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Year: 2012-2013

Jacob Yandura

Current projects with collaborator Rebekah Greer Melocik include The Last Queen of Canaan (book by Harrison David Rivers), Feral (book by Victor Lesniewksi), and a commission from New York City Children’s Theater, Wringer. Recognitions include: the Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Musicals, the Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, the Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project, Cap21’s Writers Residency and ANT Fest 2013. The Last Queen of Canaanreceived developmental workshops at the Yale Institute for Music Theatre, Northern Stage and Theater Latte Da. Feralis being developed as part of Ars Nova’s 2-year UNCHARTED residency.

UPCOMING WORKS

Wringer will receive an off-broadway production (produced by New York City Children’s Theater) at the Mint Theatre April 2016. http://nycchildrenstheater.org/

CREDITS

The Last Queen of Canaan

Wringer

Feral

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Will Reynolds

Will Reynolds is an actor/songwriter most recently seen in the NY revival of Sondheim’s Passion at Classic Stage Company, dir. by John Doyle. Will is the composer/conceiver of The Greenwood Tree (NYMF, Kennedy Center “Page to Stage” Festival) and Poems & Moon Songs, a song constellation – with the song “Tavern” featured on Audra McDonald’s most recent album Go Back Home. Will is a Johnny Mercer Project songwriter for ASCAP, and A 2013 Dramatist Guild Fellow. With Eric Price: Radioactive (Penn State “Nu Musicals”), The Sixth Borough (Indiana University “Premiere Musicals”), and Around the World (Utah Festival Opera).

CREDITS

“Tavern” (with text by Edna St. Vincent Millay) was recorded by Audra McDonald for her album Go Back Home.

The Greenwood Tree
based on the Sonnets by Shakespeare
music and concept by Will Reynolds

Poems & Moon Songs
a song constellation
music and lyrics by Will Reynolds
with poetry by: Emily Dickinson, AE Houseman, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Mattie Stepanek

Radioactive
book & lyrics by Eric Price
music by Will Reynolds

Sheet music is available for purchase at New Musical Theatre:
http://newmusicaltheatre.com/artists/will-reynolds.html

Website: http://www.willreynoldsonline.com/
Twitter: @willcreynolds

Eric Price

Eric Price is a lyricist/librettist, a member of the Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab, and received an MFA from NYU. With composer Joel Waggoner, he is writing Presto Change-o, a commission from Barrington Stage. With composer Will Reynolds, he is writing Radioactive, which was developed in part at the Rhinebeck Writers Retreat and the Johnny Mercer Colony. Other musical credits include Hello Out There, Around the World, and a musical adaptation of Emma that is licensed by Playscripts. Eric is the assistant to 21-time Tony Award-winner Hal Prince and has worked with him in the development of several new musicals.

UPCOMING WORKS

Presto Change-o (world premiere at Barrington Stage in summer 2016)

CREDITS

The Sixth Borough
Porcelain & Pink
Hello Out There
On The Contrary
Around the World
Emma!
Radioactive
Presto Change-o

Nick Myers

Twitter: @nickmyers87

Rebekah Greer Melocik

Rebekah Greer Melocik is a 2012-2013 Dramatist Guild Fellow and NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program alum. Her current projects with composer Jacob Yandura include The Last Queen of Canaan (book: Harrison David Rivers), Feral (book: Victor Lesniewski) based on John Bishop’s Borderline, and a commission from New York City Children’s Theatre, Wringer, based on the novel by Jerry Spinelli. Feral will be developed in Ars Nova’s UNCHARTED residency.

CREDITS

The Last Queen of Canaan
Feral
Wringer

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Ryan Langer

Everything is Fine (music/lyrics); Untitled Bow & Arrow Project (co-music/co-lyrics); Snobbles the Great (music) Open Marriage (music/lyrics); Advanced BMI Musical Theater Workshop Member; ASCAP Workshop; Dramatists Guild Fellow; Many TV, Film, in-store music cues; Awards/Nominations: BMI Harrington Award, MAC Award Nomination (Best Song category) Weston Playhouse New Musical Nomination (Open Marriage); Mentorships: Terrence McNally, Jeanine Tesori; Memberships: ASCAP, SAG, Dramatists Guild; Education: Cornell University ’04; Representation: Charles Kopelman & Max Grossman at Abrams Artists.

