John Logan received the Tony Award for his play Red. His other plays include Peter and Alice, I’ll Eat You Last, Never the Sinner, and the upcoming Swept Away at Berkeley Rep. As a screenwriter, Logan has been three-times nominated for the Academy Award nominations and has won Golden Globe, BAFTA, WGA, Edgar, and PEN Center awards. His films include Skyfall, Spectre, Hugo, The Aviator, Gladiator, Rango, Genius, Sweeney Todd, The Last Samurai, and Any Given Sunday. He created the series “Penny Dreadful” and “Penny Dreadful: City of Angels” for Showtime. John was nominated for a Tony Award for his work on Moulin Rouge! The Musical.

Alex Timbers is the recipient of Tony, Golden Globe, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and London Evening Standard Awards, as well as two Obie and Lortel Awards. Broadway credits include Beetlejuice; David Byrne’s American Utopia; Oh, Hello with Nick Kroll and John Mulaney; The Pee-wee Herman Show; Disney’s Peter and the Starcatcher; and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (also bookwriter). TV: “John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City” (Netflix), “Mozart in the Jungle” (Amazon). His debut picture book, Broadway Bird, set in an all-animal version of Broadway, is published by Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan.

Sonya Tayeh received a Drama Desk Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award Honor, and a Tony Award for her work on Moulin Rouge! The Musical. Selected credits include: Sing Street (NYTW/Broadway), Moulin Rouge! The Musical (Colonial Theatre/Broadway), “Rent: Live” (Fox), The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova), Martha Graham Dance Company’s “Lamentation Variations” series (The Joyce Theatre/World Tour), American Ballet Theatre: What Becomes of Love? 

Justin Levine received an Outer Critics Circle Award Honor and a Tony Award for his work on Moulin Rouge! The Musical, and a Grammy nomination as a co-producer of the show’s cast album. His recent credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Delacorte, Drama Desk nomination), Vevo X Lorde: “Melodrama” (Electric Lady Studios), Contemporary Color (David Byrne, Barclays Center), The Outsiders (Goodman Theater), Here Lies Love (Public Theater, National Theatre, Seattle Rep, MASS MoCA), The Weight of Smoke (Paul Taylor/Doug Elkins, Lincoln Center), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Broadway/Public Theater), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Delacorte), The Robber Bridegroom (Roundabout), Murder Ballad (MTC/Union Square).

Derek McLane received a Drama Desk Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award Honor, and a Tony Award for his work on Moulin Rouge! The Musical. He has designed over 350 productions for Broadway, Off-Broadway, internationally, and for TV. His over 40 credits include Burn This, The Parisian Woman, Anything Goes, The Price, Fully Committed, Beautiful, Ragtime, I Am My Own Wife, and 33 Variations (Tony Award). He has designed the Academy Awards for six years (Emmy Award) and has designed four live musicals for NBC, including “Hairspray” (Emmy Award).

Catherine Zuber received a Drama Desk Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award Honor, and a Tony Award for her work on Moulin Rouge! The Musical. Her select Broadway credits include Mrs. Doubtfire, My Fair Lady (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC awards), Oslo, War Paint (Drama Desk, OCC awards), Fiddler on the Roof, The King and I (Olivier, Tony, OCC awards), Gigi (Drama Desk Award), The Royal Family (Tony Award), South Pacific (Tony Award), The Coast of Utopia (Tony Award), The Light in the Piazza (Tony Award), Awake and Sing! (Tony Award). Catherine is a 2017 recipient of the Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award and was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 2016.

Broadway: Moulin Rouge! The Musical (Tony Award), Jagged Little Pill (Tony nom.), St. Joan, Present Laughter, The Little Foxes, The Humans (Tony nom.), American Psycho (Tony nom.), Fool for Love, Casa Valentina, A Night With Janis Joplin, Vanya and Sonia..., The Other Place, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Also with Timbers: Here Lies Love. Incoming Chair of the Department of Design for Stage and Film at NYU.

Peter received a Drama Desk Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award Honor, and a Tony Award for his work on Moulin Rouge! The Musical. He is a Grammy, Olivier, and eight-time Tony nominee. Selected designs include: Frozen, Anastasia, Beetlejuice, Almost Famous, Once on This Island, Something Rotten!, King Kong, Rock of Ages, After Midnight, Motown, The Scottsboro Boys, Side Show, Rocky, Bullets Over Broadway, Shrek the Musical, On a Clear Day, Lend Me a Tenor, Elf, Wonderland, Cry Baby, The Times They Are A-Changin’, The Wedding Singer, Sweet Charity, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me,  Walking With Dinosaurs, How to Train Your Dragon (international arena tours), Le Reve and Lake of Dreams at Wynn, Las Vegas. He’s designed for Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden, and The Kennedy Center.

Broadway: Mrs. Doubtfire (Drama Desk Award); Kiss Me, Kate; Come From Away; Travesties; Frozen; Dear Evan Hansen; War Paint (Drama Desk Award); She Loves Me (Drama Desk Nomination); Curious Incident…; Bridges of Madison County; Death of a Salesman; Follies; Shrek; Legally Blonde; Spamalot; Nine; Gypsy; Sweet Smell of Success; Aida; Chicago; Sideshow. Film: It’s Complicated, Angels in America (Emmy nomination), Too Wong Foo…

Sarah Cimino is a NYC-based makeup artist and designer. Credits include The Juilliard School (Drama Faculty, Wig and Makeup Shop Supervisor), Company XIV (Company Makeup Designer), Santa Fe Opera, Gotham Chamber Opera and the Lin­coln Center Festival (Makeup Artist).

