Cast
JOHN R. WATERS (Performer/Writer) is one of Australia's most recognized, respected and critically acclaimed actors and singers. Born in Britain, he has built and retained an audience in Australia across four decades of theatre, musicals, TV, film and music. Waters has performed in over 20 stage productions, 22 films and 43 TV series/telemovies. Some of his best known works are My Fair Lady, They're Playing Our Song, Oliver!, The Graduate, Jesus Christ Superstar, Breaker Morant, Weekend of Shadows, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Rush, "All the Rivers Run," "City Homicide," "Singapore Sling," "All Saints," "Underbelly" and "Offspring."
STEWART D’ARRIETTA (Performer) recently enjoyed a nine-month New York run of his Tom Waits show, Belly of a Drunken Piano. Last January, Stewart was the musical director for The White Album Concert by the Beatles, performing on stage at the world famous Sydney Opera House with 15 other high profile artists including Jon Stevens and Jack Jones. Other musical director/performer/composer credits include Cafe Brel, Reunion and Satango. Stewart has also composed and conducted soundtracks for features, short-form drama and documentaries including Whitsunday Ash, Sugar Inc., Blood Oath, Colour in the Creek and the Emmy Award-winning documentary Faces in the Mob.
JOHNNY KINNAIRD (Standby) Johnny is honored to be joining this amazing production. Johnny spent over two years with the Tony nominated Million Dollar Quartet in both New York and in the original company in Chicago playing another famous singer/songwriter named John (Cash in this case). Recently: Jim in Pump Boys and Dinettes (Geva Theatre Center and Cape Cod Playhouse) as well as the young male principal in Ring of Fire (Alabama Shakespeare Festival). Greatest role: husband and father to his lovely wife and amazing son!
HEATH SAUNDERS (Standby) Heath is a composer/actor/singer from Seattle. New York: I Am Harvey Milk (Avery Fisher Hall), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (NYCC Encores!), Der Gelbe Stern (NYMF), Gods and Kings (The Other Mirror Theatre). Regional: Spamalot, Hairspray: In Concert, Pirates of Penzance, Saving Aimee, RENT (5th Avenue Theatre), Les Miserables, Avenue Q (Balagan Theatre), James and the Giant Peach (Seattle Children’s Theatre). Love and gratitude to my family, batch, and as always, my class. www.heathcliffsaunders.com
Creative
ANTHONY BARRETT (Lighting & Scenic Designer). Anthony "Bazz" Barrett is a lighting designer and director with 30 years of experience in all aspects of the entertainment industry. Having worked all over the world touring with a large number and range of acts varying from bands, plays, fashion and festivals, he is currently in his 14th year working with Lennon: Through a Glass Onion. His "less is more" approach benchmarks his unique style.
ADAM BURBURY (Sound Designer/ Engineer). Adam Burbury has been a sound engineer for 28 years, working on musicals and touring with many Australian and international acts. Musicals include Dancing Man, Hot Shoe Shuffle, A Chorus Line and many more. He has acted as sound engineer and production manager for large music festivals in the Pacific Islands for over 20 years. His involvement with Lennon: Through a Glass Onion started 16 years ago and he has done many other productions for Stewart D'Arrietta and John R. Waters.
WILLIAM H. LANG (Production Stage Manager) has worked on and off Broadway and regionally at Long Wharf, McCarter, Bay Street & Huntington theatres, Yale Rep & Baltimore's CENTER STAGE. He is pleased to have an association with a number of resident companies including Roundabout, The Public, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, Primary Stages, NY Stage & Film, NY Theatre Workshop, BAM and the Williamstown & Berkshire theatre festivals. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.
PRODUCTION CORE (Production Supervisor) lends support and guidance to theatre companies that produce high quality theatrical performances and need direction/support on the collaboration, planning and execution of the production process. The Production Core team is James E. Cleveland, Jared Goldstein, David Upton, Ron Grimshaw, Maggie Davis, Chasmin Hallyburton, Julie Shelton, Amber Mathis, S.M. Payson, Casey Rowe, Leah Vogel, Esti Bernstein, Katie Chai and Gayle Riess. www.productioncore.net
BEN FUREY (Dialect Consultant). Broadway: Curious Incident..., The Last Ship, Matilda, Billy Elliot, Spamalot, Mamma Mia! Off-Broadway productions at Atlantic Theater Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Theatre & Signature Theatre including The Explorers Club, The Language Archive, Harper Regan, Appropriate. Multiple national tour, regional and international productions as well as film/TV.
STEPHEN KOPEL, C.S.A. (New York Casting). Broadway credits include Violet, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, The Winslow Boy, The Glass Menagerie, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Harvey, Don't Dress for Dinner, Once, The Road to Mecca, On a Clear Day..., Anything Goes, The People in the Picture, Brief Encounter, The Scottsboro Boys, Sondheim on Sondheim and Hedda Gabler.
JOHN MILLER (New York Music Coordinator). Broadway: over 100 shows including On the Town; Les Misérables; Rocky; Beautiful: The Carole King Musical; Pippin; Once; Jersey Boys; Newsies; Rock of Ages. Musician (bass): Leonard Cohen, Eric Clapton, Frank Sinatra, Carly Simon. His album Stage Door Johnny – John Miller: Takes on Broadway is available on PS Classics. www.johnmillerbass.com
HARLEY MEDCALF (Producer). In a career spanning 40 years, Harley has produced shows in over 300 cities worldwide and worked with a diverse range of artists from Elton John, Michael Crawford, Michael Flatley and Shirley Bassey to Meat Loaf and Billy Connolly. Broadway producing credits and US regional tours are Dame Edna: Back With a Vengeance (2004–2006), and Burn the Floor (2009–2011). Off- Broadway: Standing on Ceremony (2012). Harley’s latest production is the Brazilian- inspired dance story Brazouka.
