Stafford Arima is a Canadian-born theatre director. Arima studied at York University in Toronto, where he was the recipient of the Dean's Prize for Excellence in Creative Work. He is a proud member of SDC. He directed the "revisal" of the infamous Broadway musical, Carrie for MCC Theater. Richard Zoglin of Time Magazine said in his review of the recent production that "...this Carrie has real weight and emotional conviction, and it engaged me more than a lot of musicals I?ve seen lately...This show has guts." Arima also directed the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway musical Altar Boyz, which received the 2005 Best Musical Outer Critics Circle Award and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Musical. Music and lyrics are by Gary Adler and Michael Patrick Walker, and book is by Kevin Del Aguila. 

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