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Meet The CREATIVE TEAM

BRIAN
BELDING

Creator, Book Writer & Lyricist

NATALIE
BRICE

Composer

WILL
NUNZIATA

Director

JORDAN
RYDER

Movement Director

SHEELA
RAMESH

Music Director and Supervision & Arrangements

CHARLIE
ROSEN

Orchestrations

JAMES
NOONE

Set Design

SOPHIA
CHOI

Costume Design

ALAN C.
EDWARDS

Lighting Design

ELISABETH
WEIDNER

Sound Design

Caite Hevner

CAITE
HEVNER

Projection Design

Liz
Printz

Wig Designer

ELLIE
HANDEL

Production Stage Manager & Associate Director

DENISE
SAVAS

Assistant Stage Manager

Adele
Rylands

Fight Director

Emily White

Emily
White

Dramaturg

VAIBU
MOHAN

Creative Consultant

MELISSA
D’ARABIAN

Producer

Jeff
Laurinaitis

Producer

LDK
PRODUCTIONS

General Management / Executive Producer

Eisenberg Casting
Daryl Eisenberg, CSA

Casting Director

KEN
DAVENPORT

Executive Consultant

This production is being presented in association with NewYorkRep.

© White Rose Musical LLC2024

BRIAN BELDING

CREATOR, BOOK WRITER AND LYRICIST

San Francisco and NYC-based playwright and lyricist Brian Belding combined his love of musical theatre and resistance movements to create White Rose: The Musical. After successful industry presentations in May 2022 and October 2022, the musical is currently being developed in NYC with a Broadway creative and production team. A proud member of the Dramatists Guild, Belding taught high school history in the San Francisco Bay Area for twenty years before becoming a fulltime writer for the theatre.

NATALIE BRICE

COMPOSER

Natalie is a musician with the tenacity for bringing original works to life. She recently music directed the new musical Happily Even After with performances in California and a run at Don’t Tell Mama NYC. In 2020, Natalie music directed Hell On Earth, a new musical performed at 54 Below featuring Laurie Metcalf and Anthony Rosenthal. She was the music director and pianist on Asher Child, an original musical in California. She wrote, composed, and co-directed the musical film Go With Me in 2019. For White Rose: The Musical, she is committed to musically encapsulate the camaraderie, youth, adrenaline, celebration, and heart of the resistance group.

WILL NUNZIATA

DIRECTOR

WILL NUNZIATA is a NYC-based award-winning director, writer, and creator of theatre, concerts, television, and film. Film: The Old Guitarist (Writer, Director) starring Dominic Chianese (The Sopranos). Awards: London Movie Awards (Best Short Film, Best Director), New York Movie Awards (Best First Time Director of a Short), Paris Film Awards (Best First Time Director of a Short). Screenplay: Lillith (Winner of Best Original Screenplay, 2023 Hollywood Blood Horror Festival). Theatre: Figaro: A New Musical (Director, Co-Book Writer – West End 2024), White Rose: The Musical (Director – Off Broadway 2024), An Entirely Ordinary Town: A New Musical (Director), Poupelle of Chimney Town: The Musical (Co-Director), Faygele: A New Play (Director), By The End of Tonight – A Very Dark Comedy (Director), Little Black Book: A New Musical (Co-Creator). NYC: Miss Peggy Lee (Director, Writer, Co-Conceiver) starring Tony Award winner Cady Huffman. Award: Broadway World Best Director. Our Guy Cy: The Songs of Cy Coleman starring Tony Award winners Randy Graff, Cady Huffman, Judy Kaye, and Lillias White (Director, Conceiver). Over Here! starring Tony Award winner Debbie Gravitte (Director, Adapter). For twenty years Will performed professionally, singing across the country and around the world with his twin brother, singer-songwriter Anthony Nunziata, culminating in co-headlining Carnegie Hall with the NY Pops Symphony Orchestra. Will is a proud graduate of Boston College and a member of the Stage Directors & Choreographers Union. For more, please visit www.WillNunziata.com and @willnunzofficial on Instagram.

JORDAN RYDER

MOVEMENT DIRECTOR

Jordan Ryder is a Choreographer, Movement Director, and Dancer. She is a graduate of New York University Tisch School of the Arts where she holds a BFA in Dance and a double minor in Entertainment Business and Sociology. Jordan is the Artistic Director of RyderDance, a contemporary dance company, where her work has been presented at notable venues across the tri-state area, Atlanta, and Chicago, and has reached a global audience virtually. Off-Broadway credits include: “Singfeld! A Musical About Nothing!” (Choreographer) and “White Rose, the Musical” (Movement Director). Choreographic commissions include Eryc Taylor Dance Company, New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Rogue Wave Dance | Fall for Fall Dance Festival, Bromance Web Series, Melange Dance Company, and One Day Dance, among others. Her film, “NEXUS II”, was the Official Selection for the New York Arthouse Film Fest in 2023. As a dance educator, Jordan is on faculty at Peridance Center and Ballet Hispanico and teaches guest classes across the US. @ryderdance | ryderdance.com

SHEELA RAMESH

Music Direction and Supervision & Arrangements

Sheela Ramesh is a music director, arranger, and composer with a passion for stories and sounds that have traditionally been marginalized, and a mission to use art as a force for social justice. Professional highlights include Broadway (SIX, Moulin Rouge, Almost Famous); Off-Broadway (Merrily We Roll Along at New York Theatre Workshop, Vanities at The York Theatre Company, Millennials Are Killing Musicals); TV (NBC’s Annie Live!); concert (Jessica Vosk, My Golden Age, Carnegie Hall); regional theater (Group!, a Passage Theatre world premiere); and works in development (The Karate Kid, Bliss, Center Theatre Group’s A Transparent Musical, Lincoln Center Theater’s The Lunchbox, Fiasco Theater’s Diamond Alice, Jeannette: The Musical, and more). Sheela received undergraduate and graduate degrees in vocal performance at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Music and the Royal College of Music. She also holds degrees in psychology/cognitive science (BS, Carnegie Mellon; MSc, University College London) and law (JD, Yale Law School), and has spent her nonmusical professional life working to ensure that youth who’ve experienced trauma have opportunities to thrive. sheelarameshmusic.com.

CHARLIE ROSEN

ORCHESTRATIONS

Charlie Rosen is a Tony Award and Grammy Award winning composer and orchestrator whose music has been heard worldwide across many stages and screens around the world. Some recent credits include: Broadway: Some Like it Hot (Orchestrations), A Strange Loop (Orchestrations), Be More Chill (Music Sup/Orchestrations), Moulin Rouge (Orchestrations) [Tony Award], Prince of Broadway (Orchestrations), American Psycho (Assoc MD/Keys), The Visit (Guitar/Zither), Honeymoon in Vegas (Orchestrations), Cyrano de Bergerac (Composer), One Man, Two Guv’nors (Music Director, Bass), 13 The Musical (Guitars, Bass, Keys), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Assoc. MD, Bass, addl. Orch). Off Broadway/Regional: Guys and Dolls (Orchestrations) – The Bridge Theater London, Love in Hate Nation (Orchestrator) – Two River Theater, Broadway Bounty Hunter (Orchestrations) – Greenwich House Theater, A Legendary Romance (MD/Orch.) – Williamstown Theater Festival, Miss You Like Hell (Orchestrations), The Public Theater. In addition to his theater credits, Charlie is the bandleader for the Grammy award winning Video Game Music Jazz orchestra “The 8-Bit Big Band”

JAMES NOONE

SET DESIGN

James Noone has been a Scenic Designer in NYC since 1983 and a member of USA local 829 since 1986. During this time he has worked for some of NYC’s most prestigious theatre companies including Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, Lincoln Center Theatre, Roundabout Theatre Company and numerous others. Off-Broadway he designed the original productions of Terrance McNally’s FRANKIE AND JOHNNY IN THE CLAIR DE LUNE, Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize winning play THREE TALL WOMEN, the long running solo shows FULL GALLOP and FULLY COMMITTED. Other long running Off-Broadway shows include COWGIRLS , BREAKING LEGS, The original production of A BRONX TALE, the first revival of BOYS IN THE BAND and the musical RUTHLESS. Broadway productions include SUNSET BOULEVARD (revival) LADY DAY AT EMERSON’S BAR AND GRILL, the long running JEKYLL AND HYDE, A CLASS ACT, many productions for Tony Randall’s National Actors Theatre, including THE PERSIANS, JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG, NIGHT MUST FALL, THE SUNSHINE BOYS and THE GIN GAME and the Broadway revivals of A BRONX TALE and COME BACK LITTLE SHEBA.

Outside of NYC he has designed at many of the leading regional Theatres in America as well as numerous national tours including, THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE DC, THE CENTER THEATRE GROUP ( AHMANSON MARK TAPER FORUM AND CURT DOUGLAS THEATRES), THE GUTHRIE THEATRE, LONG WHARF THEATRE, GOODSPEED MUSICALS, PITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATRE, OLD GLOBE THEATRE, PASADENA PLAYHOUSE, CLEVELAND PLAYHOUSE, BALTIMORE CENTER STAGE, STUDIO THEATRE DC., SIGNATURE THEATRE DC, WILLIAMSTOWN THEATRE FESTIVAL and many others, His work in Opera has been seen at the GLIMMERGLASS FESTIVAL, NYC OPERA, LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO, HOUSTON GRAND OPERA, LA OPERA, WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA, ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA, ATLANTA OPERA,CANADIAN OPERA CO. CHATEAU DE VERSAILLES SPECTACLES, For Television he has designed for Live from Lincoln Center, Great Performances, and The HBO production of LADY DAY AT EMERSON’S BAR AND GRILL.

Currently he is an Associate Professor and head of The Scenic Design program at Boston University, a position held since 2000. 

SOPHIA CHOI

COSTUME DESIGN

Sophia Choi is a costume designer for stage and screen based in New York. Selected design credits include KPOP (Broadway), An Enemy Of The People (Yale Repertory Theatre), Notes On My Mother’s Decline (The Play Company & Andy Bragen Theatre Projects), Intelligence (Dutch Kills Theater Company), Anna May Wong: The Actress Who Died A Thousand Deaths (Cinthia Chen & Mabou Mines), and Stick Fly (The Juilliard School). Sophia holds an MFA in Design from the Yale School of Drama and a BFA in Theatre Design & Technology from VCU School of the Arts.

ALAN C. EDWARDS

LIGHTING DESIGN

ALAN EDWARDS (Lighting Designer) Work includes the world premieres of Harry Clarke (The Vineyard, Lortel Award), Kill Move Paradise (National Black Theatre, Drama Desk nomination), and The Hot Wing King by Katori Hall (Signature NYC, 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama). Other New York work includes: Anna Deavere Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, and Fires in the Mirror (Signature NYC); Twelfth Night, Seize The King, and Macbeth (Classical Theatre of Harlem); Bluebird Memories featuring rap-artist Common (Audible Theatre); and Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge by Greig Sargeant and Elevator Repair Service (The Public). Regional work includes: the world premier of Sally & Tom by Suzan-Lori Parks, Sweat, A Raisin In The Sun, We Are Proud to Present… (The Guthrie); Paradise Blue, and Lights Out: Nat King Cole (Geffen Playhouse); The Ripple The Wave That Carried Me Home (Yale Rep); the world premier of Tiny Father by Mike Lew (Barrington Stage); and the new South-African musical Calling Us Home, in Cape Town, South Africa. His work in dance includes: Where We Dwell, Chasing Magic, and NY City Center’s Artists At The Center by Ayodele Casel; Rhythm Is Life by Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards; and Lifted, choreographed by Christopher Rudd for American Ballet Theatre. On Broadway, Edwards was the associate to lighting designer Jennifer Tipton on The Testament of Mary. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, where he is also an assistant professor of lighting. @alancedwardsdesign, www.alancedwards.com. 

ELISABETH WEIDNER

SOUND DESIGN

Elisabeth Weidner is a Sound Designer and Composer based in NYC. She is a graduate of Florida State University where she holds a degree in Commercial Music. Elisabeth is a member of United Scenic Artists-Local 829 and serves as Co-Vice Chair for the TSDCA (Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association). Some theatre credits include: Broadway: Funny Girl (Associate Sound Designer). Off-Broadway: F*ck 7th Grade (Sound Designer), The Magnificent 7 (Sound Designer), Trevor (Assistant Sound Designer). Pre-Broadway Out of Town: Water For Elephants (Associate Sound Designer-Alliance Theatre). Resident Sound Designer/Composer: PCPA-Pacific Conservatory Theatre 2009-2019. Regional: Curran Theatre, Asolo Repertory Theatre, PCPA, First Stage Milwaukee, The Oregon Cabaret, The Ensemble Theatre, Bike City Theatre, SLO Rep, The Great American Melodrama. www.elisabethanneweidner.com

CAITE HEVNER

PROJECTION DESIGN

Broadway: In Transit; Derren Brown: SECRET; Harry Connick Jr., A Celebration of Cole Porter. Select New York: Sweatshop Overlord, NYTW (Lortel Nomination); Between the Lines, Tony Kiser Theatre (Drama Desk Nomination); Ars Nova, Atlantic, Carnegie Hall, Heartbeat Opera; Manhattan Concert Productions; MCC; MTC; Primary Stages; Roundabout, York. Select Regional: Alley, Arena, Alliance, Guthrie, McCarter, MUNY, Seattle 5th Avenue. Video Coordinator: BC/EFA’s Broadway Bares since 2018. USA829 Eastern Region Board Member Representative, Co-Chair of Respectful Workplace Committee. www.caitedesign.com Instagram: @caitehevner

Liz Printz

WIG DESIGNER

Liz Printz: [TV/Film] Emmy Nominated Hair stylist The Wiz Live!. [Producer] Feature film THORP: Streaming on Amazon Prime, Short film Sun Shine, Bird House, Halmoni’s Pot. [Wig Designer Credits] Goodspeed Opera House, Summer Stock, 5th Ave Theatre Griswold’s Broadway Vacation, Seattle Rep, Bruce, The Muny Legally Blonde, George Street Playhouse JOY Off B’Way, Oil of Olay Presents Olay Live!, Barrington Stage COMPANY, Bay Street Theatre Annie Get Your Gun, North Carolina Theatre, Theatre Raleigh, American Contemporary Theatre of Connecticut, Williamstown Theatre Festival. [Broadway Associate Wig Designer] COMPANY 1st National Tour, Diana: The Musical, Jersey Boys, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Hamilton, On Your Feet, Beautiful the Carol King Musical. Graduate of University of North Carolina School of the Arts “09 and Local 798 Member. Website lizprintzdesigns.com

ELLIE HANDEL

Production Stage Manager/ Associate Director

she/her – is a stage manager, director, and actor who has done just about every job in the theater. Her favorite credits are Emojiland (PSM, 1st Nat’l Tour), Billy Strayhorn: Something to Live For (ASM, Pittsburgh Public), My Fair Lady (Assistant Director, 2nd Nat’l Tour), and Indecent (Director, Next Stage Arts). BFA in Drama & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tisch’s New Studio on Broadway. Love to her family and friends. @EllieHandel.

DENISE SAVAS

Assistant Stage Manager

is excited to join the White Rose team! Off-Broadway: Without You (PSM). Circus: Teatro Zinzanni, Cabaret Zazou. Regional Companies: Theatre Wit, Northbrook Theatre, Shattered Globe, terraNOVA Collective, Emerald City Theatre, Provisions Theatre, and Collaboraction. Recently: Denise produced a feature documentary for Springhill Company and assted on the Lollapalooza 2023 Hulu livestream. She also produces podcast for Pinterest and Bridgespan and uses her creative skill as an Art Director and Production Stylist for brands like Live Nation and Showtime.

