On Your Feet! The Musical

With seven Grammy Awards and over 100 million albums sold worldwide, Gloria Estefan is the most successful Latin crossover performer in the history of pop music.  In addition to her thirty-eight #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 Songwriters Hall of Fame, named BMI Songwriter of the Year, received an American Music Award for Lifetime Achievement, and won a MTV Video Music Award, two ACE Awards, and multiple Billboard Awards for her many chart-topping hits.  Gloria has also been honored with the Ellis Island Congressional Medal of Honor, the Hispanic Heritage Award, and the National Music Foundation’s Humanitarian of the Year 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 a unique style and personality resulting in chart-topping worldwide 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.

Alexander Dinelaris wrote the book for the West End production of The Bodyguard Musical  (Olivier Nomination, Best New Musical).  Off-Broadway: Zanna Don’t!  (Drama Desk nominations, Book and Lyrics), Red Dog Howls  (NYTW), Still Life  (MCC).  Mr. Dinelaris is an Academy Award and Golden Globe winner for the screenplay of Birdman  (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance).  He is the writer, co-creator and executive producer of the upcoming Starz network series “The One Percent”, starring Ed Helms, Hilary Swank and Ed Harris.  His newest film The Year of the Monarchs  is currently in development with Mandalay Entertainment.  Alex is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and the Writer’s 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.  In the 35 preceding years, Jerry has choreographed more than 50 Broadway, Off-Broadway, West End and touring productions, including the following for Broadway: You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown,  The Full Monty  (Tony nomination), The Rocky Horror Show,  Hairspray  (Tony nom.), Gypsy,  Never Gonna Dance  (Tony nom.), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels  (Tony nom.), La Cage aux Folles  (Tony Award), Legally Blonde  (Tony nom., also directed), Catch Me If You Can.  On the West End: Love Never Dies  and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels  (Olivier Award nomination, also directed).  Twenty-five years ago, Jerry conceived and created Broadway Bares, a comedy burlesque show performed annually for the charity Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, of which he continues to serve as executive producer.  Next up: Gotta Dance,  having its world premiere in Chicago this winter.

Broadway: Memphis  (Olivier, OCC Awards; Astaire, Drama Desk noms), Jersey Boys  (Olivier, Drama Desk, OCC noms.), 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.).  Off-Broadway: Saved  (Lortel nom.), The Capeman,  Romeo & Juliet  (Public), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,  Kismet (Encores!),  Salome (NYC Opera).  Regional: Dir/Choreo – Arrabal,  Flashdance,  White Noise;  Choreo – The Wiz,  Zhivago  (La Jolla), Mambo Kings.  International: Disney’s Tarzan;  West Side Story;  The Sound of Music  (Stratford); Peggy Sue Got Married  (West End); Kiss Me, Kate  (Japan). Film/TV: Jersey Boys,  “SYTYCD”, “Triple Sensation” (CBC).

Theatrical designs: On The Twentieth Century  (Tony nomination), Side Show,  You Can’t Take It With You  (Tony nomination), Kinky Boots  (Tony nomination), Lucky Guy  (Tony nomination), Hairspray  (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations), The Normal Heart,  and sets for the 81^st and 82^nd Academy Awards (2010 Emmy Award).  He is the founder of Rockwell Group, an architecture and design firm.  Honors include: the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award and the Presidential Design Award.

Radio City Music Hall Spring Spectacular  (2015). Broadway: Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill;  Motown: The Musical;  Porgy and Bess  (Tony nom); Topdog/Underdog.  Off-Broadway: By the Way,  Meet Vera Stark  (Lucille Lortel Award); Twist  (2011 Ovation Award);  Trust;  Crowns;  Lips Together Teeth Apart;  While I Yet Live;  The Invisible Hand;  Sunset Baby;  Detroit 67;  The Misanthrope.  Regional: American Night,  Ruined,  Cuttin’ Up,  Señor Discretion Himself  (Helen Hayes Award nom). esosadesign.com

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: 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: 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: 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 the upcoming musical Allegiance.  Other recent work: The Radio City Spring Spectacular  and The Hunchback of Notre Dame  (Paper Mill).

Hair and makeup designer for Washington National Opera, Glimmerglass Festival and co-director of Elsen Associates.  Select designs include: It Shoulda Been You  and On The Twentieth Century  on Broadway; Little Dancer,  Show Boat  and La Bohème  at Kennedy Center.

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; a body of work including 7 albums with Gloria & 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.  Other: Hairspray  (National Tours, Toronto, Las Vegas, London, Johannesburg, Cologne), Hair  (Hollywood Bowl).  Actor: Tommy,  Baby,  Leader of the Pack,  Starlight Express,  RockNRoll! The First 5000 Years.

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  as well as arranger/pianist for the theme song of Sex and the City.

Credits: Rent  Off-Broadway, assistant 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 Theatre Shakespeare LAB.  Played “Angel” in Rent  on Broadway, London and Tours.  Artistic Director of District Stage Company in Miami.

