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An Evening with The Band’s Visit

David Yazbek, Itamar Moses, David Cromer, Orin Wolf, Katrina Lenk, and Ari’el Stachel in Conversation with Michael Paulson – with special performances by cast members Katrina Lenk and Ari’el Stachel

The Band’s Visit is the winner of four Best Musical Awards and has been included on every major Best of the Year list, including The New York Times, New York, Time Out New York and Entertainment Weekly.

Based on the hit 2007 Israeli film, this deeply human and humorous musical tells the story of an Egyptian police band that’s sent to a remote village in the Israeli desert, where the locals take them in. Hear what the artists behind this moving celebration of cross-cultural exchange have to say about their show’s exciting journey, and its inspiring message of hope — composer and lyricist David Yazbek, librettist Itamar Moses, director David Cromer, producer Orin Wolf, and cast members Katrina Lenk and Ari’el Stachel.

David Yazbek

A varied career as a recording artist, Emmy Award-winning TV and screenwriter, music producer and pianist has somehow led David Yazbek to become one of Broadway’s preeminent composer/lyricists.

David Yazbek

A varied career as a recording artist, Emmy Award-winning TV and screenwriter, music producer and pianist has somehow led David Yazbek to become one of Broadway’s preeminent composer/lyricists. His three shows, The Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown have received a combined 24 Tony Award nominations, including three for Best Score. His newest musical, The Band’s Visit, earned him an Obie, New York Drama Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle and two Drama Desk awards for the Off-Broadway engagement at Atlantic Theatre Company. As a recording artist, Yazbek is responsible for five albums: The Laughing Man, Tock, Damascus, Tape Recorder and Evil Monkey Man. He has written and/or produced for such acts as XTC, Ruben Blades, The Persuasions, Joe Jackson, Tito Puente and many others. He also produced the original cast albums of his Broadway shows. He has three Grammy Award® nominations. In the past couple of years, he has scored the final season of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, composed music for Larry David’s Fish in the Dark and written songs and music for Much Ado About Nothing at Central Park’s Delacorte Theater, all while opening productions of Scoundrels and Women on the Verge in London’s West End. In past lives, he has written dozens of scripts and many songs for television and film, won an Emmy Award® for his stint on Late Night with David Letterman and wrote the unrelenting theme song for Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

Itamar Moses

Itamar Moses is the author of the full-length plays Outrage, Bach at Leipzig, Celebrity Row, The Four of Us, Yellowjackets, Back Back Back, Completeness and The Whistleblower.

Itamar Moses

Itamar Moses is the author of the full-length plays Outrage, Bach at Leipzig, Celebrity Row, The Four of Us, Yellowjackets, Back Back Back, Completeness and The Whistleblower; the musicals Nobody Loves You (with Gaby Alter), Fortress of Solitude (with Michael Friedman) and The Band’s Visit (with David Yazbek); and the evening of short plays Love/Stories (Or But You Will Get Used To It). His work has appeared Off-Broadway and elsewhere in New York, at regional theaters across the country and in Canada, Hong Kong, Israel, Venezuela, Turkey and Chile, and is published by Faber & Faber and Samuel French. Awards for his work include Lucille Lortel, New York Drama Critics Circle, Outer Critics Circle and Obie awards in New York, as well as awards from the Portland, San Diego, Dallas, and Bay Area Theatre Critics Circles. He’s received new play commissions from The McCarter, Playwrights Horizons, Berkeley Rep, The Wilma Theater, South Coast Rep, Manhattan Theatre Club, Lincoln Center, and Goodman Theatre. On television, Itamar has written for TNT’s Men of a Certain Age, HBO’s Boardwalk Empire and WGN’S Outsiders. He holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU and has taught playwriting at Yale and NYU. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect. Born in Berkeley, CA, he now lives in Brooklyn, NY.

