Death, Let Me Do My Show

Rachel Bloom is an Emmy and Golden Globe winning actress, writer, songwriter and comedian best known for starring and co-creating the CW musical dramedy CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND, which she also developed into a live show, selling out Radio City Music Hall. Bloom recently completed two Off-Broadway runs of her one-woman musical comedy “Death, Let Me Do My Show,” which first toured as a comedy special to sold out audiences in London, Chicago, and Boston, among other cities. Most recently, Bloom can be seen guest-starring as ‘Elaine Levitch’ in the recently released second season of Max’s original series JULIA. She also recently co-starred in Hulu’s critically acclaimed comedy series REBOOT.

Seth Barrish is the Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of The Barrow Group. Directing Credits include (Broadway) Mike Birbiglia’s The Old Man and The Pool; The New One; (West End) Mike Birbiglia’s The Old Man and The Pool (Off Broadway) Death, Let Me Do My Show! by Rachel Bloom, 17 Minutes by Scott Organ, The New One (Drama Desk & Outer Critics Circle Awards OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE); The Tricky Part (OBIE Award, Drama Desk Nominations for BEST PLAY and BEST SOLO SHOW), All The Rage (Lucille Lortel Award for BEST SOLO SHOW), My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend (Lucille Lortel Award for BEST SOLO SHOW, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Solo Show—Final performance at Carnegie Hall), Sleepwalk With Me, Pentecost (Drama Desk Nomination for BEST PLAY), Old Wicked Songs (Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award & Garland Award for BEST DIRECTION), and Good (Straw Hat Award for BEST DIRECTION), among dozens of productions spanning a 40-year career on Broadway, Off Broadway, Off Off Broadway, in regional theater and internationally. Seth co-directed Mike Birbiglia’s feature film SLEEPWALK WITH ME. Seth is a professional acting and directing teacher and author of the book An Actor’s Companion–Tools for the Working Actor. (Netflix Comedy Specials) THE OLD MAN AND THE POOL, THE NEW ONE, and MIKE BIRBIGLIA: MY GIRLFRIEND’S BOYFRIEND. He co-directed MIKE BIRBIGLIA: THANK GOD FOR JOKES for Netflix. He was a consulting producer for the film DON’T THINK TWICE and a producer of Mike Birbiglia’s CD SLEEPWALK WITH ME LIVE. As an actor, Seth appears regularly in film and on television. Seth is also a composer and most proud of his affiliation with his family, Lee Brock, Phillip & Rachel Barrish.

David Hull is best known for playing ‘White Josh’ in the critically-acclaimed CW series, CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND, as well as recurring roles on HBO's Insecure and ABC's THE MIDDLE. He's had starring roles in Hulu's INTO THE DARK, and the feature film BENJAMIN, opposite Rob Corddry, Kevin Pollack, and the late Bob Saget. Other TV credits include THE SIMPSONS, DEAR WHITE PEOPLE, WISDOM OF THE CROWD, THE BIG C, and Dolly Parton's MOUNTAIN MAGIC CHRISTMAS, among others. New York theatre credits include ‘Cooper’ in Really Really (dir. David Cromer), The Book of Mormon, Wicked, and the Daniel Radcliffe-led revival of How To Succeed… (u/s ‘Pierrepont Finch,’ OBC), alongside numerous regional and touring credits. He notably played ‘Spike’ in the LA run of the late Christopher Durang's Vanya, Sonia, Masha and Spike, and revived the role last month opposite original Broadway cast members Sigourney Weaver, David Hyde Pierce and Kristine Nielsen for the Lincoln Center Theatre Gala in Chris' memory.

