nova y. payton day dreaming
Cast & Creative Team Nova Y. Payton SIGNATURE: Assassins, Blackbeard, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Jelly’s Last Jam, La Cage aux Folles, Diner, Defying Gravity: Making of a SuperNOVA, Dreamgirls, The Best Little Whorehouse..., Xanadu, Hairspray. TOUR: 3 Mo’ Divas, Smokey Joe’s Café. DC AREA: Round House: Caroline, or Change; Shakespeare Theatre: The Amen Corner, Kiss Me, Kate; Imagination Stage: A Year with Frog and Toad; Ford’s Theatre: Ragtime, Freedom’s Song; Olney Theatre: Godspell; Arena Stage: Newsies, Smokey Joe’s Cafe; Kennedy Center: How To Succeed..., Bye, Bye Birdie. REGIONAL: The 5th: Man of La Mancha, A Night with Janis Joplin; Milwaukee Rep: Dreamgirls; Prince Music Theatre: Dreamgirls
Nolan Williams, Jr. (Composer/Music Director) REGIONAL: Grace (44th Humana Festival, Actors Theatre), Stirring the Waters Across America (The Kennedy Center), The Nolan Williams Project (New Ground Festival, Cleveland Play House). OTHER: Firebird: Reimagined (Mann Center/The Philadelphia Orchestra), Go, Tell It! (Lincoln Theatre), Christmas Gift! (The Clarice). AWARDS: Social Practice Residency @ The Kennedy Center REACH, 2019 Arts Advocacy Award presented by The Kennedy Center’s National Performing Arts Committee
Kelly Crandall d’Amboise (Film Director) SIGNATURE: Simply Sondheim (Associate Director), Grand Hotel (Choreographer), Light Years (Choreographer), An Act of God (Musical Staging); Motown 2 and Entirely Elvis (Director); Crazy for You (Associate Director); Billy Elliot, La Cage, Cabaret, The Studio (Associate Choreographer). TELEVISION: Director: PBS’s An Ella Fitzgerald Christmas (starring Vanessa Williams), We are Family (starring Laura Osnes) WETA’s National Philharmonic 2020-21 Season. LIVE CONCERTS: Director: Lincoln Center Gala (starring Patti LaBelle and Jennifer Holliday), Kravis Night of Stars (starring Chita Rivera and Brian Stokes Mitchell), Coat of Many Colors: The Music of Dolly Parton (with Morgan James), Respect: The Music of Aretha (with Michelle Williams), Cole Porter After Dark (with Liz Calloway). CHOREOGRAPHY: Olney: The Crucible, CRT: Newsies! PERFORMANCE: BROADWAY: The Boy from Oz (Original Cast), Chicago, Dirty Dancing (workshop), Last Dance (workshop). NATIONAL TOURS: Chicago, The Producers. NEW YORK: Susan Stroman’s A Christmas Carol; NYC Opera: The Most Happy Fella. FILM: Disney’s A Christmas
Film Staff Filmed by Chiet Productions Director of Photography Justin Chiet Technical Coordinator/1st Assistant Camera Jeremy Jacoby Camera Operator Eric Korangie Film Production Assistant Jason Obando Camera Operator Ben Siegel Associate Producer James Gardiner Editor Natalie Ridgley Colorist Borna Jafari
Production Staff Assistant Production Manager Kimberly J. Scott Company Manager Laura Matey Production Assistant/Deck Chief Tess Wagner Lighting by Jonathan Maag Light Board Operator Timothy Strickland Sound Design Ryan Hickey Sound Editing Connor Sherrill Lead Sound Engineer Kendric Maxey Wardrobe Supervisor Courtney Leigh Wood Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor Dominique Travers Hair & Makeup Artist Kenyada Howard Medical Services provided by Event Medic Inc. Health Safety Manager Kerry Epstein
Nova Y. Payton: Day Dreaming is sponsored by Patricia Payne and Nancy Firestone
Song List Defying Gravity/Corner of the Sky Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz Musical Arrangements by John L. Cornelius II Beautiful City Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz Your Daddy’s Son Music by Stephen Flaherty Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens Theme from “New York, New York” Music by John Kander Lyrics by Fred Ebb You’ll Never Walk Alone Music by Richard Rodgers Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II Wherever He Ain’t Music & Lyrics by Jerry Herman Home Music & Lyrics by Charlie Smalls Music Arrangement by Joseph Joubert Day Dreaming Words & Music by Aretha Franklin Strange Fruit/Lament “Strange Fruit” words and music by Lewis Allan, pseudonym of Abel Meeropol “Lament” music by Miguel Sandoval, arranged by Joseph Joubert Selflessness Music & Lyrics by Nolan Williams, Jr. He’s Got The Whole World in His Hands African American Spiritual arranged by Nolan Williams, Jr.
Leadership
Maggie Boland (Managing Director) joined the Signature Theatre staff in May 2008. Prior to joining Signature, Maggie spent nearly 10 years at Arena Stage in increasingly senior positions, beginning as Marketing Director, responsible for Arena’s earned income, and assuming oversight of the $3 million+ Annual Fund and $125 million Next Stage Campaign in subsequent seasons as the Director of External Affairs. Prior to joining Arena Stage, Maggie worked on Broadway at the Roundabout Theatre Company for nearly six years, most recently as the Director of Annual Giving, responsible for raising more than $3.5 million annually. Maggie also participated extensively in Roundabout’s capital campaign to fund the restoration and renovation of the American Airlines Theatre. She was named a recipient of 2016 Women Who Mean Business award from the Washington Business Journal. Maggie graduated magna cum laude from Boston College’s Honors Program with a BA in English; she is a member of the Board of Directors of TheatreWashington and serves as Vice President of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT). Matthew Gardiner (Artistic Director) has directed and/or choreographed more than 25 productions at Signature Theatre, including A Chorus Line, West Side Story, La Cage aux Folles, Jelly’s Last Jam, and The Threepenny Opera, as well as several world premieres including Really Really, Soon, and Midwestern Gothic. With Signature’s special commitment to producing the work of Stephen Sondheim, Matthew has directed and/or choreographed many Sondheim musicals including Passion, Sunday in the Park with George, Company, Sweeney Todd and the world premiere of Simply Sondheim. As Signature’s Associate Artistic Director for over a decade, Matthew helped to build several groundbreaking seasons, cultivated relationships with prominent and emerging artists, and oversaw several of Signature’s new work development initiatives, including the American Musical Voices Project, SigWorks: Monday Night Play Reading Series (highlighting the work of DC area playwrights) and the Signature/Yale Composer Partnership, which seeks to give opportunity to early career composers. Outside of Signature, Matthew has directed and/or choreographed at the Washington, DC theaters Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Round House Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, and Studio Theatre. Matthew has also worked abroad, choreographing Titanic and directing and choreographing Doctor Zhivago for OD Musical Company in Seoul, Korea. Matthew is the recipient of three Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Director of a Musical and has been honored with more than a dozen nominations.
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