The Bedwetter - A New Musical

SARAH SILVERMAN

Book and Lyrics

Sarah Silverman (Book and Lyrics) is a two-time Emmy Award-winning comedian, actress, writer, and producer. Her special Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love is streaming on Max and the album is available on vinyl and all streaming platforms. She also continues to host her critically acclaimed weekly podcast, The Sarah Silverman Podcast, through Lemonada on all platforms. Sarah also appeared in Netflix’s Oscar-nominated Maestro, a biopic on the life of composer Leonard Bernstein, where she portrayed Bernstein’s sister Shirley. She also executive produced the short film Jack and Sam, which follows two Holocaust survivors who were miraculously reunited after 80 years, and are now spending the precious time they have left rekindling their friendship and educating others about the dangers of hatred. In Spring 2022, Sarah’s off-Broadway musical adaptation of her 2010 New York Times bestselling memoir The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee had a sold-out run with Atlantic Theater Company. She previously hosted TBS’ Stupid Pet Tricks, an expansion of the famous David Letterman late-night segment, and the Emmy & Writers Guild-nominated Hulu series I Love You, America. Sarah continues to lend her voice to several animated series, including Bob’s Burgers.

JOSHUA HARMON

Book

Joshua Harmon (Book)’s plays include Bad Jews, Significant Other, Admissions, Skintight, and Prayer for the French Republic. His plays have been produced on Broadway; Off-Broadway at Roundabout Theatre Company, Lincoln Center Theater, and Manhattan Theatre Club; across the country at Geffen Playhouse, SpeakEasy, Studio Theatre, Theater Wit, About Face, Actor’s Express, and The Magic, among others; and internationally on the West End and in a dozen countries. He is a two-time MacDowell Fellow and an Associate Artist at Roundabout. Graduate of Juilliard.

ADAM SCHLESINGER

Music & Lyrics

Adam Schlesingler (Music and Lyrics) was a songwriter and music producer and a founding member of the bands Fountains of Wayne and Ivy. He won three Emmys and a Grammy and was nominated for Oscar, Tony, and Golden Globes awards. He also co-wrote and produced more than 150 songs for the television show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend starring Rachel Bloom. His other work includes the title song from the Tom Hanks-directed film That Thing You Do; the Broadway musical adaptation of John Waters’ film Cry-Baby; original songs for the Tony Awards, performed by Neil Patrick Harris; production and original songs for The Monkees’ albums Good Times and Christmas Party; and, with David Javerbaum, original songs for Stephen Colbert’s A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All. Adam’s final project was music and lyrics for The Bedwetter. He died at the age of 52 from COVID-19.

DAVID YAZBEK

Additional Music & Lyrics

David Yazbek (Additional Music & Lyrics) For Broadway, David has written music and lyrics for The Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Women on the Verge..., The Band’s Visit (10 Tony Awards), Tootsie, and the upcoming Dead Outlaw. He is a producer and creative consultant on Buena Vista Social Club. In the world of music, he’s released five solo albums, produced the cast albums to all his shows (Emmy Award for The Band’s Visit), and continues to perform with his band. The New York Times called him “a daredevil juggler catching spiked pins in the traveling carnival of his imagination.” In TV and film, credits include Boardwalk Empire, Late Night with David Letterman (Emmy Award in Best Writing), hundreds of songs, including the infamous Carmen Sandiego theme. Yazbek has received every major American theater award, many grants and honors, and, most recently, a thorough colonoscopy from Rockland Digestive Associates.

ANNE KAUFFMAN

Director

Anne Kauffman (Director)’s credits include the New York Philharmonic, BAM, Ars Nova, NYTW, Roundabout Theatre Company, Encores! Off-Center, Women’s Project, Playwrights Horizons, MCC, The Public, P73 Productions, New Georges, Vineyard Theatre, LCT3, Yale Rep, Steppenwolf, Goodman Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Z Space, American Conservatory Theater, and Berkeley Rep. She is a Resident Director at Roundabout Theatre, Artistic Associate and Founding Member of The Civilians, a Clubbed Thumb Affiliated Artist and co-creator of the CT Directing Fellowship, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, an SDC Executive Board Member, Vice President and Trustee of SDCF 2020-2023, and Artistic Director of City Center’s Encores! Off-Center 2017-2020. Her awards include a 2024 Tony nomination for Best Director for Mary Jane, a 2023 Tony nomination for Best Revival for The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, three Obies, the Joan and Joseph Cullman Award for Exceptional Creativity from Lincoln Center, the Alan Schneider Director Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, a Drama League Award, and the Joe A. Callaway. She is co-creator of the Cast Album Project with Jeanine Tesori.

