Year: 2011-2012

Julianne Wick Davis

Julianne Wick Davis, composer/lyricist; music for Southern Comfort, Dan Collins (book & lyrics), 2012 Jonathan Larson Award; Barrington Stage Company 2013; NAMT 2012; CAP21 2011 (NY Times and TimeOut NY Critic’s Pick, Advocate’s 2011 Top 10 NY Theatre Experiences, GLAAD Media Award). Music and lyrics for When We Met, Collins (book), production at CAP21 2014; York NEO Development Series Fall 2013; O’Neill Musical Theatre Conference 2012. Music for Trevor, Collins (book & lyrics) in development for URock Productions. York Theatre’s NEO 9 Artist; Dramatist Guild Fellow. MFA, Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program.

CREDITS

Southern Comfort (music) with Dan Collins (book & lyrics) – full length musical
When We Met (music & lyrics) with Dan Collins (book) – full length musical
Trevor (music) with Dan Collins (book & lyrics) – full length musical
Willard Asylum Suitcases: A Song Cycle (music & lyrics with various collaborators) – song cycle
Lost Time (music) with Dan Collins (book & lyrics) – full length musical
Wood (music) with Dan Collins (book & lyrics) – full length musical
The Latest Thing (music) with Dan Collins (book & lyrics) – one act musical
Time to Kill (music) with Dan Collins (book & lyrics) – one act musical
Our Lady of the Viaduct (music) with Dan Collins (book & lyrics) – one act musical
An Orchestra Imagined (music) with Sophia Chapadjiev (book & lyrics) – one act musical
The Chemist’s Wife (lyrics) with Will Aronson (music), and Rachel Jett (book) – one act musical
Enemies (lyrics) with Will Aronson (music), and Rachel Jett (book) – one act musical
The Black Monk with Will Aronson (music), and Rachel Jett (book) – one act musical

Twitter: SoCoTheMusical
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Rob Shapiro

Rob Shapiro’s musicals include Shelter (with composer Julia Meinwald), Le Fau (with Julia Meinwald and playwright Bekah Brunstetter), and 1 Night Only: A Hanukkah Jamboree, which appeared in Ars Nova’s ANT Fest and 54 Below. For A Broken Umbrella Theatre in New Haven, he wrote songs for Vaudevillain, The Library Project and Seen Change! (with composer Will Aronson). Rob is currently working on Catch (Dramatists Guild Fellowship Program, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat). His and Tony Asaro’s song “Gays, Jews, and Girls Who Need Love” appears in the movie musical “Waiting in the Wings”. Cornell University (BA), NYU Tisch GMTWP (MFA).

UPCOMING WORKS

Seen Change! 

CREDITS

1 Night Only: A Hanukkah Jamboree [www.hanukkahjamboree.com], Le Fou (1 Act with Bekah Brunstetter & Julia Meinwald), Shelter (with Julia Meinwald), Gams Malone: The Hair Clip Caper (with General Mischief Dance Theatre), with A Broken Umbrella Theatre: VaudeVillain, Thunderbolt

Website: http://www.thatrobshapiro.com/
Twitter: @thatrobshapiro
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Lori Mannette

Lori Mannette’s writing credits include Carolina Breeze, a new musical with composer Joel Waggoner, which has been featured at NYMF, Goodspeed Opera House, the New York Theatre Barn, the Laurie Beechman, was part of the Lincoln Center Songbook Series in May 2011, and was named Best Musical 2012 by the NY Writers Summit; Dead Woman Crossing, also with Joel Waggoner, which was developed with the help of Ahrens & Flaherty through the Dramatists Guild Fellowship program, has been performed at Playwright’s Horizons, and selections of which appear in the Feb/March 2013 issue of “The Dramatist” magazine; Over the Hill, a dark comedy presented at the Midtown International Theater Festival in July-August 2013; 3XL, with Giuseppe Ritorto, which premiered in North Carolina in April 2014; and a comedy web series entitled “Sonny and Sherman” produced by Big Thunder Productions and starring Michael Indeglio and Broadway’s Drew Aber. She is the co-producer (with Eric Kallin) and contributing writing of the on-going sketch musical comedy series Broadway Melodies, which plays at the West End Theater every other month. Her one-act plays have been performed at The Barrow Group Theater, Roy Arias, Manhattan Repertory Theater, and many others. Lori served as Assistant Director for Theater for the New City’s LES Festival of the Arts in 2011 and as Festival Coordinator for the Dream Up Festival (2011-2012). Education: BA, Dramatic Arts (UNC-Chapel Hill); MFA, Musical Theater Writing (NYU). Awards: Dramatists Guild Fellowship, Paulette Goddard Award.

CREDITS

Carolina Breeze

Dead Woman Crossing

Journey to Insanity

Over the Hill

3XL

Into the Globe

#WhitePeopleProblems

The Man Who Came and Stayed

Boys and Girls

A Girl Called Nicole

Dad’s Birthday

Website: http://lmannette.wix.com/lorimannette

Kimber Lee

KIMBER LEE Plays include: to the yellow house, tokyo fish story (South Coast Repertory, Old Globe Theater), brownsville song (b-side for tray)(Humana Festival/ATL, LCT3, Long Wharf Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Moxie Theatre), and different words for the same thing (Center Theatre Group/Kirk Douglas Theatre). Her work has also been presented by Lark Play Development Center, Page 73, Hedgebrook, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Old Globe Theater, and Magic Theatre. Under commission at LCT3/Lincoln Center, South Coast Rep, Denver Center, Hartford Stage, Center Theatre Group, and Bush Theatre. Current Ma-Yi Writers Lab member; past Lark Playwrights Workshop Fellow, Dramatists Guild Fellow, and recipient of the Ruby Prize, PoNY Fellowship, Hartford Stage New Voices Fellowship, and inaugural 2015 PoNY/Bush Theatre Playwright Residency in London. MFA: UT Austin.

