BACKSTAGE AT THE NYMF 2005 PRODUCTION

	THE CREATIVE TEAM
	BETH BLATT (Librettist, Lyricist) has written for stage, TV, radio and print in the US and abroad. In 2003, she received the Georgia Bogardus Holof Lyricist Award from the O'Neill Musical Theatre Conference, where she and composer Jenny Giering were in residence. Other awards: The Dramatists Guild of America fellowship (as lyricist and playwright, 2002); 2econd Stage Theatre Klinsky (2001); and the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation grant (2000). The team's musical version of Island of the Blue Dolphins recently finished a successful two-year tour for TheatreWorks USA.
	JENNY GIERING (Composer) was the 2003 Clifton Artist in Residence at Harvard, and has won the Klinsky Prize from 2econd Stage Theatre, the Larson & Loewe Awards and the National Art Song Competition. Credits: The Audience (Transport Group - Drama Desk Nom.), Songs for an Unmade Bed (lyrics by Mark Campbell) at NYTW. Her one-act Still Life (book and lyrics by Emmy-Award winner David Javerbaum) had a run in November 2003 at the Bridewell Theatre in London. Jenny's song "I Follow" appears on Audra McDonald's debut release Way Back to Paradise (Elecktra/Nonesuch Records).
	JOE CALARCO (Director) Off Broadway: Shakespeare's R&J (adaptor/director- Lucille Lortel Award); Sarah, Plain and Tall; The Summer of the Swans; in the absence of spring (writer/director- Second Stage, included in Best Stage Scenes of 2004); Boy (Primary Stages). West End London: Shakespeare's R&J (Evening Standard Award honorable mention). Regional: Signature Theatre- Side Show (Helen Hayes Award); Nijinsky's Last Dance (Helen Hayes Award); Elegies; in the absence of spring (world premiere); Urinetown (currently running.) Philadelphia Theatre Company- The Last Five Years (Barrymore Award), Elegies (Barrymore nom.); The Shakespeare Theatre- A Midsummer Night's Dream; Chicago Shakespeare Theatre- R&J (Jeff nomination); Folger Theatre- R&J (Helen Hayes nomination); The Hangar- My Fair Lady; Of Mice and Men; Edward II. Recent: Twice Charmed for Disney Creative Entertainment. Drama League Directing Fellow. Visit Joe Calarco's website at http://www.joecalarco.net
	JAMES SAMPLINER (Music Director) B’way: BKLYN: The Musical (Music Director/Conductor), Never Gonna Dance (Assoc. Cond./Arranger). Off-B’way: Ghetto Superstar (Music Supervisor/Orchestrator), Radiant Baby (NYSF). Williamstown: Cabaret & Main, The Threepenny Opera, Where’s Charley?, Tonight at 8:30, Quark Victory, The Mistress Cycle, late-night cabaret series. Regional: Most Wanted (Sundance) Ghetto Superstar (City Theater – Pittsburgh). Arranger/Conductor: Billy Porter, Laura Benanti, Sara Ramirez, Carol Woods, Janine LaManna. Composer: King Stag (dir. Carolyn Cantor, WTF), The Skin of Our Teeth, Camino Real (dir. Phil Soltanoff, Skidmore). Recordings: BKLYN The Musical – Live!, At The Corner of Broadway and Soul (Billy Porter). Upcoming: Music Director/Conductor for The Wedding Singer (B’way).
	MICHAEL FAGIN (Scenic Designer) Recent work includes: Judith Jamison's newest ballet for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Boy (Primary Stages), Shakespeare's R&J in London's West End , Nijinsky's Last Dance (Berkshire Theatre Festival), The Last Five Years (Philadelphia Theatre Company). Other New York work includes: Sarah, Plain & Tall (Lucille Lortel Theatre), …in the absence of spring… (Second Stage), Circumference of a Squirrel (Urban Stages), David Auburn's Skyscraper (Greenwich House Theatre). UK: Hotmouth (Saddlers Wells Peacock in London's West End), R&J (Bath Shakespeare Festival UK Tour & Tokyo). US Regional: A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Shakespeare Theatre, Washington D.C.), Art at Syracuse Stage, Stop Kiss (Geva), Four Dogs and a Bone (Berkshire Theatre Festival). Mr. Fagin's work has also been seen at the Hangar Theatre, Capitol City Opera, Riverside Opera, Hartford Theatre Works, Barrington Stage Company, Santa Fe Stages, & Stages St. Louis. Mr. Fagin has also served as production designer for numerous film and television projects.
	ANNE KENNEDY (Costume Designer) recently designed costumes for the Off-Broadway productions of Slut (ATA Theatre); The Mistress Cycle (NYMF); Walk Two Moons (Theatreworks/USA); and the regional productions of Urinetown and Pacific Overtures (Signature Theatre); Elegies (Philadelphia Theatre Co.); The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? (Arena Stage); and Clean House (Woolly Mammoth). She is a Signature Theatre Artistic Associate where her designs include The Highest Yellow, Twentieth Century, Grand Hotel, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Floyd Collins, Sweeney Todd, Over and Over, A Little Night Music, as well as Side Show and The Fix which earned her Helen Hayes nominations.
