THE BOOK OF MORMON
Creative Team Bios
Awards: five Tonys, Obie, Bessie, Outer Critics, Hewes, Drama Desk awards, et. Al. Member:
Naked Angels. Faculty: University of Maryland. Father: Jake and Georgie.
CHAD PARSLEY (Sound Design). Production Sound for national tours: Beautiful the Carole
King Musical, Blue Man Group Speechless, Rock of Ages. Head Sound: Beautiful the Carole
King Musical 1st National Tour, Book of Mormon 1st National, Jersey Boys Chicago Company.
Currently Head Advance Sound Hamilton Phillip and Peggy companies. Regional: Skylight
Music Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Chicago Shakespeare Theater.
BRIAN RONAN (Original Sound Designer) has over 40 Broadway designs including Funny
Girl, Mrs. Doubtfire, Springsteen on Broadway, The Prom, Tootsie, Mean Girls, Sting’s The
Last Ship, Beautiful, The Book of Mormon, Anything Goes, American Idiot, Next to Normal,
Spring Awakening, Grey Gardens and Cabaret. 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. He has had the opportunity to work with
the most talented composers, directors, designers, actors, musicians, and stagehands in the world
for which he is eternally grateful.
LARRY HOCHMAN (Co-Orchestrator). Tony Award: The Book of Mormon. Tony
nominations: Fiddler on the Roof; A Class Act; Spamalot; The Scottsboro Boys; Something
Rotten!; She Loves Me; Hello, Dolly! Five Emmy Awards as composer of “The Wonder Pets”
(Nickelodeon). Other Broadway: The Addams Family, Jane Eyre. Twenty-eight regional and
Off-Broadway shows. Films: multiple Disney films and The Informant! (Marvin Hamlisch).
Composer: The Little Mermaid II, Spielberg’s “Amazing Stories,” In Memoriam (symphonic
poem). Recordings, concerts: Sir Paul McCartney, Not the Messiah (Eric Idle), Mandy Patinkin,
Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Barry Manilow, Boston Pops, San Francisco
Symphony, New York Philharmonic.
GLEN KELLY (Dance Arrangements) arranged music and wrote original lyrics for Bullets
Over Broadway. He supervised and arranged Mel Brooks’ The Producers and Young
Frankenstein. Other arranging credits include Beauty and the Beast, Spamalot, The Drowsy
Chaperone, A Christmas Story, The Scottsboro Boys, Aladdin and Something Rotten! He won a
Drama Desk Award for his original score to The Nance.
JOSH MARQUETTE (Hair Design). N.Y./ London: 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, … Trailer Park Musical, Altar Boyz, Show Boat at Carnegie Hall and Mamma Mia!
Encores!: Most Happy Fella; No, No, Nanette; and Follies. West Coast: Robin and the 7 Hoods,
Peep Show, Minsky’s, Vanities. Television: The Slap, 30 Rock, Saturday Night Live.
CARRIE GARDNER, C.S.A. (Casting) Broadway: Book of Mormon, Trouble In Mind, The
Humans, All My Sons, Bernhardt/Hamlet, Significant Other, Sunday in the Park, Long Day’s