About The Directory of Contemporary Musical Theatre Writers The Directory of Contemporary Musical Theatre Writers Presents The Directory of Contemporary Musical Theatre Writers is a valuable resource that helps voice teachers, students and musical theatre professionals find well-written contemporary songs while making sure writers get directly paid for their work (we don’t take a cent of their earnings). The Directory The Concert features over 150 writers and 370+ songs, searchable by voice and song type. In addition, each song record has detailed information, including: key, A Celebration of Contemporary Musical Theatre range, tessitura, accompaniment difficulty, transposition availability and more.
David Sisco founded The Directory project in January, 2012 with a blog Hosted by (www.contemporarmusicaltheatre.wordpress.com) and presented the project at the NATS (National Association of Teachers of Voice) National Seth Rudetsky Conference in Orlando, Florida in July, 2012. David and Contributing Editor Lorene Phillips worked with website designer Josh Levine to launch the www.contemporarymusicaltheatre.com in mid-November. In addition to Featuring Songs by growing the roster of writers and songs, and upcoming concerts and cabarets, David will present The Directory at the International Congress of Brad Alexander & Adam Mathias, Will Aronson & Voice Teachers this summer in Brisbane, Australia. Bill Nelson, Jeff Blumenkrantz, John Bucchino, Patrick Cook & Frederick Freyer, Anna Dagmar, David Gaines & Charlie Sohne, Jenny Giering, Tom Gualtieri & David Sisco, Michael Kooman & Christopher Dimond, Daniel Maté, Chris Miller & Nathan Tysen, Adam Overett, Rachel Peters, Nadav Wiesel, Sam Willmott, Michael Wartofsky and Barry Wyner
Director Laura Josepher
Music Director Matt Castle
Monday, January 21, 2013 - 8 PM Second Stage Theatre The Concert It Just Wasn’t Meant to Happen (Calvin Berger) Nick Blaemire Barry Wyner Seth Rudetksy, Host Hold My Hand (Hush) Jeff Blumenkrantz Jeff Blumenkrantz Blue Horizon (Homade Fusion) Elizabeth Stanley Michael Kooman & Christopher Dimond Please, Belize Harry Bouvy Nadav Wiesel (orchestrated by: David Sisco) Will You Know Me? (The Rochester Knockings) Morgan Billings Patrick Cook & Frederick Freyer I Don’t Think of You (It’s All Good) Kenita R. Miller (The Untitled Daniel Maté Song Project) I’m Just Glad Robin De Jesús Daniel Maté David Gaines & Charlie Sohne (orchestrated by: Oran Eldor) Unexpressed Lucas Steele & John Bucchino Mediocre Man Mary Testa John Bucchino Rachel Peters Rock City (See Rock City & Other Destinations) Bryce Ryness Without Your Love (Running Back) Darius de Haas Brad Alexander & Adam Mathias Michael Wartofsky
My Sky Kristine Reese Director Adam Overett Laura Josepher
So I Chased The Setting Sun Sheri Sanders Band Anna Dagmar Piano/Conductor: Matt Castle Reeds: Giuseppe Fusco, Violin: Joe Brent, Cello: Mairi Dorman-Phaneuf, I’m Sitting Next to Estella (Standardized Testing: The Musical) Sam Tedaldi Bass: John Convertino, Drums: Michael Blancaflor Sam Willmott Production Stage Manager Han Solo Jason Gotay Jana Llynn Will Aronson & Bill Nelson Assistant Stage Manager I Can’t Walk On Randy Redd Joel Krause Jenny Giering (orchestrated by: Matt Castle) Make-Up Disappear (The Burnt Part Boys) Andrew Samonsky Pamela Bob, Rebecca Robles Chris Miller & Nathan Tysen We are proud to use a Steinway & Sons piano from the You Don’t Know Love (Falling to Earth) Mamie Parris Concert & Artist department at Steinway Hall for this performance. Tom Gualtieri & David Sisco We would like to thank our media parter: Roberto Araujo Photography Lorene Phillips (Producer) Sopranos, an operatic sketch comedy (Fringe NYC), Many Tanks Operatic Sketch Comedy (Lark Theatre). (Asst. Director) Fred Stroppel's Tales from Manhattan Woods (adapt. Strauss' Die Fledermaus) (Wings Theatre). (Opera roles This evening would not have been possible without the