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Merkin Concert Hall
Monday, September 24, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Kaufman Center
presents
Broadway Close Up
Bound For Broadway XII
Liz Callaway, host
Sean Hartley, artistic director
Featuring Songs from
The Dogs of Pripyat
The Great American Mousical
Murder For Two
Rocket Science
Watt?!?
With Appearances by
Jill Abramovitz
Aron Accurso
Sean Attebury
Hunter Bell
Kellen Blair
Heidi Blickenstaff
Stephen Bogardus
Alex Brightman
Andy Einhorn
Noah Galvin
Alexander Gemigniani
Zina Goldrich
Marcy Heisler
Gwen Hollander
David Javerbaum
Joe Kinosian
Martin Landry
Janice Mays Landry
Ken Marks
Brendan Millburn
Jeremy Morse
Lea Nardi
Adam Overett
Larry Pressgrove
Jason Rhyne
Aaron Riesebeck
William Ryall
Kristin Tarczynski
Barbara Walsh
Jason “SweetTooth”Williams
Keith White
Act I
Murder For Two
Book and Lyrics by Kellen Blair; Music by Joe Kinosian
“It Was Her”
“He Needs a Partner”
JOE KINOSIAN and ADAM OVERETT
JOE KINOSIAN and ADAM OVERETT
Rocket Science
Book by Patricia Cotter; Lyrics by Jason Rhyne; Music by Stephen Wiener
Based on the film by Jeffrey Blitz; Music directed by Andy Einhorn
“According to Kline”
“Only Jenny”
“Williamsburg”
JEREMY MORSE and AARON RIESEBECK
JEREMY MORSE
STEPHEN BOGARDUS and BARBARA WALSH
The Great American Mousical
Book by Hunter Bell; Lyrics by Marcy Heisler; Music by Zina Goldrich
Based on the book by Julie Andrews Edwards and Emma Walton Hamilton
“Oh, For a Life in the Country”
“What Do You Think of That?”
“The Show Goes On”
NOAH GALVIN and HEIDI BLICKENSTAFF
NOAH GALVIN
HEIDI BLICKENSTAFF
Intermission
Act Two
The Dogs of Pripyat
Book by Jill Abramovitz and Leah Napolin; Lyrics by Jill Abramovitz; Music by Aron Accurso;
Based on The Dogs of Pripyat by Leah Napolin; Music directed by Andy Einhorn
“To Be Someone’s Dog”
ALEX BRIGHTMAN, ALEXANDER GEMIGNIANI,
GWEN HOLLANDER, LEA NARDI, WILLIAM RYALL,
KRISTIN TARCZYNSKI and KEITH WHITE
“Dosvedanya”
ALEX BRIGHTMAN, ALEXANDER GEMIGNIANI,
GWEN HOLLANDER, LEA NARDI, WILLIAM RYALL,
KRISTIN TARCZYNSKI and KEITH WHITE
“You’ll Come Back”
ALEX BRIGHTMAN
Watt?!?
Book and Lyrics by David Javerbaum; Music by Brendan Millburn
“Watt?!?”
“That’s Your Department”
“This I Pray”
KEN MARKS
JASON “SWEET TOOTH” WILLIAMS
LIZ CALLAWAY
About the Host
Tony nominee and Emmy winner Liz Callaway made her Broadway debut in Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along. She
has gone on to star in Baby, Miss Saigon, The Look of Love, The Three Musketeers, and for 5 years appeared as Grizabella in
Cats. The award-winning Sibling Revelry (created with her sister, Ann Hampton Callaway) played to great acclaim at the
Donmar Warehouse in London. Their new show, Boom! was recently recorded Live at Birdland for PS Classics, and is currently
touring venues across the country. Liz can be heard on the soundtracks of numerous animated feature films including the
singing voice of the title characters in both The Swan Princess and the Oscar-nominated Anastasia. Her extensive concert
career has taken her to Beijing, Shanghai, Tasmania, Sydney, Barcelona, Estonia, France, Korea, Iceland and just about every
major city in the United States. Liz has released four solo recordings, the most recent being Passage of Time on the PS
Classics label.