CREDITS

Everything is Fine (music/lyrics)
Snobbles the Great (music)
Untiled Bow & Arrow Project (co-music/co-lyrics)
Open Marriage (music/lyrics)

Twitter: @udimsumulosesum

Timothy Huang

Recent works: Peter and the Wall (DG Fellowship, Rhinebeck Retreat) Costs of Living (ASCAP Workshop, BMI Master Class with Steven Sondheim, Nominee: Weston New Musical Award, Jerry Bock Award) A Relative Relationship(Sound Bites Festival Winner: Best Musical), Timothy Huang: Chinese or Crazy?(NYTB), Crossing Over (NAAP) Other works include: LINES: A Song Cycle (NYMF), The View from Here (album available on iTunes) Death and Lucky(MacDowell Fellowship). Recipient of the Jerry Harrington Award, a Fred Ebb Award finalist and a DGFellow.

CREDITS

And the Earth Moved
The View From Here
 [http://newmusicaltheatre.com/songbooks/the-view-from-here-vocal-selections.html] Death and Lucky
LINES: A Song Cycle

Changing Times
Crossing Over
2 to Wakefield
A Relative Relationship

Missing Karma
Costs of Living
Peter and the Wall
Everything I Do, You Do 
(song)

Website: http://www.timothyhuang.net/
Twitter: @TimothyHuang
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Sarah Hirsch

Website: http://www.sarahahirsch.com/

Tatiana Suarez-Pico

Playwright and screenwriter. Lila Acheson Wallace Fellow at The Juilliard School, DG fellow, Rockwell Scholar at ESPA/Primary Stages, MFA Playwrights’ Workshop at The Kennedy Center, DG Residency at NY Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Theater Season, Lark’s US/Mexico Exchange, and SPACE on Ryder Farm. Finalist for Leah Ryan Prize for Emerging Women Writers, The Latino Screenwriting Project, Old Vic’s US/UK TS Eliot Exchange, and semi-finalist for the O’Neill. Two of her short plays were published in 2013 by indietheaternow.com. TV: NBC’s Parenthood. MFA, ASDS. Upcoming: Moxie Theatre production of “Lesson 443” and Royal Court 2015 Residency.

UPCOMING WORKS

Lesson 443 at Moxie Theater – May 2015 

CREDITS

The Anatomy of Accent
Cari, a Mexican-born 15-year old, has been in United States for almost three years and has been talking to her dead mom for almost as long. Fed up with the racism she has experienced in Ohio, she questions her dad’s choice to move to the States. While Cari acts out having sex and smoking pot, Manny, her dad, spends his mornings with aunt Lottie, her mom’s sister and his brother’s ex. Soon Cari and her dad’s secrets surface, forcing the family members to own up to their mistakes, let go of the past, and try to accept themselves for who they are.
Flesh & Blood
In Brooklyn, factories thrive as they hire undocumented workers and skimp on benefits. Luckily for Cala and Evaristo, they work at one of the most successful business on the block: “CINTEO” – Abundio’s tortilla factory. One night, while Cala and Abundio have sex in his office at the tortilla factory, Evaristo gruesomely dies in the room next door. Abundio tries to cover up the real cause of Evaristo’s death forcing Cala to choose between her loyalty to Abundio and her sense of what’s right. Their lives unravel as Abundio slowly realizes that Evaristo’s death has awakened something unexpected in Cala– a desire for justice.

Profit
Ana and Ben have maintained their bar & restaurant, “The Midnight Orchid,” afloat since their parents died in a tragic accident four years ago. However, Ana has been lying to her younger brother Ben about the stability of their finances and soon enough the lies come crashing down as the bank proceeds on a motion to foreclose them. Ana has decided that she will fight to keep her parents legacy but all the odds are against her, especially in a country undergoing a mortgage crisis. How far will Ana go to keep her home?

