Creative Team Bios
Jeanne Drennan (book & lyrics) is a playwright, librettist, and lyricist whose works have brought her seven fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Her full-length plays have been produced or developed at theatres across the country, from little venues in New York, like Under St. Marks (Medea At Athens), to the mammoth Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Asparagus) and Bay Area Playwrights Festival in San Francisco (Atlas of Longing). Her play 12 Dogs was developed at the Open Stage Theatre (Pittsburgh), InterAct Theatre (Philadelphia), North Shore Rep (San Diego), Lark Play Development Center (NYC), and Boston TheatreWorks, where it won first prize in BTW Unbound, a new play festival.
She is usually most excited about works in progress, which include Dear Boy but also, Get Out Of Dodge, which is to be produced by the Venice Theater, Venice, FL, in 2016; Left Luggage, a family disaster during WWII in Hungary; and, with collaborators, Juiced!, a small musical spoofing athletic doping. Jeanne helps manage the new Musical Theatre Artists of Pittsburgh (mtap.weebly.com), which aims to be an incubator where new works of musical theatre are nurtured. She’s a member of the Dramatists’ Guild and has worked as a teaching artist and dramaturg with City Theatre’s Young Playwrights since the program began in 1999. |
David Berlin (music) is a composer, music educator, educational content developer and arts education consultant. He has collaborated extensively in dance-theatre and multi-artist, performances. His orchestral and chamber music and his compositions have been performed by such groups as the Orchestra Society of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Classical Symphony Orchestra, the Laureate Woodwind Quintet, the Renaissance City Woodwind Quintet, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, and the Sterbrooke Ensemble at Carnegie Hall in Manhattan and at the Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn. Internationally, his work has been performed by the Cuarteto de Saxófones de Barcelona in Spain and by Ensemble HND in Sweden. In 2010 his work for three cellos and percussion, “Critical Response,” had its world premiere performed by the rock cello band Cello Fury. His piece “DNA” is a large-scale collaborative piece with 59 other composers and video artist Patrick Liddell, and has been presented repeatedly, both nationally and internationally. More information can be found on his website:
http://tozier.net/dberlin/website/index.html 
Director Stacey Cabaj consults composer
David Berlin during a rehearsal.
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