NYMF 2012 is supported by a grant from the Theatre Subdistrict Council, LDC
 

Aspiring writer Keith has been a temp in a wacky office’s soul crushing cubicle for six years. When an evil nemesis emerges to squash his coffee-stained hopes and dreams, Keith makes a decision that causes him to get summarily fired… with security escorts and everything! Naturally he retaliates by writing a musical. Based on a true-ish story. Some names have been changed to protect the guilty.

Approximate Runtime: 1:30, no intermission

Approximate Running Time: 1:30; no intermission

THEMES:     Comedy  |  Spoof/Satire  | Office politics, Revenge, Writing, High notes.

Keith Varney
Keith Varney (Book, Music & Lyrics)

Born and raised in small town Vermont, Keith has been a musical theater performer & writer almost all of his life. After a wacky detour into classical music (a degree in voice from the Eastman School of Music), he moved to NYC to pursue his life-long dream of being a struggling actor working as a temp in an office. He has also written the music & lyrics to Elway: The Musical (Book by Devon Goffman) Joshua: The Musical (Book by Tom Hallett) & the ten-minute musical  Scooby Doosical (Book by Steve Wargo) at Tax Deductable Theatre’s Dare Project. Keith is normally an excellent employee and has only been fired once.  www.keithrvarney.com

 
Kelly Karbacz
Kelly Karbacz (Jenny)

 
Toni DiBuono
Toni DiBuono (Kathy)

 
Devon Goffman
Devon Goffman (Steven)

 
Michael  Thomas Holmes
Michael Thomas Holmes (Mike/Dr Weinberg)

 
Collin Leydon
Collin Leydon (Rick)

 
EJ Zimmerman
EJ Zimmerman (Chen)

 
Robyn Corujo
Robyn Corujo (Maria)

 
Shana Barone
Shana Barone (Mertle/Swing)

 
Steve  Bebout
Steve Bebout (Director)

Steve Bebout is currently the Associate Director of THE ADDAMS FAMILY on Broadway, as well as the show's upcoming National Tour.  He is also working with Jerry Zaks on the World Premiere of Randy Newman's HARPS AND ANGELS, which will play the Mark Taper Forum this Fall.  Steve was the Associate Director of 101 DALMATIANS The Musical, and was involved in various capacities on the Broadway productions of BILLY ELLIOT, CABABRET and EPIC PROPORTIONS.  Regional and Stock directing credits include multiple productions of BUDDY: The Buddy Holly Story, THE FULL MONTY, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, ALWAYS...PATSY CLINE, ALMOST HEAVEN and THE NIGHT THE MUSIC DIED.  He has directed several Off-Off Broadway World Premieres, and developed many new works, including THE BOOTH VARIATIONS, featuring Todd & Michael Cerveris, which was produced by Steve's company, The Moonshine Project. As a guest director for NYU, Steve directed URINETOWN and BYE-BYE BIRDIE.  He is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.

 
Dontee  Kiehn
Dontee Kiehn (Choreographer)

Dontee presently serves as Associate Choreographer for the new Broadway musicals The Addams Family and Next to Normal. Choreographic credits include The Winter's Tale (Public Theater at the Delacorte), Pride and Prejudice (Eastman Theater), Romeo and Juliet (Pennsylvania Shakespeare), original ballets for Bay Area Houston Ballet and Theater, as well as collaborations on the musicals Saved (Playwrights Horizons), They're Playing Our Song (Actor's Fund Concert) and the Maurice Sendak designed Hansel and Gretel (Houston Grand Opera). In the past, Dontee has been employed to appear onstage in the original Broadway revival companies of Gypsy (starring Bernadette Peters) and 42nd Street, but is most excited about getting "Fired" with NYMF!

 
Doug Oberhamer
Doug Oberhamer (Musical Director)

