Meet The Players
OUR ROSTER
GENERAL MANAGEMENT
- Then
Rent (On & Off Broadway), Avenue Q, In the Heights, High Fidelity, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (2012).
- Strange but True
Doesn’t have a middle name
- Loves to Hate
The Starbucks next to Bond 45 (R.I.P.)
- Obsession
The Yankees
- Management Superpower
Explaining the unexplainable
- Then
The Book of Mormon (1st and 2nd National Tours), The Last Ship (Chicago and Broadway), Mamma Mia! (2nd National Tour), Rent: The Broadway Tour, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Detroit), Avenue Q (Broadway and 1st National Tour), Rent (Broadway).
- Strange but True
Hardly ever called Nick (though it’s his legal name), normally called “Lugo”
- Shower Song
“I Wanna Dance With Somebody”
- Management Superpower
God of Grammar, Resident DJ
- Then
The Drowsy Chaperone (1st National Tour), Grease (2008 1st National Tour), West Side Story (2010 1st National Tour), Cock (Off-Broadway), New York City Center Encores! Company Manager, The Charlotte Wilcox Company, Wagner College Alumni
- Hates to Love
Grey’s Anatomy–has been committed for too long to quit
- Strange but True
Can list all of the US States in alphabetical order and all of the US Presidents in order of their presidency
- Obsession
What’s for dinner?
- Management Superpower:
Conquerer of Chaos. Organizer of all the things.
- Then
BFA in Stage Management from Syracuse University, some time at The Araca Group and the 2014 Tony Awards
- Pop Culture News Source of Choice
so..many…podcasts….
- Obsession
Food (s/o to The Infatuation)
- Loves to Hate
Exercise
- Hates to Love
Exercise
- Management Superpower
Can seat and plan an opening night in X amount of time
- Then
BFA in Stage Management from Purchase College
- Loves to Hate
Dylan Pager
- Hates to Love
“Go Cats”
- Management Superpower
Empathy
- Then
Northwestern University
- Strange but True
Has a black belt in Tae Kwon Do
- Pop Culture News Source of Choice
Emanuel Azenberg
- Management Superpower
Extensive Email Expeditor
- Then
- Strange but true
Did not approve this bio
- Management Superpower
Winner of more Tony Awards than anyone else in the office
COMPANY MANAGEMENT
- Then
4 shows for Jeffery Seller: In the Heights, High Fidelity, Baz Luhrmann’s La Boheme and Rent (6+ years). Other Broadway credits:Hand to God, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, The Mountaintop with Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett, Born Yesterday, Deuce with Angela Lansbury and Marian Seldes, Festen, Edward Albee’s Seascape, Primo, Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays, Jumpers, Carol Channing in Hello Dolly!, 6 shows for Tony Randall’s National Actor’s Theatre and Solitary Confinement. Prior to that, administrative assistant to Manny Azenberg, Jerry Zaks, Tommy Tune and Mike Nichols. NYU graduate.
- Pop Culture News Source of Choice
Younger office co-workers
- Obsession
Musical theatre history trivia and memorabilia
- Management Superpower
A longer resume than anyone else in the office
- Follow Him
on Brigstagram or Brigapedia
- Then
Broadway: The Humans, Blackbird, Dames at Sea, Gigi, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, The Glass Menagerie (2013). Spent time at RTC, MTC, and WTF. BS in Theatre Management from the University of Evansville
- Obsession
Everything New Orleans. Especially the Saints
- Loves to Hate
Watching The Bachelor with her bestie
- Management Superpower
Excel Whisperer; Resident Bartender
- Then
BFA in Acting from University of Connecticut. Lyric Theatre, WTF, Connecticut Rep
- Hates To Love
Socks and Birkenstocks
- Strange but True
Has never burped
- Management Superpower
Can bust a move at any time
- Then
Touring: On Your Feet, Kinky Boots (First National). Other: American Music Theater Project at Northwestern University. Proud Northwestern Alum — Go ‘Cats!
- Obsession
Exploring with #thismorningsrun throughout tour cities.
- Favorite Saying
“Send that to me in an email”
- Management Superpower
Google Survey Sign Up Czar
- Then Broadway: Wicked, War Paint, A Doll’s House Part Two, The Glass Menagerie, The Front Page, Fun Home. Off-Broadway: Vietgone, Sell/Buy/Date. BA in Arts Management from Western Michigan University
- Obsession The before 3pm and after 8pm omelette at Joe Allen
- Shower Song
“Get Out and Stay Out”…the Stephanie J. Block version
- Management Superpower
Extreme Efficiency; Maven of Merch
- Then
Regional: Center Theatre Group (Mark Taper Forum/Kirk Douglas Theatre). Broadway: Derren Brown: Secret, Bronx Bombers, ACM on Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella. Various and sundry work on A Christmas Story: The Musical (Broadway), RENT & Avenue Q (New World Stages)
- Strange but True
Avid ultimate frisbee player
- Obsession
Whitney Houston’s “Welcome Home Heroes” Concert (1991), in it’s entirety
- Management Superpower
Can bang out a meticulously worded all-company e-mail in no time
- Then
Company Management Assistant at Arena Stage, B.A. in Political Science from UCLA
- Shower Song
Beyonce’s “4” on Shuffle
- Boring but Important
Only drinks iced coffee, sun or snow
- Management Superpower
Morale booster
- Then
Most Recent: The Book of Mormon (National Tour and Australia). Broadway: The Present, Sister Act, Bring It On! The Musical. Tours: Evita, Next to Normal, Yo Gabba Gabba. Off Broadway: Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
- Strange but True
Has no sense of smell but compensates with a great sense of irony.
- Pop Culture News Source of Choice
Brad Broman
- Management Superpower
Divining order out of chaos with genuine enthusiasm and coffee; don’t forget the coffee.
- Then
Hello, Dolly! starring Bette Midler, and The Book of Mormon on Broadway; National Tours of The Book of Mormon, Dirty Dancing, We Will Rock You, Mary Poppins, La Cage aux Folles
- Strange but True
Has never even tasted coffee – is naturally this chipper all day, err’day
- Shower Song
The theme song from TV’s The Nanny #flashygirlfromflushing
- Management Superpower
Spoonfuls of Sugar, Silver Linings, and Sass
- Then
Touring: Rent, Proof, Doubt, Avenue Q, An Act of God. Broadway: Shrek, Ragtime (2009), Sister Act.
- Strange but True
Listed as the attending physician on her second-born son’s birth certificate (she delivered him solo).
- Obsession
Golden milk (turmeric) lattes, protein shakes, donuts, fries, chips & salsa, chocolate.
- Management Superpower
Diplomacy by food & laughter
- Then
Spent 10 years at the SHN Orpheum Theatre in a variety of positions: Assistant Treasurer, Group Sales Supervisor, Receptionist and began as an usher.
- Strange but True
I played cow pie hockey as a kid.
- Obsession
Star Wars, Harry Potter, Batman, Jurassic Park and all things Disney!
- Management Superpower
House seat Goddess and Guru.
- Then:
Second Stage Theater incl. Broadway: Lobby Hero, Straight White Men; Off-Bway: Superhero, Dear Evan Hansen, Murder For Two, Sex With Strangers, Between Riverside & Crazy, Whorl Inside A Loop, Man From Nebraska, Notes From The Field, + over 20 more. BA from Skidmore College.
- Obsession:
Mandy Moore’s Coverage
- (Not) Strange but True:
Former Fruit-of-the-Loom Child Model (no photo evidence)
- Management Superpower:
Mitigation Before Escalation