The following Broadway Teaching Artists have participated in the Broadway Teachers Workshop

Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Schwartz
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Michael Mayer
Tom Kitt
Alice Ripley
Jeanine Tesori
Jerry Mitchell
Jonathan Groff
Lea Michele
Kimberly Grigsby
Marcia Norman
Larry O'Keefe
Nell Benjamin
Paul Gemignani
John Tartaglia
David Auburn
Chris Gattelli
Walter Bobbie
Ken Billington
Kathleen Marshall
Jeffrey Seller
Kevin McCollum
Bob Martin
Robert Lopez
Stephen Flaherty
Lynn Ahrens
Jo Sullivan Loesser
Patrick Healy
William Ivey Long
Brian MacDevitt
David Loud
Marcia Milgrom Dodge
Craig Carnelia
Joe DiPietro
Jason Robert Brown

 

 

Stephen Sondheim wrote the music and lyrics for Road Show (2008)/Bounce (2003), Passion (1994), Assassins (1991), Into the Woods (1987), Sunday in the Park with George (1984), Merrily We Roll Along (1981), Sweeney Todd (1979), Pacific Overtures (1976), The Frogs (1974), A Little Night Music (1973), Follies (1971, revised in London, 1987), Company(1970), Anyone Can Whistle (1964), and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), as well as lyrics for West Side Story(1957), Gypsy (1959), Do I Hear A Waltz? (1965), and additional lyrics for Candide (1973). Side by Side by Sondheim (1976), Marry Me A Little (1981), You're Gonna Love Tomorrow (1983), and Putting It Together (1992) are anthologies of this work as a composer and lyricist.

For films, he composed the scores of Stavisky (1974) and Reds (1981) and songs for Dick Tracy (1990), for which he won an Academy Award. He also wrote songs for the television production "Evening Primrose" (1966), co-authored the film The Last of Sheila (1973) and the play Getting Away With Murder (1996), and provided incidental music for the plays The Girls of Summer (1956), Invitation to a March(1961), and Twigs (1971).

He won Tony Awards for Best Score for a Musical for Passion, Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, Follies, and Company. All of these shows won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, as did Pacific Overtures and Sunday in the Park with George , the latter also receiving the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1985).

Mr. Sondheim was born in 1930 and raised in New York City. He graduated from Williams College, winning the Hutchinson Prize for Music Composition, after which he studied theory and composition with Milton Babbitt. He is on the Council of the Dramatists Guild, the national association of playwrights, composers, and lyricists, having served as its president from 1973 to 1981, and in 1983 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1990 he was appointed the first Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Oxford University and in 1993 was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors.

 

 

Stephen Schwartz wrote the music and lyrics for WICKED, which opened in the fall of 2003 and is currently running on Broadway and around the world.

In 1971, he wrote music and lyrics for his first musical, GODSPELL, for which he won several awards including two Grammys. This was followed by the English texts, in collaboration with Leonard Bernstein, for Bernstein's MASS, which opened the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. The following year, he wrote the music and lyrics for PIPPIN and two years later, THE MAGIC SHOW. At one point, GODSPELL, PIPPIN, and THE MAGIC SHOW were all running on Broadway simultaneously.

He next wrote the music and lyrics for THE BAKER'S WIFE, followed by a musical version of Studs Terkel's WORKING, to which he contributed four songs, and which he also adapted and directed, winning the Drama Desk Award as best director. He also co-directed the television production, which was presented as part of the PBS "American Playhouse" series.

Next came songs for a one-act musical for children, CAPTAIN LOUIE, and a children's book, THE PERFECT PEACH. He then wrote music for three of the songs in the Off-Broadway revue, PERSONALS, lyrics to Charles Strouse's music for RAGS, and music and lyrics for CHILDREN OF EDEN.

He then began working in film, collaborating with composer Alan Menken on the scores for the Disney animated features POCAHONTAS, for which he received two Academy Awards and another Grammy, and THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME. He also provided songs for DreamWorks' first animated feature, THE PRINCE OF EGYPT, for which he won another Academy Award for the song "When You Believe".  Mr. Schwartz provided music and lyrics for the original television musical, GEPPETTO, seen on The Wonderful World of Disney. Recently, he released two CDs on which he sings new songs, entitled RELUCTANT PILGRIM and UNCHARTED TERRITORY.  Under the auspices of the ASCAP Foundation, he runs musical theatre workshops in New York and Los Angeles, and serves on the ASCAP board.  Mr. Schwartz is also the current President of the Dramatists' Guild.

 

Lin-Manuel Miranda won the 2008 Tony Award for Best Original Score for In the Heights. He wrote the first incarnation of In the Heights during his sophomore year at Wesleyan University, CT. Off-Broadway: In the Heights: nine Drama Desk nominations, including Best Music, Best Lyrics and won the award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance; the Lucille Lortel Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical; the Obie Award for Outstanding Music and Lyrics; a Theatre World Award for Outstanding Debut Performance and the Clarence Derwent Award, both for Mr. Miranda's performance. He is the recipient of the 2007 ASCAP Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award. TV/film: "House," "Modern Family," The Sopranos," "Sex and the City". A co-founding member of Freestyle Love Supreme, a hip-hop comedy group that tours comedy festivals all over the world.

