Team

Anaïs Mitchell

MUSIC, LYRICS & BOOK

Anaïs Mitchell

MUSIC, LYRICS & BOOK
Anaïs is a singer-songwriter whose recordings include the original studio album of Hadestown (2010, featuring Justin Vernon and Ani Difranco) and Young Man in America (2012). Reinterpretations of traditional music include Child Ballads (2013, with Jefferson Hamer) and Bonny Light Horseman (2019, as Bonny Light Horseman). She has headlined worldwide and supported tours for Bon Iver, Josh Ritter and Punch Brothers. Awards include BBC Radio 2 Folk Award and Folk Alliance International Spirit of Folk Award. Year-end best lists: NPR, Wall Street Journal, MOJO, Uncut, Guardian, Sunday Times, Observer. Hadestown is Anaïs’s first musical.

Rachel Chavkin

DEVELOPED WITH AND DIRECTED BY

Rachel Chavkin

DEVELOPED WITH AND DIRECTED BY
Rachel is a director, writer and artistic director of the TEAM. Hadestown (NYTW, National Theatre, London) has been one of her greatest joys. Tony and Lortel nominations and Drama Desk Award for Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (Broadway, Ars Nova, A.R.T.). London: Mission Drift (National Theatre), American Clock (Old Vic). Select New York and regional: Marco Ramirez’s The Royale (LCT; Obie Award, Drama Desk and Lortel noms.), Malloy’s Preludes (LCT3), Bess Wohl’s Small Mouth Sounds (Ars Nova and national tour), Carson Kreitzer and Matt Gould’s Lempicka (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Royal Family (Guthrie Theatre) and multiple collaborations with Taylor Mac. Her first film, Remind Me, was an official selection of the Venice and Beverly Hills Film Festivals. 2017 Smithsonian Award for Ingenuity. Upcoming: Wohl’s Continuity (MTC), Malloy’s Moby Dick (A.R.T.). Proud NYTW Usual Suspect and Member SDC.

David Neumann

CHOREOGRAPHER

David Neumann

CHOREOGRAPHER
Film: I Am Legend (Will Smith), Marriage Story (Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver). Choreography: An Octoroon and Futurity (Soho Rep), Underground Railroad Game (Ars Nova), Hagoromo (Wendy Whelan, Jock Soto) and Home (BAM), The Antipodes (Signature Theatre). Collaborator and performer: Laurie Anderson, Big Dance Theater, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Doug Elkins. Director: The Object Lesson (NYTW, BAM). Artistic director, Advanced Beginner Group (P.S.122, NY Live Arts, The Kitchen, Symphony Space, Abrons Art Center, The Chocolate Factory, The Whitney, Walker Art Center, MASS MoCA, among others). Recipient of three Bessie Awards for dance/performance, nominee for two Lucille Lortel and one Helen Hayes Award for choreography.

RACHEL HAUCK

SCENIC DESIGNER

RACHEL HAUCK

SCENIC DESIGNER
Broadway: What the Constitution Means to Me, Latin History for Morons. Recent work: Hadestown (National Theatre; Citadel; NYTW); Hurricane Diane (NYTW); Othello, Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in the Park); The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova); You’ll Still Call Me By Name (Sonya Tayeh/Jacob’s Pillow); Tiny Beautiful Things, Dry Powder (The Public); Amy and the Orphans, On the Exhale (Roundabout Theatre Company); Antlia Pneumatica, Grand Concourse (Playwrights Horizons). Princess Grace, Lilly awards; Drama Desk, Lortel nominations; Obie Award for Sustained Excellence.

Michael Krass

Costume Designer

Michael Krass

Costume Designer
Broadway: Tony nominations for Noises Off, Machinal and The Constant Wife; plus Charlie Brown, Twelve Angry Men, Heisenberg, new plays by Joe diPietro, Stephen Belber, Nicky Silver and Elaine May; and the current What the Constitution Means to Me. Off-Broadway: Premieres by Edward Albee, Christopher Durang, John Guare, Teresa Rebeck, Sarah Treem, John Kander/Greg Pierce, Will Eno, Lauren Yee, Lisa Loomer, Donald Marguilies, and many more. He teaches in the graduate program at Brown University.

