CREATIVE TEAM

JEFFREY B. MOSS (Direction) is the award-winning director of the critically acclaimed New York and London productions of Bock and Harnick’s new Rothschild & Sons. Also in New York, he directed the hit musical Mayor and the Cy Coleman/ Neil Simon’s Little Me, and was the director of the New York and Kennedy Center productions of Some Enchanted Evening, now part of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Library. He has created newly imagined stagings of classic musicals such as Golden Boy, Rags, The Spitfire Grill and his work also includes the development of new plays and musicals such as Before The Dream, Passin’ It On, The Jazz Club, Mermaids, (based on the MGM film) and Charles Strouse’s Real Men. He has staged over 35 national and international tours including Guys and Dolls, Hello, Dolly!, Man of La Mancha, The Sound of Music, Peter Pan, On The 20th Century, The Music Man, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Music of the Night, Annie, West Side Story, 42nd Street, Annie Get Your Gun, Mame, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Damn Yankees, Saturday Night Fever, An American in Paris, South Pacific and Legally Blonde. His productions of My Fair Lady have played in the United States, Singapore and China.

DIANE LAURENSON (Choreography and Associate Direction) has served as a Performer, Director, Choreographer, Union Stagehand (Electrics & Sound), Dance Educator and Asst. Company Manager! Her Career/Life Story can be found in the NY Public Library For the Performing Arts/Jerome Robbins Dance Division Archives. A Fosse Veteran, she has worked closely with Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon on FIVE companies of Dancin’ (USA/Canada, Italy, Paris, Japan, London), and on Broadway & National productions of Sweet Charity and Big Deal. Additional Broadway credits include Gypsy, Dangerous Games, The Little Prince, Les Miserables, Robert Klein on Broadway and National/International Tours of West Side Story and Anything Goes. On Faculty for over 20 years at Broadway Dance Center/NYC and Steps on Broadway/NYC, Diane is also Adjunct Faculty at NYU/Tisch, and teaches Master Theatre Dance Classes worldwide (USA, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Japan, China, Australia, New Zealand, France and Great Britain). She is a proud member of SDC, AEA, SAG/AFTRA, & IATSE (retired). www.dianelaurenson.com

RANDEL WRIGHT (Set Design) a native Texan, Randel has designed scenery for Singin’ In The Rain (national), Unsinkable Molly Brown (national / Debbie Reynolds), Pal Joey (Joel Grey) (Dixie Carter), The Wiz (Stephanie Mills), I Do, I Do (Sandy Duncan), Batteries Not Included (Jamie Hammerstein co-author & dir.), Coca Cola Centennial, Dr. Pepper Centennial and Yale University Tercentennial.

CHARLIE MORRISON (Lighting Design) NYC/National/International tours: Disney’s The Little Mermaid, The Cher Show, A Christmas Story, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, A Chorus Line, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Miss Saigon, Disney’s Aida, The Producers, Man of La Mancha, Guys and Dolls, Groovaloo, Hello, Dolly!, My Fair Lady, The King and I, Spelling Bee, Gypsy, 42nd Street, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, The Who’s Tommy, Titanic, The Music Man and many others. Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse, Guthrie Theater, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Goodspeed Musicals, Seattle Repertory, Seattle 5th Avenue, Broadway Sacramento, Theatre Under the Stars, Dallas Summer Musicals, Kansas City Starlight, Pittsburgh CLO, George Street Playhouse, North Carolina Theatre, PlayMakers Repertory, Tulsa Opera and many others. TV: “Finding Magic Mike” for HBOMax. Charlie is the recipient of two Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Lighting Design. www.cmlighting.com

ANTHONY LOPEZ (Co-Sound Design) is a Southern California native who has worked with Big League since 2019. Prior credits include: A Christmas Story: The Musical (A2 2019/2021, Sound Supervisor 2023), Legally Blonde (A2 2019, Head of Audio 2023), An American in Paris (Head of Audio 2022), South Pacific (Head Audio 2022), A Chorus Line (Head Audio, Japan 2022), and The Cher Show (Associate Sound Designer 2023). He has also worked countless movie premieres and special events. He is excited to continue mixing and designing productions. Instagram @anthonylopez841

CHASE NICHTER (Co-Sound Design) Touring Credits include: Natl tour of A Christmas Story, Natl & International tour of Legally Blonde, Natl tour of Grinch the Musical, International tour of Markiplier YWT. Chase has Sound Designed at Marin Theatre Company, and served as a Mixer/ Audio Engineer at Tuacahn Center for the Arts, and The Ordway. He currently serves as the Associate Supervisor of Sound and Video at the Tony Award winning Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

JANINE LOESCH (Costume Coordinator) New York based Costume Designer and Coordinator. Janine is happy to be involved in her second Big League Tour, after working previousley on the national tour of The Cher Show. Her designs have been seen at The Gateway on Long Island. Her favorites include As You Like It, Evita, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical and Jersey Boys. Janine was a Wardrobe Supervisor on the World Premiere Off-Broadway Production of The Last Supper, the Original Off-Broadway Production of Americano, and the Off-Broadway Production of Fiddler on the Roof: In Yiddish with English Supertitles. Janine is happy to be working with an amazing team!

