Brad Alexander (music)
Brad Alexander is currently lead composer for CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG (Scholastic/Amazon/PBS Kids) and scored five episodes of PBS’s Emmy Award-winning PEG + CAT. Additional TV/web series credits include: VH1’s “Celebreality” campaign and SUBMISSIONS ONLY. He wrote the music for SEE ROCK CITY & OTHER DESTINATIONS (book and lyrics by Adam Mathias), recipient of The Richard Rodgers Award, The BMI Foundation Jerry Bock Award, and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical. Most recently Brad wrote the music for DOG MAN: THE MUSICAL (book and lyrics by Kevin Del Aguila), which premiered Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel and toured the US and Canada 2019-2020. Additional theater credits: TheaterWorksUSA's CLICK, CLACK, MOO (Drama Desk, Lortel nom), JUST SO STORIES and MARTHA SPEAKS; songs for DUCK FOR PRESIDENT, FLY GUY and WE THE PEOPLE (Lortel nom). In development: BREAD AND ROSES, adapted from the film by Paul Laverty and Ken Loach (book and lyrics by Jill Abramovitz); untitled musical (book by Erik Jackson, lyrics by Jill Abramovitz), developed at Musical Theatre Factory (2016-17) and The Johnny Mercer Writers' Colony at Goodspeed (2018). Brad is a member of NAMT, The Dramatists Guild, SAG-AFTRA and BMI Workshop. 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 HISTORY OF SUMMER, a new musical with composer Jonathan Monro. 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