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Year: 2010-2011

Adam Overett

Adam Overett is a musical theater writer and performer living in New York City.

As a composer/lyricist/librettist, he is the creator of My Life is a Musical (2014 world premiere production at Bay Street Theatre; 2013 developmental lab production at the Duke Theatre, produced by Martin Platt, David Elliott, Cheryl Wiesenfeld, Patrick Blake, Jhett Tolentino & Joan Raffe, 2013); Popesical (2012 developmental production at the Lyric Theatre in LA, 2013 concert performance at Joe’s Pub, NYC); Call it Courage (based on the Newbery Medal-winning book by Armstrong Sperry), which had its premiere youth production at the Zachary Scott Theatre in Austin, TX (2010), where it was nominated for five B. Iden Payne Awards, including Outstanding Original Script and Outstanding Production of Youth Theatre; and many other works. He also contributed music and additional lyrics to the current off-Broadway hit Clown Bar (The Box, summer 2014, NYC) by Adam Szymkowicz.

As an actor, Adam has appeared on Broadway and on national tour in The Light in the Piazza, understudying and performing the role of Fabrizio. He played Neil Kellerman in the national tour of Dirty Dancing, and is currently in the cast of Murder for Two at New World Stages, after appearing in productions of the show at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, the Adirondack Theatre Festival, and the 42nd St. Moon Theatre in San Francisco. He originated the role of Herb in the off-Broadway show Junie B. Jones (by Marcy Heisler & Zina Goldrich, based on the bestselling book series) at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, and has performed in many other productions throughout New York City and the country.

He has been a Musical Theater Fellow at the Dramatists Guild (2010-2011), a Lucille Lortel Award nominee for his contribution to the score of the Off-Broadway musical We The People (2011), and a two-time Harrington Award winner as a member of both the BMI Advanced Musical Theater Workshop and Librettists Workshop. He has also been a resident writer at the Goodspeed Mercer Colony and CAP21 (2013). His song “My Sky,” performed by Stephanie J. Block, is featured on the album No More Revivals, released by Sh-K-Boom Records.

Adam is a member of the Lehman Engel Musical Theater Advanced Workshopat BMI, where he won the Jerry Harrington Award for Excellence. He has studied musical theater writing with Tony Award-winners Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty (Ragtime), Adam Guettel (The Light in the Piazza), and with Andrew Lippa (The Addams Family), and participated in the Nautilus Workshop on musical theatre collaboration at New Dramatists in 2010. Adam has also authored the short musical Making the Call; the screenplay The Swallow’s Nest; and several plays, including Passport, Standing Guard, and The Birdbath.

Adam is a graduate of Yale University, where he earned a B.A. in dramatic literature and music, and won the John Golden Prize for New Musicals. He is represented by Abrams Artists.

Website: http://adamoverett.com/

Bill Nelson

Bill Nelson wrote Harmony, Kansas with Anna K. Jacobs, which premiered production in San Diego (4 SCENIE Awards, 3 San Diego Theatre Critics Circle nominations). He wrote Men With Money with Joseph Trefler. His works have been produced around the country and his songs have been heard at cabarets around the world, including Bill Nelson’s All-Male Revue, conceived and directed by William Finn. He’s a published lyricist, 2010/11 Dramatists Guild Fellow, member of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop, and has an MFA from NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program.

CREDITS

Harmony, Kansas
music by Anna K. Jacobs, book & lyrics by Bill Nelson

Men with Money
book & lyrics by Bill Nelson, music & additional lyrics by Joseph Trefler

A Chronicle of the Twilight Aristocracy
by Bill Nelson

Website: http://billnelsonbillnelson.com/

Peter Lerman

Peter Lerman’s Brooklynite, an original musical with co-writer and director Michael Mayer is currently running Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre. He has also has written The Sacred Harp, a musical about a struggling guitar builder in Appalachia which was presented at the Disney/ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop. For his work in theater, Peter has won the Stephen Sondheim Young Artist Citation Award, a Dramatists Guild Fellowship, the Jonathan Larson Award from the American Theatre Wing, and the Kennedy Center-ACTF Musical Theater Award. Peter has contributed music to the Emmy Award-winning comedy Modern Family on ABC and and developed a musical movie based on his original concept for MTV Films with screenwriter Jennifer Maisel. Peter is a graduate of Columbia University where he wrote music and lyrics for the Columbia Varsity Show.

Website: http://www.peterlerman.com/

Anna Jacobs

Masi Asare

Masi Asare is a songwriter, singer, voice teacher, and writer in New York City.

Her songs have been heard at venues across NYC from Playwrights Horizons to the Julia Miles Theatre. Masi is an alum of musical theatre workshops at ASCAP, BMI, and New Dramatists, and was a Dramatists Guild Musical Theatre Fellow. As a composer/lyricist she has studied with Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, Stephen Schwartz, and musical theatre legend Stephen Sondheim. Her secret agent musical Sympathy Jones (book by Brooke Pierce) premiered at the New York Musical Theatre Festival and has had more than 20 productions in the US and internationally. Sympathy has a well-received studio cast album and is published by Playscripts. Masi is currently working on two original musicals—writing book, music, and lyrics for a piece about her west African grandmother; and lyrics for a musical for high school performers (book by Brooke Pierce, music by Joy Son).

Masi was a founding producer for the 8Minute Musicals Project, a music consultant for the RIPFEST Collaborative Film Project’s movie musicals initiative, and associate artistic director for Raw Impressions Music Theatre. She was a founding member of the Brooklyn-based collective Anonymous Ensemble, where she wrote music and lyrics for several shows including the rock theatre project The Best. As a grantwriter and development professional, she has raised funds for the Lark Play Development Center and held senior positions at Columbia University School of the Arts and Columbia Business School.

