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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, PLEASE

DENZEL WASHINGTON &
JAKE GYLLENHAAL
IN
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S
“OTHELLO”
ANNOUNCES AWARD-WINNING DESIGN TEAM

DIRECTED BY KENNY LEON

COMING TO BROADWAY SPRING 2025
AT A SHUBERT ORGANIZATION THEATER TO BE ANNOUNCED

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New York, NY (July 24, 2024) – Today, producer Brian Anthony Moreland announced additional members of the creative team for Tony Award^® winner and two-time Academy Award^® winner Denzel Washington’s and Tony Award nominee and Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal’s return to Broadway in Tony Award winning director Kenny Leon’s new production of William Shakespeare’s Othello with Molly Osborne as ‘Desdemona.’

The award-winning creative team will feature two-time Tony Award winner and two-time Emmy Award winner Derek McLane (scenic design), Tony Award winner Dede Ayite (costume design), eight-time Tony Award winner Natasha Katz (lighting design), two-time Tony Award nominee and OBIE Award^® winner Justin Ellington (sound design), Academy Award winner and Emmy Award^® winner Mia Neal (hair and wig design), Claire Warden (intimacy director), Narda E. Alcorn (production stage manager), ARC / Duncan Stewart, CSA & Jarrett Reiche (casting director). 101 Productions, Ltd. serves as general managers for the production.

This spring, experience Shakespeare’s epic tale like never before. Tony and Academy Award winner Denzel Washington stars as ‘Othello,’ the noble Moor of Venice and commanding warrior-general. Opposite him, Tony and Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal portrays ‘Iago,’ the ambitious lieutenant and masterful manipulator.

Spurned for promotion, Iago’s relentless quest for vengeance against Othello and his wife, Desdemona (portrayed by Molly Osborne), plunges them into a shocking web of deception and betrayal.

Directed by Tony Award winner Kenny Leon, this production of Othello will play a strictly limited 15-week engagement next spring on Broadway.

Othello will play Spring 2025 at a Shubert Organization theater to be announced soon along with production dates, and additional casting.

For additional information about Othello, please sign up at www.othellobway.com

BIOGRAPHIES

Derek McLane (Scenic Design). Broadway: MJ the Musical, Moulin Rouge!, Purlie Victorious, A Soldier’s Play, American Son, The Parisian Woman, The Price, Noises Off, Fully Committed, Beautiful, Gigi, Anything Goes, The Heiress, The Best Man, Follies, How to Succeed In Business Without Even Trying, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Million Dollar Quartet, Ragtime, 33 Variations, The Pajama Game, I Am My Own Wife. Off-Broadway: Here There Are Blueberries; Black No More; Merrily We Roll Along; The True; Jerry Spring The Opera; If I Forget; The Whirligig; Into The Woods; Love, Love, Love; Sweet Charity; Evening at the Talk House; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Buried Child; The Spoils; Sticks and Bones; The Last Five Years; A Lie of the Mind; Ruined; and Hurlyburly. Television: He designed the 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 & 2018 Academy Awards, 2024 SAG Awards, 2024 Met Gala as well as the NBC Live! Musicals  “The Wiz” and “Hairspray” and others. Awards: Winner of 1997 and 2004 OBIE Awards; 2004, 2005, 2007 Lortel Awards; 2009 and 2021 Tony Awards, 2011and 2021 Drama Desk Awards; 2015, 2016 Art Directors Guild Awards; 2014 and 2017 Emmy Awards.

 Dede Ayite (Costume Design). This season: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X for her Met debut, Hell’s Kitchen, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding (Tony Award), Appropriate, and Days of Wines and Roses on Broadway. She has designed for nearly a dozen productions on Broadway, including Ohio State Murders, Topdog/Underdog, How I Learned to Drive, American Buffalo, Slave Play, Chicken & Biscuits, A Soldier’s Play, American Son, and Children of a Lesser God. She won a Tony Award for her work on Jaja’s African Hair Braiding and has been nominated five times, also earning a special Drama Desk Award in 2022 and the TDF/Kitty Leech Young Master Award. Ayite has received an Obie, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Theatre Bay Area, Henry Hewes, Audelco, and Jeff Awards. Her work has also appeared Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company, Signature Theatre, MCC Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, Lincoln Center Theater, and Roundabout Theatre Company, as well as regionally at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Steppenwolf, American Repertory Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and Arena Stage, among many others. Her work in television has appeared on Netflix, Comedy Central, and FOX Shortcoms.

Natasha Katz (Lighting Design): Recent Broadway and Off-Broadway: Hell’s Kitchen; Sweeney Todd; Here We Are; Grey House; MJ; Some Like It Hot; Springsteen on Broadway; Aladdin; and Hello Dolly! Recent dance: Like Water Like Chocolate at the Met. She is a TDF Wendy Wasserstein Mentor and eight-time Tony Award winner and was recently inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame.

Justin Ellington (Sound Design) is a highly acclaimed composer and sound designer whose work spans film, commercial radio, and theater. His impressive portfolio includes both national and international stages, from Broadway to Off-Broadway and prominent regional theaters. Ellington has garnered numerous prestigious awards, such as OBIE Awards, an Audelco Award, and a Henry Hewes Design Award for his contributions to theater. He has also been recognized by the American Society of Composers and Publishers (ASCAP) and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. On Broadway, Ellington’s credits include Home, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding (Tony nomination), The Cottage, Ohio State Murders, Topdog/Underdog, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow is Enuf (also Tony nominated), Pass Over, Clyde’s, and Other Desert Cities. His Off-Broadway highlights feature productions at New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW), Playwrights Horizons, Lincoln Center, ArsNova, The Acting Company, The Public Theater, and Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA). Ellington is also a member of the highly acclaimed Camille A. Brown & Dancers, where he continues to serve as a sound designer and pianist.

He has collaborated internationally with the Royal Shakespeare Company (UK), the Old Vic (UK), National Theatre of London (UK), Stratford Shakespeare Festival (Canada), Windybrow Arts Festival (South Africa), and Tweetakt Youth Festival (Belgium). He is also a Grammy Certificate recipient and recognized by ASCAP for his recording industry contributions. Additionally, Justin has contributed to significant exhibits, such as the Move Act Free exhibit at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, earning him a Cinema in Industry Award.

Mia Neal (Hair and Wig Design) is an award-winning wig designer hailing from Gary, Indiana. With an impressive list of accolades under her belt, including an Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling and a BAFTA Film Award for her work on Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Neal is definitely a force to be reckoned with in the world of stage and screen.

Her talents have been recognized not only by the Academy, but also with an Emmy for “Annie Live!,” an Emmy nomination for “Pose,” and Drama Desk Awards for Shuffle Along… and Ain’t No Mo’. Her work can also be seen on the brightest stages of Broadway, with productions such as The Notebook, Hell’s Kitchen, Shucked, KPOP, 1776, West Side Story, The Iceman Cometh, and A Raisin in the Sun.

In addition to her work in theater, Neal has also left her mark on the big screen with films and television projects like White Noise, Hustle, The Humans, Uncut Gems, Ghostbusters, “Younger,” “The Carrie Diaries,” and The Amazing Spider-Man.

With a keen eye for detail and a passion for her craft, Mia Neal continues to push boundaries and set new standards for excellence in wig design.

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