Saint Heaven - Creative Team

Keith Gordon (Composer/Lyricist) is currently writing the scores for the forthcoming musicals, Little Mary, with playwright Michele Aldin, and Free Money, with Martin Casella and Barbara Multer-Wellin. He has also written the score for the stage musical version of the film How To Marry a Millionaire. Keith is an alumni of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop and has been a featured composer in the ASCAP East Coast Pop Music Workshop. His songs have been recorded by artists including the Valli Girls (Sony/BMG), JoJo David (Arrhae Press), and Anne Marie David (Arrhae Press). He has also written jingles for numerous national advertising campaigns, sung by a variety of people including Diane Schuur, Valerie Simpson, and even Howard Stern.

Matt Lenz (Director) recently completed casting the Las Vegas production of Hairspray to open at The Luxor in February 2006 starring Tony award winners Harvey Fierstein and Dick Latessa. In March he will direct Martin Casella’s award-winning comedy The Irish Curse Off-Broadway. Matt is currently the Supervising Associate Director of the smash hit musical comedy Hairspray on Broadway, as well as for the First National Tour and Toronto productions. (He assisted 2 time Tony Award winner JACK O'BRIEN from the early stages of developing the musical that went on to win 8 Tony Awards, including Best Musical - 2003) Prior to that, he served as Resident Director for Disney's Beauty and the Beast on Broadway and for the national tours. Also for Walt Disney Theatrical Productions, he was Assistant Director throughout the development of the Elton John/Tim Rice musical, Aida in its World Premiere developmental production as Elaborate Lives: The Legend of Aida at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta.

Jeff Waxman (Music Director) has worked in New York as a musical director, arranger, composer, musician and producer for over 30 years. He owns Dancing Bull Music and Waxtrax Recording where he produces and composes music for television and film, and for pop, rock, folk and country artists. Most recently Jeff was the co-conceiver, orchestrator, vocal arranger and musical director for Almost Heaven... Songs and Stories of John Denver, which made it’s world premiere recently at the Tony Award-winning Denver Center Theatre Company, and recently played at the Promenade Theatre in New York. He received a Drama Desk nomination for his orchestrations for the Off-Broadway Musical, Woody Guthrie’s American Song. Jeff produced the Grammy nominated cast album of the Broadway Musical Doonesbury, which he also arranged, conducted and musical directed. Other Broadway work includes The Cherry Orchard at Lincoln Center, Gorey Stories and Into the Light. Jeff has written, arranged and produced music for commercial children’s educational products, including projects for Sesame Street, Berlitz, Scholastic and many other publishers. Jeff has also created original scores for several Emmy Award winning video projects.

David Korins (Set Designer) Broadway: Bridge and Tunnel. New York: Living Room In Africa, Orange Flower Water (Drama Desk nomination), Blackbird (Drama Desk nomination & Hewes Design Award), Stone Cold Dead Serious (all at Edge Theater), world premiere of Christopher Durang's Miss Witherspoon (Playwrights Horizons/ McCarter), Passing Strange (Public Theater), Tryst (Promenade), Dog Sees God (Century Center), Oedipus at Palm Springs (New York Theatre Workshop), Swimming in the Shallows (Lucille Lortel award nomination - Second Stage), Terrorism (New Group/ Play Co.), But I am a Cheerleader (NYMF), Thom Pain (Based on Nothing) & Indoor/Outdoor (Daryl Roth), world premiere of Sam Shepard's God of Hell. Regional: A.C.T., Huntington, The Old Globe, Berkeley Rep, Paper Mill Playhouse, Pittsburgh City Theatre, Williamstown, & Bay Street. Film: Blackbird, Winter Passing with Will Ferrell & Ed Harris (Focus), TV series on HBO & BRAVO. http://www.davidkorinsdesign.com.

