7th Annual Festival of New Musicals

Craig Bohmler is a composer whose works have been performed in Europe, North America and Japan. Primarily a composer for the “singing theater” and the solo voice, Craig has 3 operas and 14 musicals to his credit as well as 200 art songs, and numerous choral and orchestral works. His musicals Gunmetal Blues (O’Neill Center -1991) and Enter the Guardsman (Olivier Award Nominee for “Best Musical” 1998) have both played in London and Off-Broadway as well as in many regional and international theatres. He was composer-in–residence for Arizona Opera from 2012-2017 where his western opera, Riders of the Purple Sage, premiered in February 2017. Craig is the recipient of the 2019 Arizona Governor’s Arts Award for Individual Artist. He is published by Theatrical Rights Worldwide, Santa Barbara Music Publishing, Concord Theatricals, E.C. Schirmer and Dramatic Publishing, and recorded by Columbus, Centaur, Original Cast, Naxos, and BMS records. www.craigbohmler.com

Plays: The Irish Curse (Off Broadway, London, Edinburgh, Dublin, FringeNYC- Outstanding Playwriting Award); Scituate, George Bush Goes To Hell, Grand Junction, Desert Fire, Beautiful Dreamer, Paydirt, Mates (L.A. Weekly, Drama-Logue Awards).  Musicals: Saint Heaven, Paper Moon (NAMT Festival 1995), Happy Holidays, Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll, DOO-DAH!. Screenplays: One Night Stand.  Upcoming: Free Money¸ musical about the invention of credit cards; Miss Maude, a play about photographer Eugene Smith; Tom’s Dad, a film for director Lass Hallstrom starring Patrick Dempsey; and film Busted Jesus Comix.  Taught playwriting at Cal Arts and Harvey Milk High School in NYC.  WGA, Dramatists Guild, SAG and AEA.

David Evans received a Drama Desk Nomination for his score for BIRDS OF PARADISE (written with Winnie Holzman and directed by Arthur Laurents). Also, CHILDREN’S LETTERS TO GOD (Off Broadway), BYE, BYE BIG GUY (New York Fringe Festival) and LOVE COMICS (George Street Playhouse). Songs in A…MY NAME IS ALICE, and on SESAME STREET and SQUARE ONE TV. Scores for animated films, two shows for TADA, and nine shows for TheatreworksUSA. Currently Associate Conductor of WICKED on Broadway, conducting credits include FLOWER DRUM SONG, BELLS ARE RINGING, MARIE CHRISTINE, HELLO AGAIN, HELLO MUDDAH, HELLO FADDUH, SILLS AND COMPANY and AS THOUSANDS CHEER.

ELLEN FITZHUGH. Lyrics. Musicals: With the inimitable Harold Prince: Grind with Larry Grossman, Diamondsand Paradise Found; Herringbone with Tom Cone and Skip Kennon; Big Blonde with Kennon, developed at Playwrights Horizons and The Public Theater; Paper Moon with Marty Casella and Grossman; Muscle with James Lapine and William Finn; book and lyrics to Los Otros with Michael John LaChiusa, directed at the Mark Taper by Graciela Daniele and at Everyman Theater by Noah Himmelstein. Other: two lyrics within Adam Guettel’s Myths and Hymns; additional lyrics for Anthony Newley’s Chaplin; songs for sequels of The Brave Little Toaster with Finn; title song for MGM’s That’s Dancing with Grossman and Henry Mancini; songs for Disney’s The Great Mouse Detective with Grossman and Mancini. Member of Dramatists Guild. Emmy, Drama Desk, and Tony nominated.

Howard Marren was awarded the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement
Award by Marquis Who’s Who. He is profiled in Who’s Who in America and
Who’s Who in Entertainment. He won the Outer Critics’ Circle Award for his score
for What About Luv?; the Richard Rodgers Production Award, Seagram’s New
Music Theatre Award and Best Musical in Tokyo for Portrait of Jennie; and was
nominated for an individual Emmy Award for Sesame Street. Paramour (book and
lyrics by Joe Masteroff) was produced at the Old Globe Theatre. Georgia Avenue
(book and lyrics by Joe Masteroff) was given its world premiere performances at
the Norma Terris Theatre of Goodspeed Opera House. He contributed regularly to
Captain Kangaroo. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in theatre history from Tufts
University, served a three-year term as a member of the Tony Awards Nominating
Committee, and was on the Awards Committee of the Dramatists Guild.

Chair Grad. Musical Theatre Writing Program Tisch NYU, Assoc Dean of Fine Arts Tisch NYU. Lyricist librettist of Ballad of Little Jo, In This House, Different Fields, Casanova Returns. Winner Kleban for Bet Lyrics, Richard Rodgers Award. Gilman Goazalez. Chicago Jeff Award.

Mark has written the plays FREUD’S LAST SESSION, DANCING LESSONS, CAMPING WITH HENRY AND TOM, THE GOD COMMITTEE, SCOTT AND HEM, OUT OF GAS ON LOVERS LEAP AND BECOMING DR. RUTH. He has written the musicals GIFTS OF THE MAGI, JOHNNY PYE, JOSEPH AND MARY, THE BOOK OF THE DUN COW AND JACK’S HOLIDAY with Randy Courts. Films include Carroll Ballard’s DUMA and the documentary he directed and produced, MY DOG, An Unconditional Love Story, with Richard Gere, Glenn Close, Edie Falco and others. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Writers Guild East, an alumnus of New Dramatists and a Board Member and Associate Artist at the Barrington Stage Company.