Honors: AIANY President's Award, Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, Presidential Design Award. ... read more Broadway: Nice Work If You Can Get It, Billy Elliot, Legally Blonde, The Wedding Singer, Lestat. Off-Broadway: See What I Wanna See, As You Like It (Delacorte), Stuff Happens (NYSF); The Great American Trailer Park Musical; Fat Pig (MCC). Scott is a graduate of Harvard University. ... read more Peter Sachon not only performs with some of the finest freelance orchestras and opera companies in New York City, he also plays in Broadway shows, jazz and rock groups, and he is active in promoting new music. He has a regular blog at Polyphonic.org about reforming American orchestras. Mr. Sachon began his cello studies at the age of 14, and one year later was accepted into the Governor’s School for the Arts in Norfolk, Virginia. He then went on to study cello with Paul Tobias at The Mannes College of Music in New York, and chamber music with Felix Galimir and ... read more More than 60 Broadway shows, including The Front Page, The Crucible, Blackbird, The Color Purple, Waitress, The King and I, War Horse, This Is Our Youth, Of Mice and Men, Romeo and Juliet, Lucky Guy, Death of a Salesman, Venus in Fur, A View From the Bridge. He has worked extensively at the Lincoln Center (Disgraced, Blood and Gifts), the Public Theater (Hamlet, King Lear, Mother Courage, Father Comes Home From The Wars), MTC (Ruined, Murder Ballad), NY Theatre Workshop (Red Speedo, Othello), and the Met Opera (Le Nozze di Figaro, Il Trovatore). ... read more Broadway: Evita, A Little Night Music (Associate Director), Finian’s Rainbow (Associate Director), Mary Stuart (Assistant Director), Rock’n’Roll (Assistant Director), Frost/Nixon (Assistant Director), The Coast of Utopia (Assistant to the Director), Good Vibrations (Associate Director). U.S. Tour: Billy Elliot (Resident Director). Seth directed the U.S. Tour of Frost/Nixon. Graduate of Vassar College. ... read more Whitman is the daughter of investment advisor Martin J. Whitman, namesake of the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. She has two brothers: James Whitman, a professor at Yale Law School, and Thomas Whitman, a professor of music at Swarthmore College. Her aunt is judge Phyllis W. Beck, who served on the Superior Court of Pennsylvania and was married to the University of Pennsylvania psychiatrist Aaron Beck. Her cousin is psychologist Judith S. Beck, who co-founded the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Whitman attended the Dalton School and graduated from the Elizabeth Seeger School. She attended Bennington ... read more