Dear Evan Hansen
Book by Steven Levenson
Music and Lyrics by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul
December 3-21, 2025
Directed by Adam Karsten**
Music Direction by Stephen Hulsey
Join us for the Regional Premiere of this incredible show. Winner of six Tony Awards (including Best Musical), the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, and an Olivier Award for Best Musical, Dear Evan Hansen will take you on a deeply personal and tremendously moving journey about life and the way we all choose to live it. With a book by Tony Award-winner Steven Levenson (Fosse/Verdon), and a score by Grammy, Tony and Academy Award winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (Dogfight, La La Land, The Greatest Showman), this is a contemporary musical that you will experience in a new and intimate way at CVRep.
Has there ever been a time when you felt invisible? All his life, Evan Hansen has. But when a tragic event shocks the community and thrusts him into the center of a rapidly evolving controversy, Evan is given the chance of a lifetime: to be somebody else. Don’t miss: “One of the most remarkable shows in musical theater history.”– The Washington Post
Gianna Branca – Zoe Murphy
Lucy Hall – Alana
Mikey Corey Hassel – Jared
Isaac Kueber* – Connor Murphy
Eric Kunze* – Larry Murphy
Christia Mantzke* – Heidi Hansen
Joseph Portoles – Ensemble / U/S Evan
Sophia Roth – Ensemble / U/S Zoe
Erin Stoddard* – Cynthia Murphy
Pierce Wheeler* – Evan Hansen
*Appearing through an Agreement between CVRep and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
Gianna Branca
Zoe Murphy
Lucy Hall
Alana
Mikey Corey Hassel
Jared
Isaac Kueber*
Connor Murphy
Eric Kunze*
Larry Murphy
Christia Mantzke*
Heidi Hansen
Joseph Portoles
Ensemble / U/S Evan
Sophia Roth
Ensemble / U/S Zoe
Erin Stoddard*
Cynthia Murphy
Pierce Wheeler*
Evan Hansen
Directed by Adam Karsten
Music Direction by Stephen Hulsey
Adam Karsten**
Adam Karsten**
In addition to being Coachella Valley Repertory’s executive artistic director, Adam Karsten is an award-winning director for stage and screen. He has earned a reputation for the creation of stylistic works and defined concepts. While directing and producing works for the Emmy Award-winning performing arts series, “Live From Lincoln Center” and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Karsten’s projects, programs, films and documentaries have aired nationally and internationally. He has directed musicals, plays and other theatrical works Off-Broadway and regionally as well as touring productions. He has also conducted Broadway workshops. Karsten was the artistic director for the film and stage companies A2K Productions and A2K Theatricals in New York City. He was the artistic director and co-founder of Manhattan’s Conflict of Interest Theatre Company in downtown New York. Karsten was also managing artistic director of Weathervane Playhouse, the oldest professional stock theatre in Ohio.
**A Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.
Stephen Hulsey
Stephen Hulsey
Stephen is thrilled to be returning for another exciting season at CV Rep! For CV Rep, Stephen was music director for Next To Normal, Jesus Christ Superstar, Light In the Piazza and, most recently, for Christiane Noll’s solo show as well as Assistant MD for Cabaret. Stephen recently conducted West Side Story In Concert for Dezart’s opening gala as well as Falsettos. Regional music director/conductor credits include Sweeney Todd, Ragtime, Titanic, Into The Woods, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love & Murder, Assassins, A Little Night Music, Chess, Tommy, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Avenue Q, A Chorus Line, Les Miserables, The Producers, Forever Plaid, Songs For A New World, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Urinetown, Carrie, Beauty and the Beast, Hunchback of Notre Dame, My Fair Lady, The Music Man, The Sound of Music, The Secret Garden and Rent to name a few.
DESIGNERS
Jimmy Cuomo – Set Designer
Kevin Mark Harris – Costume Designer
Moira Wilke – Lighting Designer / Technical Director
Joshua Adams – Sound Designer
Ryan Marquart – Prop Designer
Lynda Shaeps – Hair and Makeup Designer
CREW
John M. Galo* – Stage Manager
Melina Ginn – Assistant Stage Manager
Marian Jacobs – Wardrobe Supervisor
Karley “Mimzy” Hamann – Wardrobe
Tom McGillis – ASL Interpreter
SET CONSTRUCTION CREW:
Joshua Adams
Timothy Burr
Bill Faulk
Gerry High
Frank Kidd
Steven Lehrer
Joey Maas
INTERNS
Solay Lewis
David Sanchez
Alyssa Schafer
Rachel Wheeler
Coming Soon
In addition to our Season Sponsors, this production was made possible by the generosity of our Production Sponsors:
Nancy and Tom Cunningham
Hugh Glenn
and our Production Underwriters:
Don Lupinetti
Peterson & Albright LGBT+ Legacy Trust
