David has directed productions of Light Up the Sky, Do I Hear A Waltz?, 110 in the Shade, Diva, Can-Can (Pasadena Playhouse), the world premiere of How I Fell In Love (Williamstown Theater Festival), On The 20th Century, Assassins, Company, A New Brain, Applause, Working, Zorba (Ovation nominee – Best Director), Elegies, and Two By Two (Reprise). In 2007, he directed the acclaimed production of South Pacific at the Hollywood Bowl with Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell. Most recently he adapted and directed an eight actor version of Camelot for the Pasadena Playhouse. His writing for the theater includes a concert adaptation of Can-Can (Encores! with Patti LuPone), and an entirely new book for Can-Can which he directed at the Pasadena Playhouse (Ovation Award-Best Director). David is also a nine-time Emmy Award winning director, writer, and producer for television. He is the co-creator of Wings and Frasier, for which he also wrote, produced, and directed. He served as writer/producer for Cheers and directed multiple episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond. In addition to 19 Emmy nominations, he is the recipient of the Directors Guild Award, Golden Globe, Producers Guild Award, GLAAD Media Award, British Comedy Award, Television Critics Association Award (three times), the Humanitas Prize (twice), and the Peabody. But he likes theatre best.
Upcoming: Five Course Love (Geva Theatre Center, May 2010); Carnival (Goodspeed Musicals, July 2010); Other credits: The Most Happy Fella, La Rondine (New York City Opera); My Fair Lady with Kelsey Grammer, Brian Dennehey and Kelly O’Hara (New York Philharmonic). Die Fledermaus with Plácido Domingo(PBS Live from The Kennedy Center); Hansel und Gretel (PBS Live From Lincoln Center); Lucio Silla (Santa Fe Opera), The Merry Widow, Aida, La Bohème, Falstaff, La Cenerentola, Carmen, and La Traviata (Houston, San Francisco, Chicago Lyric, Dallas, and LA Opera); Petroushka (LA Phil); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Old Globe, San Diego); A Little Night Music; On the Twentieth Century; Amour; Brigadoon (Goodspeed); Oklahoma (Paper Mill Playhouse); Fiddler on the Roof (Mexico Company); Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan (Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Urinetown (Geva Theatre); TV/Film: The Brady Bunch Movie, Samantha Who?, 90210, General Hospital, Port Charles, Days of Our Lives, Passions, and the MTV Award for Best Choreography for the music video Beck’s The New Pollution. Ms. Hickey is a faculty member of the Ray Bolger Musical Theater program at UCLA. www.peggyhickey.com
Steve has worked as a successful orchestrator, composer and musical director in NY and LA for over thirty years, receiving a Tony nomination for Best Orchestrations for Jersey Boys, with the album winning the Grammy as well. Born in New York, he spent many years playing keyboards on and off-Broadway, as well as musical directing shows for summer stock, dinner theatres and regional theatres, and conducting national tours of Godspell and Annie. In 1983, he rehearsed and played for the concert and album A Stephen Sondheim Evening that contained the first recording of "Echo Song" which has been resurrected for this production. As a composer, he has written music for numerous television series, specials, and documentaries including the ACE award-winning Mo' Funny for HBO, All About Bette Davis for TNT, Bob Hope...Laughing with the Presidents for NBC, and the award-winning PBS/Lifetime documentary Jackie Onassis: An Intimate Portrait. He has also orchestrated & conducted albums for singers like Helen Reddy, Petula Clark, Debbie Gravitte, Judy Kaye and Deborah Gibson. Mr. Orich has conducted productions of Do I Hear a Waltz?, A Class Act, 110 in the Shade, and Can-Can at the Pasadena Playhouse, Paint Your Wagon at the Geffen, and The Great American Songbook at the Taper. Since Jersey Boys, he has orchestrated new productions of Turn of the Century at the Goodman (directed by Tommy Tune), Stephen Schwartz’s Snapshots (directed by Richard Maltby), and Time After Time at the Pittsburgh Playhouse. His orchestrations have been performed by the Boston Pops, at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the White House, and around the world. This production of Forum is his sixth collaboration with David Lee.
