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BIG LEAGUE PRODUCTIONS/DANIEL SHER is celebrating its 34th season of producing and general managing Broadway tours of shows and attractions throughout the world. Early highlights were collaborations with Disney on Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida (US Tours, Taiwan, and China) and with Cameron Mackintosh on a new production of Miss Saigon. Also, the Tony®-Award winning Broadway revival of 42nd Street and Susan Stroman’s Broadway production of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man. Others: Footloose (Las Vegas, US Tour), Titanic, 1776, Peter Pan,A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum starring Rip Taylor, Blast!, The Who’s Tommy (US Tour, South America, Europe, and Japan), Ain’t Misbehavin’ with Ruben Studdard, and the First National Tour of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang– flying car and all. More recent: The Producers (Susan Stroman’s original work), Hello, Dolly! with Sally Struthers, Guys and Dolls,My Fair Lady (US Tour and China premiere), original hip-hop dance show Groovaloo (Off-Broadway),
ZACH KROHN is an NYC-based theatre manager, producer, and arts educator. Before coming to Big League, Zach worked for 7 years at Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Tony Award-winning company The New York Times calls a “theatrical powerhouse”. While there, he ran the nationally-renowned internship and apprentice programs, helped produce countless world premieres including Cost of Living by Martyna Majok (winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama), and general managed multiple Broadway and off-Broadway transfers. Zach is also a Company Manager and AEA Production Stage Manager. Credits include the international tour of I Love Lucy: Live On Stage!, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Shakespeare & Company, Maine State Music Theatre, Dallas Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Theatre Center, Berkshire Playwrights Lab, and Northern Stage. He’s a guest lecturer at New York University, SUNY New Paltz, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and Baldwin Wallace University.
In his free time, Zach is on the board of Big Apple Recreational Sports – where he plays kickball and dodgeball – and volunteers with the Trevor Project and New York Road Runners. He is training for his second New York City Marathon.
SOPHIE WHITFIELD received her BFA in Musical Theatre from The Guildford School of Acting in the United Kingdom with first-class honors before transitioning to Company/Stage Management. Company/Stage Management Credits include The Cher Show First National Tour, West Side International Tour (Production Stage Manager), A Chorus Line International Tour, Legally Blonde National Tour, An American in Paris National Tour, South Pacific National Tour, Avenue Q (Off-Broadway), and I Spy a Spy The Musical (Off-Broadway).
After graduating with a double major in business management and marketing sales, KOY PEERENBOM started his career in advertising before interning with Bespoke Theatricals in their general management program, assisting with productions including Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Back to the Future, MJ: The Musical, and various upcoming productions.
Outside of Big League, Koy loves to cook, watch all of his favorite Wisconsin sports teams, and reading on the subway
ALISON FRANCK, C.S.A. has been a casting director in NYC for over 25 years. She started as an assistant for many Broadway Productions, then she worked in film/TV for several years, then from 2000- 2010, she was the Resident Casting Director at Paper Mill Playhouse. In 2011 she joined the team at Liz Lewis Casting Partners, where she cast commercials, voiceovers, film/TV, and theatre. Alison now runs her own company, Franck Casting, where she has cast several tours of well-known musicals including Legally Blonde, Dreamgirls, An American in Paris, A Christmas Story: The Musical, A Chorus Line, The Simon and Garfunkel Story Live and Little Women, the Musical, and The Cher Show.
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