Mark Hollmann
Music
Mark Hollmann won the Tony Award®, the National Broadway Theatre Award, and the Obie Award for his music and lyrics to URINETOWN THE MUSICAL, which went from the 1999 New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC) to receiving 10 Tony Award® nominations and 11 Drama Desk Award nominations and winning the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Drama League Award, and the Lucille Lortel Award for best musical.
His other shows as composer/lyricist include THE STING (Paper Mill Playhouse), ZM (Village Theatre Beta Series), YEAST NATION (FringeNYC 2011) and BIGFOOT AND OTHER LOST SOULS (Perseverance Theatre).
For TV, he has written songs for the Disney Channel's JOHNNY AND THE SPRITES.
He is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) and the Dramatists Guild of America and has served on the council of the Dramatists Guild as well as on the Tony Award® Nominating Committee.
His other shows as composer/lyricist include THE STING (Paper Mill Playhouse), ZM (Village Theatre Beta Series), YEAST NATION (FringeNYC 2011) and BIGFOOT AND OTHER LOST SOULS (Perseverance Theatre).
For TV, he has written songs for the Disney Channel's JOHNNY AND THE SPRITES.
He is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) and the Dramatists Guild of America and has served on the council of the Dramatists Guild as well as on the Tony Award® Nominating Committee.
Marc Acito
Director
MARC ACITO directed BASTARD JONES (cell theatre), for which he wrote the book and co-wrote the lyrics.
Broadway: ALLEGIANCE.
Regional: CHASING RAINBOWS (Goodspeed); A ROOM WITH A VIEW (5th Avenue, Old Globe). BIRDS OF A FEATHER (Hub Theater, Helen Hayes Award). Other work includes IT’S A SECRET, a jukebox musical in Mandarin for Broadway Asia; and THE MAN IN THE MOON, an Ensemble Studio Theater / Sloan Foundation commission, about the Apollo space program.
Winner of the Ken Kesey Award for his novel HOW I PAID FOR COLLEGE,
Marc is currently developing projects with Junk Yard Dog, producers of Come From Away, Nederlander Worldwide and is preparing to direct his first independent feature, a film adaptation of BASTARD JONES.
He’s a proud member of the Dramatists Guild, MENSA and Weight Watchers.
Broadway: ALLEGIANCE.
Regional: CHASING RAINBOWS (Goodspeed); A ROOM WITH A VIEW (5th Avenue, Old Globe). BIRDS OF A FEATHER (Hub Theater, Helen Hayes Award). Other work includes IT’S A SECRET, a jukebox musical in Mandarin for Broadway Asia; and THE MAN IN THE MOON, an Ensemble Studio Theater / Sloan Foundation commission, about the Apollo space program.
Winner of the Ken Kesey Award for his novel HOW I PAID FOR COLLEGE,
Marc is currently developing projects with Junk Yard Dog, producers of Come From Away, Nederlander Worldwide and is preparing to direct his first independent feature, a film adaptation of BASTARD JONES.
He’s a proud member of the Dramatists Guild, MENSA and Weight Watchers.
Drew Gasparini
Music
Drew Gasparini (music & additional lyrics) is a multi-hyphenate talent; an award-winning musical theatre composer and lyricist, a multi-instrumentalist, a singer-songwriter, a comedian, and a teacher. He’s featured on Playbill.com’s lists of “Contemporary Musical Theatre Songwriters You Should Know”, and “Writers You Should Know.”
In development, music and lyrics for: NIGHT SHIFT, IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY, THE WHIPPING BOY, #UNTITLEDPOPMUSICAL.
In development, music and lyrics for: NIGHT SHIFT, IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY, THE WHIPPING BOY, #UNTITLEDPOPMUSICAL.
Kia Beth Kofron
Book & Lyrics
Kia is a proud musical theatre nerd with a passable "shower singing" voice.
After graduate school, and a successful career building international brands, she literally dreamt the plot of Rocky Mountain High and of writing it with her son. This is her first musical.
Dramatists Guild member.
After graduate school, and a successful career building international brands, she literally dreamt the plot of Rocky Mountain High and of writing it with her son. This is her first musical.
Dramatists Guild member.
Cooper Kofron
Book & Lyrics
Cooper is a third year student at Princeton University, where he is a proud member of the Princeton Triangle Club.
He performs regularly in plays and musicals. To his surprise and dismay, he has been consistently typecast as either drunk (LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, GIRLS LIKE THAT), dead (SHUDDERSOME: TALES OF POE, LUCKY STIFF, EURYDICE, LES MISERABLES), or some combination thereof (OUR TOWN).
His dream musical theatre role is anything with a pulse.
His first two short plays, TRADITION and OVER MY DEAD BODY, were produced at Curious Theatre in Denver in 2019 and 2020 respectively. Dramatists Guild member.
He performs regularly in plays and musicals. To his surprise and dismay, he has been consistently typecast as either drunk (LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, GIRLS LIKE THAT), dead (SHUDDERSOME: TALES OF POE, LUCKY STIFF, EURYDICE, LES MISERABLES), or some combination thereof (OUR TOWN).
His dream musical theatre role is anything with a pulse.
His first two short plays, TRADITION and OVER MY DEAD BODY, were produced at Curious Theatre in Denver in 2019 and 2020 respectively. Dramatists Guild member.