Artists

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Adam Gwon

ADAM GWON is a composer and lyricist whose latest musical, Ordinary Days, is currently making its NYC premiere at Roundabout Theatre Company. His other musicals include the upcoming The Boy Detective Fails (book: Joe Meno), Bernice Bobs Her Hair (book/lyrics: Julia Jordan) and Ethan Frome (book: Michael Ruby). His work has been seen at Primary Stages, York Theatre, Kennedy Center, Signature Theatre (Arlington), Ars Nova, NAMT, NYMF, New Dramatists, American Music Theatre Project, ASCAP/Disney Workshop, and many others. Adam has been honored with the Fred Ebb Award for Excellence in Musical Songwriting, the ASCAP Harold Adamson Award, the MAC John Wallowitch Award, and a MAC award nomination for best song, as well as commissions from Signature Theatre (Arlington), South Coast Repertory, Broadway Across America, and the EST/Sloan Project. Adam has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and the Dramatists Guild, and is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. View sheet music by Adam Gwon.
Beth Blatt

BETH BLATT (Librettist, Lyricist) has written for stage, TV, radio and print in the US and abroad. In 2003, she received the Georgia Bogardus Holof Lyricist Award from the O’Neill Musical Theatre Conference, where she and composer Jenny Giering were in residence. Other awards: The Dramatists Guild of America fellowship (as lyricist and playwright, 2002); 2econd Stage Theatre Klinsky (2001); and the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation grant (2000). The team’s musical version of Island of the Blue Dolphins recently finished a successful two-year tour for TheatreWorks USA. View sheet music by Beth Blatt.
Bobby Cronin

Bobby Cronin's songs are "passionate and powerful in a take-no-prisoners way that will knock your socks off." - Ron Lester, Cabaret Exchange Bobby headlined the March 2009 Lincoln Center Songbook Series, made his Los Angeles debut in May 2010, and made his London debut in August 2010. His CD "Reach The Sky: Live at The Beechman" is available on iTunes. "The workshop production of BRATT CAMP (co-book writer Alicia Dempster) with brilliant music & lyrics by Bobby Cronin, results in a first draft of a promising future project. Cronin even gives some songs which can qualify as traditional American musical theatre, though still within the rock genre." Other projects: DAYBREAK, a time-bending song cycle; 'TIL DEATH DO US PART (book by Allen Mogul); THAT'S ANDY (with Kevin Carter & Crystal Skillman); "untitled" (book by Crystal Skillman); Kelly Nichols' TEN REASONS I WON'T GO HOME WITH YOU (nominated for 2010 Outstanding Music & Lyrics, Outstanding Musical at MITF); THANK YOU, NEXT web-series. Yale graduate. View sheet music by Bobby Cronin.
Brad Alexander

Brad Alexander is the composer of SEE ROCK CITY & OTHER DESTINATIONS, which won a 2011 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book and received Drama Desk nominations for Outstanding Music, Lyrics, Direction, Lighting and Musical. The show also won the Richard Rodgers Award and BMI Foundation Jerry Bock Award, was produced Off-Broadway by Transport Group Theatre Company, and is available for licensing at samuelfrench.com.

Brad wrote the music for Theatreworks USA’s CLICK, CLACK, MOO (Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Award nominee) and JUST SO STORIES, as well as songs for DUCK FOR PRESIDENT, IF YOU GIVE A PIG A PANCAKE, and WE THE PEOPLE (Lortel Award nominee), which ran Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.

His music has been featured on Sony Records, Showtime’s THE L WORD, and VH1's "Celebreality" campaign. He is a member of The BMI Musical Theatre Workshop, National Alliance for Musical Theatre and The Dramatists Guild of America.
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Brad Ross

Brad Ross, composer, has had his work performed at The Kennedy Center by The National Sympony, The Manhattan Theater Club, The Long Wharf Theater, on CNN and WOR radio in New York and at Weill Recital Hall. He is a winner of a Richard Rodgers Development Grant from The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. His musical Little By Little was produced Off-Broadway by The York Theater. The cast recording was released on the Varese Sarabande label and the show is licensed by Samuel French. View sheet music by Brad Ross.
Carmel Dean