energy and performed) Mohawk Valley Opera, Opera Nova, Brooklyn Repertory Opera, Opera New York. Chorister: Syracuse Opera. (Conducting) Scarlatti’s Eraclea (world enthusiasm of the following people: premiere) with Opera Nova, Facets of Love at St. Bart's, AFRAID with Brooklyn Repertory Opera, Former Director Marble Collegiate Church’s Children of the World Jim Augustine Joshua Bouchard Vivian Chiu Choir, Town Hall, Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall. Debra Chou Betty Ciacchi Toni Dolce Jenny Dubnau Anthony Gilroy Josh Levine David Sisco (Producer) - Founder & Curator of The Directory of Contemporary Robert Mahon Sundar Mudaliar Bill Nelson Musical Theatre Writers (Twitter: @mustheatretoday). David is proud to teach Brandon Piper Rachel Routh Steinway & Sons private voice at Marymount Manhattan College. For more information, please see Greg Turner Jason Walters Jonathan Whitton his bio with Tom Gualtieri above. www.davidsisco.com
SECOND STAGE PERSONNEL In addition, are deeply grateful to all those who contributed to make this concert possible, with particular thanks to the following individuals: Jason Walters Building Manager Robert G. Mahon III Technical Director Featured Player Amanda Tamny Stage Manager Anonymous Susan McBee Carl Johengen Stephen Sury Deck Carpenter Joan Ross Sorkin MuTTT Huang Audio Master Bridge Chervenka Light Programer Starring Role Josh Maszle Audio House Manager Joshua Schliefer Anonymous Chris M. Ardizzone Tracy Bidleman Greg Turner Ticket Sales Manager Thomas Gentile Clay Hale Seung-Hee Han Jonathan Whitton Asst. Box Office Manager Brian Hurst Maurice Johnson Karen Lindblom John Sicree Lisa Smith Harold Theurer Angela Winter ABOUT THIS EVENING’S BENEFACTOR
Producer The Dramatists Guild Fund is the public charity arm of the Dramatists Guild of America. Its mission is to aid and nurture writers for the theater; to fund non-profit Danita Geltner Carol Phillips Mary Schroyer theaters producing contemporary American works; and to heighten awareness, appreciation, and support of theater across the country. Seth Rudetsky (Host) is the afternoon Broadway host on Sirius/XM radio. His talk show “Seth Speaks” is also featured on Sirius/XM. Seth’s new web-based entertainment network, SETH TV premiered in June, 2012. Since the premiere, Keep in touch with The Directory SethTV has featured stars like Patti LuPone, Gavin Creel, Megan Hilty, Patrick Wilson, Martin Short, Laura Osnes, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Ana Gasteyer, and many Website: www.contemporarymusicaltheatre.com others. Seth has appeared on the Emmy-Award-winning Kathy Griffin Show on Twitter: @mustheatretoday Bravo and starred in They’re Playing Our Song opposite Sutton Foster in a benefit Facebook: Directory of Contemporary Musical Theatre Writers for the Actor’s Fund. Seth's first young adult novel My Awesome/Awful Popularity Plan was published by Random House in 2012. As a musician, Seth has played piano for more than a dozen Broadway shows including Ragtime, Les Miz and Phantom and was the vocal coach for the Legally Blonde reality show on MTV. He was the Artistic Producer/Music Director for the first five annual Actors Fund Fall Concerts PRODUCTION TEAM including Dreamgirls with Audra MacDonald (recorded on Nonesuch Records) and HAIR with Jennifer Hudson (recorded on Ghostlight Records, Grammy Nomination). Matt Castle (Music Director). Over 70 new works: York Theatre, NYU, Seth spent two years as a comedy writer on The Rosie O’Donnell Show (three Emmy Playwrights Horizons, Barrington Stage, Sundance Institute, Weston Playhouse, nominations). As an actor, he played Arnold in the Gallery Players production of O’Neill Center, Signature Theatre, the Triad, NYMF, and CAP21. Also: Romance in Torch Song Trilogy, had roles on “All My Children” and “Law and Order: CI” and Hard Times starring Lillias White, Cape Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, many