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Jeff Whitty

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Jeffrey Daniel "Jeff" Whitty (born September 30, 1971) is an American playwright and actor. [1]

53 relations: Actor, Ahmanson Theatre, Alex Lacamoire, Alliance Theatre, Amanda Green, American Conservatory Theater, American Theatre Wing, Amy Freed, Andy Blankenbuehler, Armistead Maupin, Atlanta, Atlantic Theater Company, Avenue Q, Billy Porter (entertainer), Bring It On: The Musical, Broadway theatre, Coos Bay, Oregon, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Georgia (U.S. state), Goodman Theatre, Jake Shears, Jason Moore (director), Jeff Marx, Judy Kaye, LGBT culture in New York City, Libretto, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lisa Picard Is Famous, Manhattan, Mary Birdsong, New York City, New York Theatre Workshop, New York University, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Playwright, Playwrights Horizons, Robert Lopez, Scissor Sisters, Shortbus, South Coast Repertory, St. James Theatre, Tales of the City, The Beard of Avon, The Go-Go's, The Laramie Project, Tom Kitt (musician), Tony Award, Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, United States, ..., University of Oregon, Wesley Taylor, West End theatre. Expand index (3 more) »

Actor

An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.

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Ahmanson Theatre

The Ahmanson Theatre is one of the four main venues that comprise the Los Angeles Music Center.

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Alex Lacamoire

Alex Lacamoire (born May 24, 1975) is an American musician of Cuban descent, an arranger, conductor, musical director, music copyist, and orchestrator who has worked on many shows both on and off Broadway.

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Alliance Theatre

The Alliance Theatre is a theater company in Atlanta, Georgia, based at the Alliance Theatre, part of the Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, and is the winner of the 2007 Regional Theatre Tony Award.

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Amanda Green

Amanda Green (born December 29, 1963) is an American actress, singer and songwriter.

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American Conservatory Theater

The American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) is a large non-profit theater company in San Francisco, California, that offers both classical and contemporary theater productions, as well as being an acting school.

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American Theatre Wing

The American Theatre Wing, "the Wing" for short, is a New York City-based organization "dedicated to supporting excellence and education in theatre," according to its mission statement.

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Amy Freed

Amy Freed (born 1958) is an American playwright.

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Andy Blankenbuehler

Andy Blankenbuehler (born March 7, 1970) is an American dancer, choreographer and director primarily for stage and concerts.

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Armistead Maupin

Armistead Jones Maupin, Jr. (born May 13, 1944) is an American writer, best known for Tales of the City, a series of novels set in San Francisco.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital city and most populous municipality of the state of Georgia in the United States.

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Atlantic Theater Company

Atlantic Theater Company is an Off-Broadway non-profit theater, whose mission is to produce great plays "simply and truthfully utilizing an artistic ensemble." The company was founded in 1985 by David Mamet, William H. Macy, and 30 of their acting students from New York University, inspired by the historical examples of the Group Theatre and Stanislavski.

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Avenue Q

Avenue Q is an American musical in two acts, conceived by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, who wrote the music and lyrics.

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Billy Porter (entertainer)

Billy Porter (born September 21, 1969) is an American stage performer, pop singer, film and television actor and vocal coach.

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Bring It On: The Musical

Bring It On: The Musical is a musical with music by Tom Kitt and Lin-Manuel Miranda, lyrics by Amanda Green and Miranda, and a book by Jeff Whitty.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Coos Bay, Oregon

Coos Bay (Coos language: Atsixiis) is a city located in Coos County, Oregon, United States, where the Coos River enters Coos Bay on the Pacific Ocean.

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Eugene O'Neill Theater Center

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit theater company founded in 1964 by George C. White.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.

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Goodman Theatre

Goodman Theatre is a professional theater company located in Chicago's Loop.

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Jake Shears

Jason F. Sellards (born October 3, 1978), better known as Jake Shears, is an American singer and songwriter.

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Jason Moore (director)

Jason Moore (born October 22, 1970) is an American director of film, theatre and television.

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Jeff Marx

Jeff Marx (born September 10, 1970) is an American composer and lyricist of musicals.

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Judy Kaye

Judy Kaye (born October 11, 1948) is an American singer and actress.

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LGBT culture in New York City

New York City has one of the largest LGBT populations in the world and the most prominent.

