Be More Chill 10th Anniversary Concert

DANNY JONOKUCHI is thrilled (and slightly confused) to be reprising his groundbreaking, career-defining role as “Theremin Guy” in this production. A multi-hyphenate jazz artist, Danny hasn’t touched a theremin in years and honestly had to Google how it works before rehearsal. His groundbreaking technique of “playing theremin with the trumpet” continues to mystify musicians, Aubrey Plaza, and house pets alike. When not conjuring otherworldly tones from antennas, Danny enjoys a refined diet of whiskey and Pop-Tarts, ideally consumed while arranging music for large ensembles who almost play it correctly. He is a proud member of the BMC family, who, for reasons unknown, have invited him to perform for the Two River, Off-Broadway, and Broadway productions of Be More Chill. Danny would like to thank Robert Moog, his chiropractor, and the ghost of Leon Theremin for guiding his electromagnetic journey. He will be available for theremin signings at the stage door following this performance — limit one frequency per fan. Despite his historic debut as the first thereminist on Broadway, he is not (yet) endorsed by Moog synthesizers, but if you know anyone that works there, please forward their LinkedIn info to his manager. Follow his further questionable life choices at @dannyjonokuchi.

Dennis Michael Keefe is proud to have been the bassist for the Broadway and Off-Broadway productions of Be More Chill. He has traveled around the world playing bass in Megan Hilty’s band, and can be seen on her 2019 Live from Lincoln Center concert on PBS. Dennis has also performed on bass and saxophone for Joe Iconis & Family since 2013. He has appeared on over 20 commercial recordings for artists including Megan Hilty, Matt Cusson, Joe Iconis, Rob Rokicki and Lauren Marcus, and on original cast albums including Be More Chill, The Lightning Thief, and Golden Boy of the Blue Ridge. Love and thanks to Christy, Brendan and Patrick for being the best family I could ever ask for.

EMILY MARSHALL (Music Director/Keys) – Emily is the Associate Conductor/Keyboardist of The Who and has performed at iconic venues all over the world such as Madison Square Garden, The Hollywood Bowl, The O2, Royal Albert Hall, New Orleans Jazz Fest and many more. Recent touring credits include: The Who Hits Back (North America/Europe), Josh Groban (Harmony Tour), Conductor/Music Director “Live In Concert” orchestral tours of Avatar The Last Airbender, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba, Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse, Our Planet, and Naruto.  Broadway credits include: Music Director/Vocal Arranger of Be More Chill; Associate Music Director – Jagged Little Pill, Head Over Heels; Keyboard – Elf; Keyboard Sub – Ain’t Too Proud, Beautiful, School of Rock, Mean Girls, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, Waitress. Tours/Benefits: Ratatouille: The Tiktok Musical; 1st National Tour of We Will Rock You, A Chorus Line, Beauty and The Beast, Flashdance.  Off-Broadway: Rock of Ages (New World Stages), Preludes (LCT3). Workshops/Labs: How To Dance In Ohio, Romy & Michele’s High School Reunion, The Remarkable Journey To Tianguo, Chix 6, Clueless. As a proud member of the Recording Academy, Emily is featured on the Original Broadway Cast Album of Be More Chill & the Original Cast Album of Dave Malloy’s Preludes. Marshall also works as a vocal coach, keyboard technician, arranger, supervisor & producer. IG @emarshallmusic, emilymarshallmusic.com

Josh Plotner is a producer, recording artist, composer, arranger, contractor, and woodwind multi-instrumentalist with a collection of over 150 instruments from around the world. With a broad musical background spanning dozens of genres—including many non-Western traditions—Josh has contributed to Emmy-winning, Grammy- and Oscar-nominated projects, and is a multi-platinum hip-hop producer. He has orchestrated and recorded for artists such as pop trio AJR and the hit YouTube series Helluva Boss, performed everywhere from intimate cabarets to Carnegie Hall, and played on numerous Broadway productions. His work can be heard across film, television, video game, and commercial scores. Josh has also served in roles including contractor, orchestrator, and music coordinator for major live concert productions such as the U.S. national tour of Naruto: The Symphonic Experience, Avatar: The Last Airbender Live in Concert, The Witcher in Concert, and Demon Slayer Live in Concert. Based in Los Angeles, Josh regularly travels to New York City, where he continues to perform, record, and collaborate on projects throughout the entertainment industry. @joshplotner https://www.joshplotnermusic.com/

