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