Beowulf Boritt designed the Off-Broadway productions of Death Let Me Do My Show. 31 Broadway designs include the Tony Award winning sets for New York, New York and Act One, the Tony nominated sets for The Scottsboro Boys, Therese Raquin, POTUS, and Flying Over Sunset. Also on Broadway, Harmony, The Piano Lesson, Ohio State Murders.  The Old Man and the Pool, Come From Away, Freestyle Love Supreme, Be More Chill, The New One, Bernhardt/Hamlet, Meteor Shower, A Bronx Tale, Prince Of Broadway, Hand To God, Sondheim On Sondheim, …Spelling Bee, LoveMusik, Rock Of Ages, Chaplin, On The Town (’14), Sunday In the Park… (’17), Bronx Bombers, Grace, and The Two And Only. 100 Off- Broadway shows include Shakespeare in the Park (Hamlet, Much Ado, Merry Wives, Coriolanus), The Last Five Years, The Connector, Fiddler On The Roof (in Yiddish), Sleepwalk With Me, and Miss Julie. He has designed for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and designed around the world in England, Russia, China, Australia, and Japan. He received a 2007 OBIE Award for sustained excellence. 

Author: Transforming Space Over Time, about Broadway set design.

Founder of The 1/52 Project which provides grants to early career designers from historically excluded groups.

Design Credits include: Death, Let Me Do My Show (Lucille Lortel, The Orpheum); The Wrong Man (MCC); Theo (Two River Theater); A Walk in the Woods, The Thing with Feathers, Muswell Hill, Expecting Isabel, Abigail’s Party (Barrow GroupTheatre); What the Butler Saw, Richard III (Shakespeare Theatre of NJ); The Language Archive (Bristol Riverside Theatre); The Understudy (McCarter Theatre) Assistant Costume Design for Television and Film: Motor City, Billions, The Equalizer, The Missing, The Crowded Room, Under the Banner of Heaven, Pose, Dickinson, The Deuce, Fosse/Verdon (Emmy nomination) Assistant Costume for Theatre: The Girl from the North Country, Mlima’s Tale (The Public); Therese Raquin (Roundabout Theater); The Sound of Music (National Tour); La Boheme (Washington National Opera); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare in the Park) Education: M.F.A. Yale University; B.F.A. Syracuse University

Aaron Copp’s recent projects include the Broadway productions of The Old Man and the Pool at the Beaumont, and The New One at the Cort (now the James Earl Jones), Rachel Bloom’s Death Let Me Do My Show at the Orpheum, Bernstein’s Mass at the Kennedy Center, Falling Out Of Time at Carnegie Hall, Red State Blue State for Colin Quinn at the Minetta Lane, Candide at Tanglewood Music Center, One Line Drawn by Brian Brooks for Miami City Ballet, and Shahrazad for The Royal Ballet of Flanders. Music projects include designs for The Silk Road Ensemble, Natalie Merchant, Diamanda Galas, Maya Beiser and the Bang On A Can All-Stars. He has worked extensively in the dance world, and in 2008 received his second Bessie Award for Jonah Bokaer’s The Invention Of Minus One. He had a long association with Merce Cunningham, designing such pieces as Ground Level Overlay, Windows, and Biped, for which he also won a Bessie.

Alex is a NYC-based sound designer. His credits include: Broadway: Into the Woods, over 20 shows as associate designer. National Tours: Into the Woods, Fiddler on the Roof, The King and I. Williamstown: The Atheist, The Torchbearers, Hapgood, Knickerbocker. New York City Center Encores!: Pal Joey, Oliver!, Into the Woods. Off-Broadway: Death Let Me Do My Show, Walk on Through, The Atheist. Regional: Sense and Sensibility (American Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage), Bus Stop, The Atheist (Huntington Theatre Company), Ether Dome (Alley Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre Company), 39 Steps (Olney Theatre Center), Cabaret, Million Dollar Quartet (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Going to See the Kid (Merrimack Repertory Theatre). Events/Other:Drama Desk Awards (2017-2019), A Tribute to the Presidential Scholars (Kennedy Center, 2016-2019). Footloose (Norwegian Cruise Lines). Awards: Tony nominee, Drama Desk winner: Into the Woods.

