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Book and Lyrics: Taking the
Plunge (Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival, New York Musical Theatre Festival),
The Temptation of Lady Amsterdam (Prospect Theatre), The Rivals (BMI Lehman Engel
Musical Theatre Workshop, Lively Productions), Episcus and Edendus (BMI, Artistic New Directions),
The Discontented Grasshopper (Center Theatre),
Office Space: The Musical (in development), Songs from
The Princess Bride (BMI), Nero (Yale
Undergraduate Musical Theatre Company; received the Jonathan
Edwards Arts Prize), and several songs with Marvin Hamlisch (White House, Mr. Hamlisch's Holiday Tour). Cabarets:
The Panda is Not My Friend (Don't Tell Mama), A Little
New Music (Laurie Beechman Theatre), Shin Splints and
Vocal Nodes (Yale), BMI Workshop Smoker
(BMI).
Yale Institute for Music Theatre (Finalist, 2011), Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theatre Songwriting (2nd place,
2010). Plays: Diplomatic Relations (Riant Theatre), Apples (Coyote
Arts Festival),
Everaftering (78th Street Theatre Lab, Acting Out), Longsford Park or the
Reluctant Handkerchief (Limbo), Home-Cooked: A Cautionary
Tale (Jimmy's No. 43). Contributor: A Crowded House
(State Theatre of Chicago), Blogologues: Sex, Drugs, and
Interwebs (Theatre Under St. Marks). Resident playwright for Lively
Productions.
Video games: Jessica Plunkenstein and the
Dusseldorf Conspiracy (New York Times' Best Adventure Game
of 2005, published in PC Gamer UK), The Judgment of Quintus
(in development).
Education: B.S. Computer Science and Theatre Studies,
Yale University (Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, distinction in
both majors). At Yale, studied comedy writing with Mark
O'Donnell, playwriting with Donald Margulies, and verse with J.
D. McClatchy. Studied improv comedy with the Upright Citizens
Brigade Theatre. Member of the Dramatists Guild and the BMI Lehman
Engel Musical Theatre Workshop (Advanced).
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