About The Artists
Jill Abramovitz is the lyricist of Martha Speaks (with composer Brad Alexander and bookwriter Kevin Delaguila), which was
commissioned by TheatreworksUSA and will begin a national tour this fall. She is a contributing lyricist on It Shoulda Been You,
starring Tyne Daly and directed by David Hyde Pierce (George Street, Village Theatre, Bound For Broadway 2010). She is also
developing an adaptation of the Ken Loach film Bread and Roses with composer/husband Brad Alexander. She is incredibly
proud of The Dogs of Pripyat, which was showcased at the 2011 NAMT Festival, Goodspeed’s Festival of New Artists, and
was the recipient of the Weston Playhouse New Musical Award. Currently, The Dogs of Pripyat is in rehearsal for a
developmental production at the University of Miami. As an actress, Jill has appeared on Broadway in Martin Short: Fame
Becomes Me, 9 to 5, and will begin rehearsals in December for the upcoming Cinderella.
Aron Accurso, Composer/Additional Lyricist: Strega Nona (commissioned by Weston Six productions including The Atlantic
Theatre and a National Tour by Maximum Entertainment.) The Dogs of Pripyat (showcased at the 2011 NAMT Festival, Goodspeed’s
Festival of New Artists, Weston’s New Musical Award, and the University of Miami.) Training: Dramatists Guild Fellow, BMI
Workshop (Harrington Award). Broadway: Sister Act (Associate Conductor), Little Mermaid (Keyboard 1), Billy Elliot (Casting,
Rehearsal Pianist). Regional: Calvin Berger at George Street (Incidental Music/Music Director). Workshops: Aladdin, Up Here,
Newsies, Addams Family, Hello My Baby, Red Clay. TV: Regis and Kelly, and Wendy Williams with American Idol Finalists.
Education: BA in Music Composition with distinction from St. Olaf College.
The events and details of Sean Attebury’s life cannot be highlighted here because he is in a witness protection program.
Hunter Bell earned an OBIE Award, a Drama League nomination and a Tony nomination for Best Book of a Musical all for
the original Broadway musical [title of show]. Other credits include the books for Silence! The Musical, Bellobration! (Ringling
Bros. Circus), Villains Tonight! (Disney Cruise Lines), Now. Here. This. (Vineyard Theatre) and the upcoming The Great American
Mousical (Goodspeed). He is a co-creator of the web series the [title of show] show and recently co-created and co-wrote the
pilot Glass Houses for ABC Studios/Television and Cherry-Wind Productions. Hunter has developed new works at the O’Neill
Center, Ars Nova, PS 122, Weston Playhouse, Manhattan Theatre Source, and the NYMF and NY Fringe Festivals. He is a
distinguished alumnus of Webster University, a proud member of WGA, the Dramatists Guild and a MacDowell Fellow.
Kellen Blair is the co-creator of Murder For Two, the two-person murder mystery musical comedy that recently ran for over
six months at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre (following productions at 42nd Street Moon Theater and the Adirondack Theatre
Festival). Kellen also wrote lyrics for Pirates Don’t Change Diapers (Theatreworks, USA) and took part in the 2010 Johnny
Mercer Songwriting Project. In 2011, Kellen and collaborator Joe Kinosian won the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Musical
(Murder For Two). They were also recently featured in the York Theatre’s NEO Concert, which showcased the work of new
musical theatre writers. Kellen is an advanced member at the BMI Musical Theatre Writing Workshop and a proud member of
the Dramatists’ Guild.
Heidi Blickenstaff appeared on Broadway in The Addams Family (Alice Beineke), The Little Mermaid (Ursula) and The Full
Monty. She is proud to be a part of the original collaborative team that created [title of show] where she played herself. OffBroadway: Now. Here. This. and [title of show] at the Vineyard Theatre, and Mosiac (Ruth) with Primary Stages. Regional:
First You Dream: The Music of Kander and Ebb at The Kennedy Center and Meet John Doe (Ann Mitchell) at Ford’s Theatre
(Helen Hayes Award). Tours: The Full Monty, Jekyll & Hyde, Steel Pier and The Who‘s Tommy. Heidi has performed many
times at Merkin Concert Hall, singing in Broadway Close Up tributes to Jerome Kern, James Taylor, Lennon & McCartney and
Noel Coward & Cole Porter. She has also sung for audiences at Carnegie Hall, Joe’s Pub and The 92 Street Y. She is a
graduate of Duke University.
