Production Staff
Howard Ashman
Lyricist
Howard Ashman followed a distinguished career as a musical comedy librettist, lyricist, playwright, and director with his animated feature film debut, Disney's critically and popularly celebrated The Little Mermaid. Ashman received the 1989 Academy Award® for Best Song for "Under the Sea," written with his longtime collaborator, Alan Menken. Ashman and Menken garnered a total of six awards for The Little Mermaid, including two Academy Awards®, two Golden Globe Awards®, and two Grammy Awards®.
Born in Baltimore, Ashman received his education at Goddard College and Boston University, and earned an MFA from Indiana University. He moved to New York in 1974 ... read more
Alan Menken
Composer
Alan Menken is a Disney legend who has won more Academy Awards than any other living individual, including eight Oscars with 4 for Best Score and 4 for Best Song; 11 Grammy Awards (including Song of the Year for "A Whole New World"); and 7 Golden Globes. He is best known for his work on Disney films including The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Beauty and the Beast, Hercules, Pocahontas, Enchanted, and Tangled, as well as the onstage musicals Newsies, Little Shop of Horrors, A Christmas Carol and Sister Act. He is currently working with Lin-Manuel Miranda ... read more
Tim Rice
Lyricist
Sir Tim Rice is an author and Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Emmy Award, Tony Award, and Grammy Award-winning lyricist. He is best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Evita; with Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of ABBA, with whom he wrote Chess; for additional songs for the 2011 West End revival of The Wizard of Oz; and for his work with Alan Menken on Disney's Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and the musical King David. He also worked with Elton John on Disney's ... read more
Linda Woolverton
Bookwriter
Matt Lenz (Director)
Director
Howard Ashman
Lyrics
Howard Ashman followed a distinguished career as a musical comedy librettist, lyricist, playwright, and director with his animated feature film debut, Disney's critically and popularly celebrated The Little Mermaid. Ashman received the 1989 Academy Award® for Best Song for "Under the Sea," written with his longtime collaborator, Alan Menken. Ashman and Menken garnered a total of six awards for The Little Mermaid, including two Academy Awards®, two Golden Globe Awards®, and two Grammy Awards®.
Born in Baltimore, Ashman received his education at Goddard College and Boston University, and earned an MFA from Indiana University. He moved to New York in 1974 ... read more
Matt Lacey
Production Stage Manager
Robin L. McGee
Costume Designer
Robin is a freelance Costume Designer with a wide variety of experience.
New York Credits include designs for The Roundabout Theatre, The Irish Repertory Theatre, The York Theatre, The Cherry Lane Theatre, The Little Shubert Theatre, The American Globe Theatre, The New York Fringe Festival, The Ionesco Festival and the New York Musical Theatre Festival.
Regional credits include designs at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, The MUNY, The Goodspeed Opera House, Palm Beach Drama Works, John Engeman Theatre, Weston Playhouse, Swine Palace Productions, West Virginia Public Theatre, The Fireside Theatre, and The Des Moines Metro Opera.
Awards include The St. Louis Critics ... read more
Alan Menken
Music
Alan Menken is a Disney legend who has won more Academy Awards than any other living individual, including eight Oscars with 4 for Best Score and 4 for Best Song; 11 Grammy Awards (including Song of the Year for "A Whole New World"); and 7 Golden Globes. He is best known for his work on Disney films including The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Beauty and the Beast, Hercules, Pocahontas, Enchanted, and Tangled, as well as the onstage musicals Newsies, Little Shop of Horrors, A Christmas Carol and Sister Act. He is currently working with Lin-Manuel Miranda ... read more
John Metzner
Wig Design
Robert Morgan
Scenic Designer
Vince Pesce
Choreographer
Tim Rice
Lyrics
Sir Tim Rice is an author and Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Emmy Award, Tony Award, and Grammy Award-winning lyricist. He is best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Evita; with Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of ABBA, with whom he wrote Chess; for additional songs for the 2011 West End revival of The Wizard of Oz; and for his work with Alan Menken on Disney's Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and the musical King David. He also worked with Elton John on Disney's ... read more
Nathan W Scheuer
Lighting Design
Nathan W. Scheuer, originally from St. Louis, is now a freelance designer out of NYC. Recent design credits include projection for Seussical, Spamalot, Mary Poppins, West Side Story, South Pacific, Nunsense (The MUNY), both projection and lighting design for Lord Tom (York Theatre), La Plage (Tom Gold Dance); and solely lighting design for Addams Family, Grease, Shrek, Les Miserable (The MUNY), That's Where I Will Be Waiting, Come Together (Shaping Sound Dance Co), Masha's Seagull (The Classical Edge), Next to Normal, Good People, Around the World in 80 Days (TheatreSquared), Cipher, Beneath One's Dignity, The Sleeping Beauty (LA Ballet). ... read more
John Shivers
Sound Design
JOHN SHIVERS (Sound Design)
Shucked, Beauty and the Beast (New Production Worldwide) Pretty Woman (Worldwide), Cirque du Soleil’s Paramour, Kinky Boots (2013 Tony Award recipient), Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway, Leap of Faith, Bonnie & Clyde, Sister Act, 9 to 5, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, The Little Mermaid, Tarzan, In My Life, Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays, Julia Sweeney’s God Sad ‘Ha’. International: Wicked, Spirit of Life, The Secret, Tarzan, Das Wunder Von Bern, The Lion King (Shanghai) and (Singapore), Regional: The Muny (2015 -Present), Trading Places, Afterwords, The Wanderer, Becoming Nancy, 42nd St., Rock of Ages, The Heart of ... read more
Hugh Sweeney
Sound Design
Ben Whiteley
Music Director
Linda Woolverton
Book
Matthew Young
Video Design
Videos
