On Your Feet! The Musical

With seven Grammy Awards and more than 100 million albums sold worldwide, Gloria Estefan is the most successful Latin crossover performer in the history of pop music. In addition to her 38 #1 hits across the Billboard charts, Gloria recorded the Oscar-nominated song “Music of My Heart” and has received numerous honors and awards over the course of her illustrious career. She has been presented with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, inducted into the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame, named BMI Songwriter of the Year, received an American Music Award for Lifetime Achievement and won an MTV Video Music Award, two ACE Awards and multiple Billboard Awards for her many chart-topping hits. Gloria has also been honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, The Kennedy Center Honors, the Ellis Island Congressional Medal of Honor and the Hispanic Heritage Award.

Emilio Estefan is a world-renowned music, television and film producer who has been instrumental in shaping, developing and directing the careers of his superstar wife, Gloria, as well as Shakira, Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony and Jon Secada among many others. With a resume that includes 19 Grammy Awards, Emilio is one of the most successful producers in the music business, blending Latin, pop and world rhythms creating his own unique style and world- wide hits. It is this vision that transcends the music field and spills over into film, television, hotels and restaurants, among other business endeavors, including becoming the first Cuban-born minority stakeholder in an NFL franchise, the Miami Dolphins. Emilio & Gloria were the 2015 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the first time the honor has been bestowed on a married couple.

Alexander Dinelaris is an Academy Award and Golden Globe winner for the screenplay of Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). He is the co-creator and executive producer of the series “The One Percent” for MRC, starring Hilary Swank. He is currently adapting the novel Entering Hades into a feature film with Michael Fassbender. Alex is also currently adapting his play Still Life into a feature film, which he will direct next spring. His film The Year of the Monarchs is in development with Mandalay Entertainment. Alexander is the book writer of The Bodyguard Musical and of Emilio and Gloria Estefan’s Broadway musical On Your Feet! Other recent work includes his plays Red Dog Howls (New York Theater Workshop), Still Life (Manhattan Class Company), The Chaos Theories (Shotgun Theater) and In This, Our Time (59e59). Mr. Dinelaris is a proud member of the Writer’s Guild and the Dramatists Guild.

Jerry Mitchell received the Tony Award in recognition of his choreography for the 2013 Tony-winning Best Musical Kinky Boots,  for which he was also nominated as Director. He was recently nominated for an Olivier Award for his choreography in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which he also directed and co-produced in the West End. In the 35 preceding years, Jerry has choreographed more than 50 Broadway, Off-Broadway, West End and touring productions, starting as a dancer for Agnes de Mille in Brigadoon and thereafter assisting Michael Bennett and Jerome Robbins. His Broadway debut as choreographer, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, was followed by The Full Monty (Tony nomination); The Rocky Horror Show; Hairspray (Tony nomination); Gypsy; Never Gonna Dance (Tony nomination); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Tony nomination); La Cage aux Folles (Tony Award); Imaginary Friends; Legally Blonde (Tony nomination), which he also directed; Catch Me If You Can; and Kinky Boots (also running in London, Korea, Germany, Australia and on National Tour). He also choreographed both the Off-Broadway productions and films of Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Jeffrey. Most recently, Jerry received the Drama League’s Founders Award for Excellence in Directing and the George Abbott Lifetime Achievement Award from his peers, the latter being especially meaningful to him in that he was directed by the 96-year-old Mr. Abbott in the Broadway revival of On Your Toes. His most recent Broadway experience is as Director of On Your Feet! Twenty-five years ago, Jerry conceived and created Broadway Bares, a comedy burlesque show performed annually for the charity Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. He continues to serve as executive producer of Broadway Bares, with a book, website and satellite productions in Fire Island Pines, Las Vegas (Peepshow, which recently concluded its five-year run of continuous performances) and London (West End Bares).

Broadway: On Your Feet! (Tony Award Nominee, Outer Critics Circle / Astaire Awards), Memphis  (Olivier, OCC Awards; Astaire, Drama Desk noms), Jersey Boys  (Olivier, Drama Desk, OCC noms.), A Bronx Tale (Chita Award Nomination), Hands on a Hardbody (Drama Desk nom.), Leap of Faith  (Drama Desk, Astaire noms), The Addams Family,  Next to Normal  (Lortel nom.), All Shook Up,  Guys and Dolls  (Astaire nom.). Director/choreographer: Arrabal (ART), Gloria Estefan On Broadway (Minskoff Theatre), Flashdance: The Musical (National Tour), White Noise (Royal George Theatre). Other Theatre: Invisible Thread (Second Stage- Astaire Award Nomination), Carmen: An Afro-Cuban Musical (Olney Theatre – Helen Hayes Award Nomination), Freaky Friday (Signature Theatre), The Wiz (La Jolla Playhouse). International: Tarzan (Disney), Peggy Sue Got Married (West End), The Sound of Music and West Side Story (Stratford Festival). Upcoming: Summer: The Donna Summer Musical (La Jolla Playhouse).

