Music & Lyrics
DAVID YAZBEK
Broadway: Music and Lyrics for The Band’s Visit (10 Tony Awards), Tootsie, Women On The Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Full Monty. Albums: The Laughing Man, Tock, Damascus!, Tape Recorder, Evil Monkey Man. Currently completing a new album and continues to perform with his band. The New York Times called him, “A daredevil juggler catching spiked pins in the traveling carnival of his imagination.” TV and Film: “Boardwalk Empire,” “Late Night with David Letterman,” hundreds of songs, including the infamous “Carmen Sandiego” Theme. Dozens of scripts for episodic TV. In the works are a new musical with Jeffrey Lane, A Dead Outlaw documentary film and a few other things. Yazbek has received every major American Theater award, many grants and honors and, most recently, a thorough checkup from Clarkstown Dermatology Group.
Music & Lyrics
ERIK DELLA PENNA
Erik Della Penna is a composer, lyricist, and guitarist who has appeared on over 60 rock, pop, and Americana albums and has toured and recorded extensively with Joan Osborne, Natalie Merchant, and Joan Baez. He has written and recorded seven albums with Kill Henry Sugar, his “metropolitan folk duo,” and is one of the primary songwriters for blues/folk/jazz band Hazmat Modine. Erik has written two children’s musicals—Toby and the Big Top, produced by Walden Media, and Kitty Hawk, regularly produced at the Adrienne Arsht Center. He also wrote the score for the documentary Tree Man, on Netflix.
Book by
ITAMAR MOSES
Itamar Moses is the Tony Award-winning author of the plays Outrage, Bach at Leipzig, The Four of Us, Celebrity Row, Back Back Back, Completeness, and The Ally, the short play collection Love/Stories and the musicals Nobody Loves You, Fortress of Solitude, The Band’s Visit, and An American Tail. Other awards for his work include Lucille Lortel, New York Drama Critics Circle, Outer Critics Circle, Obie, and Drama Desk awards. Television includes “Men of a Certain Age,” “Boardwalk Empire,” and “The Affair.” He is a proud member of the Dramatists’ Guild and the Writer’s Guild of America East.
Conceived by
DAVID YAZBEK
Scenic Design
Arnulfo Maldonado
Broadway: Buena Vista Social Club, Real Women Have Curves, Yellow Face, Home, A Strange Loop (Tony nominee), Topdog/Underdog, Trouble in Mind. Off-Broadway: Atlantic, CSC, Lincoln Center, MCC, MTC, New Group, NYTW, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, Roundabout, Second Stage, Signature, Soho Rep. Regional: Arena Stage, A.R.T., Berkeley Rep, CTG, Guthrie, Steppenwolf, Woolly Mammoth, among others. Obie Sustained Excellence in Set Design, Princess Grace Faberge Theater Award, Lucille Lortel Award recipient and multiple nominee, Drama Desk nominee, Henry Hewes Design Award nominee. IG: @arnulfo.maldonado.design arnulfomaldonado.com
Costume Design
Sarah Laux
Television: Godfather of Harlem: S2-S4, High Fidelity. Film: Guns Up, Not Okay, The Sixth Reel, Freakshow. Broadway: John Proctor is the Villain, Prayer for the French Republic, Kimberly Akimbo, The Band’s Visit, Fully Committed, The Humans. Selected: Wish You Were Here (Playwright’s Horizons, Lucille Lortel Nomination); The Wanderer (Papermill Playhouse); Kimberly Akimbo, Blue Ridge, This Ain’t No Disco, On the Shore of the Wide World(Atlantic Theater Company); Man From Nebraska (Second Stage); Downstairs (Primary Stages); Jerry Springer: The Opera (New Group, Obie Award); The Effect (Barrow Street); A Play Is A Poem (Taper Theater).
Lighting Design
heather Gilbert
Broadway credits include Parade (Drama Desk nomination, Tony nomination) and The Sound Inside (Drama Desk Award, Tony nomination); Cult of Love (Second Stage); and Good Night, and Good Luck. Off Broadway credits include Barrow Street Theatre, Audible at the Minetta Lane, and Atlantic Theatre Company. Regional credits include Steppenwolf Theatre, Actor’s Theatre Louisville; The Muny St Louis; Goodman Theatre; Center Theatre Group; Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Alley Theatre; Magic Theatre; M.F.A. The Theatre School at DePaul University.
