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ALBERT TAPPER
(Book, Music & Lyrics)
Albert Tapper is a writer, composer and lyricist having written
three off-Broadway musicals. He wrote his first musical while still
in college in which he was paid the unheard of sum for that time of
twenty dollars. Since then he has written special material for
regional productions and has produced two albums of his own songs.
He composed the ballet The Seduction of Bathsheba whose premiere
performance at Mechanics Hall was presented by the Central
Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra. His Off-Broadway show, Imperfect
Chemistry for which he composed the music and created the story,
opened at the Minetta Lane Theater in New York in April of 2000.
From Where I Stand, a musical revue, opened at the Laurie Beechman
Theatre in March of 2003. Al has written five books on humor that
were published by Andrews McMeel and Company and MJF Publishing. The
books are titled, A Guy Goes Into a Bar; A Minister, A Priest, And a
Rabbi; A Guy Goes Into a Doctor’s Office; A Guy Goes Into a Gym; and
Flunked. His stage play Bettinger’s Luggage has been adapted as a
film to be shot in New York in 2007. He has just completed a new
non-musical play titled, Conversations with Max. Al produced the
award winning film Broadway: The Golden Age. He would like to thank
Martha Rosenblatt who co-wrote, with him, the words for “I Saw the
Rest of My Life.” A very special thanks to Dr. David Hescheles, his
college roommate, on whom he based the character of Dr. Peterson. Al
is a member of the Dramatists’ Guild of America and a member of
ASCAP (American Society of Composers and Publishers).
STEVEN PETRILLO
(Director/Choreographer)
Has been associated with Sessions since July of 2005, having
directed various workshops and readings of the musical over these
many months. Regionally, he has won critical acclaim for directing
the east coast premiere of Route 66, a musical tribute to The Mother
Road, in The Berkshires, and Rumors for Parkside Players, as well as
for his choreography for regional productions of Fiddler on the Roof
and Love! Valour! Compassion! In addition, he has collaborated on a
couple of new musicals for development as part of The York Theatre
Company’s Developmental reading series. Steven has also been
Associate Director-Choreographer on many musicals in theatres across
the country including North Shore Music Theatre, Westchester
Broadway Theatre, The North Carolina Theatre, Theatre Under the
Stars, The La Mirada Theatre, and Seattle’s-Fifth Ave Theatre, among
others. An Associate Producer/Director with Algonquin Productions,
as well as Director of Musical Theatre Development with The WorkShop
Theatre, both on West 36th Street, Steven has kept himself busy
helming a handful of new plays, readings and benefits over the past
few years. As a performer, Steven’s Broadway & Production National
Tour credits include Peter Pan, starring Cathy Rigby (’99 & ’05),
Man of La Mancha, starring Robert Goulet, and Jesus Christ Superstar
starring Carl Anderson. FILM & T.V: “Law & Order C.I.”, opposite
Vincent D’Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe, and the NBC mini-series “A Will
of Their Own”, opposite Lea Thompson and Thomas Gibson, as well as
appearances in “Peter Pan” and “The Stepford Wives”. Mr. Petrillo
thanks Al and Tony very much for this incredible journey.
PETER BARBIERI, JR.
(Scenic/Costume Design)
An established force in the theatre since 1979, has created works
that extensively toured over 175 cities throughout the United States
and abroad. As Resident Scenic Designer for the Westchester Broadway
Theatre he designed scenery and special F/X for Jekyll & Hyde,
Phantom, Crazy For You, and CATS to name a few. Broadway credits
include Technical Direction of the highly acclaimed revival of
Cabaret (Tony Award best revival), and A View From a Bridge. Foreign
productions include, Red Hot & Blue in Shanghai China and CATS in
Copenhagen Denmark. Peter is the Artistic Director and Resident
Designer for Curtain Call Inc. a non profit theatre in Stamford, CT.
He is the founder and Director of Curtain Call’s Shakespeare on the
Green now in its fourth summer. Recent projects include Direction of
The Hot’l Baltimore and The Rimers of Eldritch and the scenic design
for Disney’s Beauty and the Beast at The Walnut Street Theatre. In
May of ’07 he directed West Side Story at Sing Sing Prison as part
of the Rehabilitation Through the Arts Program. Peter is very
excited to be working with Steve Petrillo and the wonderful cast and
creative team on Sessions. Special thanks to Michelle, for all of
your hard work and DD, this ones for you!
