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NEW SONGS NOW a New Voices/New Works Program RATTLESTICK PLAYWRIGHTS THEATER In Partnership with Rosalind Productions, Inc., Presents NEW SONGS NOW A New Voices/New Works Program 2019 LINEUP June 4th- Andrew R. Butler and Angela Sclafani, with conversation facilitated by ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Rachel Sussman June 5th- Masi Asare and the Bengsons, with conversation facilitated by Mei Ann ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Teo June 6th- Preston Max Allen and Troy Anthony, with conversation facilitated by Anne ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Kauffman June 10th- Rona Siddiqui and Jillian Walker, with conversation facilitated by Natasha ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Sinha June 12th- Michelle Rodriguez and Lila Blue, with conversation facilitated by Leigh ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Silverman Stage Manager: P. Tyler Britt ​ Sound Engineers: Michael Costagliola, German Martínez, Jack Scaletta ​ ​ ​ ARTIST BIOS JUNE 4 Andrew R. Butler is a composer, writer, and performer based in Brooklyn, NY and hailing from the ​ Florida Panhandle. In 2018 he received the Jonathan Larson Grant and his sci-fi folk musical Rags ​ Parkland Sings The Songs Of The Future premiered at Ars Nova (NYTimes Best Theatre of 2018; Lortel ​ and Drama League nominations for Outstanding Musical). Andrew was one-tenth of the composer/lyricist team for Jacklyn Backhaus's Folk Wandering (Pipeline Theatre Co.) Andrew's work has ​ ​ been developed at Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Yale Institute for Music Theatre, The Civilians, Ars Nova, Dixon Place, Fresh Ground Pepper, American Music Theatre Project, and the Polyphone Festival.andrewrbutler.com Angela Sclafani is an NYC-based performer and songwriter. She is a resident of the Orchard Project ​ Greenhouse, a two-time alumna of Ars Nova's ANT Fest, a 2018 Jonathan Larson Grant Finalist, and a first place winner of the 2018 Great American Song Contest. Angela was also a 2018 recipient of the Richie Jackson Artist Fellowship and the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust Grant. Favorite performances include appearing in Todd Almond’s Kansas City Choir Boy, starring Courtney Love, and supporting the ​ ​ British-pop band Years & Years as a backup vocalist on the North East leg of their Communion tour. Her ​ ​ recorded music releases, Your Ghost and Blossom, are available to stream and download online. Angela ​ ​ ​ ​ graduated from NYU Tisch with a BFA in Drama. www.angelasclafani.com Rachel Sussman is an NYC-based creative producer and co-founder of The MITTEN Lab, an emerging ​ theatre artist residency program in her native state of Michigan. From 2016-2018, she served as the Producing Artistic Director for the New York Musical Festival (NYMF). As an independent producer, she is represented on Broadway this spring by Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me. A former ​ ​ Women's Project Lab Time Warner Foundation Fellow, Rachel is a graduate of the Commercial Theater Institute and a University Honors Scholar alumna of NYU Tisch. She is the recipient of the 2019 Geraldine Stutz T. Fellowship in Creative Producing, founded by Hal Prince in conjunction with Columbia University. www.rachel-sussman.com JUNE 5 Masi Asare is a composer, lyricist, and playwright. Shows include: THE FAMILY RESEMBLANCE ​ (book/music/lyrics; Theatre Royal Stratford East commission, developed Eugene O’Neill Center); RISHVOR (book/music/lyrics), a new musical about racial passing commissioned by Barbara Whitman/Grove Entertainment; and MONSOON WEDDING (lyrics), the Broadway bound new adaptation of Mira Nair’s film. A past Dramatists Guild Fellow, Masi has received the Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award for a woman composer of musicals; both the Georgia Bogardus Holof Lyricist Award and the Paulette Haupt Composition Prize from the Eugene O’Neill Center; and a 2019 Emerging Artist Grant from the Theater Hall of Fame. She holds degrees from Harvard and NYU Tisch and teaches in the Theatre department at Northwestern University. www.masiasare.com The Bengsons music has been featured on “So You Think You Can Dance” (FOX) and in Hundred Days ​ (La Jolla Playhouse, New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater), The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova), Sundown, Yellow Moon (Ars Nova/WP), Anything That Gives Off Light (Edinburgh Theatre Festival, Joe’s Pub), Hurricane Diane (New York Theatre Workshop), You’ll Still Call Me By Name (New York Live Arts, Jacob's Pillow), The Place We Built (The Flea), and Iphigenia in Aulis (Classic Stage Company). They have received the Richard Rogers Award and have been nominated for the Drama Desk, Drama League, and Lucile Lortel awards. Mei Ann Teo (she/they) is a theatre/film maker who works at the intersection of ​ artistic/civic/contemplative practice towards paradigm shifts. As a director/devisor/dramaturg, she enjoys collaborating. Mei Ann is the Producing Artistic Director of Musical Theatre Factory, a Resident Company of Playwrights Horizons. JUNE 6 Preston Max Allen is a trans masculine writer whose work has been performed at the New Amsterdam ​ Theatre, Signature Theatre, Lincoln Center, Joe’s Pub, Musical Theatre Factory, and Feinstein’s/54 Below. He conceived and wrote book, music, and lyrics for