DOUG OBERHAMER- has been involved in musical theater for over 25 years.  He has Music Directed and/or performed in Broadway, Off-Broadway, Regional productions and International tours including Thoroughly Modern Millie(MD), Swing!(MD), Reel To Real(MD/Composer), Wanda's World(MD), Race For Love(MD/Composer), Gemini(AMD), Flight of the Lawnchair Man(MD), Crazy for You(MD), Saturday Night Fever(AMD), Frankenstein(MD), My Vaudeville Man(MD, Arr./Orch.), Nunsense(MD), Hello Dolly(MD), The Sound of Music(MD), Mud Donahue and Son(MD), Foreign Correspondence(MD/Arr./Orch.), Women on the Verge(MD, Arr./Orch.), The A**hole In My Head(MD), Love Stories(MD), Seeing Stars(MD), Romance Romance(trumpet/drums), The Apple Tree, Annie, Seesaw, Little Death(MD,Arr./Orch.), Battling Butler(piano), The Golem(piano), The Asshole in My Head(MD, Arr./Orch), Love Stories(MD, Arr.), Rings(AMD) and No No Nanette.  He can be heard as the featured trumpet soloist on the Sony Classics Grammy nominated recording of Swing! (Original Broadway Cast recording) as well as MCA Records Vanessa Daou "Slow to Burn" and recently collaborated with Nile Rodgers on DoubleTime.  He was nominated for a Jefferson Award for his work on Swing! in Chicago and won a 2008 Bistro Award for excellence in Musical Direction and Arranging/Orchestrating for Little Death.    It is great to be working once again with Keith Varney and this outstanding cast. 

 
Liz  Ulmer
Liz Ulmer (Producer)

Liz is proud to join the “Fired” community! (But only for the purposes of this show - she holds several jobs and does not wish to be terminated from any of them.)  Liz is an Associate Producer with the New York Musical Theatre Festival, and previously worked in NYMF’s literary office.  Last year, she co-produced (with Marnie Klar) LIFT: A Concert to Benefit Artists Striving to End Poverty at the Laurie Beechman Theatre. As a performer, Liz has worked with NYC Opera, Astoria Performing Arts Center, and several individual directors and writers.  Her performing credits include roles with New York Stage and Film, Fulton Opera House, Great American Melodrama and The Actors Studio.  She is a graduate of Ithaca College's Department of Theatre Arts.  Many thanks to Steve 1, Steve 2, Keith, Greg and Kendra.

 
Steve  Wargo
Steve Wargo (Producer/General Manager)

Steve is excited and proud to join the "I Got Fired" team for NYMF 2010. His first producing effort was at the age of 16 in his native Pittsburgh with a production of "Breaking Legs" by Tom Dulak.  In the many moons since, he has worked as an actor, singer, director, designer, educator, writer and box office slave. From 2001-2008, he was the founding Artistic Director of Personal Space Theatrics in NYC. NY directing credits include the first NYC revival of David Ives' "Don Juan in Chicago," the US Premieres of the Canadian comedies "The Duchess... a.k.a Wallis Simpson" and "Orchidelirium," and five stagings of his adaptation of "Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol.'"  NY producing credits include the World Premieres of "Nictotine" by Julien Schwab and "Myth America," an ensemble-written piece by writers Rachel Axler, Ian Cohen, Brian Dykstra, Jason Grote, Israel Horovitz, Arthur Kopit, Matthew Paul Olmos, Theresa Rebeck, Julien Schwab, Saviana Stanescu and Lloyd Suh; the NY Premiere of "Murder" by Israeli playwright Hanoch Levin at PS 122 and the first NYC revival of a revised "BecauseHeCan" by Arthur Kopit. Most recently, he wrote the book for and directed "Scooby-Doosical" with Keith Varney and directed Robert McMaster's "Drawing Jack," both for taxdeductible theatre's Dare Project, and is co-writing the book for "Jurassic Parq: The Broadway Musical" (you heard that right) with Marshall Pailet for the 2010 Fringe.  A proud graduate of Syracuse University's BFA Musical Theater program and member of SDC and the Dramatists Guild, Steve has been fired only once, but dedicates his work on this kickass new musical to the festering memory of the fart-eating cow who canned him from that soulless two-star UWS restaurant way back when.  Twitter: wargodirects.

 
Stephanie M Leaf
Stephanie M Leaf (Associate Producer)

This is Stephanie's first production with NYMF and is thrilled to be working with the amazing cast and creatives for I Got Fired. Stephanie has a BA from Pace University in Theatre Arts and an MA from Goldsmiths University in Musical Theatre Producing. New York Production credits include The Tempest, Henry Street Settlement, Into the Woods, Schimmel Center for the Arts, A Perfect Ganesh, Schaeberle Studio, etc. London Production credits include Rent Remixed, The Duke of York, Songs For A New World, George Wood Theatre, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?!, George Wood Theatre, etc.