Charlie Rosen is a 2x Grammy Award and 2x Tony Award winning composer and orchestrator whose music has been heard worldwide across many stages and screens around the world. Some recent credits include: Broadway: Some Like it Hot (Orchestrations), A Strange Loop (Orchestrations), Be More Chill (Music Sup/Orchestrations), Moulin Rouge (Orchestrations), Prince of Broadway (Orchestrations), American Psycho (Assoc MD/Keys), The Visit (Guitar/Zither), Honeymoon in Vegas (Orchestrations), Cyrano de Bergerac (Composer), One Man, Two Guv’nors (Music Director, Bass), 13 The Musical (Guitars, Bass, Keys), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Assoc. MD, Bass, addl. Orch). Off Broadway/Regional: Guys and Dolls (Orchestrations) – The Bridge Theater London, Love in Hate Nation (Orchestrator) – Two River Theater, Broadway Bounty Hunter (Orchestrations) – Greenwich House Theater, A Legendary Romance (MD/Orch.) – Williamstown Theater Festival, Miss You Like Hell (Orchestrations), The Public Theater. In addition to his theater credits, Charlie is the bandleader for the Grammy award winning Video Game Music Jazz orchestra “The 8-Bit Big Band”

The true definition of a gentleman, Mike Rosengarten knows how to play the accordion, but chooses not to. Mike was last seen on Broadway covering one of the band roles in “Dead Outlaw.” He served as Associate Music Director as well as Guitar 2 / Keys 2 for “The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical,” and before that played Guitar 1 for the show you’re currently enjoying, “Be More Chill.”  He made his Carnegie Hall/Feature Film debut playing with Jon Batiste on his new work “American Symphony.” He plays regularly with several bands and artists, both live as well as in the studio. You may also recognize him from his recurring TV appearances on “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” A New York native, he now lives in Manhattan with his wife, daughter, son, dog, and far too many instrument cases.

MARQUES WALLS  is happy to reunite with his Be More Chill comrades at the Legendary Two River Theater. His Broadway credits include Be More Chill, Spring Awakening Broadway Revival, American Psycho and A Strange Loop to name a few. Catch Marques drumming and making art at Instagram.com/marqwallsnyc

Joe Iconis is a Tony Award®-nominated musical theater writer and performer. He is the recipient of the Ed Kleban Award, Jonathan Larson Award, and Richard Rodgers Award. His musical The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical plays the Signature Theatre in Washington D.C. this June & July. Be More Chill (with Joe Tracz) played Broadway, London, and Tokyo after originating at Two River Theater in Red Bank, NJ. Joe is the author of Love in Hate Nation (directed by John Simpkins), Broadway Bounty Hunter (with Lance Rubin and Jason SweetTooth Williams), Bloodsong of Love, Punk Rock Girl! The Black Suits(with Robert Maddock), ReWrite, and many more. His work has been produced by La Jolla Playhouse, Ars Nova, Theaterworks USA, Urban Stages, Barrington Stage Company and his music has been heard on NBC’s Smash and Riverdale. Joe’s annual Christmas Extravaganza (produced by Jennifer Ashley Tepper) is in its fifteenth year, and he frequently performs his concert act at the Laurie Beechman Theater and 54 Below, where he is the Artist-in-Residence. His albums on Ghostlight Records include the 44-song retrospective Album (Joe Iconis & Family), Two-Player Game (with George Salazar), and many cast recordings. Joe is hugely inspired by Robert Altman, Dolly Parton, The Muppets, and the Family of artists he frequently surrounds himself with. 