 

 

Michael Mayer is the director of AMERICAN IDIOT, based on Green Day’s Album “American Idiot”. He studied acting at New York University, where he earned an MFA in Theater in 1983. He began performing onstage in New York City but by 1990 had turned his efforts to directing, working as a freelancer while also teaching at NYU, the Lincoln Center Theatre Institute, and Juilliard. In 2007, Mayer won his first Tony Award for his direction of the musical adaptation of SPRING AWAKENING (2006), which also took the award for Best Musical. He was nominated for the 2002 Tony for his direction of THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, which he then directed on London's West End. Mayer also won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical for both SPRING AWAKENING and THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE. Other Broadway credits include THE LION IN WINTER (1999), the 1999 revival of YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN, SIDE MAN (1998; Drama Desk Award), the 1998 Tony Award-winning revival of Arthur Miller's A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE starring Anthony LaPaglia and Brittany Murphy, for which he was nominated for a Tony and won the Drama Desk Award, and TRIUMPH OF LOVE, the musical starring Betty Buckley, Susan Egan and F. Murray Abraham, with music by Jeffrey Stock and lyrics by Susan Bikenhead. Mayer's off-Broadway directing credits include THE CREDEAUX CANVAS, John C. Russell's STUPID KIDS, Peter Hedges' BABY ANGER, Theresa Rebeck's VIEW OF THE DOME, and the New York premiere of Janusz Glowacki's ANTIGONE in New York. After directing on- and off-Broadway for more than 15 years, Mayer made his feature film directorial debut with A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD, starring Colin Farrell and Robin Wright Penn, in 2004. He went on to make the family film FLICKA (2006), an adaptation of the story My Friend Flicka, which became a hit in DVD market.

 

 

Tom Kitt is the composer of NEXT TO NORMAL, for which he won the 2009 Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Orchestrations. Prior to that, the show had successful productions at both Second Stage (Outer Critics Circle Award for Best New Score; Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Drama League nominations) and Arena Stage (nominated for five 2009 Helen Hayes Awards including Best Musical). He composed the music for HIGH FIDELITY (Broadway) and FROM UP HERE (MTC), and his original songs have been featured in film and TV. He recently created new orchestrations for the CTG/Deaf West production of PIPPIN. As a musical director, conductor and arranger (Broadway and Off-Broadway), shows include 13, HAIR, LAUGH WHORE, URBAN COWBOY and DEBBIE DOES DALLAS. Tom is also the musical supervisor/arranger/orchestrator for EVERYDAY RAPTURE at Second Stage, and his string arrangements will appear on the new Green Day album 21st Century Breakdown. He is the proud leader of The Tom Kitt Band (www.tomkittband.com)

 

 

Alice Ripley received Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Helen Hayes Award nominations for her performance in NEXT TO NORMAL. Original Broadway cast: Side Show (Drama Desk, Tony Award nominations), THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW, JAMES JOYCE'S THE DEAD, SUNSET BOULEVARD, THE WHO'S TOMMY. Off-Broadway/regional theatre: NEXT TO NORMAL, THE BAKERS WIFE, FIVE FLIGHTS, JAMES JOYCE'S THE DEAD, THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES, TELL ME ON A SUNDAY (Helen Hayes nomination), SHAKESPEARE IN HOLLYWOOD (Helen Hayes nomination), COMPANY (Helen Hayes nomination). Recordings: NEXT TO NORMAL; LITTLE FISH; SKINNER/RIPLEY: RAW AT TOWN HALL; SONDHEIM: THE STEPHEN SONDHEIM ALBUM; ELEGIES FOR ANGELS; PUNKS AND RAGING QUEENS; THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW; THE STEPHEN SCHWARTZ ALBUM; DUETS; UNSUSPECTING HEARTS; SIDE SHOW; THE WHO'S TOMMY. With her band RIPLEY, Alice has written and produced the albums Everything’s Fine, Ripley EP and Outtasite. Currently, Ms. Ripley is writing lyrics alongside composer Michael Roth for a work entitled LANDSCAPE THE TAR ROOF TREE, a performance piece for eight singer/actors.

Jeanine Tesori has written three Tony-nominated scores for Broadway: TWELFTH NIGHT at Lincoln Center, THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE (lyrics, Dick Scanlan), and CAROLINE, OR CHANGE (lyrics, Tony Kushner). The production of CAROLINE, OR CHANGE at the National Theater in London received the Olivier Award for Best New Musical. Her first off-Broadway musical, VIOLET, written with Brian Crawley, received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1997. She has been the recipient of many other honors including Drama Desk and Obie awards, and was cited by ASCAP as being the first woman composer to have "two new musicals running concurrently on Broadway." She composed the music for The New York Shakespeare Festival's production of BRECHT'S MOTHER COURAGE, as translated by Tony Kushner, starring Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline. She has written songs for the movie SHREK THE THIRD. Her film scores include NIGHTS IN RODANTHE, WINDS OF CHANGE, SHOW BUSINESS, and WRESTLING WITH ANGELS. She has composed songs for Disney DVD releases MULAN II, LILO AND STITCH II, and LITTLE MERMAID III. She has produced sixty CD's for Silver-Burdett Ginn's Making Music and the original cast albums for TWELFTH NIGHT, VIOLET and CAROLINE, OR CHANGE. Ms. Tesori, a graduate of Barnard College, lives in Manhattan with her husband, Michael Rafter, and daughter, Siena.

 

Jerry Mitchell directed the Broadway and West End hit musical, LEGALLY BLONDE, for which he also served as Choreographer, receiving 2007 Drama Desk and Tony Award nominations. He is choreographer of LOVE NEVER DIES, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s sequel to PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, which arrives on Broadway in 2011 as well as the new musical CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, which also arrives on Broadway next year. He received the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics' Circle Awards for his dazzling choreography created for the 2005 Tony Award-winning Best Revival of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, having also been nominated for the Tony Award in the same category for the current smash hit musical, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS. Previously, Jerry had received Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Astaire Award nominations for choreographing Broadway's Tony Award-winning HAIRSPRAY and Tony, Drama Desk and Astaire Award nominations for choreographing THE FULL MONTY, both shows having been directed by his cherished collaborator, Jack O'Brien. He began his choreographic career as associate choreographer to Michael Bennett on SCANDAL and Jerome Robbins on JEROME ROBBINS' BROADWAY.