Stephen Bogardus has appeared on Broadway in Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Old Acquaintance, Man of La Mancha,
James Joyce’s The Dead, High Society, King David, Love! Valour! Compassion! (Tony nomination, OBIE Award), Falsettos,
Grapes of Wrath, Les Misérables and West Side Story. Off-Broadway credits include Sweet Adeline and Allegro (City Center
Encores!), Love! Valour! Compassion! (MTC), Go Back to Where you Are, March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland (Playwrights
Hor-izon), Genesis and Umbrellas of Cherbourg (NYSF) and The Pavilion (Rattlestick). Regional: The Unauthorized
Autobiography of Samantha Brown (Goodspeed), God of Carnage (Huffington), The Exorcist (Geffen Playhouse).
Alex Brightman (Boychik) has performed on Broadway and also really far off. He loves to get his hands on great new
musical theatre, which he believes this show absolutely is.
Patricia Cotter’s plays include The Break Up Note-book (Renberg Theater, Los Angeles; GLAAD Award nominee, starring
actress Jane Lynch); Three; Best/Worst; Flawed; The Girls. (Apartment A Theatre - playwright in residence) Her musicals
(librettist/adaptations) include: The Break Up Notebook a Lesbian Musical, (based on her play) (Revision Theatre, Asbury
Park, NJ September 2011, Hudson Theatre, LA); Mulan, Jr. (adaptation, additional lyrics, based on the Disney film Mulan
with music and lyrics by Matthew Wilde, David Zippel, Stephen Schwartz, and Jeanine Tesori) licensed through MTI; she is
currently developing Rocket Science: A Musical, (a Richard Rodgers Development Award 2010, composer Stephen Weiner,
lyricist Jason Rhyne). Reading held at Playwrights Horizons, New York, NY (directed by Kathleen Marshall), The Los Angeles
Festival of New American Musicals and ASCAP’s staged reading, August 2011. Patricia co-wrote the cabaret show, “So Far –
Beth Malone”(Joe’s Pub, NYC, The Triad, NYC, Upright Cabaret, LA).
Andy Einhorn’s credits include Broadway: Evita (Assistant Conductor), Brief Encounter (Music Director), Sondheim on Sondheim
(Conductor), The Light in the Piazza. National tours: South Pacific, Sweeney Todd, The Light in the Piazza, The Lion King, Mamma
Mia! Music director: Audra McDonald (Fall 2011 concert tour, Carnegie Hall) and Barbara Cook (Feinstein’s) Regional: 92nd Street
Y “Lyrics and Lyricists,” Goodspeed (Radio Girl), Signature Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, PaperMill Play-house, Oregon
Shakespeare Festival, Houston Grand Opera. Cast Recordings: Sondheim on Sondheim (Grammy nom), Stage Door Canteen (DRG
Records), Evita. Honors graduate, Rice University. Upcoming projects include Fun Home (Public Theatre, Music Director) and
Cinderella (Broadway, Music Director).
Noah Galvin’s favorite credits include Yosemite (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), David Cromer’s Our Town (Barrow Street
Theater), Playwrights Horizons’ and the Vineyard Theater’s copro-duction of The Burnt Part Boys (Lucille Lortel Nomination) and
the premiere year of Cirque Du Soleil’s Wintuk. He is a founding Member of EPBB. Noah played the Fool opposite Billy Porter’s
King “Mama” Lear, the third national tour of Les Miserables, and Ace: The Musical directed by Stafford Arima (St. Louis Rep.,
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and The Old Globe) for which he received a Kevin Klein Award, a Cincinnati Entertainment
Award and an Acclaim Award. This Fall, the PBS short film, Promised Land, in which Noah starred will be released, and he will
originate the role of Pippin in The Great American Mousical (Goodspeed Opera House) conceived and directed by Julie Andrews.
Alexander Gemigniani appeared on Broadway in Les Misérables (Valjean, Drama League nomination), Sweeney Todd
(Beadle, Drama Desk nomination), Assassins (Hinckley, Theatre World Award), The People In The Picture (Moishe), Sunday in
the Park With George (Boatman/Dennis). Off-Broadway: Road Show at the Public (Addison Mizner, Drama League
nomination) and Avenue Q (Brian). Concerts: Sondheim! The Birthday Concert with The N.Y. Philharmonic at Avery Fisher
Hall, The N.Y. Pops at Carnegie Hall and The L.A. Philharmonic at The Hollywood Bowl. TV/Film: Homeland, The Good
Wife, Empire State (pilot), Passion (Live From Lincoln Center), South Pacific (Great Performances) and the film The Producers.
