What would you sacrifice for your American dream? Must the American dream come at the cost of human dignity? These are the questions at the center of The New York Musical Festival's Developmental Reading of BREAD AND ROSES, a new musical with book and lyrics by Jill Abramovitz and music by Brad Alexander, inspired by true events and based on the film by Paul Laverty and Ken Loach. The cast features Genny Lis Padilla (On Your Feet, In The Heights), Nick Blaemire (Godspell, The SpongeBob Musical), Jessica Vosk (Fiddler, Finding Neverland), Mandy Gonzalez (In The Heights, Wicked) Ta'Rea Campbell (Book of Mormon, Little Shop) Wally Dunn (West Side Story, All Shook Up), Diomargy Nunez (Frida Liberada) and Jon Rua (Hamilton).
Bread and Roses is a free Developmental Reading and will be performed July 22nd at 11:30 am and 3:30 pm at 416 W 42nd St,
Playwrights Horizons Rehearsal Studios. For information please visit
http://nymf.org/breadandroses
Maya is a 25-year old Mexican woman who illegally crosses the U.S. border to work with her sister Rosa cleaning Office Building 646 in downtown LA. Witnessing firsthand the corruption and abusive working conditions, Maya joins Sam from Justice for Janitors in an attempt to unionize the workers. Alliances are formed, backs are stabbed, and the sisters' relationship is brought to the brink. For more information visit
www.breadandrosesmusical.com.
Jill Abramovitz (Lyrics/Book) is a contributing lyricist on Broadway's It Shoulda Been You and the lyricist/co-bookwriter of The Dogs of Pripyat, which garnered the Weston Playhouse New Musical Award, the
Jerry Bock Award, was a NAMT selectee and part of Goodspeed's Festival of New Artists. She is the lyricist of TheatreworksUSA's Martha Speaks and a past Dramatist Guild Fellow and member of the BMI Workshop, where she won the Harrington Award for excellence.
jillaonline.com
Brad Alexander (Music) is the composer of See Rock City & Other Destinations (Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical,
Richard Rodgers Award,
Jerry Bock Award). His credits include music and orchestrations for TheatreworksUSA's Click Clack Moo (Drama Desk and Lortel nominations), Just So Stories, Martha Speaks; and songs for Duck for President, Fly Guy, We the People (Lortel nomination). TV scoring: VH1's "Celebreality" campaign, PBS's PEG + CAT. Member of NAMT,
Dramatists Guild and BMI Workshop.
bradalexander.comMelissa Crespo (Director) is a NYC-based director. Most recent: Vid Guerrero's ¡Figaro! (90210) (The Duke on 42nd Street & LA Opera),
Desiree Burch & Dan Kitrosser's Tar Baby -Scotsman Fringe First at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival & Pick of the Week at the Vault Festival in London,
Suzan Lori-Parks' Venus (LIU Post), 2015 ABC Talent Showcase and 2014 Drama League Fellow. She received her MFA in Directing from The New School for Drama.
www.melissacrespo.com
The 2016 New York Musical Festival will take place July 11 - August 7. For more information, please visit:
www.nymf.org.
