RICHARD HESTER (Production Supervisor) has been a stage manager and production supervisor for more than 40 years. On Broadway he was the Jersey Boys Production Stage Manager and then spent 16 years staging and maintaining productions in the US as well as all over the world. In addition to Mandy Patinkin’s concerts, Richard is also the Production Supervisor for Patti LuPone’s concert tour. Other Broadway includes Summer, the Donna Summer Musical, Wicked, The Phantom of the Opera, A Delicate Balance, Titanic, Cabaret as well as Annie Get Your Gun and Gypsy both starring Bernadette Peters. Internationally, he supervised West Side Story in Tokyo’s StageAround Theatre.  Twenty-three years ago, with Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore, he helped found and produce Broadway Barks! an annual animal adoption event. His first book, Hold, Please: Stage Managing a Pandemic, was published in March of 2022. www.richardhester.com