	CHRIS LEE (Lighting Designer) Broadway/West End: Linda Eder Live At The Gershwin (Broadway), Shakespeare’s R&J (Tokyo & London). Off-Broadway: Under The Bridge, Boy, Broadway Bares VI – XIV, …in the absence of spring…,The Notebook, Sarah Plain And Tall, The Summer Of The Swans, Skyscraper, Cloud Nine, Linda Eder at Carnegie Hall, Once In A Lifetime. Regional: Urinetown, Elegies: A Song Cycle, The Last Five Years, One Red Flower, Follies, Hedwig And The Angry Inch, Grand Hotel, Sideshow, Rosemary And I, The Tin Pan Alley Rag, I Am My Own Wife, Of Mice And Men, My Fair Lady, Dames At Sea, Four Dogs and a Bone, and Three Viewings. Other: Jesus Christ Superstar (European Tour), Born To Sing (National Tour), Twice Charmed and Remember The Magic for Disney Creative Entertainment, the feature film Camp, and a design associate with Imagination (USA) Ltd... Mr. Lee has been nominated for two Helen Hayes, two Barrymore, and was a Joseph Papp Artist in Residence. Upcoming: Hurricane Aimee, and Barbie In Fairytopia.
	DENISE A. WILCOX (Stage Manager) is a graduate of Stephens College, receiving a B.F.A. in Theatrical Production and Design in 1998. Stonington Opera House: Dracula, The Covenant. Hunger Artists, Colorado: WAR and Much Ado About Nothing. Production Stage Manager for the Arizona Black Theatre Troupe: Mama, I Want to Sing, Once on this Island and The Jazz Singer. Okoboji Summer Theatre: Hello Dolly, Nunsense, The Apple Tree, The Miracle Worker, Cheaper by the Dozen, Painting Churches and Sound Design for You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown and To Kill a Mockingbird. Production Assistant: Summer of ‘42 (Broadway)
	AWOL THEATRE PROJECT - ARTISTS WITHOUT LIMITS (Producer) Under the leadership of David Southerland, is a not-for-profit organization committed to eliminating the many limitations facing theatre artists of all kinds as they create and develop their craft. Through a series of programs designed to spotlight and promote both new works and new theatre artists, AWOL Theatre Project is dedicated to providing support and creative opportunities for these artists as well as exposing them to new audiences and fostering a public appreciation of their work. The first program established by AWOL is their Musicals in Development (MID) Series, which was created specifically to support emerging and undiscovered music theatre writers in the development process by selecting works of particular promise and presenting them in professional readings and workshops. AWOL's first two MID Series projects, The Mistress Cycle and The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World will both be presented at this year's NYMF.
web:	www.AWOLProject.org
e-mail:	DSoutherland@awolproject.org
	PENNEYSEAL PRODUCTIONS (Producer) Co-founded by Laura Penney and Jane Abramson, recent projects include Carlos Murillo's Mimesophobia (or before and after) (dir. Matt August, Summer Play Festival 2005); Dreams This Way: The Best of Raw Impressions Music Theatre (dir. by Daniella Topol, NYMF 2004 and TADA! Theatre); Karen Hartman's Anatomy 1968 (dir. Lisa Rothe, Summer Play Festival 2004); Michael D. Cohen's The End of You (dir. Sarah Gurfield, Lion Theatre); Deirdre ("Best of Festival" Producer's Prize, Daniel Marshall Award Winner; 4th Annual TRU Voices New Musicals Reading Series); Slut (FringeNYC 2003); 2005 TRU Voices New Plays Reading Series; Lark Play Development Center's 11th Annual Playwrights' Week; and several Raw Impressions Musical Theatre events. With Raw Impressions' film division, PenneySeal has produced two short films: the thriller Friends Like These (by Geoff Kirsch and Jason Reich, dir. Evan Greenberg) and the movie musical Free Fall (by David Simpatico and Jeff Blumenkrantz, dir. Lonny Price). By day, Jane is the Production Coordinator for The Lion King at Disney Theatrical Productions. Laura is a graduate of the Commercial Theater Institute.
	VAN HILL ENTERTAINMENT (Producer) Co-founded by Van Dean and Hillary Cutter, current and upcoming projects include the new musical A Rose in Winter (book, music and lyrics by Van Dean, Spring 2006) and involvement in Once Around The Sun (dir. Jace Alexander, The Zipper Theater, Off-Broadway). Cutter's recent projects as Associate Producer include the Obie Award Winning play Gone Missing (The Civilians: The Belt Theater NYC, The Gate Theatre London); Nobody's Lunch; Question Love (2004 Fringe Festival) and with WET (Women's Expressive Theater), St. Scarlet (Ontological Theater) and Scab (Greenwich Street Theater). Cutter is also a producer for television and film. Dean is currently writing the book, music and lyrics for The Eyes Of Midnight. In 1995, he wrote new lyrics and arrangements of the Rodgers and Hart song, "Dear Old Syracuse" for Syracuse University's 125th Anniversary Celebration hosted by Dick Clark at the Carrier Dome stadium. Other past projects include composing the quintet "Stolen Youth" and contributing a song to Tada! Theater's musical review Everything About School (Almost). Dean has acted as a studio consultant for several Broadway composers and serves on the advisory board for AWOL (Artists Without Limits). Dean and Cutter are both graduates of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.
web:	www.VanHillEntertainment.com