Emmy-nominated for choreographing THE DREW CAREY SHOW, his memorable film work includes IN AND OUT, CAMP, DROP DEAD GORGEOUS and SCENT OF A WOMAN. For Broadway, Jerry also choreographed the hit revival of GYPSY, starring Bernadette Peters, which combined his own work with his recreation of Jerome Robbins' original, as well as NEVER GONNA DANCE, the first and only Broadway musical based on an Astaire/Rogers film, making him one of the only choreographers to ever have three Broadway musicals running simultaneously (a distinction which occurred yet again in 2005 with the simultaneous runs of HAIRSPRAY, LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, and DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS). Prior to those productions, Jerry choreographed the Broadway revivals of THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW (Drama Desk nomination) YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN, HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (on stage and film), the national tour of JEKYLL & HYDE, and Paper Mill Playhouse's critically acclaimed FOLLIES, featuring Ann Miller. Jerry proudly conceives, directs and choreographs BROADWAY BARES, a comedy burlesque performed annually for the charity Broadway Cares. He is also the director/choreographer of PEEPSHOW, a Las Vegas extravaganza production show currently playing at the Planet Hollywood Hotel.

 

 

Jonathan Groff received Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations for his performance as Melchior in Spring Awakening, a role he created Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company. Broadway: In My Life. Tours/Regional: The Sound of Music (Rolf), Fame (Nick Piazza), Bat Boy (Bat Boy), Honk! (Ugly)

 

 

 

Lea Michele made her Broadway debut in 1995 as a replacement in the role of Young Cosette in Les Misérables.  This was followed by the role of Tateh's daughter, the Little Girl, in the 1998 original Broadway cast of Ragtime.  In 2004, Michele played Sphritze in the Broadway revival of the musical Fiddler on the Roof.  She also sang on the 2003 Broadway revival cast recording of Fiddler on the Roof.  She played the role of Wendla in Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik's musical version of Spring Awakening, starring in early workshops and Off-Broadway and finally originating the role in the Broadway production in 2006 at the age of 20.  She was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for her performance in Spring Awakening in the category of Outstanding Actress in a Musical. Michele stars in the Fox television series Glee, where she plays the star singer of a high school glee club, Rachel Berry. She has won a Screen Actors Guild Award for outstanding ensemble performance and the 2009 Satellite Award for best actress.

 

 

Kimberly Grigsby is the music director for Julie Taymor and U2's upcoming Broadway musical SPIDERMAN, which is scheduled to open in February 2010 at the Hilton Theatre. She was conductor and music director of Broadway's SPRING AWAKENING (music by Duncan Sheik) and supervised the London production. She was also music director of Broadway's recent revival of GREASE. Music directing/conducting credits include, on Broadway, THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA (lyrics & music by Adam Guettel); CAROLINE OR CHANGE (music by Jeanine Tesori); THE FULL MONTY (music by David Yazbek); YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN and TWELFTH NIGHT (music by Jeanine Tesori); and Off-Broadway, SPRING AWAKENING (music by Duncan Sheik), TWO GENTLEMAN OF VERNONA (Shakespeare In the Park) ; SONGS FROM AN UNMADE BED (various composers, lyrics by Mark Campbell); JUNIE B. JONES (music by Zina Goldrich); THE IMMIGRANT (music by Steven Alper); RADIANT BABY (music by Debra Barsha); and TWELFTH NIGHT (music by Duncan Sheik). For her work on CAROLINE OR CHANGE in Los Angeles, she received the 2005 Los Angeles Drama Critics' Circle Award for Music Direction; and for The Philadelphia Theatre Company's production of ELEGIES (lyrics & music by William Finn) she received the 2005 Barrymore Award for Music Direction. Additional regional credits include FLOYD COLLINS (music by Adam Guettel) and THE FIRST PICTURE SHOW (music by Jeanine Tesori). Other collaborations include MY LIFE IS A FAIRY TALE and ORPHAN OF ZHAO, both with lyrics & music by Stephin Merritt for Lincoln Center Festival; LOVE'S FIRE (Adam Guettel); O PIONEERS! (Kim Sherman); FOOLS RUSH IN (Steve Marzullo); TELAIO: DESDEMONA (Susan Botti). Ms. Grigsby holds degrees from Southern Methodist University and Manhattan School of Music. 

 

 

Marcia Norman is the book writer for The Color Purple, which can be seen at the Broadway Theatre. She has won the Pulitzer Prize for her play, 'night, Mother and a Tony Award for her book of the Broadway musical, The Secret Garden. Ms. Norman is co-chair, with Christopher Durang, of the Playwriting Department of the Juilliard School and vice president of the Dramatists Guild of America. Her other plays include Getting Out, Traveler in the Dark, Sarah and Abraham, Trudy Blue and Last Dance. Her published work includes Four Plays, Vol. I: Collected Plays of Marsha Norman and a novel, The Fortune Teller. She has numerous film and TV credits, Grammy and Emmy nominations, and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the Fellowship of Southern Writers. She is a native of Kentucky who lives in New York City and Long Island with her two children.

 

Larry O'Keefe has had more than sixty productions of Bat Boy: The Musical produced nationwide. Larry wrote music and lyrics for Bat Boy, which began at the Actors' Gang in Los Angeles, won two Richard Rodgers Awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, was a hit Off-Broadway, and won the Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics' Circle Awards for Best Musical. Bat Boy went to England and the West End. Larry also won the 2001 ASCAP Richard Rodgers New Horizon Award for his music and lyrics. With Fool Moon clown David Shiner, Larry is writing music and lyrics and collaborating on book for Drop Everything, a new clown show/musical which will be workshopped at ACT in Seattle. David and Larry have performed parts of Drop Everything at the Tollwood Arts Festival in Munich and at the Lisbon Comedy Festival. Larry has written songs for The Cat in the Hat, The Daily Show, and other movies and television. But Larry's favorite gig is his ongoing collaboration with the brilliant lyricist/bookwriter Nell Benjamin (see above), with whom he has written Sarah, Plain And Tall, The Mice, Cam Jansen And The Curse Of The Emerald Elephant, and many miscellaneous pieces, including the notorious ?Sensitive Song, which was nominated for a MAC Award but was deemed "too filthy". Larry has been performing his songs in New York, Boston and elsewhere, headlining at the Duplex and at the King Kong Room at The Supper Club with the inappropriately titled Larry's Luau Lounge. In February 2004 he conducted the Harvard University Pops Orchestra in an evening of his songs, including the world premiere of his short opera The Magic Futon.
 