His solo show, All At Once, premiered at the Kennedy Center as a part of Barbara Cook’s Spotlight Series in 2011.
Zina Goldrich (along with lyricist Marcy Heisler) was honored with the 2009 Fred Ebb Award for excellence in songwriting.
She is currently working on the musical adaptation of Ever After, with director Kathleen Marshall, which will open on
Broadway in 2013. Her score for The Great American Mousical, directed by Julie Andrews and choreographed by
Christopher Gattelli will debut at Goodspeed’s Norma Terrace Theatre this November. She earned a Drama Desk Nomination
for Best Music for her work on the off-Broadway show Dear Edwina, which has had three successful Off-Broadway runs at the
DR2 Theatre. She also composed the score for Junie B. Jones, which was nominated for the Lucille Lortel Award and tours
nationwide. She composed the score of Snow White, Rose Red (and Fred) for the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C, which
was nominated for three Helen Hayes Awards. She has composed for numerous television shows, including Wonderpets for
Nickelodeon, Johnny and the Sprites and Pooh’s Learning Adventures for Disney and Third and Bird for the BBC. She has also
been a staff songwriter for Walt Disney Feature Animation. With Heisler, she is writing the score for Freakin’ Fabulous, a new
musical with book by stylemaker Clinton Kelly, from TLC’s What Not To Wear. Other scores include Allison Under the
Stars and Adventures in Love, which premiered at St. Paul’s Ordway Theatre. She studied under Jerry Goldsmith at the USC
Scoring for Motion Picture and Television program. She is the reci-pient of ASCAP’s Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award, the
Seldes-Kanin Fellowship, a Jonathan Larson grant and numerous scholarships. Goldrich has played keyboards on Broadway
for Avenue Q, Bombay Dreams, Oklahoma! and Titanic, where she also conducted. She has published Goldrich and Heisler:
Songbook Volume 1 (now in its fifth printing), Goldrich and Heisler Songbook Volume 2, and has recorded the album Marcy
and Zina: The Album for Yellow Sound Label.
Marcy Heisler has been writing lyrics since 1989. She received the Kleban Prize this June for most promising theatre lyricist,
and the Fred Ebb Award in 2009 for outstanding songwriting (with longtime composing partner Zina Goldrich). Marcy is the
bookwriter and lyricist of TWUSA/Off-Broadway’s Junie B Jones, nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award in the category of Best
Musical, and is also the co-creator of Dear Edwina, which played Off-Broadway for three seasons at Daryl Roth’s DR2 theatre,
received Drama Desk nominations for Best Music and Best Lyrics and is currently licensed by Music Theatre International. Also
licensed by MTI is her Helen Hayes Award-nominated musical farce Snow White, Rose Red (and Fred), commissioned by the
John F Kennedy Center for their 2010 season. Among her and Goldrich’s musicals currently in development are an adaptation
of the 1998 film Ever After in collaboration with director Kathleen Marshall, Screaming Like A Fool, a collection of romantic
comedy songs, and The Great American Mousical, written with bookwriter Hunter Bell, premiering in November at Goodspeed
Opera House’s Norma Terris Theatre. The production will be directed by Julie Andrews, choreographed by Christopher Gatelli and
designed by Tony Walton.
Gwen Hollander’s favorite credits include Broadway/Tour of Little Women (Amy, Carbonell Award), National Tour of 101
Dalmatians, directed by Jerry Zaks (Perdita), Les Miserábles (Eponine, Carbonell Award), Avenue Q (Kate Monster/Lucy T.
Slut), 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Olive), Legally Blonde (Margot), Urinetown (Hope), Footloose (Rusty) at Cape
Playhouse and North Shore Music Theatre, Great American Trailer Park Musical (Pickles), Beauty and the Beast (Belle), the
premiere of See Rock City and Other Destinations at Barrington Stage, and a recent reading of the Broadway bound new
musical Ever After, directed by Kathleen Marshall. TV/Web: “From Earth to the Moon” (Tom Hanks, HBO), Nickelodeon’s
The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo, and the webseries “Acting School Academy.”
