31st Annual Festival of New Musicals
2019

Overview
October 24 - 25, 2019
New World Stages 340 W 50th Street, New York, NY
The 31st Annual Festival of New Musicals was presented at New World Stages in New York City on October 24 & 25, 2019.
Over the course of two days, 45-minute cuts of eight new musicals will be presented to over 600 industry professionals. Selected from a careful review process, the Festival celebrates what’s next in musical theatre and the incredible stories and artists that are leading the way.
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Musicals

Hi, My Name is Ben
Director
Hunter Bird
Cast
Jennifer Damiano, Dayna Jarae Dantzler, Richard Henry, Carlos Lopez, Mamie Parris, CJ Pawlikowski, Joel Rooks, Conor Ryan, Sonya Venugopal and Michael Winther
Ideal Cast Size: 10-12
Ideal Band Size: 7
Genre & Style:
Synopsis
“Hi, my name is Ben. I can’t talk but I can hear.”
A true, New York story of how one man changed the lives of those around him, without ever speaking a word. Using just his notepad, pen, and open heart, Ben turned a neighbourhood of strangers into a community of friends, before finally encountering a miracle of his own.

Interstate
Director
Jesca Prudencio
Music Director
Anessa Marie
Cast
Emy Coligado, Jin Ha, Danny Harris Kornfeld, Diana Oh, Sushma Saha, Diamond Essence White, Gianna Yanelli and Marc de la Cruz
Ideal Cast Size: 8
Ideal Band Size: 5
Genre & Style:
Drama featuring trans and queer young adults
Synopsis
Interstate is an Asian-American road trip musical about Dash, a transgender spoken word performer who embarks on his first national tour with his best friend Adrian, a lesbian singer-songwriter. Their political and personal music inspires Henry, a trans teenage blogger living in a small town in Kentucky, to make a series of life-changing decisions. A parallel story about two trans people at different stages of their lives, the musical explores love, family and masculinity in the age of social media.

Iron John: An American Ghost Story
Director
Jonathan McCrory
Cast
Kyle Decker, Nicolas Dromard, Grace Field, Deon'te Goodman, Andrew Humann, Chike Johnson, Julia Murney, Veronica Otim, Christian Thompson and Cathryn Wake
Ideal Cast Size: 12-14
Ideal Band Size: 6
Genre & Style:
Southern Gothic Dramedy
Synopsis
Welcome to the little Southern town of Good, Alabama. It’s wild, woodsy, down-home…and very, very haunted. 100 years ago, a love triangle ended in an act of racist violence that seems to repeat in every generation—until now. This dark and lyrical tale pits good old-fashioned American denial against the redemptive power of facing your truth.

Lautrec at the St. James
Director
Sarna Lapine
Music Director
Charity Wicks
Cast
Gabrielle Carrubba, Erika Henningsen, MaryAnn Hu, David Hughey, Kristolyn Lloyd, Wade McCollum, Bronson Norris Murphy, Jason Pintar, Ben Roseberry and Erica Spyres
Ideal Cast Size: 10
Ideal Band Size: 7
Genre & Style:
Synopsis
March, 1899 – French artist Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, passes out in a gutter and is kidnapped. He awakes in the Chateau St. James, an asylum. Triggered by his imagination and a need to understand his downfall, the St. James continuously transforms around Lautrec into an intoxicating and provocative world—one that inspires yet may destroy him.

One Way
Director
Arpita Mukherjee
Music Director
Simone Allen
Cast
Alan Ariano, Jenn Colella, Ellen Harvey, Liisi LaFontaine, Charlie Oh, Amanda Savan and Dustin Sullivan
Ideal Cast Size: 7
Ideal Band Size: 6-21
Genre & Style:
Synopsis
When Naomi becomes a finalist for the first one-way mission to Mars, she must choose: pursue her ambition or stay on Earth with the woman she loves. With a soaring, contemporary score, One Way is a moving portrait of how our choices affect those closest to us.

SeaWife
Director
Liz Carlson
Music Director
Tommy Crawford
Cast
Tommy Crawford, Laura Dadap, Eloise Eonnet, Alex Grubbs, Will Turner, Tony Aidan Vo and Douglas Waterbury-Tieman
Ideal Cast Size: 7 (ideally all actor-musicians)
Ideal Band Size: 7 (same as cast size, since actors play all instruments)
Genre & Style:
Dramatic, Romantic, Nautical Folk-Rock Musical
Synopsis
SeaWife is a haunted tale of the high seas. Both historical and pointedly modern, the sumptuous and energetic music of The Lobbyists guides us through Seth Moore’s world of whale hunts, ghosts, and adventure to ask: “Can humanity save itself from its own devouring?”

Simon & Jorge Pay Their Student Loans
Director
Amy Anders Corcoran
Cast
Jerry Gallagher, Alan H. Green, Jorrel Javier, Celeste Rose, Cody Jamison Strand, Alet Taylor, Natalie Toro, Alan Wiggins, Jason "Sweet Tooth" Williams and Nick Wyman
Ideal Cast Size: 10-20
Ideal Band Size: 4-6
Genre & Style:
Synopsis
In life, we face many seemingly unanswerable questions. Why are we here? How does WIFI work? Why has there never been a stoner bromance rock musical about the impending student loan crisis and ever growing income inequality gap? Well ask no more. Behold: Simon & Jorge Pay Their Student Loans.

