freestyle love supreme
Cast
Creative
AndrewBancroft
AKA Jelly Donut
KurtCrowley
AKA The Lord and Lady Crowley
TarikDavis
AKA Tardis Hardaway
AneesaFolds
AKA Young Nees
KailaMullady
AKA Kaiser Rözé
ChrisSullivan
AKA Shockwave
AnthonyVeneziale
AKA Co-Founder/Two-Touch
is a writer and performer in New York. He made his Broadway debut with Freestyle Love Supreme in 2019. Bancroft is a co-founder of FLS Academy and a member of the band Moondrunk. As rapper Jelly Donut, he has been featured in MTV’s “TRL,” Rolling Stone, and Time. Bancroft writes musicals and is an award-winning ad writer/creative director. He loves whales. He is grateful to FLS, his family, and his friends for their love and support.
KurtCrowley
AKA The Lord and Lady Crowley
As MD and keyboard player, previous work in theatre includes Hamilton, Freestyle Love Supreme, Bring It On: The Musical, and In the Heights. Executive music producer of tick, tick…BOOM! and vocal supervisor on In the Heights (Warner Bros.). He has written arrangements for Vail Dance Festival, Kennedy Center Honors, Somewhere (Hartford), and the European tour of Carmen La Cubana. Co-arranger and music producer for Bolero and Of Thee I Sing with Juilliard; conceived and produced the piece Variations on America, featuring Yo-Yo Ma and Chris Thile. Te amo, Carlito.
TarikDavis
AKA Tardis Hardaway
is an actor, writer, and avid pop-culture consumer based in New York City with a 20-year history of acting, performing improv, and writing comedy. Best known as the sidekick and announcer on “The Amber Ruffin Show” (Peacock). Tarik created the urban fantasy-noir comic strip “Apple City” (2020). He is a principal performer in Freestyle Love Supreme (Special Tony Award) on Broadway and the upcoming national tour. Tarik has appeared in multiple commercials and television shows including “The Undoing,” “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” “Ray Donovan,” “Friends From College,” and “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.” Instructor at the FLS Academy.
is beyond thrilled to be back on Broadway with these beautiful humans! Broadway credits include Freestyle Love Supreme. Off-Broadway/NYC: Sistas the Musical. Regional: North Shore Music Theatre, Goodspeed Opera House, Arrow Rock Lyceum. National Tour: Ragtime. Film/VO: Vivo; tick, tick…BOOM! Features include Disney Channel, “Sesame Street,” and Rolling Stone. Instructor at FLS Academy. Much love to my team, family, and friends. Yeeerrrr!
KailaMullady
AKA Kaiser Rözé
is the 2015 and 2018 World Beatbox Champion. She travels the world incorporating singing, beatboxing, and theatre to push the boundaries of storytelling and show just what the human instrument is capable of. She is passionate about teaching others how to beatbox through her Beatbox Education Platform, The Academy of Noise.
has appeared on “The Electric Company,” “The Daily Show,” “The Real Housewives of NYC,” “SportsNation,” The Hamilton Mixtape, and various programming for MTV and College Humor. Shockwave has trained and performed with The UCB Theatre, The PIT, Annoyance Theatre, and Beatboxer Entertainment, and is a co-creator of the FLS Academy. Love and gratefulness to the Ars Nova family, Foxboro High School Music Program, Angus MacGyver, Britt, and Yoda.
AnthonyVeneziale
AKA Co-Founder/Two-Touch
is conceiver and co-creator of FLS and FLS Academy. Founding member of American Immigrants (San Francisco). He has used improv techniques to create endeavors for television (Cartoon Network, Sesame Workshop, Boardwalk Pictures), for theatre (FLS, The Freeze, American Immigrants), and for business (TED, Google, Adobe, Salesforce, and many more). He is a co-founder of speechlessinc.com, an improv-thinking company that helps humans create, collaborate, and find their authentic voice, as well as co-founder of the FLS Academy, where equitable play fosters diverse communities of creative voices. Stage: Freestyle Love Supreme, Servicemen. TV: “Sex and the City,” “Looking,” “Kid of the Year.” Special thanks to all my teachers including Caricia, Jett, and Oci—the loves of my life.
ThomasKail
Co-Founder/Director/
Producer
Producer
Lin-ManuelMiranda
Co-Founder/Producer
Jenny & JonSteingart
Producers
JillFurman
Producer
BeowulfBoritt
Scenic Design
LisaZinni
Costume Designer
JeffCroiter
Lighting Design
NevinSteinberg
Sound Design
ArthurLewis
Music Supervisor
BillSherman
Music Supervisor
ChrisSullivan
Music Supervisor
Cody RenardRichard
Production Stage Manager/Associate Director
PatrickVassel
Associate Director
HolliCampbell
Company Manager
CandiAdams PR
Press Representative
MichaelAarons
Music Coordinator
Hudson TheatricalAssociates
Technical Supervisor
BaselineTheatrical
General Management
ThomasKail
Co-Founder/Director/
Producer
Broadway directing credits include Hamilton, In the Heights, Lombardi, and Magic/Bird. Off-Broadway selected directing credits include the world premiere of Hamilton, Dry Powder, Tiny Beautiful Things, and Kings at The Public Theater; the world premiere of The Wrong Man at MCC Theater; the world premiere of In the Heights, Broke-ology, and the world premiere of When I Come to Die at Lincoln Center Theater; and the world premiere of Daphne’s Dive at Signature Theatre. Broadway producing credits include Derren Brown: Secret and Freestyle Love Supreme. Television directing and producing credits include “Hamilton” on Disney+, “Fosse/ Verdon” on FX and “Grease: Live” on Fox. Graduate of Wesleyan University.
