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Paul Scott Goodman wrote the book, music, and lyrics for Bright Lights, Big City (NY Theater Workshop, dir. Michael Greif, Prince Music Theater). His musical, Tiny Dancer will run at the Prince Music Theater in March 2007 and ROOMS (dir. Scott Schwartz) is planned for Off-Broadway, also in 2007. Other productions include God Save the New Wave (Bottom Line, West Bank Theater), Metropolitan Music (Marymount Manhattan College) and Just East of Broadway (The Duplex). Paul Scott Goodman was the first recipient of the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame Best New Songwriter Award, Winner of the Backstage Bistro Award for Domestica ( book, music and lyrics ), winner of the Jonathan Larson Foundation Award and winner of the Gilman Gonzalez-Falla Theater Foundation Commendation Award. In London, Paul’s musicals have also been produced at the National Theater, The New End Theater, and twice on BBC television. He has performed with John Cougar Mellancamp, Joan Armatrading, David Essex, and The Average White Band. |
Kurt Deutsch is an actor, director, and record producer. He founded, with his wife Sherie Rene Scott, Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records. Kurt and the label were recently honored with three 2006 Grammy Award nominations, as well as a special 2006 Drama Desk Award for dedication to the preservation of musical theatre through cast albums. Recordings include The Drowsy Chaperone, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Little Women, Altar Boyz, Title of Show, See What I Wanna See, Bernarda Alba, The Last 5 Years, Amour, Songs for An Unmade Bed, Hair – The Actors’ Fund of America Benefit Recording, and Paul Scott Goodman’s Bright Lights, Big City. Solo albums include recordings by Patti LuPone, Adam Pascal, Sherie Rene Scott, Alice Ripley, Christine Ebersole, and The Broadway Inspirational Voices. |
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Robbie Roth is a songwriter from Toronto, Canada, whose work has garnered international acclaim. Since the charting success of his first album, Watershed, Robbie has composed and produced music for a myriad of well-known and developing artists. He has scored a number of television shows and feature films, and his music has most recently appeared on a recording alongside Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits and Johnny Cash. Robbie co-wrote and produced an album for Tony-nominated actor Gavin Creel, and was the composer and co-lyricist of Barbie: Live In Fairytopia, a musical production based on the Barbie doll. www.robbieroth.com |
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (B’way, Second Stage, Barrington Stage), Cats, The Chalk Circle, My Fair Lady, The Sound Of Music, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Hangar Theatre), Mame, Angel Street, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Surflight Theater), Don Giovanni (Indianapolis Opera), Candide (Harrisburg Opera), Carousel, The Merry Widow & West Side Story(Opera Illinois), Iolanthe, Ruddigore, The Mikado, Patience, H.M.S. Pinafore & The Sorcerer (The Blue Hill Troupe). TV/Film - Fatboy Slim’s music video "It’s a Wonderful Night", Todd Solondz’s film Palindromes. BFA in musical theater from Otterbein College, member of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. Dan hails from Cleveland, Ohio. |
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Kelly Coffey is honored to make her theatrical set designing debut on Alive in the World and is delighted to continue working with Van Hill Entertainment. Recent projects include serving as the prop master for the world premiere of the new musical Saint Heaven, as the set designer for the Center for American Progress public service announcement campaign and for Sunsilk hair product commercials. Kelly frequently works in freelance production for MTV, VH1 and NBC, helping to produce shows including the MTV Video Music Awards, VH1 Hip-Hop Honors and Last Comic Standing. In addition, she has served as the stage crew coordinator for the Super Bowl XL Halftime Show in Detroit, Mich. Kelly wrote, directed and performed in Live a Little, a short musical film which received accolades from the Action on Film International Film Festival. A native of North Miami Beach, Fla., Kelly earned a B.S. in Telecommunication Production from the College of Journalism at the University of Florida. Go Gators! |