Carmel Dean is a Composer/Musical Director from Perth, Western Australia, and in 2001 received a Fulbright Scholarship to study at NYU's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. She was most recently seen onstage as the Musical Director of American Idiot on Broadway, and performed with Green Day on the 2010 Grammy Awards. Prior to American Idiot she was the Vocal Arranger/Assoc. Conductor of Broadway's The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Off-Broadway MD-ing credits include Everyday Rapture; Vanities and Elegies. International credits include the 2000 Sydney Olympics; Chicago (Hong Kong); and Chita Rivera: The Secret of Life. As a composer, her work includes A Girl Called Vincent; Disney TV's Johnny & the Sprites; and Songs of Innocence and Experience (co-composed with William Finn, Deborah Abramson, Vadim Feichtner and Gihieh Lee.) She currently resides in New York City, and is a proud redhead.
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Carner & Gregor

In the beginning, Sam and Derek were babies, so they didn’t really know each other. Fast forward a bit: Sam and Derek won the Richard Rodgers Award for their musical UNLOCK’D, as well as “Best in the Fest” at NYMF. Back up: They met at the NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. Back up a little further. Oops, too far: They’re babies again. Moving forward…yes…here we are: By the end of the first decade of the 21st century, their work had been performed in concert by much of the cast of HAIR. Their musical UNLOCK’D had been workshopped at Ravinia and TheatreWorks Palo Alto, and they were finishing the children’s musical THE GREAT COOKIE QUEST and the song cycle ISLAND SONG. Sam had taught several courses at Yale and NYU, and Derek had founded the rock band M-LAB for which he played keyboard and wore eyeliner. Fast forward some more. Teaching. Glamor. MAC Nominations. Glamor. Shows. More shows. Bang! So sad. The collision of the Andromeda Galaxy with the Milky Way in 3,000,000,000 AD ended the runs of nearly all of their shows, except that one that was on tour. View sheet music by Carner & Gregor.
Drew Gasparini

Drew Gasparini is the recipient of John Lennon Songwriter's award. He has contributed music and lyrics to Broadway South Africa's annual gala, Cait Doyle's Hot Mess In Manhattan (for which he wrote "The Text Message Song"). He has twice been the featured composer for both New York Theater Barn and Contemporary Classics New Voices, as well as Scott Alan's Monday Night New Voices. Drew is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop for composers/lyricists, and has written music and lyrics for "Circles", "Above My Pay Grade" (commissioned by Holt Learning), and "Crazy, Just Like Me" (2009 San Francisco Theater Festival, 2009 NAMT showcase, 2010 reading starring Matt Doyle, 2011 NYMF). Drew has taught master classes at Emerson University, and clips from his sold out concerts in New York City can be found on Drew's youtube page, or website: www.DrewGaspariniMusic.com View sheet music by Drew Gasparini.
Gaby Alter

Gaby Alter is composer/lyricist for Nobody Loves You (with playwright Itamar Moses), which premieres at San Diego’s Old Globe Theater in May 2012. His musical Band Geeks! (with Tommy Newman, Mark Allen and Gordon Greenberg), received a production at Goodspeed Musicals and is now available for licensing through Music Theatre International. Other shows include 29, a high-octane pop-rock song cycle (NYU Steinhardt, 2007), and Young Zombies In Love.

Gaby is a Jonathan Larson grant recipient, and has won awards from the New York Fringe Festival and The San Francisco Theater Critics’ Circle. His work has been seen and heard at NYMF, The NAMT Festival of New Musicals, Goodspeed’s Festival of New Artists, Barrington Stage, Lincoln Center Songbook Series, Joe’s Pub and on Sirius/XM Radio. He has written music for PBS Children’s Television, NPR, MTV, films and video games.

www.gabyalter.com View sheet music by Gaby Alter.
Georgia Stitt

GEORGIA STITT wrote the musicals Big Red Sun, The Water, Sing Me A Happy Song, Hello! My Baby, and Mosaic. Her album My Lifelong Love is available from Sh-K-Boom Records, and This Ordinary Thursday and her song cycle, Alphabet City Cycle, are both available from PSClassics and iTunes.