Teeth
Director
Portia Krieger
Cast
Jason Gotay, Jared Loftin, Alyse Alan Louis, Melody Madarasz, Elexis Morton, Robert Petkoff, Samantha Rhea Parrish, Johnny Shea, Madeline Trumble and Sumi Yu
Ideal Cast Size: 11 (7W/4M)
Ideal Band Size: 4-6
Genre & Style:
Dark Comedy/Horror
Synopsis
Adapted from the 2007 Sundance Award-winning indie horror film by Mitchell Lichtenstein, Teeth tells the story of Dawn O’Keefe, an evangelical Christian teen with a powerful secret: she has teeth in her vagina. When the men in Dawn’s life try to exploit her, she is forced to choose between survival or destruction.
As of 8/26/19. This schedule is TENTATIVE and subject to change!
Songwriters Showcase
The Remarkable Journey of Prince Chen - Book and Lyrics by Lezlie Wade, Music by Daniel Green
NEXT - Music by Andrea Daly and Dominic Fallacaro, Book and Lyrics by Andrea Daly
Beau - Music by Ethan Pakchar, Book, Music and Lyrics by Douglas Lyons
Distant Thunder - Book by Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Shaun Taylor-Corbett and Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Lyrics and Music by Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Chris Wiseman and Chris Wiseman
Midday Cabarets
Thursday, October 24
12:40pm – Cheeyang Ng
1:15pm – Britta Johnson & Anika Johnson
Friday, October 25
12:10pm – Will Van Dyke & Jeff Talbott (both, Imagine Harry, Fest ’15)
12:45pm – Aya Aziz
Writers & Artists

Ben Bonnema
Book & Music, One Way
Ben Bonnema is the recipient of the Fred Ebb Award, Jonathan Larson Grant, ASCAP Frederick Loewe Award, and the Harold Adamson Lyric Award. The New Yorker called his musical THE APPLE BOYS “a bushelful of delights” and that he wrote “clever, catchy songs” (book by Jonothon Lyons, HERE Arts Center). ONE WAY, with Christopher Staskel, was developed at the Musical Theatre Factory, Johnny Mercer Foundation Writer’s Colony at Goodspeed, and NAMT 2019.
Ben wrote book, music & lyrics to Adult Swim’s PETER PANIC, a musical video game played by nearly two million people (developed by James Marion). His slumber party musical BOYS WHO TRICKED ME was called “heart-healing musical theatre” by Joshua Barone of the New York Times. Other full-length: THE LOST GIRL with Arianna Rose. Film: MARY POPPINS RETURNS (Music Associate to Marc Shaiman, Oscar nom.). Ben holds an M.F.A. from NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program.

Liz Carlson
Conceived & Director & Story, SeaWife
Liz Carlson (Director and Developer) is a director and producer of new work. She is currently in her fourth season as the Artistic Producer for New York Stage and Film. Prior to NYSAF, Liz worked as a freelance director and served as the Artistic Director of Naked Angels. She has directed at Ars Nova, The Dramatists Guild, EST, The Flea, Keen Company, Manhattan School of Music, MTC, The New Group, Playwrights Horizons, The Playwrights Realm, Signature Theater Company, Studio 42, Williamstown Theatre Festival, etc. MFA The New School for the Performing Arts. Alumnae of the Drama League Directors Project.

Julianne Wick Davis
Music, Lautrec at the St. James
Julianne Wick Davis; Jonathan Larson 2012; Billie Burke Ziegfeld, 2018; Fifty Women to Watch 2020; 2020 Lotte Lenya Competition Songbook Series Award. TREVOR (music), with Dan Collins (book and lyrics) Writer’s Theatre, Jefferson Award Outstanding New Musical; off-Broadway 2021. SOUTHERN COMFORT with Collins, The Public Theatre, NY Times Critic’s Pick, Lortel, Outer Critics Circle Nominations Outstanding Musical; 2012 NAMT; Barrington Stage; reading at Playwrights Horizons; CAP21 (GLAAD Media Award, TimeOut NYC, NY Times Critic’s Pick). THE PEN, Inner Voices with Collins, NY Times Critic’s Pick. WHEN WE MET (music & lyrics), O’Neill Musical Theater Conference, York NEO Development Series, Broadway Bound Concert Series, CAP21. THE WILLARD SUITCASES (book, music, & lyrics) American Shakespeare Center 2019, Top Ten 2019 Theatrical Events by the Washington Post, Broadway Bound Concert Series. LAUTREC AT THE ST. JAMES (music) John Dietrich (book and lyrics), NAMT 2019 Conference, Applause Concert Series, Olney Theatre Center in 2021.

John Dietrich
Book and Lyrics, Lautrec at the St. James
John Dietrich: Director/Choreographer/Writer including 17 years with Radio City Entertainment. Director/ Choreographer for the world-famous Rockettes / Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Bookwriter/Lyricist: Things As They Are (Composer-Jonathan Comisar): New York Musical Theatre Festival Next Link Selection/ “Best of Fest” Award winner. Only Anne (Composer-Will Buck): Rhinebeck Writer’s Retreat / Goodspeed Festival of New Musicals. Lautrec at the St. James, The Last War (Composer-Julianne Wick Davis). The Nureyev Project (Composer-Will Buck). Has written/directed for Walt Disney Entertainment, Dolly Parton & Dollywood Entertainment. Education: MFA – NYU Tisch School of the Arts: Musical Theatre Writing, MA – NYU Gallatin: Musical Theatre Structure/Directing Theory, BM (Music) – University of Wisconsin.

Jesse Gage
Book, Music and Lyrics, Simon & Jorge Pay Their Student Loans
Jesse Gage is an NYC-based musical theater writer and veteran of the Bleeker Street music scene, often found wheeling his upright piano around the West Village. His television credits include Fox, NBC, BBC, PBS and a bevy of Brazilian soap operas. After writing the cult hit Oklahomo: Enforcer of Justice (NYMF 2010), he was awarded a musical theater fellowship at NYU/Tisch, and in 2016 and 2017 was recognized by Barrington Stage Company as one of the “ridiculously talented writers you should know (but probably don’t).” Jesse lives in Coney Island with his amazing wife Marlena and son Jonah Blue.

Scott Gilmour
Book and Lyrics, Hi, My Name is Ben
Scott Gilmour is a book writer and lyricist and one half of writing partnership, Noisemaker. Both graduates of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, alongside composer Claire McKenzie, Scott has worked throughout the UK and internationally creating innovative, original work to challenge the expectations of musical theatre. In 2016 Noisemaker were chosen as New Voices by Walt Disney Imagineering and NMI Inc. and, most recently, won Unique Business of the Year at the Scottish Business Awards 2018.
Noisemaker credits include; Hi, My Name is Ben (Goodspeed Musicals), The Snow Queen, Little Red and the Wolf (Dundee Rep), My Left/Right Foot (NTS/Edinburgh Fringe – Winner of Best Music at Critics’ Awards in Scotland 2019, Fringe First, Herald Angel Award), Legend Trippers (National Youth Music Theatre/The Other Palace), Atlantic: A Scottish Story (Edinburgh Fringe -Winner of Herald Angel Award), Forest Boy (NYMF, Arcola Theatre, The Other Palace) and their new choose-your-own adventure musical The Girl Who (AMTP at Northwestern University, Merry-Go-Round Playhouse). www.noisemaker.org.uk

