Annie Golden & Jane Summerhays Set for MARRY HARRY at NYMF; Full Cast Announced!

MARRY HARRY is an official selection of the 2013 New York Musical Theatre and will be presented by the New York Musical Theatre Festival. MARRY HARRY has a book by Jennifer Robbins, music by Dan Martin, lyrics by Michael Biello, music direction by Christopher McGovern, choreography by Wendy Seyb, and is directed by Kent Nicholson. MARRY HARRY will play at The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center, beginning July 19 - July 28. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased by visiting www.nymf.org or www.marryharry.com or by calling (212) 352-3101.

Sparks fly when Harry, an aspiring chef trapped as cook at his dad's failing East Village restaurant, meets landlord Sherri, come to collect overdue rent after dumping her cheating fiancé. They fall madly in love, bonding over parental ties that choke and bind them, fast tracking to marriage - until everything implodes. With humor and heart, MARRY HARRY explores ideas about family loyalty, marriage, love and finding one's path in life.

Cast includes: Jenna Dallacco (Queen Esther, Oliver!), Cameron Folmar (B'way: 39 Steps), Annie Golden (B'way: Xanadu, Hair, The Full Monty, On The Town), Philip Hoffman (B'way: A Catered Affair, Fiddler on the Roof, Into the Woods, Falsettos), Rod Lawrence (Passing Strange), Jillian Louis(Flambé Dreams NYMF Award for Outstanding Performance, Regional: The Dinosaur Musical, Gemini), Kate Rigg (The Jammer, BFE), Robb Sapp(Wicked, Johnny Guitar, Enter Laughing) , Jane Summerhays (The Wild Party, Cabaret, A Chorus Line), and Katie Zaffrann (String, Wh@ If?). Band includes: Jeremy Clayton (Reeds), Vivian Israel (Cello). Creative team includes: Martin T. Lopez (Sets, Costumes & Prop Designer), and Grant W. S. Yeager (Lighting Designer). General Manager: Starry Night Productions (General Manger).

ENNIFER ROBBINS (Book) has co-produced over twenty five shows on and Off-Broadway, some of them award winning musicals. She has written several screenplays and co-wrote and produced the feature film "Hudson River Blues". She is a member of the Broadway League and is on the Board of Directors of New York Stage & Film.

Michael Biello (Lyricist) and DAN MARTIN (Composer) are life-partners and longtime collaborators who have created a unique body of work in musical theatre. Their shows have enjoyed success in Chicago where Bailiwick's production of Breathe won the After Dark Award for Outstanding New Work and where they premiered their revue Qand their musical The Cousins Grimm. Breathe and Q have been produced in a variety of U.S. cities including Philadelphia, Richmond, Omaha, and Dallas. Developmental readings of The Cousins Grimm include the York Theatre, the New York Musical Theatre Festival (Anna Sosenko Trust Award), and the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center's Cabaret and Performance Conference in Waterford, CT. Biello and Martin's songs have been widely performed and have garnered honors and awards including: Table 3 - sung by Tony Award winner Karen Ziemba at Lincoln Center as part of the Bound for Broadway concert; You Do Not Know Me - nominated for a GLAMA Award for Best Theatre Song; What We Believe is Right - performed for an audience of 300,000 at the GLBT March On Washington; and The Dance - a film version of which has been screened on six continents and is in the Permanent Collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art. A new recording of Table 3 by Tony nominee Erin Dilly is featured as part of the BMI Workshop Podcast and is included in the 2009 BMI Workshop Songbook. Martin and Biello live and work in Philadelphia and in New York where they are members of The Dramatists Guild and the BMI/Lehman Engel Advanced Musical Theater Workshop. www.biellomartin.com