Georgia published several choral pieces and wrote two songs for the MTV movie The American Mall. She is represented on the solo albums of Susan Egan, Lauren Kennedy and Daniel Boys. As an MD: Little Shop of Horrors, Avenue Q, Sweet Smell of Success, The Music Man, Titanic, Annie and the national tour of Parade, where she met husband Jason Robert Brown.
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Goldrich & Heisler

GOLDRICH and HEISLER are thrilled to be the first women ever honored as recipients of the Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theatre Songwriting. They are likewise delighted to have been nominated for 2009 Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Lyrics and Music for Dear Edwina and to have earned Lucille Lortel Award nominations for their Junie B.Jones. Goldrich and Heisler have provided original songs for The Disney Channel, Disney Interactive and Feature Animation projects, Disney Theatricals, PBS, and Nickelodeon. As performers, they have toured domestically and internationally, presenting their music at some of the finest venues, including Carnegie Hall, Canada's “Juste Pour Rire” comedy festival and the Kennedy Center. Raved The Village Voice, “[They] have been turning out smart lyrics and sophisticated melodies for some time. Keep in mind they're the ones whose nifty love song rhymed 'quesadilla' with 'IKEA.'” Kristin Chenoweth popularized their song, “Taylor, the Latte Boy,” performing it on The Today Show, The Rosie O’Donnell Show, and in concert at Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Opera House, and the White House. November 2009 marked the release of MARCY AND ZINA: The Album on Yellow Sound Label, and their Songbooks Volumes 1 and 2 are available from Hal Leonard. A number of new theatrical projects are in the works, including an adaptation of the tale of Snow White and Rose Red and a musical version of Freakin Fabulous, based on the bestselling book by author and stylemaker Clinton Kelly of TLC's What Not To Wear. For more information, please visit www.marcyandzina.com. View sheet music by Goldrich & Heisler.
Guenther & Son

KIRSTEN GUENTHER (Book and Lyrics) appeared on the cover of Insight for Playwrights, was named one of “50 writers to watch” by The Dramatist and was recently selected to be the subject of The Dramatist’s “Ten Questions” series. She wrote the book for Mrs. Sharp (2008 Richard Rodgers Award) which was workshopped at Playwrights Horizons this July starring Jane Krakowski and directed by Michael Greif . Kirsten’s other projects include book and lyrics for Little Miss Fix-It (Collaborative Arts Project 21), Soon Never (Directors’ Lab Workshop at Lincoln Center) and The Birthday Present. Her lyrics have been heard on the hit YouTube series The Battery’s Down (Ghost Light Records) and TADA’s off-Broadway production Everything About A Family (Almost). Previously, Kirsten wrote in Paris for USA Today and authored the Parisian weekly dating column, "The Sexy Expat." She is currently developing a new musical with Joy Son based on her weekly columns. Kirsten is the recipient of the 2006 Lincoln Center Honorarium, 2007-8 Dramatist Guild Fellowship, Marge Goldwater Scholarship and was a 2007 Disney/ASCAP workshop participant. Her work has been performed throughout Greater New York including the Public Theatre, Lincoln Center, Goodspeed, Barrington Stages, the York Theatre, NY City Center (Encores!), Joe’s Pub and recently at the Palace Theatre where she wrote the opening number for a Queen Latifah tribute (prod. Rosie O’Donnell). Kirsten has been a guest speaker at NYU, Harvard and Yale and her work has been produced on college campuses across the country. Upcoming projects include book for Stop Talking (prod. Amanda Lipitz). BFA Acting, USC; MFA Musical Theatre Writing, NYU (Tisch). Proud member of ASCAP and The Dramatist Guild.

JOY SON (Music) Recipient of Jerry Harrington Award (with Steve Routman), Shelley Pinz Prize from the BMI Foundation and nominee of Jerry Bock Award for her creative achievement in musical theatre writing. Songs from The Fisher King (book and lyrics by Steve Routman), Little Miss Fix-It (book and lyrics by Kirsten Guenther) and other compositions have been heard in NYC’s numerous cabaret and theatrical venues including Lincoln Center, York Theater (NEO2, NEO3 Concerts), Laurie Beechman, Barrington Stage, the Manhattan Theatre Club, Birdland, Duplex, Golden Fleece (A Supper at Elsinore, book and lyrics by Thomas Gualtieri), Raw Impressions Music Theatre (Off Beat, book and lyrics by Amanda Yesnowitz), Dixon Place, Triad, Zipper, TADA! Youth Theatre and many more. Published Songs: "Happy" (2009 The BMI Workshop Songbook Vol.1, lyrics by Jill Abramovitz),“These Lime Colored-Sheets” (2010 BMI NO MORE REVIVALS CD, lyrics by Steve Routman, from THE FISHER KING). A member of BMI Lehman Engel Musical Workshop, Dramatists Guild, The Authors League of America, and Local 802. Joy received a M.A. (Steinhardt, Composition) and a M.F.A. (Tisch School of the Arts, Musical Theatre Writing) from New York University. Joy proudly hailed from Seoul, South Korea to join New York’s most exuberant music scene in the year of 2001.
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Jeff Blumenkrantz

