Dreams This Way
Biographies

THINGS HAPPEN
Writer: Maryrose Wood
Composer: Curtis Moore
Composed for this presentation

Maryrose Wood (Writer) is currently working with composer Andrew Gerle on Still Life with Cigarette, an original jazz musical commissioned by Raw Impressions. Their previous project, The Tutor, was recently named the winner of a 2004 Richard Rodgers Production Award. Maryrose was the first recipient of the Georgia Bogardus Holof Lyricist Award. Her work has been seen at Joe’s Pub, the Public Theatre’s New Works Now! Festival, Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series, the York Theater, Merkin Hall, and other venues. Contact: maryrosew@aol.com

Curtis Moore (Composer) is honored to be included in this group of talented writers and performers. Currently he is writing songs for Todd Solondz’s next film, Palindromes, and collaborating with Arthur Laurents and Amanda Green on Hallelujah Baby! Musicals: For the Love of Tiffany; Triangle (grant from the National Music Theatre Conference); The House of the Seven Gables; The Bus to Buenos Aires (1998 O’Neill Center); Once Upon A Primetime; and Up the Week Without a Paddle (Backstage Garland Award, Best Score and Best Musical). He proudly collaborates with Thomas Mizer, Matthew Brookshire, and Ms. Green.


BE MY SPIRIT GURU
Writer: Dan O’Brien
Composer: Andrew Gerle
Originally performed in RIMT #1 at manhattantheatersource
Assignment: The City–include the line “This isn’t how I was expecting things would go.”
Cast: Deborah Craig (Jane), Craig Rubano (Steve)
Director: Melissa Kievman / Music Director: Mary Feinsinger

Dan O’Brien (Writer) Productions include: Williamstown Theatre Festival; Kennedy Center; Ensemble Studio Theatre. Development: O’Neill Playwrights Conference; The New Harmony Project; Magic Theatre; Primary Stages; Trinity Repertory Company; The Play Company; Rattlestick; SoHo Rep; and Manhattan Theatre Club, where he was a playwright-in-residence. Commissions: Manhattan Theatre Club; Ensemble Studio Theatre Sloan First Light Grant; Trinity Repertory Company. Dan is a graduate of the Brown University MFA Playwriting Program.

Andrew Gerle (Composer) is a three-time recipient of the Richard Rodgers Award for The Tutor (book and lyrics by Maryrose Wood). Other musicals include The Gift (also with Ms. Wood); Brighter Things (book, music, and lyrics); and Meet John Doe (music and co-book), based on the classic Frank Capra film, with Eddie Sugarman. His arrangements and orchestrations have been performed by symphonies across the country and he has appeared as piano soloist with the National Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, and others. www.andrewgerle.com


GOODBYE, DOLLY
Writer: R.N. Sandberg
Composer: David Rodwin
Originally performed in RIMT #12 at The Club at La MaMa ETC
Assignment: Perspectives
Cast: Tauren Hagans (Dolly), Gavin Esham (Ian, et al.)
Director: Kris Stewart / Music Director: Kristen Rosenfeld

R. N. Sandberg (Writer) has had plays presented by theaters such as Empty Space, Fulton Opera House, George Street Playhouse, Houston’s Stages Rep, Intiman, Kitchen Dog, Provincetown Playhouse, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Seattle Rep, and Yale Cabaret. His latest work, with composer Jon Deak, is an adaptation of The Odyssey. He teaches at Princeton University and is an affiliated artist at McCarter Theater.

David Rodwin (Raw Impressions Producing Artistic Director / Composer) has performed his one-man operas Trippin’ and Virtual Motion at over 20 theatres around the country. His work has been presented everywhere from The Public Theatre to Mabou Mines to Disney (which presented a reading of his extravaganza WARNING!: eXplicit Material). Visit: www.jadelake.com for more info.


DREAMS THIS WAY
Writer: Mark Bazzone
Composer: Eli Bolin
Originally performed in RIMT #6 at The Stella Adler Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
Assignment: Faith and Irony
Cast: Dani Shear (Nel), Erika Amato (Bell), Scott Dicken (Fred)

Director: Che’Rae Adams / Music Director: Christy Crowl
Mark Bazzone (Writer) Recipient of the Lippmann “New Frontier” Travel Award, Mark Bazzone drove 17,000 Kilometers around Australia to learn about contemporary aboriginal life. He has received a NYFA Playwriting Fellowship, and his work has been in the Australian National Playwrights’ Conference, FringeNYC, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Cleveland. Mark is a playwright member of New Dramatists. His play Eastwest is being published by Playscripts.com.