 
Greg Cicchino (Associate Producer)

 
Kendra Kay
Kendra Kay (Associate Producer)

 
Czerton Lim
Czerton Lim (Set Designer)

Czerton Lim has been fired only once, and to his credit he wasn’t the only one let go when the theater he was working for decided to call it quits four days before Christmas.  He decided that this must be a sign and went back to school to get his MFA at the University of Washington in Seattle where he designed Mother Courage and Her Children, Execution of Justice, Macbeth, and Panophobia for UW School of Drama, and Harvest and The Glass Menagerie for the Ethnic Cultural Theatre.  Now living in NYC with his gainfully employed wife, three cats, and a baby on the way, he recently designed Medea for Theater Mitu, The Fake History of George the Last for Theater for the New City, Tidings Brought to Mary for Storm Theatre, Bye Bye Birdie (w/ Steve Bebout) for CAP21, Out Cry for NAATCO, and Playhouse Creatures and Three Sisters for Columbia University.  Outside of the city, he consistently works for Merry Go Round Playhouse designing Promises, Promises and Man of La Mancha, The Full Monty and Little Shop of Horrors (w/ Steve Bebout – who hasn’t fired him, YET), Smokey Joe’s Café, and Forever Plaid.  He is originally from the Philippines.  www.czlimdesign.com

 
Joe Trentacosta (Press Representative)

SPRINGER ASSOCIATES PR is a full service entertainment PR firm founded by the late John Springer. The principal of the company is Gary Springer (ATPAM), with associates Joseph Trentacosta (ATPAM). For over 40 years Springer Associates PR has and continues to manage a wide and diverse clientele ranging from theatre and film to personalities and events. Under John Springer, SPRINGER ASSOCIATES represented many theatre, film and television personalities including Al Pacino, Mia Farrow, Ed Harris, Myrna Loy, Shelley Winters, Sally Kirkland, Dustin Hoffman, Lauren Bacall, Jamie Sheridan, Maureen Stapleton, Harry Belafonte, Carrie Fisher, Robert Merrill, Janet Leigh, Maureen O’Sullivan, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Henry Fonda, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Marlene Dietrich, Robert Preston, Bette Davis, Warren Beatty, Julie Christy, Joan Crawford and many, many others.


Theatrically, Springer Associates PR has represented and/or advised clients on Broadway, Off-Broadway and not-for-profit theatre companies. Recent projects include the African American revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (James Earl Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Terrence Howard and Anika Noni Rose), Broadway musical Hot Feet and up-coming Broadway productions of shows include Treasure Island and Busker Alley with Jim Dale. Current Off-Broadway productions include Krapp, 39, Blanche Survives Katrina in a FEMA Trailer Named Desire, The Gazillion Bubble Show (New World Stages, Las Vegas), Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage (Shotgun Players/ Abrons Art Center). Non-Profit Theatre Companies include: AMAS Musicals, Babel Theatre Project, Boomerang Theatre, Broken Watch Theater, Our Time Theatre Company, Resonance Ensemble, TADA! Youth Theater, and Urban Stages.

 
Theresa  Flanagan
Theresa Flanagan (Production Stage Manager)


Theresa is proud to say that she has never been fired.  She is currently a resident stage manager with Transport Group and recently closed an extended run of "See Rock City and Other Destinations" at The Duke Theatre.  Other stage management credits include work with Rosie's Broadway Kids, Clubbed Thumb, Boomerang Theatre Co, Bay Street Theatre, Galveston Island Musicals, Broadway Cares-Equity Fights AIDS and the national tour of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes".  Proud AEA Member.



 

 
Margaret Morton
Margaret Morton (ASM, Production Manager)


Just recently finished her training in Stage Management from The Theatre School at DePaul University! Originally from the great state of New Jersey, Margaret graduated from Ranney School. At Ranney, Margaret performed as stage manager for a host of productions, including Antigone, The Crucible, Applause, Macbeth, and Twelfth Night. Her Stage Management Theatre School credits include Graduate Showcase ’10, Holes, Dancing at Lughnasa, Hurrah for the Next Who Dies, and Stone Cold Dead Serious. Her assistant stage management Theatre School credits include References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, The BFG, Burial at Thebes, and Urinetown. Outside of the Theatre School, she has served as the assistant stage manager for Light Opera Theater’s Pirates of Penzance, and New Jersey Opera Theatre’s Romeo et Juliette


 

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Credit: Music & Lyrics by Keith Varney

I Got Fired
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Kathy's Office Down The Hall
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Office Warfare
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On My Way
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I Got Fired Press Release: Broadway World

Presented by Moonshine Productions and The New York Musical Theatre Festival, I Got Fired: A Semi-Autobiographical, Sort-of-True Revenge Musical, will premiere at 2010 NYMF beginning Friday, October 1 - October 10 at TBG Theatre (312 West 36th Street.).

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I Got Fired's Launch Party!

I Got Fired will have its Launch Party on Monday June 28 at House of Brews (51st & 8th) from 6:00PM - Midnight. 

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