JEFF BLUMENKRANTZ began his career as an actor, performing on Broadway in Into the Woods (1987), Threepenny Opera (1989), Damn Yankees (1994), How to Succeed in Business… (1995), and A Class Act (2001), and on TV/film in Joseph … Dreamcoat, Will and Grace, all three Law and Order series, and the Great Performances (PBS) telecast of Candide in Concert.

It was Audra McDonald’s recording of his song “I Won’t Mind” (lyrics by Annie Kessler and Libby Saines) that jumpstarted his songwriting career. Since then, Jeff received a Best Original Score Tony® nomination for his songs in Urban Cowboy, and he contributed the song “I Think” to the acclaimed Off-Broadway production, The Audience. His one-act pieces, Woman with Pocketbook and Precious Little Jewel, have been performed at several regional theatres, and he has received song commissions from both Carnegie Hall and the Guggenheim’s Works and Process program. Most recently, his songs have been recorded by Sutton Foster, Megan Mullally, Victoria Clark, Rebecca Luker, and Lauren Kennedy.

Jeff is a recipient of the BMI Harrington Award and the Dramatists Guild Jonathan Larson Memorial Musical Theatre Fellowship. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and a longtime member of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop. In 2005, he published a songbook of his music and produced The Jeff Blumenkrantz Songbook Podcast, which featured live performances of those songs. The podcast episodes can still be heard by visiting iTunes or jeffblumenkrantz.com. Jeff also produced and hosted The BMI Workshop Songbook Podcast, featuring never-before-available music by members and alumni of the acclaimed musical theatre writers’ workshop. It, too, can be found on iTunes.
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Jenny Giering

Jenny Giering's shows include The Mistress Cycle, which received three Jeff Award nominations and has a Broadway option; Crossing Brooklyn, which was produced by the Transport Group and was part of Bristol Riverside Theater's 2010 America Rising Series. She's working on Saint-Ex with Sean Barry, which was developed at Sundance's White Oak residency and Theatreworks/Palo Alto. It won the 2010 Weston Playhouse Award and will have its world premiere in Weston next summer. Jenny's awards include the Jonathan Larson Award, the Klinsky Prize from Second Stage Theatre Company and the National Art Song prize. She's working on a commission from Playwrights' Horizons and a new song cycle. Jenny's solo album, Look for Me, is available at www.jennygiering.com. View sheet music by Jenny Giering.
Jeremy Schonfeld

JEREMY SCHONFELD is a singer/songwriter/composer/lyricist. The recent production of his musical Drift at North Carolina’s “Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy” (September 2009), garnered Schonfeld several “Best of …” honors including “Best Show of 2009” from Triangle Arts & Entertainment, and “Best Original Music” from Indy Week. Drift was previously presented as a benefit concert at BB Kings; and as part of the 2006 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF).

Other projects include the development of a new musical inspired by Schonfeld’s song “Greta” from the album 37 Notebooks, the new holiday musical It Happened One Christmas for the Flat Rock Playhouse in North Carolina, and a new studio album.

Other recent projects include the album 37 Notebooks, featuring a who’s who of top Broadway talent, and the film Clear Blue Tuesday.

