Joy

Ken Davenport

Book

Ken Davenport (Book) is a Tony Award-winning Broadway producer and writer whose credits include Once On This Island (Tony Award), Gettin’ the Band Back Together, The Play that Goes Wrong, Groundhog Day (Tony nomination), Deaf West Theatre’s Spring Awakening (Tony nomination), It’s Only a Play, Macbeth starring Alan Cumming, Godspell, Kinky Boots (Tony Award), and more, including multiple Off-Broadway productions such as Altar Boyz, The Awesome 80s Prom and more.  Ken’s shows have been produced internationally in over 25 countries around the world. He is the founder of TheaterMakersStudio.com, a one-of-a-kind "masterclass" community that provides training and inspiration from Broadway's best to writers, directors, producers and more.  Ken created the best-selling board game, Be A Broadway Star, one of the highest-ranking Broadway gifts on Amazon.com.  Ken was also the Executive Producer for North America for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group and is the Theatrical Consultant for Primary Wave, a music management and publishing company.  Ken’s unique production and marketing style has garnered him international attention in numerous publications, including Vanity Fair and The New York Times. Upcoming projects include A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical, The Griswold’s Broadway Vacation, Joy the Musical, Harmony: A New Musical written by Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman, and a musical based on the life of Harry Belafonte. For more information, visit www.KenDavenport.com.

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• Joy

AnnMarie Milazzo

Music & Lyrics

AnnMarie Milazzo (Music & Lyrics) served as vocal designer for Broadway’s Spring Awakening, Next to Normal, If/Then, and Finding Neverland. Her Off Broadway credits include Carrie, Bright Lights Big City, and Superhero. Her regional credits include Dangerous Beauty, Prometheus Bound, Some Lovers, Dave, and A Walk on the Moon. Milazzo served as the Broadway orchestrator, with Michael Starobin, for Once on This Island, for which she was nominated for Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards. She is the composer and lyricist of Pretty Dead Girl, winner of the Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival, and the lyricist of Le Rêve and Le Perle. Milazzo is the Grammy-nominated female vocalist for East Village Opera Company on Decca/Universal Records.

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• Joy

Andy Einhorn

Music Supervision & Arrangements

Andy Einhorn (Orchestrator/Additional Arrangements) Broadway (MD/Conductor): Carousel, Hello, Dolly!, Holiday Inn, Bullets Over Broadway, Cinderella, Brief Encounter, Sondheim on Sondheim. Tours: Sound of Music, Hello, Dolly!, Sweeney Todd, The Light in the Piazza, The Lion King. Music director and conductor for Audra McDonald including two albums. Concert appearances include New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Cincinnati Pops, Boston Pops, Philadelphia Orchestra. TV: The Oscars, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Six by Sondheim. Honors Graduate: Rice University. Upcoming: Extrapolations (Apple Plus), Cabrini (produced by Jonathan Sanger) and JOY (George Street) Thank you to AnnMarie and Sheryl.

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• A Walk on the Moon
• Joy

Joshua Bergasse

Choreographer

Joshua Bergasse (Choreographer) Joy, On the Town, Guys and Dolls, Carousel, World Goes Round, West Side Story (2007). Broadway: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, On the Town (TONY, Drama Desk, OCC noms; Astaire Award), Gigi. Off Broadway: Smokey Joes Cafe, Sweet Charity (Chita Rivera Award; Lortel nom.); Cagney (Drama Desk, OCC, Astaire Noms; Callaway Finalist); Bomb-itty of Errors; Captain Louie. Encores!: I Married an Angel, The Golden Apple, Little Me, It’s A Bird…It’s A Plane… It’s Superman!. Television: Smash (NBC—EMMY Award), So You Think You Can Dance(FOX), A Capitol Fourth, Sinatra: A Voice for a Century, Kennedy Center 50th Anniversary (all for PBS), Jessica Jones (Netflix), Monsterland (Hulu), Hawkeye (Disney+).

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• Joy

Casey Hushion

Director

Casey Hushion (Director) (she/her) has had the pleasure of working on Broadway for many years, on projects including MEAN GIRLS, ALADDIN, THE PROM, IN THE HEIGHTS, and THE DROWSY CHAPERONE as the Associate & Resident Director. Working with Broadway's finest writers, producers, directors and creative teams, Casey has simultaneously established a successful directing career of her own. Recently Casey directed the new hit play CLUE, which premiered at Cleveland Playhouse. The production went on to successful runs at La Mirada, Paper Mill Playhouse, and was the most licensed U.S. Play in 2020 & 2021. 

Also at Paper Mill Playhouse: A JOLLY HOLIDAY: Celebrating Disney’s Broadway Hits and the streaming production of BEEHIVE. Casey directed the world premiere of MYSTIC PIZZA at Ogunquit Playhouse. Other New York credits include CALL ME MADAM at City Center Encores, FAT CAMP at the American Theatre of Actors, and the Broadway production of NERDS (almost). 

For television, she has choreographed episodes of UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT and staged press events for The Tonight Show, Good Morning America, The View, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and the NBC special One Night Only: The Best of Broadway. Concerts include Celebrating 25 Years of Disney On Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre, Broadway in Bryant Park, Carousel and A Little Night Music with The Boston Pops. Casey served as the Artistic Director of North Carolina Theatre for ten years, where she directed over twenty productions.

Outside of creating great theatre with great people, Casey is happily wrangling three kids with her awesome husband out in Maplewood

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• Joy