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Year: 2013-2014

Sam Willmott

Sam is an NYC-based composer/lyricist/librettist. He is the recipient of the the 2015 ASCAP Foundation Cole Porter Award, the 2015 Kleban Prize for Most Promising Lyricist, a 2015 Jonathan Larson Grant, the 2013 ASCAP Foundation Harold Adamson Award for Lyrics, the 2012 Fred Ebb Award, the 2012 John Wallowitch Award, and the 2009 Kennedy Center ACTF Musical Theatre Award. He teaches music theory at Pace University, and lyric writing through Lincoln Center’s Songwriting in Schools Program. He is also a proud contributing writer for the Korean children’s language training program, English Egg. He loves outer space, croissants, the ballet, and Doctor Who.

UPCOMING WORKS

Bhangin’ It (Music and Lyrics, with Book by Rehana Lew Mirza and Mike Lew)

CREDITS

Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol (Additional Lyrics, with Music by Jule Styne and Lyrics by Bob Merrill)

Yo, Vikings! (Music, with Book and Lyrics by Marcus Stevens)

Scarlet Takes a Tumble (Book, Music, Lyrics)

Standardized Testing – The Musical!!!!” (Book, Music, Lyrics) Lyrics)

Website: http://www.samwillmott.com/
Twitter: sam_willmott
Facebook: Facebook

Max Vernon

Max Vernon is a composer/lyricist, playwright, and performer. This past year he was a Dramatist Guild Theatre Fellow, an artist in residence at Rhinebeck Writer’s Retreat, a JFund award recipient, and also finished his first commission for Disney Creative Entertainment. His musicals include The View UpStairs (NYU, Pride Films and Plays) and WIRED (Ars Nova) Developing: Co-Op (Ars Nova, Naked Angels); Aesop’s Fables (Theatreworks USA); WAM! Entertainment (Ars Nova/Ma-Yi); Show & Tell (Jerome Foundation). He is currently a member of the Civilians’ R&D Group and Ars Nova Uncharted. Www.maxvernon.com

UPCOMING WORKS

Co-Op (Ars Nova, Naked Angels) – with playwright Jason Kim
WAM! Entertainment (Ars Nova, Ma-Yi, Woodshed Collective)
Show & Tell (Jerome Foundation)
Inside Mecca Flats (Civilians’ R&D)
Aesop’s Fables (Theatreworks USA) – with playwright Lauren Yee

CREDITS

Musicals:
WIRED (Ars Nova)
The View UpStairs (NYU-Tisch, Pride Films and Plays, Joe’s Pub)

Plays:
Who is Rhonda Rwanda?

Website: http://maxvernon.com/
Twitter: maxvernon
Facebook: Facebook
Instagram: Instagram

Katya Stanislavskaya

Katya is a composer, lyricist, and librettist. She received her M.F.A. in Musical Theater Writing from NYU’s Tisch School of Arts. She is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Writing Workshop (Advanced). Her work has been performed at Joe’s Pub, Prospect Theater, York Theater, Barrington Stage, Merkin Hall, NYU, Temple University, the Zipper Factory, Laurie Beechman Theater, and many more NYC and regional venues.

Website: http://www.katyastan.com/

James Presson

James’ plays have been performed at La MaMa, Walkerspace, The Wild Project, the June Havoc, Orlando Rep, The Kraine, Under St. Marks, Penn State University, and Fordham University among others. He collaborated on Voices In Conflict, which ran at The Vineyard and Fairfield Theatre Company; a film version aired on PBS and was awarded two Regional Emmy Awards. As a director, he was given a FringeNYC Excellence Award for his Shakespearean adaptation, Richard 3. He serves as the co-Artistic Director of Less Than Rent Theatre, a position he has held since the company’s founding; in 2013, they were named Indie Theater Now’s “People of the Year.”

CREDITS

Little Town Blues, co-written with Rachel B. Joyce, first performed at The Wild Project

Friends Don’t Let Friends, first performed at Walkerspace

Words, Razors, and the Wounded Heart, first performed at Under St. Marks

Little Mac, Little Mac, You’re the Very Man!, co-written with Sean Patrick Monahan, first performed at The Kraine Theater

MONEY$HOT, music & lyrics by Alexander Sage Oyen, first performed at Orlando Fringe

Long Division, first performed at the Midtown International Theatre Festival

plays available for purchase at www.indietheaternow.com/Playwright/james-presson

Website: http://www.jamespresson.com/
Twitter: @cowboymouse
Twitter: @lessthanrent