Jeremy lives in Brooklyn with his Kiwi wife Sarah-Jane, sassy daughter Alexandra, and hyper dog Byron.
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Joe Iconis

JOE ICONIS is the recipient of the Ed Kleban Award, a Jonathan Larson Award, and a 1992 Stratford Elementary School Excellence in Music Certificate. BM from NYU Steinhardt, MFA from the Tisch Musical Theater Writing Program. He is the author of The Black Suits (SPF at The Public; book co-written with Robert Maddock), ReWrite (Urban Stages), The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks(Theaterworks USA) and Things To Ruin (The Zipper Factory and Second Stage). “The Joe Iconis Rock and Roll Jamboree” has played numerous gigs throughout the city and their debut album will be out soon. Joe is greatly inspired by Dunkin Donuts, Robert Altman, Dolly Parton, and the remarkable family of artists that he surrounds himself with. Upcoming: The Untitled Rock and Roll Spaghetti Western Show (for Ars Nova) and a musical about a guy named Hunter (for La Jolla Playhouse.) View sheet music by Joe Iconis.
John Bucchino

John Bucchino's songs have been performed and recorded by renowned pop, theatre, cabaret and classical artists including Liza Minnelli, Barbara Cook, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Judy Collins, Yo Yo Ma, Art Garfunkel, Patti LuPone, Deborah Voight, Michael Feinstein, Audra McDonald, The Boston Pops, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in venues including Carnegie Hall, The Metropolitan Opera, The Hollywood Bowl, The Sydney Opera House and The White House.

Among his honors are The Johnny Mercer Songwriter Award, The ASCAP Foundation Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award, The Jonathan Larson Award, The Kleban Award, The Los Angeles Ovation Award (for the revue IT’S ONLY LIFE), The DVD Premiere Award (for the song “Better Than I”), and the first annual Fred Ebb Award.

He has written scores for the musicals URBAN MYTHS, LAVENDER GIRL, Broadway’s A CATERED AFFAIR (winner of the Drama League Award for Best Musical, with a book by Harvey Fierstein), IT’S ONLY LIFE, and the Dreamworks animated film JOSEPH, KING OF DREAMS, and lyrics for the children’s musical SIMEON’s GIFT (with a book by Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton and music by Ian Fraser). Some recordings of his work are: GRATEFUL, THE SONGS OF JOHN BUCCHINO (with companion songbook), SOLITUDE LESSONS (another collection of original songs), ON RICHARD RODGERS’ PIANO (solo piano interpretations of Rodgers songs on the composer’s own Steinway), and the PS Classics releases of the IT’S ONLY LIFE (with companion songbook) and A CATERED AFFAIR cast albums. As part of their Julie Andrews Collection, Harper Collins published a children's book, based on John’s song, called “Grateful, A Song of Giving Thanks” which was awarded the Parents’ Choice Gold Award.
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Jonathan Reid Gealt

Jonathan Reid Gealt's songs have been featured in concerts and venues in Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Manila, Japan, Australia, London, and New York City including the Broadway in South Africa Benefits, Symphony Space, The Triad, The Canal Room, and Birdland. Jonathan is currently working on his debut musical, Forward. The Forward demo recordings have gained considerable buzz online and in New York City with such performers as Kelli O'Hara, Liz Callaway, Lauren Kennedy, Shoshana Bean, Michael McElroy, and Tituss Burgess. Collectively, his online videos (via YouTube & MySpace) have passed more than 200,000 views. In addition to his constant work on FORWARD, Jonathan is also writing his first screenplay as well as starting the break into pop/rock and mainstream music. An actor as well as a composer, some of Jonathan's performing credits include The Secret Garden & Rags (Broadway World AIDS Day Concerts), Atlanta Theater of the Stars, Kansas City Starlight, The Wolf Trap, and The Muny. He has appeared as a soloist with the Boston Pops under the baton of Keith Lockhart and has toured the US and Canada with Les Miserables and Junie B. Jones. [FILM/TV]: "Across the Universe" (dir. Julie Taymor), "Kidnapped" (NBC). Jonathan is a proud graduate of The Boston Conservatory. View sheet music by Jonathan Reid Gealt.
Kerrigan-Lowdermilk

Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk made their Off-Broadway debut with HENRY AND MUDGE, now on its fourth national tour. Their original musical THE UNAUTHORIZED AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SAMANTHA BROWN had a developmental production at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in 2009 and is continuing to be developed by producers Beth Williams and Broadway Across America. In 2009, their song “Say the Word” was performed by Miss New York and runner-up at the Miss America pageant. Other musicals include TALES FROM THE BAD YEARS (Theatreworks New Works Festival 2009), THE WOMAN UPSTAIRS (NYMF 2004), WRONG NUMBER (NYMF 2005) and THE FRESHMAN EXPERIMENT (www.thefreshmanexperiment.com). Their work has been developed by Goodspeed, NAMT, Primary Stages, Manhattan Theatre Club, the Lark, La Jolla, Perry-Mansfield, and ASCAP. Between them, they have received the 2009 Kleban Award, 2006 Jonathan Larson Award, a 2004-2005 Dramatists Guild Fellowship, a Richard Rodgers Award among others. They are members of ASCAP and the Dramatists Guild. View sheet music by Kerrigan-Lowdermilk.
Kooman & Dimond

