TICKETS

GERRY MCINTRYRE (Choreographer) choreographed the first equity sanctioned produc-tion during the pandemic. GODSPELL at Berkshire Theater Group. Off Broadway; credits include Forbidden Sondheim: Merrily We Stole A Song , Lucky Stiff, Goodbye Girl, Anything Can Happen In the Theater, Forbidden Broadway:Next Generation and the award winning SPAMILTON.

GLENN BASSETT (Set Design) has designed sets and props for Off-Broadway, opera and regional productions as well as clients including: Marc Jacobs, Oscar de la Renta and Vogue. NYC set designs: Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation, Spamilton, Forbidden Sondheim and Anything Can Happen in the Theatre. Regional sets: Pagliacci, Once, Mamma Mia, Biloxi Blues, The Matchmaker, Blithe Spirit, Heaven Can Wait, How the Other Half Loves, Other Desert Cities, On Golden Pond and A Talented Woman, among others.

DUSTIN CROSS (Costume Design): 5th Forbidden Broadway production! Off Broadway (Select): Candida, Love Actually, The Office, The Glass Menagerie, The Other Josh Cohen Regional ( select) Walnut Street, Ogunquit, Tuachan, Engeman Theater, The Rev, Great Lakes Theater, New London Barn Playhouse, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare,. Thanks for the Forbidden Fam and our new home at 555!  www.DustinCross.com @DustinCrossDesigns

JOAN RACHO-JANSEN (Lighting Design) is a freelance lighting designer and theatre technician working with independent and emerging artists in dance, drama, comedy, music, science, and performance art. In total agreement with Jean Rosenthal's quote, "I like to think of myself as the Scotch tape that holds things together - I'm very handy to have around. But all that actors really need is a bare stage. Lighting is just one of the luxuries of the theatre."

ANDY EVAN COHEN (Sound Design) credits include off-Broadway’s Just Another Day, War Words, (A)Loft Modulation (Audelco Award Nomination), and God Shows Up. Other credits include musical direction for The Greatest Hits Down Route 66 (Drama Desk Nomination for Orchestrations) and scores for documentary films Stig Dagerman: Making of A Man, Less Than or Equal To, and We Dissent. www.rolypolyproductions.com

IAN JOSEPH (Hair and Wig Design) is an actor turned designer originally from Long Island NY and a graduate of Syracuse University. He is very excited to be back at Theatre 555 having previoisly designed the hair and make up for Five: The Parody Musical. Ian’s work yearly since 2020 designing and coordinating the hair for Broadway Bares and Broadway Backwards with BC/EFA.

PETER R. FEUCHTWANGER (Production Supervisor) Broadway: Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home, off-Broadway: 16 years with The New Group, 10 years (concurrently) with Primary Stages. Others include Silence! The Musical, Rounding Third, Toxic Audio, Tea at Five, Fault Lines, and the 30th Anniversary production of Godspell among many others. Peter was also P.M. for The Actors Studio and T.D. at The Delacorte Theater.

MICHAEL CASSARA, CSA (Casting Director) is thrilled to return to Forbidden Broadway, having cast the last 5 editions, and also the NYC run and tour of Spamilton. Recent credits include American Eclipse (Michael John LaChiusa), Mr. Holland's Opus (dir. BD Wong), An American In Paris (int'l tour, dir. Christopher Wheeldon) and over 750 productions for top theatres including Gulfshore Playhouse, Argyle Theatre, Weston Theater Company, Hangar Theatre, and many more. Resident Casting Director for National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) since 2012. BFA, Otterbein University. MichaelCassara.net / @michaelcassara

BRIAN WESTMORELAND (Stage Manager) recently completed two and a half years as the Production Stage Manager for Disney's THE LION KING (U.S. Tour/Mexico) Broadway: Phantom of the Opera, A Doll's House, Juan Darien; National Tours: The Lion King, Chicago, Annie Warbucks, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Fiddler on the Roof, The King And I. Off-Broadway: Forbidden Broadway, Golf, For Lovers Only, Wanda's World, My Secret Garden, Broadway Kids Sing Broadway and more. Dance: Dance Theatre of Harlem, Ballet Tech and Connecticut Ballet. Regional: Putting It Together, Imagine Tap and many more. UCLA graduate.

JOHN FREEDSON (Producer). With his producing partner Harriet Yellin, Freedson has sent Forbidden Broadway and Forbidden Hollywood across the country and around the globe. He is proud to have produced the Special-Tony®-Award-winning New York company and touring companies since 1994, in addition to producing 12 Forbidden Broadway Cast Recordings for DRG Records. Other producing credits include SPAMILTON and I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change.

HARRIET YELLIN (Producer) has had a wide-ranging career, from political strategist to Theater Producer. She developed media strategies for political candidates and causes across the country, including a stint as National Media Director for the 1988 Dukakis for President Campaign. Her experience in theater ranges from Producer of Off-Broadway shows like Forbidden Broadway and Forever Plaid to General Manager of Blue Man/Boston, which led to a 10-year tenure as CFO of Blue Man Productions.

ERIC KREBS (Producer) whose theatrical career spans more than 50 years, has worked as a producer, a theater founder and operator, a college professor and occasionally as a performer. In 1974 he founded the George Street Playhouse regional theater in New Brunswick, New Jersey, now in its 50th year. He built and operated Off-Broadway’s John Houseman Theater Center and Douglas Fairbanks Theater for over 20 years. Most recently he renovated and became the operator of a 160-seat Off-Broadway Theater, reopening it as Theater555, 555 West 42 Street in New York City. Off-Broadway he has produced more than 50 plays and musicals. On Broadway he produced: Bill Maher: Victory Begins At Home(Tony nomination for Best Special Theatrical Event), Neil Simon’s The Dinner Party, It Ain’t Nothin’ But The Blues (nominated for 4 Tony Awards including Best Musical) and Electra (nominated for 3 Tony Awards). In April 2007, he performed his own 90-minute adaptation of King Lear, a one-person presentation entitled Considering Lear. In the fall of 2016, he performed My Father's Voice, a solo presentation of his father's letters from the Ellis Island Prison and the War in the Pacific, 1938-1945. Mr. Krebs recently retired after 50 years as a professor of theater arts at Baruch College, City University of New York, where he continued a career as an educator that began in 1969 at Rutgers University (37 years) in New Jersey, where he is professor emeritus.