DEBORAH CONSTANTINE
(Lighting Designer)
Recent designs include: The Crucible, Capitol Repertory Theater,
Albany; The Magic Flute, New York University; Murder on the Nile and
Dames at Sea, Emelin Theatre, Mamaroneck. Other designs and
companies include: Bronx Opera (Barber of Seville, La Traviata, La
Boheme); The Hanger Theater (Rough Magic, To Kill a Mockingbird);
Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Manchester Girl); Hartford Theaterworks (Santaland
Diaries, Molly Sweeney, Lonesome West); Two River Theater Company
(The Heiress, American Buffalo, Blood Wedding); Westport Country
Playhouse (Three Days of Rain); Williamsburg Theatre Festival (The
Big Knife); WorkShop Theater Company (Caseload, The Forever Waltz,
Iphegenia); You Can’t Take It With You, Fuddy Meers, Proof (Capitol
Repertory Theater); A Midsummer Nights Dream, Mad Forest (New York
University); Blue Light Theatre Company (Waiting for Lefty, Golden
Boy); Tangent Theater Company; Primary Stages; Barrington Stage
Company.
WALLACE J. FLORES
(Sound Design)
Design: Max Pollak’s RumbaTap (Joyce SoHo), Tap City (the New York
City Tap Festival), Tap City (Tour), Barbara Duffy & Co. (Virginia &
Germany), Petula Clark and David Cassidy in Concert (S.F.), Camelot
(Nat’l Tour), Moby Dick, Ain’t Broadway Grand (Pre-Broadway),
Oklahoma, Peter Pan (Regional), I’ve Got Plans For The Rest of My
Life (L.A.). Associate Design: Sister Act (Pre-Broadway), Speaks
Dog, Beauty and The Beast (Tour). Assistant Design: The Great
American Trailer Park Musical (Off-Broadway), Once Around The Sun
(Off-Broadway), Whoopi Live On Broadway (NY), Bea Arthur Just
Between Friends (NY), Falsettos (Tour and L.A.), Man of la Mancha
(NY). Production Sound Engineer: Moon For The Misbegotten
(Broadway), Sister Act (Pre-Broadway), The Odd Couple (NY), Little
Shop of Horrors (NY).
STEVEN GROSS
(Musical Arrangements/Orchestrations/Musical Supervision)
Orchestration/Arrangement work includes: Pirates of Penzance (Lortel
Nomination), Chess (Newest version with Abba), new musical about
Marilyn Monroe premiering this summer in Europe, dance arranger for
Berlin’s Friedrichstadt Palast. Also West German Radio Orchestra and
Orchestra de Paris. As Music Director/Pianist includes: Broadway:
Spelling Bee, Wedding Singer (Sub), Urinetown (also European
Premiere), The Life (also European premiere), A Little Night Music
(City Opera). Opera conducting work includes: Hamburg and Berlin
State Operas, Zurich Opera, English National Opera. Concert
conducting work includes: West German Radio Orchestra, Orchestre de
Monte Carlo, Sao Paolo Symphony Orchestra, Macau Festival.
CHERYL SWIFT
(Assistant Director/Choreographer)
Has more than 60 musicals and revues to her credits as a
Choreographer or Director. The Spickner Spin won the Audience
Favorite Award at the NY International Fringe Festival. For Disney
she was dance/fight captain/swing in Beauty and the Beast on
Broadway. She portrayed Grizabella in the German productions of
CATS. She has created digital animation choreography for the
“Cabbage Patch Kids Movie” and worked with Twyla Tharp in her
premiere choreography workshop. This autumn she choreographed FAME
for the Hotchkiss school. Many thanks to Steven for bringing me on
board. Thanks also to Margaret for my group therapy experience.
Member of the SSDC.