David Javerbaum is an 11-time Emmy Award winner for his work as writer, head writer and executive producer of The Daily
Show with Jon Stewart. He was the co-author of its two best-selling books America (The Book) and Earth (The Book), and is
the ghostwriter of last year’s The Last Testament: A Memoir by God. His work in musical theater includes writing the lyrics for
the 2008 Broadway show Cry-Baby, and his Emmy-nominated opening song for the 2011 Tony Awards, “Broadway: It’s Not
Just for Gays Anymore.” His hobbies include the succinct encapsulation of his achievements.
Together with Kellen Blair, Joe Kinosian created the musical Murder For Two, which, after developmental productions at the
Adirondack Theatre Festival and 42nd St. Moon in San Francisco, went on to a record-breaking run of 171 performances at
Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Murder For Two received the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Musical, and Joe was
honored with a nomination for Best Leading Actor. Joe and Kellen recently performed a solo show at the Kennedy Center, as
well as being featured in the most recent Bound for Broadway concert here at Merkin Hall. Joe has received an ASCAPlus
Award, and, through the BMI Foundation, the Jerry Harrington Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement. NY: Dear
Edwina (DR2), The Hudsucker Proxy (Manhattan Theater Club), Beatsville (National Alliance for Musical Theatre).
Regional: Dirty Blonde with Emily Skinner (Hangar Theater), Of Mice & Manhattan (Kennedy Center).
Martin
Landry’s
Off-Broadway
credits
are Twilight:
The
Musical (Aro/Asst.
MD),
Dear
Edwina (Joe
Spoonapple/Pianist/Conductor),Brunch-The Musical (Chef/MD) and The Ohmies (TiDo/MD) as well as the upcoming
musical Son of a Gun on Theatre Row. He also appeared in the world premiere of Of Mice and Manhattan at the Kennedy
Center, debuting previously unheard Frank Loesser songs. Other theatrical credits include L.M. in Pump Boys and
Dinettes, Smudge in Forever Plaid, Cinderella’s Prince/Wolf in Into the Woods, Nick Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
and Officer Lockstock in Urinetown. Additionally, Martin is a published composer/lyricist, and a member of the BMI Lehman
Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. For Janice, always.
Janice Mays Landry has appeared Off-Broadway in National Pastime (Karen) and Dear Edwina (Edwina). Other credits
include The Irish...And How They Got That Way, Ocean In A Teacup, Southern Rain, Beauty and The Beast, Dr. Faustus
and The Madwoman of Chaillot. TV/film: Good Morning America, Guiding Light and Sunday to Sunday. Much love to Martin!
Ken Marks has been performing in and around NYC and beyond for almost 30 years. He made his Broadway debut in
1992 as Michael in the Tony Award Winning Dancing at Lughnasa. Also on Broadway: Hairspray (Wilbur Turnblad, opposite
Harvey Fierstein), Present Laughter, Mamma Mia! (Bill Austin, original cast), Spring Awakening, Arthur Miller’s The Fall and
Tom Stoppard’s Rock and Roll. Currently he plays Uncle Ben, the role he originated in Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. OffBroadway: Editor Webb in the recent Our Town (Barrow Street Theatre), Laurence Olivier in Orson’s Shadow (Barrow Street),
Stuff Happens (Public Theater, Drama Desk Award for Best Ensemble), Henry V (NYSF), The Internationalist (Vineyard), When
They Speak of Rita (Primary Stages), Bright Lights, Big City (NYTW), A Bright Room Called Day (NYSF), Little Fish (Second
Stage). Regional work at the Guthrie, Long Wharf, Seattle Rep, McCarter, ACT, Mark Taper, Actors Theatre of Louisville and
others.
Brendan Millburn is a keyboardist, singer, arranger, record producer, writer of musical theater and stay-at-home dad
whenever possible. From adolescence through his late twenties, he vacillated wildly between playing in a rock band (GrooveLily)
and pursuing a musical theatre writing career. Born out of necessity, Striking 12, a concert with a story for GrooveLily to perform
(Off-Broadway 2006, Lucille Lortel Nomination for Outstanding Musical, Bay Area Theatre Critic’s Choice Award) was the
point where these parallel pursuits converged, and its success has led to other regional theatre work: Toy Story The Musical
(Disney); Sleeping Beauty Wakes (Deaf West Theatre/Center Theatre Group/McCarter Theatre/La Jolla Playhouse, Ovation
Award for Best World Premiere Musical); Wheelhouse, the second GrooveLily concert-musical (TheatreWorks of Silicon Valley);
Long Story Short (City Theatre of Pittsburgh/TheatreWorks of Silicon Valley/San Diego Rep); A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(McCarter Theatre/Paper Mill Playhouse); Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (commissioned by Theatre-Works of Silicon Valley/La
Jolla Playhouse); Beautiful Poison (5th Avenue Theatre, in development); Watt?!? (w/ David Javerbaum); The Behavior of
Broadus (w/The Burglars of Hamm). In addition, Brendan and his wife and collaborator Valerie Vigoda have written many
songs for Disney films: Tinker Bell & The Lost Treasure, Tinker Bell & The Great Fairy Rescue, Tinker Bell & The Pixie Hollow
Games (2011 Annie Award nomination for Music in a Television Production), The Secret of The Wings, Planes 2, Quest for
the Queen. Brendan and Valerie are the proud recipients of the Jonathan Larson Award (2006 and 2008), and the ASCAP
Foundation Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award (2009).