DANNY MEFFORD

Choreographer

Danny Mefford (Choreographer) is thrilled to return to Arena Stage after choreographing Dear Evan Hansen here prior to its Broadway and West End productions. He recently directed and choreographed The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at the Kennedy Center in the fall of 2024. His other Broadway choreography credits include Kimberly Akimbo and Fun Home, both Tony winners for Best Musical, along with the aforementioned DEH, which also won the Olivier for Best Musical. He directed and choreographed a national tour of Shrek and the world premiere of The Fitzgeralds of St. Paul. He is choreographing the Richard Linklater film version of Merrily We Roll Along, a 20-year project, and he created dances for Rise on NBC, Dickinson on Apple TV+, and Fleishman is in Trouble for FX. He has an MFA in Acting from Brown University/Trinity Rep.

DAVID CHASE

Orchestrator and Arranger

David Chase (Orchestrator and Arranger) was last at Arena Stage as an audience member in 1983. Since then: over 40 Broadway shows as music director/supervisor and/or arranger. TV credits include Sound of Music Live! and Peter Pan Live! (Emmy nominations for both), Schmigadoon! (currently onstage at the Kennedy Center), Adam Schlesinger’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The Gilded Age, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (in which he also appeared onscreen), and the upcoming Étoile. Also: several Kennedy Center Honors, the Boston Pops, and Radio City Music Hall. Lots of choral music, published by Hal Leonard. Recently, David was commissioned to write music for the upcoming VA250 celebrations. Grammy and Olivier nominations. David lives in New York with his wife, Drama Desk nominee Paula Leggett Chase, and their sons, Kyler and Dashiell.

MEGHANN ZERVOULIS BATE

Music Supervisor

Meghann Zervoulis Bate (Music Supervisor) is currently serving as the music director of Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club on Broadway. Other Broadway: Funny Girl, West Side Story, The Prom, Mean Girls, Great Comet. Off-Broadway: Here We Are (The Shed), White Girl in Danger (Second Stage/Vineyard), Only Gold (MCC), The Visitor (The Public), Merrily (Fiasco), Cagney, Rated P. Regional: Numerous credits at Paper Mill Playhouse. She is also active as a music educator and music therapist and is a proud member of Local 802 and Maestra. Education: Carnegie Mellon University. www.megzmusic.com

REBEKAH BRUCE

Music Director

Rebekah Bruce (Music Director) is a New York City-based conductor, pianist, and vocal coach. Her Broadway work includes The Hills of California, Company, A Strange Loop, The Lehman Trilogy, and Mean Girls, with Off-Broadway work on Dead Outlaw, Here We Are, and White Girl in Danger. She was honored to recently perform with the Kennedy Center Honors orchestra. Before making New York her home in 2018, Rebekah served on the music faculty at Oklahoma City University and performed with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, and Pollard Theatre. Rebekah is deeply grateful to her husband David, her family, her friends, D&P, Matt (DGRW), and her past music and theater educators. Instagram:@rebekahnbruce

DAVID KORINS

Set Designer

David Korins (Set Designer) is thrilled to be returning to Arena after having designed Dear Evan Hansen in 2015. A four-time Tony nominee, Korins’ recent work includes Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, Beetlejuice, All In, Just For Us, The Who’s Tommy, and Here Lies Love. Korins has been the designer or creative director for notable works including Immersive Van Gogh, Last Week Tonight, Grease Live!, The Big Brunch, and the 91st & 94th Academy Awards, and is a proud recipient of the Emmy, Obie, Drama Desk, Lortel, ADG, OCC, and Hewes Award.