WE ARE THE TIGERS (Theatre 80), NEVER BETTER, AGENT 355 (co-book/dramaturgy Jessica Kahkoska), and CARRIE 2: THE RAGE, AN UNAUTHORIZED MUSICAL PARODY (Jeff Nominee, Best Musical). He’s an LA Ovation winner for Best Lyrics/Composition (WE ARE THE TIGERS), member of the Ars Nova Play Group (2019/2020), and alum of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop. @prestonmaxallen Troy Anthony is a composer, actor, and director based in NYC. He has presented work at Joe’s Pub, 54 ​ Below, Prospect Theater Company and the Musical Theater Factory (MTF). Commissions include the Atlantic Theater Company, The Civilians and The Shed. Troy has been seen in the Public Theater’s Twelfth Night and As You Like It, as well as Prospect Theater Company’s Tamar of the River. He leads ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ the Public Theater’s Public Works Community Choir and focuses on the intersection between art and social justice at the DreamYard Art Center. He’s also a 2019-2020 MTF Maker. Anne Kauffman has worked with Ars Nova, NYTW, Playwrights Horizons, The Public, MCC, ​ Roundabout, WP, P73, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Yale Rep, The Goodman, Steppenwolf, The Wilma, ZSpace. She is Co-Artistic Director of Encores off-Center, Resident Director at Roundabout Theater, Artistic Associate and Founding Member of The Civilians, a Sundance Program Associate, Clubbed Thumb Associate Artist and co-creator of the CT Directing Fellowship, New Georges Associate Artist, Artistic Council of Soho Rep, SDC Executive Board Member. Awards: Lortel, OBIEs (Directing and Sustained Excellence), the Joan and Joseph Cullman Award for Exceptional Creativity from Lincoln Center, the Alan Schneider Director Award. JUNE 10 Rona Siddiqui is a NYC-based composer/lyricist. Musicals: Salaam Medina: Tales of a Halfghan, One ​ ​ ​ ​ Good Day,The Tin,Treasure in NYC. Commissions:Atlantic Theater Company, 24-Hour Musicals, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Prospect Theater Company, The Civilians, NYC Gay Men's Chorus, 52nd St Project. Performed at: The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Joe's Pub, Feinstein's/54 Below, New York City Center.Awards:ASCAP Foundation Mary Rodgers/Lorenz Hart Award and the ASCAP Foundation/Max ​ ​ Dreyfus Scholarship. Music direction:A Strange Loop, Bella: An American Tall Tale, Who's Your ​ ​ ​ Baghdaddy? Or How I Started the Iraq War. Orchestration:Broadway Backwards, Gay Men's Chorus, ​ ​ ​ Broadway Records, NAMT gala. www.ronasiddiqui.com ​ ​ Jillian Walker writes plays that create space for healing and liberation; embodying remembrance for our ​ ancestors and legacies. Manifestations include a concert-play, SKiNFoLK: An American Show, Sarah’s ​ Salt. (recognized by the American Playwriting Foundation in 2017), and Songs of Speculation, a ​ ​ ​ lecture-performance work that explores her challenges with the historical archive. Jillian is a member of the groundbreaking cohort of MTF Makers at Musical Theater Factory, the genre-defying artists in Makers Lab at Ars Nova, and is currently under commission with Soho Rep. She holds an MFA in Dramaturgy from Columbia University. www.patreon.com/jillianbwalker ​ Natasha Sinha is a producer and dramaturg, focusing on new plays and new musical work. She is the ​ Associate Director of LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater which exclusively produces premieres (including Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar, Dave Malloy's Preludes, War by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Martyna Majok's queens, and Antoinette Nwandu’s Pass Over). Natasha is a co-founder of Beehive Dramaturgy Studio, which works with individual generative artists as well as organizations such as P73, MTF, APAC and NYMF. Prior to joining LCT3, she was the Associate Producer at Barrington Stage Company. Natasha is on the Advisory Boards of Musical Theatre Factory and SPACE on Ryder Farm. She has served as a judge on award committees, taught classes, and curated events focused on inclusivity. JUNE 12 Michelle Rodriguez is a singer, songwriter and musical theater composer, currently at work on a new ​ musical commissioned by The Public Theater. She has captivated audiences at Joe's Pub (NYC), the Hideout (Chicago), and Steppenwolf (Chicago) with her stunning vulnerability onstage. Beloved by NPR’s All Songs Considered team, Michelle became a finalist for NPR’s 2018 Tiny Desk Contest with her band MICHA’s song “Nena Nena Nena.” Michelle made her Steppenwolf début in La Havana Madrid and starred in her original bluegrass/folk musical, East o', West o'! at ANTFest at Ars Nova, which earned her a mention in The New Yorker. In 2018, Michelle’s work in theater and music is being supported by residencies at SPACE on Ryder Farm, New York Theater Workshop, and the University of Chicago. Other musicals include Rokera, Bibliophile, Betty White: The Musical!, JIRAN, and So Far Cecile. BA: ​ ​ ​ ​ Williams College. Lila Blue is a singer-songwriter from New York who moved to San Francisco in 2011. At 19 years old, ​ she has proven herself an accomplished recording artist, theatrical composer, and multi-instrumentalist. She has released two full- length albums (Lucille and The Hollows Hold the Healing), an EP (Have a ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Look), and recently completed an LP for release in the fall.
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