The Lazours / Book, Music & Lyrics

Daniel and Patrick Lazour are brothers and music theatre writers. Projects in development include a musical adaptation of Ritesh Batra’s film The Lunchbox (Lincoln Center Theater) and their show with communal singing, Night Side Songs (Under the Radar, PTC/A.R.T. co-production). They wrote original music for Caroline Lindy’s debut feature, Your Monster (Sundance 2024) and their movie musical Challenger: An American Dream is being developed with Bruce Cohen Productions and Spark Features. Their musical We Live in Cairo had its first production at American Repertory Theater in 2019, directed by Taibi Magar. Original songs by the Lazours can be heard on their independently released albums: Freres, Flap My Wings (Songs from We Live in Cairo), Beth’s Homemade Cowboy Breakfast and Lullabies. They are Jonathan Larson Grant and Richard Rodgers Award recipients, MacDowell and Yaddo Fellows, and New York Theater Workshop Usual Suspects. They have worked with Noor Theatre Company, Ars Nova and PAC NYC, and are proud teaching artists. Patrick holds a B.A. from Boston College and Daniel holds a B.A. from Columbia University. @frereslazour

Taibi Magar / Director

Taibi Magar is an Artistic Director of Philadelphia Theatre Company. As a freelance director, her most recent credits are: Half-God of Rainfall (NYTW), Help (The Shed) and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (Signature Theatre, Lortel Award Best Revival). Other NY credits include: Capsule by Whitney White and Peter Mark Kendall (Under the Radar Festival/The Public Theater, co-directed with Tyler Dobrowsky) Blue Ridge starring Marin Ireland and The Great Leap starring BD Wong (Atlantic Theater Company); Is God Is (Soho Rep, 2018 Obie Award;) Master (The Foundry); and Underground Railroad Game (Ars Nova, Obie Award). Regional: CTG, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre, Alley Theatre, The Guthrie Theater, and Seattle Repertory Theatre, among others. International: Hamburg Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Malthouse Theatre (Melbourne), and Soho Theatre (London). MFA: Brown University 

Ann Yee / Choreography & Movement Director

Tilly Grimes / Scenic Design

Dina El-Aziz / Costume Design

Bradley King / Lighting Design

Justin Stasiw / Sound Design

David Bengali / Video Design

Daniel Lazour & Michael Starobin / Orchestrations

Madeline Benson / Vocal Arrangements & Music Supervisor

Mona Seyed-Bolorforosh / Music Director

Xavier Clark / Voice & Text Coach

Jon Knust / Properties Supervisor

Jon is happy to be making his NYTW debut. Selected credits include: Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Broadway); Waiting for Godot, Des Moines, The Merchant of Venice, Gnit, The Winter’s Tale, The Skin of Our Teeth, About Alice, The Father, and A Doll’s House (TFANA); A Bright New Boise, Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek, Big Love and Appropriate (Signature); and Peter and the Starcatcher (tour). Jon got his start in props at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and graduated from Eastern Connecticut State University.

Raphael Mishler / Puppet Design

Raphael Mishler (he/him) creates visuals for live performance. Puppets include June Rites! (Waterwell),  Tumacho (Clubbed Thumb, Drama Desk Award, Henry Hewes nom), The Amateurs (Vineyard), Collective Rage…(MCC) and with groups including Jewish Voice for Peace,  Fight for 15!, Great Small Works, and People’s Puppets of OWS.  Also scenery including Weasel Festival (BAM), The Fires (Soho Rep,  Henry Hewes nom.), Is It Thursday Yet (La Jolla Playhouse, assoc.), and 24 Decade History of Popular Music(Pomegranate Arts, tour assoc.). He is a founding member of Brooklyn-based cultural organizing hub Building Stories, and is an affiliate artist with Clubbed Thumb.

Claire Yenson / Casting

Jeff Brancato / Production Stage Manager