David Cromer

David Cromer has received a Drama Desk, three Obies, three Lortels, four Jeff Awards and in 2010 was made a McArthur Foundation Fellow …

David Cromer

David Cromer (Director). Recent credits include: Man from Nebraska (Second Stage); the Off-Broadway premiere of The Band’s Visit (Atlantic Theatre Company); The Effect (Barrow Street Theatre); Come Back, Little Sheba (Huntington Theatre); Angels in America (Kansas City Rep); and Our Town at the Almeida Theatre in London, which he also directed in Chicago, New York (Barrow Street Theatre), Los Angeles, Boston and Kansas City. Additional New York Credits include: Women or Nothing at Atlantic, Really Really at MCC, The House of Blue Leaves and Brighton Beach Memoirs on Broadway, When the Rain Stops Falling and Nikolai and the Others at Lincoln Center Theater as well as Tribes, Orson’s Shadow (Barrow Street) plus Adding Machine, which was a BST production at the Minetta Lane. Originally from Chicago, his credits there include Sweet Bird of Youth (The Goodman), A Streetcar Named Desire, Picnic and The Price (Writers Theatre), Cherrywood, Mojo, and The Hot l Baltimore (Mary-Arrchie), The Cider House Rules (co-directed with Marc Grapey at Famous Door), and Angels in America (The Journeymen), among others. For his work he has received a Drama Desk, three Obies, three Lortels, four Jeff Awards and in 2010 was made a McArthur Foundation Fellow.

Katrina Lenk

Katrina Lenk (Dina) originated the role of “Dina” in Atlantic Theater Company's Off-Broadway production of The Band's Visit (Lucille Lortel Award for Best Actress in a Musical, Dorothy Loudon and Clarence Derwent Awards).

Katrina Lenk

Katrina Lenk (Dina) originated the role of “Dina” in Atlantic Theater Company's Off-Broadway production of The Band's Visit (Lucille Lortel Award for Best Actress in a Musical, Dorothy Loudon and Clarence Derwent Awards). Broadway: Indecent, Once, Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, The Miracle Worker. Off-Broadway/Regional includes: Indecent (Vineyard Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Yale Rep), Touch (59E59), iWitness (Mark Taper Forum), Lost Land (Steppenwolf Theatre), Elemeno Pea, The Caucasian Chalk Circle (South Coast Rep), Camille (Bard SummerScape) and Lovelace: A Rock Opera (LA Weekly, LADCC and Garland Awards). TV/Film: The Good Fight, The Get Down, Elementary, The Blacklist, Look Away, Evol, FracKtured, Crime Fiction, among others. She is co-creator of the comedy web series Miss Teri and a member of several bands including her own, moxy phinx. katrinalenk.com

Ari'el Stachel

Ari'el Stachel (Haled) is making his Broadway debut after originating the role of Haled at the Atlantic Theatre Company (Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk Award nominations).

Ari'el Stachel

Ari'el Stachel (Haled) is making his Broadway debut after originating the role of Haled at the Atlantic Theatre Company (Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk Award nominations). Regional: The Golem of Havana (Barrington Stage Company). Workshops: We Live in Cairo (NYTW), The Visitor (Public Theatre). TV: Blue Bloods (CBS), Jessica Jones (Netflix). New Studio graduate at NYU. Follow him @arielstachel

Orin Wolf

Orin Wolf is the lead producer of the new Broadway musical, The Band’s Visit, and the president of NETworks Theatrical Presentations …

Orin Wolf

Orin Wolf is the lead producer of the new Broadway musical, The Band’s Visit, and the president of NETworks Theatrical Presentations. His additional Broadway producing credits include Fiddler on the Roof (Tony Nominated), Beautiful -- The Carole King Musical (Tony Nominated), Orphans (Tony Nominated), Hands on a Hardbody, Once (Broadway Tony Award Winner, London and National Tour), That Championship Season, A View From the Bridge (Tony Nominated). His Off-Broadway and touring credits include: The Band’s Visit, Not By Bread Alone, Groundswell, Judy Gold's 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, Robert Wuhl's Assume the Position, History of the Word, I Love a Piano and more. Orin is the co-founder of OBB/Off Broadway Booking, an agency that pioneered a national touring market for off-Broadway shows. He is a graduate of the Commercial Theater Institute and was awarded the T-Fellowship for Creative Producing at Columbia University in conjunction with Hal Prince and is now the Director.

Michael Paulson

Michael Paulson is the theater reporter for The New York Times …

Michael Paulson

Michael Paulson is the theater reporter for The New York Times. He previously covered religion at The Times and at The Boston Globe. He was part of the Boston Globe team whose coverage of clergy sexual abuse in the Catholic Church won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

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