Jacinth Greywoode
Book & Music, Iron John: An American Ghost Story
Jacinth Greywoodeis a Brooklyn-based composer of classical and theater music whose work has been performed throughout the Americas and in Europe and Africa by such groups as the Calidore String Quartet, So Percussion and The Civilians. Jacinth has also performed as singer and pianist at such venues as the Apollo Theater, Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Center and the Greene Space at WNYC. Recent writing credits include: Iron John (2019 O’Neill NMTC semifinalist; staged workshop at NYU); G’day, Ivan!; Master (American Opera Projects); and White Raven, Black Dove (commissioned by Cerise Jacobs/White Snake Projects, Boston 2022). www.jacinthgreywoode.com

Rebecca Hart
Book and Lyrics, Iron John: An American Ghost Story
Rebecca Hart is a performer, composer and writer based in NYC. On stage: ‘SWEAT’ (Public Tour), The Revolutionists (CT Critics Circle Award), Midsummer (TheatreWorks Hartford – CT Critics Circle Nom), Rimbaud in NY (The Civilians @BAM), Microcosmos (The Civilians), and frequent gigs with her six-piece altfolk band. Writing/composing credits include: Microcosmos and Rimbaud in NY (Civilians), GLORIA (Woolly Mammoth—Helen Hayes Nomination), The Cabaret at the End of the World (NY Innovative Theatre Award), Aaron Jafferis’ How to Break (NAMT 2014), Iron John (2019 O’Neill Semifinalist, NYU staged workshop), and her album The Magician’s Daughter. Civilians Associate Artist, MFA NYU GMTWP. www.rebeccahart.net

Michael R. Jackson
Book and Lyrics, Teeth
Michael R. Jackson holds a BFA and MFA in playwriting and Musical Theatre Writing from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. He wrote book, music, and lyrics for the musicals White Girl In Danger and A Strange Loop (which will receive its world premiere at Playwrights Horizons Theatre in May of 2019). He has received a 2017 Jonathan Larson Grant, a 2017 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, a 2017 ASCAP Foundation Harold Adamson Award, a 2016/2017 Dramatist Guild fellowship, and was the 2017 Williamstown Theatre Festival Playwright-In-Residence. He has commissions from Grove Entertainment & Barbara Whitman Productions and LCT3.

Anna K. Jacobs
Book & Music, Teeth
Anna K. Jacobs is a Brooklyn-based composer, lyricist and librettist. In addition to Teeth (O’Neill Musical Theater Conference), her musicals include POP! (Yale Rep, Pittsburgh City Theatre, Studio Theatre), Harmony, Kansas (Diversionary Theatre), Anytown (George Street Playhouse), Echo (The Gallery Players, MTF), Kaya: Taste of Paradise (NY Film Academy), and Stella and the Moon Man (Sydney Theatre Company/Theatre of Image). Currently, she and playwright Anna Ziegler are collaborating on a new musical for Barbara Whitman Productions and Grove Entertainment. Anna is the proud recipient of the 2018 Eric Salzman Award for New Music Theater Composition and 2016 Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award. MFA NYU-Tisch. www.annakjacobs.com

Melissa Li
Book, Music and Lyrics, Interstate
Melissa Li is a composer, lyricist, performer and writer based in New York and Baltimore. She is a recipient of the Jonathan Larson Award, a Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellow, a 2019 Lincoln Center Theater Writer-in-Residence, a 2019 Musical Theatre Factory Maker, a 2019 MacDowell Colony Fellow, and a former Queer|Art|Mentorship Fellow. Musicals include Interstate (New York Musical Festival, Winner Outstanding Lyrics), Surviving the Nian (The Theater Offensive, IRNE Award Winner for Best New Play 2007), and 99% Stone (The Theater Offensive). Her works have received support from The 5th Avenue Theatre, The Village Theatre, Musical Theatre Factory, National Performance Network, New England Foundation for the Arts, Dixon Place and others.

Claire McKenzie
Music, Hi, My Name is Ben
Claire McKenzie is a composer and one half of writing partnership, Noisemaker. Both graduates of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, alongside bookwriter/lyricist Scott Gilmour, Claire has worked throughout the UK and internationally creating innovative, original work to challenge the expectations of musical theatre. In 2016 Noisemaker were chosen as New Voices by Walt Disney Imagineering and NMI Inc. and, most recently, won Unique Business of the Year at the Scottish Business Awards 2018.
Noisemaker credits include; Hi, My Name is Ben (Goodspeed Musicals), The Snow Queen, Little Red and the Wolf (Dundee Rep), My Left/Right Foot (NTS/Edinburgh Fringe – Winner of Best Music at Critics’ Awards in Scotland 2019, Fringe First, Herald Angel Award), Legend Trippers (National Youth Music Theatre/The Other Palace), Atlantic: A Scottish Story (Edinburgh Fringe -Winner of Herald Angel Award), Forest Boy (NYMF, Arcola Theatre, The Other Palace) and their new choose-your-own adventure musical The Girl Who (AMTP at Northwestern University, Merry-Go-Round Playhouse). www.noisemaker.org.uk

Seth Moore
Book, SeaWife
Seth Moore is a polyartist who works in theater, film, visual art, and music. His play Jonesin’ was produced by The University of Michigan; it won the 2008 McIntyre Prize, the Naomi Saferstein Literary Award, and The Avery Hopwood Award for Drama. In 2009, his play The Man With America Skin also received the McIntyre Prize and The Hopwood Award and was produced for The Araca Project in 2012. Other Writing: Ghosts In the Tapestry (The Claque), Catch (Cincinnati Fringe), Wolf Inside (WNYC); He makes films with his company, Sheep Eats Wolf, and is a frequently commissioned muralist and Illustrator.