Mr. Cole has designed costumes and scenery for opera, theatre, film, television, and industrials. Opera costume design credits include: Don Pasquale starring Harolyn Blackwell, Cavalleria rusticana and Das Barbecue (Seattle Opera), Dido and Aeneas (New York Chamber Opera), La rondine (Chautauqua Opera), Le Comte Ory (Wolf Trap Opera) and several prodcutions for Manhattan School of Music. New York theatre credits include productions for the Actor’s Studio, Theater for the New City, HERE Arts Center, The Vortex Theater, and The Living Theater and NYMF 2005. Film work: costume designs for the features "Jane Street" and "States of Control", the live action short film Red (winner of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Oscar for Student Filmmaking). He created both costume and production designs for the live action short Gorilla Girl (winner: CINE Eagle Award and the Chicago Film Festival Award), and art directed rear-projection visuals for the R.E.M. "Monster" concert tour. Mr. Cole is on the faculty of Fashion Institute of Technology and received his MFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. |
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Herrick’s work has been seen all over the world, most recently in Manila and Shanghai. Last fall he designed a national tour of A Chorus Line. His dance lighting is seen annually with the New Jersey Ballet at NJPAC. Other recent shows include The Fearless & Rooms directed by Scott Schwartz, and Over The Top for Jim Steinman. His work is represented on 42nd St in various experiences at Mdm. Tussauds. Favorite productions: Godspell (Off-B'way), Side Show @ Cape Rep., Batboy @ Yale, Crash Test Dummies at the New Victory Theater. Herrick is the resident LD for the Antigravity Aerial Dance Company, and he has taught Lighting Design @ MIT. Currently in production: All is Love, River’s End, Rose Tatoo. A member of USA/IATSE 829, his work may be seen at www.HGLightingdesign.com |
Mary Kathryn Blazek is delighted to be involved with this work in progress, Alive in the World. Off-Off Broadway credits include Candy and Dorothy and The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde (for the New York Musical Theater Festival 2005). Professional New York credits include Dialogues of the Carmelites, La Traviata, Daphne, and Le nozze di Figaro at New York City Opera; and Stephen Paulus’s Summer and Alice in Wonderland for the Center for Contemporary Opera. Other opera credits include Orlando and Don Giovanni at Glimmerglass Opera; Rigoletto and Beethoven’s Fidelio at Virginia Opera; L’Elisir d’Amore at Indianapolis Opera; and Zemire und Azor and Cendrillon at Manhattan School of Music. Additional projects with MSM include I Remember It Well: A Tribute to Lerner and Loewe and Defying Gravity. MK is a native of Chattanooga, TN and an alumna of the Conservatory of Design/Technology at Purchase College. |
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Van Hill Entertainment is proud to be working with Paul Scott Goodman on two shows: Alive in the World at NYMF 2006 and Rooms (dir. Scott Schwartz) with a reading at The Zipper Theater on October 25th, 2006 and an Off-Broadway production in 2007. In June 2006, Van Hill produced the World Premiere of the new musical Saint Heaven (dir. Matt Lenz) with Chuck Cooper, Deborah Gibson, Cheryl Alexander, Montego Glover, Darren Ritchie and Patrick Ryan Sullivan. Saint Heaven is a winner of the 2006 NMTN Directors' Choice Award and is being reprised as a special reading presentation at this year's New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF). Van Hill's third presentation in this year's NYMF is a reading of the new family musical, The Chocolate Tree. Other credits include co-productions of the sold out run of The Mistress Cycle (dir. Joe Calarco) at NYMF 2005 and The NY Musical Theatre Festival: The Best of Fest Bash! (dir. Joe Calarco) at Dodger Stages (now New World Stages) with John Lloyd Young (Jersey Boys)), Josh Strickland and Jenn Gambatese (Tarzan), Gary Beach (The Producers, Beauty and the Beast), Amy Spanger (The Wedding Singer), Anna Harada (Avenue Q), Karen Ziemba (Contact, Steel Pier) and Kerry Butler (Little Shop of Horrors), among many others. |
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