Team 'Josephine'

Our Team for 'Josephine, A New Musical" is comprised of award winning music, talent, and production professionals. Bravo !!

KENNETH WAISSMAN | PRODUCER

A Tony Award winning producer and one of only two producers in the history of Broadway to have a musical that ran over 3000 performances and a play that ran over 1000 performances. (The other producer with this distinction is the legendary David Merrick.)

Waissman developed and produced the Broadway production of Grease, as well as two of Broadway’s longest running plays, Agnes of God by John Pielmeier and Torch Song Trilogy by Harvey Fierstein.

Other Broadway credits include: Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Zindel’s play, And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little with Julie Harris and Estelle Parsons and the Sherman Brothers musical, Over Here!, which starred the Andrew Sisters and featured Ann Reinking, John Travolta, Marilu Henner and Treat Williams.

Waissman made his producing debut with the John Herbert play Fortune and Men’s Eyes, which was directed by Sal Mineo and featured Tommy Lee Jones.

Waissman’s prolific Broadway efforts have resulted in four motion picture features, a PBS TV special, 25 Tony Award® nominations, 5 Tony Awards® including a Tony Award® as ‘Best Play Producer.’

ELLEN WESTON | AUTHOR

Ms. Weston wrote the book & lyrics for A HOUSE IN THE WOODS at Goodspeed & A MATTER OF WIFE AND DEATH. Screenplay & producing credits include: AND THE BEAT GOES ON: THE SONNY AND CHER STORY; HOLIDAY IN YOUR HEART (LeAnn Rimes & Bernadette Peters); OUTRAGE (Rob Lowe); SLEEPING WITH THE DEVIL (Shannon Doherty & Tim Matheson); LIES BEFORE KISSES (Ben Gazzara & Jaclyn Smith)

STEVE DORFF | MUSIC

Mr. Dorff is a five-time Emmy Award nominee & a three-time Grammy Award nominee. Barbra Streisand sings his latest song I’D WANT IT TO BE YOU on her just released new album, Partners. He has written over twenty ‘Top 10’ pop hits, nine number one film songs, and with lyricist John Bettis, he wrote such hits as Whitney Houston’s ONE MOMENT IN TIME, Madonna’s CRAZY FOR YOU, Barbra Streisand’s HIGHER GROUND and Michael Jackson’s HUMAN NATURE.

JOHN BETTIS | LYRICS

In February 2011, Mr. Bettis was elected to the Songwriter's Hall of Fame. He is an Emmy Award winner and an Academy Award & Grammy Award nominee. Bettis is co-founder of The Carpenters. With composer Frank Wildhorn, he did the lyrics for the musical SVENGALI. Randy Travis, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Barry Manilow, Dionne Warwick, Julio Iglesias, Harry Connick, Jr., Carol Burnett & Diana Ross have all recorded his songs.

MARK HAMPTON | SCRIPT

Wrote Full Gallop with Mary Louise Wilson who also starred as fashion icon, Diana Vreeland, playing New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Rome, Brussels, South Africa, Sweden, and Spain. Subsequent plays include: Paper Doll, starring Marlo Thomas and F. Murray Abraham, Pittsburgh Public Theater and Long Wharf Theater (starring Dixie Carter) With Michael Sharp he wrote The Secret Letters of Jackie and Marilyn, directed by Leonard Foglia, Pittsburgh Public Theater. With Jeannie Berlin he has recently completed the screenplay for a romantic comedy, Crackpot. Kiki/Suzanne, starring Barbara Schulz, will premiere in Paris next season.

CHARLOTTE WILCOX | GENERAL MANAGER

Ms. Wilcox is general manager of this season’s sell-out hit, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. Other productions include last season’s national revival tour of Jekyll & Hyde, the recent Broadway revivals of Godspell and West Side Story, Twyla Tharp’s Come Fly Away, both Broadway revivals of Grease and their respective tours, Drowsy Chaperone, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Full Monty, Ragtime, Jesus Christ Superstar, My Fair Lady (revival starring Richard Chamberlain), Fiddler on the Roof (revival starring Topol), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (starring Kathleen Turner), Damn Yankees (revival starring Jerry Lewis), Chicago, The Canton Acrobats and The Peking Opera, [Title of Show], Cyrano (starring Kevin Kline), Twyla Tharp's The Times They Are A-Changin', The Wedding Singer, Bombay Dreams, Taboo, By Jeeves, On the Waterfront, and City of Angels. In addition, Ms. Wilcox has managed the National Tours of Stones in His Pockets, Sunset Boulevard (starring Petula Clark), Busker Alley, Steel Magnolias, On Your Toes (starring Natalia Makarova) and La Scala Ballet.

HARRY FRIEDMAN | CO-PRODUCER

With the upcoming Broadway production of ‘Josephine,’ Dr. Friedman, who resides in Baltimore, Maryland, will be making his Broadway producing debut.

JOANNIE FRIEDMAN | CO-PRODUCER

Joannie has offered great support to the Josephine team with her husband Harry. Together they worked tirelessly help bring this production to life.

BOBBY BLACKWELL | ASSOCIATE PRODUCER

Bobby Blackwell is a Baltimore,Maryland native and a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute. He is currently writing for two theatrical productions that are in the development phase. Bobby will be making his producing debut with the upcoming production of 'Josephine