Dean Landon (Composer, Arranger, Orchestrator) is a double platinum & gold Award-winning songwriter/producer & staff writer for Warner Bros. His credits include Roch Voisine’s Higher CD - By Myself (#1 Canadian charts); double Platinum CD for Kissing Rain, Gold CD for Chaque Feu, With These Eyes (translated into French, Ne Viens Pas, Europe/Canada over 200,000 copies); producer/co-songwriting for Edel America/Sony artist Anika Paris - It’s About (sold over 250,000 in Germany & Belgium); I’m No Ordinary Girl (Miramax movie Bounce, Gwyneth Paltrow & Ben Affleck), Gold selling Arista Soundtrack; N Love N Love (sci-fi movie The Calling), John Turturro movie Fear X, Two Tickets to Paradise (John C. McGinley and D.B. Sweeney), Wise Girls (Mariah Carey, Mira Sorvino) & producer on Anika Paris’ Chocolate & Wine. Co-producer with twin Chris Landon for Tayrn & Taylor Dayne, Narada Michael Walden, Jose Quintana, Richie Zito, Guy Roch; produced/wrote for BMG, Arista Records, Universal, Warner Bro’s & Sony artists. TV credits include “Oprah,” “Extra,” “American Idol,” “The Ellen Degeneres Show,” “The Sharon Osbourne Show,” “The Bachelor,” “The Bachelorette,” “Dr. Keith Ablow Show,” “Judge Mathis,” “Headliners and Legends,” TBS Movies, High School Reunion, Surviving Motherhood, Paramount Pictures, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, ABC Sports, GM Motors, TNT, Molson Indie CFL Grey Cup & Global Television.
Lorca Peress (MultiStages Artistic Director) specializes in multicultural & multidisciplinary theatre. She founded MultiStages in 1997, has directed the majority of its productions & has acted in & designed others. Her recent credits are Black Girl You’ve Been Gentrified at Joe’s Pub, Alcestis (American Thymele), LPTW New Play Fests (w/Kathleen Chalfant at The Cherry Lane, Kathryn Layng at New World Stages) & Lincoln Bicentennial Concert (w/Queens College, Ruby Dee & Sam Waterston at Riverside Church). She teaches at Strasberg & NYU-Strasberg Studio & was a curator for NYU hotINK Festivals for nine seasons. She has been a Judge & Panelist for theatre companies & organizations. She is a graduate of Bennington College, NTI & the recipient of the La MaMa Inky Award, N.W. Dible Foundation Grants, Manhattan Community Arts Grants from LMCC & DOCA, Dramatist Guild Fund & Jewish Communal Fund Grants. She is Co-President of the League of Professional Theatre Women & an SDC member.
Since 1997, MultiStages has presented over thirty new works in productions, readings, festivals & six New Works Contests. Its mission is to encourage new collaborations between emerging/established playwrights & artists (from within & outside the theatre arena), to develop new artistic ideas & to produce new multicultural, multidisciplinary works that include elements of art forms not traditionally found in plays. By supporting these cross-collaborations, new works are created that enrich, explore, & reinvent the world of theatre.
