T he P ro g ram - Lincoln Center`s American Songbook

The Program
Thursday Evening, February 18, 2016, at 8:30
A Coffin in Egypt:
An Opera-in-Concert featuring
Frederica von Stade
This evening’s program is approximately 90 minutes long and
will be performed without intermission.
(Program continued)
Please make certain all your electronic devices are switched off.
Major support for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook is provided by Amy & Joseph Perella.
Endowment support provided by Bank of America
This performance is made possible in part by the Josie Robertson Fund for Lincoln Center.
Steinway Piano
The Appel Room
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall
American Songbook
Additional support for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook is provided by The DuBose and
Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund, The Shubert Foundation, Jill and Irwin B. Cohen,
The G & A Foundation, Inc., Great Performers Circle, Chairman’s Council, and Friends of
Lincoln Center.
Public support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts.
Artist catering provided by Zabar’s and zabars.com
MetLife is the National Sponsor of Lincoln Center
UPCOMING AMERICAN SONGBOOK EVENTS
IN THE APPEL ROOM:
Friday Evening, February 19, at 8:30
Laura Jane Grace of Against Me!
Saturday Evening, February 20, at 8:30
Andy Karl & Orfeh
Wednesday Evening, February 24, at 8:30
Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla McCalla & Bhi Bhiman:
Swimming in Dark Waters—Other Voices of the American Experience
Thursday Evening, February 25, at 8:30
La Santa Cecilia
Friday Evening, February 26, at 8:30
Charles Busch: The Lady at the Mic
A cabaret tribute to Elaine Stritch, Polly Bergen, Mary Cleere Haran, Julie Wilson
& Joan Rivers
Saturday Evening, February 27, at 8:30
Terri Lyne Carrington’s Mosaic Project: Love & Soul
featuring Valerie Simpson & Oleta Adams
IN THE STANLEY H. KAPLAN PENTHOUSE:
Wednesday Evening, March 16, at 8:00
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The Appel Room is located in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall. The Stanley H.
Kaplan Penthouse is located in the Samuel B. and David Rose Building at 165 West 65th
Street, 10th floor.
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distract the performers and your fellow audience members.
In consideration of the performing artists and members of the audience, those who
must leave before the end of the performance are asked to do so between pieces.
Flash photography and the use of recording equipment are not allowed in the building.
American Songbook I The Program
A Coffin in Egypt:
An Opera-in-Concert
Ricky Ian Gordon, Composer
Leonard Foglia, Librettist and Director
Based on the play by Horton Foote
Place: Egypt, Texas
Time: 1970
Frederica von Stade, Myrtle Bledsoe
Isabel Keating, Jessie Lydell
David Matranga, Hunter Bledsoe
Ben Sheaffer, Captain Lawson
Carolyn Johnson, Elsie
Gospel Choir
Malorie Casimir, Soprano
Chantelle Grant, Mezzo-soprano
Terrence Chin-Loy, Tenor
Justin Hopkins, Bass-baritone
Mannes American Composers Ensemble (MACE)
Timothy Myers, Conductor
Keturah Stickann, Choreographer
Edward Barnes, Producer
Meet the Artists
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Ricky Ian Gordon
Ricky Ian Gordon’s (composer) operas include Morning Star for Cincinnati
Opera (librettist: William Hoffman), 27 for Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
(librettist: Royce Vavrek), Rappahannock County for Virginia Opera (librettist:
Mark Campbell), Green Sneakers for the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival
(librettist: Mr. Gordon), The Grapes of Wrath for Minnesota Opera (librettist:
Michael Korie), The Tibetan Book of the Dead for Houston Grand Opera
(librettist: Jean-Claude van Itallie), and Orpheus and Euridice for Lincoln
Center (librettist: Mr. Gordon), which won an Obie Award. Mr. Gordon’s
musicals include Sycamore Trees for the Signature Theatre (Helen Hayes
Award), My Life with Albertine for Playwrights Horizons (AT&T Award,
Gilman and Gonzales-Falla Theatre Foundation Award), with writer/director
Richard Nelson, and Dream True for the Vineyard Theatre, with writer/director Tina Landau (Richard Rodgers Award). Upcoming projects include the
operas Intimate Apparel (librettist: Lynn Nottage), a co-commission from
the Metropolitan Opera and Lincoln Center Theater, and The House Without
a Christmas Tree for Houston Grand Opera (librettist: Vavrek), and the musical Private Confessions with Richard Nelson, for the Goodman Theatre. His
songs have been recorded and performed by such artists as Renée
Fleming, Audra McDonald, Kristin Chenoweth, Frederica von Stade, Dawn
Upshaw, and the late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Other awards include the
National Institute for Music Theater, Stephen Sondheim, and Jonathan
Larson Foundation Awards, the Second Stage Constance Klinsky Award,
and the Shen Family Foundation Award.
