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| TONIGHT ONLY: NICK CEARLEY & LAUREN MOLINA HOST THE YORK THEATRE COMPANY'S "NEO 13: A CONCERT CELEBRATION" | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 10:35 am EST 03/04/19 | |
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| “THE SKIVVIES” NICK CEARLEY AND LAUREN MOLINA WILL HOST THE YORK THEATRE COMPANY’S NEO13: A CONCERT CELEBRATION OF NEW/EMERGING/OUTSTANDING MUSICAL THEATRE WRITERS MUSIC DIRECTION BY ERIC SVEJCAR DIRECTED BY ANNETTE JOLLES AT THE YORK THEATRE COMPANY AT SAINT PETER’S FEATURING WORK BY AMANDA D’ARCHANGELIS & SAMI HORNEFF, JULIAN HORNIK, JANINE MCGUIRE & ARRI LAWTON SIMON, AND MADELINE MYERS AND INTRODUCING NEO OF THE FUTURE WRITERS SARAH KAUFMAN AND CALEB SMITH PERFORMERS INCLUDE JAIME CEPERO, SARAH CHAPIN, ALI EWOLDT, FRANCESCA FERRARI, JESSICA FONTANA, KENNEDY KANAGAWA, MYKAL KILGORE, JESSE MANOCHERIAN, SAMANTHA MASSELL, MARK MONTAGUE, JOÉL PÉREZ, SHARONE SAYEGH, EMERSON MAE SMITH, JESSICA TYLER WRIGHT, AND NOAH ZACHARY The York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director; Evans Haile, Executive Director), dedicated to the development of new musicals and rediscovery of musical gems from the past, has announced, today, Nick Cearley and Lauren Molina of The Skivvies will host, with their clothes on, the 2019 installment of the celebrated concert series NEO, featuring works by new/emerging/outstanding musical theatre writers Amanda D’Archangelis & Sami Horneff, Julian Hornik, Janine McGuire & Arri Lawton Simon, and Madeline Myers. In addition to these six writers, this year’s NEO of the Future program will showcase two songs by writers who are currently undergraduate students: Sarah Kaufman, a senior at CAP21/Molloy College, and Caleb Smith, a junior at Penn State. The joining the roster of performers are Sarah Chapin (Cabaret), Francesca Ferrari (A Night with Janis Joplin), Jessica Fontana (Cinderella), Kennedy Kanagawa (York’s Lolita, My Love), Mark Montague (A Very Brady Musical), Emerson Mae Smith (Schoolhouse Rock), and Jessica Tyler Wright (Sweeney Todd). They join previously announced performers Jaime Cepero ("Smash"), Ali Ewoldt (The Phantom of the Opera), Mykal Kilgore (Songs for a New World), Jesse Manocherian (York’s The Day Before Spring), Samantha Massell (Fiddler on the Roof), Joél Pérez (Fun Home), Sharone Sayegh (The Band's Visit), and Noah Zachary* (Poster Boy). The one-night-only performance of NEO13: A Concert Celebration of Emerging Musical Theatre Writers, directed by Annette Jolles with music direction by Eric Svejcar, is TONIGHT, Monday evening, March 4, 2019 at The York Theatre Company at Saint Peter’s. (619 Lexington Avenue, entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue). Festivities begin at 7:00 p.m. followed by a champagne/dessert reception. NEO (an acronym for “New, Emerging, Outstanding”) celebrates songwriters primed to pen the next generation of musicals. Established in 2003, the NEO program kicks off with this concert of writers presenting multiple songs, followed, over the next year, by readings of their works-in-progress. Tickets for NEO13 are priced at $50. $25 tickets available for patrons under the age of 35 (available by calling or visiting the box office during box office hours only). Tickets may be purchased by calling (212) 935-5820, ONLINE: www.yorktheatre.org, or in person at the box office at the York Theatre at Saint Peter’s (Citicorp Building, entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue), Monday through Friday (12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.) - Tuesday through Sunday during performances. The York Theatre Company offers the York! Membership Program, an exclusive membership package for as low as $75.00—with elite benefits that include up to 35% off tickets to York Theatre Productions, exclusive Member pre-sale opportunities, 50% off on all lobby concessions, 20% off on all lobby merchandise, in addition to special Member-only receptions. The York also offers a York Plus! Membership Program with additional perks, including complimentary tickets to Mainstage productions, invites to several VIP-only presentations throughout the season, and discount parking with membership. York Memberships can be purchased online at www.yorktheatre.org/membership, or by visiting The York Theatre Company Box Office (Citicorp Building, entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue), or