IRENE SANKOFF & DAVID HEIN (Book, Music, Lyrics) are the Olivier-award winning, Tony and Grammy nominated, Canadian writing team behind the worldwide award-winning hit Musical Come From Away, currently playing to over 100 countries on Apple TV+, and around the world. Their first show, My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding, based on David’s mother’s true story, has won Best Musical awards across North America, with Sankoff and Hein performing in many productions. Together, they have written for Disney, Netflix, Warner Bros., HBO and the CW as well as Marvel Comics and the Canadian government. They are the recipients of the FourFreedoms Good Neighbor Award and the Meritorious Service Cross of Canada which recognizes Canadians’ exceptional accomplishments.
KEVIN P. HILL (Director, Choreographer, Producing Artistic Director) began his theatrical career as dancer and actor, having appeared in the National Touring companies of Hello, Dolly! with Carol Channing, Leslie Uggams and Michele Lee, Anything Goes and the International Touring Company of A Chorus Line. Kevin has directed and choreographed more than 200 productions across America, including Rock of Ages, The Cher Show, Grease, Waitress, Titanic The Musical (Elliot Norton Award for Best Director), Disney’s Frozen, Sunset Boulevard, Jersey Boys (‘19 & ‘24), The Sound of Music, A Christmas Carol, Young Frankenstein, Mary Poppins, Sister Act, Mamma Mia!, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, and others. He has had the privilege of working with such stars as Tony Award-winner Alice Ripley, Marin Mazzie, Jeannette Bayardelle, Joanne Worley, Kathleen Turner, Josh Groban, Tony Award-winner Jonathan Groff and Tony Award-winner Cady Huffman. In New York, he was the assistant to the director of On the Twentieth Century at the New Amsterdam Theatre and assistant to the choreographer on the revival of Guys and Dolls. Kevin has been nominated as Best Director/Choreographer for his work on Sunset Boulevard, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Rent, The Full Monty, Chicago, and Edwin Drood, and was awarded the NH Theatre Award for Best Choreography for West Side Story at the Papermill Theatre. Kevin has also been awarded Six Broadway World awards and two Motif awards for his productions of Mamma Mia!, Mary Poppins and Young Frankenstein. As a Professor of Dance, Kevin has been on faculty at Pennsylvania State University, Kansas State University and most recently The Boston Conservatory of Music. Kevin and his husband Matthew have created their own production company called, Chappell Hill Productions. Their first venture is co-producing the new Broadway musical Wanted (previously Gun & Powder). Chappell Hill Productions is also the lead producer of a new medium of theatre called, Dance Night.Kevin is a proud member of SDC, AEA and a past member of Dance Masters of New England, Chapter 5. For twelve years, he has held the role of Producing Artistic Director at North Shore Music Theatre and thirteen years at Theatre By The Sea. DR. MICHAEL McBRIDE - he/him - (Music Director) is thrilled to make his NSMT debut. He is a Chicago-based Jeff Award-winning music director, composer, performer, and educator. INTERNATIONAL: The Lord of the Rings: A Musical Tale (GWB Productions, New Zealand), The Choir of Man, Blazing Boots Reloaded, Fusión (Norwegian Cruise Lines) NEW YORK: The Scarlet Pimpernel (John W. Engeman Theater). CHICAGO: Titanique, Rent (Porchlight Music Theatre), The Lord of the Rings: A Musical Tale (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre), Grease (Drury Lane Theatre), Big Fish (Boho Theater, Jeff Award — Best Music Direction), The Choir of Man (Apollo Theater Chicago), Passing Strange (Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre), Billy Elliot, Brigadoon, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Carousel (Music Theater Works). REGIONAL: We Will Rock You, Legally Blonde, Escape to Margaritaville, Ain’t Misbehavin’, The Robber Bridegroom, Jesus Christ Superstar, Pippin, Man of La Mancha, Mamma Mia!, Into the Woods, The Little Mermaid (Timber Lake Playhouse). IG: @therealmcbride JACK MEHLER (Scenic & Lighting Design). Previous work with NSMT includes Scenery & Lighting for On Your Feet!, The Cher Show, Grease, Waitress, Titanic The Musical, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Jekyll & Hyde (IRNE nomination), Singin’ in the Rain (2016), Billy Elliot The Musical, Miss Saigon (2013), Scenery for West Side Story (2003), and Lighting for A Christmas Carol ('02-'19, ’21-‘25; 2012 IRNE nomination), Annie, Buddy, Camelot (IRNE nomination), Children of Eden, Elvis: A Musical Revolution, Fiddler On The Roof (2024), 42nd Street, Funny Girl, Gypsy, Hairspray, High School Musical, Jesus Christ Superstar, The King and I, A Little Night Music, Little Shop of Horrors, My Fair Lady, Nine (IRNE nomination), Oklahoma! (2019), The Producers, Ragtime, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Tootsie, West Side Story (2016), The Wizard of Oz (’25; Norton nomination & ‘13), and Young Frankenstein. He received the 2012 (Elisabeth) and 2013 (Rebecca) Korean Musical Theatre Awards (Korean Tony) for Lighting Design of the Year. Other Theatre design credits include Walnut Street Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, Manhattan Theatre Club, Riverside Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Seattle Rep, Syracuse Stage, Walnut Street Theatre, Weston Playhouse, The Working Theatre and WPA among many others. Dance: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, American Ballet Theatre, Atlanta Ballet, Ballet Met, Buglisi Dance Theatre, Donald Byrd/Spectrum Dance, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Joffrey Ballet, Lar Lubovitch, New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, The Washington Ballet and many others. Jack also provides owner's design representation for organizations building or renovating performance spaces and is a founding Board Member of A.C.T. of Connecticut. jackmehlerdesign.com REBECCA GLICK (Costume Designer) is thrilled to be designing for North Shore Music Theatre! She has designed for many theatres and educational programs around Boston. Her recent designs include Rock of Ages, Rent (Elliot Norton Award Nomination - Outstanding Costume Design, Large), Waitress, and The Shark is Broken (NSMT), Laughs in Spanish (Speakeasy Stage Company), and Frozen (Framingham High School). She is the recipient of the Thomas Derrah Emerging Artist Award for her Costume Design of POTUS and has been nominated for Elliot Norton Awards for her designs of Rent (NSMT) and Sweeney Todd (Moonbox Productions). Rebecca's educational designs can be seen throughout the year on the stages of Framingham High School, Weston Drama Workshop, and NSMT. She is also the designer for Refine Dance Studio's annual production of The Nutty Suite. RYAN MARSH (Sound Design) is a New York City based sound and lighting designer who thrives in the collaboration process. He is a big believer in using call and response in his work, as his design choices are often informed through collaboration with other design disciplines, the music, or what is taking place on stage, while at other times his work is the factor that informs everything else. Ryan strives to immerse the audience in the story to deliver a unique and moving experience. Ryan’s designs have been featured both domestically and abroad. With experience designing a wide variety of productions, he is equipped to tackle any challenge that may come up. Ryan graduated from the UCLA Department of Theater with a BA in Design and Production and has his MFA in Lighting Design from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. ryanmarshdesign.com RACHEL PADULA-SHUFELT (Wig & Hair Design). Previous work at North Shore Music Theatre include Rock of Ages, Joseph…, The Cher Show, Rent, Grease, The Wizard Of Oz, Waitress, Titanic The Musical, Million Dollar Quartet, Tootsie, Disney’s Frozen, Fiddler On The Roof, Jersey Boys (‘19 & ‘24), Elvis: A Musical Revolution, The Full Monty, Escape To Margaritaville, The Sound Of Music, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Little Shop of Horrors, Buddy, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, The Bodyguard, Sunset Boulevard, Freaky Friday, and Oklahoma! Broadway credits include: Glass Menagerie, Waitress. Regional: American Repertory Theatre: Macbeth in Stride, Moby Dick (Elliot Norton Award winner- Best Design), Black Clown, Waitress, Fingersmith (Elliot Norton Award winner- Best Design), Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (Elliot Norton award winner- Best Design), Marie Antoinette, and Crossing. Huntington Theatre Company: The Band’s Visit, The Heart Sellers, Joy and Pandemic, and The Colored Museum. Rachel