 

Nell Benjamin is the proud recipient of the 2003 Kleban Foundation Award for lyrics. Nell wrote lyrics for the musical Sarah, Plain And Tall (music by Laurence O'Keefe), which began as a children's musical for Theatreworks/USA, ran Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theater, and was developed into a full-length musical for general audiences at the 2003 Eugene O'Neill Music Theater Conference. The full-length version of Sarah was selected for the National Alliance for Musical Theater's 2003 conference. Meanwhile the children's version of Sarah continues to tour the country; a CD of the Lortel production is available from ShowBiz records. Nell also wrote lyrics for The Mice, one of three short musicals produced as 3hree by Harold Prince at the Prince Music Theater in Philadelphia, where it won the Barrymore Award for outstanding overall musical. 3hree was later produced at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles, where it was nominated for an Ovation Award. Nell continues her happy collaboration with award-winning composer Laurence O'Keefe. They are again working with Theatreworks/USA, writing book, music and lyrics for Cam Jansen And The Curse Of The Emerald Elephant, based on the popular series of children's books., They are also working on their new musical about love, jealousy and violence at a Renaissance Faire, tentatively titled Huzzah! and on several original movie musicals. Nell is writing the libretto to an original opera with composer Michael Roth, and has completed her first play.

Paul Gemignani musical directed more than 40 Broadway productions: Pal Joey; Follies; Pacific Overtures; Candide; A Little Night Music; Sweeney Todd; Evita; Dreamgirls; Merrily We Roll Along; Into the Woods; On the Twentieth Century; Sunday in the Park With George; Jerome Robbins’ Broadway; Crazy for You; Passion; High Society; Kiss Me, Kate; Assassins; Frogs; 110 in the Shade. Conducted: Follies (Philharmonic); “A Little Night Music” (PBS); “Celebration of the American Musical” (Great Performances); “Into the Woods,” “Sunday in the Park With George,” “Passion” (Showtime). Films:Kramer vs. Kramer, Reds, Eyewitness, Sweeney Todd. Awards: Tony Award (2001, Lifetime Achievement in Theatre), Drama Desk (1989) and L.A. Drama Critics Awards (1994). Grammy nominations: Passion; Crazy for You; and Kiss Me, Kate. Emmy Award (2006) for “South Pacific From Carnegie Hall” (PBS); Honorary Doctorate, Musical Arts (Manhattan School of Music). In 2011 he was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.

 

John Tartaglia earned a Tony Award® nomination for his performance in the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, AVENUE Q, for which he originated the roles of Princeton and Rod. Tartaglia was most recently seen on Broadway starring in SHREK, THE MUSICAL and as Lumiere in Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. He was executive producer and star of Disney Channel's "JOHNNY AND THE SPRITES". A 10-year veteran of "SESAME STREET," Tartaglia is one of the youngest puppeteers ever to perform on the show, starting at the age of 16. In addition to his work on "SESAME STREET," he also starred in Sesame Workshop's innovative English as a Foreign Language project, "SESAME ENGLISH," which currently airs worldwide. Tartaglia has also appeared on Disney Channel's "BEAR IN THE BIG BLUE HOUSE" and "JOJO'S CIRCUS" and Discovery Channel's "ANIMAL JAM." He is a past host of the New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts.

 

David Auburn's play Proof premiered at the Manhattan Theatre Club in May 2000, and opened at Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre on October 24, 2000. He is the recipient of the Guggenheim Foundation Grant, Helen Merrill Playwrighting Award, and Joseph Kesselring Prize for Drama. His other plays include: Skyscraper, performed at the Greenwich House and published by DPS; Fifth Planet, New York Stage and Film; Miss You, HBO Comedy Arts Festival; and The Next Life, Juilliard School. His work has been published in Harper's Magazine and The New England Review. He was a member of the Juilliard playwrighting program. 

Christopher Gattelli Broadway: SOUTH PACIFIC (Tony nomination, Outer Critics Circle nomination), SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, THE RITZ, MARTIN SHORT: FAME BECOMES ME, HIGH FIDELITY. West End: SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE. Off-Broadway: ALTAR BOYZ (Lortel, Callaway, Kevin Kline Awards, Drama Desk nom.), BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL! (LORTEL AWARD), TICK,TICK… BOOM!, 10 MILLION MILES, ADRIFT IN MACAO, I LOVE YOU BECAUSE, HOW TO SAVE THE WORLD… Favorites: SILENCE! THE MUSICAL (Best Musical Fringe 05), CHESS concert with Josh Groban, HAIR concert with Jennifer Hudson, “ROSIE O’DONNELL SHOW” (resident choreographer for three seasons). Upcoming: Jason Robert Brown’s 13, GODSPELL, ROMANTIC POETRY and directing the first Muppet musical JIM HENSON’S EMMET OTTER’S JUGBAND CHRISTMAS.

 

Walter Bobbie's direction of the international hit Chicago won him Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards. He is a three-time Tony nominee who directed the Broadway revival of Sweet Charity starring Christina Applegate, Twentieth Century starring Alec Baldwin and Anne Heche, High Fidelity, Footloose for which he also co-authored the book, and A Grand Night for Singing at the Roundabout, which he also conceived. Mr. Bobbie has also directed for the New York Shakespeare Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Sundance, the O'Neill Center, Goodspeed Opera House and Ensemble Studio Theatre where his production of David Ives' The Other Woman was the breakout hit of Marathon 2006. He is the former artistic director of Encores!, where he directed Fiorello, Chicago, Tenderloin and Golden Boy, and the Carnegie Hall concerts of Carousel starring Hugh Jackman and Audra McDonald and South Pacific starring Brian Stokes Mitchell and Reba McEntire, which was filmed for public television. Mr. Bobbie's stage adaptation of Irving Berlin's White Christmas grew to three separate productions in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Boston, and will celebrate its third season with productions in Minneapolis, Detroit and the United Kingdom. Mr. Bobbie is a member of the Executive Board of the Society Of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

 

 

