EDUCATION AND WORKSHOPS

• MFA: Musical Theatre Writing, NYU Tisch School of the Arts

• BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop (NYC)

• New Tuners Musical Theatre (Chicago)

 

READINGS AND PROJECTS

New York:

• Farmer Eli's Vacation - one-act adaptation of an 1895 story by Alice Brown (collaborator: Ben Cohn)

• The Dance of Salome - full-length theatrical rock concert (collaborator: James Marler)

• The Big Kahuna - one-act "mor(e)ality play" (collaborator: Brad Aspel).

• Sweat of My Brow - poem selected to be read on National Public Radio's The Next Big Thing, 2002, by the poetry editor of the New Yorker Magazine.

 

Seattle:

• Performance:  Northwest Folklife Festival, Seattle, 1998

Chicago:

• America's Sweetheart - mini-musical selected for New Tuners one-act festival at
  The Theater Building (collaborators: Chris Staton and Jim Stevens)

• Let the Buyer Beware - original song, featured in a New Tuners songwriting
  showcase 

• Who's That Bear - theme song for an animated pilot, Bear #13

• Performances at Earth Day festival 1991, 1992

 

More "recent" projects:

• Connor's Wor - graphic novel examining the common man's role in an extraordinary universe

• One Knight in the Garden of Eden - allegorical musical about Man's troubled relationship with nature

• The Love Pump -  romantic non-musical comedy-drama

 

OTHER WRITING

Co-founded a creative team that had proposals for two children's television programs, "Willa Wonders" and "Sounds Like Willa," under serious consideration at Disney and Noggin (Nickelodeon) in 2003-04. You can also check out other, mostly non-musical writing tidbits here.

 

ALSO

Various performances at coffeehouses, festivals, and around campfires in three countries, none of which are Canada.

Substantial acting experience. Various awards for acting as a youth.

A few honourable mentions from international song contests; occasionally finalist or semi-finalist. No big wins yet! See individual song pages.

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