Cast & Creative

Tina Fey is an award-winning writer, actress, author, and producer. Fey is best known for creating and starring in the award-winning series, 30 Rock. She is also known for her award-winning work as an actress and writer for Saturday Night Live. Currently, Fey is co-executive producing Season 2 of critically acclaimed series Mr. Mayor, Season 2 of Girls5Eva, Mulligan, and Carrie & Me, the film adaption from the novel by Carol Burnett. Simultaneously, Fey is adapting the Broadway version of Mean Girls into a feature film with Paramount. The musical is a coming-of-age story that debuted on Broadway in 2018, marking Fey’s Broadway debut, and based off the 2004 cult classic film Mean Girls written by Fey. She is thrilled to be taking the show nationwide.

Jeff Richmond is an award-winning composer, songwriter and producer for television, theatre and film. He served as composer and an Executive Producer on NBC’s “30 Rock,” winning three Primetime Emmy Awards alongside his wife Tina Fey. He was a musical director at The Second City in Chicago and at “Saturday Night Live,” where he spent five seasons composing original songs for stars like Jack Black, Queen Latifah and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Jeff’s New York theatre credits include the musical Melancholy Baby, the inaugural production of the Ars Nova Theater, and Mean Girls on Broadway, which opened in April 2018. His most recent television credits include “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (Netflix), “Great News” (NBC), “Mr. Mayor” (NBC), and “Girls5eva” (Peacock). Richmond was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Original Score in 2018 for Mean Girls. He currently lives in New York City with his wife and their two daughters.

Broadway: Legally Blonde, with Laurence O’Keefe (Olivier Award, Tony nomination). Off-Broadway and regional: The Explorers Club (Outer Critics Circle, Best Play); Cam Jansen; Sarah, Plain and Tall; Because of Winn Dixie; Halftime; Pirates!; 3hree; New York Philharmonic New Year’s Eve and Young Peoples’ concerts. Upcoming: Huzzah!; Life of the Party; Dave, Come Fall In Love, Walk of Shame,Cursed Pirate Girl. Member of ASCAP and Dramatists Guild. Grateful recipient of a Kleban Foundation Award and a Jonathan Larson Grant. Most grateful for Larry and Persephone.

Represented on Broadway as director/choreographer of Disney’s Aladdin (2014 Tony®, Drama Desk & Outer Critics Circle Award nominations for Best Choreography), and co-director and choreographer of The Book of Mormon (2011 Tony®, Drama Desk & Outer Critics Circle Awards for co-director and nominations in the same categories for Choreography); Olivier award winner for Best Choreography. Other Broadway credits as director/choreographer: The Prom (2019 Tony® nomination for Best Direction), Mean Girls (2018 Tony®nominations for Best Direction and Choreography), Tuck Everlasting, Something Rotten! (2015 Tony®, Drama Desk & Outer Critics Circle Award nominations for Best Direction and Choreography) Elf: The Musical; The Drowsy Chaperone (2006 Tony®, Drama Desk nominations for Best Direction and Choreography, Outer Critics Circle nomination for Best Choreography); Monty Python’s Spamalot directed by Mike Nichols (2005 Tony®, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Choreography). West End Credits as director/choreographer: The Drowsy Chaperone, The Book of Mormon, Dreamgirls, and Aladdin.

Over 50 Broadway Designs including: Mean Girls (Tony nom); The Book of Mormon (Tony Award); The Band’s Visit (tony nom); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; The Prom, Waitress; Something Rotten!; Oh, Hello!; The Little Foxes; Pippin (Tony nomination); An Act of God; Blackbird; The Pillowman (Tony Award); The Visit; It’s Only a Play; Finding Neverland; I’ll Eat You Last…; The Coast of Utopia (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle & Hewes Awards); Take Me Out; HAIR; Pal Joey (Tony nomination); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Tony nomination, Drama Desk Award); Sweet Charity; Nine; and Urinetown. Also Cirque du Soleil’s Amaluna; Peter Grimes, Met Opera. Insta @scottpaskstudio

Broadway: Pretty Woman, Mean Girls (Tony nom.) Tuck Everlasting (Tony nom.), Something Rotten! (Tony nom.), Aladdin, Kinky Boots (Tony nom., Olivier Award), Follies (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award), Elf, Legally Blonde (Tony nom.), The Drowsy Chaperone (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Olivier nom.), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Flower Drum Song (Tony nom.), Side Show. Other: Dreamgirls (Olivier nomination), Sinatra (Radio City), Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Pageant (Olivier nomination), The Kathy and Mo Show. TDF Young Master Award.