She received a bachelor’s degree magna cum laude from Harvard University and a master’s degree from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she is currently a candidate for the PhD in Performance Studies. Her academic research focuses on voice, race, affect, and embodiment. Masi is a member of ASCAP, the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, and the Dramatists Guild.

Website: http://www.masiasare.com/

Stefanie Zadravec

Stefanie is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and playwright-in-residence at The Women’s Project. Her work has been produced/developed at OSF, PlayPenn, Theater J, The Lark, Women’s Project, Two River Theater, Working Theater, Epic Theatre, & SF Playhouse among others. Commissions: Women’s Project, OSF, Working Theater. Honors: Francesca Primus Prize, Helen Hayes Award, NYFA Fellowship, Playwrights Realm Fellowship, WAMCo Award, Dramatists Guild Fellowship, Lark Fellowship, NYSCA grant, Sustainable Arts Award, & Sewanee Writers Conference Fellowship. Her work is published by Dramatists Play Service and featured in Best Women’s Stage Monologues (Smith & Kraus).

CREDITS

The Boat

Colony Collapse

Save Me

The Electric Baby

Honey Brown Eyes

Website: http://www.szadravec.com/
Twitter: stefzadravec

Ken Urban

Ken Urban is a playwright and screenwriter based in New York. His plays have been produced Off-Broadway at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, 59E59 Theatres, The Summer Play Festival at The Public, and Studio 42. He has developed new work at a number of theatres including Playwrights Horizons, Huntington Theatre Company, Theatre @ Boston Court, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Donmar Warehouse (London) and Primary Stages. In 2015, A Future Perfect received its World Premiere at SpeakEasy Stage Company in Boston. Sense of an Ending opened in London at Theatre503 in May, then in New York at 59E59 Theatres in August. Upcoming in 2016-17: The Awake at First Floor Theater in Chicago, and A Guide for the Homesick at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston. Awards include the Weissberger Playwriting Award, Huntington Theater Playwriting Fellowship, Headlands Artist Residency, Djerassi Artist Residency, Dramatist Guild Fellowship, and MacDowell Colony Fellowships. He is a Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center. He wrote the screenplay for The Happy Sad, which screened internationally at over 25 film festivals, and is now available on iTunes and Amazon. His plays are published by Dramatists Play Service in the United States and Methuen in the United Kingdom and Europe. He plays in the band Occurrence and they will release their new album The Past Will Last Forever this fall.

UPCOMING WORKS

New Plays In Progress: A GUIDE FOR THE HOMESICK (Playwrights’ Center), THE PAST WILL LAST FOREVER, THE IMMORTALS (with the Civilians’ R&D Lab

CREDITS

Recent Productions: THE CORRESPONDENT at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre in New York (Jan-March 2014), A FUTURE PERFECT at SpeakEasy Stage Company in Boston (Jan-Feb 2015), SENSE OF AN ENDING at Theatre503 in London (May-June 2015), SENSE OF AN ENDING at 59E59 Theatres in New York (Aug-Sept 2015), THE AWAKE at First Floor Theatre in Chicago (Feb-March 2016).

Website: http://www.kenurban.org/
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Ayanna Saulsberry

Kristen Palmer

KRISTEN PALMER’s plays have been produced and presented in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, and elsewhere. These include, Once Upon A Bride There Was a Forest, Westward Mutations, Local Story, Departures,The Stray Dog, All the Girls Love Bobby Kennedy and The Heart In Your Chest. She is an alumna of the Women’s Project Lab, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and has been a William Inge Playwright in Residence, Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Playwright’s Conference, Jerome Fellow, and Dramatist Guild Fellow. She is a New Georges associate artist, and spent her 20s making theater as a company member of Printer’s Devil Theatre in Seattle.
She is a graduate of Bretton Hall College in Yorkshire, England and holds an MFA from Hunter College where she studied with Tina Howe and Mark Bly and won both the Zarkower and Goldberg Prizes. She has created theater and directed youth driven projects with young people in schools, prisons and community based outreach programs around the country and is currently Artistic Director of Oddfellows Playhouse Youth Theater in Middletown, CT.

UPCOMING WORKS

Things You Can Do — Live Girls!/ACT (SEATTLE) JULY 2016

CREDITS

Once Upon A Bride There Was A Forest — FLUX Theater (NYC)

The Stray Dog — Cino Nights, Rising Pheonix Rep (NYC)

Departures — Blue Coyote (NYC)

Local Story — Overlap (NYC)

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Chisa Hutchinson

Chisa has earned a B.A. in Dramatic Arts from Vassar College and an M.F.A. in Playwriting from NYU. She’s landed some pretty cool gigs since then, such as writing and performing with the New York NeoFuturists and being a Staff Writer for Blue Man Group. She is also a proud member of New Dramatists, a Humanitas New Voices Fellow and a Resident at Second Stage Theater in New York thanks to the generosity of the Tow Foundation. As Chisa tends to write plays about underrepresented folks that require a minimum of five actors, she doubts that you’ll see any of her plays on Broadway any time soon, but encourages you to support the intrepid companies that have presented her work, which include the Lark Play Development Center, City Parks’ Summerstage, the New York NeoFuturists, Partial Comfort, Mad Dog Productions, Atlantic Theater Company, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, New Dramatists, Rattlestick Theater, the Contemporary American Theater Festival, Midtown Direct Rep, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, Second Stage Theater, Forward Flux Theater, the Working Theater and FilmGym.

CREDITS

Breaking Bread

The Wedding Gift

The Forgetting Place

Dead & Breathing

Alondra Was Here

This is Not the Play

Tunde’s Trumpet

Dirt Rich

Mama’s Gonna Buy You

She Likes Girls

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