Creatives

Broadway credits include: The Who’s Tommy; Just For Us; Here Lies Love (Tony nominated); Hamilton (Tony nominated); Beetlejuice (Tony nominated); Dear Evan Hansen; Mrs. Doubtfire; War Paint (Tony nominated); Bandstand; Misery; The Great Society; Motown; Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; Annie; Bring It On; Magic/Bird; An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin; Godspell; Chinglish; The Pee-wee Herman Show; Lombardi; Passing Strange and Bridge and Tunnel.

Television credits include: Grease: Live! (Emmy Award); 91st Oscars (Emmy nominated); 94th Oscars (Art Directors Guild Award – Emmy Nominated); Last Week Tonight and The Big Brunch.

Creative Director: Immersive Van Gogh; Disney Animation Immersive Experience; Hamilton: The Exhibition; DiscoOasis; Shoah Foundation; Sotheby’s and TED.

Collaborators: David Blaine; Lady Gaga; Bruno Mars; Mariah Carey and Andrea Bocelli.

Broadway: Just in Time (Tony nomination) Moulin Rouge, (Tony Award, Olivier Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award), Mrs. Doubtfire, My Fair Lady, (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award), Oslo, War Paint (Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award), King & I, (Olivier Award, Tony Award), Fiddler on the Roof, Golden Boy. South Pacific (Tony Award); The Coast of Utopia (Tony Award); The Light in the Piazza (Tony Award); Awake and Sing! (Tony Award); The Royal Family (Tony Award); Gigi (Drama Desk Award). Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto, Porgy & Bess, Il Barbieri di Siviglia, Les Contes d’Hoffman, Comte Ory, L’elisir d’Amore, Otello, Dr. Atomic, Roméo et Juliette. 2016 Induction: Theater Hall of Fame.

Broadway and West End credits include: Mrs. Doubtfire; Pretty Woman; The Elephant Man; A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder and It’s Only a Play.

US Regional credits include: Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Ford’s Theatre, The Guthrie Theater, The Old Globe, TheatreWorks, Hartford Stage, Alliance, Huntington Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Dallas Theatre Center, Denver Center Theatre, The Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, The McCarter Theatre, Manhattan School of Music, Portland Stage Company, TACT, Barrington Stage Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Dorset Theatre Festival, Bay Street Theatre, Goodspeed Opera, Two River Theatre Company, George Street Playhouse, and Westport Country Playhouse.

Sound Design Award highlights: Tony Award & Drama Desk Award for MJ: THE MUSICAL. Olivier Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Broadway World Award, Green Room Award, Dora Award, Craig Noel Award, and the WhatsOnStage Award for COME FROM AWAY; Olivier Award for MEMPHIS, Olivier Award for MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, Tony nomination for HELL’S KITCHEN, Tony nomination for & JULIET, Tony nomination for A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, Tony nomination for END OF THE RAINBOW, Olivier nomination for BACK TO THE FUTURE, Olivier nomination for BAT OUT OF HELL, Olivier nomination for TOP HAT, Olivier nomination for END OF THE RAINBOW, and Pro Sound Award for SOUND ENGINEER OF THE YEAR.

Broadway highlights: BOOP, HELL’S KITCHEN, TOMMY, BACK TO THE FUTURE, & JULIET, MJ: THE MUSICAL, ELF, BAD CINDERELLA, DIANA, SUMMER, COME FROM AWAY, BRONX TALE, SPRING AWAKENING, END OF THE RAINBOW, BAT OUT OF HELL, SECRET GARDEN and A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC.

West End highlights: THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, STARLIGHT EXPRESS, MJ: THE MUSICAL, JUST FOR ONE DAY, BACK TO THE FUTURE, ALWs CINDERELLA, PRINCE OF EGYPT, & JULIET, COME FROM AWAY, BAT OUT OF HELL, STRICTLY BALLROOM, 42nd STREET, WIND IN THE WILLOWS, MEMPHIS, I CAN’T SING, IN THE HEIGHTS, LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, ELF and TOP HAT.

International highlights: STARLIGHT EXPRESS (Bochum, Germany), DISNEY’S HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (Worldwide), DISNEY’S LITTLE MERMAID (Worldwide).

Honorary doctorate from Salford University.

Broadway highlights include: Life Of Pi; Mrs. Doubtfire (Drama Desk Award); Moulin Rouge; Kiss Me Kate; Come From Away; Dear Evan Hansen; Kiss Me Kate; Travesties; Frozen; War Paint (Drama Desk Award); She Loves Me (Drama Desk Nomination); Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; Gigi; If/Then; Bridges of Madison County; Macbeth; The Nance; Romeo and Juliet; Breakfast at Tiffany’s; Death of a Salesman; Follies; Sister Act; Arcadia; A Steady Rain; Shrek; The Little Mermaid; Legally Blonde; Spamalot; Tarzan; Chita The Dancers Life; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Fiddler on the Roof; Nine; Gypsy; Flower Drum Song; Sweet Smell of Success; Aida; The Iceman Cometh; Annie Get Your Gun; Chicago; Sideshow and Steel Pier.

Film credits include: It’s Complicated; Angels In America (Emmy Nominated) and To Wong Foo…

Steve Edlund (Associate Director) Credits include Mrs. Doubtfire (Broadway, West End, 1^st & 2^nd National Tours, Germany), The Music Man (Broadway), Hello, Dolly! (Broadway & National Tour), Meteor Shower (Broadway), A Bronx Tale (Broadway, 1^st and 2^nd National Tours), Sister Act (Broadway, National Tour), Nantucket Sleigh Ride (Lincoln Center Theatre), Shows For Days (Lincoln Center Theatre). @stevedlund

Choreography credits include, Season 2 of Ryan Murphy’s docudrama Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, directed by Gus Van Sant (FX); Medora Musical (RWS Global); Disney in Concert with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House; Big Night of Musicals (BBC); Comic Relief (BBC); Disney 100: The Concert (Australian tour); The Royal Flying Doctors Service (Channel 7, 7plus); The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC); and on productions of Hello, Dolly! and Nice Work If You Can Get It at Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre.