Christopher Staskel
Book and Lyrics, One Way
Christopher Staskel is a writer and musical theatre lyricist-librettist. Recent projects include One Way (Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed; Rhinebeck Writers Retreat) with Ben Bonnema and The Firebird (2014 NMTC/O’Neill finalist) with Lisa Whitson Burns. He was a 2015 Kleban Prize finalist and a winner (with Max Mamon) of New York City Center’s Sondheim Remix contest, which granted him the surreal opportunity to rap for Stephen Sondheim.He holds a BFA in Music Theatre from Elon University and an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU Tisch. www.christopherstaskel.com

The Lobbyists
Lyrics & Music, SeaWife
The Lobbyists (Tommy Crawford, Eloise Eonnet, Alex Grubbs, Will Turner, Tony Aidan Vo and Douglas Waterbury-Tieman) are a NYC-based band and theater company that creates and performs original music and innovative music-theater. The group takes its name from the lobby of The Flea Theater, where the founding members met in 2012 while working on the Drama Desk-nominated These Seven Sicknesses. Since then, the group has played many iconic venues in New York, such as Joe’s Pub, Rockwood Music Hall, and Mercury Lounge, and toured to various locations in the northeast. As a theatrical and songwriting collective, the group’s work has been developed with NY Stage & Film, Cape Cod Theater Project, Ars Nova, Rhinebeck Writer’s Retreat, Playwrights Realm, and Musical Theater Factory. The group’s debut theatrical piece, SeaWife, was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music and Outstanding Lighting in a Musical in 2016. New and upcoming projects include The Golden Spike with Don Nguyen. Stay in touch and learn more at www.wearethelobbyists.com and @thelobbyistsnyc.