Leonard Foglia
Leonard Foglia’s (librettist and director) original Broadway productions include
Master Class, Thurgood, and The People in the Picture. Broadway revivals
include On Golden Pond, Wait Until Dark, and the recent production of The
Gin Game with James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson. Off-Broadway credits
include Anna Deavere Smith’s Let Me Down Easy and One Touch of Venus
for New York City Center’s Encores! As a librettist, Mr. Foglia’s mariachi
opera Cruzar la Cara de la Luna, with music by José “Pepe” Martínez, premiered at Houston Grand Opera and has since been presented by San Diego
Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Arizona Opera, and Théâtre du Châtelet in
Paris. Lyric Opera of Chicago presented the premiere of El Pasado Nunca Se
Termina, with music by Martínez, which has since played at Houston Grand
Opera and San Diego Opera. A Coffin in Egypt was commissioned and premiered by Houston Grand Opera and has played at Opera Philadelphia, the
Wallis Annenberg Center in Los Angeles, and Chicago Opera Theater. Mr.
Foglia has also directed the world premieres of operas such as Moby-Dick,
Three Decembers, The End of the Affair, Cold Mountain, and Everest. His
production of Dead Man Walking was seen at New York City Opera as well
as across the country. Upcoming is the world premiere of Jake Heggie and
Gene Scheer’s It’s a Wonderful Life at Houston Grand Opera.
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ROBERT MILLARD
Frederica von Stade
Praised as one of America’s finest
artists and singers, Frederica von
Stade (Myrtle Bledsoe) is one of
the music world’s most beloved figures. Known to family, friends, and
fans by her nickname, “Flicka,” the
mezzo-soprano has enriched the
world of classical music for four
and a half decades.
Ms. von Stade’s career has taken
her to the stages of the world’s
great opera houses and concert
halls. She began at the top, when she received a contract from Rudolf Bing
during the Metropolitan Opera auditions, and since her debut in 1970 she
has sung nearly all of her great roles with that company. In addition, Ms. von
Stade has appeared with every leading American opera company, including
the San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and LA Opera. Her career
in Europe has been no less spectacular, with new productions mounted for
her at Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera House–Covent Garden, Vienna State
Opera, and Paris Opera. She has collaborated with the world’s finest conductors, including Claudio Abbado, Charles Dutoit, James Levine, Kurt Masur,
Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, André Previn, Leonard Slatkin, and Michael
Tilson Thomas, as well as with leading orchestras such as the Boston and
Chicago Symphony Orchestras, Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras, New
York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra,
Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestra of La Scala.
Ms. von Stade also enjoys close collaborations with several contemporary
composers, including Jake Heggie, Ricky Ian Gordon, and Dominick Argento,
among others.
