19th Annual Festival of New Musicals

Broadway: Gettin’ The Band Back Together (music & lyrics) with Ken Davenport (Belasco Theatre; John Rando, dir.) Regional: Tinyard Hill (music) with Tommy Newman (NAMT Festival 2007, Human Race Theatre 2008, Theatreworks, Palo Alto 2008, Goodspeed Musicals), Band Geeks! (music) with Newman, Gaby Alter, and Gordon Greenberg (NAMT Festival 2009, Goodspeed Musicals 2010) and The Joker’s Game (music) with Louis St. Louis and Jim Racheff (Beijing, China 2010). Mark has also has created award winning music for TV, Film and dozens of TV commercials. Mark is a past recipient of the Jonathan Larson Grant (2009), Frederick Lowe Award (2007) and ASCAP Max Dreyfus Award (2005).

Neil is the composer and lyricist of Broadway’s The Story of My Life with book writer Brian Hill (4 Drama Desk Award nominations including Outstanding Music and Outstanding Lyrics). His musical The Theory of Relativity, written specifically for and about college age students, had its US premiere at Goodspeed Musicals in 2015 with its Off West End premiere in the same year. Other works include an adaptation of The Adventures of Pinocchio, a musical adaptation of Michel Tremblay’s Les Belles-Soeurs, You Are Here, Senza Luce and a musical based on Ray Bradbury’s classic novel Something Wicked This Way Comes (11 Barrymore Award nominations). Neil’s new score for Shakespeare in Love was written for the Chicago Shakespeare Theater and Asolo Rep productions. His musical adaptation of Disney’s Bedknobs & Broomsticks recently enjoyed a successful UK tour. Cast albums include The Story of My Life and The Theory of Relativity (PS Classics).

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’s work with composer/lyricist Neil Bartram includes Bedknobs & Broomsticks (UK tour), The Story of My Life (Broadway – 4 Drama Desk Award nominations including Outstanding Book and Outstanding Musical), Something Wicked This Way Comes (11 Barrymore Award nominations), The Theory of Relativity (Goodspeed Musicals and Off West End), the English-language adaptation of Les Belles-Soeurs, You Are Here (Southwark Playhouse UK), Senza Luce and a fresh take on The Adventures of Pinocchio. He wrote the new book for the Old Globe’s production of NBCUniversal’s October Sky and the revised book for the Goodman Theatre’s acclaimed production of Brigadoon.

Directing credits include work with Chicago Shakespeare Theater, The Segal Centre, Goodspeed Musicals and The Stratford Festival of Canada. For Disney Theatrical Productions he was resident director of the Toronto and Broadway companies of The Lion King and associate director of the Broadway production of The Little Mermaid.

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.

Tommy is a published playwright, composer and lyricist from Alabama and a 2013 ASCAP Foundation Cole Porter Award Winner. He is a recipient of an Anna Sosenko Assist Trust Grant, and a 2014 Kennedy Center ACTF National Musical Theatre Award Winner. His works include: The Single Girl’s Guide with Gordon Greenberg (NAMT (2013), Band Geeks! (Published by MTI, NAMT Fest ‘09), Tinyard Hill with Mark Allen (NAMT Fest ‘07). Off Broadway: We the People: America Rocks (Theatreworks, USA), El Otro Oz with Jaime Lozano (Theatreworks, USA) and 29 with Gaby Alter. Recent works: The Teacher from the Black Lagoon and Other Stories (Theatreworks, USA), The Odyssey Suite, Savage, Jenny’s Damned Ex, and With Bell On. He holds a BS in Music Education from Troy University and an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU. Tommy is a full-time professor with Troy University’s Department of Theatre and Dance in Troy, AL.

Marshall is a writer and director for theater, and is the proud owner of a wildly untrained, but ultimately well-meaning terrier-mix. He directed, composed and co-wrote the Off-Broadway musicals Who’s Your Baghdaddy, which was a two-time NY Times Critic’s Pick, and Triassic Parq, which went on to win the Ovation Award for Best Musical for its LA premiere. Other select writing includes Loch Ness (Best Musical/Best Director ’19 BWW Awards); Claudio Quest (six NYMF Awards for Excellence); Shrek the Halls (DreamWorks Theatricals); The Magic School Bus (TheaterWorks USA). Film Veggie Tales: Noah’s Ark starring Wayne Brady (Original Songs). He’s written and directed for RKO Stage, Atlantic Theater Company, PBS and lots of other cool places. Graduate of Yale University. www.marshallpailet.com

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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Randy Rogel has won three Emmy Awards (nominated for ten), a Peabody Award, two Annie Awards, three Leo Awards, and the Ovation Award. He is currently co-writing lyrics with Jerry Zucker and Tom Kitt for the new musical, ‘Intermission’; Chris Gattelli is choreographing. Randy co-wrote songs for the 20th Century Fox movie ‘Rio 2’ and was show runner on the animated series ‘1001 Nights.’ Randy spent nine years on staff at Warner Bros Studio as an original writer on the Batman series and then joined the staff of Steven Spielberg’s Animaniacs. At the Walt Disney Company, he was writer and composer on the animated movies Peter Pan – Return to Neverland, Cinderella II, Cinderella III, Winnie the Pooh, Around the World in Eighty Days, The Three Musketeers, and 101 Dalmatians II. For Walt Disney Television, he wrote and composed for Tarzan, The Three Caballeros, House of Mouse, and the 7D.

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.