Jeremy Morse is excited to be a part of Rocket Science in this year’s Bound for Broadway concert. Drama Desk Nomination
for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance as Lo Cocodrilo/Hick in Joe Iconis’s Bloodsong of Love at Ars
Nova. Recent credits: The Trouble With Doug (Doug) at TheatreWorks Palo Alto; North Carolina Theatre: Hello Dolly!
(Barnaby). Gateway Playhouse: Spamalot (Patsy). Barring-ton: Ridiculously Talented…, Joe Iconis & Family, The Niko Songbook
and Hellraisers. John W. Engeman: Camelot (Mordred), Damn Yankees (Rocky), A Wonderful Life (Ernie/Dance Capt).
Ogunquit: My Fair Lady. Much thanks to Steve, Jason and Sean! NYU Steinhardt.
Leah Napolin (Book, The Dogs of Pripyat) made her Broadway playwrighting debut in 1975 with Yentl, produced by Cheryl
Crawford and the Chelsea Theatre Center. In 2003, Yentl returned to New York for a successful run at the Folksbiene Yiddish
Theater, and in 2012 The Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, Florida finished a successful three-month run of Yentl, with
contemporary music by Jill Sobule. In 1979, Ms. Napolin completed her second play, Lost Island, about monks and nuns in
the eleventh century, followed by Trash and Treasures (1981), Aristophanes’ Retreat (1985), Split at the Root, a Novel in
Three Acts (2010) and Twister (2011). She is a member of P.E.N. and the Dramatists Guild, and the winner of the John
Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award for The Dogs of Pripyat (2004).
Lea Nardi’s regional appearances include Play-house on Park’s Company (April), and Goodspeed Festival of New Artists The
Dogs of Pripyat (Bublik). Educational: Time After Time (Amy), Pippin (Catherine), Summer of ‘42 (Aggie) and Into the Woods (Little
Red Ridinghood). Lea is a recent graduate of The Hartt School where she received a BFA in Musical Theatre.
As an actor, Adam Overett has appeared on Broadway in The Light in the Piazza (Fabrizio, Giuseppe u/s), on national tour
in The Light in the Piazza (Fabrizio u/s and perf.) and Dirty Dancing (Neil Kellerman) and in many other productions
throughout NYC and the U.S. Composer/lyricist/bookwriter: Popesical (deve-lopmental workshop at the Lyric Theatre in Los
Angeles), My Life Is A Musical, Dramatists Guild Fellow 2010-11, Call It Courage, based on Armstrong Sperry’s novel (Zach
Theatre, Austin, TX) and other works. Co-writer of We The People: America Rocks! (2011 Lortel nominee, Best Off-B’way
Musical.) BMI Musical Theatre Workshop (Harrington Award). B.A., Yale University.
Larry Pressgrove was music director/arranger for the Tony-nominated [title of show] for its premier at the Vineyard and on
Broadway. He is music director/arranger for the most recent collaboration by that team – Now. Here. This which premiered at
the Vineyard in April, 2012. He was music director/arranger for Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas at Goodspeed Opera
House with Christopher Gatelli as director and was music director for Cats (Broadway) and Les Misérables (national tour).
He conducted Colm Wilkinson’s last staged performance of Les Misérables in Shanghai. With playwright/lyricist Rachel
Lampert, he composed the scores for The Angle of the Sun (NYMF 2007) and Waiting for Spring which premiered at the
Kitchen Theater in Ithaca last spring. He is currently Music Director at La Guardia High School of Music and Performing Arts.
