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HAIR CREATIVE BIOS:
GEROME RAGNI (Co-Creator) Born and raised in Pittsburgh from a large Italian
family. After a stint in the Air Force, as a young actor he won the Barter Theatre Award.
He appeared on Broadway in the John Gielgud/Richard Burton Hamlet, starred in The
Knack Off-Broadway and studied acting and new experimental theatre techniques with
Nola Chilton and Joseph Chaikin and the Open Theater. An unusual stage presence, he
created the role of Berger in HAIR. Movie: Lions Love. He wrote the Broadway musical
Dude with music by Galt MacDermot and co-authored the yet-to-be-seen Sun.
JAMES RADO (Co-Creator) Student of acting with Paula & Lee Strasberg in early
1960s. Broadway: Richard the Lionhearted in The Lion in Winter, and Claude in HAIR.
Feature Film: Agnes Varda's Lions Love. Wrote the music and the lyrics for off-B’way
Rainbow (1972). Collaborated with Gerome Ragni on Sun, comedic Orwellian musical
(1980s). Directed American actors in European bus-and-truck tours of HAIR during the
late 1990s. New work: music and lyrics of A Cool Soldier; The White Haunted House,
co-authoring the book as well with his brother, Ted Rado.
GALT MacDERMOT (Composer) is best known for the music he wrote for his Tony
Award winning scores for HAIR and Two Gentlemen of Verona. His work spans the
gamut of performing arts and he draws inspiration from a wealth of musical styles,
crossing the boundaries of jazz, folk, gospel, reggae, classical styles and rap. MacDermot
formed the New Pulse Jazz Band in 1979,which features his original music played by
some of the world’s best musicians. www.galtmacdermot.com.
DIANE PAULUS (Director). Broadway and London's West End: HAIR (2009 Tony
Award winner). Creator and director of The Donkey Show, a disco adaptation of A
Midsummer Night's Dream, which ran Off-Broadway, now playing at the A.R.T. Recent
theater and opera work include Johnny Baseball; Best of Both Worlds; Mondo Della
Luna; Kiss Me, Kate; and Lost Highway. Diane is the Artistic Director of the American
Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA, and a Professor of the Practice of Theater at
Harvard University.
KAROLE ARMITAGE (Choreographer) Tony nominated choreographer (HAIR ’09),
Artistic Director of Armitage Gone! Dance, is renowned for pushing boundaries to create
contemporary works that blend dance, music and art. Armitage has choreographed for
major dance companies throughout Europe and the U.S. and has directed operas for
leading European houses. Known for her collaborations with important contemporary
artists (Jeff Koons, Brice Marden) and pop icons (Madonna, Michael Jackson) she made
her Broadway debut in ’08 with Passing Strange.
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SCOTT PASK (Scenic Designer) Broadway: Promises, Promises, Pal Joey (Tony
nom.), The Coast of Utopia (Tony Award. Drama Desk Award), The Pillowman (Tony
Award), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Tony Nom. D.D. Award), Nine, A Steady Rain, A
Behanding in Spokane, Sweet Charity, Speed the Plow, November, Cry Baby, Take Me
Out, Little Shop of Horrors, Urinetown. HAIR in Central Park (NYSF),
Broadway, & London. www.scottpask.com
MICHAELMcDONALD (Costume Design). A grateful Libra. Broadway & London:
HAIR (Tony Award, Drama Desk and Hewes Award nominations) The Public: HAIR,
(Delacorte Theater). Off-Broadway: The Irish Curse (Soho Rep), Amahl and the Night
Visitors (Lincoln Center), Measure for Measure (Expanded Arts). Regional: Johnny
Baseball (A.R.T.), Take Me Out (Repertory Theater of St. Louis); Dirty Blond, Omnium
Gatherum, and Crowns (Zachary Scott Theatre); Amadeus, The Laramie Project, Angels
in America (Chatham Playhouse). LOVE.
KEVIN ADAMS (Lighting): Broadway: American Idiot (Tony Award), Spring
Awakening (Tony Award), HAIR (Tony nom), Next To Normal (Tony nom), The 39 Steps
(Tony Award), Passing Strange, Take Me Out. Also: the original production of Hedwig
and the Angry Inch, Magnetic Fields' 69 LOVE SONGS, music videos for Janet Jackson
and Meatloaf. www.ambermylar.com
ACME SOUND PARTNERS (Sound Design) Over 30 Broadway shows since 2000
including: Fences (Tony Nomination), The Addams Family, Ragtime, Bye Bye Birdie,
HAIR (Tony Nomination), Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, In The Heights (Tony
Nomination), Title of Show, The Country Girl, Legally Blonde, High Fidelity, A Chorus
Line (2006), Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Drowsy Chaperone, Hot
Feet, The Light in the Piazza, Monty Python’s Spamalot. Acme is Tom Clark, Mark
Menard, Nevin Steinberg and Sten Severson.
NADIA DiGIALLONARDO (Music Supervisor) conducted the Broadway run of HAIR
and the production at the Delacorte. She is currently collaborating on arrangements for
Harps and Angels. Nadia recently completed arrangements for 101 Dalmatians.
Additional theater credits include The Public Theater’s production of HAIR in 2007,
Nerds: A Musical Software Satire, Monica! The Musical, and Laugh Whore. TV: “The
Tony Danza Show,” “Temptation” and music for commercials. She graduated Phi Beta
Kappa from Vassar with a degree in Urban Planning.
SEYMOUR RED PRESS (Music Coordinator) Tony Honor for Excellence in the
Theater. Credits include more than 100 shows: The original Gypsy, Dreamgirls; Nine,
Noise/Funk, Elaine Stritch at Liberty; The Light in the Piazza, The Color Purple, revivals
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of Anything Goes, Guys and Dolls, Carousel, Forum, and Flower Drum Song. Screen
credits: Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Birdcage, In and Out. An ASCAP composer, his
playing career segued from Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman to Leonard Bernstein.
This season: Chicago, Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson.