WHO’S WHO in the CAST
A Chorus Line, Smokey Joe’s Café, And The
World Goes Round. Regional theaters: Paper Mill
Playhouse, Goodspeed, Atlanta TUTS, San Jose
Music Theatre. Thanks to Mom, Dad and Lenore.
BRINIE WALLACE (Swing) is honored to be
back in the states after premiering The Book of
Mormon in Australia! Thanks to the Tombros’,
Jen Waldman, the YoungArts Foundation, the
Broadway Dreams Foundation and her PSU
Mis ts! Recent grad, Penn State.
TREY PARKER (Co-Director, Book, Music,
Lyrics) wrote and directed his first feature film,
Cannibal! The Musical, while attending the
University of Colorado in Boulder. A few years
later, he co-created the hit animated series South
Park with Matt Stone (his college friend and
Cannibal! producer). Debuting on Comedy Central
in 1997 and currently in its 16th season, South
Park has won four Emmy Awards as well as the
coveted Peabody Award. The same year South Park
debuted, Mr. Parker wrote, directed, and starred in
the lm Orgazmo. Two years later he and Stone
released the critically acclaimed feature lm South
Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. The musical, which
Mr. Parker directed and co-wrote, earned an Oscar
nomination for Best Song and the rst ever New
York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Animated
Film. In 2004 the pair returned to movies with
Team America: World Police, an action movie
co-written and directed by Parker, starring a cast
of marionettes. It has been a long-time dream of
his to write a musical for Broadway. Mr. Parker is
originally from Conifer, Colorado.
ROBERT LOPEZ (Book, Music, Lyrics) is the
Tony, Grammy, and Emmy-winning co-creator of
the smash hit musicals Avenue Q and The Book of
Mormon. With wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez, he
wrote the songs for Disney’s blockbuster movie
Frozen, their hit song “Let It Go” nominated for an
Oscar and Golden Globe Award. They also wrote
songs for Winnie the Pooh (Disney Animation,
2011) and Finding Nemo: The Musical (playing at
Walt Disney World since 2006). They are currently
writing an original stage musical called Up Here,
directed by Alex Timbers. Mr. Lopez shared two
Emmy Awards for his music for The Wonder Pets
and an Emmy nomination for the Scrubs musical
episode. His work has been seen on South Park,
The Simpsons, and Phineas and Ferb. He is a
member of BMI Workshop, Dramatists Guild
Council, WGA, and AEA. He is a Yale grad and
native New Yorker. Thanks Buzzetti, Mom, Dad,
Billy, Katie, Annie, and especially, Kristen for all
the love and support.
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MATT STONE (Book, Music, Lyrics) met Trey
Parker at the University of Colorado, and together
they made a short animated piece called The Spirit
of Christmas. This launched their most recognized
work, the critically acclaimed and award-winning
television show, South Park. The animated series
is in its 16th season on Comedy Central and has
won Mr. Stone four Emmy Awards and the coveted
Peabody Award. South Park: Bigger, Longer &
Uncut, which he produced and co-wrote, earned an
Oscar nomination and the New York Film Critics
Circle Award for Best Animated Film. In addition
to South Park, he has partnered with Parker on the
low-budget Cannibal! The Musical, the superhero
comedy Orgazmo, and the marionette action
thriller Team America: World Police. Mr. Stone is
originally from Littleton, Colo.
CASEY NICHOLAW (Co-Director,
Choreographer) won 2011 Tony, Drama Desk,
and Outer Critics Circle awards for his work
as co-director of The Book of Mormon. Other
Broadway credits: Elf: The Musical, The Drowsy
Chaperone (2006 Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer
Critics Circle nominations) and Monty Python’s
Spamalot, directed by Mike Nichols (2005 Tony,
Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle nominations
for Best Choreography). Additional New York
credits: for City Center Encores!, the highly
acclaimed productions of Anyone Can Whistle
and Follies (direction and choreography), Bye Bye
Birdie (choreography), and Can-Can (musical
staging); and for NY Philharmonic Candide;
South Pacific at Carnegie Hall (also on PBS
Great Performances), and Sinatra: His Voice, His
World, His Way at Radio City Music Hall starring
the world-famous Rockettes. He directed and
choreographed the world premieres of Minsky’s at
Center Theatre Group, Robin and the 7 Hoods at the
Old Globe, and Disney’s Aladdin at the 5th Avenue
in Seattle.
SCOTT PASK (Scenic Design). Selected
Broadway: The Book of Mormon (Tony); The
Pillowman (Tony); Waitress; Oh Hello; Pippin
(Tony nom.); Something Rotten!; The Father, The
Visit; An Act of God; It’s Only a Play; Airline
Highway; I’ll Eat You Last; A Steady Rain;
Promises, Promises; Hair; The Coast of Utopia
(Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Hewes
awards); Pal Joey (Tony nom.); Les Liaisons
Dangereuses – rst revival (Tony nom., Drama
Desk Award); Nine; The Lieutenant of Inishmore;
Speed-the-Plow; November; Take Me Out; Martin
Short…; The Vertical Hour; Sweet Charity;
Urinetown. London: The Book of Mormon, The
Playboy of the Western World, The Country Girl,
Love Song, On an Average Day (all West End);