New Musical Theatre: Comedy Songs

Drew Fornarola, Peter Mills, Michael Kooman, Christopher Dimond, Laurence O'Keefe, Michael Friedman, Ryan Scott Oliver, Adam Gwon, Drew Gasparini, Kirsten Guenther, Kait Kerrigan, Bree Lowdermilk, Ryan Cunningham, Joshua Salzman

New Musical Theatre: Comedy Songs

Overview

Contents:

"I’m Sorry" – Kerrigan & Lowdermilk
"Don’t Wanna Be Here" from Ordinary Days – Adam Gwon
"Random Black Girl" from Homemade Fusion – Kooman & Dimond
"A Little Bit" from Crazy, Just Like Me – Drew Gasparini
"All of My Friends (are Whores)" – Drew Fornarola
"Caralee" from 35MM – Ryan Scott Oliver
"Morning After Omelet" from Next Thing You Know – Salzman & Cunningham
"Way Ahead of My Time" from The Taxi Cabaret – Peter Mills
"Ten Little Indians" from Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson – Michael Friedman
"Accident Prone" – Kirsten Guenther & Laurence O’Keefe
"To Excess" from Homemade Fusion – Kooman & Dimond
"Party Worth Crashing" from The Bad Years – Kerrigan & Lowdermilk

Authors

Drew Fornarola

Drew Fornarola is a composer, lyricist, and playwright living in New York City. His most recent musical, originally commissioned by the New Musical Development Foundation, is now being developed for stage by DreamWorks Theatricals and for screen by DreamWorks Animation. Other ...

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Peter Mills

Michael Kooman

Composer Michael Kooman is best known for his work with Christopher Dimond, with whom he received the 2013 Fred Ebb Award and a 2010 Jonathan Larson Grant. The duo were also the first recipients of the Mary Rodgers/Lorenz Hart Award and the Samuel French Next Step Award. Add ...

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Christopher Dimond

Playwright and lyricist Christopher Dimond is best known for his work with composer Michael Kooman, with whom he received the 2013 Fred Ebb Award and a 2010 Jonathan Larson Grant. The duo were also the first recipients of the Mary Rodgers/Lorenz Hart Award and the Samuel Fre ...

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Laurence O'Keefe

Larry was a producer of the original LA and NY productions of Heathers (Drama Desk nom for music). With his wife Nell Benjamin, he won the Olivier Award (London’s Tony) for co-writing Legally Blonde: The Musical, which ran 2 1/2 years on the West End and has toured the UK. B ...

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Michael Friedman

Michael Friedman was an Obie Award-winning composer/lyricist. He was most well-known as the co-creator of the critically-acclaimed musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, which premiered in New York at the Public Theater and subsequently transferred to Broadway. Other credits i ...

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Ryan Scott Oliver

Ryan Scott Oliver is a Lortel Award-nominated and Kleban Prize, Rodgers, and Larson Award-winning composer and lyricist. He was called “the future of Broadway… a major new voice in musical theatre” (Entertainment Weekly) and is “shaking up musical theater with his dark, twist ...

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Adam Gwon

Adam Gwon is a musical theater writer named one of “50 to Watch” by The Dramatist magazine and hailed “a promising newcomer to our talent-hungry musical theater” whose songs are “funny, urbane, with a sweetness that doesn’t cloy” by The New York Times.

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Drew Gasparini

Drew Gasparini is an award-winning composer/lyricist and singer/songwriter. Currently Drew is working on musical adaptations of the movies The Karate Kid for Gorgeous Entertainment and Night Shift for Warner Bros Theatre Ventures. Alongside writing partner Alex Brightman, Dre ...

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Kirsten Guenther

Kait Kerrigan

Kait Kerrigan (she/her) is an award-winning lyricist as well as an accomplished bookwriter and playwright. Off-Broadway: The Mad Ones, Henry and Mudge, both with long-time collaborator Bree Lowdermilk. Regional: Plays - Father / Daughter, Imaginary Love; Musicals - lyrics for ...

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Bree Lowdermilk

Bree Lowdermilk (she/they) Current: Justice (Arizona Theatre Company), Rosie Revere, Engineer (Nat'l Tour). Off-Broadway: The Mad Ones, Henry and Mudge. Regional: Kennedy Center, Kimmel Center, Lincoln Center. Residencies: McDowell, Mercer. Awards: Jonathan Larson, Alan Menke ...

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