DARRYL CURRY (Composer/Musical Director), a member of the Dramatists Guild, works as a composer, lyricist, playwright and musical director. He wrote incidental music for the 20th Anniversary production in New York of The Elephant Man, and has had two musical works commissioned - “The 46th Street Mass,” commissioned by St. Clement's Episcopal Church in New York, and the sung ballet “My Shadow,” based on the Robert Louis Stevenson poem, commissioned by the Staten Island Ballet. Previously he was a playwright/composer-in-residence at The Third Step Theatre Company in New York. Third Step produced his musicals THE ELEPHANT PIECE and QUITTERS. He's written two full-length plays, BLUE SKIES and HEAVENLY SUNLIGHT, and a performance monologue called 'Time's Here' which received a production in Atlanta by The Parenthesis Theatre Club. He has had concert readings of his musical DORIAN GRAY at the Theatre @ St. Clements in New York City; his musical GEORGE Q (with book and lyrics by MK Wolfe) was staged at St. Clement's in 2000 and was excerpted at NJ Rep’s Theatre Brut Festival in 2006; and MESMERIZED (with lyrics by MK Wolfe and book by Al D’Andrea) was produced at Snowlion Rep in ME in 2019. Also in Portland, in 2014, his musical THE ELEPHANT PIECE was produced by the Snowlion Repertory Company. Mr. Curry is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music; he got his M. M. from Temple University and he is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy.
GREG MULLAVEY (Co-Producer)
Veteran of over 100 plays. Broadway: Starred as Mia Farrow's husband in Romantic Comedy; Lenny in Rumors; Merv in the Broadway National Tour of The Sisters Rosensweig. Recent Off-Broadway: Grandfather in Final Follies at the Cherry Lane; opposite Marlo Thomas in Clever Little Lies; Milton Saltzman, holocaust survivor, The Soap Myth at The Roundabout Complex. Regional favorites: King Lear as Lear in OK City's Center; The Price at The Guthrie; Shylock in The Merchant of Venice and Gayev in The Cherry Orchard opposite Alfred Molina at LA's Odyssey. TV/Film: hundreds from 'Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice' to 'Mash' to 'Gunsmoke' to 'I, Carly'...Current: TV pilot 'House Arrest' and short film, 'Bliss' w/Louise Lasser. Best Known: Tom Hartman on the 70s hit 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman'. |
JOLENE ADAMS (Director, co-author: Vampingo; Director: Moonbite) is the Artistic Director of Actors Art Collective (a member of The Los Angeles Stage Alliance), which she founded in New York City. Jolene produced her first Equity production, THE RUNNER STUMBLES, at the Collective Actors Theatre in NYC and has since produced and directed over fifty productions. She produced, developed and starred in the Drama-Logue Award winning ADAM & EVA MARIE at Actors Art Theatre. She developed and directed the critically acclaimed, Ovation Award nominated hit, BOILER ROOM by Dan Fante at both AAT in LA & The Pantheon in NYC. (Selected as one of the most notable plays of the year by Don Shirley of The LA Times), Cathy Ladman’s solo show, SCARDEYPANTS for HBO Independent Productions/The US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. In addition to VAMPINGO, she directed and co-wrote AAT’s last four productions, F BUDDY(BackStage West Critic's Pick), RESIGNATION (featured in DailyCandy and recommended by the LA Weekly) and ONE CRAZY LADY, Jenica Bergere’s ("Drew Carey Show", "Men Behaving Badly") solo show and developed Mike Dugan's (Emmy Award winning comedian) MEN FAKE FOREPLAY. Jolene starred as ‘Dolores’ in the critically acclaimed, world premiere of Edward Allen Baker’s CRYING ROCKS at The Laurelgrove Theatre and ‘Gretty’ in GRETTY GOOD TIME at The Falcon Theatre, directed by Joe Regalbuto. She’s featured in Larry Silverberg’s book, GUIDE TO QUALIFIED ACTING COACHES and taught for the NYU Theatre Program at the Harold Clurman Theatre. She is very happy to have gone on this magical journey with Ariana and looks forward to wrangling any other stray demons we can find!
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