Ben Sprecher
Ben Sprecher current slate includes LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE, the Musical, Daphne Du Maurier’s REBECCA the Musical, and the new Nilo Cruz/Frank Wildhorn musical HAVANA. Past Broadway productions include Judith Ivey in VOICES IN THE DARK, Alan Bates and Frank Langella in FORTUNE’S FOOL (Tony Award), Richard Dreyfuss in SLY FOX, Hal Holbrook’s MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Nathan Lane and Mathew Broderick in THE ODD COUPLE, Kevin Spacey in MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN, Alan Bates and Eileen Atkins in UNEXPECTED MAN, Macaulay Culkin in MADAME MELVILLE, Rachel Weiss and Gretchen Mol in Neil Labute’s THE SHAPE OF THINGS and Alan King in MR GOLDWYN.
Amy Sprecher
Amy Sprecher is a multi award-winning and Emmy-nominated producer and has dedicated her career to children and families, first as a teacher and then developing and producing quality programming in many types of media. She is the lead creative, marketing and education producer on Little House. Recent producer credits include the Emmy-nominated Paz and Toddworld. She has also received multiple Parent Choice Awards, Humanitas Award Certificates, and Kids First Film Festival awards.
Louise Forlenza
Louise Forlenza is the co founder of Global Broadway Productions. Global Broadway is currently developing musicals for Broadway, London’s West End, as well as national and international productions including LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE, the new Musical entitled HAVANA and Daphne Du Maurier’s acclaimed international musical REBECCA.
Bob Boyett
Broadway: 13 A New Musical, The Seagull, Boeing-Boeing, South Pacific, Sunday In The Park With George, 39 Steps, Seafarer, Rock N Roll, Journey’s End (Tony, Best Revival); Coast of Utopia (Tony, Best Play); Drowsy Chaperone; History Boys (Tony, Best Play); Monty Python’s Spamalot (Tony, Best Musical); The Pillowman; Glengarry Glenn Ross (Tony, Best Revival); The Frogs; Jumpers; Fiddler on the Roof; The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (2002, Tony); Topdog/Underdog (Pulitzer Prize)
Jay H. Harris
Harris has produced in 21 cites in the United States as well as Canada and the United Kingdom. Among his many productions are the Tony nominated Say Goodnight Gracie, New York and national tour, Respect The Musical, Jewtopia, American Buffalo, Evil Dead The Musical and Rock Tenor. His eleven London productions have won or been nominated for multiple awards. His United States and Canadian productions have won or been nominated for 29 awards.
William Franzblau
produced tours of Beatlemania, three tours of the Moscow Circus, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles tours, Disney’s Virtual Reality Ride the Comix attraction and was the Executive Producer of the 2003 Tony-nominated Best Play, Say Goodnight Gracie. Currently producing The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron, EVIL DEAD the Musical and the Nilo Cruz (Pulitzer Prize Winner)/ Frank Wildhorn/Jack Murphy, Sergio Trujillo Directed Broadway Musical, Havana He is a co-Producer on Little House on the Prairie.
Nelle Nugent
Her more than 50 B’way, touring, Off-B’way and West End productions include Dracula, the Elephant Man, Morning’s at Seven, Amadeus, Nicholas Nickleby, Sly Fox (revival),American Buffalo (revival) and more than a dozen independent feature films and movies for television, most recently she completed a feature film based on Athol Fugard’s Master Harold…and the boys, shot on location in Cape Town, South Africa. She has received five Tony Awards, two Obies, two NY Drama Critics Awards and numerous film and TV awards.
Tony Fusco
A noted trial lawyer made his producing debut with Kevin Spacey’s MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN. He has a lifelong passion for the theatre and is an accomplished singer, songwriter and actor. He has developed a full cabaret show staged by renowned director Richard Jay Alexander. He is also co-producing the Broadway bound musicals of Daphne Du Maurier’s REBECCA and HAVANA the Musical.
Larry Feinman
After twenty years as an executive at Barbara Matera Ltd, where he helped to make the world of Broadway, ballet, opera and music look magical, Larry Feinman is proud to have LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE as his producing debut, and thanks his friend and mentor, Louise Forlenza.
Peter Bezemes
Peter, the Executive Director of Peter Bezemes Casting, The Bezemes Entertainment Group and Lindenwood University’s J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts, is currently involved in the production “Little House on the Prairie the Musical” as a Producer and “Marvin Hamlisch Presents: The ‘70s, The Way We Were” as Executive Producer.
Friendly Theatrical, LLC
Is an entertainment financing and production company owned by Friendly Family Productions, LLC and managed by Edwin S. Friendly III, the son of Ed Friendly, the legendary television producer who created the “Little House on the Prairie” television series starring Michael Landon and Melissa Gilbert. Mr. Friendly is delighted to contribute to this theatrical production as it further broadens his family’s involvement with these beloved literary works.