by calling the Box Office at (212) 935-5820 during regular business hours (Monday through Friday, 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.). York Theatre Company Gift Cards are available for any production during the 2018-2019 season by visiting the box office or calling (212) 935-5820, or online at www.yorktheatre.org For additional information, please visit www.yorktheatre.org ABOUT THE ARTISTS Amanda D’Archangelis is a composer and actress in NYC. She holds a B.F.A. in Musical Theater from The Boston Conservatory, and is an alum of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. She is the resident composer of Bluelaces Theater Company, providing theater and outreach for people with developmental differences. Credits include: Single Rider (Music & Book, Off-Broadway); The Break (Music, Omaha Creative Institute); The Radium Girls: A Jaw Dropping New Musical (Music & Book, Winner at The Players Theatre BOO! Short Play Festival); Blatantly Blaine: A “Family” Musical (Music & Book); The Disembodied Hand... The Musical! (Music & Book). Upcoming: Coming Attraction (Music), a new musical about the life of Hollywood superstar Greta Garbo, premiering at the Wilbury Theatre in Providence RI, January 2019. She's composed and arranged for various projects, and her music has been performed at The Duplex, Green Room 42, Feinstein's 54 Below and more. www.amandadarchangelis.com Sami Horneff, a born and raised New Yorker, is a proud graduate of Brown University and a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. With Amanda D’Archangelis: Single Rider (Lyrics & Book, Off-Broadway); The Break (Lyrics, Omaha Creative Institute); The Radium Girls: A Jaw Dropping New Musical (Lyrics & Book, Winner at The Players Theatre BOO! Short Play Festival), and the upcoming Coming Attraction (Lyrics), a new musical about the life of Hollywood superstar Greta Garbo, premiering in 2019 at the Wilbury Theatre (Providence, RI). Other recent writing credits include: A Never-Ending Line (Lyrics, Off-Broadway); Rock and a Hard Place (Music & Lyrics); “The Under 5ers” (web series, Writer/Producer, 2016 Indie Series Award Nominee for Best Original Song). Her work has also been performed at the Metropolitan Room, The Duplex, and Feinstein’s/54 Below. www.samihorneff.com Julian Hornik is a composer, lyricist, and librettist based in Brooklyn. He has performed his songs at New York City Center, The Kennedy Center, 54 Below, Symphony Space, and with the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus. A recent graduate of Yale, Julian studied under the Shen Curriculum for Musical Theater, and has developed work through the ASCAP Musical Theater Workshop and the Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project. He served as the assistant writer on the film Share (dir. Pippa Bianco), which premieres in competition at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The recipient of the 2017 Lucille and Jack Yellen Award, and the 2018 Sammy Cahn Award from the ASCAP Foundation, Julian holds a commission from the NY and LA Gay Men’s choruses to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, premiering at Carnegie Hall and Walt Disney Concert Hall summer 2019. Janine McGuire and Arri Lawton Simon are a NYC-based musical theatre writing team. Their musical Borders, based upon the 2006 film The Bubble by Eytan Fox & Gal Uchovsky, has been developed/incubated at the BMI Advanced Workshop, the Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship, Goodspeed Musicals, and New York Theatre Barn. In 2015 their immersive musical Express premiered at the New York Transit Museum (performed inside historic subway cars) and later received a workshop production at New York Film Academy where it was expanded into a full-length piece. McGuire and Simon wrote the songs for the TYA musical Kibby the Space Dog, commissioned by the Wichita Children’s Theatre and Dance Center, which premiered in March 2018. Collectively they have written and produced concerts, stage musicals, plays, film scores, orchestral pieces, choral works, and custom songs in addition to teaching musical theatre and performing arts outreach in the community.www.mcguireandsimon.com Madeline Myers is a New York-based composer and lyricist. Her musicals include The Devil’s Apprentice (world premiere Copenhagen, Denmark, November 2018), Masterpiece (O’Neill Musical Theater