Kenneth Posner designs extensively Off-Broadway and for resident theatres and touring productions throughout the U.S. as well as internationally. Selected Broadway credits: Beetlejuice, Pretty Woman, War Paint, Tuck Everlasting, On Your Feet!, If/Then, Kinky Boots, Pippin, Cinderella, Hairspray, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Legally Blonde, The Coast of Utopia: Shipwrecked, Other Desert Cities, The Merchant of Venice, Side Man, Wicked. Recipient of the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics’ Circle, Lucille Lortel and Obie awards.

Over 40 Broadway designs including Mrs. Doubtfire, The Prom, Tootsie, Mean Girls, Margaritaville, Springsteen on Broadway, War Paint, The Last Ship, Beautiful, If/Then, Anything Goes, American Idiot, Next to Normal, Spring Awakening, Grey Gardens. On the West End Spring Awakening, Book of Mormon and Beautiful. Off Broadway designs include Bowie’s Lazarus, Giant, Rent, Everyday Rapture, Saved, 10 Million Miles, and Bug. He is the recipient of Obie, Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, Olivier and Tony awards.  

Finn Ross has won two Olivier Awards, a Tony, three Drama Desk &two OCC award. Recent work: Frozen (International); Back to the Future (West End); The Tempest (RSC); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Broadway/West End); American Psycho (Broadway/Almeida); Betrayal (Broadway); The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Royal Opera House); The Crossing (A.R.T. Boston); Chimerica (Almeida/West End); The Death of Klinghoffer, The Damnation of Faust, The Magic Flute (ENO); Master and Margarita (Complicite); A Dog’s Heart (DNO).

Associate/Animation: Frozen (Broadway); The Tempest (RSC); The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Royal Opera House); The Damnation of Faust, (ENO); Master and Margarita (Complicite). Live music design: Liam Gallagher (international tour), Jess Glynne (U.K.tour), Years & Years (international tour), Two Door Cinema Club (international tour), Bombay Bicycle Club (international tour). Exhibition design: Jean-Michele Basquiat: King Pleasure (NYC), 007xSPYSCAPE (NYC), The Rolling Stones – Exhibitionism (international tour). xR design: Over The Moon (Netflix), 2021 Olympic coverage (Eurosport/Discovery).

NY/London:  The Prom, Pretty Woman, Mean Girls, Present Laughter, Dreamgirls, Paramour, Tuck Everlasting, School of Rock, Something Rotten, Aladdin, Kinky Boots, The Book of Mormon, Trip of Love, First Date, Elf, Dogfight, The Best Man, Look Back in Anger, The Drowsy Chaperone, Pig Farm, The… Trailer Park Musical, Altar Boyz, Show Boat @ Carnegie Hall, Mamma Mia!, Encores!:  Call Me Madam, Most Happy Fella, & Follies.  West Coast:  Robin & the 7 Hoods, Peep Show, Minsky’s, Vanities.  Television:  “The Slap”, “30 Rock”, “SNL”.  Instagram: @josh_marquette

Broadway:  Prom the Musical; Mean Girls (New York and US Tour); Tuck Everlasting: Something Rotten! (New York and US Tour); Aladdin (New York, Japan, London, Hamburg, Australia, US Tour); Rocky Horror Show. Makeup Design Consultant:  Present Laughter; Sister Act. Television: Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert (2018 Emmy nomination) The Affair (2016 Designing Women Award)

The Prom, Finding Neverland, Big Fish, Company, Sweeney Todd, Tuck Everlasting, Sweet Charity, Next to Normal, The Addams Family. Drama Desk Award for Best Orchestrations for Company. TV: Girls5Eva, Homeschool Musical; She is the Executive Director of ASTEP (www.asteponline.org), which helps young people develop agency through the arts. She is a Founding Member of MUSE- www.museonline.org and Maestra- www.maestramusic.org