Lin-ManuelMiranda
Co-Founder/Producer
Pulitzer Prize, Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award–winning songwriter, actor, director, and producer. Creator and original star of Broadway’s Tony-winning Hamilton and In the Heights. Additional Broadway: Freestyle Love Supreme (2020 Special Tony Award Recipient), Bring It On: The Musical (co-composer/co-lyricist, Tony nomination for Best Musical), and West Side Story (2009 revival, Spanish translations). Recipient of the 2015 MacArthur Foundation Award, the 2018 Kennedy Center Honors, and the 2019 Portrait of a Nation Prize. Emmy Award winner with Tom Kitt for their song “Bigger” from the 67th Annual Tony Awards. Mr. Miranda, and The Miranda Family, are active supporters of initiatives that increase people of color’s representation throughout the arts and government, ensure access to women’s reproductive health, and promote resilience in Puerto Rico. TV/film: “Hamilton” (2021 Emmy Award), “His Dark Materials,” “Fosse/Verdon,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm” (2018 Emmy nomination), “Saturday Night Live” (2017 Emmy nomination), “Sesame Street,” “The Electric Company,” “House,” “DuckTales,” “200 Cartas,” The Odd Life of Timothy Green, Moana (Grammy Award for Best Original Song), Mary Poppins Returns, In the Heights, and Vivo. Additional 2021 film releases: tick, tick...BOOM! (film directorial debut) and Disney’s Encanto.
Jenny & JonSteingart
Producers
Theatre: Freestyle Love Supreme (Special Tony Award); Sir Patrick Stewart’s A Christmas Carol; Mean Girls; Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish; and Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812. Film/TV: “We Are Freestyle Love Supreme” (Hulu), Black Dynamite (Sony Film/Adult Swim TV). Co-founding partners of the Japanese animation studio Ultra Super Pictures (Trigger, Sanzigen, Ordet, and Liden films) and FLS Academy. They are also the founders of Ars Nova, New York City’s premier theatre for emerging artists and new work.
JillFurman
Producer
Broadway: Freestyle Love Supreme (Special Tony Award), Hamilton (Tony Award), In the Heights (Tony Award), Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, The Heiress, Seminar, West Side Story, The Drowsy Chaperone, Sly Fox, and Fortune’s Fool. Film/television: “Hamilton” (Emmy Award), In the Heights, and “We Are Freestyle Love Supreme.” In 2011, Furman received the Robert Whitehead Award for Outstanding Achievement in Commercial Theatre Producing. Furman is a co-founding partner of Freestyle Love Supreme Academy. She is on the board of the Lung Cancer Research Foundation, the Corporation of Brown University, and the President’s Advisory Council for the Arts at Brown.
BeowulfBoritt
Scenic Design
FLS at Ars Nova in 2005. Broadway: Act One (Tony Award), The Scottsboro Boys (Tony nomination), Thérèse Raquin (Tony nomination), Come From Away, Be More Chill, The New One, Bernhardt/Hamlet, Meteor Shower, A Bronx Tale, Prince of Broadway, Hand to God, Sondheim on Sondheim, …Spelling Bee, LoveMusik, Rock of Ages, Chaplin, Bronx Bombers, Grace, The Two and Only, On the Town, Sunday in the Park…. Off-Broadway: 100 shows.
Freestyle Love Supreme (Broadway & Off-Broadway); West Side Story (IHI Stage Around 360 production in Tokyo); Remember Our Song and Breaking Bricks (Tulsa Ballet); Broadway Associate Designer of SIX; School of Rock; Cats; An American in Paris; The Play That Goes Wrong; The Glass Menagerie; Hair; Rent, including the National & International Tours and “Rent: Live” on Fox. 20 years of Regional and Off-Broadway design credits, web series Submissions Only. 3D curator for the Museum of Broadway.
JeffCroiter
Lighting Design
Broadway: Bandstand, Falsettos, Holiday Inn, Something Rotten!, Penn & Teller, Newsies, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Pee-wee Herman Show, Next Fall, Mothers and Sons. Off-Broadway: Beyond Babel, Mac Beth, The Other Josh Cohen, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Jerry Springer the Opera, Tiny Beautiful Things, Cost of Living, and The Last Five Years. Received Tony, Hewes, and Bass awards and Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lortel, NAACP, Ovation, and AUDELCO nominations. Jeff is a producer of the 4Wall Roundtable and the animated series “Light Humor.”
