DEAR EVAN HANSEN | The Tony Award®-Winning Best Musical

Michael Greif

(Director)

Michael Greif received his fourth Tony nomination and a Helen Hayes Award for his work on Dear Evan Hansen. Other Broadway credits: Rent, Grey Gardens, Next to Normal, Never Gonna Dance, If/Then, War Paint. Recent work includes Make Believe (Second Stage; New York Times Best of 2019), Man in the Ring (Huntington Stage; Norton Award for Best Production), Our Lady of Kibeho and Angels in America (NY’s Signature Theatre); The Low Road and The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide…. (Public); and The Tempest, A Winter’s Tale and Romeo and Juliet at The Public’s Delacorte Theater. Off-Broadway, he’s received Obie Awards for Machinal, Dogeaters (Public), and Rent (NYTW), and has directed new plays and musicals at Playwrights Horizons, Roundabout, MTC, MCC, New York Theatre Workshop and at Second Stage, where he directed Next to Normal and Dear Evan Hansen. Regional work includes premieres and revivals at Williamstown Theatre Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage, Center Stage, Mark Taper Forum, Dallas Theater Center and Trinity Repertory Company. Mr. Greif holds a BS from Northwestern University and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego.

Steven Levenson

(Book Writer)

Steven is a Tony Award®-winning playwright, screenwriter and television writer and producer. His plays include If I Forget, Core Values, Seven Minutes In Heaven and The Language of Trees. He wrote the book for the musical, DEAR EVAN HANSEN, which won six Tony Awards®, including Best Book and Best Musical, as well as the Olivier Award for Best New Musical. He co-created and executive produced the FX series “Fosse/Verdon,” which was nominated for seventeen Emmy® Awards, including Best Limited Series and Best Writing for a Limited Series, as well as for Critics’ Choice Association and Producers Guild Awards, in addition to winning the Writers Guild Award and an AFI Award for Outstanding Series. Other honors include the OBIE Award, two Outer Critics Circle Awards and the John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award. Film projects include the adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s tick, tick…boom!, directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, for Netflix. He is a graduate of Brown University.

Benj Pasek & Justin Paul

(Words and Music)

Oscar®, Grammy®, Tony, and Olivier Award-winning songwriters Benj Pasek & Justin Paul are best known for their work on DEAR EVAN HANSEN, La La Land, and The Greatest Showman. Their accompanying albums for each project have appeared in the top 10 of the Billboard 200, the latter of which certified Platinum in over a dozen countries, including Triple Platinum in the US, New Zealand, China, Taiwan and Indonesia, Quadruple Platinum in the Philippines, Hong Kong and Australia, 6x Platinum in Singapore, 7x Platinum in the UK, 9x Platinum in Ireland and 10x Platinum in Korea. Other credits: Broadway – A Christmas Story, The Musical; Off-Broadway/Regional – Dogfight, James and the Giant Peach, Edges; Film – Aladdin, Trolls; Television – “Smash,” “The Flash” and “A Christmas Story, Live!” With the release of the novelization of Dear Evan Hansen, Benj and Justin became The New York Times Best-Selling Authors. Upcoming film projects include Disney’s live-action Snow White, Sony’s live-action hybrid musical Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile and an original live-action musical with Apple.

Danny Mefford

(Choreographer)

Danny has choreographed two Best Musical Tony winners: Fun Home and Dear Evan Hansen. His other Broadway credits are The Bridges of Madison County and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. For television, he staged the theatrical sequences for “RISE” on NBC and makes dances for “Dickinson” on Apple+. Other favorite credits include Good Person of Szechwan starring Taylor Mac, Love’s Labour’s Lost and Much Ado About Nothing in Central Park, an international tour of The Sound of Music and the off-Broadway musical Miss You Like Hell. He has been nominated for Drama Desk, Lortel and Astaire Awards. MFA from Brown University, BS from the University of Evansville.