Jon B. Platt
Tony Awards: Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (Pulitzer Prize for Drama), Perestroika, Copenhagen, God of Carnage. Tony nominations: Damn Yankees, Peter Pan, Hello, Dolly!, The Diary of Anne Frank, Lonesome West, Man of La Mancha, Wicked, You’re Welcome America. Current: Wicked (New York, San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Sydney, Stuttgart), God of Carnage, The 101 Dalmatians Musical.
Wendy Federman
Broadway – IMPRESSIONISM, HAIR (TONY Award Winner Best Musical Revival), MARY STUART (Seven TONY Nominations), BLITHE SPIRIT (TONY Award Winner Angela Landsbury), AMERICAN BUFFALO, PASSING STRANGE (TONY Award Winner Best Book), NOVEMBER, MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN with Kevin Spacey. National Tours – LEGENDS with Joan Collins and Linda Evans. Upcoming Broadway Shows: New Musical ADDAMS FAMILY starring Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth, revivals of the musical RAGTIME and Neil Simon’s BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS and BILOXI BLUES. Wendy has served on the boards of MCC Theatre, Penguin Rep and Gilda’s Club NNJ, and board of Bergen Performing Arts Center
Michael Filerman
Credits include “The Norman Conquests” (Tony winner, Best Revival), “Blithe Spirit” (revival), Will Ferrell’s “You’re Welcome America,” “Impressionism,” “November,” “The Homecoming”(Tony nom, Best Revival), and “Frozen” (Tony nom, Best Play), as well as “Tea At Five,” and “Bash’d” off Broadway.He developed and executive produced the long running tv series, “Knots Landing,” “Falcon Crest,” “Flamingo Road,” “Sisters,” and “Dallas.” TV movies include “Christmas Eve,” starring Loretta Young and “The Story Lady,” starring Jessica Tandy. He also produced the LA productions of “The 24th Day,” starring Peter Berg and Noah Wylie, and “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change.”
Marc Schwartz
A Former Casting Director, Senior Talent and Packaging Agent at the William Morris Agency and President of Personal Management Company, Fusion Management. He last produced the off-Broadway hit “bare” with his long time partner Jack Grossbart and the Dodgers. Upcoming projects for 2010 include both a sitcom and Talkshow starring Fusion’s clients. He is thrilled to be involved with “Little House the Musical” which stars his long time client and friend, Melissa Gilbert.
Karl Sydow
Many productions for theatre & film include: (USA) The Seagull, Terra Haute, Happy Days, Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker (6 Tony nominations, NY Critics Award Best Foreign Play, UK, Olivier Award Best Play). (UK) Dirty Dancing, Dance of Death with Ian McKellen, Some Explicit Polaroids by Mark Ravenhill (winner of the Evening Standard Award as Most Promising Newcomer) both directed by Max Stafford-Clark for Out of Joint. Karl is on the board of Out of Joint, the UK leading producer of new writing for the theatre. Latest film is A Bunch of Amateurs.
Bob Reich
Production credits include: Broadway : David Mamet’s AMERICAN BUFFALO; Off-Broadway: Stephen Schwartz’s CAPTAIN LOUIE (Little Shubert Theatre), BARBARA’S BLUE KITCHEN (Lamb’s Theatre); Regional: LITTLE HOUSE on the PRAIRIE (Guthrie Theatre), SAINT HEAVEN (Village Theatre); National Tours: LEGENDS (featuring Joan Collins and Linda Evans), CAPTAIN LOUIE; NYMF: ROLLER DERBY. Love to Johanna, Gregory, Kaila, Mindi, family and friends.
Sharon Carr
Sharon Carr is delighted to be involved in this production. Credits include – Broadway: Burn the Floor, American Buffalo; off-Broadway: I Love You Because (winner: Best Off-West End Musical 2007, London), Masked, Glimpses of the Moon; Regional: RESPECT: A Musical Journey of Women (Cleveland, Boston & Atlanta); Dirty Dancing (Toronto, US Pre-Broadway Tour), In development: IDAHO! The Musical Comedy Love Story (winner Best of Fest, Best Direction & Best Overall Design NYMF 2008).
Kenneth Teaton (Associate Producer)
SVP Production/Creative Affairs of The Foxboro Company, Inc. Teaton is an award- winning film and television producer. His recent film credit is MASTER HAROLD…and the boys . Broadway credits include David Mamet’s American Buffalo. He was a producer of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None (London’s West End). Off-broadway credits include Mother, Daughter, Gun. Kenneth is on the board of directors of AMAS Muscial Theatre and is on the advisory board of the Producers Guild of America east.
Tim Levy (Associate Producer)
Tim works as producer for Robert Boyett Theatricals. He previously worked at the Donmar Warehouse and then the National Theatre of Great Britain working on their Broadway transfers, including The Pillowman and The History Boys. Broadway credits include: 13, The 39 Steps and Boeing-Boeing.
Lynn Shaw (Associate Producer)
Lynn Shaw Productions was formed in 2006 to develop projects for television, theatre, radio and film. She was Associate Producer of the Off Broadway show The Last Word and worked on the Broadway shows Amadeus, The Crucible and Hairspray. She will produce See Mom? Run for stage in 2011.