NevinSteinberg
Sound Design
Recent Broadway: Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Hadestown (Tony Award), Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, The Cher Show, Bandstand, Bright Star, It Shoulda Been You, Mothers and Sons, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Tony nomination), The Performers, Magic/Bird. More than 30 Broadway productions with Acme Sound Partners and five additional Tony nominations: The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Fences, Hair, In the Heights.
ArthurLewis
Music Supervisor
Arthur Lewis is a singer, songwriter, keyboardist and composer, and a founding member of FLS. His solo work is available on all streaming platforms, and he performs regularly in a duo with storyteller/ artist Joèl Leon.
BillSherman
Music Supervisor
Bill Sherman is a Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award–winning music director, producer, and composer best known for his work on In the Heights, “Sesame Street,” Hamilton, and “Donkey Hodie.” He is the music supervisor for & Juliet, a musical featuring the music of Max Martin in the West End. Most recently, he served as executive music producer for the film adaptation of In the Heights and tick, tick...BOOM! Love to Maya, Luna, and Autumn.
ChrisSullivan
Music Supervisor
Chris Sullivan has appeared on “The Electric Company,” “The Daily Show,” “The Real Housewives of NYC,” “SportsNation,” “The Hamilton Mixtape,” and various programming for MTV and College Humor. Chris AKA “Shockwave” has trained and performed with The UCB Theatre, The PIT, Annoyance Theatre, and Beatboxer Entertainment, and is a co-creator of the FLS Academy. Love and gratefulness to the Ars Nova family, Foxboro High School Music Program, Angus MacGyver, Britt, and Yoda.
Cody Renard Richard is ecstatic to be back with the FLS fam! Cody has worked on 14 Broadway productions; favorites include Pass Over, Hamilton, Kinky Boots, and After Midnight. TV: “Annie Live!” (upcoming), VMAs, Tony Awards, “Jesus Christ Superstar Live!”, “Hairspray Live!”, “The Wiz Live!” Cirque du Soleil: Paramour, OVO, Wintuk. Other favorites: Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, City Center Encores! Cody has served as adjunct faculty at Columbia, Fordham, and NYU. He has been featured by CNN, Forbes, and Variety, and as Out Magazine’s 2020 Out 100 honoree. CRR Scholarship program founder.
PatrickVassel
Associate Director
Broadway: Hamilton (Associate and Supervising Director), Magic/Bird (AD). Off-Broadway: Freestyle Love Supreme (Greenwich House), Hamilton (The Public Theater), Working (Prospect). Credits include In a Little Room (Ten Bones); Sorin and Six Characters… (Notre Dame); Welcome to the Gun Show (ANT Fest); Nothing Left to Burn (O’Neill semifinalist, Ars Nova ANT Fest).
Broadway: Hamilton, The Humans, Blackbird, Dames at Sea, Gigi, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, and The Glass Menagerie. Director of Curriculum for Beyond the Stage Door (@beyondthestagedoor). She is a graduate of the University of Evansville and a proud New Orleanian. All my love to Mom and Phil, Dad and Sue, and Hannah.
Broadway: Freestyle Love Supreme (Special Tony Award); Al Pacino in The Merchant of Venice; Man of La Mancha with Brian Stokes Mitchell; Fortune’s Fool with Frank Langella; Fiddler on the Roof with Alfred Molina. Off-Broadway: Richard Nelson’s The Michaels Abroad; Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish, directed by Joel Grey. Press for The Public Theater (NY): Hamilton, Fun Home, Latin History for Morons, Seawall/A Life, Sweat, Eclipsed, Here Lies Love, Hair, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson.
Broadway: Jagged Little Pill, Moulin Rouge!, Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, Flying Over Sunset, Diana. Off-Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors. Tours: Frozen, Hamilton (National Tours, Los Angeles), Pretty Woman, Dear Evan Hansen. Aarons is a partner of M2 Music with Michael Keller.
Hudson TheatricalAssociates
Technical Supervisor
Over 100 Broadway productions and tours. Recent: Chicken & Biscuits; David Byrne’s American Utopia; Mrs. Doubtfire; Caroline, or Change; Girl From the North Country; Jagged Little Pill; Hadestown; Ain’t Too Proud; Hamilton; Aladdin. HTA is a member of Neil A. Mazzella’s Hudson family, which includes Hudson Scenic Studio, Sean Gorski, Christy Perez, Sam Ellis, Frank Swann, Brianne Tabak, and Irene Wang.
Founded by Andy Jones in 2014 and joined by Nick Lugo, Baseline’s Broadway credits include Hamilton; Pass Over; Freestyle Love Supreme; Derren Brown: Secret; The Cher Show; The Great Comet…; The Last Ship. Off-Broadway: Audible Theatre at Minetta Lane, The Enigmatist. National Tours: Hamilton. Recently established Beyond the Stage Door, a no-cost educational intensive created to prepare underrepresented undergraduates for theater-management careers.