As an Associate Choreographer, Michaeljon most recently reunited with director-choreographer Rob Ashford on the forthcoming musical motion picture The Deb, directed by Rebel Wilson, and continued his associate work alongside Lorin Latarro on the first London revival of The Producers at the Menier Chocolate Factory and Garrick Theatre, directed by Patrick Marber. His previous work with Latarro includes the Broadway musical The Heart of Rock and Roll at the James Earl Jones Theatre; the Broadway, West End, German, U.K., and North American touring companies of Mrs. Doubtfire, directed by Jerry Zaks; Michael Mayer’s world premiere of Giuseppe Verdi’s nineteenth-century masterpiece La Traviata, now a perennial favorite at the Metropolitan Opera in New York; Fiasco Theater’s Merrily We Roll Along at Roundabout Theatre Company; the world premiere of Almost Famous at the Old Globe; and the star-studded benefit concert performance of Chess at the Broadhurst Theatre in support of the Entertainment Community Fund.

As a performer, Michaeljon made his Broadway debut in 2009 in the revival of West Side Story, directed by Arthur Laurents, serving as both Dance Captain and cast member. He went on to appear on Broadway in Billy Elliot; the original Broadway company of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, starring Daniel Radcliffe; Evita, starring Ricky Martin; Side Show; and Matilda. He took his final bow onstage in 2017 as Dance Captain and cast member in the celebrated Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly!, starring Bette Midler. Over the course of a performing career spanning more than a decade, he also appeared on the Academy Awards, the Tony Awards, the Kennedy Center Honors, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Jack O’Brien’s staged concert production of Guys and Dolls at Carnegie Hall, starring Nathan Lane, Patrick Wilson, and Megan Mullally, and in the opening musical number of Seth MacFarlane’s feature film Ted 2.

BACKGROUND & TRAINING

Proudly hailing from Queensland, Australia, Michaeljon moved to the United States after receiving an invitation to attend the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theatre on a full scholarship. He later joined the prestigious BFA Dance program at The Juilliard School in New York and remains the first Australian accepted into either institution.

Ethan is a Grammy Award nominated music producer as well as an Olivier Award and two-time Tony Award nominated orchestrator. With a career spanning over the last twenty years, his work as a music supervisor, arranger, orchestrator and music producer has been seen and heard worldwide.

Theatre credits include: Back To The Future (2022 Olivier Award Nomination – Best Original Score Or Orchestrations); Mrs. Doubtfire the musical, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (2021 Tony Award Nomination – Best Orchestrations); School of Rock (2016 Tony Award Nomination – Best New Musical); Hedwig And The Angry Inch (2015 Tony Award Winner – Best Revival of a Musical); Motown The Musical (2013 Tony Award Nomination – Best Orchestrations & 2014 Grammy Award Nomination – Best Musical Theatre Album); Rock of Ages (2008 Tony Award Nomination – Best New Musical); Disney’s Tarzan, We Will Rock You, Disney’s Aida, Disney’s The Lion King, Mamma Mia! and more. Upcoming: The Lost Boys.

Television credits include: Ethan has served as a composer, music producer, arranger and orchestrator on works from NBC/Universal’s Smash and HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

Film credits include: His work on the big screen can be heard most notably as Music Director and Music Production Supervisor for 20^th Century Fox’s The Greatest Showman starring Hugh Jackman, and as vocal and piano coach to Academy Award winner Rami Malek in his starring role in Bohemian Rhapsody.

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Broadway credits include: Tommy; Into the Woods; Waitress; Heart of Rock and Roll; Mrs. Doubtfire; Liaisons Dangereuses with Janet McTeer and Liev Schreiber; Waiting for Godot with Sir Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart; Merrily We Roll Along (Roundabout) and La Traviata (Metropolitan Opera). Lorin also directed Candace Bushnell’s Is There Still Sex in the City? (Daryl Roth Theatre).

Additional choreography includes: Chess (Kennedy Center); Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 21 Chump Street (BAM); Peter Pan; Twelfth Night (Public Works); Queen of the Night (Drama Desk Award) and Once Upon A Mattress and Oliver! (Encores!).

BFA from The Juilliard School, MA from NYU Tisch Film and Television Directing Fundamentals. She is a Drama Desk, Lortel, and Chita Rivera nominee.

Lorin has performed in 14 Broadway shows, and danced with Twyla Tharp, Fosse, Graham Company, Robert Wilson and Momix. She sends her love to Brian and Arden.

Most recently represented on Broadway by his 26th Broadway production, The Music Man starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster.

Recent productions include: Mrs. Doubtfire; the Tony Award-winning production of Hello, Dolly!; Steve Martin’s Meteor Shower; and A Bronx Tale.

He has received four Tony Awards and eight Tony Award nominations; four Drama Desk Awards; two Outer Critics Circle Awards; and an Obie. He directed the award-winning film Marvin’s Room; starring Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton; and Who Do You Love? He is a founding member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre. He received the SDC’s George Abbott Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1967, received an MFA from Smith College in 1969 and was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Dartmouth in 1999. He is a 2013 inductee to the Theatre Hall of Fame.