Theatrical designs: She Loves Me (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle awards), On the Twentieth Century (Tony nom.); You Can’t Take It With You (Tony nom.); Kinky Boots (Tony nom.); Lucky Guy (Tony nom.); Hairspray (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle noms.), The Public Theater’s 2017 season of Shakespeare in the Park, and the sets for the 81st and 82nd Academy Awards (2010 Emmy Award). Founder and President of Rockwell Group, an architecture and design studio. Honors: AIANY President’s Award, Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, and the Presidential Design Award.

Broadway: On Your Feet!, Motown: The Musical, Lady Day at Emerson Bar and Grill, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Tony nom.), Topdog/Underdog. London: Motown: The Musical, Father Comes Home From the Wars, Topdog/Underdog. Off-Broadway: By the Way Meet Vera Stark (Lucille Lortel Award, Drama Desk nom.), Venus, Crowns, Trust, Invisible Thread, Romeo and Juliet, Capeman, The Misantrope, Sex with Strangers. Regional: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Ruined, Señor Discretion Himself (Helen Hayes nom.), Witness Uganda, Twist (2011 LA Ovation Award), Fences. Radio City Musical Hall Spring Spectaculars, NY Knicks City Dancers, “Project Runway,” “Project Runway All Stars,” Trustee American Theater Wing.

Kenneth Posner has more than 50 Broadway play and musical theatre credits.  He designs extensively Off-Broadway, for resident theatres and touring productions throughout the United States as well as internationally.  Selected Broadway credits: War Paint, If/Then, Kinky Boots, Pippin, Cinderella, Hairspray, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Legally Blonde, The Coast of Utopia – Shipwrecked, Other Desert Cities, The Frogs, Side Man, Finding Neverland and Wicked. He is the recipient of the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics’ Circle and OBIE Awards.

Steve Canyon Kennedy partners with sound designers Andrew Keister and Walter Trarbach.  Their Broadway shows together include: On Your Feet!, Doctor Zhivago,  Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,  (Tony Award), Jesus Christ Superstar,  700 Sundays,  Hands On A Hardbody  (Drama Desk Award), Catch Me If You Can  (Tony Nom), The Lion King,  Jersey Boys  (Drama Desk Award), Hairspray,  Mary Poppins,  The Producers,  Aida,  Titanic,  Carousel  and The Who’s Tommy  (Drama Desk Award).

Broadway: American Idiot,  A Night with Janis Joplin,  Everyday Rapture,  The Illusionists,  Allegiance.  Off-Broadway: Found  (Drama Desk Nom.), Checkers  (Drama Desk nom.), Kung Fu,  Golden Child,  The Village Bike,  The Submission,  Bikeman,  Stop the Virgens,  Masks Outrageous and Austere,  Tokio Confidential.  Other: Ringling Bros. & Barnum and Bailey Circus,  “Legends” 144th Edition, Surf  (Vegas), La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, Ahmanson CTG, Cleveland Playhouse and more.  Founder, design/production company “the 13th Studios.”  Faculty, Yale School of Drama.  darrelmaloney.com

Broadway: Hamilton, Amélie, The Band’s Visit, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder,  Beautiful,  Dr. Zhivago,  Honeymoon in Vegas,  Side Show,  The Elephant Man,  Of Mice and Men,  Violet,  After Midnight,  Motown,  Clybourne Park,  Bring It On,  Newsies,  Bonnie and Clyde,  The Mountaintop,  The Merchant of Venice,  Memphis, Superior Donuts,  Guys and Dolls,  In the Heights,  Jersey Boys,  The Color Purple  and Allegiance.  Other recent work: The Radio City Spring Spectacular  and The Hunchback of Notre Dame  (Paper Mill).