Isabel Keating
Isabel Keating (Jessie Lydell) is
widely acclaimed for her starring
performance in Broadway’s The
Boy from Oz, opposite Hugh Jackman, for which she garnered Tony,
Drama League, and Outer Critics
Circle award nominations, and won
the Drama Desk and Theatre World
Awards. She also starred on
Broadway in Enchanted April
(directed by Michael Wilson),
Hairspray (directed by Jack
O’Brien), and most recently
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Terrence McNally’s It’s Only a Play (also directed by O’Brien). Off-Broadway,
Ms. Keating has appeared at Primary Stages (Cusi Cram’s A Lifetime Burning
directed by Pam MacKinnon), Atlantic Theater Company, Ensemble Studio
Theatre, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and others. She won the Helen
Hayes Award for her turn in Tom Stoppard’s Indian Ink at Washington, D.C.’s
Studio Theatre, and has appeared regionally at the Old Globe (where she was
directed by Leonard Foglia), Hartford Stage, Bay Street Theater, Paper Mill
Playhouse, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Williamstown Theatre Festival,
and more. For television, Ms. Keating has guest-starred in The Path (upcoming), opposite Stanley Tucci in 3 Lbs, and with Vincent D’Onofrio in Law &
Order: Criminal Intent. Her films include The Nanny Diaries, Life Before Her
Eyes, and James Schamus’s directorial debut, Indignation, which had its world
premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
David Matranga
David Matranga (Hunter Bledsoe)
performed the role of Hunter Bledsoe
at the opening of A Coffin in Egypt at
Houston Grand Opera, and in subsequent performances in Los Angeles,
Philadelphia, and Chicago. Other
recent productions include Macbeth
and Twelfth Night (Houston Shakespeare Festival); Marie Antoinette,
Failure: A Love Story, and Dollhouse
(Stages Repertory Theatre); You
Can’t Take It with You and A
Christmas Carol (Alley Theatre);
Show Boat (Houston Grand Opera); Uncle Vanya (Classical Theatre Company);
and more. Other regional theater credits include originating the roles of Patrick
in 110 Flights and General Longstreet in General Desdemona at the First
Annual New Play Festival at Proctors, Pride and Prejudice (Dallas Theater
Center), and The King Stag (Yale Repertory Theatre). His film and television
credits include Law & Order, All My Children, and As the World Turns. Mr.
Matranga has also voiced over 100 animated characters, including Bertholdt
Hoover in Attack on Titan and Wave in Akame Ga Kill! on the Cartoon Network.
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Ben Sheaffer
Ben Sheaffer’s (Captain Lawson)
Broadway credits include 1776
(Roundabout Theatre Company)
and The Sound of Music with Richard Chamberlain. Off-Broadway he
originated the role of Simon in
Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi
(Manhattan Theatre Club). Regional
credits include Dear World (Goodspeed), A Coffin in Egypt (Opera
Philadelphia), Cloud 9 (Wilma
Theater), Into the Woods (Fulton
Theatre), Bus Stop (Ivoryton
Playhouse), and The Middle of Nowhere (Prince Music Theater). His film and
television credits include Gods and Generals and One Life to Live. Mr.
Sheaffer serves as associate artistic director of Opera Breve, where he is
also a teaching faculty member. He is a graduate of the University of North
Carolina School of the Arts.
Carolyn Johnson
Based in Houston, Carolyn Johnson
(Elsie) is an actress, singer, director,
and dialect coach with more than
25 years’ experience. She has been
part of A Coffin in Egypt since its
premiere in 2014 with Houston
Grand Opera and in subsequent
productions in Los Angeles and
with Opera Philadelphia and
Chicago Opera Theater. She is currently in rehearsals with Stages
Repertory Theatre for End of the
Rainbow as Judy Garland. Other
Stages Repertory credits include the world premiere of The Great American
Trailer Park Christmas Musical, A Picasso, and The Great American Trailer
Park Musical. Ms. Johnson has performed and trained extensively in
Chicago, where she served as Bugeater Theatre’s co-artistic director and
was a company member of Noble Fool Theatre. She received her bachelor
of fine arts degree in acting from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and is
a member of the Actors’ Equity Association.
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Malorie Casimir
A native of Brooklyn, Malorie Casimir (soprano) began her musical education at
the age of 11 as a member of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy. Her time
there included working with artists such as John Legend, Elton John, and Nico
Muhly. She also sang under the batons of Lorin Maazel, John Adams, and
James Levine. Recent performances include an ensemble part with the Mannes
Opera in L’elisir d’amore and as Pamina in The Magic Flute at the Hartt School.
