Harvey Fierstein Book

Actor, playwright, activist, and author of the New York Times best-selling memoir, I Was Better Last Night.

Cyndi Lauper Music and Lyrics

Cyndi Lauper is a groundbreaking Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award-winning songwriter, performer and activist. She won her first Grammy Award for She’s So Unusual in 1985 and became the first woman in history to have four top-five singles from a debut album. She has gone on to release ten additional studio albums, yielding timeless classics like “Time After Time,” “True Colors” and “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun,” with global record sales in excess of 50 million. In 2013, Lauper became the first solo woman to win a Tony Award for Best Score (for Kinky Boots), and also won her second Grammy Award for the show. Lauper was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2015, released a New York Times best-selling memoir, and continues to collect impressive accolades across the music industry and beyond. She is also a tireless activist and advocate for women and the LGBTQ+ community; in 2008, she founded True Colors United, to bring an end to homelessness amongst LGBTQ+ youth. In December 2019, the United Nations presented her with their first-ever High Note Global Prize, an award given to artists who use their significant platforms to fight for social justice. Lauper is currently writing the score for the upcoming Broadway adaptation of Working Girl. @cyndilauper

Jerry Mitchell Direction / Choreography

Jerry Mitchell received the Tony Award for Best Choreography twice — for the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Kinky Boots, for which he was also nominated as Director, and previously for the revival of La Cage aux Folles. Jerry was most recently represented on Broadway as Director/Choreographer of Pretty Woman. He directed the Gloria Estefan Broadway musical, On Your Feet!, and was nominated for an Olivier Award for his choreography of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which he also directed and co-produced in London. In the 35 preceding years, Jerry has been involved with more than 50 Broadway, West End and touring productions. 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 and the NBC live television broadcast as well); Gypsy; Never Gonna Dance (Tony nomination); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Tony nomination); La Cage aux Folles (Tony Award); Legally Blonde (Tony nomination), which he also directed on Broadway and in London; Catch Me If You Can; and Kinky Boots. Thirty or so years ago, Jerry conceived and created Broadway Bares, a comedy burlesque show performed annually for the charity Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, for which he continues to serve as Executive Producer.

Stephen Oremus Music Supervision / Arrangements / Orchestrations

On Broadway and in worldwide productions, Music Supervisor/Arranger and/or Orchestrator: Disney’s Frozen; Kinky Boots (Tony Award for Best Orchestrations; Grammy Award); The Book of Mormon (Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Best Orchestrations; Grammy Award); 9 to 5: The Musical (Grammy nomination); All Shook Up; Avenue Q; and Wicked. Off-Broadway: tick, tick…BOOM!; The Wild Party; Jerry Springer - The Opera at Carnegie Hall. TV credits include: music direction for The 87th Annual Academy Awards, The Wiz Live (NBC) and Rent Live (FOX).

David Rockwell Scenic Design

Broadway: Take Me Out; Kiss Me, Kate; Lobby Hero; She Loves Me (Tony, Drama Desk, and OCC Awards); On the Twentieth Century (Tony nomination); You Can’t Take It With You (Tony nomination); Kinky Boots (Tony nomination); Lucky Guy (Tony nomination); Hairspray (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC nominations); and the upcoming productions of Into the Woods and A Beautiful Noise. Off-Broadway: Into the Woods; Seven Deadly Sins; and Shakespeare in the Park. Founder and President of the architecture and design firm Rockwell Group.

Gregg Barnes Costume Design

Broadway: Pretty Woman, Mean Girls (Tony nomination), Tuck Everlasting (Tony nomination), Something Rotten! (Tony nomination), Aladdin, Kinky Boots (Tony nomination, Olivier Award), Follies (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award), Legally Blonde (Tony nomination), The Drowsy Chaperone (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Olivier nomination), To Be Or Not to Be, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Flower Drum Song (Tony nomination), Side Show. Other: Dreamgirls (Olivier nomination), Pageant (Olivier nomination). TDF Young Master Award. Faculty NYU Undergraduate Drama 1983-2002.

Kenneth Posner Lighting Design

Kenneth Posner has more than 65 Broadway play and musical theatre credits. He designs Off-Broadway, in regional theatres through the United States, as well as internationally. Current Broadway: Beetlejuice, Mr. Saturday Night, and Wicked. He is the recipient of the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics’ Circle and Obie Awards.

Gareth Owen Sound Design

Ten-time Tony/Olivier-winning/nominated sound designer. Broadway: MJ, Come From Away. West End: Cinderella, Back to the Future, Mamma Mia! The Party, & Juliet, Come From Away.

Josh Marquette Hair Design

Excited to do Kinky Boots at home again after taking it all over the world! Current Broadway: The Book of Mormon, Aladdin. Current US National Tours: Mean Girls, Pretty Woman, The Prom, Aladdin. Instagram: @josh_marquette

Darion Matthews Make-up Design

Darion Matthews is a New York-based Make-up Artist who is originally from Traverse City, Michigan. He has worked on the Broadway productions of The Phantom of the Opera, Mrs. Doubtfire, and The Book of Mormon, as well as Kinky Boots aboard Norwegian Cruise Lines. Darion is ecstatic to be joining the Kinky Family! @DarionMatthews

Will Van Dyke Associate Music Supervision

Will Van Dyke is a songwriter, music supervisor, and a 2020 Grammy Award nominee. Will has orchestrated and arranged shows on and off Broadway, and is a frequent collaborator with many of New York City’s finest talents. Will has released multiple albums, writes musicals with Jeff Talbott, and has a band. @wvdmusic

STEVEN CUEVAS Music Director

Steven Cuevas, he/him, is a music director, musician, orchestrator, arranger and proud first-generation Filipino American. Broadway: Moulin Rouge!TinaOnce on This IslandAnastasiaKinky Boots. Select Off-Broadway: Little Shop of HorrorsWe Are the TigersCloser Than Ever. Moo! @StevenMCuevas

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Geoff Josselson, CSA
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DB Bonds Associate Direction

DB is the worldwide associate director of Kinky Boots. He has been Jerry Mitchell’s associate for ten years. He is also the worldwide associate for Pretty Woman. As an actor, he worked with Mr. Mitchell starring in Legally Blonde and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

Rusty Mowery Associate Choreography

Original Associate Choreographer for Kinky Boots on Broadway and in London, US Tours, Toronto, Sydney, Melbourne, Tokyo, Seoul, Hamburg. Associate Choreographer for Pretty Woman on Broadway and in US Tour, London, Hamburg. Rusty appeared in the Broadway casts of Hairspray, Legally Blonde, Ragtime, Seussical, Cats. Thank you, Jerry.