Kent Nicholson (Director) recently directed How to Write a New Book for the Bible for Berkeley Repertory, Seattle Repertory, and South Coast Repertory Theaters. Other directing credits include the world premiere of Saint Ex (music by Jenny Giering, book and lyrics by Sean Barry) for the Weston Playhouse, 9 Circles by Bill Cain for Marin Theater Company, and Long Story Short at San Diego Repertory. New York Credits include Five Flights by Adam Bock at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and Wet by Liz Duffy Adams on Theater Row. His work has been seen at Aurora Theater Company, Magic Theatre, San Jose Stage Company, and TheatreWorks where credits include All My Sons,Vincent in Brixton, Ambition Facing West, and Grey Gardens. From 2001-2008 Kent was Director of New Works at TheatreWorks where he created the New Works Initiative. While at TheatreWorks, he worked with over 75 artists on more than 50 projects establishing a nationally recognized festival for new plays and musicals and a writers retreat for the creation of new musicals. Pieces which developed under his leadership include: The 2010 Tony award winning Memphis by David Bryan and Joe DiPietro, Striking 12by Rachel Sheinkin and Groovelily, Vanities by Jack Heifner and David Kirshenbaum, Baby Taj by Tanya Shaffer, and Emma by Paul Gordon. He is currently the Director of Musical Theater and Literary Associate at Playwrights Horizons in NYC where he has guided productions of The Burnt Part Boys and The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World.Christopher McGovern (Musical Director)

Wendy Seyb (Choreographer) The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) exists to revitalize musical theatre culture by discovering and promoting new musical theatre artists, producers and projects; nurturing a vibrant and innovative artistic community; and connecting one of America's greatest art forms with a diverse, contemporary audience. Now in its tenth year, the Festival provides an affordable platform for artists to mount professional productions that reach their peers, industry leaders, and musical theater fans. Hailed as the "Sundance of Musical Theatre," the Festival is the largest musical theatre event in America and the preeminent site for launching new musicals and discovering new talent. NYMF is the flagship program of National Music Theater Network, Inc., a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit organization, and is supported, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Major supporters include The ASCAP Foundation, BMI Foundation, Inc., The BWF Foundation, Con Edison, The Nathan Cummings Foundation with the support and encouragement of Jamie Mayer Phinney, The New Musical Development Foundation, The Jerome Robbins Foundation, The Rodgers & Hammerstein Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, and The Theater League. NYMF Memberships, which combine charitable contributions with valuable, flexible ticket packages and perks like early seating, and tickets to individual events, are currently available for purchase at (212) 352-3101 or www.nymf.org.

Martin T. Lopez (Sets, Costumes, Props) is a NYC based scenic and costume designer. Recent work includes set and costume design for Baby Case at the New York Musical Theatre Festival 2012, which won six NYMF awards including honorable mention for excellence in production design and "Best of the Fest". Upcoming projects include set designs for Lucia di Lammermoor and H.M.S. Pinafore for Opera Saratoga's 2013 season. He was one of six designers chosen as a recipient in the 2004 NEA/TCG Career Development Program, and together with frequent collaborators, director Lawrence Edelson and lighting designer Joshua Epstein, Martin was one of the first winners of the Opera America Director/Designer Showcase, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. www.martintlopezdesign.com

Grant Yeager (Lighting Designer) New York: Now. Here. This (Vineyard Theatre); Between Worlds (New York Stages); Chimichangas and Zoloft (Atlantic Theatre Company); Love Child (New World Stages); designer of the New York Musical Theatre Festival 2009-2012; designer for the New York Pops Orchestra 2012-2013 Season, and over 25 concerts and events at Carnegie Hall. Regional/Int'l: Joseph... (Dallas Theater Center); ...Judas Iscariot (Yale Dramatic Association); Soul Doctor (Parker Playhouse);Backwards in High Heels (Cleveland Playhouse); Vices (Theatre Aspen); Academy (Maltz Jupiter Theatre); Mormons... (Barrington Stage); Siudy Entre Mundos (Teatro Teresa Carreño, Venezuela); Central Avenue Breakdown (Suseong Artpia, Korea), The Tempest (Bermuda Arts Festival).

