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Year: 2014-2015

Dana Levinson

Dana is a musical theatre composer, arranger, and orchestrator. Music and Lyrics: 5th Republic (NYMF 2011), Jarreau’s (NYMF Developmental Reading 2012), Báthory. Arranging/Orchestration: Gypsy of the Year: Avenue Q Presentation (Minskoff Theatre, Broadway), Joanna Gleason (Provincetown Art House), Well Strung (various), LUDO’s Broken Bride (various). Film Scoring: The Waystation in the Stars (dir. Brandon Morrissey), Monica’s Mixing Bowl (dir. Jesse Averna, prod. Stacey Weingarten and Monica Willey). Dana is a graduate of The New School. She also studies Oud and Arab music with the conductor of the New York Arabic Orchestra, Bassam Saba.

UPCOMING WORKS

“Closing the Gap” a benefit concert for the Great Neck Library at Joe’s Pub (February 16th)

“5th Republic” reading with Musical Theater Factory (April 13th)

CREDITS

5th Republic (Music and Lyrics)

Jarreau’s (Music and Lyrics)

Stacey Weingarten

Stacey Weingarten is a writer, puppeteer, director, producer (EP, Chinese Mother Jewish Daughter LLC). Writing projects include 5th Republic (NYMF ’11 as Les Enfants de Paris), Rescue Rue (NYMF & NYCTF ’14) and Monica’s Mixing Bowl (a new family series), Jarreau’s, LUDO’s Broken Bride (ANT Fest ’13; The Cutting Room). As a puppet artist, Stacey originated “Bubbles” in John Tartaglia’s ImaginOcean Off-Broadway, attended the O’Neill Puppetry Conference where she created Oscar the Naked Cockatoo (selected for public performance), and served as Avenue Q’s Puppet Wrangler (NWS). Proud professor at Pace University

UPCOMING WORKS

Rescue Rue – (Reading February 10th 2015)

5th Republic (Reading April 13th 2015)

Monica’s Mixing Bowl (Interstitials/Pilot to be released by fall/winter 2015)

CREDITS

5th Republic (Book: Stacey Weingarten, Music/Lyrics: Dana Levinson)

Jarreau’s (Book: Larry Hamilton & Stacey Weingarten, Music/Lyrics: Dana Levinson)

Rescue Rue (Concept, Book, Addt’l Lyrics: Stacey Weingarten, Music/Lyrics: Kate Steinberg and Joshua Zecher-Ross)

Monica’s Mixing Bowl (Original Concept: Monica Willey, Head Writer/Producer & Concept Development: Stacey Weingarten)

Website: http://staceyweingarten.com
Twitter: @sayetc
Facebook: Facebook

Mark Sonnenblick

Mark Sonnenblick is a composer and lyricist, although not always at the same time. Collaborations include: INDEPENDENTS (“Best Production” FringeNYC, “Critics’ Pick” New York Times, Huffington Post’s Top Ten Shows of 2012), STOMPCAT IN LAWNDALE (Ars Nova Ant Fest), WHEEL OF MISFORTUNE (Denver Center for the Performing Arts), THE DINOSAUR HUNTERS (touring children’s show), BUNKERVILLE (first student-written Yale DRAMAT musical in 30 years). Nominated for a MAC Award (“Best Song,” with Ben Wexler), composer fellow at the John Duffy Institute (Virginia Arts Festival), member of the Johnny Mercer Songwriting Project. Mark lives in Crown Heights.

UPCOMING WORKS

Untitled Cruise Ship Musical (Bookwriter And Lyricist–Dg Fellows Program)

Invincible (Composer And Lyricist–Based On The Children’s Book)

Rodman In North Korea (Librettist–Houghton Lyric Theater, March 2015)

Ben Wexler

Ben’s original work has been performed at Alice Tully Hall, Symphony Space, LAByrinth Theater Company, Ars Nova, The Duplex (MAC Award nomination for Best Song), NYMF, and on Good Morning America. His original song, “Look At Us Here,” was performed to honor Cynthia Nixon as she received the 2013 Artist for Equality award. Ben is the resident composer at A Broader Way, an immersive program for girls from underserved communities that was founded and is run by Idina Menzel, Jeanine Tesori and Taye Diggs.

CREDITS

The Insurgents
Boiling Point
lulz: a troll musical
A Broader Way Foundation

Website: http://www.benwexler.com

Charlie Sohne

Charlie Sohne is a 2014-2015 member of the Civilians R&D Group, Dramatists Guild Fellowship Program and Lark Play Development Center’s Meeting of the Minds.  He has previously written lyrics for Tina Girlstar (book by Anton Dudley, music by Brian Feinstein), which was workshopped at New York Stage and Film (dir. Jeremy Dobrish), in NY (dir. Sam Buntrock) and optioned by Olympus Theatricals; The Shadow Sparrow (book by Anton Dudley, music by Keith Gordon), which was workshopped at The 2011 O’Neill Music Theater conference (dir. Joe Calarco) and the 2012 City Theater Momentum Festival (dir. Matt Morrow); and Kissing The Underworld (book by Anton Dudley) which received a commission from The Cherry Lane Theater.