Kit Mee Yan
Book and Lyrics, Interstate
Kit Yan is a Yellow American New York-based artist, born in Enping, China, and raised in the Kingdom of Hawaii. Kit is a 2019 Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellow, 2019 Lincoln Center Writer in residence, a 2019 MacDowell Fellow, 2019-2020 Musical Theatre Factory Makers Fellow, and a 2019-2020 Playwright’s Center Many Voices Fellow. Works include Interstate, which won Outstanding Lyrics at the 2018 New York Musical Festival, and Queer Heartache, which won five awards at the Chicago and SF Fringe Festivals. Their work has been produced by the American Repertory Theater, the Smithsonian, Musical Theatre Factory, the New York Musical Festival and Diversionary Theatre. They have been a resident with the Civilians, Mitten Lab, 5th Avenue Theatre and the Village Theatre.
Attendees
Isabel Kallman
Founder
Laura Mayes
Founder
Neil Marcus
Head Of Production
Megan Nicole O'Brien
Resident Director/Co-Founder
Daniel Guy
Managing Director
Bryan Stevens
Guest
Grayce Hoffman
Nancy Gibbs
Producer
amy francis schott
producer/writer outreach
Anna Rhoads
Management Associate
Jed Bernstein
Producer
Ben Izzo
Literary Agent
Justin Picca
Agent
Shea Sullivan
Max Grossman
Theatrical Literary Agent
Amy Wagner
Agent
Charles Kopelman
Vice President/Co-Director Literary Division
Helen Schultz
Theatrical Literary Agent
Katie Gamelli
Theatrical Literary Agent
Ron Gwiazda
Agent
George Strus
Manager of Artistic Development
Robert Attermann
Chief Executive Officer
Lucy Powis
Literary Division
Sarah Douglas
Vice President/ Co-Head Literary Division
Molly Marinik
Interim Director of Development
Jack Eidson
Management Associate
Lucas McMahon
Producer
Sharon Carr
Producer
Marie de la Guierce
Guest
Amanda Watkins
Associate Producer
Breton Tyner-Bryan
Director, Choreographer SDC
Sally Lindel
Assistant Producer
Bee Carrozzini
Associate Producer
Rebekah Wellons
Content & Creative Intern
Jim Vagias
Producing Artistic Director
Megan Jensen
Director of Programs
Brannon Bowers
Producing Director
Andrew Femenella
Casting Director
Whitney Dibo
Theatrical Acquisitions and Scripted Development
Colin Hartman
Theatrical Acquisitions and Scripted Development
Bonnie Apfelbaum
Bill Apfelbaum
Keith Martin
Distinguished Professor of Musical Theatre
Christopher Sepulveda
Producer
Pamela Winslow Kashani
Founder
Ally Rice
Digital media editor
Ido Gal
Project Manager
Tim Kashani
Co-founder
Taylor Hatch
AIRBORN (Book)
Mac Ingram
Associate Executive Director
Benjamin McGovern
Artistic Director
Alice Skiba
Talent Agent
Alice Skiba
Talent Agent
Gary Blackman
Founding Co-Director
Mark Blackman
Founding Co-Director
Julie Lapore
Former Associate Director
Colleen McDonough
Executive Director
Michael Kerker
ASCAP VP Musical Theatre
Reggie White
Artistic Director of Student Productions
Pamela Adams
General Manager
Annie MacRae
Associate Artistic Director
Nick Luckenbaugh
Director of Development
Gracie Gardner
Writer in Residence
Neil Pepe
Artistic Director
Jack Rhea
Development Assistant
Anthony Rodriguez
Co-Founder
Ann-Carol Pence
Co-Founder/Producing Artistic Director
Ashley Prince
Associate Music Director
Andy Walmsley
Scenic Designer
Victoria Bussert
Head of Music Theatre
Jimmy Wilson
Associate
Barbara Whitman
Producer
Branden Huldeen
Artistic Producer/Director of New Works
Leila Teitelman
Literary Associate
Will Pomerantz
Associate Artistic Director
Lynn Appelle
Producer
Paul Cozby
Writer
Jen Hoguet
Producer
David Spencer
Teaching Faculty & Steering Committee
Amanda Sales
Administrative Director
Neil Donohoe
Director, New Works Project
Bruce Ostler
Theatrical Literary Agent
Bonnie Davis
Theatrical Literary Agent
George Nelson
Leslie Nelson
Adjunct Professor
Victoria Lang
Founder, Co-President of Content
Jennifer Costello
Executive Vice President - Production
Erica Rotstein
Producer
Kate Oliver
Manager
Simone Genatt
Producer
David Abbinanti
Senior VP of Music and Creative
Elissa Huang
Manager of Artistic Development
Nik Sorocenski
Director of Marketing
Tralen Doler
V.P. Partnerships & Brand Engagement
Sara Skolnick
Director of Professional Musical Licensing
Sean Cercone
CEO/President
Dan Murphy
Managing Director
Nicole Rolak
Corporate Sponsor
Bonnie Pavel
Board Member/Sponsor
Sharon Maroney
Producing Artistic Director
Jaime Pavel
Corporate Sponsor
Fred Gilbert
Physician
Marsha S Brooks
Partner
Ben Fisher
Associate
Judi Krupp
Producer
Olivier Sultan
Agent
Olivier Sultan
Agent
Fern Kershon
Principal
Kate Galvin
Artistic Director
Andrew Rasmussen
Artistic Director
Leonard ("Rick") Edinger
Professor of Musical Theatre/ Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committee, Co-Chair
Cameron King
BFA Directing, Student
Ben Cherington
BFA Acting/ Music Theater, Student
Jiani Bai
Guest
Leonard ("Rick") Edinger
Professor of Musical Theatre/ Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committee, Co-Chair
Rick Boynton
Creative Producer
Aislinn Frantz
Associate Producer
Christopher Maring
Producer
Cody Lassen
Producer
James Forbes Sheehan
Associate Producer
Dmitry Koltunov
President
Gigi Bolt
Adjunct Associate Professor
Ted Chapin
President and Chief Creative Officer
Sargent Aborn
President, Tams-Witmark
Garrett Anderson
Acquisitions and Artistic Development Manager
Steven Greenhalgh
Sr. Director, Acquisitions
Michelle Yaroshko
SVP, Professional Licensing (North America)
Abbie Van Nostrand
SVP, Client Relations and Community Engagement
Robin Pomatto
Senior Manager, Concert Licensing
Theresa Posorske
Director, Professional Licensing
Kim Rogers
Vice President, Amateur Licensing, Theatricals
Sean Patrick Flahaven
Chief Theatricals Executive, Concord
Bill Gaden
President, Worldwide, Concord Theatricals
Teresa Castro
Professional Licensing Manager
Amy Rose Marsh
Vice President, Acquisitions & Artistic Development (North America)
Zach Kaufer
Senior Manager, Professional Licensing
Joseph Longthorne
Managing Partner
Larry Little
Producer
Ben Simpson
Producer
Matthew Schneider
Producer
Carolyn Miller
Producer
Kristel Jelinek
Change Arts
Benjamin Nelson
Director of Creative Development
John Fionte
Creative Diretor, Director of New Works
Sue Gilad
Producer