Bradley King

Lighting Designer

Bradley King

Lighting Designer
Collaborations with Rachel Chavkin include The Great Comet, Lempicka, Preludes and three previous incarnations of Hadestown. Broadway: Bernhardt/Hamlet, The Great Comet (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critic’s award winner). Off-Broadway: Shows for MCC Theater, Roundabout Theatre Company, Playwrights Horizons, Atlantic Theater Company, New York Theatre Workshop, Signature Theatre and many others. Numerous regional theatre and opera productions across the U.S. and worldwide. MFA, NYU. bradleykingld.com

Nevin Steinberg

Co-Sound Designer

Nevin Steinberg

Co-Sound Designer
Broadway: Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, The Cher Show, Bandstand, Bright Star, It Shoulda Been You, Mothers and Sons, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Tony nomination), The Performers, Magic/Bird. Off-Broadway: Dear Evan Hansen, Hamilton, The Landing, Far From Heaven. Over 30 Broadway productions with Acme Sound Partners and five additional Tony nominations: The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Fences, Hair, In the Heights.

Jessica Paz

Co-Sound Designer

Jessica Paz

Co-Sound Designer
Twelfth Night, Othello, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Miss You Like Hell (The Public Theater); Welcome to Fear City (KC Rep); Burn All Night (A.R.T); A Sucker Emcee (Labyrinth Theater Company); Ugly Lies the Bone (Roundabout Theatre Company); The Muscles in Our Toes (Labyrinth Theater Company); Becoming Dr. Ruth (Westside Theatre); Looking for the Pony (Vital Theater Co.); Women Beware Women (Red Bull Theater); Stretch—A Fantasia (New Georges). Associate designer of Bandstand (Broadway), Dear Evan Hansen (Broadway and international), Fela! (Broadway and international).

Liam Robinson

Musical Supervisor and Vocal Arrangements

Liam Robinson

Musical Supervisor and Vocal Arrangements
Broadway: War Horse (Songman, original cast); music director and vocal arranger for Hadestown Off-Broadway at New York Theater Workshop (cast member), Canada’s Citadel Theatre and London’s National Theatre; orchestrator/co-producer National Anthem: Arise! Arise! robinsonandrohe.com

Michael Chorney

Arrangements & Orchestrations

Michael Chorney

Arrangements & Orchestrations
MICHAEL CHORNEY is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and orchestrator. He has produced over 30 records for other artists as well as 15 recordings of original works. Michael has been involved with Hadestown, his first work for the stage, since its inception. He lives and works in Lincoln, Vermont, and is music director for dance at Middlebury College.

Todd Sickafoose

Arrangements & Orchestrations

Todd Sickafoose

Arrangements & Orchestrations
TODD SICKAFOOSE is a composer, producer, arranger, orchestrator, bandleader and double bassist. He produced, co-arranged and performed on the original Hadestown album, co-produced the Off-Broadway Hadestown Live Original Cast Recording and produced and arranged Anaïs Mitchell’s album Young Man in America. Since 2004, Sickafoose has performed internationally with Ani DiFranco. Writing for his band Tiny Resistors, he recently created Bear Proof, a chamber jazz hybrid commissioned by the Doris Duke Foundation.

Ken Cerniglia

Dramaturg

Ken Cerniglia

Dramaturg
Broadway: Aladdin, Peter and the Starcatcher, Newsies, The Little Mermaid, Tarzan. Regional/touring: Freaky Friday, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, High School Musical, The Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Signature Theatre, Fisher Ensemble, Arena Stage. Hadestown at NYTW, Citadel, National Theatre London. Book writer for the new musical Atlantis, premiere April 2019 Virginia Repertory Theatre. Education: UC San Diego. Catholic University, University of Washington. Past president, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas.

Jacob Sparrow

Casting

Jacob Sparrow

Casting
Jacob worked in the National Theatre Casting Department from 2015 to 2019 before becoming a freelance Casting Director. Prior to working at the National Theatre, Jacob worked with Pippa Ailion Casting and Telsey and Company in New York, as well as alongside James Orange. He is a passionate advocate for equal representation onstage and promoting a wide range of intersectional voices. He is committed to promoting underrepresented voices (particularly Trans, Non-Binary and disabled identifying artists) in a constructive and meaningful way and this is intrinsic to his creative casting practice.