Ms. Casimir holds awards from the Harlem Opera Theater Vocal Competition,
the Crescendo International Music Competition, and Joy in Singing’s Positively
Poulenc! competition. She spent an academic year in Vienna studying with
Claudia Visca and Joelle Bouffa in conjunction with the Institute for the
International Education of Students. She is currently studying voice with Ruth
Falcon as a master’s student at the New School’s Mannes School of Music.
Chantelle Grant
Chantelle Grant (mezzo-soprano) is quickly distinguishing herself as a young
artist to watch. She was one of the alumni of the Prelude to Performance program featured in the 2013 Kennedy Center Honors. A former Mannes Opera
Young Artist, Ms. Grant has had the pleasure of working with maestro Joseph
Colaneri. Her roles have included Madame Larina in Eugene Onegin, Moyra in
Riders to the Sea, and Mrs. Grose in The Turn of the Screw. Currently a student
of Arthur Levy, Ms. Grant has studied with operatic legends such as Martina
Arroyo, Regina Resnik, and Jane Eaglen. In July 2015 she was chosen by the
Wagner Society of Washington, D.C., for the inaugural year of the American
Wagner Project, a joint venture with the Institute for Young Dramatic Voices,
where she studied with Dolora Zajick and Luana DeVol. In 2014 she made her
Taconic Opera debut in the role of Mistress Quickly in Falstaff.
Terrence Chin-Loy
Terrence Chin-Loy (tenor) is an American tenor from Coral Springs, Florida. His
most recent work includes Bill in the Mannes Opera’s production of Jonathan
Dove’s Flight, Leoš Janáček’s song cycle The Diary of One Who Disappeared
with the Brooklyn New Music Collective, and singing as a studio artist with
Central City Opera this past summer. Other operatic credits include Rinuccio
(Gianni Schicchi, Opera on the Avalon) and Ferrando (Così fan tutte, Opera
Theatre of Yale College). Mr. Chin-Loy has also enjoyed much concert work,
performing as the tenor soloist in both Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass and
Mozart’s Requiem. Later this season, he will sing the role of Laurie in the
Mannes Opera’s production of Mark Adamo’s Little Women. This summer Mr.
Chin-Loy returns to Central City Opera to join the summer festival as a studio
artist. He received his bachelor of arts degree in musicology from Yale
University and is now pursuing his master of music degree at the New
School’s Mannes School of Music.
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Justin Hopkins
Justin Hopkins’s (bass-baritone) 2015–16 season includes his return to
Boston as the featured soloist in the Holiday Pops concert series with the
Boston Pops; his return to Carnegie Hall for the New York premiere of
Repast, a solo opera-oratorio; a solo recital with Four Season Arts in
Berkeley, California; and the East Coast premiere of Franco Faccio’s Amleto
with Opera Delaware. Recent highlights included his return to La Monnaie in
Brussels in Strauss’s Daphne, as well as Kurt Weill’s The Road of Promise
with Collegiate Chorale and Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall. Mr.
Hopkins also made his debut with the Dayton Philharmonic in Britten’s War
Requiem, conducted by Keith Lockhart. A versatile artist, Mr. Hopkins has
performed operatic roles by composers ranging from Mozart to Philip Glass
in such houses as Carnegie Hall and London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, and
under the batons of such distinguished conductors as Charles Dutoit, Valery
Gergiev, and Leon Botstein.