Paul Miller (Lighting Designer) Broadway: Of Thee I Sing (Encores), Freshly Squeezed, Laughing Room Only as well as at Radio City Music Hall for Scooby-Doo! (Warner Bros. Entertainment). Internationally his work has been seen across Canada, Lisbon and in Milan at La Scala (West Side Story). Associate/Assistant Designer on over a dozen other Broadway shows including Three Days of Rain, Sweeney Todd, Little Women, Life x3, Hairspray, The Producers, The Music Man, The Price, Saturday Night Fever, The Civil War, On The Town, The Sound of Music, Titanic and many National Tours. Notable Off-Broadway designs include: Waiting for Godot (50th Anniversary), Addicted, Nunsense II, Balancing Act. Regional credits include: The Shaggs… (Lookingglass), Once on this Island, Japes and Tommy (Baystreet), A Flea in Her Ear and Sunday in the Park…, (Chicago Shakespeare), Lizzie Borden (Goodspeed), An Ideal Husband and Nutcracker (Paper Mill), Hunting Cockroaches (Wisdom Bridge), American Dreams (Victory Gardens). For television: Broadway Under the Stars (In Bryant Park for CBS), numerous theatrical specials, as well as the New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square for which he's been lighting director since 2001.

Randy Thomas (Technical Director) has been working in the professional theater in the Fairfield County area since 1978. He has worked as Technical Director for The Hartman Theater Co. The Darien Dinner Theater, Westport Country Playhouse, The Ethel Kweskin Sterling Farms Theater and The Levitt Pavilion. Randy owned and operated a scenery construction company in Stamford serving Broadway, Off Broadway and National Tours from 1986 to 1991. Some of the shows he worked on include: The Caine Mutiny Court Marshall, Steaming, Three Musketeers, Singin' in the Rain, City of Angels, Leader of the Pack, Buddy, Anything Goes, Shakespeare For My Father, The Dresser, The Big Love, Square One, The Film Society, Blood Brothers, Me and My Girl, Long Days Journey Into Night, Sacrilege, Comedy Tonight, Bells are Ringing, Dinner with Friends, Fortunes Fool, Voices in the Dark, Little Shop of Horrors. In 1991 Randy came to work for Stamford Center for the Arts as Head Carpenter, and continues in that job today. He also is currently the owner and operator of an event production company serving many local municipalities as well as corporate and private accounts in and around the Fairfield county area.

Jovon E. Shuck (Stage Manager) Broadway: Noises Off, The Graduate; New York: RadioCity Christmas Spectacular, New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theatre, Actors Studio Drama School Repertory Season; Regional & Touring: Gateway Playhouse, Cherry County Playhouse, Lycian Centre, Main Street Theatre and ArtsPower National Touring Theatre.

Jeff Whiting (Assistant Director) is currently developing a new show, Ronin 47, for the Tony award-winning Minneapolis Children's Theatre Company, based on the Kabuki drama, Chushingura. As part of Disney's creative team, Jeff works as writer, director and as choreographer, recently completing several original works for Disney Creative Entertainment: The Golden Mickeys, which recently premiered at Disneyland Hong Kong, 100 Years of Magic in Brazil, and a recent project featuring Catherine Zeta-Jones in Los Angeles. Other directing and choreography credits: Thrill Me (Southeastern Premiere); Streakin' (Southeastern Premiere); The Donkey Show (Assistant Director); Forever Plaid; Bye Bye Birdie; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; Hercules, the Muse-ical; Disney Dreams; The All Night Strut; My Way. Special Events: Daytona 500 Kick-Off Show, Boscov's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Having been involved in numerous developmental workshops, concerts and recordings, including many with the BMI workshop, Jeff is the Founder and Artistic Director of Open Jar Productions, dedicated to the development and direction of new plays, musicals and special events around the world. www.openjarproductions.com

Kari Thompson (Assistant Stage Manager) Broadway: Music Man, The Civil War. RadioCity Christmas Spectacular, Radio City Music Hall. Workshops: Contact (The Swing/Did You Move?), and The Molly Maguires. Film: Center Stage. New York Theatre: The Lark Theatre, CALTHROPIA. Various industrials and benefits. Regional Theatre: The Children’s Theatre Company, Minneapolis, Mainstage and Touring. Husband: Paul Sonnleitner. Children: William and Sydney.