Chris Kong (Music Director) NYC-based pianist and music director. San Francisco Bay Area native. Broadway: Disney’s Frozen, Mean Girls, Pretty Woman, The Prom, Miss Saigon, Allegiance, Kinky Boots, Disney’s Newsies. Off-Broadway: Far From Heaven, Carrie, Silence!, Altar Boyz, Happiness, Radio City Christmas Spectacular. National Tour: Phantom of the Opera (25th Anniversary tour). Regional: Life After (Goodman Theatre, The Old Globe), Allegiance (The Old Globe). Proud member of MUSE (Musicians United for Social Equity). “It’s an honor just to be Asian.” – Sandra Oh

Broadway: Diana(Netflix 2021), Mean Girls (Tony nom.), Fun Home (Tony/Drama Desk noms.), The Prom, Tuck Everlasting, Shrek the Musical (Tony/Drama Desk noms.), Cats 2016 (Dance Arr.) Off B’way/Regional: The Secret Life of Bees (w/Duncan Shiek), Gun & Powder, Becoming Nancy, Soft Power (Dance Arr.) Fortress of Solitude, Jasper in Deadland, Rhianna: NBA All-Star Game(string arr.) New Irish Tenors: Orlando Symphony, 2018 Tony Awards Opening by Sara Bareilles/Josh Groban, Goodspeed: Just So.

Glen Kelly was the arranger and music supervisor for The Producers, Young Frankenstein and Bullets Over Broadway, for which he also wrote lyrics. Additional arranging credits include Beauty and the Beast, Spamalot, The Drowsy Chaperone, The Book of Mormon, A Christmas Story, The Scottsboro Boys, Aladdin, Something Rotten!, and The Prom. He won the New York Drama Desk Award for his original score to The Nance.

BROADWAY: Company, Beetlejuice; The Prom; Groundhog Day; Bandstand; Paramour; Allegiance; Aladdin; Matilda; Side Show; Bullets over Broadway; A Night With Janis Joplin; Cinderella; Scandalous; Chaplin; Ghost; How to Succeed; Promises, Promises; Bye-Bye Birdie; Grease; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.  CONDUCTOR/PERCUSSIONIST (partial list of Broadway chairs): Groundhog Day; Matilda; Billy Elliot; Miss Saigon; Les Misérables.  Radio City Music Hall: 14 years as Associate Conductor, and seven as contractor.  For Robin and Taylor.

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Broadway: Mean Girls, The Prom, Aladdin, Elf, In the Heights, The Drowsy Chaperone, To Be or Not to Be, Good Vibrations and Nerds (almost). NY: Call Me Madam (City Center Encores) and Fat Camp. Artistic Director of North Carolina Theatre (2009–2019). TV: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Current projects: Clue, Beehive at Paper Mill Playhouse and A Jolly Holiday with Disney on Broadway. 

Associate credits: Broadway and national tour pro­ductions of The Book of Mormon, Disney’s Alad­din, Something Rotten! and the London production of Dreamgirls. Choreography credits: Disney’s The Little Mermaid (Japan), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Europe). Director/Choreographer cred­its: the Olympic medals ceremonies at the 2002 and 2010 Winter Olympic Games, the Radio City Christmas Spectacular starring the Rockettes 1998–2000 (Mexico).

[she/her]. Broadway: The Lion King. Tours: Miss Saigon, The Phantom of the Opera, The Lion King. Please consider donating to underrepresented aspiring young theater artists: @crrscholarship and @the- fundforcollegeauditions. For Dad. @changeisfetch.

[she/her] I’m immeasurably grateful for my family – I love you 281. @be.saxon Thanks to the Mean Girls team! I’m so happy to be back; let’s make a difference together @changeisfetch

he/him. Previously on the 1st National Tour of The SpongeBob Musical and thrilled to be back out on the road! Stay safe and take care of one another. @changeisfetch @john.carpentier

RACHAEL WILKIN (Assistant Stage Manager) she/her. National Tours: Oklahoma!, Miss Saigon, Waitress, Fiasco’s Into The Woods, Pippin. Scenic fabrication/painting: The Humans (Broadway). @changeisfetch

THE BOOKING GROUP (Tour Booking Agency) has represented 27 Tony Award® winning Best Musicals and Plays. Current tours include: Hamilton; Dear Evan Hansen; Come From Away; The Book of Mormon; 1776; Hadestown; Mean Girls; MJ The Musical; Pretty Woman; Six; Tina; To Kill A Mockingbird; Anastasia; Chicago; Fiddler on the Roof; Hairspray; My Fair Lady; R.E.S.P.E.C.T; and Tootsie. Future tours include: Almost Famous, Funny Girl, Mamma Mia!, Mrs. Doubtfire, A Strange Loop, The Devil Wears Prada, and The Wiz.

