Year: 2001-2002

Amanda Yesnowitz

Winner (Jonathan Larson Award, Dottie Burman Award, Jamie deRoy Award). 7-time MAC Award nominee and John Wallowitch Award finalist. Notable: ASCAP Centennial at the Kennedy Center, Susan Egan in concert, Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall, Lea Michele’s cabaret debut in NYC/LA. Recordings: ”Gotta Start Small” (Stephanie J. Block; PS Classics), “Too Close to the Sun” on Steve Marzullo’s Kiss Me…and title track of Marzullo’s Show Some Beauty (both on Yellow Sound Lab). A nationally ranked crossword puzzle solver, she debuted as a constructor in The New York Times on 8/26/2012…no ordinary Sunday.

UPCOMING WORKS

Somewhere in Time (Broadway TBA)
In the Name of Love (Revue featuring lyrics by David Zippel, Sheldon Harnick, and others)

CREDITS

Somewhere in Time (Davenport Theatrical, Portland Center Stage World Premiere May 2013, 7 PAMTA nominations, NAMT finalist)
By The Numbers (ASCAP Showcase, TRU New Works Series)
The History of War (NYMF Invited Selection, O’Neill finalist)
The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Hangar Theatre World Premiere)
Building a Wing (Best Musical at Sydney’s Short, Sweet, and Song Festival)

Gihieh Lee

Gihieh Lee grew up in Seoul, Korea and is still growing up in NYC. She won a 2004 Jonathan Larson Award and was a Musical Theatre Fellow in 2001-2002 at The Dramatists’ Guild of America. Her musicals include:Shakespeare: The Remix (Book/Rap/Lyrics by Aaron Jafferis, commissioned by TheatreWorks, Palo Alto), Tock Tick (Book and Lyrics by Tim Nevits, which got a workshop at Second Stage Theatre in June 2002 and won a NYU Frederick Lowe Theatre Reading in October 2003, both directed by Graciela Daniele), Dreamland (Book and Lyrics by Robert Frisch, developed with Scott Schwartz.) Spamlet (Book, Lyrics and Direction by Anton Dudley). Other works include: Vocal Arrangement for Elegies: A Song Cycle by William Finn and incidental music for plays including Enchanted Pig, Greater Messapie, Cuchulain Cycle. As a Translator/Music Director, she just came back from her job in Seoul, Korea on I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. Current projects include You Are Not Me (with Aaron Jafferis), an upcoming musical Leaving Neverland (with Heejun Lee), expected in Seoul, Korea in 2005, and a translation of Man Of La Mancha. Her work has been performed in various places from Carnegie Hall, NYC to some nameless tiny venue in Seoul, Korea and by many people, from Betty Buckley to herself. M.F.A: The Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.

Brian Feinstein

Brian Feinstein is an award-winning composer in NYC. His musical Girlstar will premiere at The Signature Theatre, Washington DC, 2015. Off-Broadway: Mimi Le Duck starring Eartha Kitt. The Top Job. Regional: The Circus is Coming to Town; Dial M for Murder; As You Like It; Ever so Humble; Caucasian Chalk Circle; The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (Hangar Theatre, Ithaca). Film: The Legion of Grads, The Sublet. Recipient of 6 ASCAP Plus Awards, a Jonathan Larson Memorial Fellowship and the Anna Sosenko Musical Theatre Trust Award. Member of the Dramatists Guild, ASCAP, and the Tri-State Basset Hound Rescue League.

UPCOMING WORKS

Girlstar, produced by The Signature Theatre & Olympus Theatricals in Washington, DC, 2015. Book & Lyrics, Anton Dudley. Directed by Eric Schaeffer.
Crowned, book & lyrics by Anton Dudley.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, book & lyrics by Denny Berry & Steven Yuhasz

CREDITS

Monkey Boogers, Book & Lyrics by Stephen Tyler Davis
www.MonkeyBoogers.com
Mimi Le Duck, Off-Bway, starring Eartha Kitt, New World Stages, NY. Book & Lyrics, Diana Hansen Young.
The Top Job, Off-Bway, licensed by Playscripts.Org.
www.TheTopJobMusical.com
www.Playscripts.org
Original score to Dial M for Murder available for license.

Website: http://www.brianfeinsteinmusic.com/

Jeremy Desmon

Jeremy is an award-winning musical theatre bookwriter whose stories have played to audiences around the world.

The Girl in the Frame, seen in over a dozen productions, earned him the prestigious Edward Kleban Prize as America’s most promising Musical Theatre Bookwriter. Pump Up The Volume, his adaptation of the 1990 film, has been developed at Goodspeed Musicals and The Human Race Theatre. He is also known for the high-school jukebox musical, Cyrano de BurgerShack, the wildly imaginative comedy I See London, I See France: The Underwear Musical and the topical Virtually Me, recently on tour with TheatreworksUSA.

Recently, Jeremy rewrote the book to Good News, the DeSylva, Brown & Henderson classic musical that opened Goodspeed Musicals’ 50th Anniversary Season in 2013. He is also an accomplished playwright (7½ Wondrous Act(s) of True Love), web comedy producer (Man of the People) and lyricist (Surviving the Avalanche, a contemporary musical revue, produced at Barrington Stage Company).

In addition, Jeremy has written “family theatrical” touring arena shows for some of the world’s most recognizable characters, including Disney Live’s Mickey’s Music Festival!, Universal’s Curious George Live! and Sesame Workshop’s Elmo Rocks! He’s written multiple editions of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and recently completed new adaptations of Disney’s Tangled and Pixar’s Brave for Disney On Ice’s worldwide tour.

Jeremy lives in Manhattan, around the corner from Starbucks.

Website: http://www.jeremydesmon.com/

Staci Swedeen

The recipient of a 2014 Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship, Staci also received the Arts and Letters Award in Drama, a NYSCA Grant for New Plays, an EST/Sloan commission and won the Sprenger-Lang Foundation New Play Contest. She is a core Lark Theatre member.

The Goldman Project directed by Joe Brancato, was produced Off Broadway.

Other plays have been performed across the country, published in numerous anthologies and presented in many festivals. She performed her one woman show Pardon Me for Living – a biting comedy involving a rabid raccoon -– at the prestigious Piccolo Spoleto Festival in 2013.

CREDITS

Pardon Me For Living (full-length solo text/writer & performer) Inspired by a real life run in with a rabid raccoon. Originally produced by Hudson Stage Company. Developed at Drunken! Careening! Writers! (KGB, NYC) Emerging Artists Theatre “One Woman Standing” Festival and the Lark Theatre, presented at Piccolo Spoleto 2013.

The Feeble-Mindedness of Woman (full-length) Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation commission for a play about Gerty Cori, the first American Woman to win the Nobel Prize in Science. Premiered at Oregon State University 2012.

There’s No Zombies Like Show Zombies (One Act) Emerging Artist Theatre Fall EATfest. An unscrupulous agent, a bed bug, and Marilyn Monroe making her return as a zombie.

Till That Lucky Day (One Act) Site Specific play written for Theatre 4, New Haven.

Next! (One Act) Emerging Artist Theatre Fall EATfest. Set in a UPS shipping office, this is a surprise romantic comedy attempting to return a very large package to the person who sent it, while being stymied by an uncooperative UPS sales clerk and a spacey woman who is next in line.

The Goldman Project (full-length play) produced by Penguin Repertory Theatre 2006, produced Off Broadway in 2007 with a co-production by the Abingdon Theatre. Developed through a New York State Council for the Arts grant for New Plays. Directed by Joe Brancato. Nominated for an A*bie and is published by Samuel French.

The Secret of Our Success (one act) Winner of the Arts and Letters Award, selection by Tina Howe. Produced in 2006 in the Emerging Artists Theatre spring Eatfest, NYC. Published in the Arts and Journal Review 2005.

House Rules (full-length) Finalist for the 2008 Firehouse Play Festival Competition. Initial development at the Mount Sequoyah Playwriting Retreat with staged readings at the Gallery Players, Brooklyn, and Rockland Reading Series. Being presented in 2015 at the Tennessee Stage Company as a staged reading.

Feliz Navidad (one act) Cable broadcast in Westchester on “The Play’s The Thing.” Previous productions: City Theatre, M&M Productions, New Jersey Rep.

Details (One act) 18 Minute Madness Playwright Festival, Turtle Shell Productions, NYC.

Criminal Confessions: The Radio Play (aka AM/FM in the First Degree – full length) staged reading Gallery Players and at New Jersey Repertory Theatre. Finalist in the Mill Mountain Playhouse New Play Competition.

Requiescat in Pace (one act) developed at the Lark Theatre, Finalist for Heideman Award, 2003. Produced at Stephen Austin University & Fairfield University 2007 & 2008.

The Taste of Desire (full length) produced by the Newman Theatre in Pleasantville, NY. A small local bookstore owner is threatened by present circumstances and past loves.

Theme and Variation (three one acts) directed by Jack Heifner, produced by Stephen Austin University.

The Frozen Grail (full-length) Winner of the Sprenger-Lang Foundation New Play Contest. The play is an investigation into Robert Peary’s claim to be the first to reach the North Pole.

