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The Patricia Birch Season Bios
Broadway USA! - New York - 1999
Patricia Birch - Guest Artistic Director
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Actor, Lawyer, Indian Chief
Book by David H. Bell. Music/Lyrics by Craig Carnelia
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DAVID H. BELL
Mr. Bell as the Associate Artistic Director of the Alliance Theatre Company in Atlanta, Georgia, directed: Hot Mikado, Little Me, Romeo and Juliet, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, One Last Summer, Dreams from a Summer House, Once on this Island, La Bete, Falsettos. At the Alliance Children's Theatre: Legend of Pecos Bill, The Emperor's Nightingale, The Snow Queen, Klondike (author). Atlanta: Blood Knot, Theatrical Outfit; The Harvey Milk Show, Actor's Express; In Stitches, Candler Creative. Broadway: Give My Regards to Broadway: Carnegie Hall: A Change in the Heir. Off-Broadway: Looking Glass; Pictures in the Hall (winner of the 1990 Mac and Bistro Awards for Best Revue). Regional Theatre: The Herman Wouk/Jimmy Buffett musical Don't Stop the Carnival; Coconut Grove Playhouse: Hot Mikado, Elmer Gantry, Ford's Theatre; Long Wharf Theatre, Kennedy Center, National Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Shakespeare Rep. Other credits: DIFFA Edith Head Retrospective at 55 Wall Street, 36 city tour, 1991 Heartstrings; European tour of Dirty Dancing -The Concert Tour; London Workshop production of Matador; Atlanta portion of the 1992 Olympic closing ceremonies in Barcelona; Hot Mikado on London's West End; The Harlem Gospel Singers in Paris; Die Schone und das Beast in Berlin; Patsy! in Toronto; and The Jim Stafford Show in Branson, MO. Honors/Awards: 1995 Laurence Olivier Nominations (London's West End); 1995 Helen Hayes Award (D.C.), Best Director, 28 Joseph Jefferson Nominations (Chicago), won eight; Dramalogue Award (L.A.); four Carbonall Nominations (Florida).
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CRAIG CARNELIA
Mr. Carnelia wrote the score for the Broadway musical IS THERE LIFE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL? and contributed 4 songs to Studs Terkel's WORKING for which he received a Tony nomination. Off-Broadway, Craig wrote the music and lyrics for 3 POSTCARDS at Playwrights Horizons and NOTES at the Manhattan Theatre Club and contributed single songs to THE NO-FRILLS REVUE, DIAMONDS and A... MY NAME IS STILL ALICE. He is also known for the recently published songbook of his work "The Songs of Craig Carnelia" and for the CD of his critically acclaimed cabaret revue "Pictures in The Hall." Honors include the 1995 Johnny Mercer Award, the first annual Gilman and Gonzaler-Falla Musical Theatre Award, and the prestigious Kleban Award for distinguished lyric writing. He is currently writing lyrics for a Broadway bound musical based on the classic film "Sweet Smell of Success," with music by Marvin Hamlisch and book by John Guare.
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Chang & Eng
Music by Stephen Hoffman. Lyrics by Mark Campbell. Book by Burton Cohen
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STEPHEN HOFFMAN
Mr. Hoffman composed the scores for six musicals with Iyricist Mark Campbell: ROMANOV, THE TENANTS OF 3R, CHANG & ENG, THE SWEET REVENGE OF LOUISA MAY, SPLENDORA and THERESE RAQUIN. THE TENANTS OF 3R was selected for the Dramatists Guild Musical Theatre Program, while both SPLENDORA (book by Peter Webb) and CHANG & ENG (book by Burton Cohen) were developed and performed at the Harold Prince Musical Theatre Workshop. THE SWEET REVENGE OF LOUISA MAY (book also by Burton Cohen) was honored with a 1994 Richard Rodgers Development Award and premiered at the Olney Theatre, directed by John Going. SPLENDORA for which Stephen received a 1996 Drama Desk Nomination for Best Music of a Musical, was honored with the 1995 Richard Rodgers Production Award and premiered at the Bay Street Theatre before opening Off-Broadway for a limited run at the American Place Theatre (directed by Jack Hofsiss). In addition, Stephen composed the incidental music for Noel Coward's NUDE WITH VIOLIN (York Theatre) and scored Nancy Savoca's short film Bad Timing. He also contributed material to Martin Charnin's critically acclaimed revue, UPSTAIRS AT O'NEAL'S (original cast album on Painted Smiles Records), and a number of his songs are performed in cabaret by Andrea Marcovicci, Karen Akers and Naomi Kinkoff. Stephen is represented on Andrea Marcovicci's recording "New Words," as well as on the Varese Sarabande recording "Broadway Bound," with a song sung by Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker. Stephen is a member of The Dramatists Guild.