KAYE VOYCE

Costume Designer

Kaye Voyce (Costume Designer) is happy to be making her Arena Stage debut and to be returning to DC. Through the years she has designed many shows at the Shakespeare Theatre, Studio Theatre, and Wolf Trap Opera. Broadway credits include Uncle Vanya, Sea Wall/A Life, True West, The Nap, Significant Other, The Real Thing, The Realistic Joneses, and Shining City. Recent Off-Broadway credits include The Welkin, Jonah, Morning Sun, and Staff Meal. She also often works in opera, most recently on the world premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s The Listeners.

JAPHY WEIDEMAN

Lighting Designer

Japhy Weideman (Lighting Designer) is a five-time Tony-nominated lighting designer with 20 Broadway credits to date. At Arena, Japhy designed lighting for Dave, Dear Evan Hansen, and The Mountaintop. His many Off-Broadway credits include productions at Lincoln Center Theater, Roundabout Theatre Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater-NYSF, Playwrights Horizons, and Second Stage. Internationally, Japhy has designed on the West End, Royal Shakespeare Company, La Scala, Nederlandse Opera, Edinburgh International Festival, National Theater of Korea, and National Theatre of Greece. He collaborated with rock icon Liz Phair as production designer on her “Exile in Guyville” 30-year anniversary tour and as production designer for Hasan Minhaj’s “The King’s Jester” national tour, which was captured for Netflix.

KAI HARADA

Sound Designer

Kai Harada he/him (Sound Designer)'s Broadway credits include A Wonderful World; Once Upon a Mattress; Days of Wine and Roses; Merrily We Roll Along (Tony nomination); Spamalot (co-design); New York, New York (Tony nomination); Kimberly Akimbo; The Old Man & The Pool; Mr. Saturday Night; Head Over Heels; The Band’s Visit (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award); Amélie; Sunday in the Park With George; Allegiance; Gigi; Fun Home; On the Town; First Date; Follies (Tony, Drama Desk nominations); and Million Dollar Quartet. West End: Crazy For You; Million Dollar Quartet. Other: Cats: The Jellicle Ball (PAC NYC); Peter Pan (Tour); The Karate Kid (Stages St. Louis); Soft Power (Public Theater, CTG); Marie, Dancing Still (5th Ave); The Light in the Piazza, Candide (LA Opera); The Black Clown (A.R.T.); Zorro (Moscow; Atlanta); Hinterm Horizont (Berlin); many musicals at City Center Encores! and the Kennedy Center. Education: Yale University.

LUCY MACKINNON

Video Designer

Lucy Mackinnon (Video Designer) is a projection designer and video artist who lives in Brooklyn. She is a two-time Tony Award nominee whose Broadway design credits include All In, The Notebook, Kimberly Akimbo, A Christmas Carol, How I Learned to Drive, Jagged Little Pill, The Rose Tattoo, Lifespan of a Fact, Six Degrees of Separation, and Deaf West’s revival of Spring Awakening. She teaches projection design at Brooklyn College, and has previously taught at Ithaca College and Fordham University.

TOM WATSON

Hair & Wig Designer

Tom Watson (Hair and Wig Designer) Originally from N. Ireland, Tom headed the wig/makeup department at the Metropolitan Opera for 17 years. He has designed more than 100 Broadway productions, including Wicked, Rock of Ages, The King and I, Fiddler on the Roof, Oslo, Falsettos, The Little Foxes, Junk, My Fair Lady, King Kong, All My Sons, Great Society, Parade, Spamalot, and Plaza Suite.