Alexander Sage Oyen

Alexander Sage Oyen is a New York composer/Lyricist. Musicals include Outlaws (book by James Presson, dir. Noah Himmelstein), Moment by Moment (Sold-out 54 Below concert, dir. Brandon Ivie, production at Mahidol University, Bangkok Thailand), Money$hot! (book by James Presson) and Sidekicks (NYMF Reading Series 2012). Other projects include an emo-rock mystery musical, Immaculate Hearts (book by James Presson), and a musical about a father and son separated by time. His music has been heard in sold-out concerts at 54 Below, Joe’s Pub, The Signature Theatre, New World Stages and across the world. Alongside collaborator James Presson he was awarded the 2013/2014 Dramatists Guild Fellowship and their musical, Outlaws, was selected for the 2014 ASCAP Workshop and was a 2014 NAMT finalist. He was selected for the 2014 Johnny Mercer Sonwriter’s Project. Additionally, he was named one of Playbill’s Contemporary Musical Theatre Songwriters You Should Know. His three albums, “If I Knew Better,” and both volumes of “Drafts,” are available for purchase on iTunes. He loves a lot of music, but only steals a bit of it. Listen closely, you’ll hear.

Website: http://www.alexandersageoyen.com

Pia Cincotti

Peter Cincotti

Website: http://www.petercincotti.com/en/
Twitter: @PeterCincotti
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Jiehae Park

Jiehae Park’s Hannah and the Dread Gazebo won the Princess Grace Award and Leah Ryan Prize in 2013, and was on the first annual Kilroys List. Work developed through: Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep Lab, EWG at the Public, Cherry Lane, NYTW, Berkeley Rep, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and Ma-Yi Writers Lab. She is a recent DG fellow, MacDowell and Yaddo resident, and the 2014 facilitator for NYTW’s Mind the Gap intergenerational playwriting workshop. As a performer: NYTW, La Jolla Playhouse, Collection of Shiny Objects, Studio Theatre, Tiny Little Band @ Prelude, REDCAT. BA), Amherst College; MFA (acting), UCSD.

CREDITS

Hannah and the Dread Gazebo (full-length)
2013 Princess Grace Award (reading dir. Mia Rovegno)
2013 Leah Ryan Prize for Emerging Women Writers (reading dir. Jose Zayas)
2014 The Kilroys List of top 46 plays recommended for production
Selection, 2013 Ojai Playwrights Conference (dir. May Adrales)
Selection, 2013 Bay Area Playwrights Festival (dir. M. Graham Smith)
Selection, 2015 LOCAL Lab (dir. Pesha Rudnick)
Abingdon Theatre (NY), 2012, dir. Nelson Eusebio (reading)
Torrance Cultural Arts Center (CA), June 2013, dir. Jennifer Chang (reading)
East West Players (LA), October 2013, dir. Jennifer Chang (reading)
Finalist, 2013 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference
Semifinalist, 2013 Premiere Stages Festival
Finalist, 2012 Christopher Wolk Award

Here We are Here (full-length in collaboration w/designer Tristan Jeffers, in progress)
Ground Floor @ Berkeley Rep, June 2014 (2-week residency and reading)
New York Theatre Workshop, April 2015 (reading, upcoming)

Website: http://www.jiehaepark.com/
Twitter: @jiehaejiehae

Matthew Paul Olmos

Matthew Paul Olmos is a three-time Sundance Institute Fellowship/Residency recipient, Baryshnikov Arts Center Resident Artist, New Dramatists Resident Playwright, Princess Grace Awardee in Playwriting, La MaMa e.t.c.’s Ellen Stewart Emerging Playwright Awardee as selected by Sam Shepard, New York Theatre Workshop fellow, Primary Stages writer, Ensemble Studio Theater lifetime member, two-time Resident Artist at Mabou Mines/Suite.

CREDITS

I Put the Fear of Mexico In’em (Sundance Institute Time Warner Storytelling Fellowship) published by Samuel French  and NoPassport Press:

The Nature of Captivity (developed by Mabou Mines/SUITE Resident Artist Program) published by Samuel French

So Go the Ghosts of Mexico, Part One (New York Times Critics Pick for production at La Mama e.t.c., recipient Princess Grace Award in Playwriting)

The Death of a Slow’dying Scuba Diver (developed in part by Ensemble Studio Theatre)

The Olmos Family Play (developed in part by Primary Stages Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers; recipient 2nd Place Nuestra Voces Repertorio Espanol)

Monkey (developed in part by Brooklyn Arts Exchange)

Website: http://www.matthewpaulolmos.com
Twitter: bluedog86
Facebook: Facebook

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