| Cast Announced for MOVE MEANT, Prospect's Musical Theater Lab: Feb 17 & 18 | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 09:39 am EST 02/11/20 | |
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| Prospect Theater Company's 2020 Musical Theater Lab Premieres 8 New Dance-Driven Mini-Musicals Casting Announced for MOVE MEANT Feb 17 & 18 at 7:00pm at The Ailey Citigroup Theater Prospect Theater Company (Cara Reichel, Producing Artistic Director / Melissa Huber, Managing Director) is proud to announce the performing artists involved in the company's 2020 Musical Theater Lab, MOVE MEANT. The lab's culminating presentations are Monday and Tuesday Feb. 17th and 18th at 7:00pm at The Ailey Citigroup Theater, The Joan Weill Center for Dance (405 West 55th St. at 9th Ave.) The cast of actor-singers and dancers includes: Maya Addie, Logan Anthony, Alan Ariano (Felix Starro, Prospect's Honor), Ryan Bauer-Walsh (Billy Elliott, Prospect's Death for Five Voices), Iris Beaumier (Theatre Aspen's Ragtime), Renee Claire Bergeron (Gallery's A Man of No Importance), Sara Brophy (Amazing Grace, Prospect's Iron Curtain), Michelle Liu Coughlin (LCT's The King & I, National Tour), Melani De Guzman, Kristina Dizon, Julia Johanos (Jack, York Theatre), Angela Joy, Bridget Keenan, Maya Kitayama, Elise Kowalick (Goodspeed's Music Man), David Rowen (Three Little Birds, New Victory), Sara Elizabeth States, Hansel Tan (Prospect's Unlock'd, American Morning), Malachi Vaughn, Raheem Wallace, Jeff Williams (Goodspeed's Rags, Prospect's Death for Five Voices), Peter Williams, and Carla Woods (TUTS Mamma Mia!, Prospect's Monument ). Prospect's annual Musical Theater Lab brings together 8 writing teams and 8 choreographers to generate an evening of original, ten-minute musicals inspired by social, political and artistic movements across history. Each original short work will include dance or movement as a central element in its storytelling. Writers in the MOVE MEANT Lab, selected through an open application process, include: Marc Chan, Anderson Cook & Amanda D'Archangelis, Tia DeShazor & Derrick Byars, Mary Ann Frank & Andrew Levine, John Herin & Alden Terry, Christopher Inniss & Charles Inniss, Katelynn Kenney & Alex Parrish, and Meghan Torone & Kent Kim. The choreographers, also selected through an open application process, include Rodney A. Brown, Rachel Leigh Dolan, Eun Young Park, Kristen Brooks Sandler, Ginger Thatcher, Breton Tyner-Bryan, Tony Williams II, and Sidney Erik Wright. A full roster of lab writer and choreographer bios are available on the Prospect website. Dev Bondarin is the director, and Abel Garriga music directs. The lab is line produced by Hayley Isaacson. Prospect's IGNITE Concert Series showcases compelling new musical theater works in concert settings. For tickets ($25) and information, please visit www.ProspectTheater.org or call 212-352-3101. ABOUT PROSPECT THEATER COMPANY Prospect Theater Company (founded in 1998) is dedicated to fostering and showcasing today's new voices shaping tomorrow's musicals. Over two decades, the company has fully produced 35 new musicals in New York City, in addition to new plays and numerous re-inventions of classic works. Reflecting its investment in the future of the field, Prospect leads a variety of developmental initiatives, including an annual Musical Theater Lab for emerging writers, and the IGNITE Series of new musical theater in concert. In recognition of its enterprising and risk-taking new musical theater, the company received an OBIE Award grant, and its role as a community anchor for emerging artists that strengthens the quality, diversity, and dynamism of American theater was honored with a grant from the American Theatre Wing. Recent productions include: the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award-nominated The Hello Girls (2018) by company founding artists Mills & Reichel; Kerrigan & Lowdermilk's The Mad Ones (2017); Milburn & Vigoda's Long Story Short (2015);Ryan Scott Oliver and Hunter Foster's Jasper in Deadland (2014); the Drama Desk nominated Tamar of the River (2013) by Joshua H. Cohen and Marisa Michelson; Carner & Gregor's Unlock'd (2013); Gordon Greenberg's revisal of Working (Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Ensemble, 2012) including new songs by Lin Manuel Miranda; Iron Curtain (2006, 2011) by Susan DiLallo, Peter Mills and Stephen Weiner; Elizabeth Lucas' re-imagining of Guettel's Myths and Hymns (2012); John Gregor's With Glee (2010); The Blue Flower (2008) by Jim Bauer and Ruth Bauer; Illyria (2002, 2008), and the Drama-Desk nominated The Pursuit of Persephone (2005). |
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