Beth Lake (she/her): WTF: Ghosts; Selling Kabul. Broadway: Uncle Vanya, Camelot. Broadway Associate: The Cottage, for colored girls..., Pass Over, Is This a Room?, Dana H, My Fair Lady, The Play That Goes Wrong, Natasha Pierre..., Velocity of Autumn. Off-Broadway: for colored girls... , The Play That Goes Wrong, The Wolves, Freud’s Last Session. Regional: Into The Woods (Guthrie), A Little Night Music (Pasadena Playhouse), Kinky Boots (Bucks County Playhouse), Kiss My Aztec (Hartford Stage, with Jessica Paz), A Thousand Splendid Suns (US Tour), American Girl, Live! (US Tour), The Revolutionists, An Iliad, The Price (Gulfshore Playhouse). USA829, IATSE

Broadway: The Outsiders, The Old Man And The Pool, Summer 1976. Off-Broadway/New York: The Harder They Come (The Public Theater) The Visitor (The Public Theater, Lucile Lortel Nom), Eve's Song (The Public Theater), Everything Rises (BAM), Magdalene (Prototype Festival). New music/opera: L’Orfeo (Santa Fe Opera), Sweet Land (The Industry), The Anonymous Lover (LA Opera). Regional: Redwood, Sumo (La Jolla Playhouse), Ants (Geffen Playhouse), OSF, Magic Theatre, A.C.T, among others. Awards: Tony Award, Princess Grace Award, Sherwood Award from CTG, Helen Hayes Award, LA Drama Critics Circle Distinguished Achievement Award among others. www.hananow.com.

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His work spans genres, including Broadway, Off-Broadway, National Tours, Regional Theaters, Events, and Fashion Week. Broadway: Harmony, Camelot, Paradise Square, Hadestown, Jagged Little Pill, Harry Potter, Mean Girls, The Father, The Gin Game w/ James Earl Jones. Off-Broadway: Skintight with Idina Menzel, 72 Miles to Go… (Roundabout), The Secret Life of Bees (Atlantic Theater Company) National Tours: MJ, Anastasia, Aladdin. TV: YOUNGER. Livestream: Titaníque: The Maiden Voyage Concert. He is thrilled to now add Williamstown to the roster!

Recent credits include Broadway: Harry Connick Jr.— A Celebration of Cole Porter (Nederlander Theatre, co-design with Beowulf Boritt). Off-Broadway/Regional: The Tempest (The Delacorte Theater for Public Works), The Government Inspector (New World Stages), Toast (The Public Theater), The Piano Lesson (Hartford Stage), The Turn of the Screw (Juilliard Opera), The Christians/Tartuffe (Playmakers Repertory Company), Daddy Long Legs (George Street Playhouse), Nureyev’s Eyes (George Street Playhouse), Native Gardens (Merrimack Repertory Theatre), Il Turco in Italia (Juilliard Opera). Winner of the Barrymore Award for her work on In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play (The Wilma Theater). Broadway Associate Designer for 18+ shows including New York, New York (Tony Award for Best Scenic Design), Act One (Tony Award for Best Scenic Design), The Old Man and the Pool and The New One by Mike Birbiglia.

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Nicholas Houfek is a NYC based Lighting Designer and Lighting Artist. Frequent and recent collaborations include: International Contemporary Ensemble, Marcos Balter’s Oyá with the New York Philharmonic, Claire Chase, Nathalie Joachim, Ojai Music Festival, Silk Road Ensemble, Marc Neikrug’s A Song by Mahler, Anohni’s She Who Saw Beautiful Things, Suzanne Farrin’s La Dolce Morte, George Lewis’ Soundlines, Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s In The Light of Air, and Ash Fure’s The Force of Things. Recent creations include the ColorSynth and other applications of live lighting for performance. In addition to applications for live lighting, Mr Houfek has a Light Art practice and is currently working on a book, Instructions for Lighting. He is an ensemble member of the International Contemporary Ensemble, a member of USA829, and a graduate of Boston University.

Cheyenne is a Brooklyn-based video and projections programmer, engineer, and designer. Her work has been seen on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regionally across the country. Recent and notable work includes Parade (Broadway), Camelot (Broadway), The Kite Runner (1st National Tour), and Redwood (La Jolla Playhouse). Cheyenne would love nothing more than for you to ask her about her cats.

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