STEVEN FISHER (Music, Lyrics & Book) Isabelle and The Pretty-Ugly Spell: 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival (Outstanding New Family-Oriented Musical, TalkinBroadway.com), Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, Coral Gables, FL (2005 Winner, National Children’s Theatre Festival), developed at Summer Stage (Upper Darby, PA), The York, BMI, ASCAP; In The Theatre (York, Developmental Reading Series, 2008, 2009); Mandela: Crossroads Theatre (concert), John Houseman Theater (workshop), Windybrow Theatre, Johannesburg, S.A. (workshop), National Alliance for Musical Theatre, Crossroads Theatre (Genesis Festival of New Works), Richard Rodgers Award Finalist. Contributor: NEO (York Theatre/CD). Professional: Associate Music Director, Keystone State Boychoir (2001-present); Assistant Director, Philadelphia Boys Choir and Chorale (1994-2001).
JOAN ROSS SORKIN (Book) is a playwright, musical bookwriter, lyricist and opera librettist. Off-Broadway: (mis)Understanding Mammy: The Hattie McDaniel Story (Drama Desk nom., Capathia Jenkins), Chicago Humanities Festival, The Jefferson Playhouse, Jefferson, TX (April 2010). Musicals: Isabelle and The Pretty-Ugly Spell: 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival (Outstanding New Family-Oriented Musical, TalkinBroadway.com), Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, Coral Gables, FL (2005 Winner, National Children’s Theatre Festival), developed at Summer Stage (Upper Darby, PA), The York, BMI, ASCAP; In The Theatre (The York, Developmental Reading Series, 2008, 2009); York NEO 2009. Opera: Strange Fruit: Long Leaf Opera, Chapel Hill, NC (Premiere), Strange Fruit in Concert (Harlem School of the Arts in association with New York City Opera), New York City Opera VOX 2003, O’Neill Music Theater Conf. (Finalist). Cabaret: Birdland, Opia, The Zipper. Member: Dramatists Guild; BMI Musical Theatre Workshop.
VIC DiMONDA (Director) Mr. DiMonda is currently the Associate Artistic Director for the John W. Engeman Theater at Northport, Long Island’s only year-round Equity Theater, where he directed and choreographed their inaugural production of Smokey Joe’s Café. He is also a faculty member of The Ailey School and The Ailey Extension. He founded and served as artistic director for the Harkness Dance Center’s Tap Team. He has also been a faculty member of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and an artist in residence for the Metropolitan Opera Guild where he taught their Creating Original Opera program. As director/choreographer he has created original productions of The King and I. My Fair Lady, Carousel, High Society, Always…Patsy Cline, Dames At Sea, Forever Plaid, The Fantasticks, Blues In The Night, The All Night Strut, The Taffetas and Joseph…Dreamcoat. As Choreographer Mr. DiMonda has recreated the Broadway choreography for Crazy For You. His original works include Miss Saigon, West Side Story, A Wonderful Life, Oliver!, The Music Man, Fiddler On The Roof, How To Succeed…, Kiss Me, Kate, Mame, Funny Girl, Cinderella, Annie, and Do I Hear A Waltz?.
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