B.D. WHITE
(Production Manager)
Previous productions include: Some Girl(s), Frozen, A Very Common
Procedure, Fat Pig, Runt of the Litter, A Letter from Ethel Kennedy,
The Mercy Seat, Scattergood, Intrigue With Faye, Bright Ideas, The
Distance From Here, What of the Night, Colder Than Here, Nixon’s
Nixon, The Wooden Breeks, Temporary Help, Cheat, Hard Feelings,
Aloha Las Vegas, Birth of the Boom, The Strange Case of Mary Todd
Lincoln, Bitter Lemon, Nuyorican Stories, Night of the Assassins,
St. Lucy’s Eyes, Leaving Queens, Underneath the Lintel, Sophie
Tottie and Bell, Songs of Paradise, Buicks, and Monsieur Ibrahim and
the Flowers of the Koran. Brian has also toured with Jam on the
Groove, the Hip-Hop dance Musical, The Core Ensemble, and the
Elevator Repair Service production of Gatz.
CINDI RUSH
(Casting Director)
NY: Jacques Brel, Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks, The Thing About
Men, Showtune, I Sing, Urinetown, Say Goodnight Gracie Regional:
Triad Stage, Northern Stage Company, Cape Cod Theatre Project. Maltz
Jupiter, Fla. NOHO Arts Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville.
Pittsburgh Public, LA, Film: “Home Movie”, “The Girl Next Door”,
“The Chain”, “Headspace”, “Funny Valentine”, “Master Class” Other:
“Hats” Denver, New Orleans, Chicago. Tour Upcoming: Made for Each
Other (Summer 2007) The Thief (Summer 2007) Casting Society of
America Member, Consultant for National Alliance For Musical
Theatres, Consultant for NYU Graduate Program for Musical Theatre
Writing.
FRAN MINARIK
(Music Director)
Most recently, appeared on-stage accompanying Jackie Hoffman in The
J.A.P. Show. His music has recently been heard in When Ocean Meets
Sky, a documentary history of Fire Island Pines (currently airing on
LOGO), and in the short film The Rub, directed by James Horvath and
starring Michelle Pawk and Karen Ziemba. His recent Musical
Direction/Conducting credits include the Broadway production of In
My Life (Assoc. Conductor), My Way and Smokey Joe’s Cafe at the
Lyric Theatre in Oklahoma City and 1776 at Ford’s Theatre in
Washington, D.C. He orchestrated the opening for Broadway Bares XII:
A Comic Strip and appeared with Susan Lucci on “All My
Children”.Upcoming projects include a score for the documentary The
Making of “The Boys in the Band” and the release of a new version of
Auld Lang Syne on the sound track of Two Front Teeth, a Christmas
horror film. He designs ring tones for petlounge.net and is the
president of his own project studio, REDCAT Music.
BRAD GORE
(Production Stage Manager)
Cycle (Cherry Lane Theater), True West (Edinburgh Festival Fringe,
Scotland), Four Score and Seven Years Ago (US Tour), Live Coverage
(NYC Fringe Festival), LOL (Midtown International Theater Festival),
How I Learned to Drive (Ten NYIT Award Nominations), Hecuba (with
Heather Tom, Kristin Linklater), Pineapple and Henry (with Ellen
Dolan) Crying Out Loud (13th Street Repertory Theatre), Better
Living, Last Summer at Bluefish Cove (T. Schreiber Studio), Adopt a
Sailor (Unofficial NY Yale Cabaret), Hello I Must Be Going,
Schoolgirl Figure, Andy & Edie, Private Lives of the Third Reich,
Two Rooms, Women of Manhattan, among others.
MAX DANIEL WEINSTEIN
(Assistant Stage Manager)
Has stage managed throughout New York City and has worked in the
production offices of Second Stage Theatre and The Public Theater/NYSF.
In addition he is the Production Manager for Ten Grand Productions
Inc.
CHRIS JOHNSON
(Property Master)
Chris is currently serving as the Treasurer for Ten Grand
Productions, and has credits as an actor, carpenter, and props. He
has over 14 years of scenic carpentry experience, including an
internship with Berkshire Theatre Festival, and numerous regional
and community theater productions. With Ten Grand, he has played
Henry Stengal in Titanic Voices while serving as Associate Producer.
Chris has enjoyed collaborating with Algonquin Productions, and is
very grateful for the opportunity to be involved with this great new
production.
TONY SPORTIELLO
(Executive Producer)
Has been the Artistic Director of Algonquin Theater Productions
since its inception in 2004. Prior to that he was Artistic Director
of the WorkShop Theater Company and Madison Avenue Theater Company.
