Megan Gogerty (Book/Music/Lyrics)

Megan Gogerty is a playwright, songwriter and performer. Her solo show, MEGAN GOGERTY LOVES YOU VERY MUCH, premieres at the Riverside Theatre in November 2008. Her musical LOVE JERRY toured England in association with Dartington College of the Arts before receiving its world premiere at Actors Express Theatre in Atlanta.It garnered five Atlanta Suzi Bass Award nominations including Best Musical.

Other plays include: RUMPLE SCHMUMPLE (winner of Dad’s Garage Theatre Co.10-Minute Play Residency Award; avail. from Dramatic Publishing); SIG GOTTA DO (Synchronicity’s SheWRITES Festival, Pasadena Playhouse Hothouse Series), HOBO SEASON (PlayLabs finalist), PANDAS (PlayLabs & PlayPenn finalist, Syzygy Theatre/LA Writers Center reading series), and FIREPROOF BABY (FronteraFest 2004 “Best of the Week”). Her tribute album, I MISS BUFFY, is available online. Megan earned her MFA in Playwriting from the Univ. of Texas at Austin. Megan has been a Playwrights’ Center Jerome Fellow and was a grateful recipient of the James A. Michener Playwriting Scholarship and the Ellsworth P. and Virginia Conkle Endowed Scholarship for Drama. She is currently the Playwright-In-Residence at Coe College.
 

Hilary Adams (Director)

Hilary Adams is a Drama Desk nominee for Outstanding Director of a Play (Works Productions' Moby Dick), which was also nominated for Outstanding Play and Featured Actor.

Recent work includes musicals in the 2007 NY Musical Theatre Festival: The Kids Left, The Dog Died, Now What? and Look What a Wonder Jesus Has Done; the 2008 ASCAP/ Disney Foundation Workshop staged reading of The Masked Zinfadel; Moonlight and Magnolias (Associate Director, Alliance Theatre / MTC); Hamlet , Beauty and the Beast , and Mickey Mouse is Dead (Hangar Theatre Lab), Sex & Sealing Wax (Midtown International Theatre Festival), Peter Pan (CT Repertory) and Romantic (NJ Rep).
 
Hilary is a Drama League Fellow, and has received four MTC Directing Fellowships Assistant Directing for Lynne Meadow (Moonlight and Magnolias, The American Pilot, Our Leading Lady) and Mark Brokaw (Reckless). Also on Broadway, Hilary assisted Richard Jones (Titanic), David Henry Hwang (Flower Drum Song) and Robert Falls (Aida).

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Marcus Baker (Music Director)

Marcus Baker moved to the city from Cleveland 5 years ago where he was in graduate school for piano performance at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He had an interim appointment at Penn State University as the faculty accompanist for the music theatre department during the 2006-2007 school year and moved back to the city in August 2007 at the end of that engagement. Since then he has been a choral artist with the Metropolitan Opera Guild and working in youth theatre with Little Village Playhouse in Pleasantville and in Morristown, New Jersey with Worth-Tyrell Studios. He is very pleased to be music directing his first NYMF production. Next on the agenda Marcus will music direct See What I Want to See up in Westchester as a kick-off for a fledgling production company and continue working in education and youth theatre with The Met Guild, LVP and in New Jersey.

 


Donald Fried (Stage Manager)

BROADWAY: Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays, A Raisin In The Sun, The Producers, Sandra Bernhard’s I’m Still Here …Damn it!, Kat and the Kings. OFF-BROADWAY: Manuscript and Addicted directed by Bob Balaban, John Leguizamo’s Freak at The Atlantic Theatre Company, MTC, Roundabout, The Public Theatre, Playwright’s Horizon’s and three season as PSM for the Signature Theatre Company. REGIONAL: Williamstown Theatre Festival; Westport Country Playhouse; Shakespeare Santa Cruz; Denver Theatre Center; Yale Repertory Theatre NATIONAL TOURS: Blast!, Scooby-Doo Live in Stage Freight, and Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story. Donald is a graduate of the MFA program at the Yale School of Drama and member of Actors’ Equity since 1996.
 
JT Arbogast (Producer)

J.T. has been living and working as an actor in New York since 2004. He is currently the Associate Artistic Director at the National Comedy Theatre - New York, where he teaches and performs. He has also traveled the country as a facilitator for the NCT WITS Teambuilding Program.

 
He holds a B.A. in Theatre from Penn State University and earned his M.F.A., also in Theatre, from the University of Texas at Austin.
   
Julian Rad (Producer)

Julian Rad has been working in the entertainment and show industries for the last seventeen years. Based in New York City, he is the founder and producing director of Works Productions, who’s last production, his “play with music” adaptation of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, pulled in three 2004 Drama Desk nominations: Outstanding Play (writer and producer), Outstanding Director of a Play and Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, marking the first time in the 50 years of the Drama Desk award that an Off-Off Broadway production ever garnered nods in the Director or Play categories.