Credits as Choreographer/Performer/Director: Broadway & National Tour, Swing!  (Tony/Drama Desk/Lucille Lortel/Theater World nominations); Seagrams DJ Live Show (Clio Award); Latin Billboard Awards (Telemundo).  Off-Broadway: Latin Heat;  Four Guys Named Jose  (Carbonelle nomination); The Donkey Show Off B’way  (A.R.T.); Mambo Kings;  Celia: The Life & Times of Celia Cruz;  Don Omar “King of Kings”  (US Tour); Disney’s Golden Mickeys (International Tour).  Film: Dance With Me  (Alma nom), Disney’s Enchanted  (Critics Choice), El Cantante  (Jennifer Lopez & Marc Anthony), Fugly  (John Leguizamo).  Member of SDC and League of Professional Theater Women.  Current projects: Lovin Brooklyn  (film), Physical Attraction  (short), Pasion  (theatre).

Kathy Fabian has created props for over 60 Broadway productions.  Recent credits include: The King And I,  An American In Paris,  The Real Thing,  The Realistic Joneses,  If/Then,  Rocky,  The Bridges of Madison County,  I’ll Eat You Last,  Kinky Boots,  Lucky Guy,  Chaplin,  and Nice Work If You Can Get It.

Cabaret;  Annie;  Hugh Jackman: Back On Broadway;  Come Fly Away.  Music Director: 2014 and 2015 Tony Awards and Radio City Spring Spectacular.  Broadway: West Side Story,  Gypsy,  A Chorus Line,  The Boy From Oz,  and many others.

Broadway: Kinky Boots,  Lysistrata Jones,  Sister Act,  HAIR,  A Little Night Music,  White Christmas,  Young Frankenstein,  Grease,  Spamalot,  The Little Mermaid,  Tarzan,  Mary Poppins.  National Tours: Kinky Boots,  Mary Poppins.  Korea: Kinky Boots.  West End: Kinky Boots.  Thank Mom, Dad & Buddha.  Kyle, thank you for your unending support.

Broadway: Motown  (ASM), Sister Act  (ASM) , A Little Night Music  (ASM/Dance Captain), Blithe Spirit  (prompter for Angela Lansbury), Deuce  (SM), Smokey Joe’s Café  (ASM /Dance Captain).  National Tours: Flashdance  (PSM).  Previously professional dancer.

Broadway: Kinky Boots;  Motown;  How To Succeed in Business…;  Promises, Promises.  National Tours: Flashdance,  Legally Blonde.  Off-Broadway: Avenue Q.  Proud AEA Member for 18 years!

Broadway/Tours: Fiddler on the Roof,  The Color Purple,  Allegiance,  Hamilton,  Something Rotten!,  An American in Paris,  Finding Neverland,  The King and I,  Hand to God,  Kinky Boots,  Wicked,  If/Then,  The Sound of Music,  Newsies,  Pippin,  Motown,  Rock of Ages,  Million Dollar Quartet.  Film: Ithaca,  The Intern,  Ricki and the Flash,  Focus,  The Last Five Years,  Song One,  A Most Violent Year,  Into the Woods.  TV: “Flesh and Bone,” “Masters of Sex,” commercials.  telseyandco.com

The Charlotte Wilcox Company has managed more than 70 productions.  Upcoming: Allegiance  and Ever After.  Recent Broadway credits: Beautiful:  The Carole King Musical;  Jekyll & Hyde  (2012–2013); Godspell;  On A Clear Day You Can See Forever;  Catch Me If You Can;  Elf;  West Side Story;  Come Fly Away;  [title of show];  Grease  (all three Broadway productions); Cyrano;  The Drowsy Chaperone;  The Times Are-A-Changin’;  The Wedding Singer;  Dirty Rotten Scoundrels;  The Full Monty;  Jesus Christ Superstar.

Smitty, Patrick Shea and Jason Clark have worked together on Kinky Boots  (US Tour/Korea/Toronto); Chaplin;  Elf;  August: Osage County;  Brooklyn;  Wonderland;  Legally Blonde  and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.  Previously, Smitty also supervised Evita,  Catch Me If You Can,  A Behanding in Spokane,  A Tale of Two Cities  and many more.

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 The Elephant Man  (Bradley Cooper); Kinky Boots;  If/Then  (Idina Menzel); The Last Ship;  I’ll Eat You Last  (Bette Midler); Romeo and Juliet  (Orlando Bloom); Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark;  Evita;  Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth;  West Side Story;  Next to Normal;  The 25^th 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 & Gloria Estefan, is a multimedia entertainment company that consists of music publishing, record production, talent management, television & film production.  With the same passion and drive that propelled the Estefans’ global stardom, they’ve conquered the hospitality industry owning and operating six restaurants (Larios On The Beach & Bongos Cuban Café), 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.