Ken Billington started his career with the off-Broadway hit FORTUNE AND MEN'S EYES. Since then he has designed over 80 Broadway and 70 Off-Broadway shows including the current Broadway production of SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE and recent Broadway productions THE DROWSY CHAPERONE and RING OF FIRE in addition to CHICAGO, FAME, Lily Tomlin in THE SEARCH FOR SIGNS..., FOOTLOOSE, CANDIDE, ANNIE, FOXFIRE, TRU, SWEENEY TODD, SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM, ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, ANNIE WARBUCKS, SYLVIA, LONDON SUITE, and SNOOPY. His recent off-Broadway credits include NEW JERUSALEM, [TITLE OF SHOW], and THE NORMAL HEART. Other projects include Fantasmic! at Disneyland, JUBILEE! at Bally's Las Vegas, supervising RIVERDANCE and for 26 years the RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR. Ken is the recipient of the Tony, Drama Desk, Los Angeles Drama Critics, and Ace Awards and the Lumen for his architectural lighting. Ken is equally at home designing theatre, television, opera, concerts, and architectural lighting, and has been honored with six Tony Award nominations and received the 1997 Tony Award for his work on Chicago. His Tony nominations include END OF THE WORLD (1984), FOXFIRE (1982), SWEENEY TODD (1979), WORKING (1978) and THE VISIT (1973).

 

Kathleen Marshall’s Broadway credits include: directed and choreographed GREASE (2007 revival), THE PAJAMA GAME (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Awards for choreography; Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics nominations for direction; Tony for Best Revival of a Musical) and WONDERFUL TOWN (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics and Astaire Awards for choreography; Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics nominations for direction); choreographed LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS; FOLLIES (Roundabout; Outer Critics nomination); SEUSSICAL; KISS ME KATE (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics and Astaire nominations); RING ROUND THE MOON (Lincoln Center Theater); 1776 (Roundabout) and SWINGING ON A STAR (Drama Desk nomination). Off -Broadway: directed and choreographed TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA (New York Shakespeare Festival) and SATURDAY NIGHT (Second Stage); choreographed VIOLET (Playwright's Horizon) and AS THOUSANDS CHEER (Drama Dept). City Center Encores!: directed and choreographed APPLAUSE; 70, GIRLS, 70; HOUSE OF FLOWERS; CARNIVAL; HAIR; WONDERFUL TOWN and BABES IN ARMS; Artistic Director for four seasons. West End: choreographed KISS ME KATE (Olivier nomination). For ABC/Disney: directed and choreographed ONCE UPON A MATTRESS starring Carol Burnett and Tracey Ullman and choreographed Meredith Willson's THE MUSIC MAN starring Matthew Broderick (Emmy nomination). She has directed concerts for Kristin Chenoweth at many venues including the Metropolitan Opera House and Disney Concert Hall. She is on the Executive Board of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and is an Associate Artist of the Roundabout Theater Company. She has received the Pennsylvania Governor's Award for the Arts, the Richard Rodgers Award and the George Abbott Award.

 

 

Jeffrey Seller After graduating from the University of Michigan in 1986, Jeffrey moved to New York where he worked, over the next ten years, as a publicist, booking agent and producer. With business partner Kevin McCollum he produced Rent (1996), for which he won the Tony Award for Best Musical; De La Guarda (1998); Baz Luhrmann's production of Puccini's La Boheme (2002); and most recently Avenue Q, for which he also won the Tony Award for Best Musical.

 

 

Kevin McCollum is the producer of the Tony Award winning musicals Rent (1996) and Avenue Q (2004). In 1995 Mr. McCollum co-founded The Producing Office with Jeffrey Seller. The Producing Office is represented on Broadway by Rent, which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and is now a major motion picture, and Avenue Q. In 2002, Mr. McCollum produced Baz Luhrmann's Broadway production of Puccini's La Bohème, which won two Tony Awards. Prior to that, Mr. McCollum produced the Off-Broadway hit De La Guarda, which ran for six years. More recently he produced the debut stage production of Irving Berlin's White Christmas, High Fidelity, and the Off-Broadway hit [title of show]. Mr. McCollum is also currently producing The Drowsy Chaperone and In the Heights.

 

 

Bob Martin Canadian credits: The Drowsy Chaperone (Fringe of Toronto, Theatre Passe Muraille, Winter Garden); An Awkward Evening With Martin and Johnson; The Good Life; Creative Trust Gala (Princess of Wales Theatre); Skippy's Rangers (National Tour). Second City Toronto (Artistic Director 2003-04): Invasion Free Since 1812 (Director); Sordido Deluxo (Director); Old Wine, New Bottles; What Fresh Mel Is This?; Last Tango On Lombard; Tragically OHIP; Second City National Touring Company (Two National Tours). Film: Childstar; Last Night; Torso; Clubland. TV: Puppets Who Kill; Made in Canada; Burnt Toast; Getting Along Famously; Slings & Arrows. Regional: The Drowsy Chaperone (CTG Ahmanson). TV Writing: Slings & Arrows (Writer, Creative Producer); Made in Canada, Twitch City. Four Gemini nominations, four Canadian Comedy Awards, 2004 WGC Screenwriting Award for Slings & Arrows. Happily married to Janet Van De Graaff.

 

 

Robert Lopez is creator, composer and lyricist of the Broadway musical Avenue Q with collaborator Jeff Marx. Avenue Q won the 2004 Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Score, and a Grammy nomination for its Original Cast Album. Avenue Q opened on Broadway July 31, 2003 at the John Golden Theater, with additional productions in Las Vegas and London's West End. Lopez and Marx met in the famed BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop. Their very first project together, a spec Muppet movie, Kermit, Prince of Denmark, which was very loosely based on Hamlet, won them (as part of a tie) part of the $150,000 Kleban Award. They are currently working on an original movie musical for Universal Pictures, and a stage musical in collaboration with Matt Stone and Trey Parker, creators of South Park. Robert Lopez's musical version of Finding Nemo written in collaboration with his wife, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, will open at Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom Park in November 2006. He also collaborated with his brother, the NYC musician & poet Billy Lopez, on several episodes of Nickelodeon's hit series, The Wonder Pets. Lopez grew up in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. He attended Hunter College High School and received a B.A. in English from Yale University. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and their new daughter Katie (born March 25, 2005).

