Larry Raben

Larry Raben is an award-winning director who has provided direction and musical staging for three decades of musicals and plays. He directed Tony winner Joe DiPietro’s Falling For Eve (York Theatre - Off-Broadway) and received the LA Ovation Award for “Best Direction” of Singin’ in the Rain (Cabrillo Musical Theatre). Larry co-founded Coyote StageWorks in Palm Springs, California, an Equity Theatre that garnered 90 Desert Star Awards in its thirteen-year run. He is currently the Artistic Director of Welk Resort Theatre in Escondido, CA. Recent works include School Of Rock (Tuacahn Amphitheatre - Regional Premiere), Murder on the Orient Express (Gateway Playhouse), Jersey Boys (Phoenix Theatre Company), Kinky Boots (Gateway Patchogue Theatre), Buyer & Cellar (Laguna Playhouse), Plaid Tidings (Walnut Street Theatre), Titanic (Moonlight), Young Frankenstein (SDMT - Craig Noel nominee), Nice Work if You Can Get It (Ogunquit Playhouse - IRNE nominee), Sunset Blvd. (Moonlight, Music Theatre Wichita), Newsies (Gateway), The Producers (Moonlight), Tru (Coyote StageWorks - Desert Star Award for “Best Direction”), and Roger & Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Gateway Playhouse). Larry was also Assistant Director of the original Off-Broadway production of Forever Plaid, after which he served as Director for its 20+ regional productions.

Select Credits Include: Sweet Charity (Lola Mebrives Buenos Aires - Ace Award Nominee), Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (Music Theatre Wichita), Catch Me If You Can (Musical Theatre West), Mamma Mia (Ogunquit Playhouse, The Wick), Cabaret (Gateway), Greater Tuna, A Tuna Christmas, Six Danced Lessons In Six Weeks (CSW - “Best Director” winners), The Music Man, West Side Story, The Little Mermaid (5-Star), Peter Pan, The Addams Family, Thoroughly Modern Millie (Performance Riverside), Sister Act (SDMT), Hairspray, The Wedding Singer, Never Gonna Dance, The Thing About Men (MTW), When You Wish, Love Makes The World Go Round (Phoenix Theatre Company), Hollywood’s Heyday (Co-Creator), Welkcome Home for the Holidays (Co-Creator), A Christmas Carol, Meet Me In St. Louis, Always Patsy Cline (Welk), The Andrews Brothers, The Marvelous Wonderettes (Golden Apple).