Sound Design
Kai Harada
Broadway: A Wonderful World; Once Upon a Mattress; The Days of Wine and Roses; Merrily We Roll Along (Tony Nomination); Spamalot (co-design); New York, New York (Tony Nomination); Kimberly Akimbo; The Old Man and the Pool; Mister Saturday Night; Head Over Heels; The Band’s Visit (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award); Amélie; Sunday in the Park With George; Allegiance; Gigi; Fun Home; On the Town; First Date; Follies (Tony, Drama Desk Nominations); and Million Dollar Quartet. West End: Crazy For You; Million Dollar Quartet. Other: Cats: The Jellicle Ball (PAC NYC); Peter Pan (Tour); The Karate Kid (Stages St. Louis); Soft Power (Public Theatre, CTG); Marie: Dancing Still (5th Ave); The Light in the Piazza, Candide (L.A. Opera); The Black Clown (ART); Zorro (Moscow; Atlanta); Hinterm Horizont (Berlin); many musicals at City Center Encores! and the Kennedy Center. Education: Yale University. Pronouns: he/him.
Orchestration
Erik Della Penna
Dean Sharenow
David Yazbek
Music Director
Rebekah Bruce
Rebekah Bruce is a New York City-based conductor, pianist, and vocal coach. Recent Broadway work includes The Hills of California, Company, A Strange Loop, Leopoldstadt, The Lehman Trilogy (Broadway, LA, SF), and Mean Girls (Broadway, First National Tour), with Off-Broadway/Regional work on The Bedwetter (Arena Stage), Dead Outlaw, Here We Are, and White Girl in Danger. Rebekah is devoted to her vocal-coaching studio & previously served on the music faculty at Oklahoma City University. She is deeply grateful to David, her family, her friends, D&P&T, Matt (DGRW), and her past music and theatre educators in Oklahoma.
Production Stage Manager
Cynthia Cahill
Casting
Tara Rubin Casting
Peter Van Dam, CSA
Press Representation
DKC/O&M
Advertising
SpotCo
Production Supervision
Hudson Theatrical
General Management
Bespoke Theatricals
Music Supervisor
DEAN SHARENOW
Dean Sharenow is a Grammy®-winning album producer and recording engineer. His Broadway credits include Dead Outlaw, Buena Vista Social Club, Girl From the North Country, The Band’s Visit, Tootsie, The Last Ship, The Cher Show, and Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown. As a record producer and engineer, Dean has made albums for David Yazbek, Stephen Ulrich, Mamie Minch, Shaina Taub, Joan Baez, David Sanborn, and Stephen Lynch, as well as many shows, including Dead Outlaw, Buena Vista Social Club, SUFFS, Illinoise, The Band’s Visit, Unknown Soldier, and The Great Comet. His studio is Steel Cut Audio in New York.
Choreographer
Ani Taj
Ani Taj is delighted to make her Broadway debut with Dead Outlaw. Her work is rooted in the belief that dance can be liberatory and a GOOD TIME; The New York Times described her dances as “haute-performance theory with a house party vibe.” Recent thrills include La Cage aux Folles (Pasadena Playhouse), Dead Outlaw (Audible Theater), Neon’s The End starring Tilda Swinton, and Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Olney Theatre Center). She co-created Untitled DanceShowPartyThing with Sam Pinkleton for Virgin Voyages and has choreographed for Yoko Ono, Reggie Watts, and more. Founder of The Dance Cartel. @ani.taj | @thedancecartel | www.anitaj.co. For Edmund.
Directed by
David Cromer
New York credits include Good Night, and Good Luck; The Antiquities; The Counter; I’m Almost There; Prayer for the French Republic; Camp Siegfried; A Case for the Existence of God; The Sound Inside; The Band’s Visit; The Treasurer; The House of Blue Leaves; Brighton Beach Memoirs; Nikolai and the Others; The Effect; When the Rain Stops Falling; Tribes; Adding Machine; Our Town; and Orson’s Shadow. For his work he has received a Tony Award, a Drama Desk, three Obies and three Lortels, and in 2010 he was named a MacArthur Foundation fellow.