Creative Team

Michael Wartofsky

Music & Additional Lyrics

Professor of Songwriting at Berklee, Michael established the minor in Musical Theater Writing in 2015 and won a Distinguished Faculty Award in 2018. With David Davila, Michael is adapting David Valdes’ YA novel Spin Me Right Round for the musical stage, and the team was hosted at Drama Club Camp 2025. In 2019, Yellow Sound Label released the streaming album “All the Possibilities: Broadway Sings Wartofsky”. Alumnus, NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program; Founder, New Opera & Musical Theater Initiative (NOMTI); member, The Dramatist Guild. Michael would like to thank his family, Moonbox Productions, the Newbury Comics Faculty Fellowship, NOMTI, and Kathleen Cahill, without whom LATE would not be possible. www.michaelwartofsky.com

Kathleen Cahill

Book & Lyricist

Kathleen Cahill is an award-winning, Pulitzer-nominated American playwright known for bold, character-driven plays like Charm (the transcendentalists)  Harbur Gate (veterans’ stories), the dance-play Silent Dancer, the comedy The Robertassey and musicals such as Dakota Sky (about single women homesteaders) Perdida (based on The Winters Tale) and Friendship of the Sea, (with composer Michael Wartofsky) often tackling significant social themes with a blend of magic and realism. She is the recipient of three Edgerton Awards, Rockefeller & NEA grants, a Jane Chambers Award and she has been a Dramatists Guild Travelling Master. She now resides in Portland, Oregon, where she continues to develop new works.

David Freeman Coleman

Musical Director

Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music. Recent Music Direction: Lady Day (Merrimack Repertory Theater), South Pacific (Reagle Music Theatre), A Year With Frog and Toad (Wheelock Family Theater), Jesus Christ Superstar (Boston Conservatory at Berklee), The Boy Who Kissed the Sky (Company One), Sister Act (Lyric Stage), Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Central Square Theater & Greater Boston Stage), A Strange Loop (SpeakEasy Stage), The Bluest Eye (Huntington Theater), WILD: A Musical Becoming (A.R.T.). Eliot Norton Award for Outstanding Music Direction. Has worked with Idina Menzel, Audra McDonald, Mariah Carey, Bobby McFerrin, Ryan Gosling and the Boston Pops.

Ilana Ransom Toeplitz

Director

Broadway: The Prom, Violet, and Crazy for You (Lincoln Center). Off-Broadway: Reefer Madness in Concert (New World Stages, featuring Alan Cumming). Regional highlights: Something Rotten! (Lyric Stage of Boston - upcoming), Little Shop of Horrors, and The Rocky Horror Show. New work premieres with The Boston Pops, 54 Below, Barrington Stage, Drew Gasparini, and Stephen Sondheim. Drama League Directors Project Alum; SDCF Ockrent Fellow; Emerson College Musical Theatre Assistant Professor; www.ilanadirects.com | @IlanaRansom

Joy Clark

Choreographer

Joy is a Boston and NYC- based Musical Theatre performer, educator, and director/choreographer. Joy creates for young people’s productions and professional theaters alike. Choreography - WFT: Annie, The SpongeBob Musical, Make Way for Ducklings, Stuart Little, Seussical at the Boston Children’s Museum. Direction/Choreography: The Rocky Horror Show (Moonbox Productions), Our Own Heroes, Erlking (world premiere), Snoopy the Musical (CMTSJ). Theatre Education: Current theatre faculty at Emerson College, The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and Boston College. Other Musical Theater teaching work at Reagle Music Theatre, Wheelock Family Theater, ArtBarn, and Children's Musical Theatre San Jose. Performance: Joy is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association. Upcoming: Nostradamus in Lyric Stage Co’s Something Rotten.

Avery Piazza

Assistant Director

Avery Piazza (she/her) is a senior at Emerson College earning her BFA in Theater with a concentration in Directing. She is focused in new work and is so excited to be part of the development of Late. Emerson credits include: Asst. Director: Amour, Asst. Director: Bat Boy: The Musical, Asst. Director: Bat Boy (Revised) 29 Hour Reading, Asst. Director: Fun Home, Artistic Director: RareWorks Theater Company

David Goldstein^

Scenic & Props Designer

Off Broadway: FIVE The Musical, Black Odyssey, Emojiland, Mr. Parker, Winnie The Pooh Show, Church and State, Stalking the Bogeyman, That Golden Girls Show, The Portal, Very Hungry Caterpillar Show, The Perfect Game, Soul Doctor. Regional: Fiddler, Sunset Boulevard, Secret Garden ACT of CT, Senior Living Portland Stage, Supadupa Kid Barrington Stage, Next to Normal Zoetic Stage Miami, Christmas Foundling, Clue, Misery, Sierra Rep, Into the Woods, Newsies, Little Mermaid, Timberlake Playhouse, Joseph, West Side Story, Tibbetsx Opera House, Hungry Caterpillar Seattle Children's Theatre, Stalking the Bogeyman NCStageCo, Anything Goes, All Shook Up WVPublic Theatre, Souvenir Penguin Rep, and many others. www.davidgoldsteindesigns.com
++ Member of United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829, IATSE is the union representing Scenic, Costume, Lighting, Sound and Projection Designers in Live Performance.

Amaya Gonzalez-Møllmann

Costume Designer

Amaya Gonzalez-Møllmann is a Danish-Peruvian artist with a degree in Theatre Design/Technology from Emerson College. She has recently costumed Hand to God for Gallery Players, as well as Head Over Heels and A Doll’s House for Emerson Stage and the independent film Cauldrons & Kickflips. Amaya is based in her hometown of Brooklyn, NY. More from her on Instagram @a.gonzalezmollmann or online at amayagonzalezmollmann.com.

Elijah Goldberg

Lighting Designer

Eli Goldberg is a New York based lighting designer and assistant. Select theatre credits: As Youse Like It (Columbia University); An American In Paris (Elon University); Next to Normal (Lost Nation Theatre); -In-Chief- (The Tank); Head Over Heels,16 Winters and Bonnets (Emerson Stage). Select TV/Event credits: “UJC Summit 2025" (The Shed NYC, assistant); “The World Figure Skating Championship” (TD Garden, NBC, assistant). He holds a BFA in Theatre Design/Technology from Emerson College. Eligoldberglighting.com, @eligoldberglighting.

S. Miller

Sound Designer

Recent credits: Don’t Eat the Mangoes for Huntington Theatre Company (A2), The Grove for Huntington Theatre Company (A2), UnCommon Stage for Emerson College (Audio Technician), A Light Under the Dome for Plays in Place (Audio Technician), Who’s There? for Boston Theatre Marathon (Sound Designer), The Great Leap for Lyric Stage Company (Assistant Sound Designer). Emerson Stage credits: Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (A1/Associate Sound Designer), The Impracticality of Modern Day Mastodons (Production Sound Engineer), Bat Boy (A1), BONNETS: How Ladies of Good Breeding Are Induced to Murder (Sound Designer), Little Women (Sound Designer), Cabaret (Sound Designer), The Secret in the Wings (Production Sound Engineer), The Spitfire Grill (Production Sound Engineer), The Wolves (Sound Designer), Into the Woods (A2), RAGE (Sound Designer). Miller also freelances in Boston as an audio engineer with companies like High Output, Olmstead Productions, and 4Wall. They would like to thank their friends, family, and their partner for all their support!