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![]() CARL HAAN (Musical Director) recently served as the asst. conductor for the nat'l tour of My Fair Lady, produced by Cameron Mackintosh, and is currently teaching musical theater for Rosie's Theater Kids, an organization started by Rosie O'Donnell which enriches the lives of children in the NYC public schools through the arts; Broadway: Broadway Backwards 5, 6, 7 & 8; Lestat; Off-Broadway: Five Course Love, Miracle Brothers, We're Still Hot, Pirates of Penzance, On the Town; Regional: The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Nick Adams, The Last Five Years, The Yiddish are Coming!, Second City at Sea; Chicago credits: The Wild Party (LaChiusa midwest premiere), MENOPAUSE: The Musical, Forever Plaid, NINE (Jeff nomination), Hello Muddah! Hello Fadduh!, Little Shop of Horrors, Into the Woods; He has played for ballet at Broadway Dance Center & Steps, accompanied several cabarets at The Metropolitan Room, Don't Tell Mama's and the Duplex, worked as a vocal director for Royal Caribbean and has taught at NYU/CAP 21 and Wagner College. Thanks so much Bobby!!! Nub nu Tugba!!! Xoox FRANCES HILL (Founding Artistic Director) began her theatrical career in California as an actress. Since 1983, Ms. Hill has overseen more than 600 staged readings/workshops and 75 productions of new works for the stage. She has directed over 30 workshops and productions. Her favorite directing credits include: Gino DiIorio’s Apostasy, Roma Greth’s Our Summer Days, Jim Lehrer’s Chili Queen, (directed at Urban Stages and Kennedy Center), John Picardi’s Seven Rabbits on a Pole and The Sweepers (directed at Urban Stages and Capital Rep); and Comfort Women by Chugmi Kim (Urban Stages 2004), 27 Rue De Fleurs. Two of her plays have been produced, Our Bench and Life Lines. Under the guidance of Ms. Hill, Playwrights’ Preview Productions/URBAN STAGES have moved two plays into commercial Off-Broadway successes. Minor Demons opened the new Century Center Theater and Men on the Verge of His-Panic Breakdown won an Outer Critic’s Circle Award while playing to capacity audiences at the 47th Street Theater. Urban Stages’ African American Poets as Playwrights won eight Audelco Nominations and Coyote On a Fence received two Drama Desk nominations and a Pilgrim’s Project Award. Eisa Davis’ Bulrusher was one of three nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. 2010 production of Langston in Harlem won several drama desk nominations, a John Calloway award, several Audelco nominations including a win for best music production of the year (2010), along with several other awards. Peter Napolitano (Producing Director) received his training at NYU School of the Arts - The Experimental Theatre Wing, which led to working with two groundbreaking Off Broadway theatres, Charles Ludlam's Ridiculous Theatrical Co. and The Glines. In musical theatre, he was lyricist of Tropicana, book and direction by the legendary George Abbott, produced by Musical Theatre Works; and lyricist/librettist of The Lady in Penthouse B, music by Matthew Ward, produced “Mufti Style” by the York Theatre, starring Nancy Dussault. A member of the prestigious BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, he is currently writing the book and lyrics of That Way and Pinocchio of Chelsea, with composers Barry Levitt and Mark Janas, respectively. For his recent work in virtually every major NY cabaret venue, he received the BMI Bistro Award (director) and three MAC Awards (director, lyricist, producer). Associated with Urban Stages since Jan., 2011, Mr. Napolitano has produced Musical Legends, My Occasion of Sin and Character Man, three annual Winter Rhythms music series and has directed numerous readings and concerts including A Centennial Celebration of Mary Martin. Other highlights of his varied career: directing the early work of Charles Busch; guest lecturing at Manhattan School of Music; contributing editor of The Blockbuster Guide to Movies on Video (Dell); and author of a Modern Love essay for The New York Times. SEAN HAGERTY (Technical Director and Sound Designer) is a composer, violinist, and sound designer specializing in music for theater and dance. Previous projects include sound and music for the off-Broadway production of Around the World in 80 Days (New 45th Street Theater), Then She Fell (Kingsland Ward), Symphony of Shadows (Dixon Place), The Pavilion (Mile Square Theater), The Fall to Earth (59 E 59), Foreign Bodies and Faith (Living Theater, Wild Project), and Steampunk Haunted House (Abrons Arts Center). He has served as technical director at Urban Stages for Honky and Inner Voices and sound engineer for Winter Rhythms, Cabaret Nights, Langston in Harlem, Rewrite, and ReEntry. www.seanhagerty.com. MEGHAN SANTELLI (Lighting Designer) is a New York native and has designed lighting for theatre, dance, and music. She looks forward to working with all the amazing talent brought together on this stage. PATRICK BRENNAN (Scenic/Projection Designer) is a Designer and Technical Director based in Brooklyn. He is the Technical Director at The Stella Adler Studio of Acting and the Assistant Technical Director for New York Stage and Films upcoming Powerhouse season. Patrick's work has been seen around New York at companies and events including NYSAF, Ars Nova, La Mama, and The All For One Festival. Current work can be seen in Tampa, Florida with Town Squares Production of Disenchanted! DONALD WILLIAM MYERS (Production Stage Manager) has been working on and off-Broadway for more than 27 years, stage managing all seven of Jackie Mason’s one-man Broadway shows as well as both his national and international tours. Among other shows that Don has stage managed are Freud’s Last Session both the off-Broadway production and the LA production with Judd Hirsh and Tom Cavanaugh, An Error of the Moon, Flamingo Court, Les Misérables, My Fair Lady, Shanghai Moon, Die Mommie Die and JAP Chronicles the musical. Other credits include Laughing Room Only, Company, The romance of Magno Rubio and the national tour of The Wizard of Oz with Mickey Rooney. Don is thrilled to be working once again with Mr. Brochu. Previously, Don stage managed Mr. Brochu’s The Last Session and the award winning Zero Hour. Most recently Don stage managed the National Theatre Conference at the Eugene O’Neil Center, then an international tour for Shen Wei Dance Arts. Don is a proud member of Actors Equity. MADISON DeCOSKE (Assistant Stage Manager) is thrilled to be working with such an amazing team here at Urban Stages. Madison is a graduate from Point Park University with a BFA in Stage Management and Musical Theater. Some favorite productions include: Around The World in 80 Days at the Pittsburgh Public Theater directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge, The Producers directed by Tome Cousins, A Chorus Line directed by Danny Herman and Time. After Time directed by Gabe Barre at PPU. Madison also spends her summers up at the lovely Eugene O’Neill Theater Center as the ASM for The National Music Theater Conference and Cabaret and Performance Conference. Proud member of AEA. Love to Fof and family. Twitter: @madfof8 |
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