ALLIED GLOBAL MARKETING (Tour Marketing & Press) is an integrated marketing agency working with the world’s largest entertainment, sports, consumer, and lifestyle brands, including 75+ Broadway shows over more than two decades. Current tours: Ain’t Too Proud, The Book of Mormon, Hadestown, Mean Girls, Pretty Woman, Tootsie. Upcoming tours: Beetlejuice, Elf The Musical, Funny Girl, The Hip Hop Nutcracker, Mrs. Doubtfire.

Thompson Turner Productions  is a Broadway management company founded by the late Stuart Thompson and David Turner in 2015. Current shows include worldwide productions of The Book of Mormon, Mean Girls, and the current revival of Company. Adam J. Miller has managed six productions with Stuart and David, beginning with The Seagull in 2008. He has managed Mormon since 2011. Rebecca Habel joined TTP in 2015 to manage King Charles III. She was previously a General Manager at Roundabout Theatre Company and Vineyard Theatre.

Lorne Michaels is a writer and producer who has worked extensively in TV and film, best known as the creator and executive producer of the landmark NBC show “Saturday Night Live.” He made his Broadway debut in 1979 directing Gilda Radner–Live from New York, and is pleased to return to the stage with Tina Fey, whom he met when she began as a writer for “SNL.” Their subsequent work together includes the critically acclaimed series “30 Rock” as well as the films Mean Girls, Baby Mama and Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Other notable film credits include Three Amigos, Wayne’s World and Tommy Boy. Honors include 20 Emmy Awards, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, a Personal Peabody Award, the Order of Canada, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Kennedy Centers Honors.

Stuart Thompson was a six-time Tony Award-winning producer and general manager. He produced the three longest running plays on Broadway of the past twenty-six years: Proof; The Tale of the Allergists Wife; and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Select Broadway credits include: Sweat; Six Degrees of Separation; The Present; King Charles III; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof  (2013); Death of a Salesman (2012); Jerusalem; The Motherf**ker with the Hat; A View From the Bridge (2010); God of Carnage; Exit the King; Doubt; Caroline, Or Change; Take Me Out; Amy’s View; Closer; The Blue Room; Art; Skylight; Master Class; Blood Brothers; Tru; A Few Good Men. West End credits: No Man’s Land, King Charles III. Additionally he served as Executive Producer for the U.S companies of The Book of Mormon and co-produced the West End and Australian productions.

Sonia Friedman Productions is an international production company responsible for some of the most successful theatre productions of recent years. Since 1990, Sonia Friedman OBE and SFP have developed, initiated and produced 180 new productions and won a combined 58 Oliviers, 34 Tonys and 2 BAFTAs. Current: The Book of Mormon London and U.K. & European tour, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child London, New York, Melbourne, San Francisco and Hamburg, Mean Girls US Tour and the world premiere of Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt. Upcoming: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Toronto and Tokyo, Dreamgirls UK Tour, The Shark is Broken London, To Kill a Mockingbird London, Jerusalem London and Funny Girl Broadway. SoniaFriedman.com

Paramount Pictures has, for over 100 years, produced and distributed some of the world’s most iconic films including The Godfather, the Mission: Impossible series, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Forrest Gump, the Transformers series and Titanic.  Live stage productions in development include Almost Famous, Roman Holiday and Clueless. A division of ViacomCBS, Paramount Pictures Corporation controls a collection of some of the most powerful brands in filmed entertainment including Paramount Pictures, Paramount Animation, Paramount Television Studios, Paramount Players, MTV Films and Nickelodeon Movies. Paramount is thrilled to be bringing the beloved movie Mean Girls to the live stage.

Broadway credits: Tuck Everlasting, Disney’s Aladdin, The Nance, Catch Me If You Can. Other credits include: The Prom, Cirque du Soleil’s Michael Jackson the Immortal World Tour. Regional: Alliance Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, ACT, Seattle Children’s Theatre. Proud University of Puget Sound alum. Thank you Casey for your trust and generosity. Love to Mom, AC, and Gram.