 

Ahrens & Flaherty
Lynn Ahrens Broadway: Lyrics, RAGTIME (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Score, two Grammy nominations); CHITA RIVERA: THE DANCER'S LIFE; MY FAVORITE YEAR (Lincoln Center Theatre); Book and lyrics: ONCE ON THIS ISLAND (Tony nominations for Best Book, Score and Musical, London's Olivier Award for Best Musical); SEUSSICAL (Grammy nomination); A CHRISTMAS CAROL (ten years at Madison Square Garden). Off-Broadway: Lyrics, A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE (Outer Critics Circle Award, Best Musical); Book and lyrics, LUCKY STIFF (Playwrights Horizons); DESSA ROSE (Lincoln Center Theatre); THE GLORIOUS ONES (Lincoln Center Theatre). Feature film: ANASTASIA (Twentieth Century Fox. Two Academy Award nominations, two Golden Globe nominations); CAMP (IFC). Television: TELEPLAY, A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Hallmark Entertainment, NBC); SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK and numerous other shows. (Emmy Award and four Emmy nominations.) Concert: WITH VOICES RAISED (Boston Pops); Audra McDonald's SEVEN DEADLY SINS (contributor). Publications: Tallgrass Literary Anthology, Narrative Magazine, American Theater Magazine, The Kenyon Review (forthcoming). Ms. Ahrens is a member of ASCAP and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, serves on the Dramatists Guild of America Council and co-chairs the Dramatists Guild Fellows Program for emerging writers. She has collaborated with Stephen Flaherty since 1983.

Stephen Flaherty is probably best known as the Tony Award-winning composer of the Broadway musical RAGTIME. His other music for Broadway includes the scores for the musicals ONCE ON THIS ISLAND, SEUSSICAL, MY FAVORITE YEAR, songs for CHITA RIVERA: THE DANCER'S LIFE, and incidental music for Neil Simon's PROPOSALS. He is also the composer of A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE and DESSA ROSE (both produced by Lincoln Center Theater), LUCKY STIFF, and LOVING REPEATING: A MUSICAL OF GERTRUDE STEIN, adapted from the works of Ms. Stein by Frank Galati. Film work includes ANASTASIA, for which Stephen received two Academy Award nominations, two Golden Globe nominations, and a gold record for its soundtrack. His concert work includes WITH VOICES RAISED (Boston Pops commission, Carnegie Hall performance), RAGTIME SYMPHONIC SUITE (Hollywood Bowl Orchestra), as well as commissions from Carnegie Hall and The Guggenheim Museum in New York City. As a performer, he made his Carnegie Hall in April 2007 with the New York Pops Orchestra, debuting a new song of his with the singer Anika Noni Rose. His numerous awards as a composer include the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Los Angeles Critics Circle, Chicago's Joseph Jefferson and London's Olivier Award. He has been nominated for the Grammy three times. He has enjoyed collaborating with lyricist/librettist Lynn Ahrens for over twenty years. Their latest musical, THE GLORIOUS ONES, will receive its New York premiere this fall at Lincoln Center Theatre.

Jo Sullivan Loesser became one of the musical theatre's most radiant stars with her legendary performance as Rosabella in the landmark Frank Loesser Broadway musical, The Most Happy Fella, and as Polly opposite Lotte Lenya in the long-running, classic New York production ofThe Threepenny Opera. At the pinnacle of her career, however, she married composer Frank Loesser and left the stage for 17 years, devoting herself to her husband and to raising their two daughters, Hannah and Emily. After his untimely death, she returned to performing in 1977. Since then, she has become instrumental in preserving and furthering her husband's great musical legacy. Jo toured the country in Guys & Dolls and The Most Happy Fella, co-produced and starred in the Broadway musical Perfectly Frank and starred Off-Broadway in I Hear Music...of Frank Loesser and Friends. She has overseen several hit Broadway revivals from the Loesser catalogue, including the record-breaking Guys and Dolls (1992) and How To Succeed in Business... (1995, 2011). Most recently, Guys and Dolls has become a smash hit once again, this time in London, starring Ewan McGregor. Jo has also appeared in concert with numerous major symphony orchestras across the country, most notably at Carnegie Hall and at the Kennedy Center.

 

 

Patrick Healy is the theater reporter for The New York Times, a position he has held since December 2008. Previously, Mr. Healy covered the 2008 presidential election and was the lead Times reporter covering Hillary Clinton's 18-month campaign. He joined The Times in January 2005 as a political reporter in the Metro section. In 2005 and 2006, he covered the campaigns of Mayor Bloomberg, Eliot Spitzer, Andrew Cuomo, and then-Senator Clinton. Before coming to The Times, Patrick was a reporter for the Boston Globe from 2000 until late 2004. While at The Globe he covered the presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry; spent several months in Afghanistan and in Iraq covering the wars there; and wrote on higher education in the Boston area and nationally. From 1994 until 2000, Patrick worked for The Chronicle of Higher Education, first as a reporter for government and politics and later as political editor. He was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting, for his higher education stories and investigations.

 

William Ivey Long is a five time Tony Award winning costume designer who currently has CHICAGO running on Broadway in its fourteenth year.

Other credits include NINE TO FIVE; PAL JOEY; The New Mel Brooks Musical: YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN; CURTAINS; GREY GARDENS (Tony Award); John Water’s HAIRSPRAY (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards); THE PRODUCERS (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards); THE BOY FROM OZ; TWENTIETH CENTURY; SWEET CHARITY; A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE; LA CAGE AUX FOLLES; THE FROGS; LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS; Susan Stroman’s DOUBLE FEATURE at the New York City Ballet; CABARET; NEVER GONNA DANCE; CONTACT (Hewes Award); THOU SHALT NOT; BIG; THE MUSIC MAN; ANNIE GET YOUR GUN; THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER; SWING; THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP; STEEL PIER; 1776; SMOKEY JOE’S CAFÉ; CRAZY FOR YOU (Tony, Outer Critics Circle Awards); GUYS AND DOLLS (Drama Desk Award); Madison Square Garden’s annual A CHRISTMAS CAROL; SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION; ASSASSINS (Obie Award); LEND ME A TENOR (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards); NINE (Tony, Drama Desk, Maharam Awards); Robert Wilson’s HAMLETMACHINE; Leonard Bernstein’s A QUIET PLACE and TROUBLE IN TAHITI; Vienna State Opera, LaScala, Houston Grand Opera, and the Kennedy Center; THE LOST COLONY; Mick Jagger for the Rolling Stones’ STEEL WHEELS tour; SIEGFRIED AND ROY at the Mirage Hotel; The Pointer Sisters at Caesar’s Palace, Paul Taylor; Twyla Tharp; Peter Martins; David Parsons.