Shaun Peknic
Director
Valerie Novakoff
Associate Producer
Dede Harris
President
Denise Koch
Producer
Derrick Chua
Producer
Chris Rentzel
Composer/Lyricist
Connor Gallagher
Director/Choreographer
Mahita Penke
Manager, Original Movies
Courtney Gable
Education Consultant
Yaron Spiwak
WDI Sr. Music Producer
Matt Walker
Executive, WDI Global Music Studio
Mark Karafilis
Music Production, Executive Director
Ken Cerniglia
Dramaturg (Tianguo)
Jane Abramson
Head of Creative Development
Julie Haverkate
Literary and Editorial Associate
Colleen McCormack
Director of Amateur Play Licensing
Caley Beretta
Manager, Creative Development
Henry Tisch
Producer
Jenna Cunningham
Staff Assistant
Timothy Koch
Resident Director
Matt Morrow
Executive Artistic Director
Lillian Osei-Boateng
Program Manager for the Arts
Jane Dubin
Producer, Double Play Connections
Linda Habjan
Vice President of Acquisitions
Ralph Sevush
Executive Director
Tari Stratton
Director, Education & Outreach
Judy Freemont
Allison Gold
Program Coordinator
Rachel Routh
Executive Director
Andrea Lepcio
Tristan Halstead
Nonprofessional Rights Assistant
Andrew Marco
Customer Service Rep
Drew DeSantis
Executive Producer
Wendy Stark Prey
Production Manager
Matthew Carney
Associate Artistic Director
Kyle DeSantis
Executive Producer
Snehal Desai
Artistic Director
Elaine Devlin
Literary Agent
Devin Elliott
Student
Scott Levy
Producing Artistic Director
Keni Fine
Producer
Fiona Rudin
President
Michael Lluberes
Producing Artistic Director
Gayle Seaton
Wendy Federman
CEO
Rob Hartmann
Producer
Soren Moller
Creative Producer / Artistic Director
Kelly Robinson
Artistic Director
Kathleen Brett
Administrator
Eric Pugh
Director of Marketing
Marc Robin
Executive Artistic Producer
Cindy Gutterman
Friends of Garmar Ventures LLC
Jay Gutterman
Friends of Garmar Ventures LLC
Kelly Smith
Guest of Garmar Ventures LLC
Gary Cohen
Owner
Marlene Cohen
Owner
George Kieffer
President
Judith Kieffer
Vice President
Anne Rothstein
Guest
Jane Hellman
Guest
Dan McMahon
Director of Marketing
Michael Fling
Artistic Associate
Donna Lynn Hilton
Artistic Director
Anika Chapin
Director of Artistic Development
Michael Wolk
CEO
Kaori Takada
Producer
Karin Yamamoto
Producer
Kumiko Yoshii
President
Nami Okazaki
Project Manager
Greg Schaffert
Producer
Jennifer Schaffert
Associate Producer
Josh Gladstone
Artistic Director
Stephen Dickman
Literary Associate
Larry Hirschhorn
Producer
Suzanne Agins
Michael Barakiva
Artistic Director
Ava Zhou
General Manager
Angela Rigor
Theatre Scout
Connie Malin
Producer: JUDY GARLAND "World's Greatest Entertainer"
Greer Firestone
Playwright
Henry Fonte
Marguerite Hannah
Associate Artistic Producer
Emily Sproch
Program Officer
Laura Packer
Executive Director
Scott Susong
Head of Music Theatre
Malcolm Darrell
Dana Harrel
Hannah Ryan
Director
Larry Rogowsky
Producer
Jamie Anderson
MFA Directing Candidate, 3rd Year
Dianna Gray
Professor of Practice, Musical Theatre Dance
Richard Roland
Head, BFA Musical Theatre Program
Linda Chichester
Producer
Ed Chilcott
Curator
Joshua Streeter
Kathryn Willingham
Head of Creative Development
Morgan Steward
Assistant
Judith Manocherian
Producer
Janet Mueller
Producer/Investor
Bob Masin
Producer/Investor
Marleen Alhadeff
Producer
Jerry Magnoni
Producer/Investor
Cindy Masin
Kenny Alhadeff
Lead Producer
Jeremy Stoller
Director of New Work
Kenneth Schur
Producer
Janet Adler Schur
Producer
Melissa Emert-Hutner
VP Creative
Sue Drew
Kobalt Music Publishing
Amy Corcoran
Director
Eric Keen-Louie
Executive Producer
Chris Alleman
Producing Artistic Director
Rachel Dilliplane
Lara de Bruijn
Costume Designer
Dayal Singh
Programme Leader (Musical Theatre)
Claudia Zahn
Board member
Bruce Lazarus
Producer
Samantha Levin
Producer
Lisa Dozier King
General Manager
Yu-Ning Chang
Marymount Manhattan College, Faculty
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Author/Composer
Todd Allan
Writer, Producer
Barry Martin
Managing Director
Taylor Bartolucci
Artistic & Casting Director
Susan Bartolucci
Advisory Committee Chair
Douglas Lyons
Michael Tilley
Musical Administrator
Jim Reynolds
Managing Director
Michael Baron
Producing Artistic Director
Linda Garrett
Board Member
Kevin Wittrock
Board Member
Monica Wittrock
Board Member
Ashley Wells
Executive Producer
Sarah Moore
Board Member
Mitchell Moore
Board Member
Curt Dale Clark
Artistic Director
Stephanie Dupal
Managing Director
Amanda Choate
Development Director
Jerry Patch
Artistic Development Consultant
Miranda Gohh
Elizabeth Sharpe-Levine
Literary Associate
Mike Karns
CEO
Brittany Greene
Associate Producer
Margot Astrachan
owner
Marie Tartar
investor/La Jolla Playhouse supporter
Marilyn Plotkins
Founding Director, Boston Music Theatre Project
Mary J. Davis
Producer
Ann Rougle
Producer
Jessica Chase
Artistic Producer
Ayana Parker Morrison
Associate Line Producer
Michela Rodriguez
Artistic Assistant
Kailee Ayyar
Manager of Artistic Development
Emily Zetterberg
Associate Producer
Cory Dunn
Management Assistant & Producing Coordinator
Nellie Beavers
Lindsay Brooks
Associate Producer - Casting/Marketing
BT McNicholl
Producing Artistic Director
Evan Newman
Bob Alwine
Assistant
Melanie Watson
Composer/Lyricist
Walter Stearns
Executive Producer
Kevin Long
Music Director, New Musicals Workshop
Lori Bales
Director, New Musicals Workshop
Kevin Hoffman
Alumni Associate
Frank Honts
Director of Artistic Personnel
Mitchell Banchik
Investor
Jack Reuler
Artistic Director
Matthew Hui
Modern Myth Productions
Mark Hardy
Coordinator of Musical Theatre
Jeanne Drennan
Executive Director
Zhiwei Ma
Artistic Producer
Sidney Wright
Team Member-Director Programming
Mei Ann Teo
Associate Artistic Director; Director of New Work
Tony Stimac
Producer
Marilyn Stimac
Associate Producer
Kyle Dougan
Producing Artistic Director
Lyn Dickey
Supporter
Diane Schlinkert
Supporter
Richard Patterson
International Licensing Director
Michael Macaione
Nathan Fosbinder
Wayne Bryan
Producing Director
Brian Marcum
Artistic Director
Julie Eicher
Guest of Wayne Bryan
Palmer Aguirre
N/A
Graham Keene
n/a
Jake Akita
n/a
Jonathan Lovett
n/a
Shelby Aguirre
n/a
Paul Garman
Executive Director/Producer
Bren Thor