is the hair and makeup supervisor for Boston Ballet. KERI SAFRA (Dialect Coach) EMPIRE (New World Stages, dir Tony Winner Cady Huffman); Primary Trust; Harry Clarke; The Cake (all for Barrington Stage Co); 2.5 Minute Ride (Studio Theater); Benjamin Pasek as Oliver! (City Center Encores); Adam Silver in Straight Line Crazy (Hudson Yards); City of Light (Connelly Theatre). TV/Film: characters on Star Trek: Picard; Palm Royale; Fargo; 1923; The Staircase; The Blacklist; Grey’s Anatomy; The Night Agent, et al. As a performer Keri last appeared in the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival’s Lake George, opposite Shea Whigham & Carrie Coon, and on the NY stage in the revival of Morning’s at Seven. @kerisafran; www.kerisafran.com MARSHALL LEE SMITH JR. (Production Stage Manager) is excited to join this amazing team at NSMT. Marshall is currently the Atlanta Regional Representative for the Stage Managers’ Association and proud Stage Management Teacher in Atlanta. Select credits: First Broadway National Tour of The Wiz. (Regional) BUST, Preacher's Wife (featuring Amber Riley & Loretta Devine), Fat Ham, Cats, West Side Story, Waitress, The Color Purple. Grateful to God, his wife, family & friends. @psm_marshall | marshallsmithsm.com ROBERT L. RUCINSKI (Assistant Music Director) is excited to be returning to NSMT. Originally from Jersey City, NJ, he came to Massachusetts where he studied chemical engineering and music at MIT before making the decision to embark on a professional career in musical theater. Robert first joined the NSMT family in November 2004. He has been the Music Director for Joseph…, Seussical TYA, Rent (Elliot Norton Award Nomination - Outstanding Music Direction), Curious George: The Golden Meatball (‘23 & ‘25), Madagascar, Elvis: A Musical Revolution, Escape To Margaritaville, A Christmas Carol (‘19), A Year with Frog & Toad, School House Rock Live Jr. and has worked on over 50 other shows as Assistant Music Director. When not on campus at NSMT, Robert is an active music director and freelance musician for many theaters and school/university theater programs throughout the New England area. Much thanks to his mother, Doris, and his husband, Bryan, for their unending support. More info at rucinskimusic.com MARIA PAPADOPOULOS (Assistant Stage Manager) is thrilled to return to NSMT after previously working on Rock of Ages, Joseph…, On Your Feet!, The Cher Show, Rent, Grease, The Wizard Of Oz, Waitress, A Christmas Carol, Tootsie, Disney’s Frozen, and Fiddler on the Roof. She is the Resident Assistant Stage Manager of The J2 Spotlight Musical Theatre Company with her favorite credits from there being Lucky Stiff and Goodbye Girl.Select other credits include: Indecent(PSM - Weston Drama Workshops), Merrily We Roll Along (ASM - Weston Drama Workshops), POTUS(Sound Board Op - SpeakEasy Stage), A Case For The Existence of God (Sound Board Op - SpeakEasy Stage). BFA from Penn State. ELENA RING (Assistant Stage Manager) is thrilled to return to NSMT after debuting this summer with Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Previous credits include serving as the Company Manager at Merrimack Repertory Theatre for two seasons. Production Stage Manager credits include Dishwasher Dreams, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Misery, and Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash (MRT), Daughter of the Regiment: Opera on Tour (Boston Lyric Opera), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Arrais Ballet). Elena earned a BFA in Stage and Production Management from Emerson College. BILL HANNEY (Owner/Producer) is honored and proud to have been responsible for the re-opening of the nationally renowned 1500-seat North Shore Music Theatre in 2010. Aside from his work operating North Shore Music Theatre, one of Bill's crowning achievements was the 2007 purchase and re-opening of Theatre By The Sea, a landmark 500-seat professional summer theatre and restaurant, which is in its twentieth successful year of operation in Matunuck, RI. Bill was a co-producer on the recent Broadway play, The Shark Is Broken, Alice In Wonderland in London’s West End and recently co-produced a New York City workshop of The SeaView Nursing Home for the Newly Deceased. Bill was an investor in the recent Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Pippin, as well as the First National Tour. Bill is currently expanding