Mr. Long has also designed costumes for such films as THE PRODUCERS: The Movie Musical, CURTAIN CALL (Starring Maggie Smith and Michael Caine); THE CUTTING EDGE; and LIFE WITH MICKEY.

A North Carolina native, Mr. Long holds a BA from The College of William and Mary, studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. Mr. Long has eleven Tony Award nominations for his work. He has also received The North Carolina Award for Fine Arts (November 2004), The Order of the Long Leaf Pine (2001), the Lifetime Achievement Award, Carolina Playmakers, U.N.C., Chapel Hill (1994), and the Morrison Award, Roanoke Island Historical Association.

 

Brian MacDevitt Born in New York and trained at Purchase College, Brian MacDevitt’ Broadway credits include FRANKIE AND JOHNNY IN THE CLAIRE DE LUNE, INTO THE WOODS (for which he won a Tony Award for Best Lighting Design), MORNINGS AT SEVEN, URINETOWN, THE WOMEN, MAJOR BARBARA (starring Cherry Jones), Neil Simon’s THE DINNER PARTY, A THOUSAND CLOWNS (starring Tom Selleck), INVENTION OF LOVE, JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG, TRUE WEST, THE RIDE DOWN MT. MORGAN (starring Patrick Stewart), NIGHT MUST FALL (starring Matthew Broderick), WAIT UNTIL DARK, THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, SIDE SHOW, Neil Simon’s PROPOSALS, MASTER CLASS, LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION!, PRESENT LAUGHTER (revival, starring Frank Langella), SEX AND LONGING, SUMMER AND SMOKE (revival) and WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?

MacDevitt’s credits also include productions for the New York Theatre Workshop, the Roundabout, Manhattan Theatre Club, Lincoln Center Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Joseph Papp Public Theatre, Classic Stage Company, Shakespeare in the Park, American Place Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Yale Repertory Theatre, among others.

In London, MacDevitt designed the lighting for OUR TOWN (with Alan Alda) and MASTER CLASS (with Patti LuPone); and the film THE CRADLE WILL ROCK (starring Vanessa Redgrave and Cherry Jones).

His work in the field of dance includes the lighting for works in the repertoires of such companies as Tere O’Connor Dance, Baryshnikov’s White Oak, Doug Varone Dance and Boston Ballet.

MacDevitt’s awards include the 1994 Obie for sustained excellence, Lucille Lortel Award for outstanding achievement in lighting design, three Los Angeles Ovation Awards, a Bessie Award (with Tere O’Connor) and three Drama Desk Award nominations. He is a faculty member at New York University’s Tisch School and SUNY Purchase.

ARTEMIS and HEREAFTER are MacDevitt’s third and fourth works for American Ballet Theatre since MEADOW (1999) and “…SMILE WITH MY HEART” (2002).

David Loud is the music director of SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM for the Roundabout Theatre Company, THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS by Kander and Ebb, directed by Susan Stroman for the Vineyard, and BAND GEEKS for Goodspeed Musicals. He was the music director for CURTAINS AND RAGTIME on Broadway as well as STEEL PIER, A CLASS ACT, THE LOOK OF LOVE and the revivals of SHE LOVES ME, COMPANY, THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE and SWEENEY TODD. Off- Broadway, he created the vocal and dance arrangements for AND THE WORLD GOES ’ROUND. Regional work includes the world premieres of Kander and Ebb’s THE VISIT and HAROLD AND MAUDE. He originated the role of Manny in Terrence McNally’s MASTER CLASS, and he made his Broadway debut in Harold Prince’s original 1981 production of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG. He is a graduate of Yale University.

 

Marcia Milgrom Dodge directed and choreographed this year's critically acclaimed Broadway revival of RAGTIME, which first premiered at the Kennedy Center in 2009. Her work has been seen throughout the United States, in Canada, Great Britain and South Korea. Other projects include: Seussical for Theatreworks-USA (Off-Broadway & National Tour, Lucille Lortel Award Nominations for Outstanding Choreography & Revival); Off-Broadway’s Cookin', Radio Gals, Closer Than Ever, Romance In Hard Times (NYSF), The Loman Family Picnic (MTC) and The Music Man at New York City Opera. For The Kennedy Center she also directed Tell Me On A Sunday (starring Alice Ripley) and choreographed Ken Ludwig's Sullivan & Gilbert. At Arena Stage Marcia choreographed Of Thee I Sing (Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Choreography), Merrily We Roll Along and On the Town. Marcia has directed many shows at Bay Street Theatre, Sacramento Music Circus, Riverside Theatre, Lyric Stage, Maltz-Jupiter, Pittsburgh Public, Goodman Theatre, Goodspeed, Huntington Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse and The Cape Playhouse. She has collaborated on new musicals and plays with Julie Andrews (Simeon's Gift), Rupert Holmes (Thumbs!), Jeffrey Hatcher (One Foot On The Floor), Robert Falls (Book of The Night and Riverview), William Bolcom (Casino Paradise) and Des McAnuff (Elmer Gantry). Marcia and her husband Anthony Dodge have written the books for two musicals: Look Homeward Honky Tonk Angel (with songs by Larry Gatlin) and Hats!. Their first play was the Edgar Award nominated Sherlock Holmes & The West End Horror. A proud board member of the Stage Directors & Choreographers Society, Marcia dedicates Ragtime to her beloved Tony & Natasha, all of her collaborators, students, assistants, colleagues, PJH, her entire family and everyone she's ever worked with! For more, please visit www.marciamilgromdodge.com.

