Director
MICHAEL DEMPSEY
Producer
ALLEN KELMAN
Editor
LAURA YOUNG
Production Designer
SETH EASTER
Lighting Designer
ALAN ADELMAN
Associate Director
ROBIN MISHKIN ABRAMS
Stage Managers
LYNN FINKEL
ARTHUR LEWIS
Technical Director
SANDY BONDOROWSKY
Production Manager
TINA MAGNUSON
Production Coordinator
KIARA McIVER
Production Supervisor
DORIE D’AMORE
Script Supervisor
SANDRA CARDENAS
Backline Supervisor
JEFF SHAW
Tech Manager
ROBERT MULLER
Staging Supervisor
BRUCE WEINSTEIN
Gaffer
TOM BLANCATO
Best Boy
JOHN ELLAR
Audio Department
TOM HOLMES
STEPHEN LAMPHERE
SKIP KENT
JUSTIN MILNER
BOB O’NEAL
Screen Content Producers
K. BRANDON BELL
SETH EASTER
Video Operator
MATTY RANDAZZO
Cinedeck Operator
CHRIS GRAHAM
Teleprompter
DUNCAN CHINNOCK
Hippo Operator
PETER VAN ACKEN
Video LEDs
ROBERT ALVAREZ
MIKE BRENT
JOE DENNEM
ROB DUPONT
GARY MADURA
Camera
ELIAS CLARKE
STEVE DAHL
NICK FAYO
JAY KULICK
LYN NOLAND
DAVID SMITH
CLAUS STUHLWEISSENBURG
MARK WHITMAN
Camera Assist
ANDREW ROBINSON
MICHAEL SCHMEL
EIC
DAVID WRIGHT
Head Utility
ANTHONY DEFONZO
Utilities
DANIELLE ATIEH
BOD BENEDETTI
KEITH CONOD
PAT DOYLE
MIKE MORAN
Audience Casting
SAMANTHA HELEN BLACK
Rigger
CARSTEN WEISS
Production Assistants
GARRICK CISNEROS
MARY ENGELS
LESLIE CLAIRE ODDO
MATT TRAULSEN
JON WILEY
ZAZ ZIELINSKI-ROBINSON
FOH Mixer
DAN GERHARD
System Tech
CHRIS PRINZIVALLI
RF PL
Luis Espinal
Hair and Makeup
BELINDA MOSS
ALEXANDRA FAIRFULL
Recorded at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
Harvey Lichtenstein Theater
BAM General Manager
NEIL KUTNER
BAM Production Supervisor
PAUL BARTLETT
Short films
Market Road Films
Producer/Director
TONY GERBER
LYNN NOTTAGE
Music Clearance
ROSIE FISHEL
EMILY LEE
Music
“TRUE COLORS”
Written by Thomas F. Kelly & William E. Steinberg
Sony/ATV Tunes LLC
TED Theme Music
GRAHAM FISK
OLIVER JEFFERS
JOHN MCGREW
MAC PREMO
FOR TED
Head of TED Media
JUNE COHEN
Special Thanks
RONDA CARNEGIE
MATT CURTIS
MIKE FEMIA
SEAN GANNET
MICHAEL GLASS
ROXANNE HAI LASH
THANIYA KEEREEPART
RYAN LASH
STEPHANIE LO
YESENIA MARTINEZ
EMILY MCMANUS
ELISE MERHIGE
LOGAN SMALLEY
KATE TORGOVNICK
JASON WISHNOW
SUSAN ZIMMERMAN
FOR THIRTEEN
Coordinating Producer
STEPHANIE CARTER
Production Manager
SONOKO AOYAGI
Post Production Services
JERMAINE PINNOCK
Color Correction
MICHIEL PILGRAM
Audio Mixers
JON BERMAN
ED CAMPBELL
Production Assistant
RACHEL HARTMAN
Director, Programming Operations
JANE BUCKWALTER
For WNET: Executive in Charge of Production
STEPHEN SEGALLER
For TED: Curator
CHRIS ANDERSON
For Thirteen: Executive Producer
JULIE ANDERSON
For TED: Executive Producer
JULIET BLAKE
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