Judy Bowman (Casting Director) Recent Musicals: Love According to Luc (Greenwich Street Theatre), Twelfth Night: a musical (Actors Theatre of Louisville). Many years experience as casting associate on such musicals as Floyd Collins, Hair, Wizard of Oz, Gift of the Magi, West Side Story, and Sophie Tucker. Plays: Points of Departure (INTAR), Ping Pong Diplomacy & Havana Bourgeois (59E59), A Matter of Choice (Chashama), The Bigger Man (Center Stage), The Wanderer (The Flea), An American Maul (Culture Project), NY premieres of Keith Reddin's Almost Blue & Sarah Kane's Phaedra’s Love. A.R.T.: Romeo & Juliet, The Keening, Olly’s Prison, Desire Under the Elms. Broadway: David Mamet’s The Old Neighborhood (co-cast). TV: Animated tv pilot "Proof of Life On Earth" w/Julia Sweeney, Charles Grodin, & Mickey Dolenz. Recent Film: "508 Nelson", "Duane Incarnate" w/Kristen Johnston & Jim Gaffigan, "The Eden Myth", and several shorts. NY Casting for "Mean Girls", "Something’s Gotta Give", and "Freaky Friday" (Casting Associate). Judy is currently the resident Casting Director for Partial Comfort, Reverie Productions, and the NY Casting Director for the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University.

Jessica Gardner (Associate Producer) holds a B.S. from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Her recent projects include working as a production assistant for Cutter Productions’ PSA for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. Jessica contributed as a stage crew member to Raw Egg Productions version of "The Wall" and Paul Robeson Company’s production of "The Wiz." She currently works for ABC Television Network. Her work as a television studio technician led her to a 2003 Sports Emmy Award for her contributions to "SportsCenter" on ESPN. Jessica has been acknowledged as one of the 2005-2006 Empire Who’s Who among Executives and Professionals.

Barry Goralnick (Associate Producer) is the founder of Fresh Produce, Inc. Barry was associate producer of The Irish Curse, by Martin Casella, at the New York Fringe Festival in 2005 and was associate producer of Eve-olution by Jennifer Krier and Hilary Illick at the Cherry Lane Theater in 2004. He is currently developing a stage musical version of the film, How to Marry a Millionaire, with music and lyrics by Keith Gordon, for which he has produced a staged reading at the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop. Mr. Goralnick has produced 3 staged readings of Saint Heaven including one at the York Theater. The show was featured at the Stages 2003 Festival in Chicago. Mr. Goralnick has hosted numbers from both of these shows at the Architectural Digest Cabaret Benefit in 2002 and 2003. He is one of the founding members of the board of the Edge Theatre, a group dedicated to producing new authors, that is now in it’s fifth season. He graduated from the Commercial Theatre Institute and is the principal of Barry Goralnick Architects, which was founded in 1985. Mr. Goralnick’s work has been published extensively in seven countries. His new collection of furniture and lighting under the Goralnick label was launched in 2005.

Sharon Feingold (Assistant Producer) is the Founder and Co-Producer of "Stars at Bedtime", a program that brings professional entertainers to New York's Mt. Sinai Hospital to perform for children on a live, weekly closed-circuit television show. She holds an MBA in Marketing from Georgia State University. , with consulting experience in the areas of Branding, Direct Marketing, and Public Relations. As a professional voiceover actress, her voice can be heard nationally and internationally in commercials, promos, animation, and corporate applications for clients such as Subway, McDonalds, Ford, Nickelodeon, Sirius Satellite Radio, CVS/Pharmacy, and MTV Asia.
www.sharonfeingold.com