ASH(ER) LLOYD EHRENBERG

Associate Director

Ash(er) Lloyd Ehrenberg they/she (Associate Director) is a trans/nonbinary director, poet, and creative with a focus in new theatrical work. They have directed and developed work with the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, Breaking the Binary Theatre, Samuel French OOB Festival, and more. She has assisted and been the associate of directors such as Billy Porter, Laurie Woolery, Rebecca Taichman, and Anne Kauffman. Asher has also served as a guest speaker and director for panels and seminars at New York University and Atlantic Theater Company. In 2019, Ash was named the inaugural Directing Apprentice at New York City Center for their Encores! Off-Center season. They are a former Brooklyn Poets Fellow and the Associate Creative Producer for Jeanine Tesori & Anne Kauffman’s Cast Album Project. Instagram: @ash.lloyd.ehrenberg

NIANI FEELINGS

Associate Choreographer

Niani Feelings she/her (Associate Choreographer) is a New York City-based performer and choreographer most recently serving as Associate Choreographer for The Kennedy Center’s production of The 25th Annual…Spelling Bee. She made her Broadway debut as Assistant Choreographer for the recent revival of Once Upon a Mattress. Niani served as New York City Center’s inaugural Ann Reinking Encores! Choreography Fellow in 2024. As a performer, Niani served as a swing/dance captain for the First National Tour of Mean Girls and has appeared on regional stages such as North Shore Music Theatre, The Muny, Starlight Theatre, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She is a Boston Conservatory alum. Huge thanks to the family, Arena Stage, Danny, Annie, and the entire Bedwetter team! Instagram: @niani_

MATTHEW LOWY

Associate Music Director

Matthew Lowy (Associate Music Director) is an NYC-based music director and composer. Matt worked as a sub/rehearsal pianist for The Music Man and Beetlejuice on Broadway. He was the MD/pianist for The Sabbath Girl Off-Broadway at 59E59 Theaters and Penguin Rep Theatre, and the Associate MD for Fiddler on the Roof at Paper Mill Playhouse. Matt has worked on numerous national and international tours, including A Chorus Line (MD/Conductor/Orchestrator) and 42nd Street (MD). Matt is a composer in the Advanced BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop (2019 First Year Jerry Harrington Musical Theatre Award). His original musicals have been performed at Soundbites, Winterfest, and the New York International Fringe Festival. matthewlowy.com

LISA NATHANS

Dialect and Vocal Coach

Lisa Nathan (Dialect and Vocal Coach) is thrilled to be coaching again for Arena Stage with this fabulous team after previously coaching Death on the Nile, The Other Americans, Data, POTUS, Holiday, Catch Me If You Can, Disney’s Newsies, Anything Goes, and others. Other DC credits include various productions with The Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Olney Theatre Center, Signature Theatre, Theater Alliance, Keegan Theatre, and MetroStage. Regional credits include Guthrie Theater, 5th Avenue Theatre, and Theatricum Botanicum. TV credits include National Geographic. Teaching (USA and UK): University of Maryland: TDPS (Associate Professor, Voice, Speech, and Acting); CalArts; Stella Adler Academy; RADA; Royal Welsh; Royal Central; University of Washington (PATP MFA); and University of Minnesota (Guthrie BFA). Training: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama: MFA (Voice Studies); Boston University: BFA (Acting); Linklater Voice Designation; and Colaianni Speech Practitioner. Break legs all!

THE TELSEY OFFICE / RACHEL HOFFMAN, CSA

Casting

The Telsey Office (Casting) With offices in both New York and Los Angeles, The Telsey Office casts for theater, film, television, and commercials. The Telsey Office is dedicated to creating safe, equitable, and anti-racist spaces through collaboration, artistry, heart, accountability, and advocacy. thetelseyoffice.com

RAIYON HUNTER

DC Casting

Raiyon Hunter (DC Casting) is a casting director, producer, and arts administrator from New Orleans, Louisiana. She currently works as the Casting Director/Line Producer of Arena Stage. Previously, she worked as the Casting Director of Children’s Theatre Company and the Spelman Leadership Fellow at the Alliance Theatre (Atlanta, GA) where she has contributed to a multitude of shows in varying capacities ranging from Casting Associate to Director on productions such as Do You Love the Dark?, Darlin’ Cory, Bina’s Six Apples, Good Bad People, Confederates, and more. Additionally, she has been in residency at Oregon Shakespeare Festival under Nataki Garrett and The Repertory Theater of St. Louis under Hana S. Sharif.