He has been involved with Sessions since the beginning and is
thrilled to be a part of this very special experience. Thanks to all
involved, especially his lovely fiancé, Kelli.
JASON HEWITT
(Executive Producer)
Jason Hewitt’s productions have been nominated for three New York
Innovative Theater Awards. For Ten Grand Productions, he has
produced several recent projects, among them the reading of P. Seth
Bauer’s new play Early in the Mourning at Signature Theatre’s Peter
Norton Space featuring Estelle Parsons, Jerry Stiller, Peter
Frechette and Tim Peper. Titanic Voices, Ten Grand’s re-enactment of
the Senate Disaster Hearings of 1912, has been presented at The
Waldorf=Astoria, The National Arts Club, The New York Historical
Society, among other locations both in Manhattan and abroad.
Following its run at The Cherry Lane Alternative, his production of
Masquerade was honored with the 2005 NYIT Award for Outstanding
Scenic Design by Michael Allen. For the past two seasons, he has
served as the director of the Cold Cuts Reading Series for new works
at the Actor’s Chapel in Manhattan. Other venues that he has
presented projects at include The Barrow Street Theater, The Blue
Heron Arts Center, Lincoln Center Theatre Institute, The Players and
The Directors Company. Aside from his work as a producer, he was the
Assistant Director for the National Tour of Oklahoma! and served as
the Assistant Technical Production Manager for both the Broadway
revival of Les Misérables and the Los Angeles production of Wicked.
For ten years, he served on the staff of Alan Wasser Associates and
Cameron Mackintosh Inc. For Alan Wasser and Allan Williams with all
thanks possible.
LIQUID PRODUCTIONS
(General Management)
Sharon Osowski and Joan Pelzer co-founded Liquid Productions in 2002
to produce original work. Liquid Productions produced Tony
Sportiello’s LOL in the Midtown International Theatre Festival 2006.
They co-produced the original Off-Off-Broadway comedies The Chosen
Wife at Altered Stages, The Lunch at the Jose Quintero Theater, and
R.S.V.P. and It’s A Girl Thing-A Cabaret both at the Laurie
Beechman Theater. Liquid Productions has co-produced an annual
Academy Awards networking event since 2002 at Candela with fashion
shows by Aimee G. Liquid Productions was a co-producer of a staged
reading of I Witness at the Duke on 42nd St Theater, an original
play about the aftermath of 9/11 by David Grand, starring Michele
Lee and Tony Lo Bianco. The company helped produce and was part of
the planning committee for September Space’s annual Iron Skillet
Cook-Off 2004 at Metronome, featuring the French Cookin Blues Band,
zesty DJs Elvis Duran and Goumba Johnny as Masters of Ceremony and
savory celebrities Steve Shirripa (‘Bobby Bacala’ on “The
Sopranos”), The Central Park Guitar Man, David Ippolito, and
crooner-cop, Daniel Rodriguez. liquidprodco@yahoo.com
TEN GRAND PRODUCTIONS, INC.
Is Jason Hewitt, Justin Nadal, Mary Geerlof, Max Weinstein, Emily G.
Desjardins and Chris Johnson, a company of theater professionals
driven by the creation and development of new work and innovative
interpretations of classic texts. We share an investment in the
community’s social consciousness by promoting charitable work that
stands side by side with our artistic endeavors.
ALGONQUIN THEATER PRODUCTIONS
Since its inception in 2004, Algonquin Theater Productions has
sought to move shows on to a higher level. Their first success was
the critically acclaimed hit, The Devil and Billy Markham, but they
have had numerous other triumphs for a young company, including a
script optioned by HBO, scripts performed in Indianapolis and
Dallas, seventeen one acts chosen for the Samuel French Short Play
Festival, (two published) and a show presented at the National
Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Sessions marks the first Off
Broadway musical by the company and they would like to thank Al,
Steve, Steven, Jason, the entire cast and crew and musicians, Liquid
Productions and everyone at both Algonquin Theater Productions and
Ten Grand Productions. A very special Thank You to Deborah Grimberg,
Assistant Artistic Director Tracy Newirth and the Board of
Directors.
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