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JOEL ADLEN (Composer, Lyricist,
Librettist), winner of the 2006 Los Angeles Elate Award for his work as librettist,
lyricist, and composer of Emma.
As composer and co-lyricist of Tea and Crumpets, Mr. Adlen won
the San Francisco/Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award for Best Musical
Score, and the Festival Theater USA/USC theater award for Best Original
Production which toured in California and Edinburgh. Other
theater works as composer and lyricist include Some Summer Night (A
Musical Farce), The Cry of the Banshee, Tower of Babel, Ball
and Chain, Speakeasy, The Scarlet Letter, and as librettist, Facing
East (a dance/multi media production). As a composer for silent films,
Joel has been commissioned by the San Francisco Film Preservation Society for
Peter Pan and Rin Tin Tin, and has composed and performed for
over 25 silent films for the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley California,
including Wind, La Maison du Mystère, Backstairs, Nana, The General Line, Dr.
Mabuse, The Fall of the House of Usher, and Battleship Potemkin. Currently, Mr. Adlen’s composing and
librettist pursuits are concentrating on the Edwardian era, as he is adapting
a novel from the early 1900’s.
You can see the BroadwayWorld,com
interview here with Joel Adlen and Leah Horowitz
TERRY
BERLINER (Director). Broadway:
The Lion King, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, The Sound of Music and The Red Shoes. Off Broadway: Time and Again, The Tale of the Allergist’s
Wife, Captains Courageous, Violet
and Merrily We Roll Along. Other
New York Theatre: The Mercy Seat,
TheatreWorks Gala 2005, Spine, seven seasons of the Drama Desk Awards Show and Allegro
(Encores!). Regional: Carmen, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Little Shop of Horrors, Daddy’s Dyin’, Who’s
Got the Will?, Urinetown, A Little Princess, Five Course Love, Getting To Know You, Theophilus North, Phantom,
Love Letters, Guys and Dolls, The Fantasticks, A Little Night Music, A Chorus
Line, The Royal Family, Once On This Island, Gypsy and The Music Man at such theatres as La
Jolla Playhouse, McCarter Theatre, Geva Theatre Center and Arena Stage among
others. For 14 years Ms. Berliner
has written, directed and choreographed corporate theatrical events. In the spring
of 2006 her six-part feature article on new musical theatre development, “A
Game of Love and Chance,” was published in American Theatre magazine and she wrote the script for the NYC Drama Desk Awards Show hosted by
Harvey Fierstein. Recently she wrote
the first annual Angie Awards Show
for the International Mystery Writers' Festival, guest lectured for the dance
and theatre department at the University
of Colorado, Boulder and served as the consulting
artistic director for Maui Onstage. Ms. Berliner is a member of the Society
of Stage Directors and Choreographers.
LEONARD MOORS (Music Supervisor, Arranger /
Orchestrator). A native
of Northern California, Mr. Moors has worn
many hats in music and theatre. He has
musical directed, arranged, and composed for several projects in the past
twenty years, Emma being his latest endeavor. He received his BA in composition and in
jazz and commercial music from Sonoma
State University
in 1988, and his MM in voice from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in
1992. At the Conservatory, he also
studied conducting and orchestration.
He has written a full-length musical, as well as music for plays and
film. He has also written and arranged
several songs for cabaret and pop music projects, and is a member of ASCAP. Besides composing and musical directing,
Len is an established singer and performer in the Bay Area. He regularly cantors at two San Francisco parishes, and has worked as a singer on
several studio projects in San Francisco and New York City. Mr. Moors has also appeared in many musical
theatre productions, including Company with the Marin Theatre Company,
The Music Man and City of Angels
with Woodminster Summer Musicals, La Perichole and Princess Ida
with Lamplighters, and 1940’s Radio Hour with Pacific Alliance
Stage Company.
DAVID HEGARTY (Co-arranger/Music
editor) is a prolific composer / arranger / music editor, having served on
the staff of Lorenz Publishing Company, during which time he was editor of
"The Sacred Organ Journal." He is also published with Broadman
Press, Hal Leonard Publications, Sheet Music
Magazine. As an Organ Performance
major, he earned a BA at Loma Linda University,
Master of Music (M.Mus.) at Andrews University, and continued with doctoral studies at
the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati. He has appeared in concert at such venues
as Washington DC's
Kennedy Center,
San Francisco's
Davies Symphony Hall, and the Crystal Cathedral. An avid film music
researcher, he specializes in the music of Hollywood's Golden Age. Mr. Hegarty is best known in the Bay
Area/California as the senior staff organist of the Castro Theatre (since
1978), for appearing regularly at the Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto, and for
his monthly Organ Pops Concerts at the California Palace of the Legion of
Honor.
KRISTEN LEE ROSENFELD (Music
Director) lives in New York City and is
currently music directing Zombie Prom at the Sargent Theatre
in NYC and is thrilled to be making her New York Musical Theatre Festival
debut with Emma. Ms. Rosenfeld
works as a musical director and composer in New York City and regional theatre, and
recently music directed the premiere of the school version of Avenue Q. In New York,
she has worked with Prospect Theatre Company, Family Opera Initiative, Red
Fern Theatre Company and others Her compositions have been
commissioned and performed by the Second Story Rep and Sprouts Children's
Theatre in Seattle, Franklin
and Marshall College
and the Atlantic Acting School
in New York City. Recently, her new musical version of The
Merry Wives of Windsor was premiered by Wooden O Theatre in Seattle. Her upcoming
projects include continuing her role as resident musical director at JP
Taravella High School in South Florida.
BONNIE J. BUTKAS
(Associate
Producer) is the Director of Development and Communications at TADA! Youth
Theater, NYC’s premier youth theater company. She was Managing Director at
Bristol Valley Theater (BVT), a professional summer stock theater in Naples ,
New York , during four seasons of unprecedented
growth. In 2002, she assisted the Resident Director on the Broadway
production of The Lion King. She serves as co-artistic director for Lexington Dance Collective
(LDC), modern dance/theater company now in its 11th season. Most recently she
co-produced The Little Girls Have Grown Up” a world premiere of new work at
LA TEA Theater in NYC.
She is currently involved in The Love and Water Project with LDC. She holds
two B.A.’s from the University at Buffalo
in Dance Performance and Literary Journalism. She also serves as the Audience
Development Coordinator for Creatively Speaking, a film/video series
featuring works by artists of color.
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