Baz Luhrmann, known for his unique storytelling style, has captured imaginations globally with a range of award-winning projects in film, opera, theater, and music. Luhrmann attended Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art, where he conceived Strictly Ballroom, which he would later adapt into his directorial film debut in 1992. Luhrmann continued his work on the stage as the artistic director of the Sydney Theatre’s Experimental Company, as well as an opera company under the Australian Opera, through which he produced a groundbreaking adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, set in colonial India. After completing his next two films, the BAFTA-winning Romeo + Juliet and the Oscar-winning Moulin Rouge!, Luhrmann took his production of Puccini’s La bohème to Broadway. The show was nominated for seven Tony Awards and won two. Since then, Luhrmann has directed two additional films, Australia and an Oscar-winning adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Most recently, Luhrmann created “The Get Down” for Netflix. Luhrmann mar­ried Catherine Martin, his longtime creative collaborator, in 1997. They have two chil­dren, Lillian and William.

Jim Carnahan
Roundabout’s Director of Artistic Development, where he has cast over 75 shows. He has cast another 60+ Broadway shows. Current: Tootsie; Burn This; Kiss Me, Kate; The Ferryman; Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

Stephen Kopel
Broadway: Jagged Little Pill; Kiss Me, Kate; The Play That Goes Wrong; Beautiful; Sunday in the Park with George; Amélie; She Loves Me; Noises Off; Violet; The Glass Menagerie; Harvey; Once; Anything Goes.

Matt Stine is a Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle-nominated Sound Designer and Music Producer. Select credits: Beetlejuice (Broadway), Sweeney Todd (Barrow Street Theatre), Here Lies Love (Public Theater/Royal National Theatre), Misery (Broadway), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (CSC), Dead Poets Society (CSC), A Christmas Carol (McCarter Theatre), The Tempest (Public Theater), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Public Theater). 

Broadway: Diana: The Musical (Music Director), The Prom (Associate Conductor), Once on This Island (Assistant Conductor), Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Mean Girls, Dear Evan Hansen, Wicked. Off-Broadway: Cyrano (Music Director). He is on the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Board of Trustees and is a member of MUSE (Musicians United for Social Equity).

Matt Stine
Matt Stine is a Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle nominated Sound Designer and Music Pro­ducer. Select credits: Sweeney Todd (Barrow Street Theatre), Here Lies Love (The Public Theater/Royal National Theatre/Seattle Repertory Theatre), Misery (Broadway), Dead Poets Society (Classic Stage Company), A Christmas Carol (McCarter Theatre), The Tem­pest (Delacorte Theater), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Delacorte Theater) and Beetlejuice The Musical.

Justin Levine
Recent: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Delacorte Theater, Drama Desk nomina­tion), Vevo X Lorde: “Melodrama” (Electric Lady Studios), Contemporary Color (David Byrne, Barclays Center), The Weight of Smoke (Paul Taylor/Doug Elkins, Lincoln Center), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (The Public Theater/Broad­way), Here Lies Love (The Public Theater, London’s National Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, MASS MoCA), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Delacorte Theater), The Robber Bride­groom (Roundabout Theatre Company), Murder Ballad (Manhattan Theater Club/Union Square).


Matt Stine
Matt Stine is a Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle nominated Sound Designer and Music Pro­ducer. Select credits: Sweeney Todd (Barrow Street Theatre), Here Lies Love (The Public Theater/Royal National Theatre/Seattle Repertory Theatre), Misery (Broadway), Dead Poets Society (Classic Stage Company), A Christmas Carol (McCarter Theatre), The Tem­pest (Delacorte Theater), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Delacorte Theater) and Beetlejuice The Musical.

Is proud to work on Moulin Rouge! here and around the world. He directed the National Tour, Off-Broadway, Chicago, and DC productions of The Play That Goes Wrong, and restaged the Broadway production of Beetlejuice for its premiere run in South Korea. Associate Director: Sing Street (The Huntington), The Color Purple (1st National Tour), Rock of Ages (2nd National Tour). Broadway PSM: Beetlejuice, Honeymoon in Vegas, Rock of Ages. Faculty: Columbia. Love to Joey.

Carmen’s career has spanned various theatrical companies including the Really Useful Company (Australia) and the London-based Clear Channel Entertainment. She was the Director of International Production for Stage Entertainment, expanding their operations into Russia, Italy and France while overseeing international licensing and programming of the group’s 25 theatres across Europe. For Stage Entertainment Carmen also served as the International Executive Producer of numerous shows in Germany, Holland, France, Italy, Spain and Russia. In 2008, Carmen returned to live in Australia and founded Global Creatures, with business partner Gerry Ryan, where she also holds the position of CEO. Carmen’s favorite drama is raising her two children, Ned and Millie, with husband, Pete.

Gerry Ryan, OAM is the chairman of Global Creatures. He is a Melbourne-­based entrepreneur with diverse business interests that span the manufacturing, property, entertainment, leisure and tourism industries internationally. It was Gerry’s strong belief in the potential of Walking with Dinosaurs — The Arena Spectacular, and his steadfast financial support that launched Global Creatures and allowed a dedicated and hugely talented team to develop the production over years in Melbourne. How to Train Your Dragon Live Spectacular followed and then War Horse, the award-winning hit King Kong, Strictly Ballroom The Musical and Muriel’s Wedding The Musical. Gerry was made a member of the Order of Australia in 1999.

Lead producer of 2019 Drama Desk Best Musical winner The Prom, which was also made into a Netflix film event by Ryan Murphy. Co-producer of Tony Award Best Play winner The Ferryman. Previously, Bill spent 20 years at DreamWorks Animation, most recently as chief creative officer, where he led the creative, artistic and operational direction of the company. His tenure oversaw the release of some of the company’s major films, including Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon. He also oversaw all of DreamWorks Animation’s live theatrical productions, including award-winning Shrek (Broadway, national tour and West End).