RYAN GOHSMAN

Stage Manager

Ryan Gohsman (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be making his Arena Stage debut! This is Ryan’s fourth collaboration with Anne Kauffman following Mary Jane and Hundred Days at New York Theatre Workshop and Detroit and Maple and Vine at Playwrights Horizons. Ryan recently made his Broadway debut with David Byrne’s Here Lies Love (which he also worked on at The Public Theater and London’s National Theatre). His favorite NYC credits include Little Shop of Horrors (current revival); …Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot and The Light Years at Playwrights Horizons; and Pretty Filthy with The Civilians. Regionally, Ryan has worked with Barrington Stage, Westport Country Playhouse, and Bard SummerScape.  He has toured nationally and internationally with Beth Morrison Projects, ArKtype, and Ireland’s Wide Open Opera/Landmark Productions. Instagram: @rye.gohsman

DAYNE SUNDMAN

Assistant Stage Manager

Dayne Sundman (Assistant Stage Manager) is always glad to be back at Arena Stage. Past favorite shows at Arena include Death on the Nile, Unknown Soldier, POTUS, Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches, Catch Me If You Can, Newsies, The Heiress, and Anything Goes. Other credits include Murder on the Orient Express (Great Lakes Theater); Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, Sense and Sensibility (Idaho Shakespeare Festival); Jane Anger, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (STC); and The Great Society, Born Yesterday, and The Little Foxes (Asolo Repertory Theatre). Allen Lee Hughes Fellow. Baldwin Wallace University 2015.

SAMANTHA WILHELM

Assistant Stage Manager

Samantha Wilhelm (Assistant Stage Manager) has been a DC area freelance stage manager for nearly 10 years. After graduating from the University of Mary Washington, she moved to DC and began working full-time at theaters such as The Kennedy Center, Ford’s Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre, Round House Theatre, and Signature Theatre. Some highlights of her career have been the pre-Broadway tryout of Come From Away, Ragtime at Ford’s Theatre, and King Lear starring Patrick Page at STC. Most recently she served as the PSM on The Comeuppance at Woolly Mammoth Theatre and the ASM on Macbeth at STC starring Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma. Sam has been a proud Actors’ Equity Association member since 2018. Love to MJEKA et al.

TOM KIRDAHY

Producer

Tom Kirdahy (Producer) is a Tony/Olivier Award-winning theater and film producer whose projects span Broadway, Off-Broadway, West End, and national/international tours. Select NY/UK credits: upcoming musical Just In Time starring Jonathan Groff; Gypsy starring Audra McDonald as Rose, directed by George C. Wolfe; upcoming film adaptation of Kiss of the Spider Woman starring Jennifer Lopez, directed by Bill Condon; Sondheim’s final musical Here We Are; Hadestown (Eight Tonys, Best Musical); The Inheritance (Tony/Olivier, Best Play); The Piano Lesson (Drama Desk, Best Revival); Little Shop of Horrors (Drama Desk, Best Revival); Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; Anastasia; It’s Only a Play. 2019 Robert Whitehead Award for Achievement in Producing; 2023 Medal of Honor, ECF; 2020 Miss Lilly Award; NYU Distinguished Alumni Award. Executive Board, BC/EFA.

BARRY AND FRAN WEISSLER

Producer

Barry and Fran Weissler (Producer) have over 40 years of experience producing first-class theatrical ventures on Broadway, West End, and internationally. They are the winners of seven Tony Awards: Othello, Fiddler on the Roof, Gypsy, Annie Get Your Gun, La Cage aux Folles, Pippin and the worldwide hit, Chicago, the longest-running American musical in the world, currently in its 28th year on Broadway. Their recent hit musical, Waitress, following a successful four-year Broadway run, a West End engagement, as well as North American and UK tours, helped reopen Broadway following the pandemic with a revival of the show, starring Sara Bareilles. Waitress is in the middle of its international roll-out with foreign language productions in French, Spanish, and Japanese. The Waitress stage film can be streamed on Max beginning February 14th. This spring, they will open their new musical, Real Women Have Curves, on Broadway at the James Earl Jones Theatre.