Amongst other legit distinctions, WORKS productions have been cited for the Obie Awards, the OOBR Awards and the Fringe First Awards. Check out WORKSproductions.com.
 
Lara Fabian (Scenic Design)

Recent design work includes Play it Cool (NYMF '08) Green Girl (Summer Play Festival '08) Semi-Permanent (Ace of Clubs, Spin Cycle NYC) Proximity (Sonnet Repertory Theatre) The Tailers (Crown Point Festival) A Beautiful Child (NY Fringe '07) Look What a Wonder Jesus Has Done (NYMF '07) The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged, Adventures from Ezra Jack Keats, and Metamorphoses (Weston Playhouse), Demon Dreams, Vanishing Point, and I have Loved Strangers (Williamstown Theater Festival Workshop) Tom Jones and The Oldest Story Ever Told (The Theater at Monmouth), When the World was Green (Luna Stage). Lara is a graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts.

Elizabeth Dellario (Costume Design)

Elizabeth Dellario holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Textiles and Apparel from Cornell University. As a member of Cornell's Advanced Undergraduate Theater Program, she was the Asst. Costume Designer for The Grapes of Wrath and Costume Designer for Jacques Brel is Alive and Well... . In New York City, Elizabeth was the Costume Designer for Look What a Wonder Jesus Has Done during the 2007 New York Musical Theatre Festival as well as the Wardrobe Coordinator for the ASCAP/Disney Workshop of The Masked Zinfandel.

Elizabeth has also worked with Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS on such projects as Broadway Bares XVIII: Wonderland (Costume Designer Checkmates / Associate Costume Coordinator), Pamela's First Musical (Costume Coordinator and Designer), The 22nd Annual Easter Bonnet Competition (Costume Designer The Project Broadway Opening Number) and Broadway Bares XVII: Myth Behavior (Asst. Costume Designer Bacchus / Asst. Costume Coordinator). Elizabeth is a member in good standing of the Costume Society of America. www.ElizabethDellario.com.
Scott O'Brien (Sound Design)

has designed and engineered theater, dance and concert programs at Lincoln Center, Riverside Church, Theatre North Collaborative, American Stage Company, Centenary Stage, The Abingdon Theatre, George Street Playhouse and the WOrld Financial Center. As a composer he has scored films, concert performances and theatrical productions. He is the Resident Composer/Sound Designer for the American Globe Theatre, Push Productions, Storm Theatre and Theatre East and the Resident Audio Engineer/Sound Designer for the Chautauqua Theater Company. He as designed Arts in Education programming for the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and was, from 1993 to 2007 an Adjuct Professor at SUNY-Rockland lecturing on theatre arts and music and is currently a Lecturer at PACE University.
Works Productions (Production Company)

Works Productions is an award winning multi-discipline production company based in New York City that focuses on the development of new material, cross-media adaptation and imaginative storytelling. As we approach each project, our focus is on evocative and compelling producing that utilizes story-appropriate presentation and media. Works Productions has reaped critical acclaim most recently for it's adaptation of Herman Melville's Moby Dick, nominated for Outstanding Play, Outstanding Director of a Play and Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play. Moby Dick was also distinguished as the first Off-Off Broadway production to ever garner nods in the Play and Director categories in the 50 years of the Drama Desk Award. True to it's mission of story-appropriate production, Works has also recently presented productions of Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf (featuring actor Martin Epstein backed by a 24 piece orchestra) and Gian Carlo Menotti's opera The Telephone (featuring soprano Deborah Schmidt).

Theater: English Language Premiere of Tomorrow! By Vaclav Havel; World Premiere of Moby Dick (three 2004 Drama Desk nominations); World Premiere of The Worthy Matron of the Eastern Star by Suzanne Harper; World Premiere of Washington by Jonathan Leaf; Peter and the Wolf; World Premiere of Terror Eyes by OyamO; World Premiere of Animal Acts by Scott Munson; The Telephone by Gian Carlo Menotti; World Premieres of One Night at your Local Superstore, The Love Detectives and Book Party by Jenny Lynn Bader; New York Premieres of Fried Chicken, Hot or Cold by Ann MacGregor Gibb, April Showers by Philip Slater, Nocturne, with Apples by Scott Munson and Habits by Steve "Spike" Wong; Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury; New York Premiere of Trying to find Chinatown by David Henry Hwang; The Contract by Theresa Rebeck, DMV Tyrant by Christopher Durang, A Singular Kind of Guy and The Waitress by David Ives.

Film: Eight (short fiction) written and directed by Julian Rad; The Franklin Cover up (Winner, 1997 Roy W. Dean Documentary Film Award, runner-up 1997 Laura Napor Documentary Film Award) written and directed by Julian Rad; The Four Corners of Nowhere (winner, Best of Fest, Chicago Underground Film Festival 1995, Winner, Best of Fest, 1995 Central Florida International Film Festival, Audience Award, 1995 Capetown International Film Festival, Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival 1995)

For more information, check out www.WORKSproductions.com.