made his Broadway acting debut in The Ritz (dir. Joe Mantello) for The Roundabout cabarets. As orchestrator: TheatreworksUSA, George Street, Sacramento Theatre Theater playing Sheldon Farenthold and singing “Magic To Do” in a (devastating) Company, Kennedy Center, Enter Laughing and LingoLand cast albums, plus unitard. He’s written the books The Q Guide to Broadway and Broadway Nights, chamber and concert music. As actor: Peter in the 2006 Broadway revival of both in their fourth printing. Broadway Nights was also released as an audio book on Company, Willy/Jitter in The Musical of Musicals. www.MattCastle.com audible.com featuring himself, Jonathan Groff, Andrea Martin and Kristin Chenoweth. He also recently starred as Jeff in [title of show] at the George Street The Judy Jacksina Company, Inc. (Press Representative) is a publicity, public Playhouse. Currently, he writes a weekly column at Playbill.com and tours his show, relations and marketing company whose expertise is concentrated in the Deconstructing Broadway. For more info visit www.SethTV.com entertainment field, with specific attention to the promoting, publicizing and marketing of theatre and films. The company also works in the music industry with occasional forays into the art and publishing worlds. The subject of stories in The PERFORMERS New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, the firm has also garnered its share of marketing industry accolades. Whether it be a stadium concert, Morgan Billings: Broadway: The Sound of Music (Revival; U/S Marta and Gretl). a Broadway event or a gallery opening, the Jacksina Entourage believes in the now New York: The Secret Theatre's Little Women (Amy), a reading of the children’s highly regarded adage, “If you publicize it, they will come.” musical The Quiet Clock, and a soloist in several concerts throughout the city. Regional credits: Grease (Frenchy), Godspell (Joanne) and Frog and Toad Laura Josepher (Director) – Workshop of Falling to Earth by Gualtieri & Sisco at (Bird/Turtle/Young Frog) at the Post Playhouse in Nebraska. Morgan graduated Syracuse University, David Sisco's BAIT n’ SWISH at Stage Left Studios. Stages Magna Cum Laude from Marymount Manhattan College, where she earned her BA Repertory Theatre: Dirty Blonde, The Turn of the Screw and I Love You, You’re in Theatre Arts. Perfect, Now Change. Provincetown Rep: Hughie. For Rattlestick Productions: Winning and the award winning Car Pool. Assoc. Dir. for Backwards in Nick Blaemire is a performer and songwriter living in New York City. Broadway: High Heels (dir. by Scott Schwartz). AD for Laurie Anderson's Songs and Stories Godspell, Cry-Baby, Glory Days (music/lyrics). Off-Broadway/Tour: Dogfight from Moby Dick. (2ndstage), Altar Boyz (1st National Tour). Film/TV: “Zero Hour”, “The Good Wife”, “The Big C”, “Law and Order: CI”, “Guiding Light”, Gods Behaving Badly, and Joel M. Krause (Assistant Stage Manager) is a New York based Production Manager Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress. Nick’s band, the Hustle, recently released their and Stage Manager. He currently serves as Production Manager for the Department debut EP, available on www.nickblaemireandthehustle.com of Drama at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Joel also spent five seasons at the Williamstown Theatre Festival as Production Manager and Associate Production Harry Bouvy most recently played Hannibal Lecter in Silence! The Musical. He was Manager. New York projects have included Suicide Incorporated, Tigers Be Still, Sir Robin in the Vegas company of Spamalot and Carmen Ghia in the national tour Ordinary Days, and The Language of Trees for Roundabout Theatre Company; of The Producers (Helen Hayes nom.). Regional: Art (Pittsburgh Public), The Oorah! and Farragut North for Atlantic Theater Company; and Good Ol’ Girls for Clockmaker (City Theatre), Angels in America (Syracuse Stage), Fully Committed Aruba Productions. Joel holds an M.F.A. in Production Technology & Management (Hartford TheaterWorks), I Am My Own Wife (Hangar Theatre), among others. Film: from the School of Drama at Carnegie Mellon University. The Producers. TV: "The Good Wife," "666 Park Avenue," “Law & Order," “Sex and the City,” “All My Children." www.harrybouvy.com Jana Llynn (Production Stage Manager) Broadway: The Drowsy Chaperone (1st Nat'l Tour), Bridge & Tunnel, Company, The Moliere Comedies. Off-Broadway: A Darius de Haas Broadway: Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Carousel, Rent, The Letter to Harvey Milk, SILENCE! The Musical, Freckleface Strawberry, Masked, Gershwins’ Fascinating Rhythm, Marie Christine, Hair and Dreamgirls. His Tour, Drumstruck, SHOUT! The Mod Musical, Matt & Ben, Beau Jest (3 yrs Off-B’way & Off-Broadway and Regional credits include Children of Eden, Twelfth Night and director for Boston production), Public, York, Vineyard, LAByrinth, Rattlestick, Once On This Island. He has been a soloist at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center Mint, MCC, CSC. Regional: Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage Company, Songbook, London’s Royal Festival Hall, The New York Festival of Song, Disney Crossroads Theatre Company, La Jolla Playhouse, Cleveland Play House, Arena Concert Hall, numerous symphonies, and has most recently received great acclaim Stage (4 seasons). for his recent stint at 54 Below here in NYC . His many guest appearances include w/ Vanessa Williams, Marvin Hamlisch, Marin Alsop, Roberta Flack, and Michael Feinstein. He is featured on several recordings including his CD of standards Quiet Charlie Sohne: Tina Girlstar (book: Anton Dudley, music: Brian Feinstein): Please w/ pianist Steven Blier and Day Dream (the music of Billy Strayhorn). developed at NY Stage and Film; optioned by Olympus Theatricals. The Shadow www.dariusdehaas.com Sparrow (book: Anton Dudley, music: Keith Gordon): developed at The O’Neill Music Theater Conference. The Profit of Creation (music: Tim Rosser): ASCAP’s Robin De Jesús - Originated the role of Sonny in In the Heights on and Off- Johnny Mercer Workshop and the Yale Institute for Musical Theater. The Boy Who Broadway (Tony nom. and Drama Desk Award), La Cage Aux Folles (Tony and Danced On Air (music: Tim Rosser): developed in the Lark’s Monthly Meeting with Drama Desk nom.) and Rent on Broadway. Title role in Aladdin at St. Louis Muny, an upcoming workshop by New York Theater Barn. BMI Workshop (Advanced). Godspell at Papermill Playhouse, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, McCarter, Shakespeare Theatre Company... Films: Camp, Gun Hill Road, Fat Girls, Pet the Michael Wartofsky - Music/lyrics: The Man in My Head (NYMF 2006); Running Goat, Bert and Arnie's.. and the soon to be released Hairbrained. TV: “How to Back, (w/ Marcus Gardley, 2010 NAMT showcase; New Dramatist Benefit 2011). Make it in America”, “Law and Order: SVU.” Recently finished writing his first Composer: Boston 2012 premieres Curpcake (Reiffel/Seeman) and a 14-week run of book. Hopefully it will inspire and enlighten performers to live up to their best Car Talk: The Musical!!! (Savick). Composer for North Shore Music Theatre’s potential. Friendship of the Sea and The Navigator (Kathleen Cahill) featuring "All the Jason Gotay recently made his Broadway debut as Randall in the Original Cast of Possibilities," listed in the top 25 by contemporarymusicaltheatre.com and arranged/ Bring It On: The Musical following a national tour. Regional: Rent (Pioneer Theater performed by The Broadway Boys. Professor, Berklee College; Adjunct faculty/ Company, Westchester Broadway Theater), Shenandoah, The King and I. NY: alumnus, NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. Broadway's Rising Stars (Town Hall). BFA, Marymount Manhattan College: Bright Nadav Wiesel is an Israeli composer-lyricist and actor. He has written the scores to Lights, Big City, Sweet Charity. Recently made his solo debut at (le) Poisson Rouge. several theatrical productions in Israel. His original revue The Femme Fatale Show Love and thanks to David Sisco, family and friends. was premiered in London in 2010. The House by the Lake - a dark vaudeville for