ADELE Rylands

FIGHT Director

They are continuously grateful to be able to work on new musicals. Selected Off-Broadway: Emojiland, Ladyship, Manuel vs. The Statue of Liberty. BFA in Original Work Direction at NYU. Proud member of the IATSE Local One. For the Bean. www.adelerylands.com

EMILY WHITE

DRAMATURG

Editorial Manager, New York City Center. Dramaturgy credits: Coal Country (The Public); Little Black Book; Lighthouse: An Immersive Drinking Musical; Reagle Music Theatre; Lyric Stage; Wheelock Family Theatre; Moonbox Productions. Assistant Producer, Public Square 2.0 Podcast. Member, LMDA. BA, Emerson College. Read more: https://howlround.com/commons/emily-white.

VAIBU MOHAN

CREATIVE CONSULTANT

Vaibu is a multi-faceted, Indian-American artist from Phoenix, AZ (via Montreal, Canada). She was born into a family of artists who surrounded her with music, dance, and theatre from before she was born. Vaibu made her stage debut as “The Cat‘’ at age 3 in her father’s play. She began learning Bharatnatyam from her mother at age five and they have been working together ever since. Vaibu received her BM from Arizona State University in musical theater performance and her MFA in musical theater writing from New York University with an emphasis on bookwriting and lyric writing. As a producer, Vaibu specializes in the development of production of new work and began a series called Work In Progress at 54 Below with Molly Heller to showcase new writers and give them a space to workshop material in front of a live audience. Vaibu is developing her own musical, Sati: Goddess Incarnate, with Zachary Catron and is releasing her first EP, Pure Brown Noise, in March 2023.

MELISSA D’ARABIAN

producer

Columbia University MFA theatre producing candidate and MBA who finds joy in numbers and in bringing people together. Grateful to join the incredible storytellers of White Rose: The Musical! Special thanks to my husband Philippe, my four daughters, my cohort and Erica. @melissadarabian

Jeff Laurinaitis

producer

Born and raised in Chicago, Jeff was introduced to the theatre at a young age and has enjoyed productions across the world. Currently residing in Charleston, S.C., with his family, Jeff decided to join the White Rose team to help tell the important true story about our past to stop hate after seeing how another historical performance inspired America a few years ago. 

LDK PRODUCTIONS

GENERAL MANAGEMENT / EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

LDK Productions is a theatrical general management and producing firm based in New York City, founded by Lisa Dozier Shacket in 2004. Lisa has managed more than one hundred professional productions, and has been on staff at the New 42nd Street, Manhattan Theatre Club, Symphony Space, American Repertory Theatre and New York Stage & Film. She is also on faculty at the University of Florida, served as the BFA Theatre Management program director at the University of Miami from 2013-2018, and was the founding producing director for Miami New Drama, a new regional theatre that produces and manages the 400 seat historic Colony Theatre on Miami Beach. Lisa served as the resident general manager for the National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s Festival of New Musicals from 2008-2018.

EISENBERG / BEANS CASTING

CASTING DIRECTOR

Daryl Eisenberg, CSA, & Ally Beans, CSA

Broadway: Gettin’ The Band Back Together. NY Theatre: Bedlam, Love & Science, Baghdaddy, SuperHero, Powerhouse, WP Theater, DVRF, Cherry Lane. Regional/Other: Dallas Theater Center, May We All, Heartbreak Hotel (Broadway in Chicago), Folger Theatre, Cape Cod Theatre Project, Norwegian Cruise Line, Arizona Theatre Company. Film: The Cathedral (Sundance), The MisEducation of Bindu (Peacock), Menorah In The Middle (Hulu), Angry Neighbors, Hey Vicktor (Tribeca), Shadows (HBO). Audio: Limetown, Shipworm, The Callisto Protocol, City of Ghosts. @EBCastingCo. www.ebcastingco.com

KEN DAVENPORT

EXECUTIVE CONSULTANT

Ken Davenport (Executive Consultant) is a Tony Award-winning Broadway producer and writer whose credits include Harmony: A New Musical written by Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman, A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical, 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 The Griswolds’ Broadway Vacation, JOY the Musical, The Ten and a musical based on the life of Harry Belafonte. www.KenDavenport.com.