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Feldman, Michelle (Festival Curator) - a Texas transplant who has dabbled in writing, singing, programming, and working for evil monopolists, Michelle has written a jazz play, High Standards, and pop songs for a local label. While acting as DP Veteran Series house manager and assistant curator for the WNFB Festival in 2004, Michelle co-wrote and directed The Merry Swinger Show, a short musical farce setting the 2000 election scandal in the guise of a raunchy talk show. She also co-wrote and produced the first act of Lovesick while curating last year's festival.
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Michele Aldin (book, Little Mary) Michèle was deemed one of “three Fringe Festival playwrights to watch” in a Backstage article after the lauded production of her play, Dear America, at FringeNYC 2006. Her play, 31 BOND, was commissioned/produced at the Brooklyn Lyceum, NY. Her screenplay 11 Months, won an Alfred Sloan award. MFA, NYU; Representation: Sarah Douglas, Abrams Artists. For Lee J.
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Debbie Andrews (music/lyrics/book, Bar Code) - Singer, published poet and NEA Jazz Award recipient pianist. As a singer her work spans pop bands, TV scores, jingles, big band and Broadway where at the age of 16, she made her debut as Crissy in the hit musical Hair., singing the song Frank Mills.
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David Christian Azarow (music, No More Waiting!) - David studied composition at SUNY Purchase as well as the Mannes School Of Music. His shows, Cric? Crac!, Boob Movie: The Musical and The Gift Of Love have been seen at the Fringe Festival, The Duplex Cabaret, Thirteenth Street Theatre, the Helen Hayes Theatre in Nyack, as well as many other venues.
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Mike Blaxill (music/lyrics/book, Bar Code) - First appeared on the NYC music scene at the Bitter End Songwriter's Circle, the Songwriter's Hall of Fame Showcase, and in the many lower east side clubs. He recently received BMI's Abe Oleman Award as "the year's most promising singer-songwriter".
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Germono T Bryant (book/music/lyrics, Caged Sparrows) - Germono T. Bryant began his formal music training at the age of four and soon after developed a passion for the performing arts. Bryant holds a BFA in Music Composition from Cardinal Stritch University and is pursuing his master's degree in Arts Administration, at NYU. In 2005 he launched his new production company, A Mile in My Shoes Productions. back to top
John Chin (music, Zuly In The Last Place On Earth) - Fresh Sound/New Talent Recording Artist, John Chin, is an accomplished jazz pianist living in New York City. With the release of his upcoming record Blackout Conception, his trio can be seen regularly in the New York area. Along with his performing career, John is an experienced educator, producer, and composer.
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Anthea Fane (book/lyrics, Zuly In The Last Place On Earth) - Anthea has been a working as an actor and playwright since 1993. Her one-person play Contagious was performed at The Theatre of Yugen in San Francisco as part of their Yugen Presents Series, and Here in New York as part of The Here Supported Artist Program. She recently returned from a tour of Japan with the theatre company Seinen Gekijyo.
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Keith Gordon (music/lyrics, Little Mary) - Keith has written music and lyrics for Saint Heaven with book writer Martin Casella, which was most recently seen at The Stamford Center for the Performing Arts and was featured this fall in NYMF (NMTN's Director's Choice Winner 2006). He's currently writing the scores for Little Mary, with playwright Michele Aldin, and Free Money, with Martin Casella and Barbara Multer-Wellin.
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David Gordon (production, Runway 69) - David has performed with New York City Opera, Boheme Opera, Lake George Opera Festival, Fort Worth Opera, Opera Company of Broooklyn and One World Symphony. Upcoming: Play in Beckett Below (Under St. Marks Theatre, November 9–18) and the film Kalamazoo, River: US. MFA's from University of Michigan / Manhattan School of Music and voice faculty member at MSM Precollege Division.
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Erin Kamler ( music/lyrics/production, Runway 69) - Erin began performing in musical theatre at age nine and went on to write/compose over fifteen full-length musicals. Her music can be heard on numerous albums and films. A three-time winner of Stephen Sondheim's Young Playwright's Festival, Erin's plays have been produced at The Joseph Papp Public Theatre, Playwright's Horizons and La Mama. Erin is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College.