At the core of Miami Sound Machine since 1986, Jorge and Clay have produced, written and performed multiple platinum, gold and Grammy Award-winning records, received a Producer of the Year Grammy nomination, an American Music Award. Their body of work includes albums with Gloria and Emilio Estefan.

Broadway: Hairspray,  Hair,  Rock of Ages,  Catch Me If You Can,  Lennon,  The Rocky Horror Show,  Footloose,  Street Corner Symphony.  Off-Broadway: Song of Singapore,  Forever Plaid.  Regional: Diner  (Sheryl Crow), Some Lovers  (Burt Bacharach), The Nightingale  (Sheik/Sater).  Film: Annie,  Hairspray,  Joyful Noise,  Band Slam,  Boys on the Side.   Television: NBC “Hairspray Live.” Film: Annie, Hairspray, Joyful Noise, Band Slam, Boys on the Side. Other: Hairspray (tours, Toronto, Vegas, London, Johannesburg, Cologne), Hair (Hollywood Bowl). Actor: Tommy, Baby, Leader of the Pack, Starlight Express, Rock ’n Roll! The First 5,000 Years. Love to the three Ls.

Oscar Hernández, a three-time Grammy Award winner, has long been considered one of the most prominent pianist/arrangers on the Latin-jazz and salsa music scene.  He has recorded and performed with many of the most important Latino artists.  He is the leader/producer of two-time Grammy winning Spanish Harlem Orchestra (SHO).  His credits include Musical Director/Conductor for Paul Simon’s Broadway musical The Capeman. He has worked with many of the important artists in the Latin music scene, i.e. Ruben Blades, Marc Anthony, Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Julio Iglesias, Juan Luis Guerra, etc.

Broadway: Associate Conductor/Keyboards On Your Feet! Univ of Miami (B.M. Studio Music & Jazz). Over 30 years with Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine, Broadway, and now a tour! Grateful to the OYF team, and proud to lead the way with this talented cast and stellar band…. Familia!

Credits: Holiday Inn Associate Director. Rent Off-Broadway, AAssistant Director to Michael Greif. Re-staged the production in Tokyo and directed the historic production in Havana, Cuba. Fly at DTC w/Jeffrey Seller. Training: FIU and Public Theater Shakespeare Lab. Played Angel in Rent on Broadway, London and tours. Artistic Director of District Stage Company in Miami.

Broadway: On Your Feet!, Swing! (Tony Noms). Off-Broadway: Zoot Suit, Man of La Mancha, The Donkey Show, 4 Guys Named Jose (Lucille Lortel/Carbonell noms), Celia, The Mambo Kings, Latin Heat, The Golden Mickeys. Film/TV: Amazon’s The Tick, “Turn: Washington’s Spies,” “So You Think You Can Dance,” El Cantante, Dance With Me, Enchanted (Oscar nom), Fugly, Latin Billboard Awards. Upcoming: Havana (Dir/Choreo).

Natalie Caruncho is excited to be taking On Your Feet! on the road after being a part of the Original Broadway Company! Broadway: On Your Feet! (Ensemble/Dance Captain). 1st National Tours: Flashdance (Dance Captain), In the Heights (Ensemble; u/s Nina, Vanessa, Carla). Regional: A Chorus Line (Diana), West Side Story (Francisca), Romeo and Juliet (Juliet). All her love to Sean, her family and Bean. ¡Que siga!

Kathy Fabian/Propstar has created props for over 70 Broadway productions. Recent credits include: Indecent, Sunday in the Park with George, Falsettos, Fiddler on the Roof, China Doll, The King and I, An American In Paris, The Real Thing, The Realistic Joneses, If/Then, Rocky, The Bridges of Madison County, and Kinky Boots.

Broadway: On Your Feet!, Cabaret,  Annie,  Hugh Jackman: Back On Broadway,  Come Fly Away, West Side Story,  Gypsy,  A Chorus Line, La Cage aux Folles,  The Boy From Oz, Dance of the Vampires, Jesus Christ Superstar.  Music Director Tony Awards past 4 years.

First National Tours: Matilda, War Horse, Jersey Boys, Titanic, Hairspray, Disney’s Aida, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Disney’s On The Record, Chicago, The Secret Garden, Bette Midler’s Experience the Divine. Los Angeles: Wicked. Toronto: Matilda, Billy Elliott, Jersey Boys, Phantom of the Opera. Broadway: Saturday Night Fever, Peter Pan.

