Vote for Me: A Musical Debate

is a composer, lyricist and playwright living in New York City.  His work includes COLLEGE The Musical (NYMF 2008; pub Dramatic Publishing); Uncle Pirate (commissioned by Vital Theatre, pub. Samuel French); Claudio Bros: A Videogame Musical (commissioned by New Musical Dev’p Fund); and Thucydides (Samuel French OOB Festival Winner).  His original underscore and sound design for Buddy Thomas’ Devil Boys from Beyond (Fringe Best Play ’09) is also published by Samuel French and expected to reopen off-Broadway in Fall 2010.  Drew is a graduate of Princeton University and the BMI Workshop.  www.drewfornarola.com

is a playwright, composer, and sound designer whose work has premiered Off Broadway, Off Off Broadway, around the country, and internationally.  Writing credits include COLLEGE The Musical (NYMF 2008; Dramatic Publishing Company) and Thucydides (Samuel French OOB Festival Winner).  Sound design credits include Colin Quinn Long Story Short (Bleecker Street Theater), What I Took in My Hand (Ontological-Hysteric Theater; Brick Theater), Daguerreotype (Abingdon Theater), We Can’t Reach You, Hartford (Bedlam Theater; Fringe First nomination), and Joyce Carol Oates’ Tone Clusters (Fringe Report Award, Best Play).  Scott is a graduate of Princeton University.  www.scottelmegreen.com

is the Director of the BFA Musical Theatre Program at Pace University in New York City, where she created and developed the BFA Musical Theatre degree program. Amy’s professional and academic directing credits include the original workshops of Quanah (Larry Gatlin), Darling (Ryan Scott Oliver/B.T Ryback), COLLEGE The Musical (Fornarola, Elmegreen), the R&B musical Warm, But I’m a Cheerleader (conceptual director), Hoods and Hoofers (Rob Lindsay Nassif) and LUCK! (Brad Ross and Mark Waldrop). Full productions include: City of Angels, Ragtime, Damn Yankees, Carousel, The Wild Party (Lippa), and The Most Happy Fella, among others. Amy assisted critically acclaimed director Lonny Price on the pre-Broadway workshop of 110 in The Shade, the Emmy Award-winning Passion for Live at Lincoln Center on PBS; Candide with the New York Philharmonic; Anyone Can Whistle at the Ravinia Festival, and both Kismet and Can-Can with Encores! at City Center.

REGIONAL: Fly-By-Night (Theatre Works), Band Geeks! (Goodspeed), Plagued (NYMF).  SIGNATURE THEATRE: Sweeney Todd, Les Miserables, See What I Wanna See, Ace, Anyone Can Whistle, The Hollow.  KENNEDY CENTER: Broadway: Three Generations. COMPOSITION: Office Space: The Musical, A Question of Faith.  Second year composer, BMI’s Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Writing Workshop.  UPCOMING: Snow White, Rose Red (and Fred) (Kennedy Center).  EDUCATION: Yale, B.A., Music.