MICHAEL A. JENKINS (Producer). President and Managing Director of Dallas Summer Musicals, Inc., which produces more than 20 productions annually. Credits include tours of Annie Get Your Gun, Flower Drum Song, The Music Man, South Pacific, My Fair Lady and Brooklyn. On Broadway: Boeing-Boeing (Tony), Jay Johnson: The Two and Only (Tony), Memphis (Tony), Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Legally Blonde. Current productions in NYC are Matilda, Cinderella and A Christmas Story. Jenkins is developing the one-woman play All About Bette for 2015 season.
ORIGIN THEATRICAL (Producer). Origin Theatrical manages rights to many of the world's most recognizable musicals. It is the market leader in Australia and New Zealand for theatrical exploitation of plays and musicals into stock and repertory productions, community, schools, pro-am, equity, non-equity as well as fringe and regional touring. Its representation in Australia includes Rodgers and Hammerstein, Really Useful Group, Samuel French and TRW.
JON B. PLATT (Producer). Credits include Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, Angels in America: Perestroika, Copenhagen, Clybourne Park, God of Carnage, The Book of Mormon, Death of a Salesman, A Raisin in the Sun, A View From the Bridge, Wicked, Venus in Fur , Jerusalem, Exit the King, I'll Eat You Last..., Betrayal, Waiting for Godot/No Man's Land, This Is Our Youth, A Delicate Balance, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Robert Whitehead Award for Distinguished Producing on Broadway. Winner of eight Tony Awards.
RICHARD FRANKEL (Producer/General Manager) has produced with Tom Viertel, Steve Baruch and Marc Routh since the first Penn and Teller production Off-Broadway in 1985. Their 80 productions, managed by Frankel Green Theatrical Management, on and off Broadway, on tour, in London and in Asia include Smokey Joe's Café, The Sound of Music, The Weir, Swing!, The Producers, Hairspray, Little Shop of Horrors, Sweeney Todd, Company, Young Frankenstein, Gypsy, The Norman Conquests, Burn the Floor, A Little Night Music, Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays, Old Jews Telling Jokes, Murder Ballad, Flashdance and many others. They have won Tony Awards in all categories including Best Play, Best Revival of a Play, Best Musical and Best Revival of a Musical. They own and operate 54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club.
JOE WATSON (Producer/General Manager). Shows with Frankel Green Theatrical Management include Stomp, Stomp national tour, Stomp Out Loud (Las Vegas), Los Monologos de la Vagina, Old Jews Telling Jokes, Murder Ballad, Standing on Ceremony (Executive Producer); Necessary Targets, Family Secrets, Burn the Floor (Producer/General Manager); Forever Tango, (Associate Producer/General Manager); Swing!; and The Rocky Horror Show. He also was an Associate Producer of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg in London.
PHILIP C. WALKER (Associate Producer). Philip Walker is a founder of the Origin Music Group with over 30 years in the entertainment business. He has worked in music, theatre and touring. He currently is a non-executive Director of the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), the Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners' Society Limited (AMCOS) and Australasian Music Publishers' Association Limited (AMPAL).
PHILIP MORTLOCK (Associate Producer). Co-founder of the Origin Music Group; Philip Mortlock has had a 40-year career in the entertainment industry and has been responsible for many major Australian artists as either music publisher or record company executive, including INXS, Cold Chisel, Gotye and Washington. Philip released the cast recording of the first production of Lennon: Through a Glass Onion on the Origin label in the 1990s.
AKA NYC (Advertising). AKA is a global, full-service advertising agency with offices in the US, UK and Australia. The AKA Group, including Digital Media Services and the film advertising agency The Creative Partnership, delivers creative, strategic and insightful campaigns to the entertainment industry worldwide. Current and recent NYC clients include 2012 Tony Award Best Musical winner Once, Matilda the Musical, Rock of Ages, 2010 Tony Award Best Musical winner Memphis, A Christmas Story The Musical, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, It's Only a Play, The Audience, Queen of the Night, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Trip to Bountiful, The Glass Menagerie and 2014 Tony Award Best Play winner All the Way.
ARTHOUSE INTERACTIVE (Marketing) ArtHouse Interactive is a full-service agency that brings game-changing design to digital marketing. We are a team of digital strategists, media specialists and designers who believe that today's brands need more than an audience to succeed online; they need a following. We work with our clients to create online advertising and marketing content that is beautiful, strategic and seamlessly built on their brand, converting users into active and engaged customers.
KEITH SHERMAN & ASSOCIATES (Press Representative) represents a diverse clientele in entertainment, culture, media, lifestyles, global events and corporate industries. Current clients include 54 Below, Primary Stages, Montreal Jazz Festival, 50 Shades! The Musical, Savion Glover, Colin Quinn, Isabel Rose, The Art Students League, Can-Can, Mummenschanz, Wiesenthal and The Al Hirschfeld Foundation. KSA represented The New York Times for 10 years and the Tony Awards for 18 years, and has been working with Brian Boitano since he won his Olympic Gold medal in 1988. ksa-pr.com
LEANNE SCHANZER PROMOTIONS, INC. (Marketing) LSP is a full service, results oriented marketing company servicing the theatrical community for 30+ years. LSP creates unique strategic campaigns, consisting of partnerships, promotions, sponsorships, media placement on full/partial trade, viral outreach, appearances & events. LSP's services continue to set the standard for marketing excellence and has delivered heightened brand awareness and increased ticket sales for 400+ Broadway, Off-Broadway, Arts, and Entertainment productions. www.LeanneSchanzerPromotions.com