Michael Kooman (music) and Christopher Dimond (book & lyrics) met while students at Carnegie Mellon University. Their most recent musical, GOLDEN GATE, premiered at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Their musical DANI GIRL has been workshopped at the Kennedy Center's New Visions/New Voices Festival, American Conservatory Theatre, the ASCAP/Disney Musical Theater Workshop, CAP-21, and was awarded the KC/ACTF Musical Theatre Award. JUNIOR CLAUS, a family-friendly holiday musical, debuted in Minneapolis this winter, and is slated for a midwest tour next year. The duo’s song cycle HOMEMADE FUSION has been produced at CMU, the Pittsburgh CLO’s Late Night Cabaret, the Zipper Theater, Monday Night New Voices: Chicago, and has been featured in several NAMT showcases. Michael and Chris are 2009-2010 Dramatists Guild Fellows, were recently Fellows at the O’Neill Music Theater Conference, and were finalists for the 2009 Fred Ebb Award. They have been invited to perform a concert of their music at the Kennedy Center as part of the “Broadway: Today and Tomorrow” celebration. Last August, they attended the Johnny Mercer Songwriting Workshop with mentors Andrew Lippa and Craig Carnelia. They are proud members of the Dramatists Guild and ASCAP, and are currently working on a CD to be released later this year. Visit them online at www.koomandimond.com View sheet music by Kooman & Dimond.
Michael Friedman

Michael’s work as composer/lyricist includes: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, The Civilians' This Beautiful City, Saved, Hoover Comes Alive!,The Brand New Kid, and In the Bubble as well as the Civilians’ [I Am] Nobody’s Lunch, Canard, Canard, Goose? and the long-running Gone Missing. With Steve Cosson, he co-wrote Paris Commune, which was produced at the Public Theater in 2008. Music for film and TV include the films On Common Ground and Coach. His music has also been heard at NYTW, the Roundabout, Second Stage, Soho Rep, Theater for a New Audience, Signature, and The Acting Company, and at many regional and international venues. He was also the dramaturg for the recent Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun, directed by Kenny Leon. He is currently working on an adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude, a piece about the adult film industry for the Civilians, and on commissions at Center Theatre Group, Playwrights Horizons, and the Huntington Theater. Currently Barron Visiting Professor of Environmental Science at Princeton University, Michael is also an Artistic Associate at New York Theatre Workshop, a founding Associate Artist of the Obie-Award-winning Civilians, and a recipient of a MacDowell fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, and a 2007 Obie Award. View sheet music by Michael Friedman.
Nick Blaemire

NICK BLAEMIRE is a performer and songwriter living in New York City. His first musical GLORY DAYS, which he began working on with his friend James when they were 18, had a critically-acclaimed run at the prestigious Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA (under the direction of Eric Schaeffer), and then moved to the Circle in the Square Theatre on Broadway in the spring of 2008. It also closed in one day – but it was still very fun and he wouldnt trade it for anything. The Original Cast Recording of GLORY DAYS is available on Sh-K-Boom Records. He is currently at work on a new original musical, FINDING ROBERT HUTCHENS, with bookwriter Paul Downs Colaizzo, which was commissioned by Broadway Across America. Nick continues to perform around the country, and says funny-sounding stupid things when he’s nervous. He’s really thankful for your support, cuz when you buy his music, he can write more musicals.
Glory Days Cast Recording
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Pasek & Paul