Timothy Myers
Timothy Myers’s (conductor) 2015–16 season includes two world premieres:
O Columbia by Gregory Spears and Royce Vavrek at Houston Grand Opera
and Better Gods by Luna Pearl Woolf and Caitlin Vincent at Washington
National Opera. As the artistic director and principal conductor of North
Carolina Opera, Mr. Myers will conduct Madama Butterfly, Il barbiere di
Siviglia, and Eugene Onegin. Other engagements include a return to Opera
Philadelphia/Curtis Institute of Music to conduct Capriccio. Mr. Myers’s recent
engagements include A Coffin in Egypt at Houston Grand Opera and Opera
Philadelphia; Le pauvre matelot and Les mamelles des Tirésias with Wolf Trap
Opera; and the world premieres of With Blood, with Ink by Daniel Crozier
(released on disc through Albany Records) at Fort Worth Opera and All Souls
by John Supko at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Other
engagements include Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts, the
North Carolina Symphony, and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Myers
has also been engaged for associate positions with the New York
Philharmonic, New York City Opera, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Keturah Stickann
Keturah Stickann’s (choreographer) directing and choreographic credits
include Don Quichotte (San Diego Opera), Macbeth (Kentucky Opera),
Rigoletto (Opera Memphis, Dallas Opera), Madama Butterfly (Opera
Colorado, Opera Santa Barbara), La clemenza di Tito and Don Pasquale (Opera
in the Heights), Les contes d’Hoffmann, Manon, Il trovatore, and
La traviata (Knoxville Opera), and more. Ms. Stickann is a frequent collaborator with director Leonard Foglia, most notably as his choreographer and
movement director for Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick, which won the Helpmann
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Award in Australia in 2012 and was filmed for PBS’s Great Performances in the
same year. Also for Foglia, she has been the assistant director and choreographer of the mariachi opera Cruzar la Cara de la Luna and Ricky Ian Gordon’s A
Coffin in Egypt, as well as the assistant director for Jennifer Higdon’s Cold
Mountain and the national tour of Anna Deavere Smith’s Let Me Down Easy.
Edward Barnes
Edward Barnes (producer) has produced a wide range of concert, stage,
recording, and radio projects both in the U.S. and internationally. He has
served as executive director of Gotham Chamber Opera, producing director of
MasterVoices, and managing director of American Lyric Theater. Mr. Barnes
has also produced projects on and Off-Broadway, and for Night Kitchen Radio
Theater, Nylon Fusion Collective, and Teatro Paseo La Plaza in Buenos Aires,
as well as recordings for Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight and Naxos Records. Also an
award-winning composer, Mr. Barnes’s work has been seen at LA Opera,
Minnesota Opera, Mark Taper Forum, American Repertory Theater, Scottish
Opera, Seattle Opera, and many more. He is the winner of a Guggenheim
Fellowship and a Stephen Sondheim Award for the creation of innovative
musical theater.
Mannes American Composers Ensemble (MACE)
The Mannes American Composers Ensemble (MACE) is one of the premier
performing ensembles at the New School’s Mannes School of Music. A top
music conservatory, Mannes is internationally recognized for its musical excellence, pedagogical rigor, and deep commitment to developing citizen artists
who engage the world around them in traditional, emergent, and new forms
of artistic practice. Founded in 1916, Mannes is known as a caring and supportive community, exemplified by its renowned faculty of educators, artists,
and scholars who foster close, constructive relationships with their students
while preparing them to advance the creative role of music throughout all
aspects of a rapidly changing society. MACE was created by Lowell
Liebermann, chairman of the Mannes composition department, “to champion
the music of living American composers.” This busy ensemble presents
works by iconic American masters such as John Adams and Steve Reich,
while exploring works by young and up-and-coming composers such as David
Hertzberg and Nina C. Young. For the 2015–16 season, MACE’s programming
has been curated by one of the leading conductors of his generation, Alan
Pierson, who has also conducted the ensemble.
American Songbook
In 1998, Lincoln Center launched American Songbook, dedicated to the celebration of popular American song. Designed to highlight and affirm the cre-
American Songbook
ative mastery of America’s songwriters from their emergence at the turn of
the 19th century up through the present, American Songbook spans all
styles and genres, from the form’s early roots in Tin Pan Alley and Broadway
to the eclecticism of today’s singer-songwriters. American Songbook also
showcases the outstanding interpreters of popular song, including established and emerging concert, cabaret, theater, and songwriter performers.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) serves three primary roles:
presenter of artistic programming, national leader in arts and education and
community relations, and manager of the Lincoln Center campus. A presenter of more than 3,000 free and ticketed events, performances, tours, and
educational activities annually, LCPA offers 15 programs, series, and festivals
including American Songbook, Great Performers, Lincoln Center Festival,
Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Midsummer Night Swing, the Mostly Mozart
Festival, and the White Light Festival, as well as the Emmy Award–winning
Live From Lincoln Center, which airs nationally on PBS. As manager of the
Lincoln Center campus, LCPA provides support and services for the Lincoln
Center complex and the 11 resident organizations. In addition, LCPA led a
$1.2 billion campus renovation, completed in October 2012.