CREDITS

The Boy Who Danced on Air
The Profit of Creation
The Shadow Sparrow

Website: http://www.rosserandsohne.com

Tim Rosser

Tim Rosser is a composer and freelance music director. Credits include: composer of several musicals with bookwriter/lyricist Charlie Sohne, “The Boy Who Danced on Air” (2014 NAMT Writers Residency, 2013 NAMT Festival of New Works, 2013 Rodgers Award Finalist, 2013 ART/NY and NYTB Workshop), “The Profit of Creation” (2011 Yale Institute for Musical Theater, one of ten finalists for the O’Neill Music Theater Conference 2011 and 2012, developed at The Lark and through ASCAP’s 2010 Johnny Mercer Songwriters Program) and the short musical Political Speeches (The Culture Project’s IMPACT Series). Tim is also the music director for the BC/EFA benefit BROADWAY BACKWARDS (at the Palace and Al Hirschfeld Theaters on Broadway), the associate music director for I AM HARVEY MILK at Avery Fischer Hall, has played keyboards for ROCKY and THE ADDAMS FAMILY on Broadway and CARRIE at the Lucille Lortel, and rehearsal piano for A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER at the Walter Kerr and LITTLE ME in City Center’s ENCORES! Series.

CREDITS

The Boy Who Danced on Air
The Profit of Creation

Website: http://www.rosserandsohne.com

Sophie Jaff

A native of South Africa, Sophie Jaff is the author of LOVE IS RED, Book One in the Nightsong Trilogy (HarperCollins May 2015), which was recently favorably reviewed by the New York Times. She is an alumna of the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University. She was the bookwriter/lyricist for the children’s musical A SHELTER IN OUR CAR, which the New York Times called a “poignant, sensitively written and buoyant show” and was subsequently published by Boosey & Hawkes.

Sophie’s children’s book THE ADVENTURES OF LULA THE DISCONTENTED COW was published in 2005. Other work includes ERIKA’S WALL, NOT THAT WE’RE BITTER, EVERYTHING and STORY OF AN AFRICAN FARM which won the Frederick Loewe Foundation Grant. Her work has been performed at Symphony Space, Lincoln Center, The Duplex, The Gershwin, and Goodspeed Musicals. She lives in New York City with her husband and their dog Noodle. Sophie is represented by Alexandra Machinist of ICM Partners and Josie Freedman of ICM Partners.

CREDITS

A Shelter in Our Car
Apple Heart
Erika’s Wall
Everything
Story of an African Farm

Website: http://www.sophiejaff.com

Kathleen Tagg

Kathleen Tagg is a composer, pianist, producer and music director.

Credits: The musical Erika’s Wall with Sophie Jaff (in development, presented in 1st draft workshop performances at The Music Theatre Company, Chicago 2010), Apple Heart with Sophie Jaff (2009- songs performed at 54 Below, Duplex, Lincoln Center). Alt-cabarets include the Afrikaans Spieël Speel with lyrics by a range of South African writers (2013) and Soul of Fire (2012) created with South African singer Zanne Stapelberg (Country-wide tours of South Africa). Soul of Fire (pianist, arranger, producer) was nominated for the SA Music Awards for best classical/instrumental album, and was used on television and in the film Die Laaste Tango (2013). Commissions include the Cape Philharmonic (2014), Jewish Culturefest Vienna (2015) & clarinetist David Krakauer (2013).

New works & arrangements: Breath & Hammer electro-acoustic project with Grammy-nominated clarinetist David Krakauer, Where Worlds Collide- 2-piano fusion of jazz/African music/classical/extended techniques with pianist Andre Petersen.

Kathleen holds the Helen Cohn Award as outstanding doctoral graduate of the Manhattan School of Music. She has performed on 4 continents in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center & Sondheim Theatre, and during summer she is on the faculty of SongFest in Los Angeles. Recordings: NAXOS, Universal, Table Pounding Records, Ossia Records, Gallo Africa and the Broadway Lullabies Project.

UPCOMING WORKS

Erika’s Wall

CREDITS

Erika’s Wall

Apple Heart

Spieël Speel

Website: http://www.kathleentagg.com/
Twitter: @kathleentagg 
Facebook: Facebook
Instagram: Instagram

Kristine M. Reyes

Kristine M. Reyes is a playwright raised and based in New York City, and her work has been performed in NYC, Chicago, LA and Minneapolis. She is a playwright associate at Diverse City Theater Company, a member of the Mission to (dit)Mars Propulsion Lab and a playwright-in-residence at Leviathan Lab. She has studied at Ensemble Studio Theatre and was a Rockwell Scholar at The Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA) at Primary Stages in 2012. She has been published on Indie Theater now and has contributed as a guest blogger on Howlround.

UPCOMING WORKS

The first public reading of Lily in Love will be presented in the Mission to (dit)Mars Launch Pad Reading Series on February 16, 2015.

The press release was featured on BroadwayWorld

More information here
Reservations can be made on the Mission to (dit)Mars here

CREDITS

Full-length plays: Queen for a Day (Diverse City Theater Company’s First Draft Fellowship), Stage/Mother, and Lily in Love.

One-act plays: Quarter Century Baby (Diverse City Theater Co.), Something Blue (Diverse City Theater Co.), and Lola Luning’s First Steps (Women of Color Productions).

Ten-minute plays: Ready, Aim…Fire! (ESPA at Primary Stages; ABC/Disney Talent Showcase; published on Indie Theater Now [http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/detention-3-blind-date]), Balikbayan Birthday (Leviathan Lab), and Sunday Surprise (A-Squared Theatre Workshop).

Website: http://kristinemreyes.com
Twitter: @kristinemreyes
Facebook: Facebook

Camille Darby

Camille Darby, a 2011 finalist for the Van Lier Fellowship program at The Lark Play Development Center, was born in Jamaica, West Indies, but migrated to New York City with her family at 6 years old. Her constant attempts at adjusting to American culture—she soon discovered—were best manifested through her writing. It was her first play Mother, May I? written as a high school student during the Theatre Development Fund’s Residency Arts Program that drew the attention of acclaimed playwright, Wendy Wasserstein. With the guidance and encouragement of Ms. Wasserstein, the budding playwright continued to study theatre, literature and film at Sarah Lawrence College where she received her B.A. in 2005.

CREDITS

Lords Resistance
The White Peacock
Exodus

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