JOE TRACZ is a writer for musical theatre and streaming television. Broadway: BE MORE CHILL (with Joe Iconis); THE LIGHTNING THIEF: THE PERCY JACKSON MUSICAL (with Rob Rokicki). TV: Netflix’s LEMONY SNICKET’S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS; Netflix’s DASH & LILY (Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing); Disney’s PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS (Emmy Award for Outstanding YA Series). He is currently showrunning Netflix’s live-action adaptation of the anime ONE PIECE and collaborating with Joe Iconis on a new musical theatre commission for Two River Theater. He is an alumnus of Kalamazoo College and NYU, and lives in Manhattan with his husband and sons. He dreams of one making a BE MORE CHILL movie a reality.

STEPHEN BRACKETT Broadway: A Strange Loop (Lyceum, Tony nomination), Be More Chill (Lyceum) and The Lightning Thief (Longacre). London: A Strange Loop (Barbican), Be More Chill (Shaftsbury and Other Palace) and Buyer & Cellar (Menier Chocolate Factory). Off-Broadway: To My Girls (Second Stage), A Strange Loop (Playwrights Horizons/Page 73/Wooly Mammoth, A.C.T. and C.T.G.) [Obie and Drama Desk Awards], Be More Chill (Signature/Two River), The Lightning Thief (Theaterworks USA/National Tour), Buyer & Cellar (Rattlestick/Barrow Street/National Tour), Ultimate Beauty Bible (Page 73), Carnival Kids (Lesser America), and Be A Good Little Widow (Ars Nova). Regional: AD 16 (Olney Theater), Fall Springs (Barrington Stage), Significant Other (Geffen Playhouse), I Now Pronounce (Humana Festival), Le Switch (About Face), and The Great Pretender (TheatreWorks).

Chase Brock Broadway: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Picnic. Off-Broadway: The Blue Flower (Second Stage, Lortel Award nomination); Tamar of the River (Prospect Theatre Company, Callaway Award finalist); Venice (Public Theater’s Public LAB); Much Ado About Nothing (Public Theater’s Mobile Shakespeare Unit); The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale (Public Theater’s Public Works); Lost in the Stars, Irma La Douce (City Center Encores!); The Cradle Will Rock (Encores! Off-Center); The Mysteries (Flea Theater). Regional: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse), Twelfth Night (The Old Globe). TV: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), Late Show with David Letterman (CBS). Video games: Dance on Broadway (Nintendo Wii, PlayStation Move). Dance: 26 dances for The Chase Brock Experience including American Sadness; The Four Seasons; Mission: Implausible; Slow Float; Whoa, Nellie! and The Song That I Sing; Or, Meow So Pretty. Opera: Romeo et Juliette (Salzburger Festspiele). Brock is the subject of the documentary film Chasing Dance. Upcoming: Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater’s Alice by Heart and Randy Blair, Tim Drucker and Matthew roi Berger’s Fat Camp; Michael
John LaChiusa’s First Daughter Suite and Sara Bareilles’s Waitress. chasebrock.com

Charlie Rosen is a 2x Grammy Award and 2x Tony Award winning composer and orchestrator whose music has been heard worldwide across many stages and screens around the world. Some recent credits include: Broadway: Some Like it Hot (Orchestrations), A Strange Loop (Orchestrations), Be More Chill (Music Sup/Orchestrations), Moulin Rouge (Orchestrations), Prince of Broadway (Orchestrations), American Psycho (Assoc MD/Keys), The Visit (Guitar/Zither), Honeymoon in Vegas (Orchestrations), Cyrano de Bergerac (Composer), One Man, Two Guv’nors (Music Director, Bass), 13 The Musical (Guitars, Bass, Keys), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Assoc. MD, Bass, addl. Orch). Off Broadway/Regional: Guys and Dolls (Orchestrations) – The Bridge Theater London, Love in Hate Nation (Orchestrator) – Two River Theater, Broadway Bounty Hunter (Orchestrations) – Greenwich House Theater, A Legendary Romance (MD/Orch.) – Williamstown Theater Festival, Miss You Like Hell (Orchestrations), The Public Theater. In addition to his theater credits, Charlie is the bandleader for the Grammy award winning Video Game Music Jazz orchestra “The 8-Bit Big Band”