A Little Bit of Culture (collection of one acts) Honorable Mention, McLaren Memorial Comedy Playwriting Competition, and Winner of the Tennessee Stage Company New Play Contest. Produced in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Outtabounds I, II, and III (three separate plays written on issues important to school age children) developed and produced as the playwright-in residence at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, directed by J. Barry Lewis.

Mystery at Spook Rock (full-length site-specific interactive theatre.) Written with a community grant from Sleepy Hollow and the Arts Council of Westchester. Collaborator Diane Coburn Bruning, choreographer.

Three Forks (full length) Winner of the Maxwell Anderson New Playreading Series and the New Plays Festival at Charlotte Rep 1996, World Premiere March 1997, Florida Stage Theatre. Carbonell Nominee for Best New Play

Pressure Points (full-length play) produced by the Newman Theatre. “The whole experience of giving and receiving a massage becomes a metaphor for what people need and don’t get. A surprisingly moving and sophisticated work.” Ed Burroughs, Patent Trader.

Summer and Winter Shorts (one acts) City Theatre, Miami, Producers Susi Westfall and Stephanie Norman 1996-2004, ten different one acts over eight years.

Gallery Players Black Box New Play Series (one acts) numerous plays, 1998-2004, including Off Broadway Samuel French finalist “Good Vibrations” 2003.

Grave Transformations (three one acts: The Sleep Seeker, Words Like A Wall, Making Her Moan) produced by Terry Schreiber, NYC, 1992. “Making Her Moan” also a finalist in the Theatre Works at the University of Colorado 1991.

The Sleep Seeker (Contest Winner, Love Creek Productions), Nat Horne Theatre, NYC, 1992. Numerous productions. Published in FACING FORWARD: One Act Plays and Monologues by Contemporary American Women B’way Play Pub, 1995)

Website: http://www.staciswedeen.com/

Lloyd Suh

Lloyd Suh is the author of American Hwangap, The Wong Kids in the Secret of the Space Chupacabra Go!, Jesus in India, Great Wall Story, The Children of Vonderly, Masha No Home and others, produced with Ma-Yi, The Play Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, La Mama ETC, Magic Theatre (SF), Denver Center Theatre Company, East West Players (LA), and internationally at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila, and with PCPA in Seoul, Korea. He has received support from the NEA Arena Stage New Play Development program, the Andrew W. Mellon Launching New Plays Into the Repertoire initiative via the Lark Play Development Center, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, Jerome Foundation, Theatre Communications Group and Dramatists Guild. His plays have been published by Samuel French, Playscripts, Smith & Kraus, Duke University Press and American Theatermagazine. He is an alum of EST’s Youngblood and the Soho Rep Writer Director Lab, and from 2005-2010 served as Artistic Director of Second Generation and Co-Director of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab. He has served since 2011 as the Director of Onsite Programs at the Lark.

Anton Dudley

Anton Dudley. Off-Broadway: City Of (Playwrights Realm); Substitution (Playwrights Realm); Getting Home(Secondstage Theater); Honor and the River (The Lion Theater); Slag Heap (Cherry Lane Theater). Regional: A Dram of Drummhicit [co-written with Arthur Kopit] (LaJolla Playhouse); Cold Hard Cash (Williamstown Theater Festival); Honor and the River (Walnut Street Theater); Letters to the End of the World [Finalist for the 2012 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Drama]; The Lake’s End (Adirondack Theater Festival). Publications: Sam French, Playscripts Inc, Backstage, Heuer, and Vintage.

UPCOMING WORKS

City Of at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater 
Hopper (with composer Jonatha Brooke) at the AUPAC 
Girlstar (with composer Brian Feinstein)

CREDITS

Honor and the River
City Of
Slag Heap
Letters to the End of the World
Getting Home
Davy & Stu
Circumvention 
Substitution
The Queen of Pop
Pleaching the Coffin Sisters
The Lake’s End
The Shadow Sparrow
Girlstar
The Bourgeoys Constitution
Crowned

Website: http://antondudley.net/
Twitter: @antondudley

Andy Bragen

Andy Bragen’s plays and translations have been presented at numerous theatres, including PS122, Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep, and Soho Rep. His play This is MY Office premiered off-Broadway with The Play Company in the autumn of 2013. He has an MFA from Brown University and is a member of New Dramatists.

UPCOMING WORKS

The Ice Siren at the Jazz Gallery – February 2016

CREDITS

This is My Office

Vengeance Can Wait – a translation. 

Don’t You Fucking Say a Word

Ranch Home

The Two Tanyas

Loop Tape

Mobro

etc.

Website: http://andybragen.com/