Alex Lacamoire

(Music Supervisor & Orchestrations)

Alex Lacamoire is four-time Grammy®, three-time Tony, and Emmy® winner for his work on Dear Evan Hansen, Hamilton, In The Heights and FX’s mini-series “Fosse/Verdon.” His credits as music director, arranger and/or orchestrator include: Message in a Bottle (London), The Wrong Man (Off-Broadway), Annie (2011 Broadway Revival), Bring It On, The People in the Picture, 9 to 5 (Drama Desk and Grammy noms), Legally Blonde, High Fidelity, Wicked, Bat Boy and Godspell (2001 National Tour). Love to Mom, Dad, Little Sis and to his wife, Ileana.

David Korins

(Scenic Designer)

Broadway: Mrs. Doubtfire, Beetlejuice (Tony nom.), Hamilton (Tony nom.), Dear Evan Hansen, War Paint (Tony nom.), Bandstand, Misery, Motown the Musical, Vanya and Sonia…, Annie, Bring It On, Godspell, The Pee-wee Herman Show, Lombardi, Passing Strange, and Bridge & Tunnel. TV: “91st Academy Awards” (Emmy® nom.), “Grease: Live!” (Emmy® winner). Concert: Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Sia, Mariah Carey, Andrea Bocelli. Dad: Stella & Vivian.

Peter Nigrini

(Projection Designer)

Peter Nigrini has been a pioneer in the integration of digital media and live theatre for the past fifteen years. On Broadway, his designs include Ain’t Too Proud, Beetlejuice (Tony nominations for both), The Spongebob Musical, Amelié, The Best Man, An Act of God, and Fela!. Off-Broadway, he designed David Byrne’s Here Lies Love, Grounded (directed by Julie Taymor) and a series of adaptations with Robert Woodruff including Dostoyevsky’s Notes From Underground, Bergman’s Autumn Sonata and Fassbinder’s In a Year of Thirteen Moons. Outside of conventional theater, he designed Real Enemies, a multimedia piece conceived with Darcy James Argue and Isaac Butler for the 18-piece jazz ensemble The Secret Society, the Grace Jones’ Hurricane Tour and Blind Date, an evening-long dance piece for Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company. He was part of a decade-long collaboration with Nature Theater of Oklahoma for which he designed every aspect of their productions including No Dice, Romeo And Juliet, and the multipart work Life & Times.

Emily Rebholz

(Costume Designer)

Broadway: Oh, Hello; If/Then; Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Recent Off-Broadway: Indecent (Vineyard Theatre), Dear Evan Hansen, The Way We Get By (Second Stage), The Robber Bridegroom (Roundabout Theatre), The Tempest, Into The Woods (Shakespeare in the Park), Pretty Filthy (The Civilians), Our Lady of Kibeho (Signature) and Yardbird (Apollo Theater). Recent Regional Theater and Opera: Don Giovanni (Santa Fe Opera), La Boheme (Opera Theater of Saint Louis), Another Word For Beauty (The Goodman Theater) and Othello (Shakespeare DC). In New York her additional designs have been seen at Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, Lincoln Center, MCC, The Atlantic Theater Company, Rattlestick, The Women’s Project and many more. MFA: Yale University. emilyrebholz.com

Japhy Weideman

(Lighting Designer)

Broadway: Lobby Hero, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Significant Other, Bright Star, Dear Evan Hansen (Tony Nom), The Visit (Tony Nom), Airline Highway (Tony Nom), The Nance (Tony Nom), Of Mice and Men (Tony Nom), Sylvia, Old Times, The Heidi Chronicles, Macbeth, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Snow Geese. Off-Broadway: Lincoln Center Theatre, NYTW, The Public (NYSF), Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, MTC, MCC, LAByrinth, The Vineyard, others. West End: Dear Evan Hansen (Noel Coward), A Nice Fish (Harold Pinter Theatre), Blackbird (Albery Theatre).

Nevin Steinberg

(Sound Designer)

Broadway: Hadestown (Tony Award®), Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, Freestyle Love Supreme, The Cher Show, Bandstand, Bright Star, It Shoulda Been You, Mothers and Sons, Rodgers+ Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Tony nomination), The Performers, Magic/Bird. Over thirty 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.