Conference 2018 semi-finalist, dir. Emily Maltby), The Starry Messenger (dir. Hunter Bird), The Rumoured Lyfe and Certain Death of Delia Bacon, and a new untitled musical about the scientist Rosalind Franklin. She is a 2018 and 2017 Jonathan Larson Grant finalist, a 2018 Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award semi-finalist, a 2018 and 2017 ASCAP Plus Award recipient, a 2016-2017 Dramatists Guild Fellow, and the first-place winner of the inaugural Ken Davenport Songwriting Competition. Madeline’s musicals have been developed at Goodspeed Musicals (Johnny Mercer Writers Colony), the New Dramatists Composer-Librettist Studio, the Finger Lakes Musical Theater Festival, Musical Theater Factory, the NMI Disney Imagineering New Voices Project, the New York Theatre Barn, and the Johnny Mercer Songwriting Project. Madeline is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and ASCAP. She is represented by Katie Gamelli at Abrams Artists Agency. www.madelinemyers.com @madelinesmyers Sarah Kaufman is a songwriter from San Jose, California, who happily resides in Brooklyn, New York. She is in the Molloy College/CAP21 BFA Theatre Arts program, and graduates in May of 2019. She’s been performing in musicals and writing music and lyrics for most of her life. She is extremely grateful to The York Theatre and the NEO Program for this amazing opportunity. She would like to thank her mentor Barbara Anselmi and good friend Emery Major, as well as her family, teachers, and especially her classmates at Molloy/CAP21 for their endless enthusiasm and support. Caleb Smith, 21, is a composer/lyricist/performer from Rye, NY and is currently a junior in Penn State’s Musical Theatre program. He has been writing songs and musicals since he was 14. In 2017, his musical Elektric, written with his twin sister Emerson, was workshopped through Penn State at the NU Musical Theatre Festival. He premiered the concert Strange Music for a Strange Time at Penn State the same year, in collaboration with Maria Wirries and Chris Rayis. As a performer, he played Kitty Minx in the premiere of Joe Iconis’ Love in Hate Nation, directed by John Simpkins. His work has been featured at Feinstein’s/54 Below and you can check out more at his Soundcloud: CalebSmithMusic-1. For additional information, please visit www.yorktheatre.org The York Theatre Company is the only theatre in New York City—and one of very few in the world—dedicated to developing and fully producing new musicals and preserving neglected, notable shows from the past. For over four decades, York’s intimate, imaginative style of producing both original and classic musicals has resulted in critical acclaim and recognition from artists and audiences alike. Under the guidance of Producing Artistic Director James Morgan since 1997, The York has focused on new musicals in its Mainstage Series—most of them world, American, or New York premieres—by some of the field’s most esteemed creators, and has also helped launch the careers of many talented new writers. Almost 40 cast recordings from The York Theatre Company productions are now available on CD, including its acclaimed revival of Closer Than Ever (2013 Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best Revival); commercial transfers of such York premieres as The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!), Souvenir (Tony Award Nomination for actress Judy Kaye), and Jolson & Company, and revivals of Pacific Overtures and Sweeney Todd (four Tony Nominations including Best Revival) have all showcased the importance of The York and its programs. Recent New York premieres have included Marry Harry, A Taste of Things to Come, and Rothschild & Sons. The critically acclaimed musical Yank!, which received its Off-Broadway debut at The York in 2010, recently opened to rave reviews in London as did York’s Rothschild & Sons. Recent hits include Cagney, which moved to the Westside Theatre and ran for 15 months, and Desperate Measures, which received a Drama Desk Award for “Best Music and Lyrics” as well as the Outer Critics Circle and Off-Broadway Alliance Awards for “Best Musical” and then transferred to New World Stages where it ran for 7 months. More recently York’s Unexpected Joy, played London’s Southwark Playhouse and Midnight at The Never Get and Christmas in Hell finished out the year. www.yorktheatre.org |
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