Like Water
Aurora’s mom is sick, her aunt has no patience, and she has to go on the trains to sing for money because that’s what Romani children do– they help the family. But Aurora is no ordinary Romani girl, she wants more out of life, she wants an education. And when the cops catch her jumping the subway turnstiles with her friend Daniel, she begins questioning her allegiance to her culture and her family’s loyalty to tradition.

Powerplay
Mattie is a CEO whose company is a sinking ship, Tania, her hotshot sister, wants to “help her,” Raina wants Mattie’s company to increase her profits, and Arianne wants to help her friend Mattie as long as she doesn’t have to risk anything. In the world of business, winning is everything, but how do you win when the game is rigged, the odds are against you, and the world doesn’t think you can hack it? The high-powered world of business has always been personal, no matter how you look at it. A play about women, power, and what it takes to make it.

The Mystery Spot
Connie’s life quietly collects dust when her son, Max, arrives from New York unannounced with bruised knuckles and a wounded heart. Connie doesn’t want to kick him out (he just arrived), but she doesn’t want him to stay, but she just can’t say that. Soon after that, Connie’s sister arrives from New York looking to recruit Max for her client, or at least that what she says. It’s not that they’re not honest with each other, it’s just that reality is sometimes too much to bear.

10-minute plays
1. Mountain Air – two best friends, Tara and Nicky, who end up shooting each other over the truth.
2.  She – about a woman who breaks into the apartment of the woman her partner is she cheating on her with.
3. Dog Day – about a group of dogs and the untimely death of one in their gang… she chokes on a doggy treat.
4. The Brazilian – about a brown movie star who has to play into the studio system to make it to  the next level.
5.  Cravings (getting published in an anthology) – a 14-year boy gets an erection at Starbucks. 10 pages about what it means to be a man.
6. Try This – a woman can’t get off, no matter what she tries, so she goes to a massage parlor to get a happy ending.
7. 1969 Miles – Mateo and Aaron love each other but have to break up, draw a line over what the other one just can’t accept. 10 pages about the US/Mexico border and he pull of invisible lines.

Website: http://www.tatianasuarezpico.com

James McLindon

James McLindon is a member of the Nylon Fusion Theatre Company in New York. His plays have been produced or developed at theaters across America including the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Lark, PlayPenn, hotINK Festival, Irish Repertory, CAP21, Samuel French Festival, Victory Gardens, Hudson Stage Company, Abingdon, New Repertory, Lyric Stage, Detroit Rep, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Seven Devils, Telluride Playwrights Festival, Ashland New Plays Festival, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Colony Theatre, Theatricum Botanicum, Circus Theatricals, and Arkansas Rep. They have been published by Dramatic Publishing and Smith & Kraus.

CREDITS

Full Length Plays

Making It: Production: Pary Production Company, Chicago (Nominated, Joseph Jefferson Citation, Best Play).

People II: Production: Hull House, Chicago.

Distant Music (Published by Dramatic Publishing): Productions: Stoneham Theatre, Boston; Independent Artists Theatre, Columbia, MO; Brigit Saint Brigit Theatre, Omaha, NE; Image Theatre, Boston; Image Theater, Lowell; Utah Contemporary Theatre, Salt Lake City; Firefly Productions, Burlington, Vt.; Tennessee Stage Company; Siena College. Winner: Best comedy, Omaha Entertainment and Arts Awards; Jane Bingham Prize, Black Swan Theatre, Asheville, NC; Tennessee Stage Company New Plays Festival; Siena College (winner of its International Playwrights Competition); Finalist: Kaufman and Hart Prize for New American Comedy; the Panowski, Bloomington Playwrights Project, Reva Shiner, and the Hudson River Classics Showcase Theatre playwriting competitions.

Website: http://www.jamesmclindon.com/

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