Brad Alexander (music)
Brad Alexander was nominated for a 2011 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music for SEE ROCK CITY & OTHER DESTINATIONS, which won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book (go, Adam!) and received nominations for Outstanding Lyrics, Direction, Lighting and Musical. The show also won the Richard Rodgers Award and BMI Foundation Jerry Bock Award, was produced Off-Broadway by Transport Group Theatre Company, and is available for licensing at samuelfrench.com. Brad wrote the music for Theatreworks USA’s CLICK, CLACK, MOO (Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Award nominee) and JUST SO STORIES, as well as songs for DUCK FOR PRESIDENT, IF YOU GIVE A PIG A PANCAKE, and WE THE PEOPLE (Lortel Award nominee), which ran Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. His music has been featured on Sony Records, Showtime’s THE L WORD, and VH1's "Celebreality" campaign. He is a member of The BMI Musical Theatre Workshop, National Alliance for Musical Theatre and The Dramatists Guild of America. bradalexander.com
Adam Mathias (book & lyrics)
Adam Mathias won the 2011 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical and the Richard Rodgers Award and Jerry Bock Award in collaboration with Brad Alexander for SEE ROCK CITY & OTHER DESTINATIONS. He conceived and co-wrote THE PASSION OF GEORGE W. BUSH (2004 NY Fringe Festival; Joe's Pub.) His work has been performed in New York at The American Airlines Theatre (Broadway), Birdland, the National Alliance for Musical Theatre Festival, Merkin Hall, The Triad, The Duplex, The Laurie Beechman, Don't Tell Mama, The Canal Room and Prospect Theater Company by artists including Anthony Rapp, Sarah Ramirez, Gavin Creel, Christian Borle, Mary Testa, Michael Arden, Hunter Foster and Malcolm Gets. Recent and upcoming projects include HAMLET: WHAT DREAMS MAY COME - a four-actor, ninety minute adaptation of Shakespeare's original text - and a musical reimagining of Calderon de la Barca's LIFE IS A DREAM with composer Oran Eldor. Adam is a graduate of The Theatre School at DePaul University and NYU's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program and is a member of the BMI Musical Theatre Writing Workshop (2005 Jerry Harrington Award.) www.adamup.com