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Kyong-Ae Kang (book/lyrics, The Wings of Yi Sang) - Kyoung-Ae is a lyricist and bookwriter who recently received her MFA from the NYU/Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. Her first musical, Be Like Joe had a workshop production at NYU in NY. She’s currently working on her second musical The Wings of Yi Sang. TV & Radio (in Korea): The 21st Century Committee, Happy Smile Show, Fun Radio.
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Christina Kulick (music, Zuly In The Last Place On Earth) - With a background in Music and Theatre, Christina Kulick is currently a music educator working with The Piano School of New York City. She is teaching piano and working to expand their programs to reach many more deserving students. As a singer, she has performed her original music as part of several singers/songwriter showcases in New York City.
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Ted Lange (book, Bar Code) - Best known as Isaac on TV's Love Boat, Ted is a prolific actor/writer/director and author of the acclaimed play Four Queens — No Trump. Most recently he appeared as the Earl of Gloucester in the Classical Theater of Harlem’s production of King Lear. Ted also played the role of Hud in the original Broadway run of the hit musical Hair.
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Nina Mankin (music/lyrics/book, Kultur Kamp) -has recorded two original alternative rock/country albums and won grants and awards for her songwriting including an N.E.A and the Songwriter Hall of Fame Abe Olman award. Kultur Kamp was featured for a developmental residency at Voice and Vision and portions of the developing musical have been performed at PS122, CBGBs, and the Club under Elmo.
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Kenneth Allen Morrill (music, lyrics, book, Rollercoaster) - studied composition with Ned Rorem at the Curtis Institute, which premiered his first opera, Perlimplin, subsequently twice produced at Peabody. His opera Bambi was seen in Seattle. His musical theater pieces Marianela and Pinocchio have both been staged in New York. Rollercoaster was given an initial reading by the opera department of the University of Washington.
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Mercedes Murphy (direction, Zuly In The Last Place On Earth) - has directed theater and dance at venues including the Moscow Art Theater, the Clark Studio Theater at Lincoln Center, PS 122 and the American Repertory Theatre’s Institute for Advance Theater Training. She has collaborated with other artists including Coleman Hough, Jody Oberfelder, Robert Woodruff, Jay Scheib and John Bucchino. She is the Founding and Artistic Director of Théâtre Trouve.
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Paul Nelson (music, The Wings of Yi Sang) Music theater projects include: Hair Wars (R&B/Neo-Soul musical), The Wings of Yi Sang (modern/Asian musical), Monica and Linda (one-act opera), and The Birds (political satire musical). Other projects include: The Missing Square and Urban Discordance (for Tisch Dance), and other works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, and small ensembles. Education: music composition at the Peabody Conservatory, musical theater writing at NYU/Tisch.
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Lauren Rosen (direction, Little Mary) Most recently directed Dear America, (FringeNYC). Favorite credits include: Lenin's Shoe (Hartt Conservatory) Boy Gets Girl (SUNY Stony Brook), Abingdon Square (Brick Theatre), Closer (Johns Hopkins University), Not I (Lincoln Center Directors' Lab), The Ghost Sonata (Clemente Soto Velez), Wunderkind (Culture Project). Assistant-director: Otello, La Boheme (Hawaii Opera). MFA in directing from Moscow Art Theatre / A.R.T. Institute at Harvard University.
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Shana Waterman (production, Runway 69) - Currently serves as director of current programming of Fox Broadcasting Company and is a former board member and chair of Cornerstone Theater Company, an audience consultant to Long Wharf Theatre, and researcher/diarist for Anna Deavere Smith. Shana was a recipient of the Association of Yale Alumni Community Service Fellowship and director of programming at LEAP. Education: Yale College and Yale Law School.
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Chris Widney (book/lyrics, No More Waiting!) - Full-length plays, one-acts, musicals and screenplays have been presented, read, work-shopped and honored in theatres and contests around the country including The Perry Street Theatre, NYC, The Arden Theatre in Philadelphia and the Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe. He co-authored a book about squash, has participated in the BMI Composer/Lyricist Workshop and is a member of The Dramatists Guild.
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