Company Manager
Randall Kramer
Artistic/Executive Director
Ted Rawlins
Producer
Jamie Forshaw
Executive Producer
Kristina Quintos
Publicist
Ciera Iveson
Santiago Martinez
Institutional Giving Director
Betsy Militello
Executive Director
Adam Grosswirth
Member Services Director
Kelly Kohlman
Karin Nilo
Program Manager
Dana Gitlin
Creative Coordinator
Joe Chapman
Dancer/Choreographer
Kenneth Willman
cofounder
Rosemary Willman
cofounder
Neil Gooding
Producer
Hannah Rosenthal
Executive Assistant tot he President
Ben Snyder
Writer
Elise Dewsberry
Artistic Director
Stephen Green
Associate Producer
Larry Daggett
New Tune Entertainment, LLC - CEO
Michael Coco
General Manager of Theater operations
Tammie Ward
Theater Operations Manager
Barbara Zinn Krieger
Founder and Artistic Director
Sarah Marksteiner
Artistic Apprentice
Barry Hamilton
General Manager
Glenn Potter-Takata
Production and Artistic Operations Manager
Nicole Hogsett
Communications and Marketing Manager
Miranda Lee
Marketing & Development Apprentice
Doug Reside
Curator
Meagan Cook
Chris Burney
Artistic Director
Kenny Smoak
General Manager
Lisa Hopkins
Jack DePalma
Owner
Joe Barros
Artistic Director
Sheilah Rae
Co-Founder/Board President Emeritus
Justin Hom
Producing Fellow
Darren Johnston
Producer
Christine Schwarzman
Producer
Angela Grant
Director of Sales
Ned Ginsburg
NYLA Music / University lecturer
Fred Carl
Associate Arts Professor; NYU/TSOACo-Associate Dean of Faculty
Robert Lee
Mel Marvin
Faculty Member
Mara Isaacs
Founder & Executive/Creative Producer
Victoria Detres
Producing Assistant
Jeremy Handelman
President & Executive Producer
Ben Auger
Board Member
Eileen Eberhart
Board of Directors
Bradford Kenney
Executive Artistic Director
Kent Bridges
Managing Director
Sal Bucci
Producing Assistant
Mark Forsyth
Board of Directors
Dan Breen
Brian Swasey
Producing Director
Cheryl Farley
Director of Marketing and Communications
Andy Bates
Guest of
Wesley Forsyth
Emily Forsyth
Guest of
Karly Thomas
Director of Creative Development
Christopher Youstra
Director of Music Theater
Linda Rosenzweig
Board Member
Sandy Bieber
Board Member
Jason Loewith
Artistic Director
Elizabeth Timperman
Executive Director
Danielle Joseph
Office Manager
Marty McGuire
Assistant to the Producing Artistic Director
Rod Kaats
Producing Artistic Director
Kelli Foster Warder
Associate Artistic Director/Director of Impact
Amy Schwartzreich
Michael Walkup
Artistic Director
Ethan Pakchar
Mike Stotts
Managing Director
Patrick Parker
Associate Artistic Director
Christopher Slavik
Associate Producer
Stephen Agosto
Senior Manager of Artistic Engagement
Allison Schwartz
Theatrical Literary Agent
Rachel Ellicott
Theatrical Literary Agent
Jonathan Mills
Theatrical Literary and Content Agent
Maya Avisar
Producer
Mary Megan Peer
Deputy CEO
Carter Armstrong
Senior VP
Alison Dannenberg
Manager
Zak Berkman
Producing Director
Andy Barnes
Executive Producer
Martin Platt
Co-Director
David Elliott
Co Director
Glenn Gundersen
Board Member
Emily Zeck
Managing Director
Paige Price
Producer
Kristin Bair
Board Member
Allison Fifield
Artistic Programs and Events Manager
Natalie Gershtein
Mark Fleischer
Executive Producer
Olivia O'Connor
Manager of New Work Development
Van Kaplan
CEO
Avriel Hillman
Guest
Kent Nicholson
Director of Acquisitions, Broadway Licensing
Alexis Williams
Associate Artistic Director
Lynne Halliday
Producer
Joanna Lodin
Producer
Jim Aldridge
Producer
Vinetta Strombergs
Director
Prav Menon-Johansson
Producer/Director
Robert Ollis
Music Director
Covi Loveridge Brannan
Artistic & Literary Assistant
JJ Maley
Producer
Tira Harpaz
Prospect Theater Company V.P Board of Directors
Hayley Isaacson
Producing Intern
Rachel Sussman
Producer
Bev Ragovoy
Producer
Susan Zak
Ragovoy Entertainment Group
Chelsea Zac
Guest
Dawn Smalberg
Producer
Ava Geyer
Literary Fellow, Shank Resident Playwright
Robin Baum
President, RB3 Productions
Jennifer Jaquess
Managing Director
Carole Waitzman
RMTC Donor
Alie B. Gorrie
Community Engagement Manager
Keith Cromwell
Executive Director
Bill Mooney
Guest
Leslie McLeod
Guest
Dianne Mooney
Guest
Dana Lerner
Theater Producer and Social Media Manager
Saul Nathan-Kazis
VP, Television and Theater
Kathy Evans
Founding Executive Director
Christopher Ketner
Associate Producer
Jim Lanahan
Vice President
RJ Magee
Casting Director/Talent Manager
Diana Davidson
Creative Executive
Mark Robinson
Producer
Nicole Tingir
Senior Producer, Artistic Development
Jane Hensey
Head of MA Musical Theatre
Mark Falconer
Artistic Associate
Stephen Brotebeck
Professor
Hattie Andres
Manager of Artistic Programming
Elisabeth Farwell-Moreland
Producing Director
Carly Callahan
Managing Director
Greg Nobile
Producer
Julia Dunetz
Producer
Jana Shea
Producer
Christie Evangelisto
Creative Director
Alan Paul
Associate Artsitic Director
Felicia Shapiro
Sharon Fallon
Executive Producer
Michael Murphy
President
Patrick Brady
Associate Professor of Musical Theatre
Sheri Feigen
Consultant
Michael Rubinoff
Producer
Marc Richard
Coordinator
Sally Horchow
Producer
Shoshana Parets
Producer
Matt Schicker
Show Shepherd
Blair Russell
Producer
Justin Hollister
Strategic Advisor
Nathan Young
Associate Artistic Director
Natasha Sinha
Associate Artistic Director
Robert Macdonald
Trustee
Wendy Macdonald
Executive Director
Scott Evans
Artistic Director
Stacy Kray
Theatre Investor/ Writer
Randy Anderson
Director of Contract Affairs
Wendy Gillespie
President & CEO
Larry Rusinko
Investor
Robin Rusinko
Investor
Susan Schulman
L:iterary and Theatrical Agent
Sissy Van Dyke
Librettist / Lyricist
Ashlee Latimer
Creative Development Associate
Adam Rineer
Jason Aguirre
Associate Artistic Director
Rachel Graf-Evans
Graduate Student Temple Theater MFA Musical Theater Program
Steven Gross
Program Head - The Abbott MFA in Musical Theater Collaboration
Rose Freeman
Graduate Student Temple Theaters MFA Directing Program
Spicer Carr
Graduate Student Temple Theaters MFA Musical Theater Collaboration Program
Sally Ann Baker
Manager
Elliott Baker
Manager
Bill Wert
5th Avenue Theatre Patron
Ann Ramsay-Jenkins
Board Member
Sean Griffin
5th Avenue Theatre Patron
Michelle Moga