Benj Pasek and Justin Paul are a musical theatre writing team living in New York City. Their first show, EDGES, has been produced throughout the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Europe and is licensed by Music Theatre International. Current projects include the musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH and DOGFIGHT, a new musical commissioned by Lincoln Center Theater. They are the youngest winners of the Jonathan Larson Award and served as songwriters for Disney Channel’s four-time Emmy nominated series JOHNNY AND THE SPRITES. They contributed to IF YOU GIVE A PIG A PANCAKE and DUCK FOR PRESIDENT for Theatreworks USA and were listed as part of the “50 to Watch” up-and-coming writers by The Dramatist Magazine. They were interviewed on National Public Radio, selected as 2007-2008 Dramatist Guild Fellows, and their music has been broadcast on Sirius XM’s Live On Broadway channel. The duo has played sold-out concerts across America at venues including The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Joe’s Pub in New York City and the Falcon Theater in Los Angeles, and will soon perform in Australia’s Adelaide Cabaret Festival in June of 2010. They wrote DR. WILLIAMS for Orchard Project’s 24-Hour Musicals benefit and will be featured in the upcoming documentary “Overnight Musicals” about the process by Incubation Films. They are proud graduates of The University of Michigan. View sheet music by Pasek & Paul.
Paul Gordon

Paul Gordon was nominated for a 2000 Tony Award for composing the music and lyrics to the Broadway musical Jane Eyre directed by John Caird and Scott Schwartz. Mr. Gordon's musical, Emma, based on the novel by Jane Austen, premiered at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto in September 2007, breaking box office records. Emma has since had successful regional productions at The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and Repertory Theater of St. Louis. Daddy-Long-Legs, written with John Caird, had its world premiere at The Rubicon Theater in Ventura, California in the fall of 2009. His other works include Lucky Break, written with Jay Gruska and Seth Friedman, based on the 1976 film "The Front", Death: The Musical, and Analogue and Vinyl. Mr. Gordon is currently working on Little Miss Scrooge, a contemporary retelling of the Dickens classic. Mr. Gordon has written several number one pop songs and is the recipient of nine ASCAP awards. View sheet music by Paul Gordon.
Rob Rokicki

Rob Rokicki is a songwriter, performer and music director in NYC. He's a member of the Dramatists Guild, Actor's Equity, AFM, and alum of the Tony Award-winning BMI workshop. Broadway veterans to students internationally have sung his brand of smart and sometimes silly pop/rock. His musical, Love, NY (co-written with Mike Ruby) won the 2009 American Harmony Award and presented at New World Stages. Songs featured in the York's NEO series, Songbook at Lincoln Center, Joe's Pub, Ars Nova. Also with Ruby: Relativity (Theatre Row), 20 to Life (American University), Polly, Want a Mortgage? / Hams on the Lam (both swept the West Village MT Festival; Best Musical, Best Lyrics, Best Score, Best Book). Composer/lyricist for Martha & Me and Samson's Fire. As an actor: national tours, performed at Carnegie Hall, Off-Broadway, regional credits (Carbonell Nomination). Music Directing: Departure Lounge, Public Theater; Joe Iconis' ReWrite (also arranged), Goodspeed; Hairspray, Engeman Theater.
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Ryan Scott Oliver

RYAN SCOTT OLIVER is a 2009 Jonathan Larson Grant recipient and wrote the music and lyrics for Mrs. Sharp (2008 Richard Rodgers Award Winner, at Playwrights Horizons July 2009 starring Jane Krakowski, dir. by Michael Greif), Darling (Pace New Musicals 2009), the song cycle Out of My Head, Quit India (commissioned by UCLA), and the music for Angus Oblong's The Debbies.

A collection of his work, Rated RSO, was recently seen at Joe's Pub, where it will return January 2010 following an engagement at the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF).

His work has also been heard on the hit YouTube TV show The Battery’s Down ("This is Your Life" among others) and in showcases presented by Summer Play Festival (SPF), The York Theatre, Goodspeed Musicals, William Finn & Barrington Stages, New York Theatre Barn, Monday Nights New Voices, and the Festival of New American Musicals in Los Angeles.

He is a 2007 Dramatists Guild Fellow and the recipient of numerous awards including the first-ever ASCAP Foundation Harold Adamson Award for Excellence in Lyric Writing, the Margo Lion Award for Excellence in Adaptation (Mrs.Sharp, with Kirsten A. Guenther), the Looking Glass Theatre Favorite Production Award (Out of My Head) and the John Denver New Composers Award.

Currently he is the Executive Director of the Pasadena (PUSD) Musical Theatre Program in California, produces The Spotlight Cabaret in New York City, and is at work developing a commission by Broadway Across America as well as We the People for TheatreWorksUSA, directed by Alex Timbers, which will premiere Off-Broadway in 2010.