his group of live theatres with his new multi venue concept “Bill Hanney’s Entertainment Experience” (coming soon to Hyannis, MA and Portland, ME) which will host a combination of live theater, movies, concerts and show clubs. He began his career in show business at age 19, leasing and developing movie theaters, including his first multiplex in Quincy, MA. Before long, he was booking rock shows (Jefferson Starship, Rush) and other types of live entertainment, which eventually led to the presenting and producing of Broadway productions. One such show was an appearance by the legendary mime artist, Marcel Marceau. As president of Broadway Productions, Bill presented national tours such as Annie, Amadeus, Dancin', Peter Pan, Rocky Horror Show and Mark Twain starring Hal Holbrook, throughout New England including Worcester, Springfield, Portland, Maine and Boston. Throughout his career, Bill has stayed focused on his movie theatre chain having bought, built, owned, operated, and sold more than 30 cinemas. His company, Entertainment Cinemas, currently operates ten movie complexes in four states. Bill holds the record for the longest running tenure as Chairman of the Board of the Theatre Owners of New England. Bill Hanney is the recipient of The Boston Theater Critics Association’s 2026 Elliot Norton Prize For Sustained Excellence. Bill has been named to the North Shore Top 100 by the North Shore Chamber of Commerce. He was featured in the Dynamic Duo Issue of BostonMan Magazine (2025) and received a Top North Shore Influencer Mover & Shaker Award from North Shore Magazine (2022). He received the Leslie S. Ray Hall of Fame Award (2015) and Businessperson of the Year Award (2012) from the Greater Beverly Chamber of Commerce, as well as Businessperson of the Year from the Salem Chamber of Commerce (2011). MATTHEW CHAPPELL (Associate Producer/Casting Director) is in his 8th season as resident Casting Director and Associate Producer for Bill Hanney’s North Shore Music Theatre and resident Casting Director for Theatre By The Sea. He is a former talent agent, casting associate, and photographer for Heyman Talent Agency, specializing in TV/film, commercials, runway, print and voiceovers and, for many years, worked as Associate Producer for Encore International, casting and producing shows for theme parks, cruise ships, and corporate events. Prior to making the leap to Casting and Producing, Matthew enjoyed a 20+ year career as a professional Actor/Singer/Dancer. MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL (MTI) is one of the world’s leading theatrical licensing agencies, granting theatres from around the world the rights to perform the greatest selection of musicals from Broadway and beyond. Founded in 1952 by composer Frank Loesser and orchestrator Don Walker, MTI is a driving force in advancing musical theatre as a vibrant and engaging art form. MTI works directly with the composers, lyricists and book writers of these musicals to provide official scripts, musical materials and dynamic theatrical resources to over 100,000 professional, community and school theatres in the US and in over 150 countries worldwide. MTI is particularly dedicated to educational theatre, and has created special collections to meet the needs of various types of performers and audiences. MTI’s Broadway Junior® shows are 30- and 60-minute musicals for performance by elementary and middle school-aged performers, while MTI’s School Editions are musicals annotated for performance by high school students. ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. actorsequity.org NORTH SHORE MUSIC THEATRE (NSMT) Since 1955, NSMT has become one of the most attended theatres in New England, with approximately 250,000 patrons annually. With a national and regional reputation for artistic achievement, NSMT has received numerous industry awards including Elliot Norton Awards, IRNE Awards, the Rosetta Le Noire Award from Actors’ Equity, and the Moss Hart Award. NSMT produced the World Premiere of Memphis in 2003, the show went on to win four 2010 Tony Awards including Best Musical. Under the new ownership of Bill Hanney in 2010, NSMT continues to annually produce a musical subscription series and an annual production of A Christmas Carol along with celebrity concerts, children’s programming, and year-round education programs for all ages. |
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