Meet the creatives

Broadway: The longest running Carole King on Broadway Beautiful – The Carole King Musical, Mary in Jesus Christ Superstar, Annie O’Brien in Paradise Square and Myrtle in The Great Gatsby.

Elsewhere: Billie Jean King in Billie Jean (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Jeff Award nomination), Sophie in Mamma Mia! 1st US National Tour, Dina in The Band’s Visit International Tour, Toronto (Theatre Critics Award), three seasons each at the Stratford, Shaw and Charlottetown Festivals, Jean/Donna in After the Rain NAC, Phoebe in the World Premiere of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Hartford Stage/Old Globe).

Film/TV: Sheriff Country (CBS) and With Me (Bravo).

Etc: Wild About You was performed in concert at Theatre Royal Drury Lane in 2024. Chilina’s original album What You Find In A Bottle is available on iTunes and her songwriting was part of Eclipse Theatre Company’s production of ‘Til Then (Toronto). Chilina is currently working on two other pieces in development.

Dani Stoller is an award-winning playwright and actor currently based in Washington, DC.

Playwriting credits include: Easy Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes (Signature Theater) Just Great: an adaptation of some book by F Scott Fitzgerald (recently published by Broadway Licensing), The Voices of Blackwell Island, Failureland (Signature Theater SISProgram), Girlhood (Round House Theatre TPC commission), Beatrice Likes the Dark (Adventure Theater), The Joy That Carries You, co-written with Awa Sal Secka (Olney Theatre Center, Winner of the Helen Hayes Charles MacArthur Award for Best New Play).

Education: BFA Ithaca College, MFA CUA.

Kristin Hanggi is an award-winning theater, film, and television director, writer, and producer, best known for developing and directing the international hit Rock of Ages, which earned fiveTony Award nominations, including Best Direction of a Musical. She also originated and directed bare, the pop opera that has been produced internationally.

Her extensive theater credits include Romy and Michele: The Musical and Accidentally Brave, which received an Alliance Award and was produced by Daryl Roth.
For film and television, Kristin directed Accidentally Brave for HBO Max, produced by Steven Soderbergh; an episode of Netflix’s Emmy-winning Julie and the Phantoms; Naomi and Ely’sNo Kiss List; and the beloved musical film Dear Dumb Diary, which she co-wrote. She also directed the independent film Grantham & Rose, starring Tessa Thompson. Kristin is developing her book, God, Sex, and Musical Theatre, as a musical with a score by KT Tunstall. She holds degrees from UCLA and USC.

Daniel is a Music Supervisor, Arranger, Orchestrator, Music Director, Composer/Lyricist, Pianist and Music Producer based in New York City. He is the Music Director of The Great Gatsby on Broadway, contributed additional arrangements, and is a Music Supervisor of the 1st National Tour.

Past work on Broadway includes Shucked and Paradise Square. In London, his credits include The Showgirl Within (as Music Director/Orchestrator/Arranger), as well as Fly MoreThan You Fall. Daniel produced and arranged the world premiere recording of Wild About You.

Beyond the stage and the studio, Daniel tours with pop and jazz artists, and contributes musicto film and TV. His orchestrations have been featured with The Boston Pops and the Hong Kong Philharmonic.

As a Music Director he tours extensively with Broadway and Disney legend Lea Salonga (for whom he has written original songs). Other recent highlights: Adam Lambert, Ruben Studdard, Clay Aiken, Caroline O’Connor, Simon Burke and Johnny Manuel. He has extensively developed new work, including Strictly Ballroom (with Baz Luhrmann), King Kong and Dream Lover.