THOMAS FOSNOCHT (Music Supervisor/Keyboard 1/Conductor) is a music director, pianist, composer/arranger, and vocal coach working in and around the Philadelphia area. Tom has music directed shows at virtually every theatre in Philadelphia and works in New York on new musical readings, workshops, and rehearsals. His favorite shows include Company (Justin Guarini), Mame (Andrea McArdle), and Clue (Sally Struthers/Dir. Hunter Foster) at Bucks County Playhouse, Annie (Wanda Sykes) at Media Theatre, and The Story of My Life (Ben Dibble/Rob McClure) at Delaware Theatre Company. Tom maintains a private studio, specializing in contemporary piano and voice techniques and has served as a vocal director for Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, including The EffectorsTM. Tom attended Oberlin Conservatory, graduating with a double major in Piano and Composition, studied with Kyoko Takeuti of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Susan Kiefner of the Curtis Institute, and won the Ambler Symphony Orchestra and Warminster Symphony Orchestra Concerto competitions.

MATTHEW ARMENTROUT (Wig Design) Broadway: Paradise Square (Drama Desk Nominee), Birthday Candles, Flying Over Sunset, Bernhardt/ Hamlet, The Sound Inside. Off-Broadway: The Gardens of Anuncia (LCT), Dear World (NYCC Encores!), Suffs (The Public), The Visitor (The Public), Merrily We Roll Along (Roundabout), Othello (NYSF). National Tour: Jitney. Regional: A Transparent Musical (Center Theatre Group), Ava: The Secret Conversations (Geffen Playhouse), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Yale Rep), Today Is My Birthday (Yale Rep), Bliss! (The 5th Avenue), Paradise Square (Berkeley Rep.). Television: “The Marvelous Mrs Maisel” (Emmy Nominee).

ALISON FRANCK, C.S.A. (Casting Director) has been a casting director in NYC for over 25 years. She started as an assistant for many Broadway Productions, then she worked in film/ TV for several years, then from 2000-2010, she was the Resident Casting Director at Paper Mill Playhouse. In 2011 she joined the team at Liz Lewis Casting Partners, where she cast commercials, voiceovers, film/TV, and theatre. Alison now runs her own company, Franck Casting, where she has cast several tours of well-known musicals including Legally Blonde, Dreamgirls, An American in Paris, A Christmas Story: The Musical, A Chorus Line, The Simon and Garfunkel Story Live and The Cher Show, now on tour. www.franckcasting.com

BIG LEAGUE PRODUCTIONS/DANIEL SHER (Executive Producer and General Management) is celebrating its 30th season of producing and general managing Broadway tours of shows and attractions throughout the world. Early highlights were collaborations with Disney on Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida (US Tours, Taiwan, and China) and with Cameron Mackintosh on a new production of Miss Saigon. Also, the Tony®-Award winning Broadway revival of 42nd Street and Susan Stroman’s Broadway production of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man. Others: Footloose (Las Vegas, US Tour), Titanic, 1776, Peter Pan, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum starring Rip Taylor, Blast!, The Who’s Tommy (US Tour, South America, Europe, and Japan), Ain’t Misbehavin’ with Ruben Studdard, and the First National Tour of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – flying car and all. More recent: The Producers (Susan Stroman’s original work), Hello, Dolly! with Sally Struthers, Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady (US Tour and China premiere), original hip-hop dance show Groovaloo (Off-Broadway), Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical (10 US Tours, Grand Ole Opry, and Madison Square Garden), Dreamgirls (US Tour, China premiere, Japan), Hair (US Tour and Japan), Bring it On (US Tour and Japan), and Legally Blonde (US Tours, China premiere, Singapore). More recently, A Chorus Line toured the US and Japan, and was seen in China for the first time. Post-pandemic, Big League remounted its acclaimed tour of An American in Paris, a new production of South Pacific, Legally Blonde, and continued touring its flagship production of A Christmas Story The Musical. Current work includes The Cher Show national tour and a new touring production of Little Women. Future work includes a new touring production of The Addams Family.