Meet the Creative Team of "Million Dollar Quartet"

Million Dollar Quartet is the story of one unforgettable night and four extraordinary musicians, but there is no Million Dollar Quartet without the creative talent working behind the scenes to bring that night to life.

Some are Broadway veterans. Some are long-time SCR collaborators. One is making his SCR design debut. One got her design start with Team USA Synchronized Swimming. Combined, they have contributed to hundreds of designs around the country.

Colin Escott (Book) is a Grammy Award-winning, country and rock-and-roll music authority. He is the author of Good Rockin’ Tonight: Sun Records and The Birth of Rock-and-Roll, as well as Hank Williams—The Biography, which was adapted into the movie I Saw the Light starring Tom Hiddleston and Elizabeth Olsen. Escott was part of the writing and producing team for CMT’s “Sun Records,” the miniseries based on Million Dollar Quartet.

Floyd Mutrux (Book) has conceived, written, directed or produced 50 films, including Dusty and Sweets McGee; Blood In, Blood Out; Mulholland Falls and The Hollywood Knights. He apprenticed at Alley Theatre in Houston and worked at Second City in Chicago. He cowrote the musical Baby It’s You! with Colin Escott and was also part of the team to adapt “Sun Records.” With his wife Birgitte, he is preparing a new film, Moon Over Memphis, described as a rock-and-roll Field of Dreams.

James Moye returns to SCR as Million Dollar Quartet’s director, after previously helming it at Outside SCR in 2022. He starred in the original Broadway and Off-Broadway productions as Sam Phillips. He portrayed Rita’s Dad in the world premiere of Prelude to a Kiss, The Musical at SCR. His other acting credits include nine Broadway shows, seven Off-Broadway shows, tours and many regional productions. He has been seen on screen in Fair Game with Sean Penn, and his television credits include “Law & Order,” “The Blacklist” and “The Mysteries of Laura.”

Music Director Wiley DeWeese returns to SCR, having previously music directed Prelude to a Kiss, The Musical. His credits include The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical on Broadway, its national tour and Off-Broadway, Amélie on Broadway, at Center Theatre Group and at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and The Fortress of Solitude at the Public Theater, among many others. DeWeese served as music supervisor, orchestrator and co-producer of the Michael Friedman Recording Project, which released ten albums of the late composer’s work.

Kim Martin-Cotton, the Associate Director, has been SCR’s Associate Artistic Director for the past four years. She was the Artistic Producer and Associate Director of New Works for Kansas City Repertory Theatre and the founding Artistic Producer for the Off-Broadway company Hang A Tale before her time at SCR. As an actor, she has performed regionally across the country and has been seen both off and on Broadway. She covered both Cynthia Nixon and Laura Linney in the rotating roles of Regina and Birdie for the Broadway production of The Little Foxes.

Efren Delgadillo, Jr. returns to SCR and to Million Dollar Quartet as co-scenic designer, having previously designed Million Dollar Quartet’s set for Outside SCR, as well as six other productions. Some of his recent projects include Quixote Nuevo, Merry Wives of Windsor and Into the Woods in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s current season. Delgadillo, Jr. is the recipient of Henry Awards for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts productions of In The Upper Room and Quixote Nuevo, and was nominated for an Ovation Award for Best Scenic Design for Culture Clash’s Bordertown. He is the head of Scenic Design at UC Irvine.

Brandon PT Davis makes his SCR design debut as co-scenic designer. His recent work includes All’s Well That Ends Well and Much Ado About Nothing at the New Swan Shakespeare Festival and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at the Okoboji Summer Theatre. He is a former assistant professor of Scenic Design at Stephens College Conservatory for the Performing Arts, where he taught for three years. He is a graduate of UC Irvine.

Kish Finnegan returns to SCR as costume designer, after designing Outside SCR’s productions of The Old Man and The Old Moon, American Mariachi, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown and Million Dollar Quartet. She also designed costumes for SCR’s world premiere production of Joan. A graduate of the California Institute of the Arts, Finnegan began her career designing costumes for Team USA Synchronized Swimming and aquatic shows in Las Vegas, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia.

Lonnie Rafael Alcaraz has been the lighting designer for many SCR productions since 1994, including A Raisin in the Sun, La Posada Mágica and Outside SCR’s production of Million Dollar Quartet. Some of his recent design work includes Jitney at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter at Denver Center for the Performing Arts. He has a long history with Culture Clash and recently designed their 40th Anniversary Gala in Los Angeles and San Diego.

Jeff Polunas returns as sound designer for his 16th consecutive year collaborating with SCR, having previously designed The Old Man and The Old Moon at Outside SCR. He has designed more than 160 productions during his career, including She Loves Me and Venus in Fur at SCR, Much Ado About Nothing at Great River Shakespeare Festival, Les Liaisons Dangereuses at Antaeus Theatre Company and A Doll’s House, Part 2 at International City Theatre. Polunas is the Assistant Professor of Sound Design at Kent State University and received his MFA in sound design from UC Irvine.