Michele Mossay (Associate Director/Choreographer) – Previously at Bell Theater: East Carson Street (by Jonathan Rosenberg, music & lyrics by Joe Grushecky). International/China: Serendipity (or The Fortuitous Happenstance) (A Day a World, composer Gao Ping). Special Event/Concert: 9/11 Children’s Benefit Concert featuring Anne Hathaway. Producer/Director: China in the World: A Cutting-Edge Fashion Design Production, an internationally recognized collaboration featuring designer Ruiping Guo. Director/Choreographer: Paper Mill Playhouse New Voices Concerts and Musical Theater Conservatory. Regional: Parade (Dir. Dan Kutner), R&H’s Cinderella (Dir. Mark Waldrop, Olney Theatre), Something Rotten!, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Kiss Me, Kate, and Beauty and the Beast. Choreography/Premiere Work: The Boomer Boys (Van Zandt & Milmore). University Choreography: Princeton University Triangle Club's Excess Hollywood (McCarter Theatre; Equitable Theater, NYC), Seussical, Hairspray, and Spring Awakening. Honors: Guest Artist/Commissioned Choreography Honoree (Capital Normal University Beijing, China); Laudation for Unique Creative Achievement for China in the World (by renowned fashion historian and curator Valerie Steele); Kennedy Center Certificate of Merit for Choreography (Urinetown). Michele studied at NYU and Temple University. Proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. Heartfelt thanks to Dan, Charles, and our brilliant cast. True creativity erupts when the dream meets action in a place of presence, confidence, and trust. Dan was the resident Associate Director to Broadway legend Harold Prince from 2003 until 2019. Projects with Mr. Prince included the new musicals: LoveMusik by Alfred Uhry at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway; Paradise Found at London's Menier Chocolate Factory; Prince of Broadway, a retrospective on Mr. Prince’s 70-year career in show business, both on Broadway and in Japan; as well as developing a number of new shows including the Tony-Award winning The Band’s Visit. Off-Broadway directing credits include: the world premiere hit musical I Love You Because at the Village Theater and It Must Be Him starring Peter Scolari at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre. Dan co-conceived and directed Lea Salonga's sold-out debut at the Cafe Carlyle, The Journey So Far as well as her follow-up engagement, New York In June. He has also collaborated with Judy Kuhn for her debut at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency, and Barbara Cook for her 80th Birthday concert at Carnegie Hall. Regionally: a new version of The World Goes Round to inaugurate the Gettysburg Festival in Pennsylvania; West Side Story in Atlanta (starring Ben Jacoby). Dan made his directorial debut in Japan with All My Sons, produced by the Umeda Arts Theatre and presented at Tokyo’s New National Theatre and in Osaka. The production was filmed and broadcast by NHK. Other credits in Japan include: 4 Stars: One World of Broadway Musicals starring Lea Salonga, Sierra Boggess, Ramin Karimloo, and Yu Shirota at the Aoyama Theatre, as well as a new version of Maury Yeston’s Phantom at the ACT Theatre in Tokyo, featuring new musical material by Mr. Yeston. Other global directing credits include: the new World Tour of The Phantom of the Opera, which premiered in Manila in early 2019; Hal Prince’s original Evita for its South African/Asian Tour starring Jonathan Roxmouth (Ramin Karimloo in Tokyo); Evita at the Sydney Opera House and Melbourne’s Arts Centre starring Tina Arena and Paulo Szot; Evita’s 2019 China Tour; South African comedian Nik Rabinowitz’s new show, The Power Struggle in Cape Town and a new musical version of Romeo & Juliet in Moscow, Russia. Dan has been a guest lecturer at Yale; his alma mater, Temple University, and was also an Adjunct Professor at Muhlenberg College and Kean University - teaching Musical Theatre practicum, where he directed Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown’s Parade. Upcoming: A new streaming show exploring the intersection of four unique American art forms – musical theatre, jazz, baseball and bourbon - entitled, The United States of Bourbon. @usofbourbon