Tasha M. Gordon-Solomon

Tasha is a member of the Clubbed Thumb Falcons Writers Group, a member of the New Georges Jam, a recipient of the Dramatist Guild Fellowship, and an alumna of the Ars Nova Playgroup. Directing credits include EST, The Tank, The Brick, The Flea, The Signature Theater Ford Studio, and the New York Fringe Festival. Her writing has been published in The Brooklyn Rail, The Dramatist, and The Huffington Post. Tasha received her MFA at NYU and is a proud 52nd Street Project volunteer.

CREDITS

Piece Of

I Now Pronounce

You, Me Su Yi and the Kitchen Sink

Golden Water

Barbie as the Island Princess

Coffee Break

Lauren Feldman

Lauren Feldman is a playwright, dramaturg, professor (Bryn Mawr College), and a creator-performer of theatrical circus. She has been nominated for the Barrie and Bernice Stavis Playwright Award, Wendy Wasserstein Prize, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, ATCA/Steinberg New Play Award, New York Innovative Theatre Award, and the Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama and New England Center for Circus Arts, she is also a New Georges Affiliated Artist, playwright-mentor with The Foundry, and a Playwrights Realm Writing Fellow. Hailing from Miami, she’s lived in seven cities and is currently in Philadelphia.

UPCOMING WORKS

Scripts in progress:
ANOTHER KIND OF SILENCE (Playwrights Realm Writing Fellows)
AMANUENSIS, or Genius and The Three Daughters of John Milton the Poet
An untitled play about the life of students in circus school (Vermont Arts Council creation grant)

Upcoming productions:

TINDER & ASH

CREDITS

Full-lengths:

ANOTHER KIND OF SILENCE (Drama League New Directors/New Works Fellowship)
THE EGG-LAYERS (Jane Chambers Honorable Mention, New Georges/Barnard College developmental commission)
A PEOPLE (Jewish Plays Project Residency)
GRACE, OR THE ART OF CLIMBING (Denver Center Theatre Company, Nice People Theatre Company, ATCA/Steinberg Nomination, Barrymore Nomination, The Kilroys’ List 2014)
FILL OUR MOUTHS (New Theatre, Carbonell Nomination)
AMANUENSIS (Northwoods Ramah Theatre Company commission)

Devised:

TINDER & ASH (Circus Now: International Contemporary Circus Exposure, SummerStage NYC, Orchard Project residency, TOHU residency)
AND IF YOU LOSE YOUR WAY, OR A FOOD ODYSSEY (The Invisible Dog, New York Innovative Theatre Nomination)
LADY M (Philadelphia Live Arts Festival)
NOW/NOT NOW (Dixon Place)
THE APOCRYPHAL PROJECT (Yale Cabaret)

One-acts:
WHEN IT RAINS (Broadway Play Publishing)

And a dozen short plays.

Website: http://www.laurenfeldman.com/
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Peter Duchan

Peter Duchan wrote the book of Dogfight, which premiered at Second Stage (director, Joe Mantello). Dogfight won the 2013 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical and was nominated for five Outer Critics Circle Awards, including Off-Broadway Musical and Book of a Musical, and two Drama League Awards, including Broadway or Off Broadway Musical. Dogfight was subsequently produced in London (Evening Standard Award nomination, Best Musical). Dogfight received the 2011 Richard Rodgers Award. Film credits include co-writing Breaking Upwards (IFC Films) and Unlocked (Tribeca Film Festival). His play Lavender Scare was presented in Geva Theatre’s 2011 Plays-in-Progress series. Graduate, Northwestern University.

CREDITS

Dogfight

Breaking Upwards

Unlocked (short)

Twitter: @pduchan

Jonathan Caren

Plays include The House That Jake Built, Need to Know, The Recommendation (IAMA ’14, The Flea ’13, The Old Globe, ‘12), The Morning The Sun Fell Down (MTC 2013 7@7), The Vulnerable Raman Gupta (Sundance Lab ’13 Finalist), Open Heart Meditation (Ars Nova Out Loud ’11), and Catch the Fish (Upcoming, Chicago ’14, NY Fringe, Outstanding Play). 2013 McDowell Fellow, 2011-12 Dramatist Guild Fellow, 2011 New York Stage And Film Founder’s Award, T.S Eliot Old Vic/New Voices Network, SPACE @ Ryder Farm fellow, two-time Lecomte du Nouy award winner. He graduated from Juilliard and Vassar College where he studied mythology and religion.

CREDITS

The House That Jake Built

Need To Know

The Recommendation

Catch The Fish

The Dance Company

The Morning The Sun Fell Down

The Venerable Raman Gupta

Website: http://jonathancaren.com/
Twitter: @jonthecaren