Vice President of Philanthropy
Barbara Crowe
5th Avenue Theatre Patron
Bernie Griffin
Managing Director
Randy Everett
5th Avenue Theatre Patron
Becca Wert
5th Avenue Theatre Patron
Cheri Naylor
5th Avenue Theatre Patron
Tiia-Mai Redditt
Donor
Heather Sullivan-McKay
Board Member
Bonnie Towne
Board Member
Jean Sheridan
5th Avenue Theatre Patron
Gary Fuller
Board Emeritus Member
Kelsey Thorgalsen
Lisa Jones
5th Avenue Theatre Patron
Debbie Brown
Board Member
Buzz Porter
5th Avenue Theatre Patron
Fred Fox
5th Avenue Theatre Patron
Bill Berry
Producing Artistic Director
Beth Porter
5th Avenue Theatre Patron
Jill Big Eagle
Senior Individual Giving Manager
Beth Morsund
Donor
Debby Carter
5th Avenue Theatre Patron
Susan Yassky
Literary Associate
ChiChi Anyanwu
Manager
Bryan Sng
Talent Management Intern
Drayton Hiers
Company Dramaturg
Thomas Miller
Jeff Loeb
President
Christina Selby
Vice President Production and Touring
Katie Hotchkiss
Assistant General Manager
Kevin Moore
Artistic Director
Scott Stoney
Resident Artist
Aaron Thielen
co-Founder/Executive Director
Kwofe Coleman
President & CEO
Michael Baxter
Artistic Associate
Daniel Abrahamson
Jordan Laffrenier
Faculty Lead
Mitchell Marcus
Justin Waldman
Associate Artistic Director
Karen Tanz
Vincent VanVleet
Managing Director
Michael Barnard
Producing Artistic Director
Robert Harper
Associate Artistic Director
Jack Moore
Director of New Artists
Lucie Ledbetter
Assistant to the Associate Artistic Director
Mandy Hackett
Associate Artistic Director
Yuvika Tolani
Director of Producing
Ophelia Chu
Producer
Amy Wine
Program Director
Josh Hardcastle
Program Associate
Thomas Moynahan
Creative Projects Director
R.K. Greene
Executive Director
Geoff William Scott
Theatre Agent
Rachael Dean
Creative Agent
Paul Taylor-Mills
Artistic Director
Gina Kaufmann
SDC Director, UMass Amherst
Laura Lundy
Producer
Elissa Adams
Director of New Work
Taneisha Duggan
Jonas Klabin
Board Secretary
Tom Morrissey
Producing Artistic Director
Joe Kenny
Director of New Works
Chris Giordano
Producing Director
Megan Larche
Associate Artistic Director/Director of New Works
Hillary Hart
Executive Director
Brian Shally
Producer/Donor
Jeffrey Lo
Casting Director
Robert Kelley
Artistic Director Emeritus
Giovanna Sardelli
Artistic Associate & Director of New Works
Lisa Webster
Board Member, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
Ellice Papp
Board
Ted Semple
Producer/Donor
Cindi Sears
Volunteer Artist Hospitality Committee
Andrea Batista
Advisory
Julie Kaufman
Board Member/Producer
Phil Santora
Executive Director
Judy Heyboer
Board Member/Producer
Barbara Hale
Donor
Daryl Stutley
Donor
Mark Lewis
Producer/Donor
Barbara Shapiro
Board
Ronald Hayden
Board Member/Producer
Barbara Pasternack
Artistic Director
Lysna Marzani
Director of Professional & International Licensing
Michael McDonough
Assistant Vice President - Amateur Licensing
Bradley Lohrenz
Assistant Vice President
Steve Spiegel
President & CEO
Charlie Crawford
Assistant to the Producers
Felicia Finley
Guest Artist
Stephen Helper
Producing Director
Theresa Piliero
Masako Tomita
Manager of NY Office
Cynthia Tong
Associate Producer
Stephanie Prugh
Development Manager
Yael Jekogian
Board of Directors
Aimee Steele
Board of Directors
Lori Fineman
Independent Producer
Jenny Niederhoffer
Chair of the Board
Carmel Dean
Tommy Newman
Scott Anderson
Artistic Director
Shari Jordan
Assistant Artistic Producer
Aaron Sanko
David Kornfeld
Isaac Loomer
Producing Artistic Director
Annabelle Lee-Revak
Ben Nicholson
Boyfriend
Jamie Kaye-Phillips
Theatre Literary Agency
Ben Coleman
Theatre Agent
Ryan Lucas
Coordinator
Brian Hedden
Creative Executive
Karla Koskinen
University of Alabama, Birmingham, Professor/Director
Matt Hawkins
Alison Croucher
Student Director
Julie Boardman
Associate Producer
Jeff Rane
Artistic Producer
Matt Holmes
Artist
Tino Jalomo
Artist
Alex Ross
Artist
VP Boyle
Creative Director, LiveRead@SDA
Jay Hermalyn
Guest of Utah Festival Opera
Chris Bell
Guest of Utah Festival Opera
Michael Ballam
Founding General Director
Maggie Harrer
Director
vincent colonna
Producer
Alan Kliffer
Lissa Griffith
Board Member
Sada Adams
Supporter
Caitlin McCown
Associate Production Manager
Jessica Spencer
Associate Artistic Director - Arts Engagement & Casting
Brandon Ivie
Associate Artistic Director - New Works
Kathy Hunt
Supporter
Brittany Rall
Sr. Associate Director of Marketing
Robb Hunt
Executive Producer
William Rall
Board Member
Jerry Dixon
Artistic Director
Will Dunleavy
Literary Intern, Vineyard Theatre
Miriam Weiner
Literary Manager
Nathaniel Shaw
Artistic Director
Sarah Leigh
General Manager - Arts & Creative
Jennifer Isaacson
Executive Producer
Warren Adams
Producer & Co-Founder
George Maloian
Sr. Director Theatre Rights & Production Warner Chappell Music
Dan Taft
Board Member
Judy Katany
Advisory Board
John Zirkle
Executive Director
Shawn Churchman
Susanna Gellert
Executive Artistic Director
Liam Lonegan
Artistic Associate/Assistant Director
Laura Savia
Associate Artistic Director
Aileen Lambert
Literary Manager
Susan Rabin
James Creer
Associate Producer; Board Member
Lauren Stevens
Producer
Jody Jaron
Treasurer/Ass. Producer
Randy Burke
Board Member
Christine Burke
Talent Manager
Robert Lazo
Producer
Diane Blair
Retired
Harriet Schlader
Producer/Executive Director
Carl Danielsen
Admin
Matthew Woolf
Board Member, New York Theatre Barn
Youchul Kim
Producer
Lisa McNulty
Producing Artistic Director
Yair Evnine
Joan Sorkin
Seth Christenfeld
Literary Manager
Leslie Wisdom
Writer/Lyricist
Austin Brown
Lighting Supervisor
Elisbeth Challener
Managing Director
Nat Miller
Director of Education
Dave Steakley
Artistic Director
Charlie Frasier
CDO
Pun Bandhu
producer
Producer
Producer
Donor
Donor
Board member
Trustee
choreographer/director
ZACH Trustee
Associate Producing Artistic Leader
Artistic Director
Artistic and Managing Director
Producer
ZACH Trustee
Composer/Lyricist
Composer/Writer
Composer
Lyricist
Composer-Lyricist-Librettist
Composer - Lyricist
Composer
Mr.
Composer
Founder, The New York SongSpace
Owner
Librettist
Librettist
Director
Producer
Writer
Artistic Director
Producer
PRODUCER
CDO
Grant Writer