Awards: CSA Artios Awards – Reprise Theatre Company: Once On This Island, Center Theatre Group: Homebody/Kabul, Flower Drum Song, Big River, Intimate Apparel, The Cherry Orchard. Broadway: The Dinner Party, Flower Drum Song, Big River. Current: Reprise Theatre Company, Ensemble Theatre Co. Santa Barbara, L.A. Theatre Works. Casting Director: Center Theatre Group 1999–2006, Mark Taper Forum 1985-1989, Associate C.D.: Mark Taper Forum 1983-85. Regional: La Jolla Playhouse, Manhattan Theatre Club, Goodman Theatre, ACT (S.F.), Denver Center, Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep, Pasadena Playhouse, Rubicon, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Actors Theatre of Phoenix, Actors Theatre of Louisville. Other: Ojai Playwrights Conference, The Granada, S.B, KCRW, Sundance Theatre Lab, Deaf West, Theatre@Boston Court, Falcon Theatre, Hollywood Theatre of the Ear. Film/Television: Mad Dog Time, Member of the Wedding, Dear John, Live Shot, Hull High, Living in the USA, Snoops. Assoc/Asst.: Benson, Barney Miller, It Takes Two. Continuing: Visiting Associate Professor at UCLA- MFA 3rd year graduate program starting in 2007
Bradley has designed Reprise productions since 1997, including The Fantasticks, I Love My Wife, Li’l Abner, No Strings, Sunday in the Park with George, My One and Only, On The Town, Pippin, Company, On the Twentieth Century, Anything Goes, Threepenny Opera, and Bells Are Ringing. As an Art Director for Disney Parks Entertainment, his stage, parade, and show designs are seen daily at Disney parks throughout the world, including this year’s Villains Tonight!, debuting this month on Disney Cruise Lines; Celebrate! A Street Party for Disneyland; adapted versions of High School Musical for California, Florida, Paris, and Hong Kong; The Golden Mickeys stage show for Hong Kong Disneyland. In Los Angeles, his work has won numerous awards over the past decade, and his stage productions have included shows at the Hollywood Bowl (Mame, Mass), Interact, Tiffany, Coronet, Colony, and International City Theatre. In New York City, his off-Broadway shows include A Kid’s Life and recent editions of Forbidden Broadway (both now touring). He is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle.
Kate happily returns to the Reprise Theatre Company after having designed The Fantasticks and I Love My Wife last season. Her design work was seen in the Disney animated movie Hercules and she was a design consultant on the movie Pocohantas. She has spent the last several years designing sets and wardrobe for commercials and print advertising, working on campaigns for AT&T, Marlboro, Toyota, Morgan Stanley, Disney, Blackberry, Target, and Coca-Cola. Her work has been seen on celebrities in Vanity Fair, Premier, People, Elle, Interview, Life, and Esquire magazines. Kate has designed costumes for over 50 productions of theatre, opera, and dance. For Chicago Opera Theatre, she designed costumes for Albert Herring, The Good Soldier Schweik, The Italian Girl in Algiers, Summer and Smoke, and The Mother of Us All. She also designed The Diary of Anne Frank for the Steppenwolf Theatre; Moon for the Misbegotten for the Victory Theatre in Dayton, Ohio; and Kiss Me Kate, The Impromptu at Outremont, and Les Seours for the Northlight Theatre in Chicago. She designed the Steven Carter plays produced at the Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago: Eden, Nevis Mountain Dew and Dame Lorraine. Other productions she has designed costumes for are The Baker’s Wife, She Loves Me, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, School for Wives, A Winter’s Tale, Richard II, and Open Heart at the Falcon Theatre. Designing for theatre is her first love and she is happy to be working with David Lee and everyone at Reprise again on this production of “Forum”.
Jared’s work has been represented throughout the US, on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in London’s West-End, Spain, Edinburgh, Las Vegas, theme parks, and on international tours. Regionally he’s designed for ICT, the Colony (Ovation Nomination for Trying), LA Opera, & Cabrillo Music Theatre. On the West End he lit Rolling with Laughter at Her Majesty’s Theatre, followed by a run at the Nottingham playhouse.Broadway credits include: Bravo Bernstein, Gotham Glory at Carnegie Hall, PRIMO, The Woman in White, & the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Off-Broadway: Humble Boy, FAME, Nobody Don’t Like Yogi, & Ministry of Progress. Other design affiliations: LA Lakers at Staples Center, the LA Auto Show, 09’ Neil Diamond world tour and in 2008 lighting Pope Benedict XVI in NYC for the Papal Rally. His architectural designs are seen regularly in restaurants and exhibits as well as the Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific. Current projects include new productions of Tosca, Tales of Hoffmann and the 2010 USA International Ballet Competition.Jared became the youngest member of the United Scenic Artists-Local 829 and serves as a trustee to the executive board. www.jaslighting.com.
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks on Broadway; the 2002 to 2005 national tour of Jesus Christ Superstar; The Ten Commandments starring Val Kilmer at the Kodak Theatre; Measure for Measure, Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Cinderella at the Ahmanson; Pippin, The House of Blue Leaves, The Talking Cure, Like Jazz, Big River, Flower Drum Song and First Picture Show at the Taper; and all of the past twelve seasons of Reprise. Other design work includes Paint Your Wagon, Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks and Ain’t Nothin' But the Blues at the Geffen; Play On and Blame it on the Movies at the Pasadena Playhouse; Masada at the Shubert Theatre in LA; Forever Plaid and Blues in the Night at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami;and the US workshop productions of the current West End musical Zorro with music by John Cameron and the Gipsy Kings. On Broadway, he assisted long-time design partner Jon Gottlieb on 2001’s If You Ever Leave Me I'm Coming With You. He served as Production Sound Engineer for Jason Robert Brown’s 13 at the Taper, Thoroughly Modern Millie at La Jolla Playhouse, and was the head soundman for the national tours of Titanic, Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Man of La Mancha. He won the 2003 NAACP award for Sound Design for Jesus Christ Superstar, the 2001 Ovation Award for Flower Drum Song, and the 1999 LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Cinderella, as well as five LA Dramalogue Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design, and two Ovation Award nominations for Best Sound Design. Mr. Allen currently teaches Sound Design for Theatre at the USC School of Theatre and at Cal Arts.