EMILY MARSHALL (Music Director/Keys) – Emily is the Associate Conductor/Keyboardist of The Who and has performed at iconic venues all over the world such as Madison Square Garden, The Hollywood Bowl, The O2, Royal Albert Hall, New Orleans Jazz Fest and many more. Recent touring credits include: The Who Hits Back (North America/Europe), Josh Groban (Harmony Tour), Conductor/Music Director “Live In Concert” orchestral tours of Avatar The Last Airbender, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba, Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse, Our Planet, and Naruto.  Broadway credits include: Music Director/Vocal Arranger of Be More Chill; Associate Music Director – Jagged Little Pill, Head Over Heels; Keyboard – Elf; Keyboard Sub – Ain’t Too Proud, Beautiful, School of Rock, Mean Girls, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, Waitress. Tours/Benefits: Ratatouille: The Tiktok Musical; 1st National Tour of We Will Rock You, A Chorus Line, Beauty and The Beast, Flashdance.  Off-Broadway: Rock of Ages (New World Stages), Preludes (LCT3). Workshops/Labs: How To Dance In Ohio, Romy & Michele’s High School Reunion, The Remarkable Journey To Tianguo, Chix 6, Clueless. As a proud member of the Recording Academy, Emily is featured on the Original Broadway Cast Album of Be More Chill & the Original Cast Album of Dave Malloy’s Preludes. Marshall also works as a vocal coach, keyboard technician, arranger, supervisor & producer. IG @emarshallmusic, emilymarshallmusic.com

DANIELLE GIMBAL (she/her) –  is an NYC-based copyist and performer. She is thrilled to return to Two River Theater, where she previously served as the copyist for Joe Iconis’ Love in Hate Nation. Her music preparation credits include the Broadway productions of Be More Chill, Tommy, and All In, as well as a wide range of Off-Broadway and regional productions, including the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, The Untitled, Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical (Signature Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse), The Jonathan Larson Project (Off-Broadway), Hercules (London, Hamburg, Paper Mill Playhouse), Beaches (Theatre Calgary), Other World (Delaware Theatre Company), and Broadway Bounty Hunter (Off-Broadway). Danielle has also worked on music preparation for the Grammy Award-winning 8-Bit Big Band and for Tituss Burgess at Carnegie Hall. In addition to her work as a copyist, she frequently performs with Joe Iconis & Family. She couldn’t be happier to be back with the Be More Chill gang.

SCOTT KUKER (Sound Designer) is a Sound Designer/Production engineer. Broadway: Be More Chill(A1), Hell’s Kitchen(Associate Sound Designer), Boop!(Associate Sound Designer), Bad Cinderella(Associate Sound Designer), MJ(A2/Production Engineer), A Bronx Tale (A2), Walking With Ghosts(Production Engineer) National Tours: MJ, Summer. Regional: Bat Out Of Hell(Production Engineer, Paris Hotel Vegas), Assistant Sound at Papermill Playhouse for over 25 production including World Premieres of “Newsies”, “Hunchback of Notre Dame”, “Bronx Tale”, “Honeymoon in Vegas” and “Bandstand”

Bertie Michaels (Production Stage Manager): is thrilled to be back at Two River Theater and couldn’t be happier to be reunited with her favorite Loser, Geek, Whatevers. Other TRT favorites include The Ballad of Little Joe, Be More Chill, Two Trains Running, Jitney, Orestes; A Tragic Romp. Broadway: Be More Chill, Dead Outlaw, Moulin Rouge, Leopoldstadt, Come From Away, Beautiful – The Carole King Musical, Thérèse Raquin, The Children, A Bronx Tale. Off-Broadway/NYC: Be More Chill, Encores! Urinetown, Mack & Mabel, The Public, Signature Theatre, Atlantic Theater, Lincoln Center/LCT3, 2econd Stage. Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, Hartford Stage, Bucks County Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Two River Theater, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ. Other: August Wilson’s American Century Cycle with WNYC. Also a professional quilter. www.BroadwayQuilting.com@BroadwayQuilting. Love and thanks to my family and Sean.