Stafford Arima
STAFFORD ARIMA was nominated for a 2004 Laurence Olivier Award as Best Director for his West End production of Ragtime. His production of Altar Boyz received the 2005 Best Off-Broadway Musical Outer Critics Circle Award, was nominated for 7 Drama Desk Awards including Outstanding Musical, and ran for over 2,000 performances in New York City. Other works include: Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (Stratford Shakespeare Festival), The Tin Pan Alley Rag (Roundabout Theatre Company - nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award as Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical); The Princess and the Black-Eyed Pea (San Diego Repertory Theatre - nominated for 3 NAACP Theatre Awards); My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding (2010 NYMF - NYMF Award for Excellence in Direction & Most Promising Musical); Candide (San Francisco Symphony); Ace (The Old Globe); The Secret Garden (World AIDS Day benefit concert, NYC); Bright Lights, Big City (Prince Music Theater); Abyssinia (Goodspeed Musicals); Marry Me A Little (Cincinnati Playhouse); A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim (Boston Pops); Bowfire (PBS television special/North American tour); Guys and Dolls (Paper Mill Playhouse); and Children's Letters to God (Off-Broadway). Arima also served as associate director for the Broadway productions of Seussical and A Class Act. Arima studied at York University in Toronto where he was the recipient of the Dean's Prize for Excellence in Creative Work. Bio as of November, 2010. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: Working in the Theatre (video) Embracing Process: Directors 2010 - December, 2010 - Watch now. SDCF Masters of the Stage (audio) Developing Musicals - July, 2012 - Listen Now. SpringboardNYC Mentor - 2007 Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com) Website: www.staffordarima.com