B.A. Music Composition, UCLA; M.F.A. Musical Theatre Writing, NYU-Tisch, a proud member of A.S.C.A.P.

He is currently represented by Jessica Sarbo at The Gersh Agency.
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Salzman & Cunningham

Joshua Salzman (music) and Ryan Cunningham (book and lyrics) met at the NYU Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. Their thesis musical, "I Love You Because", went on to be professionally produced Off-Broadway, earned a Drama Desk nomination for the team, spawned a cast album on PS Classics, and garnered a licensing deal with Theatrical Rights Worldwide, resulting in productions both nationally and internationally.

They continue their collaboration with many projects; "Queen Esther", a family musical comedy based on the story of Purim, commissioned by the Kaufman Center; "Next Thing You Know", a song cycle currently in development with director John Simpkins; and as contributing songwriters on the Disney Channel's "Johnny and the Sprites." Their song "Just Not Now" from "I Love You Because" was featured on Lauren Kennedy's new solo album "Here and Now." Ryan and Joshua are both members of the BMI Advanced Writing Workshop, ASCAP and the Dramatist Guild.
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Sam Davis

Broadway credits as conductor include Curtains, The Apple Tree, Follies, and Cabaret. Other theater work includes music supervisor for Dreamgirls (national tour, Korea, Japan, and South Africa), The Trumpet of the Swan, and Radio Girl. As composer: The Scottish Musical, Dysfunctional Fables, and A Good Boy. Sam recently recorded Love on a Summer Afternoon, an album of his music released by P.S. Classics. He is also the composer of the title song for Rebecca Luker's Greenwich Time. He is a founding member of the New Voices Collective at Symphony Space, and a winner of the Jonathan Larson Award. Sam is a 1998 graduate of the University of Michigan. View sheet music by Sam Davis.
Thomson and Mann

As a songwriting team, Jeff and Jordan received a 2008 Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Grant, and were 2006-2007 Dramatis Guild Musical Theatre Writing Fellows. Their original musical TRAILS (Book by Christy Hall) was featured in the Los Angeles Festival of New Musicals and was an invited selection for the 2010 NY Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) where it was awarded prizes for Best Music and Lyrics, and a Best Of Fest Audience Choice Award. Their musical Virtually Me (Book by Jeremy Desmon) which deals with teens, technology and cyber-bullying is receiving accolades at schools and performing arts venues across the country. They are currently developing the film Jawbreaker with original writer/director Darren Stein. View sheet music by Thomson and Mann.
Timothy Huang

Composer. Lyricist. Asian dude. Full lengths include And the Earth Moved (CAP21 2010 residency), Death and Lucky (MacDowell fellowship), LINES: A Song Cycle (NYMF) and the forthcoming Costs of Living.

Timothy is the composer/lyricist of the award winning one-person musical The View From Here (cast album available on iTunes). Other works include: Timothy Huang: Chinese or Crazy? (NYTB at the D-Lounge) Crossing Over (Prospect Theater, National Asian Artists’ Project), Short Story Long: The Songs of Timothy Huang, Changing Times, and 2 to Wakefield (York Theatre). A Relative Relationship (TNT Productions) and Love-Love (with librettist/lyricist Marlo Hunter)

Timothy holds an MFA in Musical Theater Writing from NYU/Tisch GMTWP, is a member of the Musical Theater lab at BMI and a proud fellow of the MacDowell artist colony.
View sheet music by Timothy Huang.
Will Van Dyke

WILL VAN DYKE's work has been celebrated by critics and fans alike for its unique musical voice. A contemporary pop/rock composer with complex modern classical flavors, his music is "achingly vulnerable and real" (Cabaret Scenes). His music has been featured at venues throughout New York and LA. PAGES, Will's first musical, written with Josh Halloway, was produced by CAP 21. Other compositions include THE GIRLS I'VE LIKE LIKED, WE THREE KINGS, and THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER. Upcoming works include WINNIE THE POOH: KIDS!, and LEONARDO'S RING. Will's debut album, CHASING THE DAY, features the vocals of some of today's brightest Broadway talent and performances by several New York based singer/songwriters. Will can currently be found playing keyboards in the pit of THE ADDAMS FAMILY on Broadway. View sheet music by Will Van Dyke.

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