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Libretto

A libretto is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda

Lin-Manuel Miranda (born January 16, 1980) is an American composer, lyricist, playwright, and actor of Puerto Rican ancestry best known for creating and starring in the Broadway musicals In the Heights and Hamilton. He co-wrote the songs for Disney's ''Moana'' soundtrack (2016) and is set to co-star in the upcoming film Mary Poppins Returns. Miranda's awards include a Pulitzer Prize, three Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and three Tony Awards. Miranda wrote the music and lyrics for the musical In the Heights, which premiered on Broadway in 2008. For this work, he won the 2008 Tony Award for Best Original Score, the show's cast album won the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album and the show won the Tony Award for Best Musical. Miranda was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance in the show's lead role. Miranda prepared Spanish translations used in the 2009 Broadway production of West Side Story and was co-composer and lyricist for Bring It On: The Musical, which played on Broadway in 2012. His television work includes recurring roles on The Electric Company (2009–2010) and Do No Harm (2013). He hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time in 2016 and earned his first Emmy award nomination for acting. Among other film work, Miranda contributed music and vocals for a scene in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015). Miranda is most celebrated for writing the book, music and lyrics for Hamilton: An American Musical, which has been acclaimed as a pop culture phenomenon since its Broadway premiere in August 2015. The show earned the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, and was nominated for a record-setting 16 Tony Awards, of which it won 11, including Best Musical, Best Original Score and Best Book. For his performance in the lead role of Alexander Hamilton, Miranda was nominated for another Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. The ''Hamilton'' cast recording spent ten weeks atop Billboards Top Rap Albums chart in 2015, while The Hamilton Mixtape, an album of covers of songs from the musical, developed by and featuring Miranda, reached number one on the Billboard 200 upon release in December 2016. Miranda has emerged as an influential political activist, particularly in the wake of Hurricane Maria's devastation in Puerto Rico, for which he raised $30 million for the rescue efforts.

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Lisa Picard Is Famous

Lisa Picard is Famous, also known as Famous, is a 2000 comedy-drama film directed by Griffin Dunne and written by Nat DeWolf & Laura Kirk.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Mary Birdsong

Mary Evans Birdsong (born April 18, 1968) is an American actress, comedian, writer, and singer.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Theatre Workshop

New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) is an Off-Broadway theatre noted for its productions of new works.

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New York University

New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City.

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Oregon Shakespeare Festival

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) is a regional repertory theatre in Ashland, Oregon, United States.

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Philadelphia Theatre Company

The Philadelphia Theatre Company (PTC) is designated as a LORT D, for the 2018-19 season theater company located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Playwright

A playwright or dramatist (rarely dramaturge) is a person who writes plays.

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Playwrights Horizons

Playwrights Horizons is a not-for-profit Off-Broadway theater located in New York City dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American playwrights, composers, and lyricists, and to the production of their new work.

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Robert Lopez

Robert Lopez (born February 23, 1975) is an American songwriter of musicals, best known for co-creating The Book of Mormon and Avenue Q, and for composing the songs featured in the Disney animated films Frozen and Coco.

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Scissor Sisters

Scissor Sisters is an American pop/rock band formed in 2001.

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Shortbus

Shortbus is a 2006 American erotic comedy-drama film written and directed by John Cameron Mitchell.

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South Coast Repertory

South Coast Repertory (SCR) is a professional theatre company located in Costa Mesa, California.

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St. James Theatre

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Tales of the City

Tales of the City is a series of nine novels written by American author Armistead Maupin.

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The Beard of Avon

The Beard of Avon is a play by Amy Freed, originally commissioned and produced by South Coast Repertory in 2001.

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The Go-Go's

The Go-Go's are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1978.

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The Laramie Project

The Laramie Project is a 2000 play by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project (specifically, Leigh Fondakowski, Stephen Belber, Greg Pierotti, Barbara Pitts, Stephen Wangh, Amanda Gronich, Sara Lambert, John McAdams, Maude Mitchell, Andy Paris, and Kelli Simpkins) about the reaction to the 1998 murder of gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming.

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Tom Kitt (musician)

Thomas Robert Kitt (born February 28, 1974) is an American composer, conductor, orchestrator, and musician.

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Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre.

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Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical

The Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical is awarded to librettists of the spoken, non-sung dialogue, and storyline of a musical play.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University of Oregon

The University of Oregon (also referred to as UO, U of O or Oregon) is a public flagship research university in Eugene, Oregon.

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Wesley Taylor

Wesley Taylor (born August 13, 1986) is an American stage actor and writer, best known for his work in musical theatre and television.

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West End theatre

West End theatre is a common term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of "Theatreland" in and near the West End of London.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Whitty

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