Dramatists Guild Presents A Conversation With Celebrated Composers Carol Hall and Peter Mills, 10/27

The Dramatists Guild of America announces their DuoLogues seminar series season opener, featuring a conversation between celebrated composers Carol Hall and Peter Mills, occurring Tuesday, October 27, 2009, at 5:30 p.m. The conversation will take place at the Dramatists Guild's New York office, in the Frederick Loewe Room. This seminar is free to the public, but reservations are required. To enter the building at 1501 Broadway, you will need to present photo ID.

The first DuoLogues seminar of the season features two respected and creative composer/lyricists in musical theater today. Carol Hall will guide the conversation, asking Peter Mills about the process, rewards and challenges of writing for the contemporary American musical theater. This promises to be a fascinating evening. These eclectic and exciting writers will also take audience questions at the end of the evening.

Guild Council member Carol Hall received two Drama Desk Awards for her score and lyrics to The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, directed by Tommy Tune. Her song, "Hard Candy Christmas," recorded by Dolly Parton from the film of Whorehouse, won an ASCAP Award for being one of the Most Performed Country Songs of 1983. Hall served as one of the major composer/lyricists for Marlo Thomas' Emmy Award-winning television  special Free To Be... You And Me, and acted as contributing editor and songwriter to its sequel, Free To Be... A Family. Other work contributions to A...My Name Is Alice and A...My Name Is Still Alice, and ten years of songs for Sesame Street. She also did the lyrics for Paper Moon and the music and lyrics for The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public. Her work has been performed by such artists as Barbra Streisand, Olivia Newton-John, Tony Bennett, Barbara Cook, Maureen McGovern, Mabel Mercer, Frederika von Stade and Big Bird. Her new CD, Hallways: The Songs of Carol Hall, is released by LML Music.

Peter Mills, composer/lyricist, received the 2007 Fred Ebb Award for emerging songwriters, 2006 Drama Desk nominations for his show The Pursuit of Persephone, the 2003 Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award from the ASCAP Foundation, and a 2002 grant from the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation. He was also selected as an inaugural Dramatists Guild Fellow in 2000. His other shows include Golden Boy of the Blue Ridge, Illyria, The Taxi Cabaret, The Flood, Marco Polo, The Alchemists, Lonely Rhymes, The Rockae and Honor. He supplied lyrics for Iron Curtain, which will be part of the 2009 NAMT Festival. Peter is a founding member of Prospect Theater Company.

For reservations and further information, please contact Tari Stratton at tstratton@dramatistsguild.com, or call (212) 398-9366, ext. 20.