Kenita R. Miller: B'way/Off-B'way: Working, Xanadu (Erato/Kira Cover), The Color actresses and dolls was seen in Tel Aviv and recently premiered in Paris. Nadav is a Purple (Celie), Dessa Rose (Dessa), Langston In Harlem (Zora Neale Hurston graduate of Tel Aviv University and a current member of the BMI Lehman Engel (Drama Desk Nom./ Audelco Award). National Tours/Regional: Once on This Island Musical Theater Workshop in New York. www.NadavW.com (Mama Euralie/Timoune), The Color Purple, The Civil War, Woody Guthrie Sam Willmott is the author of Standardized Testing - The Musical!!!!, Scarlet Takes a American Songbook, Ragtime (Sarah). Film/TV: Liberty City Is Like Paris To Me Tumble and, with Marcus Stevens, Yo, Vikings! He is the recipient of the 2012 Fred (Sundance), “Sesame Street.” LOVE. Ebb Award, the 2012 John Wallowitch Award, and the 2009 Kennedy Center ACTF Musical Theater Award. His works have been performed from Lincoln Center to Mamie Parris: Broadway/Tour: Wicked (Elphaba), 9 To 5 The Musical (Judy), Radio City Music Hall to Abu Dhabi, UAE to Seoul, Korea, and he is honored to be Ragtime (2009 Revival), Legally Blonde, The Drowsy Chaperone, 110 In The Shade. a part of The Directory. www.samwillmott.com Off-Broadway: See Rock City & Other Destinations (Dodi/Lily) - cast album coming soon! Numerous regional and other fun things. Best of luck to all these wonderful Barry Wyner wrote book, music, and lyrics to Calvin Berger (licensed by Tams- writers! Visit me on Facebook, Twitter, and mamieparris.com Witmark, cast album on Ghostlight Records). Awards: Richard Rodgers Award, Jerry Bock Award, Kleban Prize, Noel Coward Prize. Productions: Gloucester Stage, Randy Redd made his Broadway debut in Parade and most recently appeared as Barrington Stage, George Street Playhouse (dir. By Kathleen Marshall). Readings: “Jerry Lee Lewis” in Million Dollar Quartet. Credits include Miller and Tysen's The Manhattan Theatre Club, Barry and Fran Weissler. Publications: Hal Leonard's Teen Burnt Part Boys, Ring of Fire, Terrence McNally's Some Men and Lucky Stiff. Film/ Pop Broadway Anthology, BMI Workshop Songbook (song recorded by Neil Patrick TV: After The Storm, Kinsey (dir. by Bill Condon), “The Backyardigans: and “The Harris). Commissions: George Street Playhouse, York Theatre, upcoming film Wright Verdicts”. Recordings include Rachel Bay Jones’ Showfolk, Robin Skye’s adaptation. Education: UNC-Chapel Hill, Queens College, BMI Workshop. House of Love, Jason Robert Brown’s Wearing Someone Else’s Clothes and NEO. Upcoming: Beautiful Creatures directed by Richard LaGravenese. Kristine Reese - Broadway/National Tours: First and Second National Tours of Wicked (Nessarose), National Tour of Mamma Mia (Sophie u/s), Broadway Revival of Les Miserables; Regional: Brigadoon (Fiona), Footloose (Ariel), Annie (Star to Be), Grease (Frenchy); Vocal soloist with over a dozen international symphony orchestras; CCM Grad. Clark; Barrington Stage's Musical Theatre Lab, dir. William Finn; Disney-ASCAP Bryce Ryness: Broadway: Revival of HAIR (Woof, Drama Desk nom), Leap Of Workshop, dir. Stephen Schwartz). Daniel is the recipient of a Jonathan Larson Faith (Zak, Jonas Nightingale u/s), Legally Blonde (Aaron, Emmett u/s); Off- Foundation Grant and the ASCAP Foundation Cole Porter Award. Broadway in HAIR (Delacorte, Public), NY premiere of Drama Desk Award winning See Rock City & Other Destinations (Jess/Cutter), and Crossing Brooklyn Adam Mathias is the bookwriter/lyricist of See Rock City & Other Destinations (AJ, Transport Group). Regional: Sleeping Beauty Wakes (McCarter Theatre & La (2011 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book, Richard Rogers Award, Jerry Bock Jolla Playhouse), Floyd Collins (Floyd, Ovation nom., West Coast Ensemble), Leap Award, available for licensing from Samuel French and soon to be released on CD) Of Faith (Ahmanson), Cabaret (Emcee, Reprise!). Tour: Rent (Roger). His band, and The Passion of George W. Bush (2004 NY Int'l Fringe Festival, Joe's Pub). He is RYNESS, has released two albums. A Fire In The Night is available on iTunes currently crafting the original musical A History of Summer with composer Jonathan (rynessband.com). Bryce is married to Meredith Anderson and together they're proud Monro. Adam is a proud member of the BMI Workshop. www.adamup.com parents of Mercy Jane (9/4/09) and Judah George (6/21/11). Chris Miller (music) and Nathan Tysen (lyrics): The Burnt Part Boys (2010 Lucille Andrew Samonsky will soon be seen in City Center Encores! production of Lortel nom., Best Musical) and Fugitive Songs (2008 Drama Desk Award nom., Fiorello!. Broadway credits include Scandalous as Kenneth Ormisten and South Outstanding Revue). Cast albums available on Yellow Sound Label. Current projects: Pacific as Lt. Cable where he was seen on the Live From Lincoln Center PBS Tuck Everlasting (dir., Casey Nicholaw, book, Claudia Shear); a song for the new broadcast. Off-Broadway in Michael John LaChiusa’s Queen of the Mist as Frank revue Stars of David; Commissions: Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons/ Russell (Drama Desk nomination). Also, Encores! production of Merrily We Roll Theatreworks Silicon Valley. Other work includes an adaptation of The Mysteries of Along, and regionally at La Jolla Playhouse, American Conservatory Theater, and Harris Burdick. Television: songs for “Sesame Street” (2012 Daytime Emmy Award) The Ford’s Theater. and “The Electric Company.” Chris and Nathan apply for many awards and grants, and sometimes even win (Thank you Jonathan Larson, Richard Rodgers, Daryl Roth, Sheri Sanders has played Kitty in The Screams of Kitty Genovese ( NYMF), took a Kitty Carlisle Hart, ASCAP, and the NEA). They began their collaboration together comic turn as Little Becky in the national tour of Urinetown, and has done at NYU where they received their MFA's in musical theatre writing. EVERYTHING in between. Sheri took a BIG break from performing to create the www.MILLERandTYSEN.com musical theatre movement Rock The Audition. Anna wrote what Sheri would call a "faerie" song. Sheri is SO grateful to David Sisco for asking her to sing again. Bill Nelson wrote book and lyrics for Harmony, Kansas (4 SCENIE Awards, 3 Craig www.rock-the-audition.com Noel nominations) with composer Anna K. Jacobs, and Bill Nelson’s All-Male Revue —conceived and directed by William Finn. His songs have been presented around This past year New York audiences saw Elizabeth Stanley in her debut cabaret at 54 the world, including Finn’s Ridiculously Talented Composers and New York Theatre Below, and as Gussie, in the New York City Center, Encores! production of Merrily Barn’s The Oh, So Sexy Songs of Bill Nelson. He’s a published lyricist, 2010/11 We Roll Along. Broadway: originated roles of Dyanne in Million Dollar Quartet; Dramatists Guild Fellow, and member of the BMI Workshop. M.F.A. Musical Allison in Cry-Baby, and April in the Tony-award-winning revival of Company. Theatre Writing, NYU-Tisch. www.BillNelsonBillNelson.com First National Tour: Kira in Xanadu. Off-Broadway: The Nurse in Hello, Again (Transport Theatre Group—Drama League Nomination, best ensemble). TV: “Made Adam Overett - composer/lyricist/bookwriter: Popesical (Lyric Theatre, LA); My in Jersey,” “Fringe,” “The Chappelle Show,” and “PBS Great Performances - Life is a Musical (TRU reading, upcoming); Call it Courage (Zach Theatre, Austin, Company.” TX). Dramatists Guild Fellow 2010-11. Contributed