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MARK CAMPBELL
Awards: First recipient of the Kleban Award for lyrics, a Drama Desk Award Nomination (for SPLENDORA), a Rockefeller Foundation Award (for Chiori Miyagawa's play NOTHING FOREVER), 2 Richard Rodgers Awards (for SPLENDORA and THE SWEET REVENGE OF LOUISA MAY), and 2 MacDowell Fellowships. Productions: SPLENDORA (Bay Street Theatre and American Place Theatre, directed by Jack Hofsis), THE SWEET REVENGE OF LOUIS MAY (Olney Theatre), LIGHT SHALL LIFT THEM (for John Kelly at BAM's Majestic Theatre), RING AROUND THE ROSIE (for Music-Theatre Group at City Center and The Joyce Theatre), AKIN (for Music-Theatre Group at City Center and John Kelly at La Mama). Currently: Book and lyrics for an adaptation of Zola's novel, "Thérèse Raquin," the libretto for an opera SUSAN SMITH, and the libretto for an as yet untitled music-theatre piece inspired by five Edward Hopper paintings.
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BURTON COHEN
CHANG & ENG was written and had its first public reading, at the Westside Arts Theatre, in 1992. It is based on Mr. Cohen's, THE WEDDING OF THE SIAMESE TWINS, which was produced at Primary Stages, in 1989 and published by Dramatists Play Service, at that time. It has been developed and performed by The Harold Prince Musical Theatre Workshop in New York and was a finalist at The O'Neill Theatre Center. It had a public reading, last year, at The American Musical Theatre Ensemble, in Seattle. THE SWEET REVENGE OF LOUISA MAY, a musical based on the thrillers of Louisa May Alcott, (also with Stephen Hoffman and Mark Campbell), won a Richard Rodgers Award in 1994 and was produced at the Olney Theatre. It was part of NMTN's Broadway Dozen series in 1997. THE GREAT AMERICAN CHEESE SANDWICH, Mr. Cohen's first play, was published in the "Best Short Plays" series, as well as by Dramatists Play Service. It has been performed throughout the U.S., (including Alaska), Europe and Canada and been favorably compared to Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth." It was produced in New York, with its companion piece, JACKIE LANTERN'S HALLOWEEN REVENGE, (also published by Dramatist Play Service), at The Village Theatre. Another short play, THE PICKLE, was commissioned and produced by The Actors' Theatre of Louisville, where it was singled out, by the press, as the outstanding play in the festival. Subsequently, it was produced, in a longer version, in New York and directed by Josephine Abady. It was also read and developed by Tom Fontana's Writers' Theatre, in New York. The non-musical version of THE SWEET REVENGE OF LOUISA MAY was a finalist in Rutgers' Intemational Play Contest. It has also had readings at Olympia Dukakis' Whole Theatre Company (New Jersey), Alaska Repertory Theatre (Anchorage), Primary Stages and The Writers' Theatre (New York). Mr. Cohen has been an annual contributor to The Short Play Festivals at Primary Stages, in New York. He is represented by Mary Harden, of Harden-Curtiss Associates and is a member of The Dramatists Guild.
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Democracy
Music by Louis Flinn. Book/Lyrics by Joseph Sutton
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