Eli Bolin (Composer) wrote the Off-Broadway musical I Sing (CD on Jay Records) with Benjamin Salka and Sam Forman, with whom he is currently writing this summer’s Fringical. He is the music director of NYC-based kids’ theatre group The Striking Viking Story Pirates, and his work was just featured in An Intimate Evening of Song at Joe’s Pub.


FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS
Writer: Mac Rogers
Composer: Pete Muller
Originally performed in RIMT #10 at The Club at La MaMa ETC
Assignment: Rock Band / “I’m _____ to be an American.”
Cast: David Perlman (Tom), Patrick Mellen (Elliot)
Director: Tony Speciale / Music Director: Beth Falcone

Mac Rogers (Writer) is delighted to be in Dreams This Way. NYC productions include Dirty Juanita, The Second String, The Lucretia Jones Mysteries with Gideon Productions; Wine and Roll with Major Deegan Lab; V; and The Sky Over Nineveh. His short plays Happening to Your Body and Molly Molly were selected for the 2002 and 2003 Estrogenius Festivals at manhattantheatresource. Mac thanks Pete, David, Laura, Lynnae, Patrick, Daniella, the whole Raw Impressions team, and the Marce.

Pete Muller (Composer) is a piano-playing singer/songwriter based in New York. Mix Shawn Colvin with Keith Jarrett and David Gray and you can get some idea of what his new album More Than This will sound like. Find out more at www.petemuller.com. Pete has had a great time participating in RIMT events and looks forward to doing more.

WALLFLOWERS
Writer: Timothy J. Mathis
Composer: Michael Moricz
Originally performed in RIMT #3 at The Club at La MaMa ETC
Assignment: Chagall’s Painting The Birth
Cast: Matthew Trombetta (Joe), Jamie Mathews (Woman 1), Emily Rabon Hall (Wife)
Director: Mark Schneider / Music Director: Andrew Gerle

Timothy J. Mathis (Writer) BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, Jerry Harrington Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement. Upcoming: My First Mistakes: Early Songs By Timothy Mathis, Don’t Tell Mama, May 16 and 17; The Conjuring, full-length musical romance, July 13; Sylvia So Far, October 22. Past productions: Headline: 1927 (music, Michael Alltop) RIMT; Angel In Between (music, Daniel Shamir), American Theatre of Actors, New York, and Fritz Theatre, San Diego; Our Story, Too, Metropolitan Community Church of New York. Thanks to Mary Feinsinger. Tim@TheConjuring.net

Michael Moricz (Composer) was Music Director for Mister Rogers Neighborhood; composed original music for PBS, Showtime, Fox, Disney, and Discovery networks; arranged special material for Tommy Tune, John Lithgow, the Three Mo’ Tenors, Chita Rivera, Linda Lavin, Gary Beach; ballet scores and shows for Lynne Taylor-Corbett, much experience as an orchestral arranger, ballet composer/conductor and cabaret pianist. Wallflowers is his only musical and he thanks Tim Mathis for his magnificence.


MY GAY BEST FRIEND
Writer: David Javerbaum
Composer: Jenny Giering
Originally performed in RIMT #5 at The Club at La MaMa ETC
Assignment: Sacrifice
Cast: Christine Ciccone (Joyce), Aaron Forbes (Ben), Kendrick Knight (Gerald)
Director: Daniella Topol / Music Director: Douglas Maxwell

David Javerbaum (Writer) is the Head Writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. His work for that program has earned him two Emmy Awards, an additional Emmy nomination, and a 2000 Peabody Award. He also garnered an Emmy nomination for his work as a staff writer for The Late Show with David Letterman. He spent three years writing humor for The Onion, conceiving and co-writing its 1999 best-selling book Our Dumb Century and contributing numerous articles and headlines to two other compilation books. His work for musical theatre includes Suburb, which he conceived and co-wrote with composer Robert S. Cohen which ran Off-Broadway in 2001 and was nominated as Best Off-Broadway Musical by the Outer Critics Circle, the Lucille Lortel Awards, and the Drama League (for which it was nominated as Best Musical, Broadway or Off-). The show has since run successfully throughout the country. He lives in Manhattan with his wife Debra. His hobbies include the succinct encapsulation of his achievements.

Jenny Giering (Composer) Current Musical Projects: Caraboo (book – Marsha Norman lyrics – Beth Blatt); The Hotel Carter (book and lyrics – Stephanie Fleischmann); Jumping Songs (book and lyrics – Susan Bernfield); and a full-length commission for RIMT. Awards: Larson Award; Klinsky Prize from 2econd Stage; Dramatist Guild Fellow; Loewe Award; Clifton Artist in Residence at Harvard University. Workshops and Readings: Barrington Stage; Theatreworks/Palo Alto; Williamstown; The O’Neill.