 

Craig Carnelia has been teaching musical theater acting classes in New York for 18 years, drawing his students mostly from the Broadway community for his 20 hours of classroom work each week. He also travels extensively to universities around the country to teach master classes, and enjoys long, ongoing relationships with CCM and Northwestern.

As a songwriter in the theater, he has had four shows produced on Broadway. Working with composer Marvin Hamlisch, he wrote lyrics for SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS and IMAGINARY FRIENDS. Hamlisch and Carnelia received Drama Desk and Tony Award nominations for their score for SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS and Carnelia received a Drama Desk nomination for his lyrics for IMAGINARY FRIENDS. As both composer and lyricist, Craig wrote the score for IS THERE LIFE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL? and contributed four songs to Studs Terkel’s WORKING for which he received his first Tony nomination.

Recent highlights include the publication of an “Expanded Edition” of THE CRAIG CARNELIA SONGBOOK from Hal Leonard, the premiere of a new compilation of the composer’s work, LIFE ON EARTH at the Laurie Beechman Theater, a beautiful recording of FLIGHT on Sutton Foster’s debut CD WISH, and marriage to longtime partner, Lisa Brescia.

 

Joe DiPietro wrote the book and lyrics to the Broadway show MEMPHIS. His other credits include: (Broadway) ALL SHOOK UP; (Off-Broadway) I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE, and THE THING ABOUT MEN (both with composer Jimmy Roberts), OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS and THE TOXIC AVENGER (with David Bryan, 2009 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical).

 

 

 

 

Jason Robert Brown has been hailed as "one of Broadway's smartest and most sophisticated songwriters since Stephen Sondheim" (Philadelphia Inquirer), and his "extraordinary, jubilant theater music " (Chicago Tribune) has been heard all over the world, whether in one of the hundreds of productions of his musicals every year or in his own incendiary live performances. The New York Times refers to Jason as "a leading member of a new generation of composers who embody high hopes for the American musical."Jason is the composer and lyricist of the musical, THE LAST FIVE YEARS, which was cited as one of Time Magazine's 10 Best of 2001 and won Drama Desk Awards for Best Music and Best Lyrics. Jason won a 1999 Tony Award for his score to PARADE, a musical written with Alfred Uhry and directed by Harold Prince, which premiered at Lincoln Center Theatre in December 1998, and subsequently won both the Drama Desk and New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards for Best New Musical. "Parade" was also presented on a national tour in 2000, which Jason conducted. Jason's first musical, SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD, a theatrical song cycle directed by Daisy Prince, played Off-Broadway at the WPA Theatre in the fall of 1995, and has since been seen in more than two hundred productions around the world. Jason's newest musical, 13, written with Dan Elish and directed by Todd Graff, premiered this January to rave reviews at Los Angeles's Mark Taper Forum, and opens on Broadway in the spring of 2008. Jason is the winner of the 2002 Kleban Award for Outstanding Lyrics and the 1996 Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Foundation Award for Musical Theatre. Jason's songs, including the cabaret standard STARS AND THE MOON, have been performed and recorded by Audra McDonald, Betty Buckley, Karen Akers, Renée Fleming, Philip Quast, Jon Hendricks and many others.

Jason's first solo album, WEARING SOMEONE ELSE'S CLOTHES, featuring his band The Caucasian Rhythm Kings, was named one of Amazon.com's best of 2005, and is available from Sh-K-Boom Records. His collaboration with singer Lauren Kennedy, SONGS OF JASON ROBERT BROWN, is available on PS Classics. Jason's piano sonata, MR. BROADWAY, was commissioned and premiered by Anthony De Mare at Carnegie Hall. Also in the wings: an musical adaptation of the 1992 film HONEYMOON IN VEGAS, in collaboration with screenwriter/director Andrew Bergman. Jason is also the composer of the incidental music for David Lindsay-Abaire's KIMBERLY AKIMBO and FUDDY MEERS, Marsha Norman's LAST DANCE, David Marshall Grant's CURRENT EVENTS, Kenneth Lonergan's THE WAVERLY GALLERY, and the Irish Repertory Theater's production of LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, and he was a Tony Award nominee for his contributions to the score of URBAN COWBOY THE MUSICAL. His scores are published by Hal Leonard. Jason currently teaches musical theater performance and composition at the University of Southern California.

As a conductor and arranger, Jason's recent New York credits include URBAN COWBOY THE MUSICAL on Broadway; Oliver Goldstick's play, DINAH WAS, directed by David Petrarca, at the Gramercy Theatre and on national tour; and William Finn's A NEW BRAIN, directed by Graciela Daniele, at Lincoln Center Theater. Jason was the musical director of the pop vocal group, The Tonics, with whom he performed at the 1992 tribute to Stephen Sondheim at Carnegie Hall (recorded by RCA Victor); he was the conductor and orchestrator of Yoko Ono's musical, NEW YORK ROCK, at the WPA Theatre (on Capitol Records); and he orchestrated Andrew Lippa's JOHN AND JEN, Off-Broadway at Lamb's Theatre (Varese Sarabande). In 1994, Jason was the conductor and arranger of Michael John LaChiusa's THE PETRIFIED PRINCE, directed by Harold Prince, at the Public Theatre. Additionally, Jason served as the orchestrator and arranger of Charles Strouse and Lee Adams's score for a proposed musical of STAR WARS. Jason also took over as musical director for the Off-Broadway hit WHEN PIGS FLY. Jason has conducted and created arrangements and orchestrations for Liza Minnelli, John Pizzarelli, Tovah Feldshuh, and Laurie Beechman, among many others. Jason studied composition at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., with Samuel Adler, Christopher Rouse, and Joseph Schwantner. He now divides his time between Los Angeles, California and Spoleto, Italy. Jason is a proud member of the Dramatist's Guild and the American Federation of Musicians Local 802 & 47.