Jason Rhyne is a recipient of a Jonathan Larson grant for his work as a composer-lyricist, and wrote the lyrics for a musical
adaptation of the HBO film Rocket Science (music by Stephen Weiner, book by Patricia Cotter), which was awarded a 2010
Richard Rodgers Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Rocket Science has received staged readings at
Playwrights Horizons (director, Kathleen Marshall), the Village Theatre and the LA Festival of New American Musicals. Other
credits include music and lyrics for the The MacGuffin, presented at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, and book, music
and lyrics for an adaptation of the children’s novel Littlejim. Jason is an alumnus of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop and a
member of ASCAP.
Aaron Riesebeck was most recently seen as Henry in Theatreworks USA’s Henry and Mudge.Other credits include Pete in
Academy (DIMF, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, The York Theatre), Mickey in Sky Boys, as well as various workshops and readings in
NYC. A proud member of AEA. Love to Mom, Dad, Christina, Stef, Andy, Holden and Maddie.
William Ryall is currently appearing on Broad-way in Chaplin. Other credits include Anything Goes, Guys and Dolls, How The
Grinch Stole Christmas, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Seussical, High Society, How to Succeed…, Grand Hotel, Whorehouse Goes Public,
Me and My Girl, Amadeus and Chess (in concert). NYC Opera: Most Happy Fella. National Tours: Phantom of the Opera, Some
Like It Hot, On Your Toes, Grand Hotel, South Pacific, Evita, My One And Only, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Television
Credits include One Life to Live, Another World, Oz, Dellaventura, The Equalizer, The Rosie O’Donnell Show and the 1987,
1990, 1995, 2009 and 2011 Tony Awards Broadcasts. American Academy Of Dramatic Arts Graduate.
Kristin Tarczynski has appeared in reg-ional theater in Hartford Stage Company’s A Christmas Carol (Rats Ghost/Nichola),
Goodspeed Musical’s Festival of New Artists 2012 and The Dogs of Pripyat (Sofya). Educational: Pippin (Fastrada), Ah,
Wilderness! (Belle), Children of Eden (Snake/Ensemble), Oklahoma! (Ensemble) and more. Kristin is a 2012 graduate of The
Hartt School with a BFA in Music Theatre.
Barbara Walsh’s credits on Broadway include Falsettos (Tony, Drama Desk nominations, LA Ovation Award), Company
(Drama Desk nomination, PBS Great Performances), Hair-spray, Big, Blood Brothers, Nine, Rock ‘n Roll: the first 5,000 years,
and Ragtime (Mother, Chicago company). Off-Broadway: 1,000 Words Come to Mind, Normal, Birds of Paradise, Reading
Under The Influence and Forbidden Broadway. Regional: Master Class, Grey Gardens, A Little Night Music, Creating Claire, 33
Variations, Dinner With Friends, The Sisters Rosensweig and A Streetcar Named Desire. Film and television: Life With Mikey,
Law & Order and One Life to Live. Married to director Jack Cummings III.
Steven Weiner wrote the music for the up-coming world premiere of The Honeymooners (Lyrics by Peter Mills, Book by Bill
Nuss & Dusty Kay), directed by Jerry Mitchell. Off Broadway, regional and workshop: Iron Curtain, Once Upon A Time In New
Jersey, newyorkers, Rocket Science, The Hudsucker Proxy and Spittin’ Image. In the works: The Revels, based on the 1775
play The Rivals with book and lyrics by Peter Kellogg. He is a two-time Richard Rodgers Award winner, recipient of the
Jonathan Larson Award, ASCAP New Horizons Award and New York Innovative Theater Award. He has also received
Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk and Obie nominations. Dramatists Guild and ASCAP member.
Jason “SweetTooth” Williams has been seen in Bloodsong of Love (ars Nova), The Black Suits (SPF-The Public Theater),
ReWrite (Urban Stages), The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks (theatreworksUSA) Things to Ruin (2nd Stage) and Mac Wellman’s
Harm’s Way (newFangled theatReR). He just returned from TheatreWorks, Palo Alto, where he was seen in The Trouble With
Doug. BFA Acting degree from Emerson College. AEA
Keith White was last seen with the dogs at the Goodspeed Opera House earlier this year where he played Strelka. He is a
recent graduate of The Boston Conservatory with a B.F.A in Musical Theatre. Thanks to Aron and Jill for creating this
awesome show and to the Dosve for the laughs and the love.