Christopher McGovern (Musical Director) Writing credits: "Let The Memories Begin" (Disney), Lizzie Borden (Goodspeed Musicals), Crash Club, Roswell, Dr. Radio,Cagney (Carbonell Award), Backwards in High Heels (many LORT productions), Holiday ior Hope (Bushnell Theatre), many others. CD Production/Original Songs: Gilles Chiasson (Slow Down), and Tony nominees Rebecca Luker (Leaving Home), Susan Egan (Coffee House, Winter Tracks and Live), and Alison Fraser (Men in My Life). Inter/National: The Presidents w/Rich Little (PBS & tour), Lion King (Disney/HongKong) Aladdin and composer/lyricist for Mickey's Dream Company (Tokyo/Disney). Concerts: Tony winners Heather Headley and Rupert Holmes, Susan Egan (incl. Carnegie Hall), Liz Callaway, Jason Graae, Roslyn Kind, Christiane Noll, Karen Mason. Off-Broadway: Ionescopade, Two by Two (with Jason Alexander & Tovah Feldshuh), Roadside, Still Getting My Act Together, That's Life, Jazz Singer, Sheba, Identical Twins, Breathe, Fishkin Touch. Regional: Next to Normal, Jolson at the Winter Garden, Last Five Years, Spitfire Grill, Dream a Little Dream, Some Kind of Wonderful (Silver Palm Award), Hair, Pajama Game, {title of show}, Beehive, Joseph, World Goes 'Round, Little Shop, Tommy, Godspell, and many others. Love always to my legal spouse Mark.

STARRY NIGHT PRODUCTIONS (General Manager) Donna Trinkoff is the producer of the Off-Broadway hit SILENCE! The Musical, (2012 Best Musical, Off-Broadway Alliance). She is the artistic producer of Amas Musical Theatre, a non-profit performing arts organization in NYC. Musicals: The Other Josh Cohen (Lucille Lortel. Drama Desk, Off Broadway Alliance Nomination Best Musical), TRIASSIC PARQ: The Musical, Aesop & Co., Signs of Life, Wanda's World (Lucille Lortel Nomination Best Musical), Shout! The Mod Musical; Sheba; Lone Star Love, Stormy Weather: The Lena Horne Story, Zanna, Dont!, Langston Hughes' Little Ham; 4 Guys Named José; and over 75 musicals for the Amas Musical Theatre Lab. Four years Artistic Associate of the Cabaret and Performance Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in CT. Member: League for Professional Theatre Women. 1998 New York Municipal Art Society Award of Merit and 2003 Galaxy Award from the NY Women's Association.

THE NEW YORK MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL (NYMF) exists to revitalize musical theatre culture by discovering and promoting new musical theatre artists, producers and projects; nurturing a vibrant and innovative artistic community; and connecting one of America's greatest art forms with a diverse, contemporary audience.

Now in its tenth year, the Festival provides an affordable platform for artists to mount professional productions that reach their peers, industry leaders, and musical theater fans. Hailed as the "Sundance of Musical Theatre," the Festival is the largest musical theatre event in America and the preeminent site for launching new musicals and discovering new talent.

NYMF is the flagship program of National Music Theater Network, Inc., a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit organization. NYMF 2013 is presented in association with Dunkin' Donuts, BroadwayWorld.com, Production Resource Group, and TheaterMania.com, and is supported, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Major supporters include The ASCAP Foundation, BMI Foundation, Inc., The BWF Foundation, Con Edison, The Nathan Cummings Foundation with the support and encouragement of Jamie Mayer Phinney, The New Musical Development Foundation, The Jerome Robbins Foundation, The Rodgers & Hammerstein Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, and The Theater League.

NYMF Memberships, which combine charitable contributions with valuable, flexible ticket packages and perks like early seating, and tickets to individual events, are currently available for purchase at (212) 352-3101 or www.nymf.org.