19th Annual Festival of New Musicals

Mark Allen is winner of a 2009 Jonathan Larson Award.  He has been a published songwriter and musician since he was ten.  A studio vocalist and an award-winning actor, director and film composer, Mark has been a part of theatre his whole life.  Mark is a graduate of Samford University and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, where he was the winner of the 2005 ASCAP Max Dreyfus Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre Writing.  Mark wrote Tinyard Hill, (NAMT Festival 2007)with Tommy Newman.  He can be found on the web at www.markallenmusic.com.

Neil Bartram (Composer and Lyricist) BROADWAY: The Story of My Life (Drama Desk Award nominations for outstanding music, lyrics, and new musical). REGIONAL: Signature Theatre: Spin; Chicago Shakespeare Theater: The Adventures of Pinocchio; Goodspeed Musicals: The Theory of Relativity, The Story of My Life, Not Wanted on the Voyage; AMTP: Not Wanted on the Voyage; CMTP: The Theory of Relativity; The Stratford Festival: Not Wanted on the Voyage, Clara’s Piano; Canadian Stage: The Story of My Life. UPCOMING: Something Wicked This Way Comes, Bedknobs and Broomsticks. AWARDS: Jonathan Larson Award, Dora Award, Dramatists Guild Fellowship. OTHER: Dramatists Guild and ASCAP member, alumnus of the BMI Lehman Engel Music Theatre Workshop. Published by Warner/Chappell.

Patricia Cotter: Plays: Rules of Comedy The Humana Festival of New American Plays, Humana Tens 2015; The Break Up Notebook (A GLAAD Award nominee); Three; Best/Worst; (Apartment A Theatre Company, Venice, CA.) Musicals (librettist/adaptations) include: Rocket Science: A Musical, Richard Rodgers Development Award 2010. Readings: Playwrights Horizons (directed by Kathleen Marshall). Productions: The Village Theatre, Seattle, WA The Break Up Notebook: A Musical, (based on her play) Readings: The Vineyard Theatre, NYC. Productions: Hudson Theater, LA; Diversionary Theater, San Diego; The Beck Center, Cleveland, Asbury Park, NJ, and Pandora Theatre, Louisville; Mulan, Jr. based on the Disney film, Mulan. Patricia ‘s new musical Ladykillers was developed at the Rhinebeck Writers Retreat. Patricia is an Emmy Award-winning, Groundling Theatre Alum.

Brian Hill (Book Writer) BROADWAY: The Story of My Life (Drama Desk Award nominations for outstanding book and new musical), The Little Mermaid (associate director), The Lion King (resident director). REGIONAL: Goodman Theatre: Brigadoon (new book); Signature Theatre: Spin; Chicago Shakespeare Theater: The Adventures of Pinocchio; Goodspeed Musicals: The Theory of Relativity, The Story of My Life, Not Wanted on the Voyage, Come From Away (director); CMTP: The Theory of Relativity (book writer and director); AMTP: Not Wanted on the Voyage; The Stratford Festival: Not Wanted on the Voyage (book writer and director), Clara’s Piano; Canadian Stage: The Story of My Life. UPCOMING: Something Wicked This Way Comes, Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

Stuck Elevator at ACT (SF Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award, NEA, Creative Capital, NEFA National Theatre Project, Edgerton New American Play Award);Kingdom at The Old Globe (NAMT Fest ’07, Richard Rodgers Award, NYMF Most Promising New Musical); Shakespeare: The Remix (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Capital Rep, Zach Scott). Musicals developed by the Public Theater, Sundance Theatre Lab, Atlantic Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival and many others. A former Open Rap Slam champion at the National Poetry Slam Championships, Aaron teaches poetry at a children’s hospital in his hometown of New Haven. BA: UC Berkeley. MFA: NYU GMTWP.

Band Geeks! (Goodspeed Musicals, Human Race Theatre Co., NAMT Fest ‘09), Tinyard Hill (Theatreworks Silicon Valley, Red Mountain Theatre, Human Race Theatre, Goodspeed, NAMT Fest ‘07). Off Broadway: We the People: America Rocks (Theatreworks, USA, Lortel Nomination 2010), The Yellow Brick Road (TheatreworksUSA) and 29 (NYU with Gaby Alter). In development: The Teacher from the Black Lagoon and Other Stories (TheatreworksUSA), The Odyssey Suite, ELEkTRA, The House of the Rising Sun. Tommy teaches in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Troy University. BS in Music Education, Theatre and Business, Troy University. MFA, Musical Theatre Writing, NYU Tisch. www.tommynewman.com

Marshall Pailet – Off Broadway: Who’s Your Baghdaddy; or How I Started the Iraq War (NY Times Critics Pick); Triassic Parq (Ovation Award – Best Musical, Ovation Nom – Best Director). Other Theater: Claudio Quest; Loch Ness; The Chocolate Tree (NAMT ‘07). Film: VeggieTales: Noah’s Ark. As Director: Eudaemonia; Uncle Pirate; Stuck; The 49 Project; Thursday; With Kings in the Back; Bat Boy; Escape Artists; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. He is developing stage musicals with RKO Stage, DreamWorks Theatricals, and Two River Theater. Graduate of Yale University.

Produced Musicals:
• Who’s Your Baghdaddy? or How I Started the Iraq War – The Actors Temple Theater, New York (OBA Nominee, Best Off-Broadway Musical 2015; New York Times Critics Pick, 2015; Manhattan Digest’s Best of 2015 Theater).
• Loch Ness – Chance Theater, Anaheim, CA (Best Musical Production of 2015, The OC Weekly; Best Production 2015, Orange Curtain Review).
• The Chocolate Tree – Stages Rep, Houston; ACE Theater, Eugene, Oregon; NAMT; NYMF.
• Where It’s At – Yale 2008; NY Fringe Festival 2005; Princeton 2005
• Cratchett Farm – Dillons, New York, 2003; ASCAP 2003

Produced Plays:
• The Three Times She Knocked – FringeNYC (Best Playwrighting).
• Dance of the Fireflies – Payan Theater, New York; Yale.
• Thursday – Yale
• Off the Record (One Act) – New York

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Lori Scarlett is an award-winning composer/lyricist (Ovation, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, and Backstage West Garland Awards for THE BREAKUP NOTEBOOK, book by Patricia Cotter.) Her work has been performed on both coasts and around the country. Lori is the composer/lyricist of FUCKING HIPSTERS (book by Keythe Farley, co-composed with John Ballinger), which premiered at the Signature Theater in New York City as a 2011 NYMF Next Link Selection. Her critically acclaimed first musical SNEAUX! THE SIN-SATIONAL GOTHIC FIGURESKATING MUSICAL was directed by Andy Fickman and ran for seven months at L.A.’s Matrix Theater. Lori, along with co-composer David Manning, was recently nominated for a 2013 Los Angeles Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Score for JUSTIN LOVE (Book by Patricia Cotter and David Elzer) following a much-lauded run at the Celebration Theater.

Mr. Ward has written for TV, stage and film. He has headlined with symphonies all over the world and created the role of Bobby Child in London’s West End production of Crazy For You in 1993. He’s a director and choreographer of musicals such as She Loves Me,Thoroughly Modern Millie and Big River all across the United States. He staged Debbie Reynolds’ and Donald O’Connor’s nightclub acts, and was instrumental in the translation and direction of both the Chinese and Korean productions of Crazy For You in Seoul and Beijing. He was co-creator of the musical The Gypsy King, which was presented at the Village Theatre in 2010. His film, Down in the Mouth, received the Best Short Film award at the Kent Film Festival in Connecticut, and was an “Official Selection” at five other national and international film festivals.