Mannes American Composers Ensemble (MACE)
Mengyi Cao, Violin I
Laura Pereira Del Rio, Violin II
Krizstina Kiss, Viola
Kimberly Jeong, Cello
Dario Olachea, Bass
Denis Savelyev, Flute/Piccolo
Yan Yuet Chueng, Clarinet/Bass Clarinet
William Bard, Horn
Laurie Rogers, Piano/Celesta
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Lincoln Center Programming Department
Jane Moss, Ehrenkranz Artistic Director
Hanako Yamaguchi, Director, Music Programming
Jon Nakagawa, Director, Contemporary Programming
Jill Sternheimer, Director, Public Programming
Lisa Takemoto, Production Manager
Kate Monaghan, Associate Director, Programming
Charles Cermele, Producer, Contemporary Programming
Mauricio Lomelin, Producer, Contemporary Programming
Regina Grande, Associate Producer
Amber Shavers, Associate Producer, Public Programming
Luna Shyr, Senior Editor
Nick Kleist, Company Manager
Olivia Fortunato, House Seat Coordinator
For American Songbook
Matt Berman, Lighting Design
Scott Stauffer, Sound Design
Angela Fludd, Wardrobe Assistant
For A Coffin in Egypt
John Finen, Stage Manager
Ariela Bohrod, Rehearsal Pianist
Zachary Goodman, Assistant/Cover Conductor
Susan Woodruff Versage, Music Preparation, Gospel Choir
American Songbook
Matt Berman
Matt Berman is the resident lighting designer for Lincoln Center’s American
Songbook. He continues his design work for Kristin Chenoweth, Liza
Minnelli, Alan Cumming, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Lea Salonga, and Elaine
Paige on the road. Through his work with ASCAP and several U.S.-based
charities, Mr. Berman has designed for a starry roster that includes
Bernadette Peters, Barbra Streisand, Reba McEntire, Melissa Errico,
Deborah Voigt, Michael Urie, Stevie Wonder, India Arie, Garth Brooks, Billy
Joel, and Sting. His international touring schedule has allowed him to design
for iconic venues such as Royal Albert Hall, the Paris Opera, the Olympia theater in Paris, Royal Theatre Carré in Amsterdam, the Sporting Club in Monte
Carlo, the Acropolis, the famed amphitheater in Taormina, Sicily, Luna Park in
Buenos Aires, and the Sydney Opera House. Closer to home, he has done
work for the Hollywood Bowl, Alice Tully Hall, and Carnegie Hall. Mr.
Berman’s television work includes Chenoweth’s recently released special,
Coming Home, as well as seven Live From Lincoln Center broadcasts, and
the Tony Award–winning Liza’s at the Palace, which he also designed for
Broadway. Other Broadway credits include Bea Arthur on Broadway, Nancy
LaMott’s Just in Time for Christmas, and Kathy Griffin Wants a Tony at the
Belasco Theater.
Scott Stauffer
Scott Stauffer has been the sound designer for Lincoln Center’s American
Songbook since 1999; the Actors Fund concerts of Frank Loesser, Broadway
101, Hair, and On the Twentieth Century; and Brian Stokes Mitchell at
Carnegie Hall. His Broadway credits include A Free Man of Color, The Rivals,
Contact (also in London and Tokyo), Marie Christine, Twelfth Night, and Jekyll
& Hyde. Off-Broadway Mr. Stauffer has worked on Promises, Hereafter, A
Minister’s Wife, Bernarda Alba, Third, Belle Epoque, Big Bill, Elegies, Hello
Again, The Spitfire Grill, Pageant, and Hedwig and the Angry Inch. His
regional credits include productions at the Capitol Repertory Theatre,
University of Michigan, Hanger Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Chicago
Shakespeare Theater, and Alley Theatre. As a sound engineer, Mr. Stauffer
has worked on The Lion King, Juan Darién, Chronicle of a Death Foretold,
Carousel, Once on This Island, and Little Shop of Horrors (Off-Broadway).
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