Anthony CeFala is thrilled to be seeing the country with OYF! Broadway: On Your Feet! (ASM), The Curious Incident… (ASM), Tales of the City (ASM). Chicago: On Your Feet! (Production Assistant). Thank you to my husband, Rich. ¡Que Siga!

“CEL” NYC/Tour/Other Credits: Dreamgirls, West Side Story, Ghost the Musical, A Bed and A Chair (Encores!), Queen of the Night, Bring It On The Musical, Oliver!, Aladdin (Shiki Theatrical), Seeing You, An American in Paris, 42nd Street, Phish New Year’s Gag at Madison Square Garden, The Demise, Dirty Dancing.

Broadway/Tours: SpongeBob SquarePants, Once on This Island, The Parisian Woman, M. Butterfly, Anastasia, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Hello, Dolly!, War Paint, Come from Away, Waitress, Hamilton, Kinky Boots, Wicked, Something Rotten!, The King and I, An American in Paris. Off-Broadway: Sweeney Todd, Atlantic, Classic Stage, MCC, Second Stage. Film: Miss Sloane, Into the Woods, Margin Call, Rachel Getting Married, Across the Universe, Camp, Pieces of April. TV: “This Is Us,” “I’m Dying Up Here,” “One Day at a Time,” “Rise,” “NCIS: New Orleans,” “Graves,” “Atypical,” “Julie’s Greenroom,” “Grease Live!,” “Masters of Sex,” “Smash,” “The Big C,” commercials. www.telseyandco.com

Currently: An American in Paris, Love Never Dies. Project Manager: Christopher Wheeldon’s Nutcracker. Selected Chicago GM credits: Old Jews Telling Jokes, Million Dollar Quartet, Don’t Dress for Dinner, Bleacher Bums, Driving Miss Daisy, Shirley Valentine, Steel Magnolias, and Pump Boys and Dinettes. Broadway management credits include Carrie, Quilters, Asinamali and Showboat.

Tours: Dame Edna’s Glorious Goodbye, Flashdance, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom Of The Opera, Xanadu, All Shook Up, Def Poetry Jam, Guys And Dolls, Fame, Steve Martin’s Picasso At The Lapin Agile, The Great Radio City Music Hall Spectacular. Broadway: The Illusionists, Holler If Ya Hear Me. Member ATPAM.

Troika Entertainment has been an innovator in touring musical theater productions for over two decades, producing shows throughout North, Central, and South America, Europe and Asia. Additionally, the company is experienced in casino and leisure markets. Current and upcoming productions include An American in Paris, The Bodyguard, Love Never Dies, On Your Feet!, School of Rock, The Color Purple, Kinky Boots and the Asian tour of Sister Act. With strong ties to the Broadway community, TROIKA prides itself on delivering top quality productions to audiences worldwide. Please visit us at www.troika.com.

James L. Nederlander is president of the Nederlander Organization, Inc., which operates a chain of legitimate theatres on Broadway and many landmark venues around the world from Los Angeles to London.  Recent credits include War Paint, School of Rock, Hello Dolly (Bette Midler), The Elephant Man (Bradley Cooper), An American in Paris, Kinky Boots, Evita, Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, West Side Story, Next to Normal, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Movin’ Out, Million Dollar Quartet and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, among many others.

Estefan Enterprises, Inc., owned and operated by Emilio and Gloria Estefan, is a multimedia entertainment company that consists of music publishing, record production, talent management, television and film production. With the same passion and drive that propelled the Estefans’ global stardom, they’ve achieved great success in the hospitality industry, owning and operating restaurants (Estefan Kitchen, Larios on the Beach, Bongos Cuban Café & Estefan Kitchen Express), and two hotels (the Cardozo Hotel and Costa d’Este Resort & Spa). Inspired by their humanitarian vision, they created the Gloria Estefan Foundation to support a wide variety of charitable programs as a lasting expression of the Estefans’ dream.

Bernie Yuman is one of the most respected executives in the entertainment industry.  As a manager and producer of live, television and movies, Yuman has reached the public in almost every entertainment genre.  His career has ranged from worldwide representation of lifelong friend Muhammad Ali to the driving force behind Siegfried & Roy’s 25-year, record-breaking Las Vegas engagement.  Yuman’s long-time friendship with entertainment icon Jerry Weintraub created a relationship with Gloria and Emilio Estefan.  Yuman received his BA in Business Administration from the University of Miami.  He and his wife, Candace, have two daughters, Sydney and Alexandra.