to scores of We the People: America Rocks! (2011 Lortel nom., Best Off-B’way Musical) and Snapshots Lucas Steele - Broadway: The ThreePenny Opera (with Cyndi Lauper and Alan (Prospect Theatre). BMI Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop (Harrington Award). Cumming). Off-Broadway and other New York premieres include The Great Comet As an actor – Broadway/Tour: The Light in the Piazza (Fabrizio, Giuseppe u/s).; (Ars Nova), Myths & Hymns (Prospect Theatre), The Kid (New Group), Oliver Twist Dirty Dancing (Neil Kellerman). B.A., Yale University. www.adamoverett.com (TFANA), Corpus Christie (Bouwerie Lane Theater), Dalliance In Vienna (ATA), Cheri (The Actor's Studio), and All American Boy (NYC Fringe). Regional premieres Rachel Peters - Musicals: Only Children, Tiny Feats of Cowardice, f2m, Public at ART, Berkeley Rep., Rubicon Theatre Co., Walnut Street Theater, and the Intiman. Domain, Operas: The Wild Beast of the Bungalow, Companionship. Scores for plays: www.LucasSteele.com Stretch (a fantasia), The Bacchae, Veritas. Concert works: Jack's Vocabulary, I Live Here, Canon I, And Then. Cabaret/art songs at Lincoln Center, D-Lounge, Laurie Sam Tedaldi has a permanent crush on new musical theatre, and can most frequently be seen in readings, and Monday night concerts in midtown. She is a graduate of Beechman, Don’t Tell Mama, Cornelia Street Café. Awards: Anna Sosenko Assist NYU's Tisch School of the Arts (CAP21, Playwrights, Stonestreet) and has been seen Trust, ASCAPlus. Dramatists Guild, ASCAP; Alumna, New Dramatists Composer- in Spindermusical!, Mrs. Sharp and The Blonde Streak. Librettist Studio, American Opera Projects Composers and the Voice. B.A., Brandeis University; MFA, NYU. Mary Testa: Broadway: Guys and Dolls, Xanadu (Drama Desk nom.), Chicago, 42nd Knockings, a musical about the birth of spiritualism. Pat is Director of Musical Street (Tony nom.), Marie Christine, On the Town (Tony nom.) …Forum, The Rink, Theatre and Jazz at BMI and was the 2001 recipient of the Ed Kleban Award for Marilyn, Barnum. Off-Broadway: Queen of the Mist (Drama Desk winner, Lucille Outstanding Lyrics. Rick is Administrator of the BMI Workshop. Lortel and Drama League noms.), Tricks the Devil Taught Me, Love, Loss and What I Wore, Regrets Only, See What I Wanna See (Drama Desk & Drama League noms.), British-born/NYC-based pianist, vocalist and composer Anna Dagmar is a second- First Lady Suite (Drama Desk nom.), String of Pearls (Drama Desk nom.), The year member of the BMI Workshop. Her fourth CD, Satellite charted #5 on the Vagina Monologues, From Above (Obie), others. Film: Franny, Tio Papi, Eat, Pray, National Cashbox Magazine Radio Chart. Dagmar was selected as an official Love, The Bounty Hunter, others. Television: “Two Broke Girls,” “Over/Under,” showcase artist at the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance and as a finalist for the “White Collar,” “Nurse Jackie,” “Sex and the City,” “Whoopi,” others. Kerrville and Rocky Mountain Folk Festivals. She received a Gold Prize in the Mid- Atlantic Songwriting Contest. Her music has also been featured on the Cutting Edge Composers Series. www.AnnaDagmar.com WRITERS David Gaines: as music director/accompanist has worked with Penny Fuller, Tony Brad Alexander is the composer of the Drama Desk Award-winning musical See Roberts, Karen Mason, Andrea Marcovicci, et al. Faculty member/musical director: Rock City & Other Destinations. He wrote the music for Theatreworks USA’s O'Neill Cabaret Conference. Recently scored the short film “The Poets’, directed by Martha Speaks, Click Clack Moo (Drama Desk and Lortel Award nom.) and Just So Sean Gannet. Current: Faculty Drama Division, Juilliard School. BMI Workshop Stories, as well as songs for Duck For President, If You Give A Pig A Pancake, and (Advanced). We The People (Lortel Award nom.). Brad is a member of The BMI Workshop, Jenny Giering’s currrent projects include Alice Bliss (book by Laura Harrington, National Alliance for Musical Theatre and The Dramatists Guild. lyrics by Adam Gwon) commissioned by Playwrights Horizons, and Summerland www.bradalexander.com. (book by Laura Eason, lyrics by Sean Barry) commissioned by Chicago Shakespeare Will Aronson has composed the scores for the hit Korean musical Bungee Jump Theater. She wrote the score for Saint-Ex (book and lyrics by Sean Barry), which (Best Score, 2012 Korea Musical Awards), Mormons, Mothers, and Monsters premiered at the Weston Playhouse in August, 2011. Her solo album, Look for Me, is (Barrington Stage; Boston Globe Critics’ Pick), The Trouble With available at www.jennygiering.com Doug (Theatreworks; NAMT 2010, dir. Victoria Clark), and My Scary Girl (Best Tom Gualtieri & David Sisco met at the BMI Musical Theater Workshop in 2003. Musical, NYMF 2009). Other work includes the arrangements and incidental music Their first musical Falling to Earth, has been developed through the Syracuse for the William Finn/James Lapine musical, Little Miss Sunshine (La Jolla University New Play Workshop and The York Theatre Developmental Reading Playhouse). Series. Currently, they're working on a new musical entitled I'm Afraid, You're Jeff Blumenkrantz Broadway: Into the Woods (1987), Threepenny Opera (with Afraid: 448 Reasons to Fear And Why. Tom and David are the recipients of a grant Sting), Damn Yankees, How to Succeed…, and A Class Act. Film and TV: “Joseph … from the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust and their songs have been featured in various Dreamcoat,” “Will and Grace,” “Ugly Betty,” all three “Law and Order” series, and cabarets and concerts. They also appear on stage together in David’s multi-award- the Great Performances (PBS) telecast of Candide in Concert. As a composer, Jeff winning comedies BAIT n’ SWISH. www.gualtieriandsisco.com has received the Fred Ebb Award and a Tony nomination (Urban Cowboy). His songs Michael Kooman & Christopher Dimond received the 2010 Jonathan Larson Grant have been recorded by Sutton Foster, Rebecca Luker, Victoria Clark, Lauren and were the inaugural recipients of the Lorenz Hart Award. Their musicals have Kennedy, Megan Mullally, and Audra McDonald. www.jeffblumenkrantz.com. been workshopped or performed at the Kennedy Center, American Conservatory John Bucchino's songs have been performed and recorded by renowned artists in Theatre, the ASCAP/Disney Musical Theater Workshop, NAMT, and the every genre of music. He has written the songs for the Broadway musical A Catered Williamstown Theatre Festival. They are currently working on several commissions Affair as well as a revue of his material, It's Only Life. His two songbooks, CDs, (including one from the Kennedy Center), as well as the original musical The children's book and information on his master classes are available through his Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes. Their debut album is available on iTunes. Learn website www.johnbucchino.com. more at www.koomandimond.com Patrick Cook (lyrics) & Frederick Freyer (music) are moderators of the 1st and 2nd Daniel Maté’s musicals include Middle School Mysteries (Two River Theater years of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop in New York. Their Company), The Story of Jo-Beth (upcoming reading at JCC Manhattan in May), and, musical Captains Courageous was produced by Manhattan Theatre Club in 1999 with Will Aronson, The Trouble With Doug (Goodspeed New Works Festival '08; (dir. Lynne Meadow; Outer Critics Circle Award nom., Best Musical). They are CAP 21, '09; NAMT Festival '10; Royal & Derngate, UK, '11; TheatreWorks Silicon currently working on The Night Before, a Christmas musical, and The Rochester Valley, '12). He is also developing a theatrical song cycle currently entitled The Untitled Daniel Maté Song Project; (Workshop: Playwrights Horizons, dir. Victoria